far as I can tell, the supermarkets that sell fireworks sell ones that conform to standards, and they perform relevant ID checks on people purchasing them.
Meanwhile, there’s the vacant shop that gets let out for a couple weeks at the end of October and start of November, that only ever sells halloween costumes and fireworks, all of which look extremely cheap and shoddy, and some of the customers you see coming out with boxes of fireworks look barely secondary school age.
Other than this dogmatic having a go at supermarkets, it’s a reasonable idea. There used to be hundreds of people with injuries from fireworks in the past, wonder what the current cost to the NHS is.
People don’t have many forms of joy left so why not take another one
Indeed.
Yeah. Let’s just let the government take over more of our lives and take more away from us! They just do whatever the fu”k they want and you just have to accept it. But democracy right?
And you think you’re “free”
Revolution required!
The Greens focusing on the real issues as usual.
Well in the past 15 years we have banned and stopped everything else , so why not…
Scottish Greens. Turning people away from their party again.
Typical ‘nanny state’ replies that are wholly expected. It causes a shitload of injuries and assaults, disturbs wildlife, and is basically just legalised littering (who has ever seen someone who sets off fireworks look for the remnants?). Just fucking ban them already.
Then again, I work somewhere that sells them and we didn’t sell all of ours this year. Maybe people are going off them.
get lost
Always in two minds about this tbh.
I do think it’s a bit.. weird.. to sell regulated explosives to rando members of the public.
But on the other hand it does seem a little draconian to say you can only enjoy fireworks if you pay the council £20 to attend their official display.
I have a feeling that, as with most bans, it would have little effect. The kind of people to set rockets off against police are hardly going to be put off by a little thing like having to buy them under the counter. The NHS impact from fireworks is not that large – it costs Greater Glasgow and Clyde a mere £40k/year which, while not insignificant, is a mere 0.001% of their budget, and it’s not like you’d save 100% of that £40k by restricting their sales.
Our dog does not like fireworks. She doesn’t hate them, but she grew up very remote and isn’t used to them, so she hides under the bed. Yeah I don’t like her being scared, but there are lots of things which scare her, including the wind today, and she can’t be shielded from everything. We comfort her and she’s fine the next day. If I’m not walking up a hill to watch the fireworks (because the weather is just miserable, like tonight so far), I take her for a drive, as I would a child.
If banning fireworks pisses off those that hate things being banned I’m all for it.
Naw it isnae
Your wee dog isn’t going to restrict my keen interest in letting off fireworks, OK?? Train your dog to get used to fireworks, make an effort instead of being an entitled dog owner.
Your dog yapping 365 days a year is interrupting my listening to fireworks one day a year.
Don’t think people are aware anymore of how unique it is to the UK that so many people are desperate to ban anything that they don’t want to do themselves. Whether it’s going out without a mask, clubs/pubs reopening after COVID, smoking/drinking in public or fucking fireworks there’ll be an army of gimps desperate to ban it for everyone else.
Ooo my dog my dog. Train it.
I wouldn’t mind it if they were only set off twice a year but they’re not, and if people can’t play nice they don’t deserve it.
We hear how bad they are for pets, and it killed that poor red panda in Edinburgh, but also remember it can really mess with your friendly local autistic person and other neurodivergent people.
100%. Billy Bob next door shouldn’t be allowed to buy explosives from the corner shop
Personally I’m not a big fan of the government banning things, it’s a slippery slope.
the bams would improvise their own ‘IEDs’ such as the buckfast molotov cocktails or the non explosive but functional brick or stone
Show me the petition and I’ll sign the fuck out of it. Every year we see people maimed by fireworks, animals killed and tortured, and now we have to send out the fucking riot police to deal with folk chucking fireworks at pedestrians. Those of you whinging about a ban can seriously get fucked. A ban is long overdue.
Agreed
I think maybe banning them in proximity to zoos and national parks might be a better way to go about it or banning fireworks that emit a sound over a certain decibel or w/e to encourage people to buy the silent ones.
Just say you want to buy explosives to harm civilians and the uk government will be more than happy to sell you them
Ban the greens
What is it the greens actually do again?
Agreed, too many numpties going around spoiling it for everyone else.
There is such a thing as silent fireworks 🎆
I understand that pets get upset, I have a cat and he’s reasonably chill about them, I think some of it comes down to how chill the owners are.
Used to have a Collie years ago that was fine with a shotgun going off (country folk) but couldn’t stand thunder or fireworks.
Greens can sometimes be a bit too puritanical anti fun police. If they met folk half way like proposing silent fireworks they might get a bit more traction.
No. Why should sensible people suffer due to idiots.
Said it for years. I’ve worked in hospitals for quite a while. The number of people that come in every year with injuries because of fireworks is staggering. Why the fuck are people assumed to be responsibly enough to own what is essentially an explosive
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far as I can tell, the supermarkets that sell fireworks sell ones that conform to standards, and they perform relevant ID checks on people purchasing them.
