Fireworks: classic or dud?

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As I have a nervous dog, I say DUD DUD DUD. Especially when they're set off for weeks and weeks before Bonfire night at all times of day.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

as i am a nervous kit, i say DUD DUD DUD, too. they scare me somewhat.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Absolutely dud. Especially when they're set off in the streets by idiots, so you're walking around fearing that your legs are going to be blown off at any second now. Argh.

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Proper fireworks displays: classic (shame about the dogs all the same)

Wee neds setting off squibs and bangers ~~up cats' arses~~: dud

― ONIMO's losing the plot (GerryNemo), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

Classic obviously, unless set to music which is over-egging the pudding somewhat.

To be perfectly honest, fireworks are better than dogs so their right to explode and look pretty is more important than the canine right not to be scared.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

i like the term 'fireworks', quaint.

― ;_; (blueski), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

totally totally classic.

noise and flashing lights pretty in the sky!

isn't a lot of the pre-nov 5th fireworks diwali stuff?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

No, but even proper firework displays are evil. Think of it, all the explosions, if you got shot, who would know? Who would hear to help you? Nobody, that's who. It's the perfect time to commit murder. Eek.

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the ancient Indian tradition of chucking rockets at bus stops full of people.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

"It's the perfect time to commit murder. "

According to yesterday's Evading Standards, a Yardie gang set off a load of bangers outside a club in Camberwell the night before last, then opened up with a machine gun.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

you hear the odd one after midnight round here.

― ;_; (blueski), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Totally classic if done properly. Wee neds scaring the shite out of me = dud.

I'm going to TWO organised fireworks displays this year as our local one's on Saturday and the Glasgow one's on Sunday. Hurrah!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Classic! But then I have no pets and am completely hardened to rogue rockets, bangers, torches, burning barrels etc after growing up in Lewes.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

I may buy a box of fireworks. I've never done this but I'm feeling like it's a proper dad thing to do. I can entertain the kids by ignoring the firework code and blowing my hands off.

― ONIMO's losing the plot (GerryNemo), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

it's the perfect time to sit down and play Day of Defeat, or any other war game. With total surround sound realistic effects!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

It's totally a Dad thing to do. My dad used to when we were wee. He still has all limbs, digits, etc, intact.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

hire that dude from Arrested Development who's false arm always comes off

"and that's why we don't play with fireworks"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks to a local dispersal order, my street has been almost free of the usual firework-related antics. Rah!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Watching fireworks from a long distance is also great for the sound delay aspect.

― banrique (blueski), Sunday, 5 November 2006 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

totally classic, but the organisers never set enough off at once. Get a real barrage going dudes.
£100,000 of fireworks over 25 minutes = brrr and meh.
£100,000 of fireworks in 6 minutes = cheers cheers the apocalypse has come.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 5 November 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

Hull's official "let's pish your Council Tax up in the air" extravaganza went for the apocalyptic approach tonight.

― You've Had Your Chances (noodle vague), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

dud. boring! i mean firework displays in themselves are ok but you have to stand in the FREEZING COLD to watch them = botherd.

― lex at gareth's (688), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

here is what is excellent: on my roof at midnight on new year's eve watching all the fireworks go off at once on the essex skyline 5, 10 15 miles away in a great ring of little lights

they pop and crackle a lot far far away and then in three mins time you can go down into the warm

fireworks TICK
waterworks TICK
earthworks TICK
airworks ???

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

only Brits would have their big fireworks thing when it's cold lolamirite

― banrique (blueski), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

We didn't choose the terrarist did
5/11 NEVAR FORGET

― stet (stet), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

haha also this (from memory)

"Labour MP [xxx xxx] has denounced bonfire night as Britain's major contribution to global warming, pumping a huge amount of pullution into the sky. The Department of the Environment later released a statement noting that Guy Fawkes' effects were 'negligeable'."

Krishnan Guru-Murthy (muttering to self about fatuous quality of news he is made to read out): "Of COURSE they were negligeable! He didn't even get to blow anything up!"

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

only Brits would have their big fireworks thing when it's cold lolamirite

We were debating this last night and came to the conclusion that fireworks in the warm are rubbish.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

bloke from Victoria Park was keen to point out on the BBC news that it wasn't council tax money but proceeds from hiring out the park during the rest of the year.

can see both ravenscourt park fireworks and acton fireworks from flat window. acton was friday, RP saturday, amateur hour on sunday night. was like beirut here over the weekend.

i like the two dimensional ones (that explode in a circle rather than a sphere) and the ones where the falling fragments wait a while and then accelerate away again in spirals.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

oh, btw, fireworks at 6am = dud. fireworks at 3pm = dud.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

our secret firework display on the local golf course last night = classic

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

We watched Dr Strangelove on Saturday night while the apocalypse raged outside.

How, pray, do you keep a firework display secret?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

That's EXACTLY what I did (Dr Strangelove+apocalypse)!

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone I know (well ok a few ppl) watched V fr Vendetta.

We used to do fireworks on Queens birthday weekend in June. Which isnt the Queen's bday. Go figure, Australia. Fireworks and bonfires + cold = yay. But now its all "ooh drought, fire, not safe, no you can't do that" and no one is allowed anymore :(

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

How, pray, do you keep a firework display secret?

