Spare a thought for your pets!

scott dont frett too much as i am old and dont spend like in the old days:)

Sandie , sorry if you feel singled out . I responded to your blog As far as I am aware you have done nothing to me I was trying to make the point , its very much part of my culture and what and how I spend my money , is up to me
Like Eish said , some people can hardly put food on the table yet they buy crackers and prossibly drink and smoke too !

sorry Veetjie, I am already sitting in it………..

Oi! give a thought to me while you are at it. I am green with envy!
Enjoy your weekend Gilroy.

Hi Vee, Lovely weather here today. Going to let the top down and do a booze cruise!

Thanks Gilroy. I needed that….Phew! been a really difficult two weeks for me.
Now! a pub lunch, lots of crisp dry white wine and a 200km/hr drive in a specific car would be just what the doctor ordered (or perhaps the drive should come first….hehehehe)

It’s Friday!!! Pub lunch, beers and good company! Here is something to lighten your load:

Several men are in the locker room of Wentworth golf club in England. A mobile phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands free speaker function and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen.

MAN: ‘Hello’

WOMAN: ‘Darling, it’s me. Are you at the club?’

MAN: ‘Yes’

WOMAN: ‘I am at Harrods now and found this beautiful leather coat. It’s only £2, 000. Is it OK if I buy it?’

MAN: ‘Of course, go ahead if you like it that much.’

WOMAN: ‘I also stopped by the Bentley dealer and saw the new Convertible. I saw one I really liked.’

MAN: ‘How much?’

WOMAN: ‘£ 190,000′

MAN: ‘OK, but for that price I want it with all the options.’

WOMAN: ‘Great! Oh, and one more thing…the house I wanted in Chelsea last year is back on the market. They’re asking £9,800,000.’
MAN: ‘Well, then go ahead and give them an offer of £ 9,000,000. They will probably take it. If not, we can go the extra 800 thousand if it’s really a pretty good deal.’

WOMAN: ‘OK. I’ll see you later! I love you so much!’

MAN: ‘Bye! I love you, too.’ The man hangs up. The other men in the locker room are staring at him in astonishment, mouths agape. He turns and asks: ‘Anyone know who this phone belongs to?’

DAVE-that’s 1nterest1ng because one of James’ b1ggest 1nd1scret1ons was to hang S1r Walter Rale1gh 13 years after he was conv1cted of an offence and merely to appease the Span1sh. Rale1gh was the man who 1ntroduced tobacco to Br1ta1n.
LARRA- Rafa could put all the gunpowder 1n Ch1na 1n Lucas Le1vas shorts and 1t st1ll wouldn’t be enough to l1ft h1s eyebrows.

Perhaps we should all remember the picture of the poor boxer dog (I think it was a boxer) who was so terrified by crackers last year that he chewed a hole through the back door and then when he tried to jump over the fence to run away…he hung himself to death.

I lock my pets up and stay with them, reasuring them all the time.

Larry. Join in the chorus:
Rule Britannia!
Marmalade and jam.
Five Chinese crackers up your *hole.
Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang!

I wonder if we can get Virgin to sponsor Bafana Bafana? They can’t score either.

Gavin Taylor
Why dont you put a cracker up Rafas a/s/s?
Beach balls crackers, what next.
I believ Tampons want to sponsor Liverpool next season, because you lot play like #@*%$

Hi Gavin. James 1 & 6 also wrote one of the first anti-smoking pamphlets and inspired a brown-nosing thespian called Shakespeare to write an historically inaccurate play about MacBeth. I’d love to celebrate Guy Fawkes, but I live too far away from parliament, I don’t have access to large amounts of gun powder and I don’t think the ANC have a sufficiently developed sense of humour for me to get away with it.

Scott, who said it was not part of my culture. As children our parents used to take us out past the racetrack and we did the crackers out there. the last time we did crackers was abt 15 years ago when our children were small. beautiful to watch I know. now as we have gotten older it is no longer important to me. So why did you single me out.??? what have I done to you.

So its not part of your culturew Sandi , so why would it be relevant to you ?
So why is a problem what I do with my hard earned money ? Who are you to criticise ? I may choose to entertain a few others at the same time . You begrudge me spending …whatever ..how obscene ..call out the thought police .

