psymon Posted January 20, 2007 Posted January 20, 2007 Just finished watching the film V for Vendetta. Probably a flim for the Americans, who don't understand what the meaning of November the 5th is to the British. It's a great movie, I want one of those masks!Anyone else seen it, what do you think?
ZoSo357 Posted January 20, 2007 Posted January 20, 2007 Ah, very awesome movie. I seen this a few months back. My friends just gave me that "man, it's perfect for you" talk haha. Gotta love listening to the 1812 overture while watching statues explode with large aerial shells bursting from behind Guy Fawkes <3
Mumbles Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007 From pyro friends I learned plenty about Guy Fawkes, and then had to explain to everyone who guy fawkes was and all that. Then my friends saw it again and it made a lot more sense,
RUUUUUN Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007 On the topic of Guy fawkes, Why do you people have Guy Fawkes day? That would be like people in the US having Timothy McVeigh day. Are you celebrating that he got caught or something?
psymon Posted January 23, 2007 Author Posted January 23, 2007 OK here we go. Guy Fawkes night is a celebration of - prevention of an act of terrorism. It was basically the biggest act of terrorism in UK history. The govenrnment managed to foil 'the gunpowder plot'. We traditionally make a Guy (like a scarecrow) and throw it on the fire. However this part of the tradition is not practised so much these days.The best night of the year for me!Remember, remember the 5th of November... Does that answer the question?
psymon Posted January 24, 2007 Author Posted January 24, 2007 About 30 years ago kids would make a 'Guy' and sit outside shops with it. They would say 'Penny for the Guy' to anyone walking past them. The proceeds would then be spent inside the shops that were selling fireworks. And yes you could buy fireworks at any age then. Those were the days, eh kids! The full rhyme chanted on the day of the British 5th of November Guy Fawkes Night goes like this. Remember; remember the 5th of November the gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
optimus Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 For more info have a look here: http://www.rhymes.org.uk/remember_remember...th_november.htm Another reason the tradition has stood the test of time is that us Brits just love to start bonfires!!! "Throughout recorded history, it has taken very little persuasion to get English people to make a bonfire." - The Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore.
ZoSo357 Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 I know here in canada a lot of people have huge bonfire's and call it "bonfire night" which is essentially the same thing I believe.
Mardec Posted January 29, 2007 Posted January 29, 2007 WTF, I thought the brittisch liked Guy Fawkes.. I always thought people looked at him as a hero/freedomfighter.. The government was fucking the people and he wantend to stop it by blowing up the house of parlament.. So you are actually celebrating the prevention of a revolution? That guy fought for you and you are celebration he didn't succeed? What am I not getting here? @ RUUUN: Guy Fawkes didn't succeed in his act of """terrorism""" and probably wasn't a spyco like Timothy McVeigh who did succeed and only "fought" for his own interests. Guy Fawkes fought for the people as so I thought.But was he notting more then an ordenary terrorist? How could I have been so wrong
RUUUUUN Posted January 29, 2007 Posted January 29, 2007 I didn't say he succeeded I asked if they celebrated it because he got CAUGHT, I know who Guy Fawkes is. He would have needed alot of gunpowder if he was going to try level the westminster palace with Kewl Pipe B0MbZzZ!!!!11111 If he only faught for his own interests he was most likely more psycopathical than Timothy McVeigh, McVeigh fought for a group of peoples interests.
Frozentech Posted January 29, 2007 Posted January 29, 2007 I didn't say he succeeded I asked if they celebrated it because he got CAUGHT, I know who Guy Fawkes is. He would have needed alot of gunpowder if he was going to try level the westminster palace with Kewl Pipe B0MbZzZ!!!!11111 If he only faught for his own interests he was most likely more psycopathical than Timothy McVeigh, McVeigh fought for a group of peoples interests. Since you know who he was, you know he was a mercenary, an anarchist, and wanted to restore Catholicism as the official state religion of England. He was a lot like McVeigh, and they celebrate that he and his co-conspirators were caught in the act of 'setting up the bomb'. And it's a good excuse to shoot off fireworks and make noise.
cplmac Posted January 29, 2007 Posted January 29, 2007 You would never have guessed it having seen the movie only. Just goes to show MOVIES AREN'T REAL!!!However, Soylent Green IS people.
qwezxc12 Posted January 29, 2007 Posted January 29, 2007 http://www.soylent-green.com/cat/sg-prop.jpgsorry, couldn't resist...after all, recycling IS good for the environment.
Mardec Posted January 31, 2007 Posted January 31, 2007 http://www.soylent-green.com/cat/sg-prop.jpgsorry, couldn't resist...after all, recycling IS good for the environment. Why not drink your own piss then? God I am gonna get a warn for this @cplmac, you are right. People (including me) beleve way to much that is told in movies. In V for vendetta Gay Fawkes is show to be a hero, while he was some catholic/terrorist bastard. Anyway I hate it we don't have a real "shoot fireworks for a reason day" here. Only new years eve and I can't wait an entire year
psymon Posted February 4, 2007 Author Posted February 4, 2007 Isn't any reason to shoot off fireworks a good thing??? Weddings, hey I know celebrate with some fireworks. It's my birthday, hey I know celebrate with some fireworks. New Year, hey I know celebrate with some fireworks. Guy Fawkes being hung, drawn and quartered in front of a mob of people - hey I know celebrate with some fireworks.
psymon Posted February 4, 2007 Author Posted February 4, 2007 The Govenment stands elected by the people. Therefore the Government are for the people of the country they reside in. If we want to celebrate the catching, subsequent torture and death of a scumbag terrorist with fireworks then we shall do that.
fight fire with fire Posted February 7, 2007 Posted February 7, 2007 I love v for vendetta it's awesome fireworks parlament blowing up Tchaikovskys 1812 so cool!!!!
psymon Posted February 20, 2007 Author Posted February 20, 2007 Still want one of those masks. Your signature fight fire with fire, I would call both of those things foods or ingredients
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