Reply to: Fireworks

[Doggy Styles]

Aye.

"Trust in the Lord & keep your powder dry" was never more appropriate.

I know a chap who used to make his own gunpowder.

Wears a wig.

[darmstadt]

In Germany fireworks are only on sale to the general public in the days between Christmas and New Year (called Silvester) and its a real pain as all the chavs in the neighbourhood let them off every evening, all evening during those days. At midnight on New Year everyone goes out into the street and lets of fireworks and it can get a bit hairy especially if you have the 'banger guns' which is a pistol where you put a banger in the end, light it and then fire it! You want to see the streets the next day, the mess. Mind you an Italian friend was telling me about New Year in Naples where it is also the custom to throw unwanted goods out, he saw a car crushed by a washing machine thrown out of a window and someone let off a couple of grenades. What gets me though is that although there are injuries here there aren't many especially considering that nearly everyone is pissed they don't seem to be as bad or as many as the UK on the 5th November.

[BrilloPad]

Maybe some people are just early for the new year fireworks?

[SantaClaus]

Oh well lots you do would probably get on my nerves and I'd want to ban but hey ho.

You're going on my bonfire next Guy Fawkes night.

[Sockpuppet]

Just wanted to say they are getting on my friggin nerves now. Don't they know fireworks night was 3 days ago?

Personally I think the public sale of fireworks should be banned and only allowed at organised displays.

Oh well lots you do would probably get on my nerves and I'd want to ban but hey ho.

[SantaClaus]

It would be more entertaining (and rather more exciting) if he didn't ...

I know I shouldn't, but I wish that would happen to a few of the houses popping bangers at this hour!

[minestrone]

I thought it was to celebrate the burning of Catholics?

No, Darkie day in Cornwall is about the papists, fireworks day is about the darkies.

Sorry, I'm not from England, did I get that right?

[mudskipper]

That too.

[Cliphead]

If you still have hands, you know what you're doing.

[mudskipper]

No idea if it's allowed or not.

Yes, I know what I'm doing.

I hope.

Useful sometimes having a background as a rocket scientist.

If you still have eyebrows, you know what you're doing.

[Moscow Mule]

And somehow we celebrate this not being done under the parliament?

I thought it was to celebrate the burning of Catholics?

[minestrone]

It would be more entertaining (and rather more exciting) if he didn't ...

And somehow we celebrate this not being done under the parliament?

[cojak]

Got to be better than cheap Indian fireworks I guess, assuming you know what you're doing? ... you do, don't you?

It would be more entertaining (and rather more exciting) if he didn't ...

[Cliphead]

Is that allowed?

Got to be better than cheap Indian fireworks I guess, assuming you know what you're doing? ... you do, don't you?

No idea if it's allowed or not.

Yes, I know what I'm doing.

I hope.

Useful sometimes having a background as a rocket scientist.

[norrahe]

It was a tad quiet in the east end this week.

Normally its like Beirut