Is it me

[claymore]

Or has bonfire night become more ballistic than I remember. We endured a 3 hour Somme-like bombardment last night.

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Claymore
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[tcm]

Re: no, it\'s me

I lashed out on four fireworks costing a total of 80 quid, and very good fun too. One was called Detonator, i think, another one White Sound, another one Doom and the biggest one (about 1foot cube) called Final Finale. I littem one at a time in a big bin, making very sure to keep 25 minutes between each firework to allow my ears to recover. Multiple kabooms, very good fun, and excellent approval ratings from the kids. We even got a round of applause from the people in the pub. Inthe morning, there was lots of cardboard lying around.

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[jimbouy]

Yep,

Its rediculous and dangerous. When i was a kid (20 years ago) a small box of Standard Fireworks and a fire.

Fizz bang pop and we were happy.

Now its a year long round of bombardment.

The sooner they bring in more controls the better!



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[Evadne]

Only 3 hours?

You were lucky! Last night started at dark with the kiddies' displays and didn't finish until well after midnight. It was the peak of a crescendo that started weeks ago, and I don't expect it to stop entirely until well into the New Year. Pains Wessex must be a good bet to buy shares in these days.

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[castaway]

I returned home from work last night at half past midnight, to find my 18yr old son and his mates had burnt about 2 yrs supply of my Oak logs (carefully hoarded) in the middle of the lawn and proudly informed me of how much of his student loan had been spent on fireworks!

However it was a great blaze and is still going strong out therenow (09:00). I have to say I love a good bonfire but can take or leave the fireworks.

Down here in the Home Counties of course we go straight from Diwalli (sp?) into GFaulks night with out a pause.

Nick

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[jimbouy]

Yep

Then GFaulks goes on a bit and before we no it people will be celebrating new years a bit early, then it'll be the chinese new year etc etc.

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[kilkerr1]

We're used to the overuse/abuse of fireworks: people seem to come from all over the globe for the pope-burning extravaganza which is Lewes bonfire night, just up the road. A truly bizarre and sometimes scary, albeit impressive, experience: competing bonfire societies march through the tiny town and try to outdo each other with their costumes and fire displays (which tend to include burning crosses, you don't see that every day...); hordes of pissed students chucking kebabs about, a smattering of Nazi youth chucking fireworks into the crowd, great fun. It seems to get bigger every year. Even if you stay well away (i.e. Brighton) the traffic generated is quite incredible. On the bus back from Sussex University last night there were firworks going off every few seconds all the way back - that's about 6 miles of constant fireworks. Pretty.



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[Cornishman]

Re: no, it\'s me

You would have had much more 'fun' if you had stacked them in a phone box before lighting the blue touch paper and retiring immediately (or quicker if possible) like certain little b****rs around here have done!

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[Bejasus]

Did you mean like this?

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[jimi]

Re: Burning Popes

Really, I can think of an extremly productive use for these things. Set one off underneath your local Gatso .. at £30 a shot its half the cost of a fine!

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[Aja]

Three hours? You must live in a very sparsely populated area. Its been going on for the last month up here...

... and may I say it really hasn't got anything to do with Scotland. Guy Fawkes was before the Union of Parliaments. The Scots had their own at that time.

Its funny why we 'celebrate' this occassion. I propose that VE Day.. or the demise of Thatcher would be more apt.

IMo, of course.

Donald

...now ducking below parapet - too much explosive around.



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[beancounter]

No, it\'s not just you..

Went outside last night, and could hear such deeply percussive explosions that I thought perhaps Uncle Sam's finest at Lakenheath and Mildenhall were having an unfortunate accident with their assorted lethal hardware...

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[westernsailor]

Re: No, it\'s not just you..

The back ground noice during the Arsenal match on TV last night was unbelievable.

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[jhr]

Say what you will about Bonfire Night, I'm always reminded of the immortal words of Sellars and Yeatman in "1066 and all that", which went something like:

"The Gunpowder Plot was a memorable failure, but every year the people of Britain remind the Government that it would have been a good thing"

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[janeK]

The Gunpowder Plot was a memorable failure, but every year the people of Britain remind the Government that it would have been a good thing"

or that he was probably the last person to enter Parliament with 'honest' intentions

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[jimbouy]

Does seem a bit odd to celebrate a failed terrorist attack.

Wonder what this might led to in 20 years time.

Your suggestions for other great failures to be celebrated.

IDS night, perhaps

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[claymore]

Festive lights

I have Scottish Power and British gas fighting over my account just now so have decided to keep the bills to a minimum by not using lights.
I'm thinking that if I get the tree down as early as I got it up, then I can put some summery sailingtypythingies in and that will mean that I the winter will have passed sooner and I can get back to antifouling my head again and skinning my knuckles dewinterising the engine and trying to remember where I put everything. I think this is a really good plan as it seems to take me longer to remember how to put everything back together nowadays so if I start sooner my season wont be shorter....

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[longjohnsadler]

Re:I have Scottish Power

The depressing part of winter is truly upon us; at a recent 'hooly' I was put in charge of the 'party-poopers' (I think they meant party poppers).
I think we can all aspire, as a New Years Resolution, to anti-fouling our heads.
And Jimi's recent post about elderly friends (although I speak as a mere teenager) should be roundly ignored.

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