Is this the way to celebrate Bonfire Night?

[accymel]

Again the gov are trying to remove traditional fun - gee we wont be celebrating nowt before long!!!! Good that they are going to clamp down on inappropiate use of fireworks but they say the same every year & still they get in wrong hands.


Smog warning ahead of bonfire night Sunday November 5, 12:19 AM

LONDON (Reuters) - The government has issued a smog warning ahead of bonfire night on Sunday, and a senior Labour politician called for the annual event to be scrapped as an environmentally unsound anachronism.

With light winds and a dry night expected, bonfire smoke will result in high levels of air pollution in central and southern England and south Wales, the Department for Environment, Food and Agricultural Affairs said.
Labour MP Barry Sheerman said it was time to abandon the annual festival of fireworks and bonfires to mark the anniversary of the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up parliament.

"Here we are 401 years after the death of Guy Fawkes still having a bonfire in most people's gardens, polluting the atmosphere with carbon and the worst contribution to dioxins in the whole year," he told BBC radio.

"This poor man was hung, drawn and quartered -- his innards were dragged out of him while he was still alive -- 400 years later we are still symbolically burning a guy."

Sheerman if people wanted to celebrate the anniversary it was better for them to attend organised events.

At one such event in east London it will be a Bengal Tiger, not Guy Fawkes, that will be surrounded by flames.

Tower Hamlets Council is expecting more than 20,000 people to attend a "pyrotechnic extravaganza" with drummers and dancers recreating the folk tale of the Moghul Emperor, the Wise Man and the Guardian of the Jungle -- the tiger.

A council spokesman dismissed as nonsense accusations that Guy Fawkes had been dropped from the event for reasons of "political correctness".

She said the council had a policy of having a different theme each year for its November 5 events.

At last year's event a model of the Houses of Parliament was sent up in flames, but previous years were themed around London's successful 2012 Olympic bid and the Mexican Day of the Dead.

Home Secretary John Reid said police would have no hesitation in clamping down on people causing mischief by letting off fireworks in an antisocial manner.

Tougher laws introduced in recent years mean it is now illegal for anyone under 18 to possess or let off fireworks in a public place.

The Home Office said new legislation led to a 15 percent fall in the number of firework-related injuries needing treatment in hospital last year in the weeks around bonfire night.

[chav1]

Originally Posted by accymel

ougher laws introduced in recent years mean it is now illegal for anyone under 18 to possess or let off fireworks in a public place.

and just like using mobile phones while driving and booster seats for children this law will not be enforced either

[accymel]

Originally Posted by chav1

and just like using mobile phones while driving and booster seats for children this law will not be enforced either

Yeh lol they are struggling enough to fight crime nevermind enforce owt else

[Less]

Originally Posted by accymel

"Here we are 401 years after the death of Guy Fawkes still having a bonfire in most people's gardens, polluting the atmosphere with carbon and the worst contribution to dioxins in the whole year," he told BBC radio.



At one such event in east London it will be a Bengal Tiger, not Guy Fawkes, that will be surrounded by flames.

Just a cotton pickin' minute! Why is it 'polluting the atmosphere', when we celebrate Guy Fawkes night with a bonfire, but having a tiger surrounded by flames is o.k.

By the way whatever will we do with the pallet mountain and old suites if we don't have bonfires every year to reduce them to ashes? Are we going to open up fresh Guy Fawkes celebratory land-fill sites to cope with it all?

[accymel]

Originally Posted by Less

Just a cotton pickin' minute! Why is it 'polluting the atmosphere', when we celebrate Guy Fawkes night with a bonfire, but having a tiger surrounded by flames is o.k.

By the way whatever will we do with the pallet mountain and old suites if we don't have bonfires every year to reduce them to ashes? Are we going to open up fresh Guy Fawkes celebratory land-fill sites to cope with it all?

