Right. Just so you not nice people are aware:

Last night was Bonfire night.

Not tonight, or saturday, and for the really fucking ignorant, not Sunday.

If any of you choose to have "firework display" at your house tonight, or any time over the weekend, please allow one of the fucking godawful things to blow up in your face.

Kind regards

I struggle to understand why we celebrate an attempted terrorist attack on Parliament and reenact a barbaric execution method by burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes.

Besides, fireworks have caused countless maimings over the years yet we freely sell explosives over the counter without any form of control.

I dont understand the mentality of anyone that buys them.

And their ignorance of the fear it puts into pets that a lot of people have.

As a kid I would completely disagree.

As a grown up I completely agree!

Yes well kids cant buy them.

So they dont count.

Rubbish. You're only cross because you let off all your fireworks early and now have none left for the weekend. You just couldn't wait, could you? So ridiculously impulsive.

Why spend your own hard earned on something that lasts seconds. The boxes show how long they last and there were some in the shops that cost £40 and lasted less than a minute.
WHY would you pay that when there's impressive free shows in every town that last longer than anyone's attention could be drawn to fireworks for.

I can understand why some who have served in the forces would want to swerve them, but for loads of people fireworks displays are ellish. And who doesn't get hypnotised by the roaring flames of a big bommy?

Apart from the Colon(el). I've heard he's too busy queueing up for fish and chips to appreciate them.

I do that everytime I go to Amsterdam

Close your eyes and experience the sound and smell of battle.

Better value down the Vic for a bunch of tarts.

Pigs head and all.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-34731830

To be fair, the ancient Chinese invented fireworks about three thousand years back, well before we had dogs, so fir come first served and all that

My next door neighbour has a ritual every year which starts at 9 precisely.
He unpacks his battery of what looks uncannily like N.A.T.O. surplus ordanance and which has uncannily similar sound and blast effects. He bangs away for about 20 minutes .... sadly alone for the last 15 minutes as all the family have moved back indoors... he stands there like some demented wizard with his mentalist dog howling at the display, then they're all gone and normality resumes... he surveys the charred remains and heads indoors a poorer man..... while we view the demented cabaret from our back bedroom window. Brilliant entertainment watching him perform.
Ban em .

Anyone that's been lucky enough to see fireworks at Orlando knows that's the ones over here at displays are crap in comparison.

Your not wrong was there in June. Unreal compared to the displays here.

There was trouble at the Auckland Castle f/work display last night apparently.....no stewards or crowd control...people getting crushed......drunk teenagers....cans of lager being thrown into the crowd where babies and children were etc etc.

Then, bizarrely there were people twittering to say it had all been great and people should be 'more positive'.