The grumpy thread

[hairnet]

shame that this country sees fit to celebrate a failure

 

[Talbot]

Massive overhead fireworks can absolutely fuck off this evening and the absolute cunt who is letting them off in the middle of a modern housing estate deserves to have one shoved up his arse and exploded.  There's a dozen dogs barking their heads off, undoubtedly many more shitscared and cowering somewhere.  One of the fireworks was so powerful it shook windows and set off a couple of car alarms.  Unbelievable.

As per fucking usual, UK legislation is woefully behind the times.  Fireworks available to the public need to be restricted to the sort of things that were done in the 80s.. little volcanoes, Catherine wheels, etc.etc.  not fucking massive overhead displays that need several acres of space.

Utter bastards.

[Spurious]

1 minute ago, Talbot said:

Massive overhead fireworks can absolutely fuck off this evening and the absolute cunt who is letting them off in the middle of a modern housing estate deserves to have one shoved up his arse and exploded.  There's a dozen dogs barking their heads off, undoubtedly many more shitscared and cowering somewhere.  One of the fireworks was so powerful it shook windows and set off a couple of car alarms.  Unbelievable.

As per fucking usual, UK legislation is woefully behind the times.  Fireworks available to the public need to be restricted to the sort of things that were done in the 80s.. little volcanoes, Catherine wheels, etc.etc.  not fucking massive overhead displays that need several acres of space.

Utter bastards.

The scrotes down the street are letting them off, in a row of terraces. They're just bangers, nothing pretty about it. 

Little cat is hiding underneath the bed. Won't come out for food. 

[stendec]

Not a fan of fireworks these days - hate the effect they have on wildlife and pets.

Hope your little cat gets over them soon.

[Spurious]

4 minutes ago, stendec said:

Not a fan of fireworks these days - hate the effect they have on wildlife and pets.

Hope your little cat gets over them soon.

She'll be right I'm sure when they stop. It's the same every year. When I lived in Ireland you needed a performance license to purchase them. 

You'd always get shady indeviduals selling them in the back of a van, they'd have got them over the border in Newry or something, but it was never a massive problem there. Always a few knobheads but it'd be one evening and not too many. Here it seems like a week long knobbery celebration of crap loud fireworks and upset pets. 

[Spurious]

And I just realised the history of your username @stendec. Just occurred to me there.  If anyone's wondering it's the Stardust mystery, the Avro lost over the Andes. 

 

[stendec]

24 minutes ago, Spurious said:

And I just realised the history of your username @stendec. Just occurred to me there.  If anyone's wondering it's the Stardust mystery, the Avro lost over the Andes. 

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/a-pilots-last-words-stendec/

[jakebullet]

Next door at home appear to have a fire in the middle of the access road behind the houses. I'd estimate 3 yards from my parked car from the cam footage. What kind of cunts think it's acceptable to start fires in a public road???

[Talbot]

Go out there with a fire extinguisher and put it out.  If it's too large, phone the fire brigade.

 

Tossers on the estate here are setting off fireworks that would be at home at a public display.  Every dog on the entire estate is going bananas.  I would gladly torture the cunt doing it.  Fucking fuming.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Will be worse tomorrow night.

To much revenue from them to stop sales.

 

What other countries allow the open sale of light explosives ( these aren't fireworks) to any Muppet that can get away with saying their over 18.

As said should be alimit on size of sale to general public.

Most just see it as a way to be a public nuisance. Oh & by the way it's bonfire/guy Fawkes night not "fireworks season" as retailers have been saying for the last few years.

[jakebullet]

59 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Go out there with a fire extinguisher and put it out.  If it's too large, phone the fire brigade.

 

Tossers on the estate here are setting off fireworks that would be at home at a public display.  Every dog on the entire estate is going bananas.  I would gladly torture the cunt doing it.  Fucking fuming.

I'm not there can just see them on cam. Hope the drunken arseholes set themselves on fire. Them and every other wanker blowing everything up.

[Zelandeth]

Had half a dozen land on the roof so far from idiots letting them the surrounding roads.  That's pretty standard.  Knowing our luck, this will be the year someone sets fire to it given we're about 90% through having the roof replaced. 

Usual game around here as well is youths launching them off the overpasses at passing cars.  You absolutely do not drive round after dark here with a window open during October or November.

One of our neighbours is having an absolute mental drunken party for about the fifth weekend in a row.  Suffice to say I'm utterly sick of it.  One was understandable.  Two was irritating.  However now it's just like nails on a blackboard.

Edit: Said party have now started setting fireworks off.  Literally about 20' from my bedroom window.  Wonderful.

[High Jetter]

30 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Will be worse tomorrow night.

Why? Today's the 5th

[bunglebus]

10-10.30 PM some cunt in the next road set off a series of pro-grade cakes. It used to be fun having a few rockets and catherine wheels, tonight's been like being in the middle of a war zone

[Spurious]

4 hours ago, Spurious said:

The scrotes down the street are letting them off, in a row of terraces. They're just bangers, nothing pretty about it. 

Look, they set their bin on fire. Morons.

 

[Pieman]

I don't like fireworks for two reasons, firstly when I was younger I was at a speedway meeting when the club had their end of season display and  a large firework misfired and flew into the crowd (luckily no serious injuries) and then a few years later I was driving back from Birmingham one November Saturday night and some cunt threw one into the road in front of my car - luckily I somehow dodged it.

[GrumpyCat]

Doesn't seem to be a cost of living crisis around here tonight, loads of people with money to burn, literally. 

