Where are they getting em from? Supermarkets not set up yet. In fact I'd be surprised if they go on sale, to stop unnecessary A&E admissions what with covid. I'm sure all on here are safe with em but every year Barnsley A&E is a finals board for the Darwin awards. When is it safe to launch a banger from your arsehole? The answer apparently is after 2 bongs and 6 cans of scrumpy.
It's ridiculous how early people are doing fireworks these days, a Banger's just gone off and frightened our cat to death, poor little things still hiding in our Christmas tree !!!!
I’ve heard a few tonight. Am I being a little thick here, can someone explain why some folk are letting them off tonight?
Think they have gone on sale the last few days in a few supermarkets. With organised displays banned this year i exoect it will be a busy and noisy night in Gardens across the country.
Legal on sale dates for fireworks....... 15 October to 10 November 26 to 31 December 3 days before Diwali and Chinese New Year and supermarkets are selling them and expecting bumper sales this year as all organised displays are cancelled.
Policeman I know once told me that in some areas, fireworks are used by people selling drugs. First salvo lets the potential customers that they have got drugs to sell. Once they've sold out the second salvo usually involving a rocket or two is set off. Our little Lhasa Apso won't do his " toileting" anywhere within the curtlilage of our property, which means we have to walk him upwards of 3-4 times every day. If when we are out some idiot discharges any fireworks, he starts to run back towards our house nearly strangling himself on his lead. He gets so upset, that on occasions we've seen him physically shake for upwards of twelve hours. Really feel for the little fella. Must be really scary for him.
Our cat Trevor (named after Trevor Slattery aka the Mandarin in Iron Man 'you never see him coming' 'cos he is a sneaky little barsteward) is two and a half years old. He is the calmest cat we have ever had. Nothing not even fireworks phases him. However, a couple of weeks ago he was stung by a wasp (we think) and a couple of days later he started having seizures like epileptic fits up to 30 per day - very alarming. After various test the vet put him on phenobarbitol. We now have the most laid back cat on planet Earth although, after three days on them the seizures reduced to zero and a week later we are starting to reduce his dosage. The alternative is to live with a junkie! Time will tell if he is cured[/QUOTE]
Luckily my lhasa cross loves fireworks like me, but funnily enough jumps every time I put a plate down! As to the drugs tale, my daughters tutor was telling the story of how he heard a rocket go off during the day when he was in this area and wanted to know what was being celebrated !?
Yep fireworks were and coukr still be used as a code. The amounts of things use as code for criminality could shock you. One of the most uncomfortable was the use of dolls and toys in a child's bedroom window to say how many girls were available at a brothel.
trainers thrown over a telephone line was to do with drugs I heard, or it may have been a brothel, someone willing to get pumped here
I don't think so mate where i lived somewhere near Reading and for about 10 years there was a pair of trainers hanging over a telephone line
