BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 05:02 PM

I *knew* I was forgetting something.

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Mr Red
Date: 06 Nov 23 - 05:06 PM

Did the Lewes guys get fried this year? And who? I guess Trump & Putin would figure

Subject: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: robomatic
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 11:08 AM

"Remember, remember, the Fifth of November
Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot.
I see no reason
Why gunpowder season
Need ever be forgot."

Is Guy Fawkes Day being commemmorated as usual.

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: robomatic
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 03:09 PM

I remember a lovely girl of English background telling me the story, er, HIStory of the Gunpowder Plot and I think it was near Halloween or something but I found it hard to believe that was REAL. ENGLISH. HISTORY. More fool I because I was already fascinated with the English Civl War.

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Nov 23 - 01:16 PM

There is a bit of English impact in the local area, because we dimly remember that the inlet on which we are splayed out somewhat haphazardly was given its name by Captain Cook. Also we have a lovely statue of Captain Cook which is the bookend of the one a little more publicly placed in Victoria, B.C.

But, I did not see nor hear any local references to GFD.

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 11:14 AM

I'll watch the movie V to celebrate.

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 11:42 AM

... to celebrate the last guy to have a try at blowing up parliament?

... to celebrate catching the last guy to have a try at blowing up parliament?

Dc

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 06 Nov 23 - 06:17 AM

It wasn't even the 5th, just the 4th!

When I was young, it was always the 4th if the 5th fell on a Sunday.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 08:32 PM

Also considered by some as the last time someone entered the houses of parliament with honest intent.

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 04:40 PM

when we were kids we loved getting fireworks and playing with them.

nowadays kids go to firework displays, and drunks buy giant chinese fireworks to chuck around.
one year a guy in the village we were living in climbed up on the roof and fired rockets at the police helicopter.

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Thompson
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 11:24 AM

Isn't that when all the English light fires to celebrate the last guy to have a try at blowing up parliament?

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Thompson
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 06:19 PM

For the future, for those with firework-scared dogs, there's a gadget called a Thundershirt sold online which soothes dogs extraordinary. My lovely late Border Collie cross was petrified of thunder and fireworks, but when we got this - a coat that swaddles the dog's shoulders tightly - she was completely calm on Hallowe'en night, which is when the (illegal) fireworks go off here.

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Thompson
Date: 08 Nov 23 - 12:47 PM

Extraordinarily, I mean.

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 06 Nov 23 - 10:47 AM

Thi year there seem to be a lot of fireworks that go bang very loudly but provide hardly any visual display, exactly the opposite of what I want!

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Nov 23 - 12:56 PM

It's a privilege to be able to have fireworks once or twice a year and you have certain responsibilities. A few people abuse that privilege. It's a privilege to be able to own a dog all the year round, and as a pet owner you also have responsibilities. Quite a lot of people abuse that privilege, and even feel somewhat entitled.


Observe the laws of the land and live and let live!

Subject: RE: BS: Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Nov 23 - 05:34 AM

Saturday evening was hell here in our village. (It wasn't even the 5th, just the 4th!) Fireworks exploding constantly for about three hours, rockets landing in gardens and all the dogs (lots of people here have two or three dogs) in panic, or heavily sedated. Also, the horses up at the stables on Cadders Hill were terrified. One had to be sedated too.
It was like the Somme. I couldn't even hear my TV. But a (very) Norfolk woman said to me "Well oi reckon yew orter jest turn it up, yew fewl!"
As a child I did enjoy Bonfire Night, but we had Catherine wheels, sparklers, 'golden rain' and Roman candles. Never three hours of deafening hell!
Anyone remember using dad's old clothes and stuffing them with newspapers, adding a mask then toting it round the shops asking for "Penny for the Guy?"