halloween

[Lainie]

anyone at a party tonight for halloween? or were you at the weekend? im off to see glasvegas tonight in glasgow and im sure i will see some funny sights.

[hoggy952]

Its just Americanised with the trick or treat phrase now.

Still all good fun though!

[jordigirl]

hate bloody trick or treat, shoulda stayed in america

just more the fact a have to move off me arse to answer door every 2 bloody minutes

[hoggy952]

Feed them laxative chocolate.

[Captin]

It actually started in Great Britain & Ireland, then it got Americanised.

Can't be bothered with myself, but then my kids are all grown up.

In North America, trick or treat has been a customary Halloween tradition since at least the late 1950s. Homeowners wishing to participate in it usually decorate their private entrance with plastic spiderwebs, paper skeletons and jack-o-lanterns.

The tradition of going from door to door receiving food already existed in Great Britain and Ireland in the form of souling, where children and poor people would sing and say prayers for the dead in return for cakes. Guising - children disguised in costumes going from door to door for food and coins also predates trick or treat, and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in 1895, where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money. While going from door to door in disguise has remained popular among Scots and Irish, the North American custom of saying "trick or treat" has recently become common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_or_treat

[jcgrumbles]

it looks like i bought that bloody bear trap for nowt,my wifes a miserable git sometimes..

[gopher7]

Enjoy Glasvegas Lainie, just noticed they were playing when going home tonight.

[tshirtman]

Peodofiles must love halloween,
kids come to them asking for sweets.

[flyingpig]

I dont take part in it, but the kids love it - and if they love doing it and it makes them happy then that is all good by me.

One positive thing about it is that they get to go and knock and talk to the other people in the community. That is if they can be arsed answering the door to the poor kids. Funny thing is it is those people who moan about the kids not paying respect or taking part in any community activities... Just moaning old farts!!!

[flyingpig]

I meant to add - who cares if it comes from America?? We get our judicial system from ancient Greece, highways from Rome, our Dreamboxes from China.

If its good whats wrong with adopting it?

[Mjolinor]

I meant to add - who cares if it comes from America?? We get our judicial system from ancient Greece, highways from Rome, our Dreamboxes from China.

If its good whats wrong with adopting it?

Whoa, bit of reading required methinks.

[tshirtman]

I dont take part in it, but the kids love it - and if they love doing it and it makes them happy then that is all good by me.

One positive thing about it is that they get to go and knock and talk to the other people in the community. That is if they can be arsed answering the door to the poor kids. Funny thing is it is those people who moan about the kids not paying respect or taking part in any community activities... Just moaning old farts!!!

Poor kids ?
they wear a tracksuit and a plastic mask from poundland, and I'm supposed to be impressed ,

Community activities, your having a laugh, they knock on your door begging for sweets, and when you say no you get a gob full of abuse.

[tshirtman]

I meant to add - who cares if it comes from America?? We get our judicial system from ancient Greece, highways from Rome, our Dreamboxes from China.

If its good whats wrong with adopting it?

Judicial system from Greece, that's a new one.

[maca]

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[racin-snake]

i went out this year as Osama bin laden (i thought it would be safe to do now )

made a few quid and a shitload of sweets


now the kids i stole it all from will know that Osama really is the bogeyman