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Title: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: STEMO on 31 December 2018, 19:45:24
I thought that was the general idea on New Year's Eve. But the Jeremy Kyle fodder have been at it for a couple of hours already round here. What is the connection between a lack of intelligence and loud bangs?
Answers on a postcard please.
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: STEMO on 31 December 2018, 19:47:09
Sorry, Jaime, I mean 'intentional' loud bangs.  ;D
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: zirk on 31 December 2018, 19:51:15
I thought that was the general idea on New Year's Eve. But the Jeremy Kyle fodder have been at it for a couple of hours already round here. What is the connection between a lack of intelligence and loud bangs?
Answers on a postcard please.
No Idea, but its probably a bit like asking the question -

"whats the difference between Ignorance and Arrogance"

Answer, - "I dont know and I dont give a F#ck"  ;D
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 31 December 2018, 20:02:31
I thought that was the general idea on New Year's Eve. But the Jeremy Kyle fodder have been at it for a couple of hours already round here. What is the connection between a lack of intelligence and loud bangs?
Answers on a postcard please.

Having so much money to waste! ::)
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Steve B on 31 December 2018, 20:34:05
Cos it is for the kids who they wanna get in bed so the can hit the pop....
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: TheBoy on 31 December 2018, 20:54:37
WTF do people need to set off fireworks at unsocialable hours, ie midnight.

Any oppser doing so should be immediately culled.  I'm sure if I ramped up the bongo bongo tunes to full power at midnight, the ol' bill would be round.



oppswits, the lot of them :@
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Bigron on 31 December 2018, 20:59:31
Er, because there's a reason why they don't let off fireworks at midday, TB! :-X

Ron.
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Steve B on 31 December 2018, 21:00:58
WTF do people need to set off fireworks at unsocialable hours, ie midnight.

Any oppser doing so should be immediately culled.  I'm sure if I ramped up the bongo bongo tunes to full power at midnight, the ol' bill would be round.



oppswits, the lot of them :@
You miserable bleeder...you never thought of others when you were setting off that nuke in your garage and woke the whole of northampton up did you.  :y :y :y :y :y
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: STEMO on 31 December 2018, 21:04:04
WTF do people need to set off fireworks at unsocialable hours, ie midnight.

Any oppser doing so should be immediately culled.  I'm sure if I ramped up the bongo bongo tunes to full power at midnight, the ol' bill would be round.



oppswits, the lot of them :@
Absof*ckinlutely  ;D
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: STEMO on 31 December 2018, 21:19:58
I'm trying to be interested in the shite on the telly thinking I might try and stay up till midnight. But I doubt it very much, just CBA.
I'm hoping my tee shirt is here by Wednesday, so I can wear it when I take the dog out. Everyone will be shaking hands and  'Happy new year' ing. My tee shirt will declare 'New Year, Same Old Shit'.
HA!
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Nick W on 31 December 2018, 21:46:30


I'm sure if I ramped up the bongo bongo tunes to full power at midnight, the ol' bill would be round.




I'm just off to the cathedral, where we'll be swinging 6 tons of metal above Rochester's heads at midnight ;D
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Olympia5776 on 31 December 2018, 21:56:44
Illegal here and cannot be bought over the counter, wonder why ?
Expect to see a controlled display at midnight which to be fair is beautifull against the mountains down here.
I don't miss all those idiots who " light up the sky with Standard fireworks "
Enjoy yourselves and have a good New Year.
Don
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 31 December 2018, 22:24:20
Illegal here and cannot be bought over the counter, wonder why ?
Expect to see a controlled display at midnight which to be fair is beautifull against the mountains down here.
I don't miss all those idiots who " light up the sky with Standard fireworks "
Enjoy yourselves and have a good New Year.
Don
Diesel, sugar and fertilizer are soo much cheaper... If they weren't illegal they would never make a profit  :o

NYE TV hasn't been the same since Clive James rolled over :'(
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: tidla on 31 December 2018, 23:38:16
Just put "the Equilizer " on.

Maybe after he's sorted a few Ruskies out he can sort the early Firework retards out.

