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Don't be ridiculous

(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 10:50, 1 reply, 13 years ago)
well what is guy fawkes night all about then?
we burn the effigy of a spaniard ffs.
everyone goes, yay! go [insert country here] and how we threw off the oppression of [insert country/social class here]
(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 10:53, Reply)
Wasn't he from York?

(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 10:55, Reply)
Yes.

(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 10:59, Reply)
It's the moustache, it confuses people

(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 11:02, Reply)
he might as well have been.
Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 11:07, Reply)
If The catholics had succeeded they would have oppressed the protestants, so it wouldn't have been a victory for freedom
plus they would have had European support, meaning we may have seen greater influence from the continent, and no one likes that, except Kroney
(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 10:55, Reply)
so we still celebrate oppression as our national festival then.
still fucking gay (guy even!!!) compared to other countries.
(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 10:58, Reply)
Not really, no one wants to be catholic
imagine all the buggery, guilt and money you have to give the church?
(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 11:00, Reply)
buggary you say?
praise jesus!
(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 11:02, Reply)
Guy Fawkes was from York, dude.

(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 10:58, Reply)
so it's just me that burns the effigy of a spaniard then?
holy chorizo!
(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 11:01, Reply)
It's about burning shit.
Burning is fun.
(, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 11:04, Reply)

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