Fireworks?

[Bo’sunParticipant @bosun58570]

Good morning,

I was pottering around the garden yesterday, and came across half a dozen or so small stone like things around 3/4″ dia. x 1/2″ thick.  Has anyone any idea what they might be?  I suspect, after the weekends shenanigans, they’re firework debris.

They resembled aerated concrete (pale grey colour and texture).  Heavier than “Celcon”, but lighter than brick.  If they’d come down on a car, or more importantly someone’s head, the result wouldn’t be pleasant.

I did wonder if they might be unburnt fireworks, just as I’m thinking about mowing the lawn.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

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[PlasmaParticipant @plasma]

Not seen anything like that myself from fireworks,  usually plastic debris and sky rocket bodies etc.

But they could be some kind if wadding material for fireworks.

The perennial deluge of complaints about fireworks has come again. Personally I don’t mind bonfire night, although the bonfires of my childhood have been replaced by purely fireworks parties.

But the clue is in the name, bonfire night, not bonfire week, or month or season. We had fireworks on Halloween, all the way to Nov 5th and it will be on and off now until new year.

There was a piece in the news about a fireworks dealer saying he needs to make a living year round so he’s all for baby showers, weddings and gender reveals being celebrated with explosives.

I’m pretty sure that if some terrorist used his head and realised that we sell actual explosives on the high street he would not bother messing with chapati flour and hair bleach to create a big bang. Just buy boxes of fireworks and use the gunpowder to make the big bang he desires. If that happens you can bet fireworks will get banned in moments.

As an aside, does anyone actually consider the emissions of all the explosives we let off worldwide?  I mean, we look at air travel, fossil fuels, burning rain forests, even cows trumping…but ton upon ton of military grade munitions go unmentioned. I know they kill people immediately,  but if I have to use a non polluting, eco friendly, recyclable, zero carbon toilet roll, then surely the military should be made to go back to basics and reissue the sword and bow and arrow.

 

[Alan JacksonParticipant @alanjackson47790]

(As an aside, does anyone actually consider the emissions of all the explosives we let off worldwide? I mean, we look at air travel, fossil fuels, burning rain forests, even cows trumping…but ton upon ton of military grade munitions go unmentioned. I know they kill people immediately, but if I have to use a non polluting, eco friendly, recyclable, zero carbon toilet roll, then surely the military should be made to go back to basics and reissue the sword and bow and arrow.)

The military etc will have even greater difficulty in modern Britain, No steelworks and no Energy see this

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

 

[noel shelleyParticipant @noelshelley55608]

Clay plugs from the base of the cardboard tubes ? Noel.

[Plasma]

On Plasma Said:

 

But the clue is in the name, bonfire night, not bonfire week, or month or season. We had fireworks on Halloween, all the way to Nov 5th and it will be on and off now until new year.

Bear in mind that Diwali falls around the same time as bonfire night, and is celebrated with fireworks. But it’s based on the lunar calendar – like Easter – so doesn’t fall on a specific date.

[Alan Jackson]

On Alan Jackson Said:

As an aside, does anyone actually consider the emissions of all the explosives we let off worldwide?

Of course, in the Telegraph to-day.

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