Are you fed up with fireworks?
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Anyone suggesting a ban on fireworks needs a rocket up their A***.
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An appropriate reminder of what Guy Fawkes Night is about would be to repeat the original event, preferably with more competant plotters this time.
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[johnboy41], Watford, United Kingdom
Your a Whinger...whine whine whine
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Did anyone else notice that yesterday's HYS on Black people and crime has vanished without trace ?
Some people posted some pretty offensive stuff , but that should not have been let through as it was fully moderated.
However, it seems a bit Soviet-style Russia to have "vanished" it without explanation. It was still there this morning. It was there for about 15hrs in total.
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you can see all active HYS debates (and some of the recent ones that have been closed...
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We could attach small CCTV cameras to each firework, so that when they go up they're able to feed the overhead images back to the Nanny State and they can judge whether it was set off 'responsibly' or not. Should be a few bureaucratic jobs in it too, to spend some more money on. All they need to do now is add a 'Firework Tax' to fund it. Perfect!
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Yeah - right on - kill the lot of em
and steralize anyone with a tatoo ... let's make this a country worth living in
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What about Dewali and Eide. There seem to be no restrictions on the time that these celibrations can go on to. They're every bit a dangerous as Guy fawkes night and what's this Bs from Tower Hamlets, what are they going to do at Christmas. Replace Jesus with Ganesh?
Diwali is Diwali, Eid is Eid and November 5th is GUY FAWKES NIGHT you PC morons.
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To Russ Limbaugh, are you really happy with the way the g'vt are running this country - do you read the news at all or any other HYS topics? I have no interest in politics myself, in fact, I despise it with a passion. If that makes you categorise me as 'liberal' then boo-hoo, im so upset - NOT.
With regards to my screen-name ... ITS JUST A SCREEN NAME!!!!
Anyway, fireworks rule and I can't wait to buy some and enjoy using them (responsibly) to entertain my two children tomorrow night.
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I don't think Russ Limbaugh has any inkling what "liberal" means; he just heard one of the big boys at school using it one day and thinks it's a naughty word.
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"Im off to light some fireworks out of my butt, and fire them at the neighbours whilst holding a sparkler in each hand the wrong way round.
When Ive finished doing that, im going to throw some fireworks at anyone who passes by my house."
L Evans, United Kingdom.
How will you throw fireworks at passers-by? You and your neighbours will either be in hospital or worse - dead.
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A little off-topic, but Russ Limbaugh - 'liberal' isn't an insult. it's only the far to the right of Genghis Khan's scarier mother who think that way.
I'm proud to be a free thinking radical caring decent human being (i.e. a liberal) as opposed to a hate-filled head-in-sand narrow-minded bigot (i.e. a right winger).
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Can anyone explain why I've been subjected to fireworks, during the day, on at least a weekly basis since I moved into my new house in August?? They seem to come from the direction of a local mosque. I have no objection to people observing their religions, but fireworks going off in the late afternoon at the height of summer???? Please people, some respect for those around you.
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He'd probably stuff it up again...
Matt Rhys-Davies, Leeds
Maybe, but my guess is that all the anti-terror police would be too busy trying to stop people take their toothpaste onto planes and whatever else they concentrate on these days that they might not notice someone who just tries to lug a few barrels of gunpowder around.
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"They seem to come from the direction of a local mosque. I have no objection to people observing their religions, but fireworks going off in the late afternoon at the height of summer???? Please people, some respect for those around you."
Carolyne Meadmore, Leeds, United Kingdom
Obviously it is Muslims!?!? Perhaps YOU should be more respectful and not assume it is Muslims, or religious, and if it is, what is the harm? Hardly keeps you awake?
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Tarek, Caroline is acting normally. In this day and age, it's normal to blame everything on Muslims. Can't find your keys? Hear fireworks? Had a bad day? Blame the Muslims.
It's just like everyone (well - the Nazis) blaming the Jews in the 1930s.
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Tarek, I said "seems", not "is definitely". Regardless of whether it's Muslims, Christians, or Martians, I would appreciate not having to listen to the dratted things going off every week! I'd also complain if it was little old white ladies singing in the church hall!!! So please, a little less assumption from you that everyone is a racist. Many thanks.
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It's terror-lovin' cretins like YOU badger fruit (does that mean badger poop?) who are undermining the war on terror. Who needs Al Qaeda with home grown terrorists betraying our way of life to all and sundry. You total LIBERAL.
"It's a real shame Guy Fawkes isn't around today to blow up the houses of parliment :("
badger fruit, leeds, United Kingdom
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Fireworks are biased because they do not support the war in Iraq. They should be banned as they could be used by potential terrorists to celebrate Osama bin Laden's birthday or even worse be used as a smokescreen tactic to allow large numbers of Al Qaeda supporters to gather while pretending it is a legitimate fireworks display.
The dangeers are obvious.
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Carolyne Meadmore, Leeds, United Kingdom - I read it as a racist assumption too. I'm pleased it's not.
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And another thinnk Tarek some people say if you change the word Muslim to the word Jew when you are reading a newspaper story that it is easy to see racism. What do you think?
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"You total LIBERAL."
Russ Limbaugh
"Celebrity liberal vs unreconstructed redneck troll deathmatch", anyone?
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'"Celebrity liberal vs unreconstructed redneck troll deathmatch", anyone?'
Colin Campbell, Stockholm, Sweden
Yet the funny think is the opposite of "liberal" is "extreme" - like that is any sort of virtue at all. Politics according to Ronnie Reagan do appeal to those like him with an IQ of under 100!
