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Fireworks are a menace. Full stop. Loud, irritating and worthless in every respect. Have fireworks become the new ego extension for the lower classes? 'Look how big mine is' and 'See how loud that was'...
I fully understand that children, like their sheep equivalents, like to gawk blankly at a sky full of colour, but animals do not.
Out in force with your bangers and rockets...
I also understand that throughout the winter months of November and December, the 'slower' of you will be out in force with your bangers and rockets and my small terrified dog will once again be subjected to 8 weeks of terror and discomfort. Too scared to go outside to relieve herself, she will simply sit, and shake, and shake some more while the children go 'whoopee' at their low paid fathers pitiful attempts to impress his dysfunctional family in their council paid-for shell suits.
Of course, the worst offenders are the 'Summer Fireworks' that local pubs and outdoor parties think are a great incentive to bring the family into their plastic paradise.
Why, at 10.45pm do I have to sit with Sky News on full blast so that my dog doesn't have a heart attack? Why? So that Wayne and Sharon can take little Chelsea Beckham to see the fireworks, propped up by a can of Special Brew and let off in some disgusting franchised pub 'garden/rear car park/vandals playground/little Chelsea's place of conception'.
Go to an event, see them done properly and presented with lasers and music, fine, but not next door to me. I'd be in favour of them being made illegal, or at the very least banned most of the year!
By: IK
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I've never understood eugenics up until now.
Half the firework fans can only hazard a guess at how 'airplanes' used to end up on the table! You would be right not to pay for today's rubbish it's just not dangerous enough now.
Seems Cherry-bombs M-80s are irrelevant, just so long a fuse as the firework looks fashionable, the bang doesn't matter! A bit like having crap Ronan-camdles, but hey at least we've got third-degree burms to prove it!
The expression "Damp squid" was invented decades ago, but here we are still making the fashion mistakes.
These days, it's weeks of feeling like I'm living in a war zone. Every night there are loud blasts and my cat is fed up. You used to have to only need to make provision for frightened animals on that one night. Now, it's open season for one month. It's a bad time for animals and it also robs the event of Guy Fawkes night of anything special. Whatever happened to keeping it special by keeping it to only ONE night? People are emotionally incontinent these days, and want more and want it all the time.
Firstly, the Tesco morons referred to below have no respect for other people and let the fireworks off at anti-social hours.
Secondly, we are supposed to be an environmentally conscious nation - where does releasing tonnes of sulphurous smoke into the atmosphere figure in that?
Restrict their use to public displays.
Mainman
They quite obviously have no idea what they are 'celebrating', or why. They just like the cheap power and thrill that they get from lighting them. Local councils should be made to provide sound proof refuge's for those that cannot stand the noise.