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• Well I think Cliffe BS has gone down hill...DFL's in processions and the fancy dress next it will be selling organic, fairtrade programmes on the Cliffe bridge! And what about that terrible band??? sorry "Band". What are they called, the trump thumpers?
  I have heard they are starting their practices again, well they need it. Dreadful racket.
  They should change themselves to the Cliffe Carnival Society just like those pioneers from Commercial Square. :P


• The only time I've ever seen CSBS members at outmeetings is in the pubs, never in the processions. I always assumed they were some kind of deliquent drinking club, rather than a bonfire society.


• Umm nobody asked you to come and watch the processions. We don't march for the benefit of anyone beyond ourselves and we set off rookies and crackers because we always have done (its thus a tradition!) and we enjoy it.
  
  As to the stripy jumpers then yeah that might be the loud section of the lesser societies, in the Cliffe you'll find its the navel ranks who'll send you scuttling with a continuos barrage of rookies (our smugglers ranks seem to be occupied by smaller children these days and we happily ensure we stand between them and our bangs when we pass at the turning point of our grand)
  
  We do our best to ensure that bangs are kept in the middle of the road and are covered by our own feet to prevent injury to any unwitting tourist who happens to be lining our procession route. The really big stuff goes in the canons anyway so we can be sure of the direction and avoid hurting anyone outside of our own ranks.
  
  If you want to really see some banging action then stay around for the Cliffe last. There is no point hanging on to anything we've got left at that point so its all red smoke and bangs thought the ranks. Just don't stand near a drain cover unless you want a depth charge soaking!
  
  


• Yerr - Or you could just watch the Cliffe processions instead ;)


• I like the stuff going off in the processions too. To me, it encapsulates the anarchic, rebellious spirit of bonfire and, more importantly, demonstrates that we're not becoming the bunch of panty-waisted Pecksniffs that the authorities would like us to be.
  
  Fireworks should stay in the procession though, it's every bit as wrong for bonfire boys to throw them into the crowd as it is for the crowd to throw them into the procession. Any half sensible bonfire boy knows that you don't throw them near kids or bands too, although some of them seem to forget every damn year.
  
  A couple of people at library corner complained about the heat and smoke from torches. I felt compelled to ask wtf they were doing at bonfire if they didn't like heat or smoke.........