Dont they realise there taking the edge of the evening?
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Nick W on 01 January 2019, 02:28:38
I've just got home from ringing the old year out, and the new year in. Ringers have been doing this for about 400 years, and we brought friends along to join the party.


Hopefully the revellers along Rochester high street weren't too confused by us fading out 2018, chiming Midnight and firing in 2019. Then we continued the party in the ringing chamber.


Our visitors stood on the cathedral roof, watching the fireworks over Medway listening to traditional ringing on a lovely 10 bell ring.
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: 2boxerdogs on 01 January 2019, 07:22:05
Always an abundance of fireworks round here at New Year, don't bother me in the slightest 😀
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: BazaJT on 01 January 2019, 07:31:22
Not really that many round here last night,but then again they have been busy expending their ordinance every night since 4 days before Christmas >:(
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: TheBoy on 01 January 2019, 10:49:01


I'm sure if I ramped up the bongo bongo tunes to full power at midnight, the ol' bill would be round.




I'm just off to the cathedral, where we'll be swinging 6 tons of metal above Rochester's heads at midnight ;D
Ah, but had I chosen to live by a church, I wouldn't have a leg to stand on if I was woken by bells at midnight.

But to be woken by stupid, pathetic little poppers at midnight, just because the antisocial wankstains think everybody should be up to see the New Year in, is annoying.  And I bet they would be the first to complain if I got home at midnight on a Friday night after an evening down the pub, singing at the top of my voice :@

Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 01 January 2019, 10:51:40
Got in from the pub just before 2... Wasn't aware of any fireworks  ;D
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: TheBoy on 01 January 2019, 11:25:59
Got in from the pub just before 2... Wasn't aware of any fireworks  ;D
I was tucked up by 10:30, asleep by 11:30, wide awake by 12:01.

oppsers.
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: biggriffin on 01 January 2019, 11:36:32
Saw that waste of money that Mr khan wasted in that London place, Was it really necessary >:(
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Andy B on 01 January 2019, 12:05:12
Saw that waste of money that Mr khan wasted in that London place, Was it really necessary >:(

Looked impressive though  :) :)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bwqcn4/new-years-eve-fireworks-20182019
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 01 January 2019, 16:49:05
Apart from the fact that he politicised the whole thing. Cant stand the hideous little prick.
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: BazaJT on 01 January 2019, 17:32:52
Apparently it's the biggest display in Europe.8 tonnes of explosives :o Just think what a modern day Guy Fawkes could do with that :-X ;D
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 01 January 2019, 18:09:24
Apparently it's the biggest display in Europe.8 tonnes of explosives :o Just think what a modern day Guy Fawkes could do with that :-X ;D

Next year it'll be the biggest display on an insignificant little speck in the North Atlantic as allegedly we won't be in Europe.  :-X

Or will we??  ???  :)
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Nick W on 01 January 2019, 18:30:14
Next year it'll be the biggest display on an insignificant little speck in the North Atlantic as allegedly we won't be in Europe.  :-X



And teenage parents standing outside their hovels in the parks will tell their progeny that all of London used to light up, not just 5 sparkly flashes in the sky ;D

Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: ronnyd on 01 January 2019, 18:42:54
Daughters little dog was scared shitless. :(
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: STEMO on 01 January 2019, 18:43:15
Apparently it's the biggest display in Europe.8 tonnes of explosives :o Just think what a modern day Guy Fawkes could do with that :-X ;D

Next year it'll be the biggest display on an insignificant little speck in the North Atlantic as allegedly we won't be in Europe.  :-X

Or will we??  ???  :)
Yes, Tigger, we will still be in Europe. Because it's a continent (or should that be incontinent), not a political bloc.
We won't be in the European Union, hopefully  :)
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 01 January 2019, 20:25:22
We aren't in Europe. We are an island near the coast of Europe.  :P
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: STEMO on 01 January 2019, 20:26:37
We aren't in Europe. We are an island near the coast of Europe.  :P
Less of the 'we', Paddy.  ;D
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 01 January 2019, 20:30:25
Far cough, scouse git.  :P
Anyhoo…. getting back to the fireworks. No doubt we would be in trouble if we went around there and shoved their bangers up their arse.
Life just aint fair.  ::)
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: biggriffin on 01 January 2019, 21:04:44
Apparently it's the biggest display in Europe.8 tonnes of explosives :o Just think what a modern day Guy Fawkes could do with that :-X ;D


