Why buy fireworks when you can...

**Sparky Bills** · 5th November 2009, 20:03

Watch your neigbours ones

Im looking out the window and can see 5 different houses letting fireworks off.
I would have headed into town but simply cant be assed with finding a park etc.

So whats the big one called this year?
Theres always a big one that everyone wants, but not everyone can handle such power

**Donor** · 5th November 2009, 20:18

The fambily and I went and spent lots of money for fuck all fireworks today, I have NEVER missed a year!

But the 7 year old and I have just come back in from watching the neighbourhood try and blow themselves up (and I wish the bastards well...) when kiddo quips "So WHY exactly do we need our own dad?"

I had no answer for him, so just clipped him round the lugs (lovingly like) and sent the sod back to bed.

Though it seems the imported stuff is much better quality this year!

**Skyryder** · 5th November 2009, 20:21

Originally Posted by Sparky Bills

Watch your neigbours ones

Im looking out the window and can see 5 different houses letting fireworks off.
I would have headed into town but simply cant be assed with finding a park etc.

So whats the big one called this year?
Theres always a big one that everyone wants, but not everyone can handle such power

Yea but there is nothing like letting off your own. Espeacially if you have kids.

I can still see their eyes 'light' up the first time my two girls saw fireworks in their own back yard. And some sods want to ban them............wowsers.

Skyryder

**MadDuck** · 5th November 2009, 20:26

Originally Posted by Skyryder

And some sods want to ban them............wowsers.

Skyryder

Tell that to the thousands of Volunteer fire fighters around the country at home trying to have a night home with their family.

MadDuck

**portokiwi** · 5th November 2009, 20:28

lol we are doing the same, The son is out with his mates in Wellington,
So we are watching out the window.
Saving our ones for the wedding. Or New Years eve.

**Trudes** · 5th November 2009, 20:28

Went up the hill to watch with about 100 other locals, all of who have no idea about how to fucking drive as we've been sitting in the same spot in a traffic jam. Bastards.

**Sidewinder** · 5th November 2009, 20:30

Originally Posted by Sparky Bills

Watch your neigbours ones

Im looking out the window and can see 5 different houses letting fireworks off.
I would have headed into town but simply cant be assed with finding a park etc.

So whats the big one called this year?
Theres always a big one that everyone wants, but not everyone can handle such power

there was one in slut vally last sat,
my washings still out, no koont better burn it!

**Meanie** · 5th November 2009, 20:38

I havnt brought fireworks for about five years, total waste of money IMO
Kids didnt care and were quite happy to watch out the window for the next couple of years, now they dont even bother

**MadDuck** · 5th November 2009, 20:40

Originally Posted by portokiwi

Saving our ones for the wedding. Or New Years eve.

OMG and I bet they will "BANG" bigger than anyone in Wellington has ever seen before!

**Trudes** · 5th November 2009, 20:41

What really cracked me up was a bunch of teenagers standing in front of us..... Busily texting away instead of watching the thousands of dollars worth of fireworks going off

**Sidewinder** · 5th November 2009, 20:41

Originally Posted by MadDuck

OMG and I bet they will "BANG" bigger than anyone in Wellington has ever seen before!

say there will be a bit of banging that night

**BASS-TREBLE** · 5th November 2009, 21:00

Could just steal $11k worth from the wharehouse...

**CookMySock** · 5th November 2009, 21:03

Make your own with KNO3 and sugar.. its easy..

Steve

**Sidewinder** · 5th November 2009, 21:08

Originally Posted by dangerousbastard

make your own with kno3 and sugar.. Its easy..

Steve

kno3???????????

**Laxi** · 5th November 2009, 21:13

Originally Posted by Sidewinder

kno3???????????

Originally Posted by wikipedia

Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula KNO3. A naturally occurring mineral source of nitrogen, KNO3 constitutes a critical oxidizing component of black powder/gunpowder. In the past it was also used for several kinds of burning fuses, including slow matches. Potassium nitrate readily precipitates from mixtures of salts, and decomposing urine was the main commercial source of the nitrate ion, through various means, from the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern era through the 19th century.

Its common names include saltpetre (saltpeter in American English), from Medieval Latin sal petræ: "stone salt" or possibly "Salt of Petra", nitrate of potash, and nitre (American niter). For specific information about the naturally occurring mineral, see niter. The name Peru saltpetre or Chile saltpetre (American "Peru saltpeter" or "Chile saltpeter") is applied to sodium nitrate, a similar nitrogen compound that is also used in explosives and fertilizers. The major problem of using the cheaper sodium nitrate in gunpowder is its tendency to go damp.

not the easiest thing to get your hands on, unless your a yank of course