Teh Madness

What's your problem?

I eat too much	25.2%	[ 129 ]
I drink too much	5.7%	[ 29 ]
I sleep too much	16.2%	[ 83 ]
I watch too much TV	11.0%	[ 56 ]
I have a crush on Marc	12.5%	[ 64 ]
Gluten	6.5%	[ 33 ]
Nuthin'. Shut up. What's your problem?	22.9%	[ 117 ]
Total Votes:			[ 511 ]

[snakemarcato13]

Gatz TdaMax

Saiyajin-Neko

You have a Guy Fawkes mask? XD Awesome.

God it's like a war outside right now, lights flashing and explosions every five seconds. WHEEE.

Should you really be on the computer, then? ^_^;;

I know I'd want to be outside watching!

[Saiyajin-Neko]

They aren't nearly so close for me to see them, and I can't go to the display that was Saturday for some obscure reason. Probably for the kids, since they would of had school the next day should it happen tonight. But people are celebrating anyways, on their own.

[emi_die_maku]

Celebrating what? I missed it ._.

(And I was in the same boat with Dom, so now I'm clear and I hug you, Neko heart xd )

[Saiyajin-Neko]

Bonfire night! A U.K celebration. WE IZ CUULZ TO CEREBRATE DEATH! LOLOLZZZ!

Just look up Guy Fawkes. XDDD

(Yay! I really had no idea why everyone was so stressed. *Dumb* )

[PumpkinSpirit]

i wasn't stressed. or are you talking about people at your work maybe? or family? or am i missing something here? sweatdrop

[Saiyajin-Neko]

My version of stressed is probably me playing up the whole thing. XD Really do not ever take me so seriously hun, I'm a very relaxed and easy going person when it comes to stuff like this. I love debates and I love peoples opinions, sometimes I'll say something just to see what someone else thinks.

[snakemarcato13]

I'm celebrating! *wishes I were closer to where Neko is*

[Saiyajin-Neko]

^___^ That really is awesome Snake, I'm glad of it. Hehe. I am also celebrating in my own little twisted way. *Listens to the bangs*

[snakemarcato13]

But I do have a problem...

I don't have the hat. I'm going to go to work wearing my mask and my trenchcoat. my hair is already black (with a blue tint) and long (but not straight). *taking the modernized media version of V*

I'm such a silly american celebrating a UK holiday. XP Oh well. It rules.

[snakemarcato13]

ICKY!!!! IT'S SNOWING!!!!!

[Saiyajin-Neko]

snakemarcato13

But I do have a problem...

I don't have the hat. I'm going to go to work wearing my mask and my trenchcoat. my hair is already black (with a blue tint) and long (but not straight). *taking the modernized media version of V*

I'm such a silly american celebrating a UK holiday. XP Oh well. It rules.

rofl Oh my. Yes, if you were over here we might just avoid you in that getup.

Hmmm sounds like they've stopped, there will probably be more through the night though, all random of course.

Snow? Already?

Anyways am off to bed, woot. Driving practice tomorrow, again. Night.

[PumpkinSpirit]

I just found an article about Guy Fawkes Day from the booklet Why The Strange Customs of Halloween? Gordon (only emi and kevin know who he is) gave me a copy of the booklet. i am sorry for any grammer issues with this following. i am to tired to re-read this to correct it, but it has this to say about that day

Guy Fawkes Day
In Great Britain, Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated on Nov 5. This holiday has its origins in a religious conflict involving the banishment of Roman Catholic priests from England. In protest, several laymen plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament at the time when King James I was to open the new session. Nearly 40 barrels of gunpowder were prepared and secreted in a cellar underneath the Houses of Parliament. Authorities discovered their intention and conspirators were legally executed in 1606. Guy Fawkes - an apparent ringleader - had been chosen to set off the ill-fated explosion. This whole episode is commonly known as "the Gunpowder Plot."

Guy Fawkes Day in England is also reminiscent of the Halloween celebration worldwide. Marguerite Ickis tells us: "Guy Fawkes Day has many customs in common with a Halloween celebration in the United States" (book of Festivals and Holidays World Over, p.120)

Young people in England observe this holiday somewhat like their American counterparts observe Halloween. The Book of Days sheds some light on the subject.
"English juveniles still regard the 5th of Nov. as one of the most joyous days of the year. The universal mode of observance through all parts of England, is the dressing up of a scare-crow figure, in such cast-habiliments as can procured (the head piece, generally a paper-cap painted and knotted with paper strips in imitation of ribbons), parading it in a chair through the streets, and at nightfall burning it with great solemnity in a huge bonfire ... The procession visits the different houses in the neighbourhood... One invariable custom is always maintained on these occasion - that of soliciting money from the passersby, in the formula, "pray remember the Guy!" "Please to remember the bonfire! [The common expression now is "penny for the guy" (pp.546-550)."

In times past, Guy Fawkes Day was celebrated by many of the adult generation. "In the old days the festival was celebrated heartily with bonfires and parades of masqueraders, who carried aloft 'popes' or 'guys' of straw ... " (Dorothy Gladys Spicer, The Book of Festivals, p.14).

But as Marguerite Ickis explains: "Today Guy Fawkes Day is mainly a holiday for children, who observe it by dressing up in funny costumes, having parades, lighting firecrackers, and making straw dummies of Guy Fawkes" (Book of Festivals and Holidays World Over, p.120).

Like Halloween, Guy Fawkes Day has its religious overtones. The Book of Days informs us "Till 1856, a special service for the 5th of Nov. formed part of the ritual of the English Book of Common Prayer; but by special ordinance of the Queen in Council, this service ... has been abolished" (p.546)

Guy Fawkes Day, like Halloween and many other days observed the world over, has no biblical basis as a religious holiday...

[The Broken Bandit]

rosaleendhu

MEEP! heart

*has love for Marc's siggy pic*

eek she...she...she SPEAKS! blaugh Glad you like it!!! *bows* pirate

[The Broken Bandit]

snakemarcato13

ICKY!!!! IT'S SNOWING!!!!!

ONOZ! EAT IT!

[snakemarcato13]

Yeah, today there were only me and my friend who knew what Guy Fawkes Day is. After work, on the way home, a cop stopped at Subway as we were walking by, and we looked at him and went "Happy Guy Fawkes Day!"

Of course, we knew that he had absolutely NO idea what it was.