Guy Fawkes Night

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Just wondering if this is still celebrated in the UK in spite of the air pollution that burning wood causes.
We have a tradition every year called "Lag Baomer" where wood is collected by boys and girls for months and then they burn it on a special night.
Unfortunately instead of just one night, they started to burn wood for several nights, up to ten nights in some cities.
The air pollution is just unbearable, and the ministry of environmental protection do absolutely nothing to prevent wood burning or even to go back to just one night.
They burn not only wood, but also all kind of plastic covered wood and plastic containers which emit poisonous gases.
I am just wondering what kind of irresponsible parents would let their children expose themselves to unhealthy smoke and poisonous gases and also some tragedies of getting burnt as a result of accidents.
Schools also take part in the tradition and instead of educating boys and girls how bad this can be, they take part in organizing wood burning in some locations.
This is the second night of the "Promos" and tomorrow will be the big bang according to the calendar.
I suffer a lot from the air pollution on these nights and closing doors and windows doesn't really help.
 
Yes, it's still widely "celebrated" here - and then we also have Diwali at around the same time - so there are noisy fireworks going off from late October to early November. OTOH, we don't actually have that many bonfires because of regulations controlling "public" displays, although, of course, a "relatively few" private "garden" displays also happen.
 
jeallen01 said:
Yes, it's still widely "celebrated" here - and then we also have Diwali at around the same time - so there are noisy fireworks going off from late October to early November. OTOH, we don't actually have that many bonfires because of regulations controlling "public" displays, although, of course, a "relatively few" private "garden" displays also happen.
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I never heard of Diwali. Thanks for enriching my knowledge.
 
HB13DISH16 said:
I never heard of Diwali. Thanks for enriching my knowledge.
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Diwali is an important Hindu festival and we have a large Hindu population in this part of London, and a lot of non-Hindus also use it for a "good time"! - here is the Wikipedia page on it
 
Definitely still a thing, for the first time in years I actually joined in last year as I was awake enough to do so... :)

(and was a good excuse to burn the sofa that the POS brother left in the garden!)

 
Lots of organized fireworks displays here in France for Bastille Day, usually set to music. No bonfires though....or indeed heads being chopped off...
 
When i was a kid (a while ago now) we used to start collecting for the bonfire a about a month before nov 5th, i can remember collecting wood, paper, garden rubbish, from over the estate where i lived, we used carts that we had made out of wood with old pram wheels to lug the stuff back to the bonfire site, when it got big we would make dens in it and spend all availible time playing around it. there would be a rival bonfire at the top of the estate (ours was at the bottom) and we would go on raids to steal more stuff to burn often leaving trails of rubbish through out the estate. when nov 5 arrived the bonfire would be lit and hotdogs/soup would be served from somebodys garage turning the whole event into a street party.
 
we used to light rivals bommys the night before muwahahaha

The fire brigade started putting unofficial bommys out years ago

Only the organised stuff around here nowadays its all very 'sterile'

Not like the raging towers of inferno we used to have, would be planned months in advance
 
We have Lewes, it's organised but I wouldn't call it sterile :cool:
 
gap30 said:
The fire brigade started putting unofficial bommys out years ago
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Thankfully where I'd put mine in the garden, it's well out of reach of firemen from the road, so they'd have needed a long hose or a lot of fire extinguishers to put my fire out... :lol:

As for the raging infernos, yeah, I remember those as a kid, not really a thing these days due to health & safety, pollution, tampering (you never know if someone's chucked a butane tank in there "for the hell of it"), etc., even cracking down on fireworks too just in case someone got hit by hot debris, and that actually happened a few times to me during the fireworks show we got for nowt, one piece of firework embers even set fire to some grass in the next garden, but went out on its' own as it was damp... :-wow
 
2cvbloke said:
Definitely still a thing, for the first time in years I actually joined in last year as I was awake enough to do so... :)

(and was a good excuse to burn the sofa that the POS brother left in the garden!)

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who is a POS brother?
 
I see,he must have hidden qualities we hope
 
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