Fireworks

Some inconsiderate bstards are blasting off their fireworks right near to my bedroom window and I am getting up at 0530 for work tomorrow morning. Methinks there might be an impromtu dawn heavy metal gig with 100W of Marshall tube amp power (and then I go to work deaf too)...

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I think I might be the only person that is not bothered by the all the fireworks (and neither is my dog beyond the occasional bark if one takes her by surprise while she's outside).

Don't get me wrong, I totally think it sucks when you're trying to get to sleep if it's keeping you up. You have my sympathies. I just know my village facebook page has been blowing up with people unhappy about fireworks season because of their kids or their pets or themselves and I'm starting to feel like the odd one out who's not too bothered about it lol

I think I might be the only person that is not bothered by the all the fireworks (and neither is my dog beyond the occasional bark if one takes her by surprise while she's outside).

Don't get me wrong, I totally think it sucks when you're trying to get to sleep if it's keeping you up. You have my sympathies. I just know my village facebook page has been blowing up with people unhappy about fireworks season because of their kids or their pets or themselves and I'm starting to feel like the odd one out who's not too bothered about it lol

I think I am one of those people who likes the idea of an organised display which will bother nobody. The amount of grief and danger fireworks cause every year can't be worth trusting the gen public with them! Good for you though that it doesn't worry you!

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I think I am one of those people who likes the idea of an organised display which will bother nobody. The amount of grief and danger fireworks cause every year can't be worth trusting the gen public with them! Good for you though that it doesn't worry you!

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Oh I totally agree  that I think it's crazy they let the average joe buy fireworks here as it's SUPER dangerous. And I don't like how it produces so much litter that then doesn't get picked up. Just meant I'm lucky enough that the noises itself doesn't bother me as I know there are a lot of people in my area that seem to be really bothered by the noises. I think I'm just used to it because we live near a military academy so I'm used to hearing the banging of gun fire  on a fairly regular basis.

Honestly though, who had the idea that just anybody should be able to light off legitimate fireworks?

I really wish they'd ban them for the public. Tend to get a couple of weeks of em in the run up to remembrance day and then they all stop. All quiet on the western front and all that.

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Hopefully they stop soon so you can get some shut-eye!

Hopefully they stop soon so you can get some shut-eye!

Seem to have packed in now.  Maybe my FB threat of some 5am divebombs did the trick!

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I think I might be the only person that is not bothered by the all the fireworks (and neither is my dog beyond the occasional bark if one takes her by surprise while she's outside).

I'm another one!  Firework noise doesn't bother me at all for some reason, nor does it seem to bother our kitties. The middle two were a little scared when they were younger but no-one ran off to hide this year and the baby cat is extra brave so didn't bat an eyelid!

Music noise on the other hand, I absolutely can't stand it! The very hint of a bassline on the wind will keep me awake all night! I think that's more to do with the fact that I feel playing music so very loudly at night is rude and inconsiderate and that's what keeps me awake rather than the sound itself!

That's just in general Dave, no reference to your masterplan!  You don't live within earshot!   

I'm another one!  Firework noise doesn't bother me at all for some reason, nor does it seem to bother our kitties. The middle two were a little scared when they were younger but no-one ran off to hide this year and the baby cat is extra brave so didn't bat an eyelid!

Music noise on the other hand, I absolutely can't stand it! The very hint of a bassline on the wind will keep me awake all night! I think that's more to do with the fact that I feel playing music so very loudly at night is rude and inconsiderate and that's what keeps me awake rather than the sound itself!

That's just in general Dave, no reference to your masterplan!  You don't live within earshot!   

ha yes I'm very lucky that my pooch isn't bothered in the slightest. Againm it might be because we have a military academy not too far away so you can hear the bangs of gun fire at almost exactly the same volume as the fireworks.
What doeeeessss keep me up sometimes (and it happened last night and was way more disruptive to me than the fireworks in our area) was the young chavy rude boys with their shitty loud cars zooming around at all hours. We live in an area that's not a through way so it's not like we're on a particular fun street to race down. Drives me up a pissing wall.

Yep, music noise, door slamming, fireworks and chav racers get me triggered. It's rare that I have to retaliate but I've been pretty infamous with the neighbours for it when I have done in the past!

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Yep, music noise, door slamming, fireworks and chav racers get me triggered. It's rare that I have to retaliate but I've been pretty infamous with the neighbours for it when I have done in the past!

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haha have they actually said something to you over just being passive aggressive about it?

I think I might be the only person that is not bothered by the all the fireworks...

Nope, I like fireworks! But I think the organised displays are the safest & best.

When I was growing up - long ago and far away, fireworks on the 4th of July (only that day) were legal & as children we shot them off from sunup until after dark. All the kids in my small town did. Firecrackers, bottle rockets (shot out of the old long Coca Cola bottles), little whizzy squealy things, ash snakes, smoke bombs, fountains, Roman candles... These weren't big display grade though - I have a souvenir empty/exploded half chrysanthemum shell casing from a professional display but we never had anything that big.

However, we had SPACE - big yards, big empty playing fields, etc... We weren't all living ars* to elbow next to each other, packed in tight like is standard here. I think that makes a big difference.

Here, I've only ever bought sparklers though, and attended the organised displays.

If you really want to be freaked out by fireworks & feel like you're in a firework-i-fied "war zone", go to Amsterdam for New Year's. They are cray with it there, and it can be a bit dangerous to go walking out and peeps are shooting them everywhere in a crowded urban space. It was somewhat terrifying.

However, we had SPACE - big yards, big empty playing fields, etc... We weren't all living ars* to elbow next to each other, packed in tight like is standard here. I think that makes a big difference.

In fairness, we have people setting off fireworks in the fields by outs so there is the space right by my house, I just don't think it's smart letting the average joe buy and set off fireworks and the litter ended up being awful because it wasn't picked up. The noise itself doesn't bother me personally, but I do agree that it's just not safe.

haha have they actually said something to you over just being passive aggressive about it?

There was a time a few years ago when I still lived at my mother's place and some undesirables at the back of her house had a party that blasted on until like 3am.

I got up the next morning at 6 and opened all the windows in the house and switched my amp on to 'cook the tubes' (you need to preheat them to get the loudest, most heavily distorted sound) whilst warming up to my gig with my dad's old hifi system. Once warmed, a long lead was attached and I let rip with the intro to Thunderstruck (ACDC). 30 mins later, the stuff having fallen out of draws in the kitchen, having severe ringing, blisters on me fingers and exhausted the back catalogue of heavy rock power ballad intros I knew of, I packed up.

My mum and I went out to walk the dog a couple of hours later and people we knew several streets away were thanking me for retaliating and teaching those particular individuals a lesson. The power of Marshall is legendary... "Live life loud".

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