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what makes fireworks different colours?

― james (james), Thursday, 6 November 2003 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

*sigh*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 November 2003 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

fireworks manufacturers.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 November 2003 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

different minerals - magnesium - silver, strontium - red, etc.

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 6 November 2003 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

pixie dust. And dye.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 6 November 2003 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Your eye.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 6 November 2003 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Come to think of it, it's actually your brain, your eye just relays the information.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Light and texture and your eye and brain.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

speaking of fireworks anyone know where to get really big fireworks in London?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't you remember? We saw all those really scary looking fireworks in Southall! (The neighbourhood, not the ILE poster.) I had to forcibly restrain HSA from getting "Cluster Bomb" or whatever the nasty one was called.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Why on earth do they sell fireworks you need to stand 80ft back from for people to use in their back gardens/neds to tie hamsters to?

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

well, where I'm off to this weekend we have km of fen land fields to stand well back on. Southall you say, I don't recall any explosives but it makes sense.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you were waiting in the queue at the time. That counter behind where the registers were, where we were waiting for you - there was enough big scary fireworks to blow up the houses of parliament!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

google: firework color science

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I've found a place in gants hill to satisfy my needs. I am being intrigued by mortar mines and signal rockets and wondering if it's not just a dodgy arms dealer.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I would tell you to take HSA along because he would want to know about this, but he's in Wiltshire. :-(

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

If you want big flares you should go to a ships chandler, I used to work for one and there was some very interesting stuff there, but, as I said on another thread that seems to have disappeared, fireworks are very dangerous and I won't go near 'em.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

We have a wonderful place to let them off this weekend, big wide fens and ditches to dive in if one goes off wrong (as happened last year)

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Man on telly last night showed a big firework with 70g of flashpowder and said that naval flares only use 7g so your ship's chandler ain't all that, Cabbage.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Last night, Nigel Spivey showed how the RAF used COLOURED FLARES (essentially fireworks) to light up Germany for the bombing! It looked oddly pretty.

(I wonder if they picked that episode for the seasonal appeal.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

they used to do the mortars which alerted the coastguard Madchen, they were kin huge!

Ed, diving in a ditch won't help if the fireworks in yr hand!

― chris (chris), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Fortunately I've never had a firework go off in my hand.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

If it is a very damp fen, you could stick your hand in the ground, maybe.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Fie! Fie! You've just jinxed yourself Ed!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

F*ckin neds and f*ckin fireworks, ought to be a law against it, grumble grumble moan rant...the wee f*ckers have been causing havoc with them since like July and will prolly continue till Christmas. F*ckers. 2 o'clock in the f*ckin morning, they must've saved up the powder to make a really huge bang or somthing coz our windows shook....

― smee (smee), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I nearly saw a firework go off in someone's hanbd last night. Fortunately, he chucked the firework (which was one of those screamy wormy ones) at his mate just in time to avoid being burned. He missed me by about two metres. I laughed but it did occur to me that it could have had my eye out.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

haha last night wz the first night ever when the actual NIGHT part of the night wz quite quiet!

and the view from my roof wz lubly

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Fireworks. Seen one, seen em all. Was at one of them Fireworks displays in a London park last night and it was, unfortunatley, not that good. I mean what's the difference between one of them big badgers that fills the sky and the lil squibs that the g-stars where luzzing at the rozers as a near riot broke out around the fairground as familys and kiddies dived for cover (except for the fact that you have more chance of lossing an eye from the aforementioned squibs and firecrackers). It's just scale. I want to see one of a massive dragon's head Gandalf style or something. I am jaded.

― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(I cowered inside, because much as I am against Poperie, I am deadly scared of fireworks.)

(Though even worse was the couple upstairs deciding to have really loud sex. There's nothing worse than having to listen to really loud sex when yer own boyfriend is in Wiltshire. Sigh. I wonder what they set on fire in Wiltshire.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

ought to be a law against it ... 2 o'clock in the f*ckin morning

it clearly states in my social contract that I shouldn't be doing such things less I feel much shame and be regarded with general disdain and contempt.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I was sad last night too because I wanted to be watching things burn in Ottery St Mary.

You want to experience some big bearded bruiser charging towards you with a burning barrel of tar on his back. That'd unjade you.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of HSA's friends invited us to go down to Lewes with them, to watch a genuine Tudor-style anti-poperie riot, but I was too scared. Sigh.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you send him round our way to scare the neds?

― smee (smee), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost!

The man with barrel not HSA!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Funnily enough, Ned and HSA were admiring the fireworks together! (And then Stevem turned up and commented on them.)

(And then they all lezzed up.)

(Oh wait, no, this is turning into one of those fantasy orgy type things like should be on the crush thread, I'll just stop now.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tarbarrels.co.uk/images/frontpagepic.jpg

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I nearly started a thread a long time ago, called perhaps 'Fireworks', about fireworks as a metaphor for pop.

By the time I got home from the fireworks, my thinking on the matter had burned itself out.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

F*ckin neds and f*ckin fireworks

:-(

Funnily enough, Ned and HSA were admiring the fireworks together!

We both have excellent taste, we do.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/1988road/fireworks.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I hear the fireworks all around me. (The big local display won't start for another twenty minutes.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

I stayed in and went to bed early and ignored them, but I ended up watching them through my window--I have a pretty good view! I had forgotten just how good it is. Now sirens again. Please be cooperative, my fellow citizens, and refrain from disorderly conduct.

― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

i set off some fireworks this weekend. i made some movies of them and took pictures!! who wants to see?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

Why is it that firework technology has barely advanced since I was a small child?

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

Why mess with the classics? What, were you expecting Gandalf's dragon fireworks?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

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