Bommie night!!

[Soldier_Of_The_White_Army]

Like most weddings or family BBQ's, you will be hard pressed to find a bonfire night without a complete moron who will now know more then anyone else. So who is yours?

Who is the guy/gal who insists on lighting every firework with special emphasis to the Catherine Wheel because he/she had a day's fire safety presentation as part of there firms Health and Safety code?

Anyone got any examples of complete stupidity or unnecessary bravardo?

[plodder]

I did see a clip, one of those funny video websites where a bloke lit a banger in his arse. Obviously he bottled it Went with a hell of a bang.

For me it was always the fight to find the best centre-pole. Obviously a telegraph pole is the dogs bollock, but guttering and banisters were also very good.

[Gertie]

I was at a bonfire party up in Cumbria at the weekend. After all the fireworks had gone off we picked up all the rubbish and chucked it on the bommie. Where we then alerted to the 1 unexploded firework that set off in the fire, cue us all legging it in totally random directions, very very amusing.

[CrazyHorse]

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Went to the display at Leverhulme Park tonight. A pack of pissed up chavs started play fighting with each other during the fireworks which, while mildly annoying was also kind of funny.

Until they got wound up and nasty with each other.

Small kids everywhere, and they're effin and jeffin top note, throwing punches and pushing each around other right behind me and the family. Dickheads.

[hisroyalgingerness]

dude that's some bump after 2 years

[CrazyHorse]

dude that's some bump after 2 years

[Batman]

off to a doo tomorrow night (you need to tell the missus who is boss HRG and come up).

Excited in a 'cant be arsed now but probs will tomoz' kind of way

[hisroyalgingerness]

i'm actually gonna go to one this year. not done one for about 3 years. not since batty told us preston grasshoppers was a 5 min walk from his house.

30 min stroll later we makes it into his local in time for last orders and the end of the freddy mercury impersonator. some skinny guy with fake tash, nosey high pitched voice and the best hi-tech trainers i've seen in years

[jmjhb]

Worst night of the year.

[hisroyalgingerness]

Worst night of the year.

yr kidding you haven't seen wigan on boxing day

[Batman]

i'm actually gonna go to one this year. not done one for about 3 years. not since batty told us preston grasshoppers was a 5 min walk from his house.

30 min stroll later we makes it into his local in time for last orders and the end of the freddy mercury impersonator. some skinny guy with fake tash, nosey high pitched voice and the best hi-tech trainers i've seen in years

5mins in an F1 car maybe

[Soldier_Of_The_White_Army]

When did I start this bleedin thread!!

[officer_dibble]

i had a sparkler once when i were a young 'un, it went out and i grabbed the other end to see if it was hot....ouch

[chris]

I'm going to watch this display this year.
http://www.tarbarrels.co.uk/


On some official trips, you have to sign forms saying noone can be held responsible if you die.

[Batman]

Ottery St. Mary is internationally renowned for its Tar Barrels, an old custom said to have originated in the 17th century, and which is held on November 5th each year. Each of Ottery'scentral public houses sponsors a single barrel. In the weeks prior to the day of the event, November 5th, the barrels are soaked with tar. The barrels are lit outside each of the pubs in turn and once the flames begin to pour out, they are hoisted up onto local people's backs and shoulders. The streets and alleys around the pubs are packed with people, all eager to feel the lick of the barrels flame. Seventeen Barrels all in all are lit over the course of the evening. In the afternoon and early evening there are women's and boy's barrels, but as the evening progresses the barrels get larger and by midnight they weigh at least 30 kilos. A great sense of camaraderie exists between the 'Barrel Rollers', despite the fact that they tussle constantly for supremacy of the barrel. In most cases, generations of the same family carry the barrels and take great pride in doing so. It perpetuates Ottery St Mary's great sense of tradition, of time and of history. Opinion differs as to the origin of this festival of fire, but the most widely accepted version is that it began as a pagan ritual that cleanses the streets of evil spirits. It is an incredible night to remember - one of the biggest bonfires in the South West is ignited on the banks of the River Otter and behind it are the flashing neon's of the annual fun fair.

sounds a bit 'Wicker Man' for me

not enough

[enfieldwhite]

I lived in Astley Bridge in the '80's

We collected some bommie wood and piled it up on some waste ground in preparation for Bommie night. Some bigger kids decided to light it two days before.

My dad (when we told him what was happening) put on his toe-capped boots, walked down to the waste ground, walked into the middle of the fire and proceeded to kick the fire out and over said older kids.

What he said next will stay with me forever. He said '' if you touch or go near this wood again I'll rip your balls off and stuff 'em down your fu**ing throats''

My dad is my hero.

[blurred]

Off to Sefton Park on Monday as per usual. Always a great display there, last ages and probably costs a fortune. Great standing out there, although it's a shame they've moved it from the lake as the reflections on that used to be amazing

[Batman]

Went to Preston Grasshoppers last year as it's just down the road (:)) paid a fiver to get in. Great display.

This time think I'll just stand outside and watch from the road and save a fiver.

[malcd1]

Like most weddings or family BBQ's, you will be hard pressed to find a bonfire night without a complete moron who will now know more then anyone else. So who is yours?

Who is the guy/gal who insists on lighting every firework with special emphasis to the Catherine Wheel because he/she had a day's fire safety presentation as part of there firms Health and Safety code?

Anyone got any examples of complete stupidity or unnecessary bravardo?

[warthog]

A few years ago, I took my sister's kids to a bonfire. We'd found what I thought was a good place - a sensible distance from the fire, where we could watch the fireworks, but the youngest who was in a push chair kept complaining that she didn't like it there. No reason given, she just didn't.

I gave in and we moved somewhere else. About thirty seconds later, an oxygen cylinder, which some nobber had put on the fire, exploded showering debris everywhere. A large piece of shrapnel landed exactly where the pram had been.