When you are compelled to dance down Main Street dressed as a box of candy in your local "Festival of Lights" Santy Claus parade.
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In keppitalist America, Duds milk you!
When you are compelled to dance down Main Street dressed as a box of candy in your local "Festival of Lights" Santy Claus parade.
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In keppitalist America, Duds milk you!
The UK used to have a big celebration on November the fifth. It was to commemorate the foiling of the gunpowder plot on November the fifth 1605, when an attempt was made to blow up Parliament and restore catholicism to the country. Bonfires would be lit and an effigy of one of the conspirators, one Guy Fawkes, would be burned atop of the bonfire. Fireworks are let off and there was always lots to eat. As a child I remember that we would put potatoes in the embers of the bonfire, these we would eat, once cooked. Goodness knows what else went down with the flesh of those potatoes. The celebration was always referred to as bonfire night. Nowadays it's reduced to organised fireworks display on the nearest weekend to November the fifth. It dropped out of favour due to idiots throwing fireworks that could start a fire, worse they would deliberately frighten pets, it all got out of hand. Then when the world went politically correct, bonfire night became known as an anti-catholic demonstration, so now very few bother with a home bonfire. Instead we have imported America's version of Halloween, except, thankfully, the trick or treat aspect of it.
On November the first the shops take down all their Halloween display and replace them with tinsel and all things Christmas. At the start of this I mentioned the mid summer Christmas tree, and how annoying I found it. So too do I find it exasperating when the shops clear away Christmas only to display an array of Easter eggs.
A new three parter started on the BBC on Saturday night called Gunpowder about the plot starring Kit Harington who's also in something called Game of Thrones (?) as chief plotter Robert Catesby who was actually his ancestor!
Lots of complaints about the violence so far after an old lady was stripped naked and crushed under a door followed by a young Jesuit priest being hung, drawn and quartered in glorious Technicolor!
I doubt it will be shown in the States though as few people over there know about the plot.
Gareth
Saw my first Christmas commerical of the season playing on the TV at the place where I had lunch today. I don't remember what it advertised because once I saw the tinsel and lights appear, it all dissolved into a red fog.
When you are compelled to dance down Main Street dressed as a box of candy in your local "Festival of Lights" Santy Claus parade.
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In keppitalist America, Duds milk you!