According to grandad, when the Germans use to nip over the fireworks were a lot better, and that was more than 8tonnes a night... (He was a fireman)
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 02 January 2019, 19:59:47
Apparently it's the biggest display in Europe.8 tonnes of explosives :o Just think what a modern day Guy Fawkes could do with that :-X ;D


According to grandad, when the Germans use to nip over the fireworks were a lot better, and that was more than 8tonnes a night... (He was a fireman)

On the first day of the London Blitz, the 7th September 1940, over 300 tonnes of bombs were dropped by the Luftwaffe on the East London docks and surrounding area.  30,000 tonnes of bombs were dropped by the Germans on Britain during the Blitz from September 1940 to June 1941, with over 40,000 killed  :'( :'(;)
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 02 January 2019, 20:23:49
So much for German efficiency  ;D
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: biggriffin on 03 January 2019, 09:10:55
So much for German efficiency  ;D

It's a shame we couldn't have a bit more of that German efficiency to remodel the East end again., Would probably upset somebody's human rights.
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 03 January 2019, 09:20:47
So much for German efficiency  ;D

It's a shame we couldn't have a bit more of that German efficiency to remodel the East end again., Would probably upset somebody's human rights.

It is because of German inefficiency, arrogance, and plain stupidity, that they failed to take control of Great Britain, and Russia for that matter.  If the Luftwaffe had continued to bomb the RAF airfields...If the Kriegsmarine had been able to build hundreds more advanced U-boats instead of building obsolete battleships and battle cruisers............. If the German Sixth Army had been allowed to go straight to Moscow and not be split and diverted...........oh, so many "If's" that thank God never happened and has been consigned to counter-factual history!!

No, German arrogance and political dogma over-rode any great efficiency gifts they had.  :y
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: STEMO on 03 January 2019, 11:51:28
So much for German efficiency  ;D

It's a shame we couldn't have a bit more of that German efficiency to remodel the East end again., Would probably upset somebody's human rights.

It is because of German inefficiency, arrogance, and plain stupidity, that they failed to take control of Great Britain, and Russia for that matter.  If the Luftwaffe had continued to bomb the RAF airfields...If the Kriegsmarine had been able to build hundreds more advanced U-boats instead of building obsolete battleships and battle cruisers............. If the German Sixth Army had been allowed to go straight to Moscow and not be split and diverted...........oh, so many "If's" that thank God never happened and has been consigned to counter-factual history!!

No, German arrogance and political dogma over-rode any great efficiency gifts they had.  :y
We'll never know what might have been. For instance, if Adolf had managed to overrun Europe, would the great America experiment have included Berlin as well as Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: aaronjb on 03 January 2019, 13:08:38
We'll never know what might have been. For instance, if Adolf had managed to overrun Europe, would the great America experiment have included Berlin as well as Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Or, would The Man in the High Castle have been a true historical documentary, rather than a work of fiction.


Incidentally, I don't know what the comparison is really like (I wasn't alive 78 years ago), but it sounded like the bloody blitz here from 11:45 to 01:30am, which meant the dog was going mental with fear all that time  >:( and he got to sleep with us (the manipulative little sod ;D).. or, rather, he got to sleep, and we got to be repeatedly kicked out of the bed by his gangly legs!
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: STEMO on 03 January 2019, 13:29:11
We'll never know what might have been. For instance, if Adolf had managed to overrun Europe, would the great America experiment have included Berlin as well as Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Or, would The Man in the High Castle have been a true historical documentary, rather than a work of fiction.


