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Happy Fireworks Night...?....

I love the celebration type banners the MSE put up, Christmas, St Patricks Day, Halloween etc but "Happy Fireworks Night"......thats sounds really awkward LOL. Shouldn't it be "Happy Bonfire Night" ?

I mean, you can't warm your cockles on a cold November evening round a Roman Candle, you need to stand nr a big bonfire burning old furniture and giving off toxic fumes to fully appreciate pie and peas and parkin ....surely!

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  • techno12
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    I was just about to post something similar but you beat me to it!

    I've never ever heard Bonfire Night being referred to as Fireworks Night.

    Maybe it is round Martin's way ;-)
  • Tojo_Ralph
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    avstar wrote: »
    I love the celebration type banners the MSE put up, Christmas, St Patricks Day, Halloween etc but "Happy Fireworks Night"......thats sounds really awkward LOL.
    It doesn't smack of awkwardness, it smacks of advanced subservient dear God please don't let me offend anyone kowtowing. ;)
    The MSE Dictionary
    Loophole - A word used to entice people to read clearly written Terms and Conditions.
    Rip Off - Clearly written Terms and Conditions.
    Terms and Conditions - Otherwise known as a loophole or a rip off.
  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    Probably some young computer geek who's never heard of Guy Fawkes and thinks Halloween is more traditional!
  • Errata
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    Every night is Fireworks Night in some households, but there's only one

    BONFIRE NIGHT !
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • C_Mababejive
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    Feudal Britain needs land reform. 70% of the land is "owned" by 1 % of the population and at least 50% is unregistered (inherited by landed gentry). Thats why your slave box costs so much..
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