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polaris:

--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on November 12, 2007, 09:48:40 am ---
--- Quote from: grantspain on November 11, 2007, 05:48:35 pm ---but the dippy bint does not realise we are celebrating the capture and execution of guy fawkes and his buddy's not the act they were trying to carry out.

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Is this still the case for the majority of Britons? Because I get the sense that he is also seen, by some, as a bit of a (anti-fascist) folk hero. Alan Moore didn't develop the "V" character out of whole cloth...

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i doubt many give a flying ---fudgesicle--- either way, its just an excuse to get pissed and let off fireworks. not many in this country care about whats happening around them now, let alone what happened 400 years ago.

mr.Curmudgeon:
Right. I hear it's just like that in England also!   8)

polaris:

--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on November 12, 2007, 03:55:09 pm ---Right. I hear it's just like that in England also!   8)

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:dunno
im confused, i thought you were talking about britain, england is part of britain

mr.Curmudgeon:
I was making a bad joke, implying the United States is exactly the same way. (ie: about the 4th of July, for example)

polaris:
ahh sorry dude, me bein dumb.

but for sure we can boast to havin one bigger thing than the yanks, a nationwide alcohol problem, we are truly world leaders of binge drinking :applaud:

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