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If India are involved, I expect it to come crashing down to Earth and kill 347 civilians as they attempt to get through a level crossing.
Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.
Used to go up the town centre at Bracknell during lunch time at school circa 1980 to buy packets of bangers, if one didn't go off you would cut it in half and do a "genie" by setting light to the gunpowder, got to close one year and blinded myself for 20 minutes and singed off my eyebrows. My mate threw one at a boy on a bike once, miss threw it and it landed in the boys coat hood ( he was about 15) the boy shit himself, fell off his bike and the banger rolled out his hood a fraction before it went off, back in those days my mate probably would of gone to borstal if he'd of got caught.
Ah yes! Genies. Had great fun creating them until a mate nearly lost his face through one.[ Silly bugger was too slow in getting his bonce out of the way]. It was at half time at a match behind one of the stands at Horsham FC, we made a huge cone for a genie.Matey lit it and BOOM!! He looked like one of the black and white minstrels. His old ma nearly killed him [and the rest of our group] when we took him home. His face was still black for a couple of days.
Remember jumping jacks? Lethal buggers that would follow you around. Great fun in a school playground especially when we all had to line up to go back into classes. Some wag would let off a couple of jacks in that time. Just watch every one scatter in panic and the teachers losing complete composure and order. Extended break time by a few extra minutes. Downside was a school detention until whoever owned up which no one ever did.
An uncle of mine who was a bit dim, put a box of fireworks in his oven after he left it outside in the rain for a while. He thought by leaving them in the warming stove for a few minutes, it would dry them out. The inevitable happened. Destroyed his house and his marriage!
Just isn't the same anymore with organised firework displays.
Remeber them aerial bombshell things?The big f*ck off ones that had at least six shells in them,stuck them into planks of wood and fired them at each other. Amazing we made it out of adolescence.
Remeber them aerial bombshell things?The big f*ck off ones that had at least six shells in them,stuck them into planks of wood and fired them at each other. Amazing we made it out of adolescence.
Yeah remember them well. My older brother was a right one for obtaining lethal fireworks especially ones that made meaty explosions. He'd store them somewhere and let them off randomly throughout the year whenever the mood took him, usually in the vicinity of someone we hated in the neighbourhood. He also collected or pinched from a local farmer, crow scarers. Oh what fun we had with homemade mortars made with empty paint tins stuffed with scarers and the the old mans vegetable plot resembling a mini Somme when we buried them in the soil. Had the Old Bill around our house a couple of times 'cos the neighbours reported gunfire coming from our place. Kill joys!
Unless you are a child, I fail to see the entertainment value in bright lights and loud bangs. It’s hardly cerebral is it? (Mind you I could have just described most Hollywood action movies!)
Fireworks are also:
Expensive
Dangerous
Environmentally unfriendly
And scare pets shitless
I fecking hate bonfire night and Diwali, the whole thing seems to go on for weeks these days.
I have to admit that back in the 90s, a friend had a New Year's eve party to which people brought fireworks, fireworks which the mate and I "networked" using fusewire and a car battery. Stationing sentries, we set up all the fireworks on some waste ground near his house, and at midnight, video camera at the ready, connected the car battery. The whole lot - hundreds of pounds worth - went up in 30 seconds of absolute mayhem! Good fun but only worth doing once.
RFA
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