Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Maybe it's time we had some new ones, showing kids it's not a funny to throw fireworks at people, it's not funny to throw things from bridges onto motorways/railway tracks etc.
'Penny for the guy': has it vanished forever?
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Maybe it's time we had some new ones, showing kids it's not a funny to throw fireworks at people, it's not funny to throw things from bridges onto motorways/railway tracks etc.
likesfish
You can't park here sir
Tbf lewes burns a pope every nov 5th true but nobodys chucking stuff at the catholic church or catholic schools.
When i suggested to my nieghbours who were getting pissed off with people parking 4x4 whie waiting to pick there kids up from the local catholic school that the answer was big murals and get a mob together to throw stones and fireworks at going home time they looked at me as if i was mad.
Simliar to my neighbour whose trying to get his kids into the catholic secondary school suggesting that burning his house down for that "crime" was an option just got a blank look.
When i suggested to my nieghbours who were getting pissed off with people parking 4x4 whie waiting to pick there kids up from the local catholic school that the answer was big murals and get a mob together to throw stones and fireworks at going home time they looked at me as if i was mad.
Simliar to my neighbour whose trying to get his kids into the catholic secondary school suggesting that burning his house down for that "crime" was an option just got a blank look.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
They never played that at my school.
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hiraethified
Worse than giving them AK47s probably.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
I hark back to the good old days before jumping jacks were banned. Yeah a few people got maimed but at least it was fun.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
How do they afford the things though? I was quite tempted by a few rockets, but gone are the days of cheap jobs for a few quid.
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hiraethified
Cheap Chinese imports I think. I've seen some right Battle Royales in my street with near-bazooka like rockets despatched between warring factions.How do they afford the things though? I was quite tempted by a few rockets, but gone are the days of cheap jobs for a few quid.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Wish they sold them round here.
You have to remember Catholics could not get a job in a bank in Glasgow until the 1970s nor get a job working for the council in towns like Stockport and Blackpool either.
Catholics could not serve in the British army as officers up until WW1 and then it was in regiments with alot of Catholic recruits.
In fairness. Your wife doesn't seem to think too much about anything, does she? Just look at the cunt she married.
Nah the electricity substation - "Jimmyyyyyyyy!!"
On the other hand 'oh Looook Petunia, he's waving at us!' was very jolly.
most people dont seem to know about it outside west yorkshire
Parkin has to be made a few days in advance and allowed to age or it'll taste vile and the texture won't be right. AFAIK it's a regional recipe traditional for Bonfire Night (along with cinder toffee), but I'm not sure exactly which region.
I used to see plenty of it in Salford a few years ago. And I remember it going on a lot in St.Helens too when I was young. I think it's still more of a thing in Lancashire than anywhere else in England. I remember being on Salford Precinct one afternoon and a group of school age kids were doing "Penny for the guy" with a football with eyes drawn on it and wearing an adidas tracksuit. I gave the lad some change and he responded with "ace I'm gonna have enough for a tenbag soon" which warmed my heart immensely.
Yeah that's another one, Mischief Night, the kids round here still do it. Mind you the kids round here still say "I tell thee" and live like it's the 1950's so that's to be expected.
My grandmother, who was of Irish catholic extraction, refused to let my mum or any of her kids participate in Trick or Treating and Bonfire Night. Halloween was paganism, and Bonfire Night was understood to be an anti-catholic display of bigtory. But my family were weird like that.
Some of the happiest days of my life were on Dalton Green Lane having makeshift artillery wars with kids from the other side of the street. We could teach them spanish miners a thing or two about makeshift mortars and bazookas!
Probably Yorkshire. And you can still get it, along with cinder toffee, up here.
Jesus wept you culturally bereft southern bastards, i almost feel sorry for you!
Mapped
London town
Yeah we had cinder toffee too, I remember my dad breaking a tooth on it. The region will be northern, my parents are from Lancashire and Yorkshire and carried on the war of the roses in our house.
gosub
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Halloween is big in Ireland
Yes but my grandmother's objection to Halloween wasn't based on being Irish. She objected to it on religious grounds. There's plenty of protestants who would agree as it happens, loads of them in the American Bible-belt.
Is annual "Burn a Catholic day" big in Ireland too by any chance?
19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
To be honest the catholic church does not do itself any favours so that I can actually be appalled at the thought of burning effigies of catholics. The homophobic the bishops of Rome, Glasgow and Motherwell are well towards the top of my list if burnings are required.
gosub
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Jimmy Savile was a catholic eta do the effegies at Lewes have to be of living people?
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