It’s called Guy Fawkes night, not James 1st night or Cecil of Salisbury night. We mark it by setting off explosions and burning things, just like Guido wanted to do. Guido gets the cool character design, and big screen reimaginings where he’s a badass counterculture dude. Guido failed in his plot, but he won the PR war.
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 🤷
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.
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
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.
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
Glad you pointed this out. The efforts of Guy Fawkes and his team were to restrict the rights of many. Although the character of V For Vendetta is cool, it’s very, very loosely based on the actual Guy Fawkes (who gives me the impression of a bigot, from what we know of the gunpowder plot).
catholic countries are actually more religious now
In South America and Africa, somewhat maybe depending on the country and what you’re comparing to (current day America maybe, Middle Ages catholicism definitely not).
In Western Europe, L. M. F. A. O. I don’t think there’s a single catholic (or formerly catholic, now secular) country in Europe that comes close to being as religious as the US, by any useful metric.
Within Europe we can try to compare Catholicism vs Protestantism, but let’s be real, most of these guys were murdered, converted, or sailed off to the new world centuries ago.
Within Europe though, most Catholic areas (Iberia, Ireland, Poland, Italy etc.) are more religious than Protestant areas (Germanic countries) with the exception of France which is about equally religious…
The same pattern follows in the Americas, even though as you say the puritans were sailed off to the US centuries ago
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.
Western, white countries are all the center of their own universes
Means nothing. Every country should act in its own (ie: the peoples) best interest. They should always be the centre of their own universe, as they have limited ability to change things outside such.
stupid fuckin american lol, not only misses the point but denies there could be one. Too bad it’s plain as day to everyone else. enjoy being the barbarian at the gate of civilization, you drooling horde
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