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Hey there guys. Firework display this evening and tomorrow!
Liverpool vs Newcastle United at 4pm..
Come on redmen, we can do it..
Liverpool vs Newcastle United at 4pm..
Stormrider said:Well if I am feeling better we are going to a really nice American restaurant.
Sounds nice, I hope you have a wonderful time, Stormrider!
You're welcome!
Boogie said:Hey there guys. Firework display this evening and tomorrow!
Hello! What's the occasion for having the firework displays?
Stormrider said:Well if I am feeling better we are going to a really nice American restaurant.
How wonderful! Have you been to this restaurant before?
+Jazzy said:
Its what's known, over here as Bonfire / Guy Fawkes Night:
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 ââ¬â 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
LEGACY
On 5 November 1605 Londoners were encouraged to celebrate the King's escape from assassination by lighting bonfires, always provided that 'this testimony of joy be careful done without any danger or disorder'. An Act of Parliament designated each 5 November as a day of thanksgiving for the joyful day of deliverance, and remained in force until 1859. Although he was only one of 13 conspirators, Fawkes is today the individual most associated with the failed Plot.
In Britain, 5 November has variously been called Guy Fawkes Night, Guy Fawkes Day, Plot Night and Bonfire Night; the latter can be traced directly back to the original celebration of 5 November 1605. Bonfires were accompanied by fireworks from the 1650s onwards, and it became the custom to burn an effigy (usually the pope) after 1673, when the heir presumptive, James, Duke of York, made his conversion to Catholicism public. Effigies of other notable figures who have become targets for the public's ire, such as Paul Kruger and Margaret Thatcher, have also found their way onto the bonfires, although most modern effigies are of Fawkes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes
+Jazzy said:
We have firework displays on the weekend running up to, and sometimes, after Bonfire Night.
Boogie said:We have firework displays on the weekend running up to, and sometimes, after Bonfire Night.I love watching professional displays, but I think shops and supermarkets shouldn't be able to sell them to people, off the street. They're just too dangerous!
I love fireworks displays too. It's illegal here in the US to sell fireworks. You're right they can be very dangerous especially if children get their hands on them.
That all depends on the kind of things you're selling+Jazzy said:
Last year my cousin proved how much fireworks regulations had weakened things by holding a firecracker between two fingers and setting it off. Sure you don't want to clench it in your fist or keep it in your pocket, but this little thing was pretty harmless.
Of course the same can't be said for the sorta stuff that goes up into the air...
+Jazzy said:
We should have that over here. I think only professional displays should be allowed to have them.
Evil Eye said:I tried to set a tree on fire with those once, didn't work
Well, that wasn't the greatest idea in the world!
Evil Eye said:Yeah... wood just doesn't burn that easily, not in the middle of winter
Maybe you should of thought about that before you tried..
