Fireworks - Page 2

monkey hanger · 11-11-2021, 09:11

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

My other half is selectively deaf…he doesn’t hear what I say to him…he needs the TV turned up loud…but he can hear a toffee being unwrapped at a hundred paces….how does that work?

memories of my old man there. never had to repeat the words of, do you fancy nipping out for a pint, but can i borrow a fiver till friday always fell on deaf ears.

taddy · 11-11-2021, 11:04

[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1259261]My other half is selectively deaf…he doesn’t hear what I say to him…he needs the TV turned up loud…but he can hear a toffee being unwrapped at a hundred paces….how does that work?

Marge it is a man thing, even before I put my hearing aids in I can hear if someone cracks the cap of a bottle of Hobgoblin at the said One hundred paces.

cashman · 11-11-2021, 11:47

ive had hearing aids for years but i cant find em.

Less · 11-11-2021, 12:21

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Originally Posted by cashman

ive had hearing aids for years but i cant find em.

Perhaps your glasses aren't working?

cashman · 11-11-2021, 12:33

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Originally Posted by Less

Perhaps your glasses aren't working?

they aint much good i got cataracts.

taddy · 11-11-2021, 16:28

[QUOTE=cashman;1259280]ive had hearing aids for years but i cant find em.

Maybe you should have gone to Specsavers.

cashman · 11-11-2021, 17:35

i did read post before yours.

DaveinGermany · 11-11-2021, 18:58

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Originally Posted by taddy

Marge it is a man thing,

Blokes & Dogs Tads, tell a hound to get over here as we're off out in the rain, or just off the sofa/seat/bed, nothing, deaf as a post. Yet go into the kitchen & open "their" cupboards/fridge & they're near on running you over & that close you'd think you had a pork chop hangin' out your pocket.

RainbowSix · 11-11-2021, 20:46

I hate the bloody fireworks.
I had to take a week off work so I can walk the dogs earlier (while it is still light) and one of them will not go out in the evenings except when she is crossing her legs and then it's only a quick one.

The only saving grace this year has been the rain, I look forward to it every oct - jan.

monkey hanger · 12-11-2021, 09:06

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Originally Posted by RainbowSix

I hate the bloody fireworks.
I had to take a week off work so I can walk the dogs earlier (while it is still light) and one of them will not go out in the evenings except when she is crossing her legs and then it's only a quick one.

The only saving grace this year has been the rain, I look forward to it every oct - jan.

add to that the number of ex servicemen with PTSD who are bothered by them as well. nothing will happen though as it will be the samew at new year and all next year as well.

Margaret Pilkington · 12-11-2021, 10:58

Yes…I have to admit that I also hope for a wet and windy Bonfire month…because these days that is how long the fireworks seem to last….added to that we live close to the Dunkenhalgh…..so when there is a big party for a wedding, birthday etc…I can guarantee there will be fireworks…often after 11pm.
I do not mind those the just Whoosh…but what in heavens name is the attraction of bangers that sound like bombs going off.

I think that to buy fireworks you should have to do a pyrotechnics course, have a licence renewable each year at a cost and prove that you know how to handle these things.
And all fireworks should cease at 11pm.

DaveinGermany · 12-11-2021, 15:16

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Originally Posted by monkey hanger

add to that the number of ex servicemen with PTSD who are bothered by them as well.

I can thoroughly agree with that, I've always been fine & had no problems despite the tours I was involved in. What always struck me, especially living here in Germany was the amount of fireworks & especially "Bangers" that were set off for New year, I often wondered & still do how some of the older folk feel on new years eve.

Bramsche is 14km from Osnabrück a major Garrison town in the days of Adolf (also later when the Brits were stationed here), added to that the metalworks, railyards & industry, plus the 3 Airfields, Achmer, Hesepe & Vorden took a very heavy toll in bombings from the RAF & USAF. I'm pretty sure the yearly carousing & festivities on the 31st would most certainly bring back some unpleasant memories for some of these folk.

taddy · 12-11-2021, 15:36

Well spoken Dave, it must be the same for anyone still alive who had to suffer the nightly bombing raids during the 1940s.

Lost in Cornwall · 13-11-2021, 08:41

In the 90's I worked with a bloke whose brother owned a firework company that put on organised displays. Mark, the guy I worked with, had a licence to be responsible for displays so he could help his brother out around November 5th and the amount of stuff he had to know to keep it was incredible. Now, I suspect those same powerful fireworks can just be bought over the counter by any idiot who hasn't got a clue what they're doing. Our oldest cat had a wonderful year this year because she's gone deaf and hadn't got a clue what was going on so just slept peacefully through it.

monkey hanger · 13-11-2021, 09:32

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Originally Posted by taddy

Well spoken Dave, it must be the same for anyone still alive who had to suffer the nightly bombing raids during the 1940s.

there cannot be many of these folk around now unlike in the 50,s where nearly everyone from senior school upwards would have remembered them in many parts of the country. fireworks were never thought of being a problem back then. two reasons were they were not as loud and only went on anyway for a few hours one day a year. imagine the uproar then if celebrations went on for a week or for every birthday through the year.