Guy Fawkes' day

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Here you may discus, if it pleases you, the merits &/or defeckts ov having a period of time during the course of each year when it is permissible for small children to own & use explosives. Older readers might also reminisce, boringly haha, about the seemingly magickal way in which the "Guy Fawkes'day" period gets longer & longer as the years pass, IE abt 4 days total when I were a nipper, now 3-4 weeks either side of Nov 5th it seems. Nevertheless, things that go bang are phun I suppose, & they do look very pretty, so classic-ish, I suppose

― N0RM4N PH4Y, Sunday, 3 November 2002 13:12 (twenty-two years ago) link

this is one of the foreign holiday/festival thingies that i was always really jealous of when i was a kid. halloween was alright, greek orthodox easter was out because of the boiled eggs but guy fawkes' was really exotic. we had a book about things to make and do on a rainy day, and for some reason making a guy was one of those things. i had dreams of a guy-building production line empire and reaping many pennies for my efforts, culminating in the establishment of guy fawkes' day in australia.

― minna (minna), Sunday, 3 November 2002 13:21 (twenty-two years ago) link

I hate hate HATE fireworks, so dud, dud, DUD.

It was a Guy Fawlkes party I was at last night, but the busses were so screwed up I completely missed the fireworks part of it, which was a relief.

But it's OK because while wandering around Safeway looking for the ingredients to white russians, I was rewarded with the intensely amusing sight of the Missing Datsun Brother spending about twenty minutes in the soap aisle, picking up every detergent in turn and examining it, as if it truly was an alien concept to his Dirty Rock Boy mind.

― kate, Sunday, 3 November 2002 13:24 (twenty-two years ago) link

"here you may discus" argh, type in in haste, repent @ leisure.

― N0RM4N PH4Y, Sunday, 3 November 2002 13:27 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yes this is a terrible discus arena, I am appalled at the scant facilities

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 3 November 2002 13:33 (twenty-two years ago) link

I quite like fireworks, tho a lot of them are awfully disappointing.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 3 November 2002 13:34 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's a very equivocal celebration. Historically, it was celebrating foiling the plot of the evil Catholics, and burning them alive. Nowadays no one (well, I guess there may be some nutters somewhere) who thinks that that is what they're celebrating. Many of us regard it as commemorating a good attempt.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 3 November 2002 16:40 (twenty-two years ago) link

bah humbug i used to like it but all it has done this year is keep my son awake - shaking in fear as the 'monsters' scream and whistle around us every night.
i dont think anyone even thinks about the real reason or history behind it anymore, which is disappointing. in australia it is actually called 'cracker night'!!

― donna (donna), Sunday, 3 November 2002 19:18 (twenty-two years ago) link

My mum would never let me have fireworks on guy fawkes night because of the whole evil catholic thing. So I know the story, actually I have a wonderful piece of art I did about it when I was 8 "Whoops I told the police" "Now we are dead"

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 4 November 2002 02:18 (twenty-two years ago) link

Classic. But only if you buy the sort of fireworks that are so deafeningly loud that they have "Please keep children and pets on a seperate continent" written on them. References on the fireworks about setting car alarms off is always a good thing, too.

― lol p xx, Monday, 4 November 2002 11:53 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

it's tonight! hurrah! i'm going to a fireworks display for the first time in three years and i'm very excited.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

We still dislike Fireworks, although We generally approve of the principles behind such things. No poperie!

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

classic until i reached 13, immensely dud thereafter

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love fireworks, we are off to a big display tonight. We had some sparklers in the garden last night aswell. woo hoo!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

When you live in a very Asian area as I do, you've seen vast amounts of fireworks lots of the time in recent weeks, because of Diwali, so this holds less excitement.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've hardly seen ANY fireworks so far this year - I am going to go and stand out on the heath in a bit and watch.

The Blackheath/Greenwich fireworks display proper (as previously cited by me as the rockingest thing ever) is on Saturday. In fact, nearly all the official ones seem to be this Saturday - why can't we have a big official Nov 5th one in Hyde Park or something, eh?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight years pass...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-15616697

classic, imo

― Summer Slam! (Ste), Monday, 7 November 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link

to me that is the platonic ideal of fireworks displays. get that shit over with quickly, 45 seconds is about as long as fireworks can entertain me tbh (and i had to go to the glasgow green display every year of my childhood because november 5th is my bro's bday).

― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 7 November 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah that's so awesome, i would totally sign up for really amazing firework blitzkreig over coat-pulling chilly and prolonged sporadic display

― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 7 November 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

email from my elderly (Canadian) uncle, in large print all caps...

To: <everyone on his contact list it seems>
Subject: HAPPY GUY FOX DAY

HAPPY GUY FOX DAY TO ALL

<NAME>

― Plasmon, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link

what does guy fawkes day?

― how's life, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago) link

saw a dude in a guy fawkes mask on campus today, didn't know there was a "day"

― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 01:51 (eleven years ago) link

ten years pass...

Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot.

Seems topical rn.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 21:24 (three months ago) link

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