brokenflipflop
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- Worsley
I doubt Denmark is.
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CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
How many people could we feed for the day on all the carbon-fibre bikes owned by cyclists?
These absurd comparisons are simply facile. It was NYE, the whizzes and bangs gave millions of people a fun start to the year. Not every penny spent has to be on gruel.
I take it you never spend any of your disposable income on leisure activities and instead donate it all to charity.
uphillstruggler
Legendary Member
- Location
- Half way there
I did enjoy watching the fireworks from the comfort of my sofa, but think of this.
The fireworks are there to attract people into London - 'the greatest city on earth' - which it obviously did, which is great. The problem starts when the fireworks finish. It took a family 4 hours to get out of London and back to MK, a journey that should take 1 1/4 hours by public transport.
I have been in. Few European cities for new year and you just don't get that hassle.
I would love to take my kids to see them but this sort of thing puts me off. And I prefer public transport before I get knocked over that.
Just my thoughts on the matter
The fireworks are there to attract people into London - 'the greatest city on earth' - which it obviously did, which is great. The problem starts when the fireworks finish. It took a family 4 hours to get out of London and back to MK, a journey that should take 1 1/4 hours by public transport.
I have been in. Few European cities for new year and you just don't get that hassle.
I would love to take my kids to see them but this sort of thing puts me off. And I prefer public transport before I get knocked over that.
Just my thoughts on the matter
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
London - 'the greatest city on Earth' - really?
I've nowt against the firework display. It looked grand but London has a long way to go before it could ever match the awe and wonder that I experienced at Expo 98 in Lisbon.
I've nowt against the firework display. It looked grand but London has a long way to go before it could ever match the awe and wonder that I experienced at Expo 98 in Lisbon.
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
I'd say Sydney consistently puts up the best NYE display, though Dubai is certainly spectacular! But this year's London display was certainly among the very best.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Its not disposable income its being paid for out of taxes, given the state of the economy and the bleak times we face you would think they would rein it back a bit.
As for disposable income? i had to sell my house and down size due to the recession , use freecycle and i do donate to macmillan and cancer research .
And as for not every penny being spent on gruel , thats is absurd go ask some one who is starving if they would prefer some food or a firework display .
If your so concerned about keeping your fireworks etc i suggest you get off your behind and do some charity work and then see how you feel .
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
never mind books , its libraries the Local Authority by us are closing . but they found the annual budget for one of the libraries that got closed to spend on new years fireworks.
that said they were good fireworks and a good practice for the olympics opening ceremony. or a dress rehearsal for the diamond jubilee ones
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
I didn't buy any fireworks to celebrate the New Year [or 5th Nov] so I would have paid £10 for Mrs A_T and I to watch those... you only need 217,400 people to think the same and you've justifiably paid for it out of taxes...far more than that will have seen them at the time and millions more since on-line.
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
Um, like many of us here, I already do a substantial amount of charity work, both personally and through my business.
If you need any help dismounting from that rather tall horse, just ask.
swampyseifer
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Milton Keynes. UK
I think fireworks should only be sold to and used by registered people/companies. it regulates use, brings more income into business and is safer.
Peteaud
Veteran
- Location
- South Somerset
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
While i partly agree (being of that age where when we were kids we used to spend all our available money on fireworks
and have great fun...never did me any harm)...the cost of them now is so high, most people dont (and can't) buy them anymore. Go back 10 years or so, maybe more, bonfire night used to be a nightmare for kids with them letting them off in the streets (like wot i used to
)...but i can't remember the last time i saw kids doing that. It just doesnt happen round here any more.Shops are infinately more responsible now and the cost is prohibitive.
Even bonfire night itself, you just don't see the amount let off privately you used to see 20 years ago.
Is it me or has something changed ? New years eve, people never used to let them off. Over the last 10 years ive seen quite a change where its almost become customary, then surprisingly, this year...i never heard a single one !!!
Christ, how things change. As kids in the 70s, the stuff we used to get up to...(without doing anyone any harm)...kids can't breathe now without someone jumping on them.
swampyseifer
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Milton Keynes. UK
My father is always saying about how when he was a kid and teenager (50s, 60's) that he never did anyone any harm.
A lot of his stories are about him being in a Mod gang, racing around north London on his Vespa, gang fights, stealing a coppers hat and once he said that he was jumped by a rival gang who tied him to their scooter and drove down the road leaving my father with a scab covering half his face where the skin had been ground off against the road. Also not him but some others in his wholesome-not-bothering-anyone-gang stole from a shop, as one of the senior members of the gang my father was brought in and went down for it as well...went to wormwood scrubs. He came across a rival gang member in there whom he felt compelled to attack (to keep the honour of his gang, of course!). What he didnt know is that the other gang member was currently partaking in an iron-working class and this guy grabbed a big metal bar during the fight and smashed my fathers head in...he's been blind in one eye ever since.
So yeah, whenever someone tells me that when they were kids they didnt bother anyone...I generally dont believe it!
A lot of his stories are about him being in a Mod gang, racing around north London on his Vespa, gang fights, stealing a coppers hat and once he said that he was jumped by a rival gang who tied him to their scooter and drove down the road leaving my father with a scab covering half his face where the skin had been ground off against the road. Also not him but some others in his wholesome-not-bothering-anyone-gang stole from a shop, as one of the senior members of the gang my father was brought in and went down for it as well...went to wormwood scrubs. He came across a rival gang member in there whom he felt compelled to attack (to keep the honour of his gang, of course!). What he didnt know is that the other gang member was currently partaking in an iron-working class and this guy grabbed a big metal bar during the fight and smashed my fathers head in...he's been blind in one eye ever since.
So yeah, whenever someone tells me that when they were kids they didnt bother anyone...I generally dont believe it!
