Stanhope gives backyard fireworks one last chance

haha to Gungahlin Al, drinks skinny flat and skinny cap.

poof.

Yeah … dogs absolutely go OFF at hot-air balloons, and those things are very very quiet. Ban them. And ARSPCA expert says NOT to coddle your dog when its scared shitless during cracker night, because they think – oh, how the hell do they know what dogs think? Oh, yeah. They hate terrorists.

Fireworks can be used in acts of terrorism.

Al, all ships arrive at a destination. Some make it to port, others are wrecked upon rocks. It’s largely up to the Captain to determine a final resting place.

Nothing wrong with port, except I guess for the ‘left’ connotation. I do remember a scotch by the name of Starboard, but I think it may have had alternative uses as a grease remover and anti-freeze, perhaps even a fireworks ingredient (he says in a half hearted attempt to get back to the topic).

“The chattering classes” can go into the bucket with the rest of the Howard-isms. How about just saying “whinging lefties”, it’s a perfectly fine version.

Besides which, the biggest whining lefties I know live in Waniassa…

Must make me a ship without a port hey Troy? 🙂

Did someone say port? mmmm

Cool, so we drop the tag “chardonnay sipping, latte-drinking socialists. I’m happy to use another descriptor if people can come up with one for the chattering classes consuming beverages in Manuka.

Al, a Chippocrat perhaps? I’m not a fan of chardonnay at all and being the simple soul that I am a straight-forward coffee will do.

My dog is not a fan of thunderstorms, crackers, little athletics or hot air balloons and will try to let herself in through my back door when these are close. Hence my back door looks like a large dog has scratched the crap out of it.

Leave the crackers alone. I don’t see anyone calling for the banning of hot air ballons or little A – thunderstorms are worse and more frequent than crackers.

It’s the whole penalise the masses for the actions of a few – I’m not a fan of it.

Now Troy, are you trying to tell us you do NOT drink chardy or coffee? Or is it only the proportion of milk one has in their coffee that governs their degree of left-leaningness? Perhaps the cab-savs and straight black espresso now represent the other end of the continuum?

(Skinny flat or cap, and either red or white, with leaning towards sweeter drops, here. Wonder where that drops my politics?)

On topic and preselection positioning aside: cracker night is embeddeed in my childhood memories of Canberra, and I love sharing it now with my children. There are prats around that blow a few night’s sleep for the rest of us, but it’s the bigger picture that’s more important here. Leave cracker night alone.

Hey Troy, I agree entirely with the second sentence of your comment, but would it be possible to ditch the glib Young Lib lines such as chardonnay sipping, latte-drinking socialists?

It’s so Howard-era.

It’s ironic that chardonnay sipping, latte-drinking socialists want to free terrorists but ban everything else. Fireworks used responsibly rock!

I like dogs, cats and fireworks – my pets are not bothered.

FB, my dog LOVES fireworks!!

I say ban dogs and keep the fireworks. 😉

I read an interesting study/article once on the whole issue of dogs being frightened of fireworks. Unfortunately I can’t remember where I read it so I can’t source it.

Basically the study found that most dogs who are “scared” when fireworks are let off are not actually scared of the fireworks, rather they are picking up on their owners being scared for them. It went on to say that most people with ‘Scared’ dogs pandered to them and constantly soothed them making the dog think there was something wrong.

Now I don’t know how accurate that may be but from my experience it seems valid. I have several friends who have dogs and on fireworks night they are out the back yard running around with the kids having a good ol time. I have another friend who is convinced her dog is going to have a heart attack, so when fireworks go off she sits in the dark in the quietest corner of her house reassuring her dog who does nothing but whimper.

My dad had a farm near Bredbo & he always had dogs (at least 20 over the years) and they would have BIG fireworks nights there and invite everyone from all over. I never once saw a dog get scared.

Food for thought

^Now that is a mindlessly violent show. Why doesn’t anyone ever complain about it?

lets just ban fun all together, actually lets become communist!

I propose a further list of things to ban.

