Fire…works!
November 6th, 2005 at 02:35

As I’ve previously hinted at, I went to a fireworks party tonight, and it was dead good.

Now, I know in the past I’ve ranted about how pirate themed things are in very poor taste, suggesting that it’s like people in the future glorifying terrorists- but we needn’t wait! We were celebrating an attempted attack by some “Catholist” (not Catholic) extremists on the British establishment, like we had no shame. I’m also aware that I’m a hypocrit.

Incidentally- my point about pirates was proved last night, when my sister Lucy went to a “pirate themed” party, organised by her school’s “social comittee“- only for there to have been a pirate incident that could have turned nasty today! Surely she could be arrested under the new anti-terror laws?

But anyway- we were celebrating a terrorist attacks in the best way we knew how – with fire and light explosives.

We had quite a lot of fireworks – and luckily, I’d bought with me a lot of lighters. Long story short: I bought 50 lighters from eBay for cheap long ago, and spent an evening sticking “James O’Malley Official Lighter” stickers on them.

All the fireworks went off with a bang – apart from the screaming ones, and the ones that stay on the ground and cause a bit of a fuss. Scarily, some of the fireworks that JD had bought with him were damp- meaning that when they detonated, they flew into the air a little bit, before falling back to earth, and exploding just before we hit the ground. We sort of hid inside, and watched with amazement as Heggs ran back to no-mans-land to extinguish whatever was left.

My fireworks, however, were slightly more disappointing- I had some minature rockets, which flew a few feet into the air and gave up. “Hooray!”, I cheered in vain.

It was all really good, though, and I had a lovely time drinking ice cold Coke through a straw. Oh, and seeing my friends and that.

Comments(3)

1. The French
   November 6th, 2005 at 1:33 pm

   You do realise that Bonfire night is celebrating the capture, brutal torture, and execution of the terrorists, not celebrating their attack? We burn a Guy, as in, Guy Fawkes, as in Guido Fawkes, the Catholic leader of the plot to blow up parliament. Ie. its not like cheering for T.W.a.T, its like cheering for Guantanamo Bay….

2. The French
   November 6th, 2005 at 1:33 pm

   9/11, not the war on terror, sorry.

3. James O’Malley… Living Legend » Presenting: Heather
   December 27th, 2005 at 5:35 pm

   [...] Next up was a bit of a gamble. I’d got every photo I could find of the two of us printed properly at a Klick photoprint store- onto glossy paper and everything. I’d then assembled them into a photo album that was so cleverly thought out that on every right hand page was a picture of us together (at a fireworks party, my 18th, and so on), and on the left hand page a related image of one of us or something completely irrelevant. Like me and Kilroy, again. I think this was well receieved! Hooray! [...]

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