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thanks for the advice, i will try to get some ear plugs before monday

Sally,
if able to buy over internet [or know someone who can] -can recommend these:
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These are extremely soft effective ear plugs and work great,it's unfortunate that idea has only come around now,as would have sent a spare pair-they are in their own little clear plastic bags within the main plastic bag itself-have a bag full of them at home,due to sister getting a bag full for am as a present,due to taking hers before.

although,not sure if they would come in time for bonfire night,for non internet shops,boots might be only major place open?
they've not got good earplugs-some very rough scratching sponge ones,some plastic ones and some hard wax ones-it depends on personal touch sensitivity though and it's worth trying them out in hands-in whatever shop end up in.

I love them, but they have to be ordered. I find comfort in order of most things. I can accept and enjoy fireworks that take place from 10-11PM, for example, but if I hear them going off randomly over a period of hours or days, I get edgy due to the unpredictability. Fortunately I live in an area where it isn't much of a problem. And around the 4th of July, I can handle a few days of it without issue.

I hate exploding fireworks and anything else that make loud, abrupt noises.

My earplug of choice is Flents Quiet Time - noise reduction factor of 33. They're purple foam and work great. I've come to this preference after having used Macks green foam earplugs for several years. The Flents are longer than the Macks, which makes them easier to use.

I've melted down because of them since early childhood. Nobody but terror victims and you seem to get the sheer horror of them...

I don't deal with them. I simply do whatever I can not to die while they go off.

I don't mind them... I hate them but if you get used to them they're ok... we let some off in the park next door to my friends house but the sparks spread out and bounced off the window of a flat

I find it morbidly amusing that in an era of health and safety facism on almost every aspect of working life (risk assesments on changing lightbulbs?? wtf?? If I couldnt safely change a lightbulb on my own then I'd have been sat in the dark for a decade.)
it is still possible throughout the latter half of the year (and increasingly throughout due to the upsurge in newer festivals etc) to walk into a corner shop or supermarket, or even a specialist store, and utilising only a simple form of ID prove that you are 18, and subsequently purchase vast amounts of explosives.

It is eminently possible to gather enough fireworks together to demolish a phonebox, or open up a transit van like a can of sardines, or maim and kill random people, create nailbombs, or ignite houses, and all with perfectly legally purchased goods, that involve exactly no skill to work. Yes, you can make a bomb with kitchen items, but you have to have half a brain to do it. Or you can walk into Tesco and set yourself up with an effective ton of hi-explosive. Any monkey can do it.

As far as I'm concerned, if we arent allowed to buy firearms, we shouldnt be allowed to buy fireworks either.

And if any random street urchin tries to lob one at me, I'm going to ram the next one up his ass and light it for him. (They do that here all the time. Sounds like a Beirut evening at the moment.)