Remember remember the fifth of November....

[dyre]

Yeah, no thanks. I have better things to do than celebrate the terrorist actions of religious fanatics.

The eve of the Hungarian Revolution is coming up in a few weeks. I'll celebrate that instead.

You are aware that part of the celebration is burning a Guy (A dummy Guy Fawkes, not an actual person) on a bonfire right? The 5th of November, Guy Fawkes Night, Bonfire Night whatever you want to call isn't celebrating any terrorist actions. It's celebrating that we caught the bastard, our leaders and the surrounding area weren't blown to smithereens and a Catholic Theocracy wasn't imposed upon us.

That's the English meaning for the celebration anyway.

Yes, indeed. Of course, I find it difficult to sympathize with King James, who did persecute Catholics. Also, I believe he might have been one of those divine right-ists.

But in any case, both you and I know when people on the internet talk about celebrating the 5th of November, they're not talking about burning effigies of Guy Fawkes.

 

[dex-dex]

well I have to work soon so no celebrating for me
and I think the owner would have a problem with me setting up a bonfire out back of the restaurant.

 

[TAGM]

I'm going to spend it the way I spend many holidays - sitting smugly in the knowlage that what most people belive is wrong and telling anyone who's willing to listen (I.E. No-one) that Guy Fawkes was just the guy that knew which bit of the gunpowder barrel to light and that the plot failed missriably from the start and NOT in a last-minute save from parliment.

Well, that, and sitting at my window watching any fireworks I can see in the general area. Because, hey, free show, and less chance of getting burned by flying bits of plastic!

 

[Marik2]

Wasnt today suppose to be the day that the anonymous guys were gonna post the information of the Mexican drug lords or something?

 

[emeraldrafael]

its probably cause when I saw V4V it was on tv and it honestly couldnt keep my attention, but I think im missing the significance of this day.

So im jus thinking about November 11th and if skyrim is going to screw up the box office weekend, and about which pens game i want to go to in December.

EDIT:

... overthrow the Protestant monarchy and install a Christian one, ...

but... protestants are Christians?

 

[Dethenger]

I purchased V For Vendetta some time ago and have yet to read it. I made the decision to do so today I think the day before Halloween. So that's what I'm doing.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Not really anything tbh Ill probably go see the big fireworks show in my city in a couple of days or summat

 

[Guffe]

We don't celebrate guy fawks in Finland, I doubt half of the population has any idea who he was. But it's saturday so people will be wasted like hell and we can say that they celebrate mr. Fawks

 

[Montezuma's Lawyer]

Why would I want to celebrate a man who wanted to bring the influence of the church back into the forefront, in an attempt to bring back the dark ages?

Jesus christ... how can you actually think this terrorist deserves celebration?

 

[BristolBerserker]

Playing Battlefield 3. Doing what Guy Fawkes couldn't and blow shit up.

 

[Nouw]

About the fire-works, I'm wondering who the hell sets them off at 4:30 in the morning! Anyone else got fire-works going off at random times?

 

[The Random One]

I will celebrate November 5th when the British celebrate September 7th.

 

[000Ronald]

I'm gonna [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pY1n-Ogu6g&feature=related] listen to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFXICgffVjg] Trapt [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ2b5lcXs2E&feature=related].

Not because it's "Religious Nutjob tries to kill the government" day, but because I like Trapt.

 

[WeAreStevo]

I considered overthrowing the government in a bloody, but hilarious badly planned terrorist attack on religious grounds, but the idea fizzled.

Just think, in a few hundred years, all the cool kids will be wearing bin Laden masks on September 11s.

There's only one problem with your proposed idea here...

Guy Fawkes was a British citizen who attempted to overthrow his own government with essentially a terrorist act.

Bin Laden, being born in Saudi Arabia, was not an American citizen. Therefore, his attack was not meant to spark a revolution, but rather to declare war.

Now to make the same point you were attempting to make would be like if people wore Timothy McVeigh masks on April 19th.

 

[Petromir]

Why would I want to celebrate a man who wanted to bring the influence of the church back into the forefront, in an attempt to bring back the dark ages?

Jesus christ... how can you actually think this terrorist deserves celebration?

That isnt the purpose of the celebration, the celebration is of the failure of the plot. How you could possibly come to the conclusion that it is otherwise with even the basic research of reading this very thread...........


On the barbaric thing many are pointing out, yes by todays standards it is, but treason punishments of the time almost universally were. It was kind of the point. Unlike many modern justice systems there was no focus on proportionality, it was all retribution and detterant. Mearly the death penalty still was a punsihment for alot of crimes many of which are suprisingly minor.

 

[Gulleko]

I'm celebrating with the new episode of MLP.
F*** Guy Fawkes, it's Pony time!

 

[ultimateownage]

Nothing. I never do Halloween because it's not very British, but I don't do Guy Fawkes' Night because I can't be arsed.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I tried to blow up the English Parliment and re-establish the rule of the Catholic Church in England.