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This weekend, the clocks went back in Britain. A nightmare reminder that winter is well and truly on its way.
And you know what else is on its way?
Only the return of the feature the whole world is talking about.
And what are they saying?
They're saying, "I've never heard of it."
Yes, it's that fearless feature in which the first person to comment below gets to decide just what the subject for debate is going to be.
I have no idea what that subject will be. And, so, all I can do is sit here, like everyone else, in the gloom - brooding, majestic - and pondering just what might be about to be unleashed upon this dark and autumnal evening.
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Minor question, happy to be brushed aside if a better or more popular question comes up.
Do you like fireworks?
Do you like them more or less than you used to when you were a kid?
Sorry, this was me.
Charlie loved fireworks!
He used to make with a friend in the basement until his father saw all the gunpowder laying around on a table, but a few feet away from the natural gas powered furnace!
Charlie also had to spend some time in the police station when arrested for his pyrotechnic passion being indulged in the streets of the town.
And of course, while in the army, Charlie loved watching 50 caliber tracer rounds, fly down range hitting targets, watching 105 mm tank rounds explode against targets he was aiming at, and shooting light antitank weapons at various other targets.
Nowadays, fireworks don’t really do much for him. He thinks about the air pollution, the poor animals, being disturbed or killed, people being injured by them…
Charlie “Buzzkill “horse 47
FWIW - Charlie would still ignite pieces of magnesium if he could find them! A piece as big as a thumb nail will lite up 50 yards!
Man does Mg burn!!! Burn baby burn!!!
And of course Charlie’s hometown Army would configure metal electrical conduit, by attaching crude sighting mechanisms and handles for launching bottle rockets. The accuracy was really really good.
And for sure, we tinkered with the Estes Rockets by replacing the parachutes with copper bb’s. Thus when the engine triggered the expulsion of the parachute our rockets would spray bb’s all over the neighborhood from a height of several hundred feet.
Oddly (?) we felt very proud of ourselves as if we are accomplishing some thing of significance!
Thanks for the topic, Matthew.
I definitely like them less than I did when I was young because they're a lot noisier than they were back then. If they reduced the noise levels back to what they used to be, I'd be very pleased.
My wife tells me Asda sell noiseless fireworks now. They would seem to be a win.
I never really enjoyed fireworks or looked forward to bonfire night. And that is/was despite everyone telling me it was great and that I would enjoy myself. Go on, have a sparkler, wave it about, see all the pretty sparks. But once it's all done, drop it on the floor and don‘t touch it because it will burn your fingers off.
Nah, not for me. Still, it worked as a dress rehearsal for office team building days and other enforced fun events.
I can't work out whether I'm just a grump or whether there's a lot of groupthink going on with everyone pretending to enjoy fireworks when they really don't.
I loved fireworks when I was a carefree child — I didn’t even mind the noise. As an adult homeowner in dry, drought-stricken Southern California, I hate them SO much.
b.t.
I was never a big fan of fireworks or fireworks night. Guy Fawkes night always seemed to be cold and/or wet when I was a kid. I always considered fireworks night the poor relation to Halloween, Hogmanay and the main holiday, Christmas. Bah humbug.
Well… let charlie POSE A TANGENTIAL QUESTION? Did / do any of you enjoy “staying up all night” for any reason (see sun rise, kust because… whatever).
Never in my life did I ever look forward to a proposal to “let’s stay up all night!” I was always gassed by 1-2 AM and just wanted to hit the hay!
And though “60 may be the new 40 “… “9 PM is the new midnight” in Charlie’s household, lol.
I feel more and more connected to many of the lyrics in Lennon’s song from REVOLVER “I’m only sleeping!”
Charlie, I'm Only Sleeping was also a UK hit for Suggs (from Madness) in 1995.
I love fireworks as long as they are confined to Guy Fawkes Night. I'm rather less keen when some selfish moron sets off a firework at 2am in the middle of September.
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