Call for ban on Chinese lanterns

“"I'd be interested in hearing from anybody who has managed to set fire to anything with a conker."

I set fire to one once. We as kids used to bake the conker in an oven to make it 'unbeatable'. My mother wasn't too pleased when she returned home to see the mess!

Incidentally, I would like to know how many kids were blinded by playing conkers, before the PC brigade made sure kids were issued with goggles?”

“wthiwwp....

Conkers and chinese lanterns are the same ?

I'd be interested in hearing from anybody who has managed to set fire to anything with a conker.

Mikelister66....good point but I very much doubt it”

“@Keith_C I'm sure that your childhood development wasn't in anyway changed by the fact no one told you to stop doing things??? did someone tell you to not play conkers because of the mess it leaves in the street? and its exactly the same as making a lantern and watching it fly you string your conker and then smash it!!! its the same!!!!! and by the way the wire frames are not a danger to birdlife for 2 reasons: they break down quickly when exposed outside and the fact they have very little wire in them!!!!!!”

“There is something terribly wrong with this country,
people are giving away their freedoms to those who want to feel power over others,
Why do we do this?
why Don't we address the real issue, that everyone needs to accept their own responsibilities; you pay or get paid for the things you do in life if you break it you bought it, if we addressed this issue there wouldn't be people trying to ban everything. oh and if you want to ban something as benign as paper lanterns why not yoyo's, walking in the countryside, picnics, visiting the beach???!!!”

“I assume these groups are calling for a ban on the much more dangerous firework too?”

“THey are not chinese at all.”

“Ban Ban Ban...more PC rubbish to clutter our lives with!”

“Why dont we actually ask the Chinese their advise? After-all they have been setting them go for centuries now.”

“is it just me or do they only come down when the fire is out, hench no more hot sir which alot of people on this page seem to be blowing, if you want to be enviromental why not stop all these farmers driving gas guzzling vehices!”

“OK fair enough, everybody has their own opinion. All I'm saying is why ban something that brings people of all ages together each year when you could buy a make it yourself pack (creativity) from a shop which is both safe and environmentally friendly? What would be such a huge problem about that?”