HAHA this gets done every year. Oops sorry it was .com last year and before people say anything I'm agains't the little prats getting them too but what to do

EDIT: I know stick those bangers right up their _________

now there is a thought :tu: :tu: :tu:
maybe i should use my webspace that ntl gave me to start a protest site up about it , then direct it towards gov't :p :p :p

you do and ill personally be an assigned hitman stalking you :p :D

i dont think they should be banned but a sales period should be introduced because it is stupid that people are letting them off right now in september i mean whats the point of that :shrug:

Yeah cos setting them off to celebrate a terrorist makes perfect sense don't it:rolleyes: :p ;)

:D yes it does :p

i dont really set them off because of that i just do it because its fun although i have toned it down in recent years

*remembers when he used to buy 2-3 boxes with loads of battries then rockets as seperates :p

Jesus wept, no wonder the English have a reputation for being a nation of moaners.

Let me explain:

Once upon a time there was a tradition known as "Bonfire Night" or "Guy Fawkes Night".

A couple of weeks beforehand, kids would make up effigies or "Guys" and try to raise a bit of cash for fireworks.

On the night people would light bonfires and set off fireworks and everyone with cats and dogs etc would know to keep them inside.

And that would be it for another year.

Now shops start selling fireworks at the end of September and kids start doing the "penny for the guy" business about the end of the first week of October it seems like.

And instead of it being "fireworks night", it's more like "fireworks two months" as people let them off at any time of the day or night all through October, November and even into December.

And please, don't forget that these are *explosive devices* we are talking about and despite campaigns every year, children are burned or mutilated because even though it's illegal they still get their hands on them.

So if you want to see a firework display, go to a *properly* licenced and organised display (which is a lot better than a few poxy rockets and catherine wheels from a "selection box" which probably costs you over thirty quid anyway) and save everyone a lot of grief and hassle!

im not under any grief or hassle im not going to let a few idiots spoil my fun fireworks are here to stay

and stand in the freezing cold, usually where it's raining rather than watch some fireworks (albeit not as big or fancy as some of the displays) from the warmth of the house..

Interesting as if memory serves this was the line that craigj took in the previous thread about this last year on .com

As I explained to him then, it is not celebrating a terrorist, it is celebrating the thwarting of an act of terrorism.
Surely that is something to celebrate?

yep. the tradition has moved on a bit in our house from burning things like guy fawkes. last year we brned a osama bin liner "guy", and the year before taht a saddam hussein one. its fun... :p

we get to celebrate thwarting an act of war... though you still cant help but wonder waht would have happened to the country if mr guido had succeeded... :confused:

I wonder if this year people will be burning effigies of Tony Blair? :D

I love fireworks, I hate the little ****ers that think its funny to throw them at people and would If I thought I could get away with it beat the living crap out of them for it. I actually have had fireworks explode next to my car as I have been driving. Caught the lads they were about 14, they got a good slap for it.

I dont want them banned, that would spoil it for everyone, part of the thrill for me is creating my own little display, pro displays although good just are not the same.
Stocktons annual fireworks display attracts hundreds of thousands of people and it gets very dangerous especially for small children in such large crowds.

As far as I am concerend any kids caught misusing fireworks should be charged with maximum prejudice, misuse of an explosive device, couldnt they be charged with firearms offences?

Used corrctly and buying the correct approved fireworks means most risks are eliminated.

Firstly, that's the 2nd time in a week I have been compared with Craig J for some reaosn?

And my real point being, surely the fireworks are there to signify the gun powder he planned to blow up parliment with, so if this how we celibrate him being caught then it's stupid. Saying that though christians still wear a cross round their neck, like Jesus would want to see that.:shrug:

Yeah cos putting an effigy of Guy Fawkes on a big f*cking bonfire is really a true celebration of his life ....