he was trying to kill the king because the king was protestant and he wanted a king who'd force everyone to be catholic it's celebrating that he was stopped hung drawn and quartered L + rip bozo
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Common religious squabble L for everyone.
ummm no
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot
who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes
In 1604 Fawkes became involved with a small group [...] who planned to assassinate the Protestant King James and replace him with his daughter, third in the line of succession, Princess Elizabeth.
I always knew God was a Protestant🥰🙏
AKA the "I only know about Guy Fawkes Day because of V for Vendetta" crowd.
AKA Americans
Tbf I only know about him cos of the shitty rhyme
At least I'll never forget the date
"The last man to enter parliament with honest intentions".
TBF it's a celebration that a plot to use terrorism to institute a Catholic theocracy failed.
IDK why people idolize the guy, he was a wannabe Catholic theocrat.
That shit Bloody Mary did, he wanted to do that but make it stick this time.
You mean before or after he's appropriated by Alan Moore as an anarchist symbol?
To be fair, the government ~~at the time was~~ is an asshole.
The older I get, the more I sympathise with old Guido
"Come on, kids! Let's go door to door asking for help celebrating a guy burning to death!"
To be fair, burning to death is probably marginally less excruciating than crucifixion and people who claim to LIKE that Jezza guy can't get enough of celebrating THAT happening to him every spring 🤷
Yeah, but this is celebrating the execution of a terrorist. It would be like if the U.S. had Bin Laden Day. It's tasteless if you think about it.
I'm pretty sure that, had he been real, the Romans would have considered that Jess character a terrorist too, though.
But yeah, it IS all tasteless lol
Yeah but tasteless + time = celebrated tradition
Not sure if your conflating Halloween or talking about the way we ~~nicked~~ asked if we could have any 8nused wood for the bonfire
The latter. Although kids just used to ask for money.
As a kid in the UK in the 80s we never did the penny for the guy thing. No one ever gave us anything
Not surprised. What was a penny worth in the 80s? My dad and Grandmother were English and they told me about doing it when they were kids in the 1910s and the 1930s.
While the phrase was penny for the guy that was not the expectation.
Might be geographical I was out Glasgow way back then
In 1910??! You're doing well, I have to say!
It was definitely a penny when they were kids. That link said it started dying out by the mid-20th century. I thought people just went around asking for bonfire wood after that.
That's what we did. To the point about August the adults would start hording scrap wood rather than binning it. That was until the bigger kids started lighting it early so. This resulted in us only having 1 day to build it
no one ever gave us anything
Well, they won't of you don't ask!
Perhaps it was regional. I was also a kid in the UK (midlands) in the 80's and I, my brother and a few of the other lads from the estate went door to door with "penny for the guy" not everyone answered, but we got enough change to buy sweets.
Didn't trick or treat back then though.
don't blame me i was celebrating man getting hit in the groin with a football
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