BS: Big Bonfire?

Subject: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: GUEST,Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 04:51 AM

This one just bemused me. One of the google Blickies at the bottom of a Guy Fawkes thread was advertising a November 5th Bonfire at Roundhay Park (Leeds - Yorkshire - England for you USAtians.
I just thought I would check out what was happening so clicked on the BBLICKY.
I was intrigued by the map of the park and the relative size of the bonfire pictured.
I reckon you should be able to see it for miles...
Quack!!!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 05:04 AM

Geeziz Geoff......You want that I should call in an air drop.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: gnomad
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 07:51 AM

Did you notice that the 5th will happen on the 3rd this year, in Roundhay Park, at least? It gets my goat the way we don't do things on the appropriate days, but move them around so suit some pen-pusher.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: The PA
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 07:57 AM

Is that the same as fireworks from 1st October to some time in January the following year - personally I'll vote for anyone that'll ban 'm ! (now I bet that's unpopular)

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 08:06 AM

Bigger louder bangs more often!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: skipy
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 08:12 AM

napalm!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: The PA
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 09:53 AM

Yep thought that would be the response.

However what I'm not seeking to do is spoil anyones fun, but what really upsets me is the problems we have with our animals. We live in a small village surrounded by farms. Year after year we hear and see the results of animals being spooked by some of the really loud fireworks that literally make the buildings shake. Not far away from us a vet had to be called to a horse so terrified by the noise and sudden flashes of light that it bolted and galloped blindly through a wooden fence. The injuries were horrific. There have been similar instances with sheep. This week Ive spent time picking up spent fireworks from out of our poultry runs and from around a barn containing 800+ bails of hay. Just one spark can cause untold damage. One or two nights around the 5th you can make arrangements for, but for 2 to 3 months, its impossible.

All we ask is that people look at the bigger picture and just have a little thought for their surroundings before they buy their fireworks.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 10:03 AM

I couldn`t agree more The Pa, the young thugs around where I live terrorise old people and animals, call me an old spoil-sport but the sooner they are banned the better.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: skipy
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 10:30 AM

What? a horse galloped through a sheep?
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: The PA
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 10:45 AM

Yeh very good Skipy, I even looked back to check what I had typed! I think you know what I mean - now hop it!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 10:48 AM

I don't think it's actually possible ban young thugs, although we used to have the (from certain points of view) good idea of putting them in uniform, and conquering third world countries with them. They generally either grew up, or didn't come back...

For fireworks, serious fines (£1000 a firework?) for any retailers selling them to anybody under 18, and ID'ing everybody who looks under 30 to make sure. That, and trying to get some common sense into people letting them off.


Here in Edinburgh, we get off quite lightly, having two very large, and free shows for the end of the festival ( now that's worth celebrating!), and Hogmany, which seems to remove alot of the excess entheuasiam for them around now. That, and having enough parks of a decent size that the yobs are merely annoying, not threating.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: skipy
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 11:05 AM

We only go to organised events, I can buy fireworks very, very cheaply if I wish as I have a friend in the trade, but we don't.
We have 2 purring preditors of our own and there are dozens of others around us & a lot of those half witted things that need to be taken out on a lead so I don't think it is fair to have flashes and bangs from ever other garden, better 1 organised safe "doo" as far away from dwelings as practicle.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 11:50 AM

When I was a kid in Yorkshire, we used to call it plot night - I suppose from the Gunpowder Plot. For weeks before we would go 'plotting' to collect wood for our bonfire, which basically meant running off with any wooden object that wasn't nailed down - clothes props were always fair game!!

Arnie

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: The PA
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 12:00 PM

Whats happened to the homemade guys we used to have. I remember standing with my brother calling 'penny for the guy', doesn't that happen anymore? Perhaps its politically incorrect or classed as begging?

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: GUEST,Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 12:21 PM

Guest - round Bradford, collecting wood for Bonfire Night was Chumping.

The PA - for discussion of guys
See This Thread.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: Tig
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 02:33 PM

November 4th - the night before Bonfire Night - was always known as Mischief Night. We were allowed out then to do silly things like knocking on doors and running away or tying gates shut but it didn't include getting our hands on fireworks to throw, causing damage or being a real pest. We were not allowed to go out on Halloween and bonfires were always well supervised - even though we had bangers and jumping jacks which are now not allowed!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 03:03 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 03:15 PM

[What happened there?]

Today many people have never heard of squibs and so don't understand the meaning of 'a damp squib'. I have even heard people describing things as 'a damp squid'.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 04:53 PM

Tig, so pleased that someone else remebers mischief night, I was dragged up in Lancashire in the fifties, I remember it well, knocking on doors, lifting garden gates of their mounts, nicking dustbin lids & dropping them in other people's gardens, but never any damage or abuse!
Times change!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Big Bonfire?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 02 Nov 06 - 08:59 AM

How about about baby pigeons in the rain - they go off like a damp squab!

Quack!
GtD.