Thank you , reality check here !

They sought to overthrow the Govt , by blowing them up , so very different from torching a township , or blockading a road ? Anarchy has many faces .
So we feel sorry for all the dogs that wake us with their barks and howls as soon as their owners let them out ! @ 6 am every day , during the week of course !
Was asked about the tradition of the evening , so I sensationalised a bit . Tired of Govt , blow them up . No viable Govt in place , bound to fail . And they died most grueseome deaths

Today …..re -deployed !

have celebrated anarchy at it finest , almost , since I can remember , its my culture , if I can accept yours , is it so hard to understand mine ?

DAVE R. As a follower of the Celts you should be celebrat1ng. The plot was to murder James 1st (he was James 6th of Scotland). Best remembered for un1t1ng England & Scotland but more so for order1ng the translat1on of the B1ble 1nto Engl1sh he was a good monarch but bel1eved h1mself above the law of the land. The attempt to murder h1m was based on rel1g1on more than pol1t1cs. Mary 1 was Cathol1c and when she was deposed El1zabeth 1st returned England to the Protestant fa1th. Mary had systemat1cally murdered Protestant B1shops (hence her name Bloody Mary) and set about 1ntall1ng Cathollc1sm as the off1c1al rel1g1on. When James came to the throne feel1ngs were st1ll very tense between the two fa1ths. The Cathol1cs had hoped that he would declare the1r fa1th the off1c1al rel1g1on but when he d1d not they plotted aga1nst h1m 1n 1605…
Most ch1ldren 1n England wouldn’t have a clue what the celebrat1on 1s about and there are huge calls to ban 1t altogether because of the dangers and nu1sance 1t causes.
sorry about the 1’s 1n my post but my pc’s ‘eyes’ are on a go slow.

Eish when you are young crackers are fun, but when you become old they become damn things. So you must watch yourself you are getting old that is why they make no sense to you. There is a child in every adult.

I meant to add, ban the damn things once for all and teach these cracker crazy idiots to calm down and remember it’s not the size of your cracker that defines you but your respect for others and your attetude

Guyfawks,my foot. This event happend in the U.K. +-500 yrs ago for pete’s sake. The only numbskulls who celebrate this day don’t even know what it’s all about and fire crackers for there own selfish pleasure with no consideration and respect for his nabour and fellow man and their animals. The firing of crackers starts at least one week before yhe 5th and goes on virtually to the next year. I live in a very poor neighborhood where people can hardly put bread on the table but they can fire crackers oh yes.

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My daughters school has a fun evening to raise funds for the school whereby the schools pays someone to do a fireworks demonstration / show on the school fields. An entrance fee is charged and you are encouraged to bring along a blanket and picnic basket to watch the show. Good way for parents to meet each other and it is safe.

I love fireworks. Always have and always will. Be responsible and keep your pets inside.

We have not celebrated Guy Fawkes’s attempt to blow up parliament for at least the last 50 years!!
We have simply enjoyed the coloured lights and bangs of the fireworks!!
It is the fireworks that scare some animals and which people are objecting to.
But please bear in mind that we are discussing one night per year, namely the 5 Novemver.
What about other cultures that have celebrations during the year that also involve fireworks??
Animals are also affected by these celebrations, so I presume that people are happy that these fireworks be banned. as well???????

Something that happened 500 years ago probably isn’t even important in U.K. – where it happened.
But given the new S.A.’s penchant for supporting murderous people and causes: “Guy Fawkes was a gallant freedom fighter who sought to free us from the capitalist yoke.” (With acknowledgement to [the late] Giles and one of his memorable cartoons).

just the fact that I havent even thought Guy Fawkes until I was reading the blogs shows how unimportant it is in our lives. Also I do not believe in burning money. There are other more important things we need to use our hard earned cash on.

I used to be all for Guy Fawkes but hell, spending all that money to get blown up in a matter of minutes and put all those terrified animals through it – for what? No doubt we’ll see a couple of dead dogs lying in the roads tomorrow morning – they usually try get away from the noise and land up in the road. Guy Fawkes should be banned in SA – it has NO relevance to us whatsoever.