Meanwhile, there’s the vacant shop that gets let out for a couple weeks at the end of October and start of November, that only ever sells halloween costumes and fireworks, all of which look extremely cheap and shoddy, and some of the customers you see coming out with boxes of fireworks look barely secondary school age.
Other than this dogmatic having a go at supermarkets, it’s a reasonable idea. There used to be hundreds of people with injuries from fireworks in the past, wonder what the current cost to the NHS is.
People don’t have many forms of joy left so why not take another one
Indeed.
Yeah. Let’s just let the government take over more of our lives and take more away from us! They just do whatever the fu”k they want and you just have to accept it. But democracy right?
And you think you’re “free”
Revolution required!
The Greens focusing on the real issues as usual.
Well in the past 15 years we have banned and stopped everything else , so why not…
Scottish Greens. Turning people away from their party again.
Typical ‘nanny state’ replies that are wholly expected. It causes a shitload of injuries and assaults, disturbs wildlife, and is basically just legalised littering (who has ever seen someone who sets off fireworks look for the remnants?). Just fucking ban them already.
Then again, I work somewhere that sells them and we didn’t sell all of ours this year. Maybe people are going off them.
get lost
Always in two minds about this tbh.
I do think it’s a bit.. weird.. to sell regulated explosives to rando members of the public.
But on the other hand it does seem a little draconian to say you can only enjoy fireworks if you pay the council £20 to attend their official display.
I have a feeling that, as with most bans, it would have little effect. The kind of people to set rockets off against police are hardly going to be put off by a little thing like having to buy them under the counter. The NHS impact from fireworks is not that large – it costs Greater Glasgow and Clyde a mere £40k/year which, while not insignificant, is a mere 0.001% of their budget, and it’s not like you’d save 100% of that £40k by restricting their sales.
Our dog does not like fireworks. She doesn’t hate them, but she grew up very remote and isn’t used to them, so she hides under the bed. Yeah I don’t like her being scared, but there are lots of things which scare her, including the wind today, and she can’t be shielded from everything. We comfort her and she’s fine the next day. If I’m not walking up a hill to watch the fireworks (because the weather is just miserable, like tonight so far), I take her for a drive, as I would a child.
If banning fireworks pisses off those that hate things being banned I’m all for it.
Naw it isnae
Your wee dog isn’t going to restrict my keen interest in letting off fireworks, OK?? Train your dog to get used to fireworks, make an effort instead of being an entitled dog owner.
Your dog yapping 365 days a year is interrupting my listening to fireworks one day a year.
Don’t think people are aware anymore of how unique it is to the UK that so many people are desperate to ban anything that they don’t want to do themselves. Whether it’s going out without a mask, clubs/pubs reopening after COVID, smoking/drinking in public or fucking fireworks there’ll be an army of gimps desperate to ban it for everyone else.
Ooo my dog my dog. Train it.
I wouldn’t mind it if they were only set off twice a year but they’re not, and if people can’t play nice they don’t deserve it.
We hear how bad they are for pets, and it killed that poor red panda in Edinburgh, but also remember it can really mess with your friendly local autistic person and other neurodivergent people.
100%. Billy Bob next door shouldn’t be allowed to buy explosives from the corner shop
Personally I’m not a big fan of the government banning things, it’s a slippery slope.
the bams would improvise their own ‘IEDs’ such as the buckfast molotov cocktails or the non explosive but functional brick or stone
Show me the petition and I’ll sign the fuck out of it. Every year we see people maimed by fireworks, animals killed and tortured, and now we have to send out the fucking riot police to deal with folk chucking fireworks at pedestrians. Those of you whinging about a ban can seriously get fucked. A ban is long overdue.
Agreed
I think maybe banning them in proximity to zoos and national parks might be a better way to go about it or banning fireworks that emit a sound over a certain decibel or w/e to encourage people to buy the silent ones.
Just say you want to buy explosives to harm civilians and the uk government will be more than happy to sell you them
Ban the greens
What is it the greens actually do again?
Agreed, too many numpties going around spoiling it for everyone else.
There is such a thing as silent fireworks 🎆
I understand that pets get upset, I have a cat and he’s reasonably chill about them, I think some of it comes down to how chill the owners are.
Used to have a Collie years ago that was fine with a shotgun going off (country folk) but couldn’t stand thunder or fireworks.
Greens can sometimes be a bit too puritanical anti fun police. If they met folk half way like proposing silent fireworks they might get a bit more traction.
No. Why should sensible people suffer due to idiots.
Said it for years. I’ve worked in hospitals for quite a while. The number of people that come in every year with injuries because of fireworks is staggering. Why the fuck are people assumed to be responsibly enough to own what is essentially an explosive
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