Aspies For Freedom

I'm not particularly keen on firework displays and bonfires.
Not only do they disturb your pets but they can be fatal as well if the example of the dog being force fed them is anything to go by. :cry:
You don't even need to be anti-social to be badly burned especially if you don't follow the health and safety guidelines.
IMHO firework displays should be officially organised by town officials as far away as possible from your houses and in particular your loved ones and all private ones should be abolished.
Neverthless I hadn't got a problem with them first thing on New Years Day!
Also why do some youngsters mess about with fireworks when it's not even the right day?

just curious.. did you have a fire-works and or bonfire accident recently?

I love them both, I love the smell of a campfire...mmmmmmm... and fires provide great snack foods too. (smores..hotdogs)

I love fire-works too, they are so colorful and I love extremly loud sonds. Well for me it either has to be silent or extremly loud or it's annoying. I love watching the Blue Angle's air show. (dog parking, people talking, eaxples of annoying sounds)

I love fire! its got one of the only smells I like and I love watching it.

I like fireworks aswell. Although the noise scares me a little bit of fright can be fun. I do hate the screechy ones though they hurt my ears.

Another plus about fireworks is when they go wrong and you have to leap out of the way of incoming rockets (which has happened so many times i've lost count) which is great fun.

Fires are a bit of an obsession with me and I got into trouble for having bonnies in my back yard. I used to like crackers but the government here banned them in 1972 because too many kids were doing things like tying them to dogs and cats or blowing up letter boxes.

The lady across the road from me in some flats was ropeable one year because some kids blew up her pension cheque by throwing bungers in her letter box.

It's Guy Fawkes Day.

Were they really banned in 1972? When I was little my neighbourhood used to have fireworks night, but then they got banned (about the mid '80s where I was which was NSW.)

But now I'm in New Zealand and they're still legal and getting sold everywhere. But I don't like them anymore. People were firing them over the fence the other day and one whizzed past my head.

Maybe they were just banned in Queensland in 1972. The only people who are supposed to have anything other than sparklers are professionals who do fireworks shows for various celebrations.