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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: skyman8081 on 5 November 2005, 23:55
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Remember Remember! The fifth of november! Gunpowder, treason and plot!
Today is Guy Fawkes Day, a perfectly good excuse to blow some shit up! Fuck yeah!
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What the fuck are you talking about?
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Duh, haven't you heard of Guy Fawkes Day (http://www.bonefire.org/guy/)?
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Note that it was a failed gunpowder plot ... so I don't see how it can be an excuse to blow shit up ? :confused:
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The old handy-dandy:
DryIce+water+coca cola bottle :)
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Coke cans work well too ... I remember in High school kids would have coke wars at lunch, throw coke cans everywhere and watch em explode ... you gotta shake em well. As you can imagine several teachers got popped in the head with coke cans :D
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Dammit! Guy Fawkes Day is banned in Australia. There used to be a lot a fireworks around on this day. As you can imagine some stupid perents gave their children some of these highly explosive devices and then complained when they lost parts of their anotomy. So, as you can see Guy Fawkes Day=Kids with explosives=Kids with no hands=No Guy Fawkes Day.
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Hahaha ... maybe they should teach kids how to properly use fireworks instead of banning em
Since you are from Australia, I got a question, I've been there recently (few months ago) and I cant help notice all the Grim Reaper holding a Slow Down sign on all the billboards when I was driving ... what is up with that ?
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Australians seem to have a thing about not listening when it comes to road rules. So the government needs to hammer it home just how dangerus it is.
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The Firefighters are calling for them to be banned in New Zealand, its understandable, people are just so stupid nowadays, so many unneccessary fires because people just don't care to try be safe.
Also we were wondering why our fireworks were exploding apart. found out that My brother thought the pointy goes up...:rolleyes:
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Duh, haven't you heard of Guy Fawkes Day (http://www.bonefire.org/guy/)?
no. :(
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...???!!!???
wat country are you from?
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not enough fire works there !... come on here ! :)
in Bulgaria on x-mas and around that day
you can find fire crackers and M80 all around
and on the 24th hour it is like hell on earth
out there every one is throwing
stuff out the window
it is like war!
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...???!!!???
wat country are you from?
USA
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I really hate it when stupid weird-o teachers and
old people tell you that something is bad or not healthy
and it really is !
what do they think we are like ...
stupid kids holding the fire cracker in his hand as it goes off
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I really hate it when stupid weird-o teachers and
old people tell you that something is bad or not healthy
and it really is !
what do they think we are like ...
stupid kids holding the fire cracker in his hand as it goes off
I once saw that, but that was because the fire cracker wasn't glued the right way, so it sticked to his hand.
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I sympathize with you etement...Being an American setlled in England.
Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliment and King James the IV (I think, maybe the II) exactly 400 years ago on Nov 5. The problem was the gunpowder was getting wet and due to delays of the openning day of parliment they had to resource out and get more people involved. The theory is a protestant sympathiser warned some protestant parliment members which basically caused the word to spread and Guy was caught with the gunpowder along with 5 others. Guy Fawkes and the other 5 were hung and since the English have celebrated it. It's a 2 part celebration, One that he was caught and stopped and 2. that a common and basically unknown man was able to do something which at the time most were in favor of.
The celebration is a huge Bonfire with Fireworks, Carnivals and a whole shit load of Special events. It's similar to how we celebrate the 4th of July.
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I sympathize with you etement...Being an American setlled in England.
Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliment and King James the IV (I think, maybe the II) exactly 400 years ago on Nov 5. The problem was the gunpowder was getting wet and due to delays of the openning day of parliment they had to resource out and get more people involved. The theory is a protestant sympathiser warned some protestant parliment members which basically caused the word to spread and Guy was caught with the gunpowder along with 5 others. Guy Fawkes and the other 5 were hung and since the English have celebrated it. It's a 2 part celebration, One that he was caught and stopped and 2. that a common and basically unknown man was able to do something which at the time most were in favor of.
The celebration is a huge Bonfire with Fireworks, Carnivals and a whole shit load of Special events. It's similar to how we celebrate the 4th of July.
I see.:thumbup:
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King James the IV (I think, maybe the II)
actually it was King James VI (of Scotland that is) who was also (and who is usually known as) James I (of England, although they usually don't mention that, choosing to think of Scotland as some sort of province of England perhaps).
He is known quite rightly as the traitor king in Scotland and was directly responsible for the legal, royal and governmental pursuit, prosecution and execution of many "witches". He is also the one responsible for commissioning the King James Bible, the first ever English translation of the Bible (up till now it was thought by the Roman Catholics that the Word should only be read in Latin, whilst the Greek Orthodox Church maintained that it should be read in Greek only), complete with appaling mistranslations such as "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" (the original Hebrew translates directly as "poisoner")
And another thing, James VI was the reason why the play Macbeth shows Macbeth to be a tortured weak and ultimately selfish and bad ruler, when the historical Macbeth was by accounts quite a good king. Macbeth was from a different royal line from James VI however and so Shakespeare felt that Macbeth had to be portrayed in a poor light so the king wouldn't be pissed off that a rival family was being shown to be more virtuous than him (which wouldn't take much doing in my opinion).
Edit: and the same sort of thing for Richard III of England actually.
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Oh shit! I just saw that! I got the I and V crossed around. I should have went with my first instinct and just done one of these 6th. Thanx for correcting that.
I also left out at the bonfire, it is traditional to put an effigy of Guy Fawkes on top and burn him...very shaocking too a two year old :(