I know Less i thought it was a whimsical excuse - oo lets protect the atmosphere while Mr T B jets off here there & everywhere! Least bonfire night is like a huge clean up op of wood & all the things clogging the back yard & alleys

[katex]

Originally Posted by accymel

I know Less i thought it was a whimsical excuse - oo lets protect the atmosphere while Mr T B jets off here there & everywhere! Least bonfire night is like a huge clean up op of wood & all the things clogging the back yard & alleys

... and not as many as there used to be Mel .. was one in every back street when I was little, very rarely see these now, just the organised ones in the main, sure is the same in London. We are taking more responsibility towards this 'fun' event so Mr T.B. can go and stuff his ludicrous outburst and that smug Liz Pugh too.

[silvermain]

Put simply all you PC people out there you are pathetic. Get off this forum!

[accymel]

Originally Posted by katex

... and not as many as there used to be Mel .. was one in every back street when I was little, very rarely see these now, just the organised ones in the main, sure is the same in London. We are taking more responsibility towards this 'fun' event so Mr T.B. can go and stuff his ludicrous outburst and that smug Liz Pugh too.

Noo thats true we used to have little bommys in the alley - just dont put foiled spuds too far in - they explode taty bits everywhere pmsl mind u there was a big bommy on the old park on the corner last night with the older teens sitting on a old thrown out sofa keeping a bit too warm LOL but least got some of the rubbish up here from clogging gardens lol.

[accymel]

Shame u cant use the pc people as a substitue Guy LOL

[katex]

Originally Posted by accymel

- just dont put foiled spuds too far in - they explode taty bits everywhere pmsl.

Wasn't any cooking foil then Mel, used to just chuck 'em in as they were, came out with charred skins, but steaming white centre .. very unhygienic .. still ate them though . had to fish 'em out with a spare piece of wood, had to be quick though before the wood set on fire itself ... yummy

[grannyclaret]

When we were kids we had some fantastic bomfire nights, us kids used to collect wood and build a den under the big pile,then one kid would be left on guard sat underneath,to make sure other gangs diddent pinch it,OOhhh that wouldent be allowed now,,
On the actual night it was a neighbourhood thing with treacle toffee and roast spuds ,,and the fireworks,,if you were posh you had a half crown box or if you were very posh you a five shilling box,,,me,well i had a sixpenny bag of sparklers....,i remember the jumping crackers the lads chucked at the girls,,another thing that were stoped by the p.c. brigade....
all the kids were safe because all the mums and dads kept an eye out on all the little ones.
Ahh memories,,,,

[accymel]

Originally Posted by katex

Wasn't any cooking foil then Mel, used to just chuck 'em in as they were, came out with charred skins, but steaming white centre .. very unhygienic .. still ate them though . had to fish 'em out with a spare piece of wood, had to be quick though before the wood set on fire itself ... yummy

LOL a friends idea cos she wanted a hygenically cooked potatoe & went a bit wrong lol

[katex]

Originally Posted by accymel

LOL a friends idea cos she wanted a hygenically cooked potatoe & went a bit wrong lol

Bit like putting them in the micro-wave, eh ?

Anyway, glad you and the kids on here had a good night .. long may it carry on, says I :engsmil:

As to Guy Fawkes demise, yes, was horrible, but kids love stories of blood and gore, don't they ? Was too long ago for them to put it into any current catergory..OK .. don't start with the awful horrors that are going on in the world anybody please, doesn't relate to November 5th.

[accymel]

Yeh they had a good time tho i think i enjoyed it more lol

Last year the kids watched a docu remake of the plot on discovery which they found interesting & explained in mock up detail of the events that happened.

[SPUGGIE J]

Once upon a time in order to have a great time we didnt mix politics and religion. Unfortunately now a bunch of overpaid arrogent lilly livered liberal cry babies who have nowt better to do are hired paid oodles mof cash and for what;

TO TRY AND MAKE OUR LIVES MISERIBLE AND MEANINGLESS!!!

Do the powers to be think we are incapable of having a good time without guidence or interference?

Lets have a PC brigade free day and should they be daft enough to raise their heads (which they would) then we make use of the chav culture to kick them up and down a few streets!

How dare they try and spoil a night kids up and down the UK enjoy just to justify the job they have.