Bonfire Night, bigger than Christmas in Lewes...

When I was living in Lewes there were fireworks and rookies let off every night for a month.

5 big displays in the town on the 5th, 6 societies with torchlit marches, schools closed if its a weekday.

Not for the feinthearted!

Nulli Secundus

Posted By: Worthing Yellow on October 20th 2017 at 15:15:38

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Advanced moan about Halloween, Bonny Night and Poppy Day in that order? (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 20, 14:54:00
- Joy Dyson (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 20, 19:22:40
- I don’t believe it ... (n/m) (General Chat) - Gob on a Stick, Oct 20, 18:46:58
- All public occasions are shit. (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Oct 20, 17:40:19
  - tbf the royal ones are fantastic (General Chat) - SCC 28, Oct 20, 17:58:12
    - yes I agree (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 20, 18:42:35
      - Yeah queeny could start by condemning parliament (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Oct 20, 18:55:58
        
        I think not (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 20, 19:07:10
        
        I was visualising Tory heads on spikes along the Thames (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Oct 20, 19:18:21
        
        and the labour ones (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 20, 20:15:05
        
        that would be a good show tbf,. it'd be popular family entertainment (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 20, 19:50:32
- New Years Eve can fuck off too (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Oct 20, 15:42:41
  - +1 (n/m) (General Chat) - avenging canary, Oct 20, 15:51:44
    - Most overrated celebration ever imho. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 20, 17:31:15
- Also why do people say Happy Halloween? (General Chat) - camcan, Oct 20, 15:41:53
  - Top idea, Remembrance Sunday Cards (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 20, 16:09:21
    - bin done (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 20, 16:11:54
      - god bless america (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 20, 16:14:48
        
        They voted for him. (n/m) (General Chat) - avenging canary, Oct 20, 16:52:38
- You'd love Malta. Every day is like bonfire night. (n/m) (General Chat) - avenging canary, Oct 20, 15:36:56
  - if you're an investigating journalist (n/m) (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Oct 20, 16:15:29
    - boom! (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 20, 16:16:26
  - I went there once (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 20, 16:04:45
- I like Bonfire night. Haloween has been massively commercialised. Not for me. (n/m) (General Chat) - Jim, Oct 20, 15:31:50
  - it'd be better if it wasn't to commemorate the torture and execution (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 20, 15:40:27
    - just banter, like those marches in Belfast where they sing "The dress my father wore" (n/m) (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Oct 20, 16:02:43
      - The broad black brimmer of the IRA (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 20, 16:06:20
    - Was more to commemorate the failure of the plot surely, otherwise it would be (General Chat) - Jim, Oct 20, 15:54:15
      - yes, true (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 20, 16:21:32
      - Yes (n/m) (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Oct 20, 16:16:44
- Too many words. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Oct 20, 15:20:09
- an alternative view of Halloween (General Chat) - CWC, Oct 20, 15:18:32
  - i might signal my virtue with a black one this year (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 20, 15:33:59
    - Nobody of note really gives a flying fuck about your alt poppies Ralph (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 20, 16:01:47
      - no thanks (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 20, 16:06:50
        
        good point, well presented, deserves a response. (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 20, 16:10:22
    - Ooh, a yellow & red stripey one. Homage to Catalonia (General Chat) - CWC, Oct 20, 15:51:08
- Bonfire Night, bigger than Christmas in Lewes... (General Chat) - Worthing Yellow, Oct 20, 15:15:38
- Innit (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 20, 15:01:53

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