THE END OF AN ERA?

[HairOfTheDog]

Past me? Under my nose? At what point did I say I was ruler/head of the security of the island?

The point at which you prohibited me from the luxury of a solar powered string of lights for illumination because they could also be used to configure a distress message.

Oh yeah! Never! Maggotyboo wanting unlimited fireworks was retarded on two levels.

One - maggotyboo would NEVER get bored of fireworks....ever. My daughter is 12 and she is already bored by fireworks. Whizz! Bang! Pop!...yawn.

I like them, too. Good thing you and your brilliant family are across the pond - it's never awkward not inviting you to the fireworks party here. Surely, you'd all be busy fiddling with your Rubic's cubes and/or debating the merits of Pythagoras's theorem.

Two - when it was pointed out how retarded fireworks were as a luxury item? “I could use them to signal planes and ships to get off the island!”. Siren sounds! Whoop whoop whoop! Practical use! Against the rules! You aren't being clever because this is not a test! Its a tool to find out more about you and its worked 100%! I thought maggotyboo might be a moron and he's confirmed it for me.

Yeah, betting most of us figured the fireworks were chosen because they were a luxury item with a practical purpose, without having to explicitly be told as much. You missed the obvious - no big deal.

The luxury item having to be void of any practical application whatsoever doesn't make much sense. Almost every item has a purpose, purpose comes with practicality. Your "heroin", for example, had a very practical application - as you clearly described. There was therefore no real violation of the rules (which don't exist...wait, yes they do...wait, no they don't...). In your capacity as the head of security, you tossed out a new clarification of the "none" stipulation AFTER Maggot and others had already made it on the island.

The purpose of your scenario wasn't stated in your OP. For me, it was a personal thinking "test" or exercise in relation to how to get the most pleasure as possible while focusing on survival/rescue. The fireworks were probably the best item of any mentioned in the thread towards that end.

If you instead wanted all of us to contemplate your desert island scenario according to some defined goal to suit your expectations, you should have made it clear. You didn't, so there were no wrong or stupid answers - there's nothing you can say that changes that fact. It looks stupid to continue trying, IMO.

Dick has a successor! He's perhaps got more moxy but he's just as stupid and his name is maggotyboo!

Yeah, I wonder how many people here, faced with being trapped on a desert island with another person here, would choose you over Maggot or Dick for smart survival. (Maybe one, that I can think of.)