Fire!
I was at a mini-rave on the grounds of the UEA about (ooohhh...) 7 years ago.

Anyway - usual rave things (well - for the time, this was in my pre-mashed-off-my-face-pillmunching-rave-loony-days) were going on. Including hippies whirling firy sticks and things around.

Included in the whirly fire crew was a shortish, prettyish girlie doing fire-poy.

(Firey marshmallows on the ends of chains for those that don't know - all very trippy when you are hammered).

This girl had that extremely tightly curled hair like some girls do, and she was wearing it in the typical "bolt it down with hair clips" way.

What this meant was that when she lost control of the firepoy and it bounced off her head was that, when her hair caught alight, she didn't notice, due to the think layer of hair between fire and skull.

Now the thing is there were probably 50 or 60 people stood about watching her, standing there sorting out the now tangled poy, doing a reasonably successful candle impression too.

I was one of them briefly, until I realised that she really hadn't noticed that her head was on fire, and that it was only going to get worse.

So what did I do. I calmly wandered over to her patted the fire out, asked if she was "alright" and wandered off.

So there is my good deed.

What I realised later is that she probably didn't know her head was ablaze so from her perspective

"I was doing poy at this party, right. I fucked it up and was untangling them when this random guy just wandered over, patted me on the head, looked me in the eye and said "Alright?" before just wanderin off. What a patronising cunt!"

I am assuming that either a) her friends pointed out my kindness b) she found a welded matt of burned hair in the morning c) she still remembers that night some patronising cunt patted her on the head like you would a slightly stupid puppy.

I think option C is the best.
(Shifty weeeee, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 18:11, 4 replies)

That's funny....
and so casual too.

I bet people thought 'he must do that all the time'...

y'know turning up at minor fires and quenching them with a patronising wink or something :)
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 18:23, closed)

I want fire poi.
But I can't have fire poi. Boo to living in a flat in the middle of the city. I can't even use the normal be-tailed ones round here.

Yay for you for extinguishing the poor girl.
*makes note to tie hair back tightly when playing with fire*

I agree with you on Option C, it made me giggle also.
(Meya, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 18:29, closed)

Heh
I've seen a friend of mine wrap a snake poi (like fire poi, but the flamey bit is a long chain) around his arm before.

Many laughs were had while he danced around like a loon. I on the other hand only managed to shove a flaming stick up my t-shirt sleeve.

_{Nb. He was totally fine afterwards, but for a small burn}
(Stinky Wizzleteats Should probably be doing something more productive, Wed 8 Oct 2008, 0:56, closed)

are you the guy who sang "happy happy joy joy"?

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 1:10, closed)