J4CKO

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Well, I love fireworks but not at 1am, some ignorant **** woke me from my Abbot Ale Assisted slumber this morning by setting off some heavy duty fireworks. If you think of the density of the houses, the volume and the distance it carries the potentially woke hundreds of people, not sure what kind of mindset thinks setting off explosives in the early hours is ok, the same ignorant selfish behavior I see every day.

This is the kind of thing that will get fireworks banned, I dont mind until 11 pm or whatever, especially on bonfire night or 12 on New Years Eve but the rest of the time people have work, young kids and elderly relatives, not good waking a 90 year old like my grandad from his sleep with a loud explosion.

Whoever thinks it just a bit of fun, give me your phone number and I can give you a ring to discuss it at say 5.30 am ?

markjmd

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Isn't it already an offence to set them off at unsociable hours?

pimmo2000

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Public order offence I thought ?

lozgti1

So my wife tells me

mart360

Fireworks... make em legal 24/7 /365

And bring back bangers


Mart

jods

Bangers were great Especially embedded in a recently laid dog turd

J4CKO

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Or Slug, used to go home covered in hot Dog poo and bits of Slug, ahh happy days !

Every time I smell Swede cooking it takes me back, no Pumpkins back then in the 80s, they only existed in Charlie Brown cartoons, so next best thing was the Biggest Swede you could find (oo er missus), and put an candle in, get bored near bonfire night and put bangers in it, smelt like sunday dinner farts !

Brun

Yep, Bangers were great - especially the ones you could bring back from Europe. They were like sticks of dynamite

f1_fan

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Until at the counter they can test the intelligence of those buying them fireworks should not be on sale to the general public!

CrisPDuk

I love fireworks, the bigger the better

But I being of reasonable intelligence (I think), I am also aware that there is both a time, and a place for them, and after midnight in the middle of a residential area is definitely not either

Leslie

The Mighty Atom was one of the great bangers. You could shoot a Tate and Lyle golden syrup can quite a long way off the back of a spade lying down.

I do agree it should only be at sensible times though.

Les

J4CKO

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I have now, an image of a young Les and Pals, all with luxuriant taches standing round about to light a banger that is lashed to a Syrup tin, just before Ginger lights the fuse young Les checks his pocket watch, "Chaps, it's nearly Tiffin, Sun has passed the Yard arm, perhaps we should save this wheeze for tomorrow and nip inside for a Sloe Gin, and to be fair, that last Dog Turd exploding has ruined my quiff"

Leslie

Thats uncanny J4CKO, you weren't there were you?

Les

J4CKO

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No and I am sorry I always envisage you as a sort of Biggles/Terry Thomas/Leslie Phillips hybrid and I am sure you are not but I think you actually quite like it, PSL is a Wilfred Brambell/Alf Garnett/Cyril from Thats Life Hybrid in my mind, so you got the better deal.

RobsyUK

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You don't need bangers to get dog turd and slug slime all over you... A strimmer does just as good...

CrisPDuk

Oddly, that's the image that comes to mind whenever I read Les' posts to

Brun

^^^ Agreed

Steve vRS

Does anyone remember how long it took and how hard it was to hollow out a bloody swede!

My kids think it's hard to do a pumpkin. Next year 'm going to give the boy a Swede, a dinner knife and a desert spoon and see what he comes up with

I agree with the fireworks sentiment but as I live in a nice area, so far it is not an issue. Until T de W moves up the road though

Steve

J4CKO

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Steve, we live in Wilmslow which is allegedly a nice area, however poor ******* and wealthy ones behave much the same, suspect it was nearby Executive style home with an X6 and a TT parked outside.

lozgti1

Very good reason to buy high explosives!

boomer

Cow pats were much better - bigger splatter-factor

Ah, the days when you could buy bangers, age unrestricted - and yet so much safer and friendlier than now

mb

Steve vRS

I know. There should have been a after my first sentence. There are welthy ******* in Lymm as well - all driving Cayennes and Bentlys.

Steve

Jamescsti

hate fireworks my dog is ****ting herself with them all going off. im having to drug her everynight and now she looks permanently stoned! should be restricted to one weekend.

oldsplice

I hate bangers. All the big rough boys used to buy them.

Leslie

I would hate to spoil the image, and those who have met me will surely be having a chuckle.

Les

Snazy

Bloody annoying I agree. Being allowed to buy enough explosives to blow up a phone box, over the counter of a supermarket is a little scary let alone stupid!

CrisPDuk

We're pretty lucky, our dog's first owner conditioned her to the sound of gunfire from an early age, now she just runs around in the garden looking for fallen birds

The cat spends most evenings sat on the conservatory roof watching the lights

Snazy

Both mine hate them. If one goes off while we are walking then they head straight for home, fast!

mamoon2

Leslie

Is that the oldest one you can find?

Thats a fail!

Les