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It's a real shame Guy Fawkes isn't around today to blow up the houses of parliment :(
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In the spirit of Guy Fawkes and the fun of November the 5th and the great bonfire traditions that mark this time of year. I have been looking for a "suicide bomber " bottle rocket does anyone know if you can get them
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It's a sign of religious (and class?) prejudice to burn an effigy of a Christian who tried to blow up MPs and Lords in parliament centuries ago and not a Muslim who tried to bomb ordinary people in the tube so recently.
Why isn't this banned by the new Religious Discrimination legislation?
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Think she meant they've been rescued u prat!!
[SharonaKrova]
my apologies if I understand grammer and the original poster doesn't
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rescue dogs in london ? you don't hear of many people getting lost in the wilds of Barking nowadays do you ?
paul egan, liverpool
Think she meant they've been rescued u prat!!
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"my apologies if I understand grammer and the original poster doesn't"
If you understood GRAMMAR you'd be able to spell it correctly...
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"All you can worry about is a few measly fireworks upsetting your pampered pooches, and you have the audacity to compare it to attacks on Beirut..."
You speak of audacity, you little twerp, hiding behind a pseudonym. It's brain-dead oiks like you that make this country what it is, these days. My 'pampered pooch' is indeed terrified, and so is my disabled daughter. Just pop round here and explain to her why it's ok for her to be scared beyond belief for six weeks every year, will you, sh*thead?
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Who cares about a few dogs and cats being upset? They're filthy creatures anyway and if anything is going to be banned it should be them and not fireworks!! Animal rights my a_rse!
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So fireworks upset dogs and cats? I'd sooner ban them than the fireworks. At least fireworks are a nuisance for only a few days rather than the entire year.
Mal Lansell, Finedon, United Kingdom
I can see your point, it's such a nuisance when you're walking past a dog and it unexpectedley explodes in ur face leaving you blind, maimed or dead.. moron
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I can see your point, it's such a nuisance when you're walking past a dog and it unexpectedley explodes in ur face leaving you blind, maimed or dead.. moron
[SharonaKrova]
I think its you that is the moron. Ten times as many people are blinded through contracting toxicariasis from dog fouling than are from fireworks. If we banned dogs tomorrow we'd save the sight of so many children. It is a tragedy, yet fireworks get all the bad press.
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"That's the reality for millions of people in Iraq today."
Whilst I sincerely feel for the people of Iraq I am wondering of the relevance mention War torn areas has on this discussion.
Jym Beau, Perpignan, France
I was just suggesting that people could use this to get a perspective on other peoples situations - not that the French would understand anything that didn't effect them personally.
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Come on fireworks are great and we all watched Blue Peter enough to know that pets should be inside and fireworks should be kept in a tin.
I do realise though that some of the larger ones would probably take your arm off if they went off accidentally. So perhaps we should limit shop bought ones to the ones that just emit showers of sparks. After all I'm sure everyone likes a golden shower.
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Another week, another call for a ban.
I suppose most of us are too fat, too much in debt, too busy getting teenage girls pregnant or too busy being antisocial yobs to have time to get upset by the sound of fireworks.
Get a grip on reality you limp-wristed quivering gazelles!
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Dan Wells you limp wristed gazelle no doubt we all have bigger issues in our lives, but this message board is for people to sound off with their opinions on this subject.
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And the prize for left wing PC namby pamby quote of the day goes too.....
It's dangerous, expensive and is in celebration of a death and assasination plot. This is not a good tradition and should be stamped out before another teenager is disfigured for life because they played with fireworks. In this instance we need a nanny state.
Jon Chiles
Oh dear!!!
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"I wish some people would belt and not moan about banning fireworks, I say arrest the people"
Mr Mister,
I wonder if you lived in an area where fireworks begin sometime in Mid - October for 'Diwali' and continue through into mid- November EVERY night. Then start again at X,as and continue over new year. Add the local brainless yobs and that is why fireworks should NOT be sold to the public and lock up morons like you
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Notice how all the crappy comments are recommended by one person..
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"Notice how all the crappy comments are recommended by one person.." AAARRR GGGHHH, Bristol
That's me. I like to encourage people who post crappy comments that make mine look good.
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The reason it's anti social now is not down to yobs but because we have to put up the likes a diwali and all other foreign fireworks alien to our culture encroaching on our own traditional celebrations.
Our dogs now have to put up with weeks of fright where once they grudgingly accepted our conservative celebrations for guy Fawkes.
Ban all foreign firework celebrations. Those that don't like it can go and watch it in the country of origin.
Tata!
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Im off to light some fireworks out of my butt, and fire them at the neighbours whilst holding a sparkler in each hand the wrong way round.
When Ive finished doing that, im going to throw some fireworks at anyone who passes by my house.
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"Capt dave the Hat is absolutely correct. They complain they're skint but they've got money to buy fags, lottery tickets, disposable nappies and fireworks.
The dole stretches that far doesn't it!!"
Big Andy, London, United Kingdom
Not only that, but also enormous solid gold effigies of clowns encrusted with cubic zirconas and sometimes even solid gold horses on solid gold chains... We're paying for this!!
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"More people have cars than fireworks. "
Lucy Jones, Manchester, United Kingdom
Can anyone think of a more mundane and pointless remark to make than this?
Answers on a postcard please...!
Guy Fawkes has a lot to answer for - it’s the time of year many pet owners dread, especially as fireworks seem to have become a vehicle for anti-social behaviour.
Many local councils are enforcing firework curfews in an attempt to crack down on misuse and avoid some of the horrific injuries of the past and damage to property.
Have you experienced any anti-social behaviour involving fireworks? Will you be letting off fireworks or attending an organised display? Should there be a ban on buying fireworks? Do firework celebrations go on for too long? Have you attended other firework festivals recently? Send us your comments and experiences.
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