Happy Pollution Day :01:

[Yogi]

I will light a fart tonight for you, Joncey!!



YoFartFireNight

[tesco]

My mommy told me about this day on the weekend.

I wish we had it here, sounds fun.

[DanB]

You just like dissagreeing with me for fun

I'm sorry but there's nothing right about todays festivities, the reason is sick, the fact that kids make a doll of a human to burn is sick, the sale of explosives is sick, the amount of pollution is sick.
This is 2004, bout time we recognised the amount of injuries and harm to the planet is not worth a few pretty flashes and bangs.

Jonno

If the reason is so sick why do you have a special Guy Fawkes banner on your forum?

[manker]

If the reason is so sick why do you have a special Guy Fawkes banner on your forum?

That is a cool banner.

Jonno might be the biggest hypocrite since flip flop McJock from aside loch McContradict but at least he's stylish :coolio:

[Rat Faced]

Looking out the window there are, atm, 5 Bonfires within 50m in peoples gardens.

The big one on the field hasnt been lit yet

Some serious fireworks going off all over

[Biggles]

Jonno

Prior to the abortive attempt to blow up the houses of Parliament the fire festival of Samhein was held throughout the country with lots and lots of bonfires. The whole Guy Fawkes thing has just been superimposed on an ancient tradition and moved sideways a couple of days. Likewise the burning effigy harks back to the somewhat scary Wickerman. The fireworks are the new bit to include the gunpowder plot.

It is celebrated in Scotland, we didn't even merge Parliaments until a hundred years after Guy Fawkes. However, records of the bonfires at this time pre-date Fawkes by hundreds of years.

Go out and enjoy - you are celebrating much more than the failure of a simple bomb plot.

[Jon L. Obscene]

Ok you're all right

I apologise

Selling bombs to anyone off the street is a good idea, shame our fire engine has just gone out tho, someone set light to the common, many animals and plant life will die, but it's worth it for a fun night

And I did'nt make that banner, nor did I put it up

Besides, it's a forum for many people, I'm just 1 person with an opinion, if it's wrong to have views on something then cast me down

Jonno

[DanB]

Selling bombs to anyone off the street is a good idea, shame our fire engine has just gone out tho, someone set light to the common, many animals and plant life will die, but it's worth it for a fun night

There will always be nobs that go too far Jonno, banning bonfires cos someone set fire to the common won't work, you'll have to ban matches and lighters too

And its not just anyone, its anyone over 18

[Lilmiss]

I hate to be a killjoy, but I don't think fireworks should be sold to the general public either. I see nothing wrong with people who know how to handle them properly holding shows, as they take the proper precautions.

But I don't agree with Joe Public walking into a shop to buy these things to play with in their gardens. I'm a big coward though, and am even scared of sparklers. Thats what people are missing though, fear. I have friends and family who get plastered, then set them off all over the place. My Uncle set his wig on fire with one, although it did amuse us all.

[Jon L. Obscene]

But I don't agree with Joe Public walking into a shop to buy these things to play with in their gardens. I'm a big coward though, and am even scared of sparklers. Thats what people are missing though, fear. I have friends and family who get plastered, then set them off all over the place. My Uncle set his wig on fire with one, although it did amuse us all.

Exactly my point, those who think their wonderful usually have never seen bad things first hand.

I used the "Posting thru letter box" line having remembered last year when you had a spout of it lilmiss.

Yes it's fun, I do like fireworks, especially the big ones
But not in the hands of anyone who wants them
Which brings me to answer Dans point of only available to over 18's, so is alcohol, but I was drinking at 12, so do many others, how? People buying it for them. Yes you can say that should'nt happen and is ileagle, but the fact is, it does happen, it's a sad fact. Punishment does'nt work, we know that from alcohol etc, prevention is the only cure, and the only way to prevent it is a ban on public sales.

That is fact. Not an opinion.

Jonno