Also, some daft bastards already have their Xmas light displays up. FFS!

[Metal Guru]

5 hours ago, Talbot said:

Massive overhead fireworks can absolutely fuck off this evening and the absolute cunt who is letting them off in the middle of a modern housing estate deserves to have one shoved up his arse and exploded.  There's a dozen dogs barking their heads off, undoubtedly many more shitscared and cowering somewhere.  One of the fireworks was so powerful it shook windows and set off a couple of car alarms.  Unbelievable.

As per fucking usual, UK legislation is woefully behind the times.  Fireworks available to the public need to be restricted to the sort of things that were done in the 80s.. little volcanoes, Catherine wheels, etc.etc.  not fucking massive overhead displays that need several acres of space.

Utter bastards.

In the 80s, my cousins organised a family fireworks display at their house. Everyone invited was supposed to bring some fireworks to contribute. However, three of them worked on railway maintenance and their contribution was the trackside detonators used to war of approaching trains. They were the loudest fireworks I ever heard outside a public display.

[Remspoor]

11 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

What other countries allow the open sale of light explosives

Spain

Netherlands.

No doubt there area few more countries

[horriblemercedes]

Wow, I was actually thinking I was surprised how nobody seemed to do fireworks this year. I haven't seen or heard even one. 

 

Apparently that's just me! 

[cobblers]

9 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

They were the loudest fireworks I ever heard outside a public display.

We bought a van off some railway maintenance company and when we took the racking out of the back we found about a dozen railway detonators slipped down behind the boards.

Knowing they would be "severe" we took one down into the bottom of an old quarry and dropped heavy lumps of steel and blocks on it from about 20 feet above in order to get it to go off. It took us about 10 minutes to get the fucker to go off.

We were all completely unprepared for the power of it, we daren't do any more, even after our ears had stopped ringing.

[mitsisigma01]

13 hours ago, Talbot said:

Tossers on the estate here

Which part of town are you in, I'm over west side and there is always the same 2 fucktards every year that do it , generally not as many others this year though ☹️

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Spain

Netherlands.

No doubt there area few more countries

Last time I was in France on14th July there were far more fireworks than we have here on 5th November. We were going to take some home ( for NewYear) as they were half the price of here but decided they might not store. When we got to the tunnel , there was a security alert they were searching cars for explosives, we might have had some trouble explaining.

[MikeR]

Had our fireworks , then we stood outside clearing up the beer when the football club started sending up the military grade stuff resulting in horizon to horizon star show ! , But overall it was a lot quieter this year .

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

We bought a van off some railway maintenance company and when we took the racking out of the back we found about a dozen railway detonators slipped down behind the boards.

Knowing they would be "severe" we took one down into the bottom of an old quarry and dropped heavy lumps of steel and blocks on it from about 20 feet above in order to get it to go off. It took us about 10 minutes to get the fucker to go off.

We were all completely unprepared for the power of it, we daren't do any more, even after our ears had stopped ringing.

I was surprised the windows in nearby houses survived them.

[beko1987]

I went for a rolly about 10 minutes after our big local one finished and the smoke was thick, could taste the air! Was a good show, can see it from my sofa in the front room 😂

That wasn't the problem. It then rained for about 2 hours, then at about 9pm when it stopped all hell broke loose again as everyone set their huge booming ones off! Poor bird nearly fell off his perch, had him upstairs with me last night and he slept on a Dyson dc40 and didn't cry as much

[Zelandeth]

Housemate has a company car, and has been away visiting friends over the weekend.

It decided to ping up a warning to check the oil level.  So they did, was on minimum on the dipstick.

My advice was to go to the nearest Halfords or similar and just top it off...Could they find anyone even vaguely nearby with the correct spec of oil?  No chance.  Ended up having to call out VW Roadside Assist.  To top up the fscking oil...I guess on the plus side at least this one *has* a dipstick, the previous Audi didn't.  Plus that service is free for us as it's part of the company car package.

Given it's a company car and has all manner of bells and whistles on it in terms of emission control kit, I wasn't willing to tell them to just match the weight and call it good.  Probably would be fine - but do I really want to be responsible for borkage of the engine or DPF if it wasn't?  How about no.  I have nowhere near a good enough understanding of what happens under the bonnet of a car made in 2022 to feel comfortable advising.

If I had any hand in it there would be a rule as part of the type approval process that said that normal consumables like oil and coolant must be of types readily available at any normal motor factors.  Requiring an oil with a very specific special number that VW will only let one company print on the bottle would be an absolute no no.

Definitely has furthered my reluctance to ever buy anything newer than the 2002 Caddy I currently have.

[jonathan_dyane]

Or given that it apparently needs a specialist oil and  you would imagine they would have a good idea of likely oil consumption between changes  it might be a nice gesture if they supplied the car with 2 litres or so of oil for topping up purposes...

[Markeh]

Had the dog I'm looking I'm after shaking and panting for an hour or two on Friday (mainly because of her owner going but also fireworks), three hours last night and about an hour and a half so far tonight. Found detritus on my car this year for the second year in a row, a fine red powder that does at least wash off, but still. You couldn't see for smoke locally last night. Last year, I was 3ft away from being hit by a rocket stick returning to earth as I was walking back from the bus stop. Home fireworks can FRO.

[jakebullet]

Cunt next door is burning all day again today. I guess he thinks he's found a wheeze of charge punters for waste disposal from job, bring it home and burn instead. Fuck the smokeless zone, plastic doesn't smoke much*.