wait a minute.i dont want to have sex with my friends.it might compromise our relationship as friends... :C
So it's basically the fourth of July right? Fireworks, partys, patriotism for your country, little kids not knowing why, nor caring, it's importance in you country's history b/c as long as they get to have a party and day off from school it's a great holiday.
awh come on now,you're ruining it for everyone.if its a paid holiday from work then im for it.who says all holidays have to be sacred. so is the nov 5th holiday celebrated because people support guy fawkes or because they dislike him?because the guy was hung before he accomplished anything.
@sui-cyco lol ,i agree w/ you, a day off to do absolutly nothing who cares. It's like christmas, I'm an athiest but I'll sing carols until my mouth is dry if that means I get a few days off. I'm not sure, I know that King James was overtrown in the Glorious Revolution, so he couldn't have been too well like. But if he got hung then wouldn't that mean that they didnt' like this fawk guy and are celebrating his death? maybe someone from the UK will answer this for us.
It not really a holiday, honestly i don't have a clue what it is apart from a chance to set off fireworks, well were i come from it is. He was tortured then hanged, drawn, and quartered. The only possible reason i can see it being celebrated is because if he had accomplished what was planed then more than likely there would be no such thing as the "UK"
i threw a fire cracker at a guy sleeping in the shop a while ago, it was quite cool......... only 1 of em !!! hehe
hey,thats not nice.you could hurt someone doing that.why cant the people of today find kinder,gentler ways of playing with each other? like throwing marshmallows instead of fireworks...yeah right! i once lived in a house that was on a hill and a street ran in front of my house.i lit a bottle rocket and then dropped it flat on the ground so it would take off along the ground like a rocket car or something.it was pointed straight at the road.it slipped my mind that the street was there as my house is off from the road a little bit.but that sucker took off across the street.and a second after it past the street a car came by with the window open.if i would have lit that bottle rocket a second later it definitely would have went into that car and exploded.and i would have been in deep sh*t.so the moral of the story is..ah...um...dont be stupid.yeah thats it.
400 years ago the queen died without having any babies, so the thrown gets passed to her distant cousin, king james the sixth of scotland and now also king james the first of england. many people were angred at the fact that a king of scotland was ruling the english throne, so guy and his mates decide to polt against him, they let 2 more peole in on it, so theres a total of six. they are trying to dig a tunnel to under the throne of the house of lords, but hear a noise in the store room above, its a dude moving his stuff out, so they rent ous the space ( which is directly under the throne ) and put 36 barrells of gun-powder under it and cover them with hay. unfortunatly 1 of the gamg leaks out the plot and somehow the king finds out. as guy fawks is going to light the fuse the king ordered a search of the store room for explsives ( he siad it was ordered on the kings wisdom ) so guy gets caught, grasses in his mates, they all get tortured and killed. the king ordered from that day on that november the 5th, people all over the country would light bon-fires to celebrate the kings survival of an assasination attempt. !!thecraigc!!
If the people hated him then why are you celebrating his survival, shouldn't you be celebrating Guy's martyism. And is this the same James that was over thrown in the glorious revolutiojn?
"Fireworks are always attractive, but Bonfire Night here is one of the last bastions of anti-Catholic sentiment in the United Kingdom" A quote from another thread iv been reading on the subject and not my personal view. I do however find it strange that we in the UK celebrate the death of Fawks. eh thats not exactly right mate, the catholic people of the time were being brutally treated by the crown thats why the plot to kill the king developed. To be honest i like the pretty lights of the fireworks but thought id chuck that in for debate. Haim Edit>typo
this guy fawkes holiday reasoning thing is getting educational.time to pull up a chair and learn something. now can anyone explain to me why we hunt for easter eggs on easter?
