fireworks :D - Page 2

Atomic22 · 21-09-2003, 19:53

fireworks are great , i remember running away from maniacal jumping jacks when i was a kid , and putting bangers into bottles to explode them , and opening air bombs with a knife and turning them into mortar bombs using the handlebars of my raleigh chopper as launch tubes , aralditing a nail to the top of a metal german helmet and putting a catherine wheel on it ,lighting it ,then wearing it.......aaaah those where the days , no wonder people want fireworks banned.....ahem

Mal · 21-09-2003, 20:01

This year has got to be the first year in a very long while, where we're in September and there have been no fireworks yet.

I love fireworks and usually light a load of them up (for my nephew of course)

though I do think that they should be kept to the bonfire week.

paulyoung666 · 21-09-2003, 20:21

simple , ban them from public sale , anyone caught selling them or letting them off should be hung , they are a bloody dangerous nuisance , oh , and btw i do like fireworks

, nuff said

imback · 21-09-2003, 20:22

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Originally posted by paulyoung666
simple , ban them from public sale , anyone caught selling them or letting them off should be hung , they are a bloody dangerous nuisance , oh , and btw i do like fireworks , nuff said

Yeah, it seems like an obvious solution, but it will never happen unfortunatly

paulyoung666 · 21-09-2003, 20:24

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Originally posted by imback
Yeah, it seems like an obvious solution, but it will never happen unfortunatly

shame , probably because the gov't rake in money from the sale of them

imback · 21-09-2003, 20:32

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Originally posted by paulyoung666
shame , probably because the gov't rake in money from the sale of them

Pretty much it I would think, same reason smoking (oneo fthe biggest killers in the world) is advertised, yet soft drugs that have no proven serious threats are clamped down on so hard.

Fireworks are dangerous, even when people take great care, so when some idiots get hold of them and start pointing them at people, attatching them to cats, I think it's time to make a ban perosnally.

Ramrod · 21-09-2003, 21:32

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Originally posted by Mal
This year has got to be the first year in a very long while, where we're in September and there have been no fireworks yet.

I love fireworks and usually light a load of them up (for my nephew of course) though I do think that they should be kept to the bonfire week.

Thats right. I have no problem with fireworks on bonfire night. It's just a major pain (we have two babies who get woken up) when they are let off over a two month period.

Steve H · 21-09-2003, 21:36

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Originally posted by paulyoung666
simple , ban them from public sale , anyone caught selling them or letting them off should be hung , they are a bloody dangerous nuisance , oh , and btw i do like fireworks , nuff said

Yea thats right, lets ban em, the answer to anything. So much for freedom

</sarcasm>

paulyoung666 · 21-09-2003, 21:46

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Originally posted by Steve_NTL
Yea thats right, lets ban em, the answer to anything. So much for freedom </sarcasm>

ooooooooh er missus , so you reckon it is ok for kids to go lobbin them for a month either side of bonfire night do you

or do you live in such a posh area that kids dont go lobbin them all over the place ??????????
as far as i am concerned they are an unwanted nuisance
btw did i read your post right in replying like this ,

if i didnt ,

if i did in a nice sort of way , please dont ban me

Steve H · 21-09-2003, 22:05

Couldnt ban you if I wanted too (Which I dont, Cus I

you

)

Point I was making, was banning them isnt a good thing. Restrictions yea, But thats gonna be hard. Its like anything, My comment wasnt really aimed at fireworks, it was just in general.

Dave Stones · 21-09-2003, 22:07

some firework facts + statz:

http://www.dti.gov.uk/ccp/topics1/pdf1/firework9702.pdf

now more people get killed by driving recklessly every year and through other dangerous things like smoking dobt they? shall we ban them cos they cause too much death and injusry?

interesting reading, the number that have died between 97 and 2002 is countable on one hand...

paulyoung666 · 21-09-2003, 22:14

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Originally posted by Steve_NTL
Couldnt ban you if I wanted too (Which I dont, Cus I you )

Point I was making, was banning them isnt a good thing. Restrictions yea, But thats gonna be hard. Its like anything, My comment wasnt really aimed at fireworks, it was just in general.

awwwwwwwwwww thats nice to know

but dont you think they are a bloody nuisance in the coming months ?????????
summat needs sorting methinks

Dave Stones · 21-09-2003, 22:15

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Originally posted by paulyoung666
awwwwwwwwwww thats nice to know
but dont you think they are a bloody nuisance in the coming months ?????????
summat needs sorting methinks

everyone chip in and buy this moaning minnie a pair of ear defenders

danielf · 21-09-2003, 22:19

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Originally posted by Dave Stones
interesting reading, the number that have died between 97 and 2002 is countable on one hand...

That's assuming you have hands left after last years fireworks...

They are dangerous. And a nuisance. I understand people want to set them off, but let's limit the period you're allowed to.

paulyoung666 · 21-09-2003, 22:37

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Originally posted by Dave Stones
everyone chip in and buy this moaning minnie a pair of ear defenders

no need to I'm actually called David

i can get ear plugs from work but my kids and cat dont like them

:p :p :p :p