Wow!

[vilakins]

It's not official yet it's official, wow. Sometimes you get what you hope for!

There will be fireworks here tonight, but not because of today's result, but someone's attempt to blow up a foreign parliament a couple of centuries ago. I have no idea why we celebrate this, especially now it's just an excuse for drunken idiocy with explosives, but for once I'll take the house-rocking bangs as being joyful and actually relevant.

Our elections are this Saturday, but as we have several parties which form coalitions, it won't be as quick to call.

Comments

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's been very, very official for nearly an hour. The concession speech is in.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I just saw that! :-D

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

I think I speak for both our nations when I say:

THANK BLOODY FUCKING CHRIST THEY DIDN'T COCK IT UP THIS TIME!!!!!!

XD

[the-summoning-d.livejournal.com]

WELL FUCKING SAID!!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

ABSOLUTELY!

Pity they [seem to have] overturned gay marriages though. Why not be civilised and have civil unions like us, available to anyone (gay or not) who wants them? Then people wouldn't get hung up on the M word.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

I dunno. It works fine for us, too....

[the-summoning-d.livejournal.com]

Whoo, Obama FTW! *bounces around happily*

And who needs an excuse to set off fireworks? Of course here in bonnie Scotland we happily celebrate Guy Fawkes' right and proper attempt to destroy the English Night.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Well, you guys have a reason!

It's almost 8pm here and it's still light--and wet and windy. I shall regard any fireworks as celebratory ones tonight.

And I'm a bit tipsy on champagne. :-P

[the-summoning-d.livejournal.com]

Well said! I can't believe it - I'm so happy!
*cough* The sole lonely republican on my flist is accusing me of rubbing it in
And yay for champagne

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I had champagne--and apple pie (so American)! Well, it was apple crumble, but close.

I thought I had a republican on mine (she's in the NRA and has a Confederate flag) but no, she was for Obama too! :-D

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Best of luck with your own elections - which, I imagine, will be much less exhausting and OTT, like ours :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yep, but unfortunately our elections are likely to go the other way.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Wow indeed, and the fireworks take on extra meaning tonight. :-p

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

For me they do anyway!

[bramblyhedge.livejournal.com]

It's really wonderful to see the American Dream isn't over. :)

*sigh* Yeah, Guy Fawkes is so irrelevant. :/ I guess they haven't got rid of it because it's the one time of the year people can play with pretty shiny kablooie firey things?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It is! I think Obama really caught people's imagination and hope and idealism like Kennedy once did.

I'd like to see Guy Fawkes banned and instead have impressive professional fireworks. Much more fun, and less stress on pets.

But hey, I'd also like a midwinter celebration and a national day that's actually fun. :-P

[thetisonline.livejournal.com]

I was just about to liken it to our annual "Fire in the Sky" that we have over the river ... but ... oh my goodness, I didn't realise that it wasn't professional fireworks! Sounds dangerous rather than fun.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's idiots with explosives in their back gardens and on the beaches, which is why I hate it.

[bramblyhedge.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, yeah, I was just thinking about Waitangi Day - is it another sign of our national Tall Poppie syndrome that our national day isn't particularly positive or patriotic? ^_^;;;

We should totally have both summer & winter solstice celebrations! With big mid-winter feasts! :D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Matariki could be a month of celebration and stodgy winter eating and drinking! Bring it on!

And yeah, it's bloody typical that we only get Waitangi day when other countries got something to celebrate. Plus two of our so-called holidays aren't even holidays if they're on a weekend. This country really needs something positive; no wonder we're depressed and lacking in any real self-esteem.

[bramblyhedge.livejournal.com]

Matariki would be perfect! Stodgy winter eating and drinking, ho! *g*

Plus two of our so-called holidays aren't even holidays if they're on a weekend.

Yep. =.=;;;

It's kind of hilarious that the only recent time there was unabashed national pride and dancing in the streets was when The Return of the King premiered in Wellington. Peter Jackson touched something there, I just wish we could figure out what it was and do it again. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We need something other than capricious sport to be proud of. Aussies have no problem being proud of who we are. I however no hardly any connection other than birth to NZ and would much rather live where I'm not wanted. Sigh.

[pet-lunatic.livejournal.com]

Lol, bonfire night? I didn't know you had it there! It's my favourite holiday; high time somebody blew up Parliament again, really. :)

And yay, very much yay re the election result.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

No one has bonfires here, though I remember going to one of a farm when I was a kid. It's just fireworks in people's back yards, and for what? Someone that happened in another country. We need to get rid of that and celebrate things of our own, not some poor foreign sod's failure. :-P

Yay indeed! I hope I'll be pleased with our results this weekend.

[pet-lunatic.livejournal.com]

Lol, it does seem rather pointless outside the UK, especially if there aren't any decent organised displays.

I hope so too :)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why we celebrate this, especially now it's just an excuse for drunken idiocy with explosives

I think you just answered your own question. I was about to put a smiley there, but on reflection a frowney might be more appropriate.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but i don't even think most of the families--or louts on the beaches--know why they're doing it any more. I'd rather it was banned and we maybe had new year fireworks for 30 minutes at midnight like they do in Germany; that's already a focus for drunken orgies, so why not concentrate it all.

I hate hanging on to all this old colonialist crap when we're just a third world country now, too cold to grow bananas.