Fireworks

beed84

So, are these going to be going off while I try to watch Coronation Street and after I go to bed as well?

Strangefan

This. Again. How about not watching  corrie and having some fun? It's not illegal you know .

beed84

Unpredictable loud explosions at stupid o' clock is not my idea of fun.

Caffeine_Vampire

Not a firework lover. Neither are my pets. 

CHRISB50

Oscar and Dolly (my cats) say fuck fireworks.

So do my wife and I trying to get our kids to sleep.

Not their problem, but I’m allowed to hate them. 

Cunts. 

thermionic

Seen one fireworks display, seen them all I say. They lost their appeal to me when I was about 13, and cannot understand why anybody would think otherwise.

terada

I spent new years in germany last year. I will never complain about fireworks again

Sassafras

terada said:

I spent new years in germany last year. I will never complain about fireworks again

I thought we'd stopped bombing them on VE day.

scrumhalf

There nmust be a hidden time zone near me because they've been letting fireworks off for the past hour despite the fact that it's still the same year where I am.

TheMarlin

You lot sound so miserable. I’m going to let off some fireworks for the next three hours in your honour. 

Happy new year!

PhilW1

PhilW1

beed84 said:

So, are these going to be going off while I try to watch Coronation Street and after I go to bed as well?

Boring,tedious and repetitive fading stars and as for fireworks! 
At least I can ban Corrie in my house 

usedtobe

Yup.. Fuck fireworks!

Snags

Miserable bunch of bastards. Fireworks are fun.

Despite having had pets for years, and this year being a boring old fart and going to bed early (and thus being woken up at midnight with all the fizzbangs), let it roll. At least on NYE it's just once, not for about a fortnight around November 5th.

Although the arsehole who let off the single, mahoosive banging bastard just as I was nodding off can have a shit January.

Moominpapa

Where I live it sounded like the battle of the Somme kicking off just after midnight, but we couldn't actually see any fireworks in the sky. Must have all been happening in Reading.

We did get fireworks later on, though, when a drunk and angry young lady outside our bedroom window informed her drunk boyfriend that no, she was not a fucking moronic little cretin, HE was. And no she wasn't going to get in the taxi with him, and also he was a cunt, and he should fuck off. So he did fuck off in his taxi, and about ten minutes later she left in another one. 

"Forget it, Jake - it's Wokingham"

Nunogilberto

Not against people having fun as such, but I’d happily ban fireworks.

EricTheWeary

Had fireworks last night variously between about 8pm and 1am. 
Dog not happy, I'm not happy. If it was all at midnight I guess that's fine but random explosions outside over the course of 5 hours is a complete pain.

 thermionic said:

Seen one fireworks display, seen them all I say. They lost their appeal to me when I was about 13, and cannot understand why anybody would think otherwise.

Yes, dull. I watched a bit of the London ones on the TV - maybe they are great if you are there but after about a minute I lost interest. 

Teetonetal

CHRISB50 said:

Oscar and Dolly (my cats) say fuck fireworks.

So do my wife and I trying to get our kids to sleep.

Not their problem, but I’m allowed to hate them. 

Cunts. 

My kids are 2 and 5. We bought 1 firework (a fountain) and let it off at 6. They loved it so much. It’s pretty incredible for kids really. Mine then both slept through the midnight madness.

i guess the difference between here and the uk is that almost all fireworks here are between midnight and 00:30.

mrkb

Nunogilberto said:

Not against people having fun as such, but I’d happily ban fireworks.

Yep, Seems such a waste of energy and the earths resources to mine the elements and spend the energy making them just to make them explode and turn into oxides. Surely there’s better use of the chemicals! Same with helium balloons which are using useful gas resources for no real purpose.

Caffeine_Vampire

I just feel for the local wildlife and the environment. 

I feel nothing for the local invertebrates who seem to think that spending their hard stolen money on a £30 hamster fart in a box and hanging out in a cold field at midnight is a good way to celebrate the New Year. 

I am over 40 though...

octatonic

We had all the fireworks drowned out by thunder, lightening and torrential, tropical rain.