– Kitchen knives, because they’re sharp.
– Bath-tubs, because idiots might drown.
– Bicycles, because people might fall off.
– Video Games, because it is difficult to determine whether a blood-soaked marine is a violent or family-friendly image.
– Television, because you may be exposed to sex if you lose the remote.
– Sex, because it’s not family-friendly. Unless you’re a royal.
– Fast food, because Fatty McBoom-boom thinks it’s healthy.
– All food, because you can’t trust companies to tell you which food is healthy.
– Windows, because burglars may enter your house through them.
– Doors, because you may forget to lock them.
– Roofs, because they may come off in a hurricane.
– Walls, because they stop you from seeing what your neighbors are doing.
– Floors, because you could hurt your head if you fall off the bed.
– Beds, see above. May also cause sex.
– Nudity, because the human body is horrible and unnatural.
– Clothes, because they may cause rape.
– Children, because fluffy might maul them.
– People, because they may scare fluffy.

I’m losing track here…

Some people aren’t happy unless they have something to complain about. I like the idea of family and friends in the back yard or local park on cracker night. Prefer that to being down the lake with the drunken f wits gee great enviroment for the kiddies. What ever happened to give your dog a pat or spending time with it if it’s a bit stressy! Already lost bonfires what next? removing childhood memories through surgery. Maybe your grandchild will ask you one day “gran whats fun” and you’ll have to say that it was something we used to have but we gave it up because we were too softcocked to stand up for ourselves.

Oh – this has been done before, but there’s a bloke in Holt who can propel an orange about 2.5 clicks with his orange gun.

Think about that for a mo.

He’ll not be affected at all by changing the legislation, and more will attempt to replicate him in the abscence of fireworks.

Personally, I’d like to see him target something useful, like Stanhope’s house or the Legislative Assembly – just to prove that banning fireworks will not stop a booner being a booner.

I work next to our Internet Nazis, who still worry about our friend Troy.

Coke and mentos. I say no more but you’ll find a heap of nice clips on youtube.

For those with internet nazi’s, well worth a look when you get home.

The ACT government and RSPCA should put penalties on those people who lost their dogs or cats during the Queen’s Birthday long weekend for their ignorance, instead of ban fireworks. Commonsense, you know fireworks are coming every time of the year. Why would you be stupid enough to let your dogs out and whining about it afterwards?

Fireworks R Fun!

The worst aspect of the firecracker debate is that we have to see that annoying guy from the RSPCA whining all the time about the rights of dogs.
Wont someone at the RSPCA lock him up in a cage to shut him up?

& re: cats…exactly! F**k the cats. If people are so concerned about animal safety..they’d kill their cats.

Comment by justbands — 15 February, 2008 @ 12:33 pm

Yep. It’s okay to let your cat out and destroy native species.

You make some good points, and I agree with everything you said. Society has become insane. It would be stupid to ban them because of some kill-joy’s who like to live in glass houses and live a lame and boring life.

Go and live in NSW if you don’t like Fireworks. Let somewhere else become a boring shit hole.

How about a cat riding a recumbent bicycle whilst smoking a cigarette?

Well, you do have to be a pussy to ride a recumbent bicycle.

Banning idiots might be easier.

I fear to imagine how a cat riding a recumbent bicycle would be treated on the Riotact!

sparkler powder, bottles and cats would be a better combo

> nd i will doubtless win any friends here

Actually, you’ve won me. I fully agree. I own a dog…I keep him inside for a few nights each year. On no!

& re: cats…exactly! F**k the cats. If people are so concerned about animal safety..they’d kill their cats.

As someone who has put up with ACT commercial fireworks, the Territory Day celebrations in regional NT with fireworks sourced from small domestic operations and other non-local sources, the ACT bans mostly serve to tick off the fireworks producers, and further shift the profits more to the wholesale supply end than the retailer.
But an actual ban will put them out of business except for whatever annual Government bread-and-circuses Standope wantst o put on.

And I’ve also seen enough NSW and QLD people with ACT sourced fireworks months after the event to know that even the current bans aren’t working.

You can always make your own fireworks with sparkler powder and glass Coke bottles. Muahahaha!

Amen!

That’s one top-notch spray!