A call to ban the sale of fireworks

[Stirts]

I'm sick of this lowest common denominator bullshit. Your logic is a good reason to get rid of motorcycles, booze, churches, and cyclists.

I like the churches bit, solves the "ambulance at the bottom of the cliff", after all God must love stupid people, he created them all.

[Katman]

So what the fuck happened to taking some personal responsibility for your actions? I was always brought up to take responsibility for my own actions, and to man up and admit a fuck up if I make one, rather than blame everything on society allowing the sale of fireworks/alcohol etc.

Hey, if fucking little shitheads (and the retarded parents that spawned them) won't take personal responsibility for their actions then they can hardly complain if society instead solves the problem by banning it.

[SMOKEU]

Hey, if fucking little shitheads (and the retarded parents that spawned them) won't take personal responsibility for their actions then they can hardly complain if society instead solves the problem by banning it.

Then why not hold those individual trouble makers responsible, rather than punishing the majority for the actions of a minority? It seems to be exactly the same concept as liquor ban areas.

[Banditbandit]

You may well know that.....

The majority on here wouldn't have a fucking clue what Guy Fawkes 'celebrations' are actually celebrating though.

(And you need some work on your "witty repartee".)

No-one "celebrates" Guy Fawkes Day at my house - we have a memorial service for a fine man who attempted to blow up the ruling classes - fine intentions ...

(And I'm not gay so I don't have to work on Whiti Repati at all ...)

[Banditbandit]

Hey, if fucking little shitheads (and the retarded parents that spawned them) won't take personal responsibility for their actions then they can hardly complain if society instead solves the problem by banning them.

There .. fixed it for you

[husaberg]

I thought the Katman was already fixed.
He just wants to be able to go out on Guy Fawkes and not see the banging, cause it upsets him.

[swbarnett]

Hey, if fucking little shitheads (and the retarded parents that spawned them) won't take personal responsibility for their actions then they can hardly complain if society instead solves the problem by banning it.

Yes, but the rest of us can. Besides, the problem is hardly solved. Far from it. All you've done is mask it so that it crops up later with even greater consequences.

[Katman]

Yes, but the rest of us can. Besides, the problem is hardly solved. Far from it. All you've done is mask it so that it crops up later with even greater consequences.

In the meantime we'll have gotten rid of backyard fireworks though.

That's progress in itself.

[swbarnett]

In the meantime we'll have gotten rid of backyard fireworks though.

That's progress in itself.

Hardly progress. The fireworks are not the problem. If you get rid of them the little shits of which you speak will find some other mischief to get up to.


And, meanwhile, the rest of us will have had yet another freedom removed. Can anyone say "boiling frog"?

[Katman]

No-one "celebrates" Guy Fawkes Day at my house - we have a memorial service for a fine man who attempted to blow up the ruling classes - fine intentions ...

(Perhaps you're just deliberately trying to be dense)....

They weren't attempting to "blow up the ruling classes" they were attempting to blow up one person and replace him with another member of the "ruling classes".

[Swoop]

Make the sale ONLY permissible from R-18 Adult shops AND only in the mid-winter (Winter solstice celebrations perhaps?).
Solves both issues. Little fire risk and less people will be brave enough to walk past the Giga-dong with vibrating options display.

Then again, sex toy sales might skyrocket!

[Stirts]

Make the sale ONLY permissible from R-18 Adult shops AND only in the mid-winter (Winter solstice celebrations perhaps?).
Solves both issues. Little fire risk and less people will be brave enough to walk past the Giga-dong with vibrating options display.

Then again, sex toy sales might skyrocket!

A Double Happy Vibrator

Did a google search - seems someone's already done it...

[swbarnett]

A bit of clarity.

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605:

"The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state."

So, yes, it was an attempt to blow up parliament but had nothing to do with eliminating the "ruling classes".

[Banditbandit]

(Perhaps you're just deliberately trying to be dense)....

They weren't attempting to "blow up the ruling classes" they were attempting to blow up one person and replace him with another member of the "ruling classes".

In the prossess of blowing up one person they would have blown up the members of parliament as well ...

I like to look at the big picture ..

And haven't all revolutions removed one member of the ruling elite and rerplaced them with another ??? Isn't that why they have failed and why anarchists think those revolutionaries are just full of shit ???

And fuck - you're so fucking serious .. lighten up .. or is that light up ...

SIng with me now - to the The Pink Panther tune

Pedant Pedant Pedant Pedant Pedant ...

[Katman]

A bit of clarity.

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605:

"The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state."

So, yes, it was an attempt to blow up parliament but had nothing to do with eliminating the "ruling classes".

I suppose it depends which history book you read.

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.