Incidentally, I don't know what the comparison is really like (I wasn't alive 78 years ago), but it sounded like the bloody blitz here from 11:45 to 01:30am, which meant the dog was going mental with fear all that time  >:( and he got to sleep with us (the manipulative little sod ;D).. or, rather, he got to sleep, and we got to be repeatedly kicked out of the bed by his gangly legs!
Yes. I think that's the main reason that I get upset. It was 3 o'clock before our dog finally stopped shaking.
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Olympia5776 on 03 January 2019, 13:31:24
So much for German efficiency  ;D

It's a shame we couldn't have a bit more of that German efficiency to remodel the East end again., Would probably upset somebody's human rights.

It is because of German inefficiency, arrogance, and plain stupidity, that they failed to take control of Great Britain, and Russia for that matter.  If the Luftwaffe had continued to bomb the RAF airfields...If the Kriegsmarine had been able to build hundreds more advanced U-boats instead of building obsolete battleships and battle cruisers............. If the German Sixth Army had been allowed to go straight to Moscow and not be split and diverted...........oh, so many "If's" that thank God never happened and has been consigned to counter-factual history!!

No, German arrogance and political dogma over-rode any great efficiency gifts they had.  :y

Yeah , well they learned their lesson after two failed attempts to rule Europe ,and beyond, using bombs and bullets .
Now after adopting a more sinister and insidious approach their goal is within grasp via Brussels .
Leopards and spots ........
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: STEMO on 03 January 2019, 13:37:31
So much for German efficiency  ;D

It's a shame we couldn't have a bit more of that German efficiency to remodel the East end again., Would probably upset somebody's human rights.

It is because of German inefficiency, arrogance, and plain stupidity, that they failed to take control of Great Britain, and Russia for that matter.  If the Luftwaffe had continued to bomb the RAF airfields...If the Kriegsmarine had been able to build hundreds more advanced U-boats instead of building obsolete battleships and battle cruisers............. If the German Sixth Army had been allowed to go straight to Moscow and not be split and diverted...........oh, so many "If's" that thank God never happened and has been consigned to counter-factual history!!

No, German arrogance and political dogma over-rode any great efficiency gifts they had.  :y

Yeah , well they learned their lesson after two failed attempts to rule Europe ,and beyond, using bombs and bullets .
Now after adopting a more sinister and insidious approach their goal is within grasp via Brussels .
Leopards and spots ........
Only, this time, the rest of Europe seems willing, if not eager, to accommodate them.
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: aaronjb on 03 January 2019, 13:51:33
Quote
Angela Merkel: Germany will take on more global responsibility

Your lot tried that once twice before, dear. :-X
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 03 January 2019, 15:27:25
So much for German efficiency  ;D

It's a shame we couldn't have a bit more of that German efficiency to remodel the East end again., Would probably upset somebody's human rights.

It is because of German inefficiency, arrogance, and plain stupidity, that they failed to take control of Great Britain, and Russia for that matter.  If the Luftwaffe had continued to bomb the RAF airfields...If the Kriegsmarine had been able to build hundreds more advanced U-boats instead of building obsolete battleships and battle cruisers............. If the German Sixth Army had been allowed to go straight to Moscow and not be split and diverted...........oh, so many "If's" that thank God never happened and has been consigned to counter-factual history!!

No, German arrogance and political dogma over-rode any great efficiency gifts they had.  :y

Yeah , well they learned their lesson after two failed attempts to rule Europe ,and beyond, using bombs and bullets .
Now after adopting a more sinister and insidious approach their goal is within grasp via Brussels .
Leopards and spots ........
Only, this time, the rest of Europe seems willing, if not eager, to accommodate them.


You mean a Fourth Reich sorry, Federation of European [German] States?  Yep, maybe, very possibly as even the French have lost their historical hatred towards the old enemy! :o :o :o ::)
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: TheBoy on 03 January 2019, 17:40:53
So much for German efficiency  ;D

