November 5th

After googling this, I come to the conclusion that Guy Fawkes day actually celebrates the triumph of Protestantism over failed Catholic terrorists.

I remember hearing something like a bunch of Catholics being killed and such.
Oh well, I guess he wasn't so bad.

Non-Brits might mistake the bonfires/fireworks/celebrations on bonfire night for us supporting the actions of Guy Fawkes and his crew...



Nope.. the dude was caught, tortured, then executed. Now we burn his effigy every year as a celebration.

Long story short- Don't fuck with the King.

O.k yeah your right, well then it makes sense.

Some people will use any excuse to have a party. Certain individuals of a restricted intellect in the UK also like to dress in orange sashes and go marching every July 12th to celebrate the outcome of a minor battle fought over 300 years ago.

In a nutshell, go figure.

Erm, I assume the move is V for Vendetta? Bonfire Night has been happening for a long time before 2005 (the year the movie came out). And his life isn't celebrated, but his death. Which is why, traditionally, people burn a figure of him on a bonfire.

Burning effigies of religious terrorists who were tortured and executed nearly 400 years ago is an awesome tradition. It makes me wish there were Benedict Arnold or Vidkun Quisling Nights.

They can try what the Nova Scotians do and burn models of American ships and flags.

Why not? Every nation needs their boogeyman from ages ago.

Like America used to have communism but now its Muslims.

We can all celebrate together under our new flag

Guy Fawkes failure was a message to other would be conspirators, Catholicism was by no means gone in England. Just look at all the riots in the years preceding it centered around Mary Queen of Scots only a few decades previous.

So pretty much it was a whole Protestant vs Catholic issue and not the issue of him failing to blow up the parliament.

Surely his attempt to blow up parliament is a Protestant vs Catholic issue.

I think the Batman made an epic quote for this:

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian.- The Batman

As already stated, we don't burn effigies of him because he was a hero (well okay, I don't bother at all), although apparently they don't burn Guys in York, because that's where he was from. That's about as close as you get to celebrating Guy Fawkes as a hero.
I say burn the heretic! Crush the dissident! For the Empe- oh wait, wrong universe.

Edit: Not to detract from Batman