Watched a panorama programme this afternoon about how climate change is causing death and destruction all over our planet, tonight I stand here in my kitchen and our sky’s are filled with polluting fireworks, tomorrow is fireworks night and will be the same, surely the time has come to find more ecological ways of celebrating , are we that thick that we can’t see what we are doing to this wonderful world we live in? Don’t won’t to be a kill joy but people need to wake up

When i lived in Sussex, the villages used to spend the entire year gearing-up for bonfire night. My own experiences of witnessing quite a few of these events are:

1. It scares the 5hlt out of pets, which is a ball-ache.

2. It is an excuse for pi155ed up adults with low IQ's to throw explosives at each other, causing unnecessary burden on the fire service and A&E.

I disengage, I turn the page.

I pretty much hate everything about Fireworks night, from the Reason we celebrate it (celebrating a failed terrorist Attack ??) to the s***ness of the actual fireworks themselves.
But mostly it just seems incredibly irresponsible. for the whole year people are we get it in the ear about climate change, and how we need to stop polluting the atmosphere, then for one day a year every town/city/district/hamlet et al builds a massive fire and explodes loads of Chemicals in the air.
just don't get it - it's outdated thinking, and it's about time we called an end to it.

Edited by CrazyBadger (05 Nov 2021 9.02am)

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

I cannot recall the entire verse, but at school, early 60s, there was a rhyme..
remember, remember 5th of november, gunpowder, treason & plot !

those heavy card, coloured guy fawkes masks.
our head master said it was begging, doing the old penny for the guy & hed drag us back to our homes if he caught us !!
unfortunatly 5th nov & halloween are all blending into 1.

Edited by kingdowieonthewall (05 Nov 2021 11.27am)

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

PR spin from James I.

His men discovered the plot a few days earlier and but allowed it to play out to capture all the participants.

After it failed James I used it to promote his popularity by whipping up anti Catholic feeling. Bonfire night and the nursery rhyme were all part of the after the event spin.

One more point

lewes used to burn the pope every year, on what is probably the most raucous bonfire night in this country.

Now however, its who ever is particulary unpopular that year.

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.