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A day when, in England, we remember the catholic plot to destroy Parliament.
We celebrate the discovery of this plot by burning effigies of Guy Fawkes and the pope.
Anti-catholic sentiment being stirred up as part of our national heritage.
Isn't religion wonderful.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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i suspect human being should be connected wireless - but minimizing actual face time/physical contacts minimize possibility of conflicts and war
we should all live in our tiny pockets in isolation
dev
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Is that not the way the typical internet troll lives?
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to completely eliminate the possibility of any physical contacts with another human being in this world, one (programmers only) need to transform himself into a "Program", put it in The Cloud, and kill himself.
Step 1 is the most difficult part - we're complicated.
dev
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Perhaps not. How do you know you are not just a totally unimportant NPC in some computer game in the first place? The game appears to be a little boring at times, but it could be worse. We also could all have ended up as orcs on WoW. 
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CDP1802 wrote: We also could all have ended up as orcs on WoW.
That will help keep people from killing themselves actually.
dev
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Meh! Nobody does it as well as Lewis[^], it is fracking brilliant night and I have never escaped it sober.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: as well as Lewis[^]
^ Lewes
It's the town, not the detective.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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oh, so this is the celebration? i got this the other way around when i first searched for it, i thought you celebrated the plan, but in fact you celebrate the discovery of the plan? that makes more sense...
but for me Guy Fawkes is a mask used by a revolutionary, Then I associate more with a revolutionary than with this plan... I guess it's a question of nationality
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
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Dalek Dave wrote: A day when, in England, we remember the catholic plot to destroy Parliament.
Speak for yourself, I (along with every other Derby fan and Mirror pensioner) celebrate Cap'n Bob falling off his boat.
The Max Max Maxwell
Went a Bob Bob Bobbing Along
Drown you bastard, drown you bastard, drown, drown, drown you bastard.
He's fat, He's dead,
He's floating in the Med.
And other such songs that were sung throughout the minute's silence they laughingly tried to have for him at the Baseball Ground, one of the loudest and most joyous occasions I can remember there.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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.. except he drowned in the Atlantic[^]
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Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise!
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Poetic license.
What did you expect from football fans?
He's fat, his sons are frantic,
They found him floating in the Atlantic?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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I don't think it's anti-Catholic – it's celebrating the fact that a terrorist plot failed, the fact that the conspirators were Catholic is pretty much irrelevant to that.
I've never seen an effigy of the Pope on a bonfire.
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Forget religion... This is the day we celebrate my favorite movie[^] (And the associated graphic novel)
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I gave my copies of the original comics (autographed, of course) to a pal, not that long ago.
I was very impressed by the movie.
Big plus: The way he introduces himself to Evy alliteratively; that's worthy of the Yeti himself.
Only real minus: "Scarlet Carson"? "Scarlet Carson"? "SCARLET Carson"?!? Talk about dumbing down for the septics.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dalek Dave wrote: Isn't religion wonderful.
It's actually about the stupidity and bigotry of human beings. Religion has nothing to do with it.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: It's actually about the stupidity and bigotry of human beings. Religion has nothing to do with it.
I'm not seeing the difference... 
(The joke icon might not be enough here, better get my flame shield ready)
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the convicts don't remember it - not a peep about Guy Fawkes here in convictland
AT home in NZ - they let off the fireworks and had a jolly good time
Bryce
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