1 January 2012

Not with a whimper but with a bang

A fine woodland run with which to start the new year.
Last night was Hogmanay, with its usual revelry and pyrotechnics – the latter sounding more like artillery than celebration. Maybe it’s a by-product of a generation raised on action movies and bellicose computer games, but the wide availability of ever louder and more dangerous fireworks seems to indulge the whims of adolescent males to an unnecessary and irresponsible degree. What’s more, the EU law makers, in their ineffable wisdom, have just further relaxed the restrictions so that these explosive horrors can now be more than twice as powerful, and closer than ever to the format of cluster bombs (ref). Are they completely insane ?
Happy New Year.

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