2x (vlarge) fireworks,
stealth mission to 7th hole green,
display lasted fifteen minutes,
quick rake of bunker and removal of 'carnage',
drive home.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

I saw a kid running round Stoke Newington shooting fireworks from a big gun! (It looked like one of those enormous water-pistols.) Can you buy firework guns?! Or did he make it himself?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

> Which isnt the Queen's bday. Go figure, Australia.

isn't June the Official Birthday? (introduced by former king who had a birthday close to christmas. um, ok, not true. Edward VII, November 9th. moved to optimise the chance of better weather.)

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page4820.asp

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

We were debating this last night and came to the conclusion that fireworks in the warm are rubbish.

fave fireworks this year was watching a Pride-related display on a boat from Brighton Pier back in May just before the heatwave kicked in. not rubbish in the slightest!

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

only the brits would have fireworks IN THE DARK

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

The smell of fireworks is so evocative. Takes me back to being seven whenever the wind wafts it to me.

Firework displays at festivals - classic.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

Two big boxes of fireworks and this one mental multirocket monster thing that exploded the fuck out of the sky.

Brilliant - and I still have my hands!

― ONIMO's following the firework code (GerryNemo), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Fireworks used to scare my dog and make him cry a lot, but he's so old now that he's stone deaf and completely oblivious to the noise, so it's considerably less stressful now.

I love fireworks. Today is my youngest daughter's birthday, and as we drove home late last night from her birthday party, there were several simultaneous fireworks displays going on in the skies all around Oxfordshire, and it was rilly rilly pretty. (When she was very tiny, she used to think we had organised county-wide fireworks displays JUST FOR HER on her birthday).

― C J (C J), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Firework displays = teh roxxx
setting off some fireworks in the back garden/yard w/friends/neighbours = great
keeping it going on 'till 1 am w/the bangbangbangbang = hurry up and DIE, cnut.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

Our cats were relatively unbothered this year, last year they were in hiding all week. We live fairly near Alexandra Palace, but even on Saturday while the show was on they were OK. We shut all the windows and put some music on which probably helped, and our older cat is probably too ill to care at this point.

I didn't make it to the display myself cos I had a cold :(

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

Victoria Park was pretty good yesterday, and pleasingly short. Best stuff was probably random ones let off by neighbours, though - it's good living on the 4th floor, as you get a view of everything for miles around.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:08 (eighteen years ago)

fireworks = shit waste of money.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

watching other peoples' fireworks = money saving waste of time

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

teh_kit HATES FUN.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

i'd agree with you 100%, but fireworks aren't fun!

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, they are really. Pretty colours and sparkly things and BLOWING STUFF UP!!! How is that not fun?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

i could see Vic Park fireworks in the distance from my 'home office' window. stet is right - a quick barrage/blowing the load in one go is best.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, they are really. Pretty colours and sparkly things and BLOWING STUFF UP!!! How is that not fun?

i get all that from video games, except they last longer, are cheaper, more satisfying and have replay value.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

scaredy_kit

― ONIMO's following the firework code (GerryNemo), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

bet you were hiding under the bed

― ONIMO's following the firework code (GerryNemo), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

nah, i was at a Halloween party on Nov 5th
Halloween >>>>>> Guy Fawkes. And way scarier.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

kit, loud bangs rock more than anything!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

so turn the sound up

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

my neighbours would shout :(

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

they don't shout if you fire explosives into the air, though?
FREAKS.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

How do you pronounce Lewes? I ask because I grew up in a town in Delaware, USA called Lewes and we say it "Louis" (with the "s") but everybody who isn't from the area wants to call it Lews, one syllable.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Lew-is

― C J (C J), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Yay! Thanks.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

they don't shout if you fire explosives into the air, though?

erm, i didn't light fireworks at my house. i was on a golf course see.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Is there a thread to discus the more recent non-traditional fireworks episodes in the USA?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:44 (five years ago)

see the "is New York City dead?" thread

― Josefa, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:00 (five years ago)

which, sorry to make it nyc-centric, as this is apparently happening in several cities

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:18 (five years ago)

i just mentioned it on the police brutality thread as well

― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:19 (five years ago)

Every local Facebook group is either posting coyote sightings or asking "were those gunshots?"

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:59 (five years ago)

There's a technology available called ShotSpotter that LEAs/PDs use to pinpoint when/where gunshots (and other loud noises) occurred in dense urban environments:

https://www.shotspotter.com/

I noticed that an investigative journalist in Oakland, CA recently requested the data for specific periods:

https://oaklandca.nextrequest.com/requests/20-3544

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 June 2020 21:46 (five years ago)

What is happening guys

― treeship., Monday, 22 June 2020 23:50 (five years ago)

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-the-guy-setting-off-fireworks-every-night-in-your-neighborhood-and-i-have-you-right-where-i-want-you

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 00:35 (five years ago)

someone set off a bunch on my block at 4:30am this morning. it's late june, the sky isn't even dark anymore at 4:30!

i don't know if i believe the conspiracies beyond 'fireworks companies that lost all their 4th business are dumping them on city folks for a buck'

― ciderpress, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 17:00 (five years ago)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/nypd-fireworks-task-force-sting-operations

is it normal to announce a massive sting operation ahead of time?

― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 19:12 (five years ago)

If you have an issue with the fireworks going off every night, did you know you can call 502.595.2300 and ask them to arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.
— Tehsuan Glover (@TehsuanGlover) June 22, 2020

― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 19:14 (five years ago)

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