He wasn’t the anarchist people think he was. He was trying to remove the protestant king and parliamentarians and replace them with a catholic king and parliamentarians. It wasn’t a freedom thing, it was a change of owners thing.
Blud legit
He wasn’t a hero or anarchist, he wanted us to go back to being ruled by a catholic monarchy with absolute authority. Sod that.
Edgy
It would be great if they got rid of parliament and instead we were directly ruled by the Royal Family again. We could have Mr Mountbatten Windsor in charge of childrens’ homes for example.
Cringe
Ooh, so edgy. **edgy noises**
Wait isn’t this incitement to violence?
To all those who felt the need to point out the one thing they remembered from school, good for you, but that’s not the point of the post.
Nah i celebrate a mutual love of explosions, shiny lights and bbq.
OP wears a newsboy hat.
I’m not convinced most people aren’t on the side of blowing-shit-up and always have been
The British Monarchy has been one hell of a chain of inbred idiots and the Parliament has seldom faired much better – I think most people are on the side of “wartery tarts handing-out swords is no basis for a system of Government” and fireworks are the rallying cry
Nah I’d rather celebrate a religious extremist completely failing trying to enforce their views by blowing up the House of Commons, thanks.
Celebrating religious extremists trying to blow up and kill people? You may as well celebrate the 9/11 bombers while you’re at it
To the people saying that guy fawkes wasnt an anarchist, we know, we are celebrating the attempt in the spirit of telling parliament to go fuck themselves, which im sure we can all get behind them.
Anyway hope you all had fun, the official justification for the holiday cant change whats in your heart.
Bonfire night had more of a ring to it than Hung, Drawn and Quartered Night I suppose.
He was trying to kill the King, parliament was by the by. It was just a place where they knew he was scheduled to be, and they had access to.
He was a Catholic and wanted to assassinate the King because he was a Protestant.
Modern people shouldn’t have a stake in this particular fight.
What one person calls a terrorist another calls a freedom fighter
I just like the pretty lights XD and.. hotdogs for tea!
Actually I celebrate bonfire night cause its my birthday
100+ upvotes??
WTF is wrong with you Reddit?
This is some deluded person who can’t differentiate between reality and V for Vendetta.
There I was thinking it was only celebrated because he tried to blow it up… Funny how it never occurred to me that it could be celebrated because they stopped it…
The gunpowder plot committed by recently tortured now eunuch Guy Fawkes, brought to you by the same people who blamed the Great Fire of London on the closest recently tortured now eunuch Frenchman (hint: it was started accidentally at a bakery).
Is the guy in the photo supposed to represent Reform?
It is weird that we have/had a national burn a Catholic effigy day for so long and no one really thought too hard about it.
I celebrate it because I like burning things on a bonfire and watching the fireworks.
I couldn’t care less about Guy Fawkes, even if the actual event itself is interesting.
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Why celebrate him for failing?
He wasn’t the anarchist people think he was. He was trying to remove the protestant king and parliamentarians and replace them with a catholic king and parliamentarians. It wasn’t a freedom thing, it was a change of owners thing.
Blud legit
He wasn’t a hero or anarchist, he wanted us to go back to being ruled by a catholic monarchy with absolute authority. Sod that.
Edgy
It would be great if they got rid of parliament and instead we were directly ruled by the Royal Family again. We could have Mr Mountbatten Windsor in charge of childrens’ homes for example.
Cringe
Ooh, so edgy. **edgy noises**
Wait isn’t this incitement to violence?
To all those who felt the need to point out the one thing they remembered from school, good for you, but that’s not the point of the post.
Nah i celebrate a mutual love of explosions, shiny lights and bbq.
OP wears a newsboy hat.
I’m not convinced most people aren’t on the side of blowing-shit-up and always have been
The British Monarchy has been one hell of a chain of inbred idiots and the Parliament has seldom faired much better – I think most people are on the side of “wartery tarts handing-out swords is no basis for a system of Government” and fireworks are the rallying cry
Nah I’d rather celebrate a religious extremist completely failing trying to enforce their views by blowing up the House of Commons, thanks.
Celebrating religious extremists trying to blow up and kill people? You may as well celebrate the 9/11 bombers while you’re at it
To the people saying that guy fawkes wasnt an anarchist, we know, we are celebrating the attempt in the spirit of telling parliament to go fuck themselves, which im sure we can all get behind them.
Anyway hope you all had fun, the official justification for the holiday cant change whats in your heart.
Bonfire night had more of a ring to it than Hung, Drawn and Quartered Night I suppose.
He was trying to kill the King, parliament was by the by. It was just a place where they knew he was scheduled to be, and they had access to.
He was a Catholic and wanted to assassinate the King because he was a Protestant.
Modern people shouldn’t have a stake in this particular fight.
What one person calls a terrorist another calls a freedom fighter
I just like the pretty lights XD and.. hotdogs for tea!
Actually I celebrate bonfire night cause its my birthday
100+ upvotes??
WTF is wrong with you Reddit?
This is some deluded person who can’t differentiate between reality and V for Vendetta.
There I was thinking it was only celebrated because he tried to blow it up… Funny how it never occurred to me that it could be celebrated because they stopped it…
The gunpowder plot committed by recently tortured now eunuch Guy Fawkes, brought to you by the same people who blamed the Great Fire of London on the closest recently tortured now eunuch Frenchman (hint: it was started accidentally at a bakery).
Is the guy in the photo supposed to represent Reform?
It is weird that we have/had a national burn a Catholic effigy day for so long and no one really thought too hard about it.
I celebrate it because I like burning things on a bonfire and watching the fireworks.
I couldn’t care less about Guy Fawkes, even if the actual event itself is interesting.
Thought I was in r/iambadass for a moment there…
Another meme fail
Yeah, it’s the trying that counts 😆
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