05-11-2004, 14:02
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Re: 2004 firework thread
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Dunno if this has been mentioned here but I was reading that insurance companies are bracing themselves 'cos tonight and tomorrow night are always the worst nights of the year for burglaries. Everyone is out at a display and the **** go round breaking in. It's even been known for them to break in at the front while the family is in the back garden........
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That'll give me something to think about while I'm at work 
All the family are coming up to work as right next door is a REALLY big display (Which is why I'm at work in case the place catches fire).....
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05-11-2004, 14:08
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Re: 2004 firework thread
Well, I went to Tesco at lunchtime and bought a wee box for our wee man's first back garden fireworks display. He was in bed fast asleep last year, but now he's two years old it's past time he learned how to set fire to stuff 
I got their smallest box (cos he is still a small boy), which is pleasantly stuffed with fireworks for a bargain £10, and came with a free pack of rockets. I was amazed when the assistant shoved the rockets into the bag, they're huge. I was expecting the freebies to be a pack of screamers or something. We is gonna have fun
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05-11-2004, 14:15
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Re: 2004 firework thread
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...bought a wee box for our wee man's first back garden fireworks display...
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You been having language lessons to prepare for your impending move?
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05-11-2004, 14:17
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You been having language lessons to prepare for your impending move?
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I've been getting language lessons off Mrs T for the past five years ... Jr Towny is even more amusing, his vowels are all Glaswegian.
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05-11-2004, 15:26
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Re: 2004 firework thread
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Originally Posted by Ramrod
tonight and tomorrow night are always the worst nights of the year for burglaries.
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Many moons ago when my Dad had a job in a bank, burglurs broke in and no one did anything becuase when the burglurs detonated explosives to get in, everyone thought it was fireworks.
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I think there is an art in firework displays. Its a matter of creating a mood and a journey and by combining it with the approriate music you can choregraph a whole sound to light production.
Stick a few lasers and use the smoke from the fireworks and you can create some great effects.
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05-11-2004, 21:51
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Re: 2004 firework thread
Just come home from my fireworks outing at the local park.
It was free, there was lots of people, lights glwoing in the trees, it was magical.
I love this time of year.
As for the fireworks,,..... Absolutely briliant. HUGE BANGS and a sky so lit up it was fantastic.
I hope everyone else had a good time.
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05-11-2004, 21:58
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Re: 2004 firework thread
No music or Lasers i'm afraid - but we had a good time.
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05-11-2004, 21:59
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Re: 2004 firework thread
went to the big uni firework display last night. 20mins of loud bangs and bright light, great
only problem was, they hold a funfair at the same time. pikeys and gyppos everywhere
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05-11-2004, 22:02
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Re: 2004 firework thread
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went to the big uni firework display last night. 20mins of loud bangs and bright light, great
only problem was, they hold a funfair at the same time. pikeys and gyppos everywhere |
What's wrong with having a funfair there? It adds to the fun.
Is it that you didn't win a goldfish? 
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05-11-2004, 22:06
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What's wrong with having a funfair there? It adds to the fun.
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i didnt go on anything, they might have not put the nuts and bolts in properly
had to chuckle though, they had a dartboard game like the one in phoenix nights.... 
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05-11-2004, 22:15
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Re: 2004 firework thread
humbug---ban 'em all!!!!!
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05-11-2004, 22:18
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Re: 2004 firework thread
i think if fireworks were banned i would end up making my own....i have basic knowledge of how certainl chemicals work together 
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05-11-2004, 22:20
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Re: 2004 firework thread
Twas like World War 3 had kicked off round here tonight. The things being let off by neighbours behind me were something else. Still my turn for revenge pyrotechnics tommorrow night 
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05-11-2004, 22:20
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Re: 2004 firework thread
This is what I had today, with some of them set-up in the garden, and finally the big wheel going at full pelt.
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05-11-2004, 22:27
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Re: 2004 firework thread
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i think if fireworks were banned i would end up making my own....i have basic knowledge of how certainl chemicals work together |
Remind me to get you a dustpan and brush for chrimbo, something for your mates to sweep your bits up in 
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