At the !!!KABOOM!!!! the time will be...8:00.

[thatpotteryguy]

So, I have learned from the EK list that there won't be a morning cannon this year. I'm not going to sum ip the argument. Instead, I have only one thing to point out. "Dude? Eight o'clock is just not that early...if you're that hung over, or you couldn't be bothered to go to bed before dawn, that's your problem, not mine."

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[melaniesuzanne]

Ravenstreet's camp is across the street from EK (okay, more cattycorner than directly across the street, but still in the same neighborhood) and I can't remember ever being awoken by the cannon. Being woken by the screechy lady at the back of the neighboring camp that isn't Marinus, yes; cannon, no.

[3fgburner]

A sound sleeper, you are :-). I've been told that Munchkin (my little 2-pounder mortar) is audible in the Bog.

[melaniesuzanne]

Maybe it's because my sleep at Pennsic is less actual sleep and more passing out from exhaustion. Shopping is hard work! ;)

[thatpotteryguy]

So is a certain Royal Peer's flatulence...what of it?

[tattycat]

Aww. And I was already steeling my nerves for the first couple of days.

[thatpotteryguy]

Instead, they're deploying a battery of vuvuzelas.

[tattycat]

Well, we can take care of that. All we need is a trebuchet and a few pounds of taffy and a bunch of children. . .

[3fgburner]

For vuvuzelas, you just need lots of grease. Or other slippery stuff.

[shalmestere]

D00d! I didn't know you were on the EK list :-D

I don't have any sympathy for people who party too hard, or stay up too late (I also don't have a dog in that fight, because even if it were possible for me to sleep past sun-up in a tent, we get out of bed sevenish to avoid long lines at the shower). I do, however, feel sorry for people who have PTSD issues, or whose children are frightened by the noise.

[thatpotteryguy]

I've, ah...been there. I've go nothing but empathy and understanding. Sometimes it gets better, sometimes not so much.

[thatpotteryguy]

Yup. Purely for the entertainment value - it's nice to know there's a list more contentious than the Atlantian one.

I feel for the PTSD folks. I feel a bit for the kids, but I have a kid, who invariably follows the report with "Awesome! Do it again!". I know, YMMV, but kids do get used to stuff like that.

That said, my real complaint was with the folks who whined about how _early_ it was. Eight o'clock really isn't that early. Honest. I even know from daily experience there's TWO six-thirties on the clock.

I DO feel for folks with PTSD. We camp close enough that we can hear the line commands, so we get a little warning, but the couple morning I haven't paid close attention, it brought on unwelcome memories.

[kls_eloise]

My sympathy is profoundly lacking. For one thing - 8:00? Early? Hell, I'm already at my desk and logged in at 8:00. On the off chance that I want to sleep in (and can manage to as the temperature climbs in the tent), I roll over and go back to sleep.

I know that all kids are different - mine is pretty much bomb proof. But how are they ever going to function if you shield them from everything? Frankly, mine is going to be up on the line as soon as she's old enough for Evil Uncle Roderick to bless it.

I generally feel for the folks with PTSD. But I hear a lot of the same people year after year picking out something new every year that needs to be eliminated because of it. This year it's the fireworks (which had other issues.) This year it's the flyover. This year it's the 8:00 gun. This year it's the gun for the field battle... Folks, if Pennsic is so chock full of triggers - maybe it's time to say it's not for you.

Or maybe I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. That's always possible.

[thatpotteryguy]

It's worth pointing out that the flyovers are totally out of the Cooper's control, and irritate them mightily. And the air cav squadron from the local Natural Guard does it anyway, because Pennsic makes a truly excellent stand-in for a refugee camp for the purposes of counter-insurgency training operations. Or, at least, that's the word from Cindy Cooper.

[kls_eloise]

Oh - I understand that. But just because neither the SCA nor the Coopers have any control over doesn't mean that SCA-East won't have a two-week long blowup about how Something Should Be Done! :-)

I watch the list purely for the amusement value. It's like a slow-motion Mythbusters train wreck...

[shalmestere]

But I hear a lot of the same people year after year picking out something new every year that needs to be eliminated because of it....

Hmmm. That wasn't my impression. Among the Objectors I saw a lot of names that I don't remember from previous Pennsic Quality of Life discussions; OTOH, on the other side I *did* see a lot of the same people that always offer helpful advice (variations on the theme of "If you don't like it, stay home") to anyone who objects.

Me, I'm just cudgelling my brains, trying to think of an example of a pre-sixteenth-century European town that marked the hours by firing a cannon. So far, I can't think of any....

[pixel39]

Seriously, have these people not heard of earplugs? Oh, wait, this is the EK. Never mind, forget I asked.

[thatpotteryguy]

They've also never heard of "not going out and drinking until you befoul three separate portapotties with your post-tequila vomiting. then bitching in a hung-over daze"...something which I observed one of the loudest complainers do.