Shiv Ramdas: holy shit I just realised that the US election is on Guy Fawkes Day

holy shit I just realised that the US election is on Guy Fawkes Day

The symmetry is most pleasing

Fair's fair, after all. They held theirs on our holiday.

OK, that's kind of amazing.

We did a swap. We got 4th July fireworks, you get 5th Nov fireworks.

yeah but guy fawkes day is celebrating the execution of guy fawkes, not celebrating the attempted blowing up of parliament, which could've been good if not for his whole "catholic theocracy" plan

okay but can we still blow shit up pls

sure. as long as the plan isn't to install theocrats afterwards.

The Modern Guy Fawkes is the Edward Norton character from FIGHT CLUB, these days...

Me: What was Guy Fawkes about? English friend: Popery. Me: What, he invented air fresheners?

Err, I've been doing that wrong then...

And the UK's was Independence Day👀

in the same year that Easter is on 420

There's gonna be a lot of dusty-mask wearing people who don't understand it's meaning besides a movie they liked as a high school kid at the voting polls THAT day.

I would say that's potentially a bit on the nose but that's just reality anymore.

Woo hoo! Let’s blow up praline-ment!

The writers are really a bit on the nose this year.

We swapped this year

Thank gods! I was having one Hell of a time finding anything with 3 syllables that rhymes with “January.”

I didn't "Remember, be wary, the sixth of January, Insurrection, sedition, and plot. I see no reason why Trumpian treason should ever be forgot" "Dollar for the Don?"

As the English rhyme goes: "Remember, remember the fifth of November - gunpowder, treason and plot." We've moved on since then, of course - America probably won't have to worry about gunpowder.

Remember, remember, The Fifth of November...

Sweet!

We’re doing well with the symmetry here. 🙂

Lets hope no ones lighting "God saved the King" bonfires that day.😒

I can think of no reason this could end badly

And the UK election was on the 4th of July

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