Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[cheb]

I doubt fireworks are that nutritious, and trying to heat a house with them is going to be pretty unpleasant as well as quite risky.

[Felix]

Listening to the last 5 hours of non stop fireworks going off around my area. Just ridiculous amounts of money going up in smoke... that would feed people and heat houses for many who are in need. Noise and air pollution as well.

I never knew till tonight that in Scotland there is an amendment in the selling of fireworks law that says shops cant sell them after 6pm. It does seem a lot quieter up here the past few days. Dont think it made much difference in the city's and large town though as a few of the emergency services ended up in hospital trying to do there job.

[Count Steer]

Listening to the last 5 hours of non stop fireworks going off around my area. Just ridiculous amounts of money going up in smoke... that would feed people and heat houses for many who are in need. Noise and air pollution as well.

It's changed a bit since most families had a small bonfire and a 'selection box' of fireworks and some 2d cannons.

On the plus side our local display is done to raise money for charitable works. Even that's got ridiculously big for a small village - funfair, hog roast, stalls and traffic chaos as people travel in from miles around and can't find anywhere to park. Oh well, all done for another year.

[Horse]

Just ridiculous amounts of money going up in smoke...

The list of such things, probably isn't - literally - endless, but includes biking (as Yozzer says), but how about another burning one: (literally) smoking - at about £12 a pack. Or how about people heading out (right about now?) for night out? Is there any justification for spending a small fortune on meals and drink, then heading out to clubs, then finally leaving a variety of deposits on pavements.

There are plenty of other waste of money and resource activities widespread, in various forms - not just the UK. A recent one is Diwali - fireworks and food (probably more, but that's all I know about), or how about Easter eggs etc. and Christmas- probably the UK's ultimate expression of over-indulgence and over-consumption (and I'm not ignoring that it was originally a pagan or somesuch mid-winter festival).

[MrLongbeard]

A recent one is Diwali - fireworks and food (probably more, but that's all I know about)

It's the festival of light.
Used to get some proper good sweets out of it when I lived in Leicester, and it sounded like Beirut for a week, bloody good stuff.

[Saga Lout]

Listening to the last 5 hours of non stop fireworks going off around my area. Just ridiculous amounts of money going up in smoke... that would feed people and heat houses for many who are in need. Noise and air pollution as well.

Let me paraphrase: Somebody, somewhere is having fun. They must be stopped.

[Count Steer]

Just ridiculous amounts of money going up in smoke...

The list of such things, probably isn't - literally - endless, but includes biking (as Yozzer says), but how about another burning one: (literally) smoking - at about £12 a pack. Or how about people heading out (right about now?) for night out? Is there any justification for spending a small fortune on meals and drink, then heading out to clubs, then finally leaving a variety of deposits on pavements.

There are plenty of other waste of money and resource activities widespread, in various forms - not just the UK. A recent one is Diwali - fireworks and food (probably more, but that's all I know about), or how about Easter eggs etc. and Christmas- probably the UK's ultimate expression of over-indulgence and over-consumption (and I'm not ignoring that it was originally a pagan or somesuch mid-winter festival).

Saturnalia? That was the Roman thing but there was probably something for the winter solstice here before that. The final blow-out before the longest, hardest months hoping the rest of the food lasted out until spring. A sort of 'phew! we're half way through'.

Personal is how Halloween has become a festival of supermarket, single-use, Chinese, plastic tat and sucrose.

[DefTrap]

Personal is how Halloween has become a festival of supermarket, single-use, Chinese, plastic tat and sucrose.

Could be worse, could be the US where adult participation is as mandatory as for the kids.
My US colleagues take it -awfully- seriously.

[Count Steer]

Personal is how Halloween has become a festival of supermarket, single-use, Chinese, plastic tat and sucrose.

Could be worse, could be the US where adult participation is as mandatory as for the kids.
My US colleagues take it -awfully- seriously.

Had a novel where a Polish immigré in the USA was introduced to Halloween and told to dress as the scariest, most evil thing he could imagine......




.....he went as Hitler (and got beaten up for it)!

[Horse]

Had a novel where a Polish immigré in the USA was introduced to Halloween and told to dress as the scariest, most evil thing he could imagine......

.....he went as Hitler (and got beaten up for it)!

I used to choose 'scariest thing on tv' for an annual party.

Ozzy Osborne and shouty Barry Scott made appearances (for BS i had several half-clean pennies for anyone who recognised it).

[slowsider]

Ronnie Pickering ftw

[Mr. Dazzle]

Had a novel where a Polish immigré in the USA was introduced to Halloween and told to dress as the scariest, most evil thing he could imagine......

.....he went as Hitler (and got beaten up for it)!

I used to choose 'scariest thing on tv' for an annual party.

Ozzy Osborne and shouty Barry Scott made appearances (for BS i had several half-clean pennies for anyone who recognised it).

Bang! And the dirt is gone.

[MrLongbeard]

The entire contents of my digestive systems trying to abandon ship through any available orifice without forming an orderly queue or filing the prerequisite advanced notice of intention to leave

[Cousin Jack]

The entire contents of my digestive systems trying to abandon ship through any available orifice without forming an orderly queue or filing the prerequisite advanced notice of intention to leave

That sounds shit.

[derek badger]

The entire contents of my digestive systems trying to abandon ship through any available orifice without forming an orderly queue or filing the prerequisite advanced notice of intention to leave

[Taipan]

A nice young couple we know have 2 kids age 5 and 8. They bought their first home last year, a bedroom each for the kids, nice back garden etc. Everything was looking so rosy for them. Today he found out she's been having an affair for 2 months. It's over for them and her reason, she connects better with the new guy.

I suppose he'll get shafted. End up living in a bedsit/small flat with no money left for himself after covering all the bills and support for his kids. I hope her new connection is worth depriving them kiddies of growing up in the family home a great Dad.

Dunno if I am wound up or if my piss is boiling, just such a shame to see a family broke up like that, but I guess you never know what goes on behind closed doors...

[636mick]

A nice young couple we know have 2 kids age 5 and 8. They bought their first home last year, a bedroom each for the kids, nice back garden etc. Everything was looking so rosy for them. Today he found out she's been having an affair for 2 months. It's over for them and her reason, she connects better with the new guy.

I suppose he'll get shafted. End up living in a bedsit/small flat with no money left for himself after covering all the bills and support for his kids. I hope her new connection is worth depriving them kiddies of growing up in the family home a great Dad.

Dunno if I am wound up or if my piss is boiling, just such a shame to see a family broke up like that, but I guess you never know what goes on behind closed doors...

Having experienced that, he will get shafted, sadly. Shame that the guilty seem to get away with it again and again, the innocent end up paying. Just my experience.
Sorry to hear it.
Mick

[Bigjawa]

Headlamp blows in the 307 on the way home, even with both lights, you'd be better off with a torch but with one, it's crap and I love in the arsehole of nowhere.

So I go to the local petrol station to get a bulb. None, a couple of H4 but no H7.

Nothing I've owned for that past 15 years has used a H4.

Bloody petrol stations, you can get an artisan pastry, but not a bloody bulb.

[slowsider]

and I love in the arsehole

LGBigjawa now?

[Saga Lout]

and I love in the arsehole

LGBigjawa now?

The dangers of relying on the spill chucker.