Fireworks

[G3CWI]

We live over the road from a venue that holds a big professional display every year. This year's display has just finished. Must have saved us a fortune in fireworks.

What do they cost these days?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Dunno - my Mrs does the buying.............

 

[Geoff Crowther]

Too much ... at any price.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

None locally tonight as it's pi$$ing down with rain. And last night it also pi$$ed down with rain which kept the little brats and their trick or treat away.

Sometimes I love rain.

 

[gbb]

Like you G3, we live a short walk from Peterboroughs very popular firework festival. We (wife, son, DIL, 3 grandkids and myself) walk to the perimeter and got 1/2 hours worth of circa £20,000 fireworks. Walk inside, it would have cost us £55 ...we were talking to a fella stood next to us, he said last year they (2 adults 3 kids) spent nearly £100 in there.

Yeah, it would have been nice to go in and take the kids on the fair, get a better atmosphere etc etc...but they get very very well looked after in every other way whenever we can, so they're not missing out too much.

 

[Archie_tect]

Like you G3, we live a short walk from Peterboroughs very popular firework festival. We (wife, son, DIL, 3 grandkids and myself) walk to the perimeter and got 1/2 hours worth of circa £20,000 fireworks. Walk inside, it would have cost us £55 ...we were talking to a fella stood next to us, he said last year they (2 adults 3 kids) spent nearly £100 in there.

Yeah, it would have been nice to go in and take the kids on the fair, get a better atmosphere etc etc...but they get very very well looked after in every other way whenever we can, so they're not missing out too much.

Why would you have had to pay for gbb? When we used to go out to see things with my M+D or MrsA_T's M+D we always paid for them as there were 4 of us and 2 of them.... I've obviously got that wrong for about 26 years...

 

[ufkacbln]

We spend all year worrying about terrorism, we control the sale of some products that can be utilised in the manufacture of IEDs and similar



and then for a month every you can go into a shop and buy enough explosive to set off a number of IEDs with no questions asked

 

[Drago]

Why is there an annual event celebrating an act of terrorism?

 

[gbb]

Why would you have had to pay for gbb? When we used to go out to see things with my M+D or MrsA_T's M+D we always paid for them as there were 4 of us and 2 of them.... I've obviously got that wrong for about 26 years...

Normally we'd take and pay for the grandkids. (Any event, occasion, not judt fireworks) As their mum n dad came along too, they'd probably have paid for themselves. Either way, £55 was the cost saved to our party.
I'd happily pay for the whole party, but not £55 just as a starter at a fireworks show. Its just not good value, I'd rather pay that kind of money and all go for a pub lunch or something.

 

[Accy cyclist]

They had a fireworks event at a pub i passed on my ride last night. I stopped to watch the display but left after a minute or so. Not only did they have fireworks but also some horrendous "thud thud" chav music booming out to accompany the fireworks. Plenty of idiots there getting sozzled too!

 

[ufkacbln]

Why is there an annual event celebrating an act of terrorism?

.. or celebrating the democratic victory of the powers of good over these Terrorists

 

[snorri]

I haven't seen or heard any fireworks this year so far, and there were no guisers out at hallowe'en either.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Why is there an annual event celebrating an act of terrorism?

I thought the point of bonfire night was celebrating the foiling of the plot and burning the perpetrator , and so the lack of terrorism.

 

[AndyRM]

They had a fireworks event at a pub i passed on my ride last night. I stopped to watch the display but left after a minute or so. Not only did they have fireworks but also some horrendous "thud thud" chav music booming out to accompany the fireworks. Plenty of idiots there getting sozzled too!

People in getting drunk at a pub shocker...

Were the chavs doing wheelies?

 

[Accy cyclist]

People in getting drunk at a pub shocker...

Were the chavs doing wheelies?

People in getting drunk at a pub shocker...

Were the chavs doing wheelies?

I suppose not being able to do anything without getting sozzled is normal for your type.