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Who’s being burnt?
In the old days I used to be a maniac on this day, thus it would have been apt earlier. Indeed I used to steal magnesium and potassium from school and do my own little shows, subsequently burning my eyebrows into the fire tee hee! Nowadays I listen to TQ and think about things with some rare good people in these parts and ponder many a matter sapiently amongst the detonating firecrackers one just hit my window but it did not smash it of course. Bloody nuts. I am TRYING to conjugate my welsh verbs. Some people!
Who’s being burnt?
Guy Fawkes
Ok, as long as it’s not books.
I always thought it was odd that Americans celebrate the founding of their government with fireworks, but we celebrate an attempt to blow up our MPs. Somebody tried to tell me that we celebrate the foiling of the attempt to blow up parliament, but that doesn’t seem likely to me.
It’s kind of ironic that to celebrate the prevention of all that gunpowder going off, they light off a lot more gunpowder.
Doesn’t it date back to an old pagan fire festival?
hahahaha dr. broderick stop it. See Steven is famous (known by his fans as benissimus or ‘the wheelcock key man’)
Is it not latinity at its best, when some retard asks, ’ I never get what ironic means’ inverse proportion son inverse proportion inversum.
I thought Guy Fawkes was some while ago..
nope, it’s today. “remember remember, the 5th of November”
I think the MPs tried to say that we are celebrating the plot being discovered, but really, in all truth it’s much more likely that people started celebrating that Guy Fawks tried to and nearly succeeded in blowing everything up. Loads of criminals are celebrated/have been celebrated as national heroes, in the past, but today still. Remember that train robber, who came back to the UK just a few years ago? 
Jack Sheppard: In 18th-century England, many criminals were children who were trained as pickpockets or put through windows to burgle the houses of property owners. Between 1700 and 1725, nearly half of all those hanged at Tyburn were apprentice boys. One of them was Jack Sheppard (1702-24), an apprentice carpenter who, as a thief, made more money in a month than a qualified carpenter made in a year. By the time he was executed, he had become a hero, idolised for his daring escapes from prison.
(http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/history83.htm)
I think most people in London used to hate parliament and the justice system, they quite liked criminals and thought of them as heroes.
Where I live, Lewes in East Sussex, Bonfire Night is celebrated in a big way. There’s quite a bit about the history of Bonfire at
http://www.lewesbonfirecouncil.org.uk/history/index.html
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