Crash, bang, wallop - what a banger !!**!!

Now, on the whole I'm pretty much a 'live and let live' kinda gal.  Except where 'consideration for other people' interferes with my bonhomie and that's when my aptitude for moaning springs to the fore.  So, I have no objection whatsoever to people standing out in the cold firing up their very expensive and very noisy fireworks (they seem to get louder every year), if that's what makes them happy but ........... WHY do they do it at 11pm when people are thinking about retiring for the night???   Eh??  Grrrrrrrr.....