Is it time to stop celebrating Guy Fawkes' Night?
956957
NO!\n\n        Guy had the best idea about MPs ever.
993640
dropped dead is a bit harsh. How about tripped up and decided it was time to knock it on the head?\nAs I am in favour of getting rid of the entire collection of Royals I am probably not the best person to answer this...\nI think we should all have a  go at being monarch for a week and it could be televised, if youa re rubbish you get voted straight out if you are good you get an extra week.\nIt could be called One's Big Brother.
815925
I agree, yes fireworks 'should' be used only at organised events... \nFireworks are very dangerous, last year the neighbours were setting them off in their garden and one came directly into our kitchen (through the open door) and severly burnt  my sons arms.\nI too have been to organised forework displays and seen teens throwing lit fireworks into the crowds of people watching them, then running off before getting caught...that really scared me, this year i'm staying indoors out of harms way!!
756544
Maybe if you write a nice letter to Santa claus you can ask him to get yourself a life. You are in dire need of growing up. Spurs are only there to make the numbers up. It'll be another 19 years before you knobs ever beat us again.\nI read that the Spurs trophy room has been broken into.The Met police are loking for a roll of white/black carpet.
193585
Sleeping, pin the tail on the donkey, bobbing for apples, finger painting, nap time, the quiet game....\n\n... why would you ruin a perfectly good toga party like that?  It's just wrong.
1182863
Oh for pity's sake!  Of course it's okay.  How is declaring your pride for your nation going to offend anyone?  If someone does claim to be offended, it's only because hand-wringing liberals, who are terrified of being labelled bigots, have branded anything other than fawning deference to other cultures as racism.  If you constantly worry about causing offence to a self-pitying, thin-skinned minority, then you'll spend your life tip-toeing around people and never asserting yourself or stating your true feelings.\n\nShould you apologise for being English or supporting England?  Of course not.  There are certain people who feel resentful because their ancestors were wronged by the Empire and want the English to hang their heads in shame for ever more, but that's just revisionist nonsense.  This sort of brainless mindset would have us constantly extolling the virtues of others, while considering any pride in our own character or achievements as arrogant.  Be proud.  Fly your flag.
325516
Guy Fawkes was an English soldier and a member of a group of Roman Catholic conspirators who attempted to carry out the "Gunpowder Plot" in 1605, which was prevented by his arrest on 5 November.\n\nThe plot was an attempt to assassinate King James I of England (James VI of Scotland) and the members of both houses of the Parliament of England. To do this, Westminster Palace was to be blown up during the formal opening session of the 1605 Parliament, in which the king would address a joint assembly of both the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Guy Fawkes was in large part responsible for the later stages of the plan's execution. His activities were detected, however, before the plan's completion. Following a severe interrogation involving the use of torture, Fawkes and his co-conspirators were executed for treason and attempted murder.\n\nGuy Fawkes is remembered with 'Guy Fawkes Night' on November 5 annually. We have build enormous bonfires and put a "Guy" (a scarecrow like effigy) on top of them to burn. We also light thousands of fireworks and eat junk food.\n\nI love it !!!!!
679434
Guy Fawkes Originally was to blow up parliment and the king of the time to start a cultural revolution. The meaning of the saying is a reminder to us how we should imberace democracy and to politicanss that the people are ultimately in control and not them
269076
This is an excellent question.  I assume you're thinking about what Prince Harry did last year (which I don't think deserved as much flak as it got).\n\nHalloween is, among other things, a day to look squarely at death and at supernatural evil.  It is opposite the calendar from Easter, a day of life and rebirth.  The Devil has been around since the beginning of time, and we're all quite used to him.\n\nHowever, Hitler's evil is more recent and more specific, and some people, such as Jews or the British, may be more sensitive to Hitler's crimes than other people are.  (The Germans bombed London during WWII.)\n\nYou'd probably be okay dressing as Hitler for the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, but not at a Purim party or at Her Majesty's costume ball.
167996
They can celebrate it late at 28th night?\nor celebrate once in 4 years and feel younger?
647037
no all veterans should be honored. those men have rised their lives for us and given us the freedoms we enjoy everyday.  that is a very unpatriotic thing to say.  should we quit celebrating your bday?
811395
I think anytime you get over 100,000 people together there will be some elements that could potentially lead to the tragic thing that happened at this party. I don't think its really related to the fact they were getting dressed up and partying for Halloween necessarily. Same thing could very well have happened for any celebration or gathering of people. I don't see anything wrong with adults dressing up and celebrating Halloween. I have done it myself on many Halloweens and no one at any event I attended ever got hurt. Haven't you heard of being young at heart?
1014132
If you are going to burn the flag then I have a suggestion. You will find it a lot more fun if you do it just outside of a biker bar and burn it. See the reaction of the crowd.
915949
St George's day should DEFINATELY be a bank holiday! In america they have presidents day and I believe that we should have a day to celebrate being English. I am proud to be English and all that stands for. We are losing sight of our identity in this country thanks to strange thinking by the politicians. At some point we were made to feel ashamed of our Englishness and I think that is abysmal! Unfortunately ,idiots like the national front managed to hijack the english identity and tried to turn it into something grotesque but with the last few world cups we have taken back theSt George's Cross so the next logical step is to celebrate our Saint's day with a national holiday. Very good question!
795943
As this year the 11th fell on a Saturday, my children who are 12 and 8 and I observed the 2 minutes silence outside tescos whilst selling poppies.  I could not believe people were still trying to buy poppies during that time.  I had already told the children to ignore anyone who tried to speak to us.  I was accused of being rude, when I explained what we were doing they still said I was rude. Tescos did announce the silence, but many customers did not join in, cars and buses still drove past.\nI think the nation should stop.  When my 83 year old mother was a child everything and everybody stopped, the country came to a complete stand still, but there again war was still very fresh in peoples minds.  The silence is not just for veterans of the world wars but for all military killed or injured on active duty, as they still are today.
1143150
I just saw a question claiming NEOCONS shoot kittens to celebrate the fourth.  This kind of attitude is getting more common among the liberals.  Not that you don't find it from the conservatives, it's just more common in the liberals.
881828
Today is England's Independence Day of sorts. It's snobbish of me to say it's like the American holiday, seeing as it predated our independence day by almost two hundred years, but it's the same idea. Guy Fawkes, in 1605, tried to blow up the houses of Parliament, but was caught and hanged. People celebrate the prevention of his plot by burning effigies of him and setting off fireworks. By now, it's really just an excuse to have bonfires, fireworks, and a good bit of fun.