Its Cracker Night... or it was.

[manly al]

Used to be in early November in my regional North Queensland area here and always a highlight in the year. { Maybe the local authorities here just wanted to be a little different with the event timing ]

 

[Clint]

Let's all head up.....

We have 5 acres at Humpty Doo. All welcome 😉

 

[Clint]

And just to rub it in southerners I've caught a 5.2 kilo blue bone at the boat ramp this morning, had a dip in the pool. And....


The crackers now days are amazing!

You supply the fish TEE and I'll supply the crackers 😉

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

My two memories of crackers.

1) staying the weekend in town at my mates place , sneaking around and blowing up letterboxes ......stupid but fun.

2) taking my kids to the last cracker night before they banned them, and watching the lot go up in about 15 seconds because some dick head threw his cigarette butt in the big box ........dangerous as all hell ,bungers and rockets going in all directions , kids crying, mums screaming, dads pissing themselves!!

 

[NYEagle]

I liked harrassing people with throwdowns.
That's how we learned to dance in the South West of Sydney in the 70's.
NYEagle

 

[midsteyne]

Yes for those of us fossils who remember tonight was cracker night...
Catherine wheels, sky rockets,thunders , bangers etc.
All up about two weeks of build up to this event. Building bon fires ( setting light to other people's early).
My day was playing footy in the morning, playing with mates till 5 then watching last Sunday's replay of countdown and the Saturday footy replay on the ABC.
Then BOOM.......
Showtime.
And trying to nick some of dads KB cans undetected.
Gold.. cold gold !!!

nothing funnier than a couple of tuppenny bungers taped up and destroying letterboxes

 

[manly al]

Always used to create a good laugh when some bungers used to go off in my country town"s picture theatre during cracker week and could you imagine the reaction to a similar practice in these current times .

 

[Chip and Chase]

Visits to the school toilet block around cracker night were fraught with danger. No danger of constipation in those days, as 2 or 3 bungers would come sliding under the cubicle door.

 

[Bradza]

nothing funnier than a couple of tuppenny bungers taped up and destroying letterboxes

Yeah, except if it was your letterbox. Little fxxxxxs.......

 

[Harvies elbow]

I wasn't much into blowing things up I pretty much just enjoyed the occasion except.......

On the very last cracker night we were walking to a nightclub at parramatta of all places when one of the boys pulls out a pocket full of bungers.
He creeps onto the verandah of this house full of westies/bogans ( I was hoping to Christ they weren't bikies) and throws them straight into the lounge room.
It sounded like a shootout had erupted but we did the bolt ( lucky we were all pretty quick from footy) chased by what looked like the cast of Deliverance for as long as they could.
Shouldn't have done it and wouldn't like it done to me but....
It was one of the funniest sights I have ever seen.

 

[globaleagle]

I hated cracker night.

We were so poor my Dad made me be our mailbox.

I was always so sore the next day.

🙁

 

[OneEyedEagle]

Throwdown fights were always a schoolyard lunchtime activity around this time of year.

Throwdowns (soft #$%^) Maaawh More like Roman Candle fights 🙂

 

[Dan]

The Dutch still donut at least kind of, for a fortnight leading up to New Years it sounds like a war zone in Amsterdam.

Here is someone who sounds not so Dutch but trying to put on a Dutch accent explaining just how much they love fireworks....70 billion.

If you don't remember or you have never heard of it, look up the "enschede firework disaster" it's a town in the east of the country when you go there in the middle of the town there are a mixture of old and new buildings and you can see where they patched up all the buildings

 

[Chip and Chase]

Throwdowns (soft #$%^) Maaawh More like Roman Candle fights 🙂

Gee mate what sort of school did you go to ? Roman Candle fights at lunchtime, that's hardcore. We had to wait till after school for that.

 

[bob dylan]

Cracker Night use to be on Empire Day on 24 May.

Then was moved to June long weekend.

 

[Dan]

This year on New Years we spent about 500 euro between two of us for a huge display was great fun

 

[Harvies elbow]

The Dutch still donut at least kind of, for a fortnight leading up to New Years it sounds like a war zone in Amsterdam.

Here is someone who sounds not so Dutch but trying to put on a Dutch accent explaining just how much they love fireworks....70 billion.

If you don't remember or you have never heard of it, look up the "enschede firework disaster" it's a town in the east of the country when you go there in the middle of the town there are a mixture of old and new buildings and you can see where they patched up all the buildings

That dude sounds like a 'Dutch' Kermit.

 

[voicefromthehill]

My two memories of crackers.

1) staying the weekend in town at my mates place , sneaking around and blowing up letterboxes ......stupid but fun.

2) taking my kids to the last cracker night before they banned them, and watching the lot go up in about 15 seconds because some dick head threw his cigarette butt in the big box ........dangerous as all hell ,bungers and rockets going in all directions , kids crying, mums screaming, dads pissing themselves!!

Did you give up smoking after that?
😉

 

[OneEyedEagle]

Gee mate what sort of school did you go to ? Roman Candle fights at lunchtime, that's hardcore. We had to wait till after school for that.

The school of hard knocks C&C, we used to drink a cup of concrete to toughen up 🙂

 

[MissKate]

Used to be in early November in my regional North Queensland area here and always a highlight in the year. { Maybe the local authorities here just wanted to be a little different with the event timing ]

Maybe you were following the UK tradition of Guy Fawkes night on 5th November