Essentially, the reason for it is that Guy Fawkes was one of the members of this thing called

the Gunpowder Plot, which was a group of English recusant Catholics, there they are,

who decided to try and blow up the king at the state opening of Parliament in 1605,

which involved getting huge amounts of gunpowder in barrels and just like moving them into the basement of the houses of parliament.

And this was Guy Fawkes's element of the operation.

He actually wasn't in charge of the operation, but he was the one who got caught because he was the guy doing it.

So it kind of, it's one of those ironic things where he's actually not the main guy, but he was

kind of known as the main guy, because he was the first one who got caught, one of these many

historical peculiarities. So basically, yeah, this happened on the 5th of November, obviously

1605. Within a few decades, gunpowder treason day, as it was known, catchy, became the predominant

English state commemoration, as it carried strong Protestant religious overtones, and it became

a focus for anti-Catholic sentiment. Puritans delivered sermons regarding the perceived

dangers of popery, while increasingly raucous celebrations from common folk burn effigies

of popular hate figures such as the Pope. It isn't very funny to me to be like the people burning effigies of popular hate figures such as the Pope.

It is very funny to me to be like the people burning effigies of the Pope.

Just like, yeah, that fucking guy.

Let's get him.

It's also very funny because they eventually discovered a very useful escape valve

to remove the problem of the more intense Puritans.

Just send them to America.

Exactly.

Which is why we are such a, well, we are a very, very different version of this kind of vibe because we were settled by those people.

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