[Alf]

You can stick your American Halloween day up your rear end. This is the big day in Britain at this time of year.

It's also the biggest day of our lifetimes.

If Trump wins, then we have peace. If they cheat him out of it, then we're gonna be in World war 3.

Huge day.

[Mystic Mock]

Happy Guy Fawkes day.

[Alf]

Worst day of the year for dogs.

The day they stop acting tough and find a hiding place in the house.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I will be burning an effigy of the Pope later

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

I will be burning an effigy of the Pope later

I presumed you’d go straight for Ali


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[Alf]

Sat in my garden. Music on, a few beers, jacket spuds, chilli con carne, hot dogs, watching the fireworks and also watcing the US election unfold on X.

[Alf]

Anyone watching V for Vendetta tonight?

It should be as much as a tradition as watching a horror movie on Halloween.

V for Vendetta is also a great movie.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Zizu

I presumed you’d go straight for Ali


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[Redway]

You can almost smell the fireworks from your bathroom if you left the window open.

[GoldHeart]

Considering fireworks have been banging away...for weeks on end before bonfire night, it ruins the magic a little . It's like every day has been bonfire night lol .

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

Considering fireworks have been banging away...for weeks on end before bonfire night, it ruins the magic a little . It's like every day has been bonfire night lol .

Yeah it does and it'll no doubt carry on into the weekend too

I find the history of it fascinating but I can take or leave fireworks tbh. Feel like if you've seen one display you've seen them all

[Cherie]

Shame you don't know your history Alf, Halloween did not originate from America, the immigrants took it their and they commercialised it

Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1.

This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.

In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort during the long, dark winter.

To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes.

When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.