FabGuys.com forum: Guy fawkes

By *ungus OP Man
4 days ago

gidea park

Might be showing my age happy bon fire night

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By *astDevonGuyMan
4 days ago

East Devon

Light up the Sky with …..?……? …….

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By *jw58Man
4 days ago

Newport

"Light up the Sky with …..?……? ……."

Standard Fireworks! 🎇

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By *astDevonGuyMan
4 days ago

East Devon

Oh for the days of the back garden bonfire , packet of sparklers and waiting for the jacket potatoes that were cooked in the ashes ……

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By *ice WankerMan
4 days ago

Lancs

I’m sure other things will be shooting and firing tonight

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By *V ShazTV/TS
4 days ago

Haydock

And some banging going on too

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By *ulberryMan
4 days ago

S. Worcestershire

"I’m sure other things will be shooting and firing tonight

Dead right there.

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By *matisMan
4 days ago

cambridge

And the bangers under a dustbin lid and jumping jack crackers.

I loved bonfire night and it's not been the same for years. Mind you we never did anything for hallowe'en. And I don't really agrees with it. Kids potentially knocking on strangers' doors for sweets when the rest of the year they're told to be wary of strangers. Old age I suppose and nostalgia.

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By *arridMan
4 days ago

Brighton

I don’t think people make ‘guys’ any more never mind ‘penny for the guy’. Fireworks are good, especially the Lewes shows.

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By *irtyfacesMan
4 days ago

near

It can be a nuisance for veterans

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By *d seekerMan
4 days ago

Skelmersdale

The weird thing is the plot to blow up Parliment failed, so why do we celebrate, if that is the correct word, with explosions ?

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By *ungus OP Man
4 days ago

gidea park

British history build a guy go up local train station ear a bit of pocket money

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By *evanianMan
4 days ago

Flintshire

"The weird thing is the plot to blow up Parliment failed, so why do we celebrate, if that is the correct word, with explosions ?"

Well.....Back 420 years ago in 1605, a group of Catholic plotters of which Guy Fawkes was a co-consiprator hatched a plan to blow up the Protestant King James I and the entire Parliament. But, the plot of course was foiled, and the king survived!

To celebrate the failure of the direct attack against the constitutional monarchy and the survival of King James I people lit bonfires around London, and eventually, the tradition stuck. The 5th of November Act was passed, making it a day of public thanksgiving for the plot's failure. Fast forward to today, and we still celebrate Guy Fawkes Night with fireworks, bonfires, and festivities!

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By *onnyd26Man
4 days ago

Mitcham

Just putting this this out there,

Guy fawlks was a brittish national and not an immigrant.

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By *evanianMan
4 days ago

Flintshire

"Just putting this this out there,

Guy fawlks was a brittish national and not an immigrant."

Not exactly, to be more precise, Guy Fawkes was born in York around 1570, so was English by nationality.

The concept of being of British nationality didn't happen until the passing of the Act of Union of 1707.

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By *ountainMan
4 days ago

ipswich

It was fun making a guy to burn on a bonfire and then the fireworks when I was younger. Id still like it today.

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By *ovecock4Man
3 days ago

grinsby

A bit of pub quiz information, when it’s said Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliament most assume it’s the Houses of Parliament which would have been extremely difficult has it actually hadn’t been built at the time, what he was trying to blow up was the House of Lords situated a couple of miles away from the current Houses of Parliament.

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By *arcusUK2Man
3 days ago

Winchester

"Just putting this this out there,

Guy fawlks was a brittish national and not an immigrant."

He was Catholic, so almost a foreigner.

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By *tevejbMan
3 days ago

Leeds

In the period of time when people were executed for being catholics, Fawkes and his cor-conspirators were standing up for a persecuted group. Burning effiges of Guy Fawkes is barbaric and celebrating november 5 is celebrating an anti-catholic festival.

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By *evanianMan
3 days ago

Flintshire

"Just putting this this out there,

Guy fawlks was a brittish national and not an immigrant.

He was Catholic, so almost a foreigner. "

Interestingly Fawkes was born into a protestant family, he converted to Catholicism in his late teens after his mother married a Catholic.

Hardly a foreigner as a Catholic since England was a Catholic Country before the Reformation, where the Church of England separated from Papal Authority and the Catholic Church, largely driven by Henry VIII's desire for an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon after she failed to produce a male heir.

Guy Fawkes was in fact a patriotic Englishman albeit Catholic with a desire to restore Catholicism in England rather than having any foreign allegiance.

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By *rum39Man
3 days ago

Birmingham

From my understanding it was a group mostly from Ireland organised by Irish noble men with ties here

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By *antsMeetsMan
3 days ago

uxbridge

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By *andomguy321Man
3 days ago

reading

Looks like they had an especially vibrant way of celebrating the occasion in Birmingham last night.

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By *ildwestheroMan
3 days ago

Llandrindod Wells

"A bit of pub quiz information, when it’s said Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliament most assume it’s the Houses of Parliament which would have been extremely difficult has it actually hadn’t been built at the time, what he was trying to blow up was the House of Lords situated a couple of miles away from the current Houses of Parliament. "

Not two miles by any stretch of the imagination. A couple of hundred yards maybe. The lord in those days met in the White Hall which was still one of the many buildings that made up the medieval Palace of Westminster.

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By *antsMeetsMan
3 days ago

uxbridge

Funny seeing all the bonfires with Starmer effigies 😆

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