What is Bonfire night Actually for??

[The_Prophet]

Because burning things is cool?

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Never heard of it until now. Meaning: no, it is not celebrated in anywhere south of Central America. In fact, I doubt anybody here even knows who Guy Fawkes was.

 

[bluepilot]

Tradition is important. But not as important as loud bangs and pretty sparkles in the air.

Mind you, if someone blew up parlament today, methinks there might be a week-long celebration

right then, that's my next plot, i'll get the propane bombs and a detenator, you get a massive barbeque and about 1000 shotguns, turret emplacements, rpg's and a few heli's, to fight off the police while we eat the burgers in celebration and organise the new govorning body with you, me, neonbob (cause he's awesome) and several other escapees that are of suficiant inteligence to warrent being part of the new british government

Naw naw naw. You are thinking too big. Guy practically almost managed the whole think by stealth. Stealth is the key. After all, a full blown riot with the police would give our new Government a lot of `bad publicity`.

Guy managed to dig under the place and set explosives. Admittedly, the river is a lot higher now than it was back then. So, we will need some scuba diving equipment, underwater mining tools and underwater explosive. A nucleeu submarine has the fire power but I think the water of the Thames is a little to shallow for a nuclear submarine. Also, doing arms trade with the Russians is not good form or manners.

Since parliment is a British institution, we should blow it up the British way

This is why Bonfire night is important. It reminds us of the value of stealth attacks.

 

[Acidoctor]

It's cold in Finland, that's why.

 

[effilctar]

Wait, we celebrate it because he died? I thought we were cheering for him.

Why would we cheer for a traitor? Why would we burn effigies of someone we like?
We celebrate the fact his treasonous arse was killed. At least, this is what i was taught. And it gives us an excuse to set shit on fire, set off fireworks and buy fireworks to extract the gunpowder to make hand grenades just in case of invasion, revolution or zombies throughout the rest of the year

I don't blame you for your idea of why we celebrate the night, it was probably your "patriotic" teacher saying they celebrate it because the Government prevailed.

The actual reason for celebration is that he, one man named Guido, has gotten the closest to blowing up the Houses of Parliament ever. The burning effigies is obviously symbollic of something, perhaps his spirit, and many beggars still say "Penny for the Guy?"

 

[Sallix]

The reason modern man does anything: make fires and get drunk.

 

[Distorted Stu]

I know that Bonfire Night is for celebrating the death of guy folks but that was a long time ago and hes not that famous any more any way so why do we still have Bonfire night and do any other countries celebrate it?????

*twitch*

What do you mean "Not famous anymore."? With the advent of EFG, V for Vendetta and Anonymous adopting his mask as a symbol, he's more famous than ever before.

We celebrate it because we get to make big explosions and fires, as if we needed an excuse.

Amen brother. Its also my favourite holiday!

 

[seious]

I hate bonfires i saw a picture of a cat that was a tossed in a bonfire the worse thing ive ever seen and I am a dude

 

[mikey300]

its supposedly because guy fawlks died but the main reason is we get to blow stuff up and see bright lights and there is loud bangs ............. it fun

 

[Sulu]

I know that Bonfire Night is for celebrating the death of guy fawks but that was a long time ago and hes not that famous any more any way so why do we still have Bonfire night and do any other countries celebrate it?????

The fact that you know his name in relation to the night means that he is still famous.
You obviously never paid attention in school when this is taught, its about this fella (probably nowadays would be called a terrorist) who wanted to blow up Parliament. He was caught and we celebrate that by burning a straw man in a bonfire.

Also Christmas was quite a long time ago so shall we stop with that? Easter was a long time ago as well so we better bin that too. Oh darn I forgot Haloween and that originated a long time ago also.

Fuck we have no holidays left now that we scrap everything that originated a long time ago!

 

[thepj]

Tradition is important. But not as important as loud bangs and pretty sparkles in the air.

Mind you, if someone blew up parlament today, methinks there might be a week-long celebration

right then, that's my next plot, i'll get the propane bombs and a detenator, you get a massive barbeque and about 1000 shotguns, turret emplacements, rpg's and a few heli's, to fight off the police while we eat the burgers in celebration and organise the new govorning body with you, me, neonbob (cause he's awesome) and several other escapees that are of suficiant inteligence to warrent being part of the new british government

Naw naw naw. You are thinking too big. Guy practically almost managed the whole think by stealth. Stealth is the key. After all, a full blown riot with the police would give our new Government a lot of `bad publicity`.

Guy managed to dig under the place and set explosives. Admittedly, the river is a lot higher now than it was back then. So, we will need some scuba diving equipment, underwater mining tools and underwater explosive. A nucleeu submarine has the fire power but I think the water of the Thames is a little to shallow for a nuclear submarine. Also, doing arms trade with the Russians is not good form or manners.

Since parliment is a British institution, we should blow it up the British way

This is why Bonfire night is important. It reminds us of the value of stealth attacks.

good point, actually we needent bother with the underwater mining, just wait for some road works and disguise ourselves as two of the workers, all we need is managers sypathetic to our cause and BOOM we are in

 

[TheBarefootBandit]

There's only 1 Fawkes I care for and he wields a Gatling Laser and kicks Super Mutant ass.

 

[That's Funny]

To celebrate the death of a man who decided to stand up to the british government....... Yeah ain't society just wonderful.

 

[ryanxm]

well here in america no we do not.....who is he?

 

[Iampringles]

I'unno, blowin' shit up.

 

[Cilliandrew]

I can say with certainty that no one in Canada or the USA celebrates it..

Though i learned about the night when i was a kid by reading an issue of DETECTIVE COMICS...

For years i didn't really understand what was going on (and was unaware that BATMAN actually was in Detective Comics)..I thought the story was about some british version of Batman

At any rate, Batman stops some terrorists who are trying to blow up British Parliament on Guy Fawkes' Day..

 

[Nmil-ek]

Because fireworks are cool and the yanks have the 4th of July you think were going to let them win?

 

[Dudemeister]

I know that Bonfire Night is for celebrating the death of guy fawks but that was a long time ago and hes not that famous any more any way so why do we still have Bonfire night and do any other countries celebrate it?????

Wow, you win the medal of ignorance for this month.

 

[DemonicVixen]

`Remember remember the 5th of November. Gunpowder, treason and plot`

That is the rhyme I learned as a child, is this the one you wanted?

Yes that one though there are more words then just that. I should have just looked it up on Google. Here they are for anyone else:

REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER

(Traditional English Rhyme - 17th Century)

Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent
To blow up the King and the Parliament
Three score barrels of powder below
Poor old England to overthrow
By God's providence he was catched
With a dark lantern and burning match
Holloa boys, holloa boys
God save the King!
Hip hip hooray!
Hip hip hooray!

A penny loaf to feed ol' Pope
A farthing cheese to choke him
A pint of beer to rinse it down
A ****** of sticks to burn him
Burn him in a tub of tar
Burn him like a blazing star
Burn his body from his head
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hooray!
Hip hip hooray!

 

[GrinningManiac]

You might as well say "Well, noone belives in Santa or Jesus anymore...better cancel Christmas/Easter"

Also, I like it. Fireworks are cool and Fawkes was pretty badass. And Catholic, so he's a good guy in my books