Fireworks

[Lofty]

What are your views on fireworks? Pyrotechnic wonders or exploding menaces? The best firework display I ever saw was after a Will Smith concert, they went on for ages too. Usually though I could give zero fucks about them. I set a few off as an errant youth but I can't fathom spending £100s to set your own off, especially as where I am now you can just look up and see them for free.

[Shindig]

I'm also in the 'I'm right next to a proper display' crew. It was like Basra for an hour. :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hate them with a rare passion. Don't like loud bangs, and the light element is pointless. I actually dislike pretty much everything that happens in November, and fireworks make me think of the wet grass, darkness and misery of childhood firework nights, being forced to stand outside listening to other people go wooooooah at loud bangs.

New Year's night sky is spectacular, so I'll allow that, but the fact that they're on sale to teenagers in dodgy pop-up shops everywhere is insane.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They're only good when something goes wrong which happened a lot when my Dad, who bought FOR PROFESSIONALS ONLY, did them.

[Disco]

The best displays are when they accidentally let them all off at once.

[Yevrah]

They're shit.

[Giggles]

Another one to file under ‘just for kids’.

[Ben]

They're only good when something goes wrong which happened a lot when my Dad, who bought FOR PROFESSIONALS ONLY, did them.

Our cricket club display quite a few years ago now was along these lines. Firstly our club professional proclaimed “this is how we do it in Pakistan” as he held a rocket at arms length and let it off. Then almost immediately after, one of those boxes that lets off several fireworks in sequence tipped over in the wind and peppered the clubhouse like a Gatling gun.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The biggest fuck up that happened at one of my Dad's fireworks night was a rocket (which he'd put in a milk bottle before setting them off with a lit cigarette) deciding to come back towards the crowd and going inside the cardigan of a woman.

She had to scramble to quickly get said cardigan off before the rocket blew.

[Lewis]

My and my friends used to have a fire and chuck some rockets about (or stick them too hard/upside down in the ground), which was always fun, but small scale firework displays are usually pretty lame.

[Manc]

Phwoar.

Out the way, Lewis.

[Spikey M]

Same as Halloween, if you're bothering and you don't have kids, you need to get a life.

[Offshore Toon]

It seems a bit strange that thunder and lightning can be so much fun but fireworks are the biggest load of shit ever. A huge win for mother nature there.

[Pepe]

Professional ones can be good. Backyard ones suck.

[Baz]

I didn't think I had an opinion on them beyond 'they scare my cat' but I walked the chippy at 8PM last night and they were out in full force, and it felt pretty epic.

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When you can feel the bang, it's a special feeling.

[Gray Fox]

'Professional' show is grand. Take the kids to that one if they want to see some.

Keith in his garden, or Tyler who works at Sport Direct should not be allowed munitions.

[mo]

I remember really liking them as a kid, playing with sparklers and stuff was all good innocent fun. Uncle used to do some in his garden which was decent.

Nowadays though every event is so over crowded/poorly organised that getting in and out can take hours (literally 90 mins to get out of Bath race course with a baby and a toddler a few years ago) and individuals letting them off at gone 11pm just makes me think they're a load of wank.

'It was better in my day', essentially.

[randomlegend]

Thought the dog would be scared of them but seemed like he couldn't give less of a shit.

He's an actual retard; not scared of explosives but scared of spoons.

[Spikey M]

My dog doesn't give a shit about them either. Or spoons. Double hard bastard.

[Lofty]

Glad to report our dog's first bonfire night passed without incident but the cat shits them. He never used to be bothered but one of our neighbours seemed to acquire a job lot of extra loud bangers during covid and the resulting blitz imitation has sent him mental off them ever since, despite not being bothered for the previous decade.