bonfire night/halloween

omg did u know that halloween has overtaken bonfire night as the Uks major autumn celebration, how bad is that!

 

I'm surprised, since we don't really go that mad over Halloween, and commercially speaking, I would have thought the firework industry was more lucrative. I wouldn't say it's bad though, more irrelevant. They're both over-commercialised corporate festivals, which have lost much of their original meaning. Halloween is ancient though, unlike the comparatively modern bonfire night, so it's not particularly worrying that it's more popular.


As for me, I intend to be out tonight, drinking heavily in celebration of the courageous hero Guy Fawkes, and his revolutionary attempt at a good old bit of regicide. I can say that still, though this time next year that may count as glorifying terrorism....

 

there doesn't seem much for either holiday here at the moment, we may be having a fire on the beach later. And also... this is really terrible but we decided our kitchen in our halls needed decorating so we got some fake snow and a tree etc.... feel so so so bad. Its so early, but we are celebrating xmas earlier sa we are all going home around the 17th of December so we are having xmas day on the 15th. So its not too early as we have moved the holiday.
Michael x

 

It doesn't really matter moving the holiday, or Jesus' birthday. The Christians did it after all....

 

hehe quite true, we are calling in Winterfest as we have decided just to be very very happy and jolly from now on celebrating, its great,

 

thats odd... didnt really hear much about halloween here, yet theres been sooooo many fireworks. i didnt evenhave to leave my kitchen, cvoz it looks out over the valley so could see like 20 firework displays. well good. bonfire night in the warmth... with the spiders.

 

I got 2 close to the bonfire my local pub had tonight, it flared up and burnt half my hair off

 

yeah it was a strange night, there wasn't many fireworks here. We decided to give the bonfire a miss and play about with the sea (yes i know dangerous) got just a little wet, the sea is vicious tonight. We decided to celebrate nature and take it all in
Michael x

 

sorry to hear about your hair my friend, hope your okay, and don't worry hair will grow
Michael x

 

Yea I'm fine ta, its acutally quite funny now I'm sober was due for a cut anyway

 

Would it really have made a big difference if the plan had worked ?.

 

wel i wachd a prog on it and they wuda killed everyon ein the houses of parliament and shattered windows for like 400m around, they rebults it and used the same amount of gunpowder as they were planning 2 do 2 prove it but they said that they probably would have been caught and all catholics killed or sumthing

 

I watched that also.. ITV1 .. last week. I was hoping for a alternative viewpoint .. as PP seemed to able to offer one .. i thought i might ask .

 

I doubt it would have made much material difference. The Houses of Parliament would look different, and the history books would be changed. But we'd probably be in the same place with the same leaders now. But he is a powerful symbol of resistance against government oppressing a sizeable minority, and an icon standing for religious freedoms....

 

Hiya, Despite their faux medieval appearance, the hoses of parliament we know today were built in the 1850's to a design by AWNPugin, so they'd look different today anyway. (i'm pedantic)
It's easy to project our modern revolutionary attitudes onto Guy Fawkes, he weas a catholic mercenary, probably fighting for restoration of the catholic monarchy, so i don't think we'd really see eye to eye with him, if he was around today.
That said, having met an obnoxious aristocrat recently, i'm all in favour of blowing them up, along with the political class of this country. The buggers.
Violence doesn't usually solve problems tho'.
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