Fireworks in the hands of the general public: C/D

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As after-dark London has been sounding a little like it did during the Blitz of late, it must be that time of year again...

Classic: Fun for all the family, opportunity to go "ooh, ahh" with friends, hours of entertainment if combined with heavy boozing.

Dud: They scare the crap out of my dog (we went with Laika in the end, BTW), kiddies throw them around in the street, and it's very easy to mistakenly shell your neighbours if you've boozed a little too heavily. Plus the weedy Standard box you get at the newsagent is not really much to look at.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Classic: if it's me, because I'm Responsible and know what I'm doing.

Dud: if it's anyone else.

(please apply this post to all "doing X: C/D?" threads on the server, thx)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I hate fireworks, so MAJOR DUD!

― We might force K8 to change her name to Marie. (kate), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

DUD!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Seeing a hackett faced maw buying them for her ratty faced, Burberry clad, scowling teenage son in Tesco at the weekend - mega dud.

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

complete dud. it's so frigging popular in the netherlands despite dozens of people being maimed by it.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

you weirdos.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

total classic, unless there is maiming of any kind. Than total dud.

If fireworks, like rock music, are too loud, you're too old.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm too old then. I get pissed off at vehicle noise!!

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know that I disapprove too much so long as they're only maiming their own, natural selection innit?

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Provided they help old ladies across the road.

Vehicle noise is usually drowned out by all those terrible loud uncouth youths yelling and mp3ing at the back of the bus!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Totally classic especially if you can get them at one of the garish 24 hour fireworks stores in Tennessee

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/2005eastward/tn-fireworks1.jpg
http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/2005eastward/tn-fireworks2.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG ya'll, obviously CLASSIC. Maiming comes with the territory.

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Murderer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Theyre banned here now :( Cant buy em without a licence. Not that that stops some people.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:56 (eighteen years ago) link

The last time I was around fireworks and firecrackers, someone shoved one through a chicken breast and blew it up. It just left a little round hole! So I'm not too worried about maiming. He hung it on a tree.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link

A license to thrill!

xpost He hung an enholed chicken breast on a tree? I feel like I'm missing something.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link

It was Otis, wasn't it.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Trayce, being banned makes them better. Juvenile psychology, but potent. It is almost required that you buy some at the Tennessee border when heading home into Georgia.

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Obviously classic. As with most "X in the hands of the general public" threads: America v. the Rest of Y'all.

Roman candle fights w/friends are the awesomest!!!

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I got lit gunpowder in my eye, once. Im lucky it didnt do any damage. And no it wasnt my own fault ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link

classic. one of the few highlights of my pyro adolescense, along with my 2400 modem and Jim Lee X-men comics.

plus, my backyard faced the 2nd hole of a golf course, so we'd like the fuse of a thing of firecrackers and hide, then they'd go off right as the golfers tried to swing. Such fun.

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Wasn't Otis. Like Otis would think to do that.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Classic: if it's me, because I'm Responsible and know what I'm doing.

Dud: if it's anyone else.

Can we please post this at the top of every ILX thread ever, followed by clear instructions as to the best method for dissidents to shoot themselves in the face?

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I have never known anyone to be maimed or killed by a damn firecracker. All those kids with the missing digits from M-80's were probably eating apples with razorblades stuck inside 'em last night.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link

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