It's a shame we couldn't have a bit more of that German efficiency to remodel the East end again., Would probably upset somebody's human rights.
Just the east end?  Everywhere inside the M25 as a minimum, surely
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 03 January 2019, 18:06:44
Not a lot wrong with that London, apart from quite a few of the people who live there.  :)
Btw, much of the East end has been remodelled in the last decade. Most of it is now hideously expensive and very trendy.
It weren't like this when Ronnie & Reggie were around.  ;D
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: TheBoy on 03 January 2019, 18:09:31
Not a lot wrong with that London, apart from quite a few of the people who live there.  :)
Btw, much of the East end has been remodelled in the last decade. Most of it is now hideously expensive and very trendy.
It weren't like this when Ronnie & Reggie were around.  ;D
Sounds like a good enough reason to nuke it to me...
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 03 January 2019, 18:14:41
Ok, fair enough, you win.  :y ;D
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Bigron on 03 January 2019, 20:09:01
Not a lot wrong with that London, apart from quite a few of the people who live there.  :)
Btw, much of the East end has been remodelled in the last decade. Most of it is now hideously expensive and very trendy.
It weren't like this when Ronnie & Reggie were around.  ;D

Yes Albs, including the school that I went to in Mile End (Coopers), which was redeveloped 3 or 4 years ago into very expensive flats with free parking off-street in what used to be the playground!

Ron.
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 03 January 2019, 20:39:58
Free parking?

In Lundun?

That'll never catch on :o
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Rods2 on 03 January 2019, 20:47:21
Not a lot wrong with that London, apart from quite a few of the people who live there.  :)
Btw, much of the East end has been remodelled in the last decade. Most of it is now hideously expensive and very trendy.
It weren't like this when Ronnie & Reggie were around.  ;D
Sounds like a good enough reason to nuke it to me...

If this wakes you up in Brackley your wish has been granted. :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKwkTYeukE4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKwkTYeukE4)
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Gaffers on 04 January 2019, 12:10:21
Free parking?

In Lundun?

That'll never catch on :o

If you have an electric car you get 4 hours free while your car is plugged in you charge it :y
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Kevin Wood on 04 January 2019, 21:46:48
Free parking?

In Lundun?

That'll never catch on :o

If you have an electric car you get 4 hours free while your car is plugged in you charge it :y

Hmm. <Ponders attaching a socket to the Omega. Doesn't have to be connected to anything.> :y
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: BazaJT on 05 January 2019, 07:30:05
If it's not got one fit a towbar to it then that way you can have two sockets and "charge it" twice ::) ;D
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: dave the builder on 05 January 2019, 12:50:26
Free parking?

In Lundun?

That'll never catch on :o

If you have an electric car you get 4 hours free while your car is plugged in you charge it :y

Hmm. <Ponders attaching a socket to the Omega. Doesn't have to be connected to anything.> :y
worth fitting a bank of deep cycle batteries in the boot ,free parking and free electric for when you get home (run home off batteries) ;D

that will be how it works in another 20 years *

*except the parking and electricity will be very expensive ,not free, and no petrol ICE (except those in museums )  :(

Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: STEMO on 05 January 2019, 12:58:23
Free parking?

In Lundun?

That'll never catch on :o

If you have an electric car you get 4 hours free while your car is plugged in you charge it :y

Hmm. <Ponders attaching a socket to the Omega. Doesn't have to be connected to anything.> :y
worth fitting a bank of deep cycle batteries in the boot ,free parking and free electric for when you get home (run home off batteries) ;D

that will be how it works in another 20 years *

*except the parking and electricity will be very expensive ,not free, and no petrol ICE (except those in museums )  :(
Nah. Albs will still be running his 190 on chip fat in 20 years.
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 05 January 2019, 13:39:13
Free parking?

In Lundun?

That'll never catch on :o

If you have an electric car you get 4 hours free while your car is plugged in you charge it :y

Hmm. <Ponders attaching a socket to the Omega. Doesn't have to be connected to anything.> :y
worth fitting a bank of deep cycle batteries in the boot ,free parking and free electric for when you get home (run home off batteries) ;D

that will be how it works in another 20 years *

*except the parking and electricity will be very expensive ,not free, and no petrol ICE (except those in museums )  :(
Nah. Albs will still be running his 190 on chip fat in 20 years.


He'll be six feet under long before two decades have elapsed.
Title: Re: Fireworks at midnight
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 06 January 2019, 14:21:20
Almost certainly.  :y