Bangers and Jacky Jumpers

[cojak]

Didn't go bang though.

They didn't need to - even the cat had to dive for cover when Dad let one of those off...

[cojak]

Were they the ones that had wings and flew around at neck height?

Things started to get a anaemic a few years ago but the illegal Chinese ones have certainly put a bit of pepp back into 5th Nov....

[Lucifer Box]

Was he wearing a rucksack, cliaming benefit, and had a lot of facial hair by any chance..?

That Guy Fawkes, eh, they had proper terror promoting religious fundamentalists in those days.

Still, interesting article here on the creeping Americanisation of our culture and how Guy Fawkes can help turn the tide (or not)...

Halloween v Guy Fawkes Day

[mcquiggd]

Was he wearing a rucksack, cliaming benefit, and had a lot of facial hair by any chance..?

[zeitghost]

Remember them? And those helicoptery thingies.

Banned of course.

Nasty dangerous things.

Now we have fireworks from China that make the place sound like the Battle of the Somme is going on outside.

That's progress for you.

Someone was busted in Swansea for having three quarters of a ton (or tonne) of fireworks...