Bonfire night - Becoming a joke.

[Marc1901]

Is it just me of is bonfire night just starting to become more of a joke than halloween? Don't get me wrong I don't mind watching some fireworks but for them to still be going off this late is ridiculous. At least with halloween you don't get people still knocking at your door gone half 11 at night instead with November 5th you get noices still going on like it's world war f***ing three.

 

[Conkers]

It's not illegal until midnight, 'innit.

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

I think for bonfire night its 1am

 

[Everest]

I think for bonfire night its 1am

Midnight for bonfire night.

It's 1am for New Year, Chinese New Year and Diwali

 

[beorhthelm]

bonfire night has a long tradition, hundreds of years, and remembers an important event. Halloween is something imported in the last couple of decades, and is focused towards consumption of tat, with no memory of any original source meaning.

 

[Rowdey]

I thought halloween actually came from UK, but the yanks ramped it up into the junk it is now..?

 

[cardboard]

I thought halloween actually came from UK, but the yanks ramped it up into the junk it is now..?

Yep Scotland i believe

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Is it just me of is bonfire night just starting to become more of a joke than halloween? Don't get me wrong I don't mind watching some fireworks but for them to still be going off this late is ridiculous. At least with halloween you don't get people still knocking at your door gone half 11 at night instead with November 5th you get noices still going on like it's world war f***ing three.

If there arn't any fireworks going off at 'gone half 11' on bonfire night then its a very poor night indeed, stop being an old fart and why not join in with the celebrtions (maybe take part with a Lewes Bonfire Society next year?)

Its a once a year celebration of a very important historical event in this country and therefore should continue to be commemorated annually and there even used to be a law in this country stating that you had to celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot. Had the plot succeeded, it is be highly likely that you would be speaking and writing in Spanish right now.

 

[Trigger]

If there arn't any fireworks going off at 'gone half 11' on bonfire night then its a very poor night indeed, stop being an old fart and why not join in with the celebrtions (maybe take part with a Lewes Bonfire Society next year?)

Its a once a year celebration of a very important historical event in this country and therefore should continue to be commemorated annually and there even used to be a law in this country stating that you had to celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot. Had the plot succeeded, it is be highly likely that you would be speaking and writing in Spanish right now.

Spot. On.

 

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[ArcticBlue]

Baa humbug

 

[Driver8]

If there arn't any fireworks going off at 'gone half 11' on bonfire night then its a very poor night indeed, stop being an old fart and why not join in with the celebrtions (maybe take part with a Lewes Bonfire Society next year?)

Its a once a year celebration of a very important historical event in this country and therefore should continue to be commemorated annually and there even used to be a law in this country stating that you had to celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot. Had the plot succeeded, it is be highly likely that you would be speaking and writing in Spanish right now.

At least we would have had a decent national team.

 

[jimhigham]

Blimey. Pipe and slippers attack. This little corner of the country (Brighton/Lewes not Woking) is probably better informed about the traditions of bonfire than anywhere else. I love bonfire and miss Lewes every year on this night.

What harm is it doing you? If you don't like it, pop in the earplugs and go to bed.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

If there arn't any fireworks going off at 'gone half 11' on bonfire night then its a very poor night indeed, stop being an old fart and why not join in with the celebrtions (maybe take part with a Lewes Bonfire Society next year?)

Its a once a year celebration of a very important historical event in this country and therefore should continue to be commemorated annually and there even used to be a law in this country stating that you had to celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot. Had the plot succeeded, it is be highly likely that you would be speaking and writing in Spanish right now.

Almost completely this with a slight empathy for those with very young children who get woken up or can't get to sleep ( said as a parent who has experienced it !!!! ).

 

[Daffy Duck]

If there arn't any fireworks going off at 'gone half 11' on bonfire night then its a very poor night indeed, stop being an old fart and why not join in with the celebrtions (maybe take part with a Lewes Bonfire Society next year?)

Its a once a year celebration of a very important historical event in this country and therefore should continue to be commemorated annually and there even used to be a law in this country stating that you had to celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot. Had the plot succeeded, it is be highly likely that you would be speaking and writing in Spanish right now.

I thought that the Lewes bonfire night commemorated the burning of 17 martyrs in 1555, long before Guy Fawkes.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Walking home across the level last night was like going over the top in WW1.

 

[perseus]

I thought that the Lewes bonfire night commemorated the burning of 17 martyrs in 1555, long before Guy Fawkes.

"They were terrorists" (Bloody Mary)

The Lewes Martyrs 1555-7

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Its a once a year celebration of a very important historical event in this country and therefore should continue to be commemorated annually and there even used to be a law in this country stating that you had to celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot. Had the plot succeeded, it is be highly likely that you would be speaking and writing in Spanish right now.

Honestly, what a sensationalist statement. Members of a repressed minority attempt to assassinate a king and an entirely unelected government, and fail miserably - almost certainly because they had at the very least been under surveilance from day one, and possibly because they had been aided at most steps of the way by government agents in order to make the biggest deal out of it. 40 years later the following king has his head chopped off. Another 40 years later and a Dutch-Speaking person is "invited" by a small number of individuals to come and replace the king 3 generations down. It is a completely trivial event in the history of Britain.

 

[00snook]

Fun police.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

H It is a completely trivial event in the history of Britain.

Hardly trivial !!! I can't think of many other events in our history that so many people know about and celebrate every year.