Fireworks

[potsy]

[QUOTE 5416130, member: 9609"]make it into a game, get the dog to associate the noise with fun. Dogs can get to love bangs etc, think of gun dogs, they associate gun fire with fantastic days out. If you start going on strange or get annoyed at fireworks then your dog will copy you.[/QUOTE]
Yes good advice, he is a gun dog so hopefully will be fine.

So far just the occasional one has gone off, he doesn't react but next-door neighbour's dog does, he then reacts to him and barks

Will actually miss going to watch the local display this year.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

The sale is already restricted to two weeks before and they no longer start mid August. Lets not restrict them any further.

The more they restrict them the better.

 

[MachersMan]

Way back in the 70s my best mate got his port side burned off. I wont go into detail but he had a pocket full that got a spark. I'll never forget the smell of him burning. Fireworks are great until something goes wrong and you remember it for the rest of your life...honestly, I'm 60 and I can still smell it.

Controlled fireworks displays why not? They are beautiful. Selling gunpowder to the public 'for profit' to celebrate an act of treason 400 years ago when every year since there has been serious casualties............?

 

[slowmotion]

Way back in the 70s my best mate got his port side burned off. I wont go into detail but he had a pocket full that got a spark. I'll never forget the smell of him burning. Fireworks are great until something goes wrong and you remember it for the rest of your life...honestly, I'm 60 and I can still smell it.

Controlled fireworks displays why not? They are beautiful. Selling gunpowder to the public 'for profit' to celebrate an act of treason 400 years ago when every year since there has been serious casualties............?

A certain level of risk might be a good thing, perhaps? Anyway, I'm sticking my fingers in my ears and rushing off whining to my nearest safe space....

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

You see when the youth of today are pilloried and called snowflakes? It's at least two generations opinions away from reality and more a reflection of old nobbers needing to stop being nobbers.

 

[slowmotion]

Can you still get Jumping Jacks? They were a load more fun than riding round Hyde Park Corner in the rush hour. A real shot of adrenaline as they chased you round the garden with malevolent intent.

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 5416338, member: 9609"]very naughty boys used to tie a bit of fishing wire to a banger and stick the hook in someone elses coat so the banger hung about ankle height- you got a little dance and a sense of panic.[/QUOTE]
Bangers were fun. We used to mould them into a ball of clay/mud about the size of a cricket ball, with the fuse sticking out. We would then light them and wait before the fuse started fizzing properly before lobbing them into the River Itchen. They sank to about three feet before exploding underwater. Wonderful.

 

[slowmotion]

You see when the youth of today are pilloried and called snowflakes? It's at least two generations opinions away from reality and more a reflection of old nobbers needing to stop being nobbers.

You need to be careful, pal. Ageism is going to be a hate crime.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Bleeding idiots are starting again

 

[Tommy2]

We had some go off about 8 last night, thought it was some tw*ts thinking it would be funny to wake kids up just when parents are getting them to bed, but if you’ve had some near you last night as well must just be tw*ts in general.

Since when was fireworks on Christmas Eve a ‘thing’?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Since when was fireworks on Christmas Eve a ‘thing’?

Since the IQ of the country seems to be slipping into the toilet, but then again it's all about them & f88k the rest of the world as long as they're alright

 

[raleighnut]

Bleeding idiots are starting again

None round here yet but New Year they'll be going off

 

[fossyant]

At my sisters for New Year, but we won't be doing fireworks as they have a 7 month old lab.

 

[steveindenmark]

I have never bought a firework.

I now live on a hill and will walk out of my front door for 15 minutes on New Years evening and watch thousands of pounds go up in smoke. I can see for miles from my garden .

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Morons are at it again