Published on 12, July, 2020
What does anyone else think about fireworks? Often people talk about pets. I don't like the very loud ones. I think it must be very difficult for people who have lived in a war zone. I don't remember so many with loud bangs when I was a child, more a whoosh and colourful stars.
I think there could be a limit to the decibels fireworks created so they don't make you jump or traumatize people.
fireworks are awsome
wow so many people :O hotel was smart, I don't think the transport s reliable or something easily planned around that night! I think I can hear the fireworks from my house anyway, and it isn't like I am that close!! Yes we love living around here, being close to the sea is lovely (when it isn't being pumped full of sewage!) and it is eccentric enough a place that I don't ever feel like I am completely out of place
It's unbelievably busy. The population of Lewes is 18K and around 80K attend.
We stayed in a hotel but that's only because there was a last minute cancellation.
The few places to stay are booked up well in advance.
You live in a lovely area of the country.
I lived in Eastbourne for a few years and often visit Brighton.
We visit Lewes quite often too for the antique centres.
The Lewes one is near where I am now, but I still have never gone, because I hear it is very very supppper busy (I mean I feel like most of Brighton and areas around head on over, so doesn't sound like my idea of a good and non crowded time!)
I was born in 1962.
When I was a child in Portsmouth there were still bomb sites (and a total absence of health and safety regulations).
The bomb sites were left over from WWII (Portsmouth was heavily bombed).
I lived in the poorest neighbourhood, Landport, and all the streets around would build a huge bonfire from anything and everything over the months on a bomb site and then on November 5th light it and take their own fireworks along.
Nowadays, I like seeing fireworks but don't like hearing them.
A few years ago I went to the Lewes celebrations.
Fantastic, chaotic, anarchic, total sensory overload.
It is conflicting for me as I love looking at them but the sound is a complete no (well it would be ok if again it was like 'these fireworks will be here for this set time and that is all' and then I could probably watch a display -from far back as I also have a fear of being in the crowds, especially if something were to go wrong - and have my earplugs and headphones on) but they are all the time, and sometimes just one or 2 when it is barely even dark so how am I supposed to know a massive bang is going to happen whilst I am doing something in the garden for example. My cats don't like them either. Wish only the silent or really quiet ones were allowed, or only on specific days.
I hate fireworks they really frighten me and the constant banging is distressing and irritating, really plays up my tinnitus and it's not just for a bit they go on all night. It upsets a lot of animals as well I've read. I always put on my headphones and try to drown them out but it doesn't work very well, they're just too loud.
Too true! Some idiot is letting some noisy ones off right now as I type this. Fortunately they don't bother my cat who is fast asleep beside me.
The days have gone when fireworks were only heard around 5 November. At least that was predictable and you knew it would end soon.
Yes yes yes! On all of those points! I sign a slew of petitions every year but nothing changes! I checked the law and they are allowed to be as loud as a thunderclap, which I think is too much, it ought to be less as that is technically loud enough to damage hearing! I stay in, but they are on so many different evenings now that I got caught out between the car and the house one time and it was horrific! They ought to lower the legal sound by at least 10db, though I would prefer they banned the wretched things altogether.
I did see an ad for quiet fireworks. I hope they catch on, but for me it's not just the sound though that is bad, it is the fire risk and potential for misuse.