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southall-1998
27-09-2013, 19:24
My arse! Had a little girl knocking on my door wearing a Halloween costume & mask, wanting money probably & fuck the sweets! I blame the stupid parents, perhaps they could be teaching the child how to scam!!
FFS, stupid Halloween is not here yet!!
Ninanina
27-09-2013, 19:27
As far as I'm concerned it is begging and I definitely won't be giving.... it's not the money it's the principle of the thing... it's just an American thing really
archiesdad
27-09-2013, 19:38
It's ma birthday so I may be drunk when answering the door in my fancy dress (or lack of dress) and kids often don't come back. The big dog barking behind the door often helps persuade them to stay away too.
The Grand Wazoo
27-09-2013, 19:41
As far as I'm concerned it is begging
Well, strictly speaking, the 'Trick or...' part of it makes it extortion.
I'll be giving the kids sweets.
I'am not mad on it but it's not the kids fault.
They enjoy it which is the main thing.
It is well organised in this area by the local residents association. The parents meet up beforehand and organize the kids into small groups. Each group is allocated a few streets so there are no repeat calls by multiple groups, the children are not allowed to ask for nor accept money. Each group is chaperoned by at least three adults. This system works very well as all the little darlings are back home again by 9pm :)
Frankyc2003
27-09-2013, 20:29
But hang on, I might be waking up Shane :scratch::scratch::scratch:from a whole month of cryongenic slumber, but as far as I know it's not bloody HALLOWEEN is it?
As far as I'm concerned it is begging and I definitely won't be giving.... it's not the money it's the principle of the thing... it's just an American thing really
In my day you would of got a bag of burning dogpoo on your step for that kind of attitude :lol:
I'll be out dragging my kids round our crap hole, free sweets is the least they should expect for having to dodge flem all year round:ner:
Delighted to say we live out in the sticks and no trick or treating goes on here :whistle:
Where we used to live it was an entire evening spent back and forth to the front door every couple of minutes. At least that was just one night alone and it was the bloody fireworks banging away for weeks on end that I got really annoyed at :brickwall:
Ninanina
27-09-2013, 21:27
In my day you would of got a bag of burning dogpoo on your step for that kind of attitude
I couldn't give a bag of poo what you think, that's my thoughts..... :D:D
I couldn't give a bag of poo what you think, that's my thoughts..... :D:D
Not a parent then ,but once a child .
happy halloween:mad:
Ninanina
27-09-2013, 21:38
Not a parent then ,but once a child .
happy halloween:mad:
Nothing to do with that, I am just beginning to get my 'thick skin' that is obvious that I need to be on this forum, after having my threads cr****d on, that is all. !! :D:D:D
The Black Adder
27-09-2013, 21:52
As far as I'm concerned it is begging and I definitely won't be giving.... it's not the money it's the principle of the thing... it's just an American thing really
+1 - Americanized it is. It's got nothing to do with summers end (Samhain) and it's original roots but just a freak show. Through the decades since I was a kid it's becoming more like Christmas. A feast of consumerism for crap made in the far east to which the manufactures make a monumental profit on and to which ends up in landfill the very next day.
- I'm pagan and I'm proud of it. The roots of the eve should be at least acknowledged and not behind a plastic pumpkin mask.
I used to go trick or treating, I'm sure we all did but back then (in the 80's) it was so much more innocent. We carved a Swede that took fookin ages. We never had bonkers costumes, just a lantern and a bag of sweets.
I'm all up for kids to have fun too... I did but why does it now have to be so, well... american? It's so chavvy...
My pennies worth, rip it to shreds if ya like.. lol :)
+1 - Americanized it is. It's got nothing to do with summers end (Samhain) and it's original roots but just a freak show. Through the decades since I was a kid it's becoming more like Christmas. A feast of consumerism for crap made in the far east to which the manufactures make a monumental profit on and to which ends up in landfill the very next day.
- I'm pagan and I'm proud of it. The roots of the eve should be at least acknowledged and not behind a plastic pumpkin mask.
I used to go trick or treating, I'm sure we all did but back then (in the 80's) it was so much more innocent. We carved a Swede that took fookin ages. We never had bonkers costumes, just a lantern and a bag of sweets.
I'm all up for kids to have fun too... I did but why does it now have to be so, well... american? It's so chavvy...
My pennies worth, rip it to shreds if ya like.. lol :)
While I agree about all the plastic crap a lot of kids do still make lanterns from pumpkins and I am sure a lot of kids that just get a plastic bucket would love to given the choice , why are we so hostile to children personally it sickens me and explains why we live in such a crazy world
When I was a kid, back when Dinosaurs ruled the roost, mum would organize a Halloween party for myself, my friends and some of the kids in our street at our place. She would plan all sorts of themed games, including the intensely fun and messy, Apple Bob. This didn't require going around knocking on doors demanding treats 'or else'. That is not the appropriate way to teach our kids to respect their elders as far as I am concerned...
When I was a kid, back when Dinosaurs ruled the roost, mum would organize a Halloween party for myself, my friends and some of the kids in our street at our place. She would plan all sorts of themed games, including the intensely fun and messy, Apple Bob. This didn't require going around knocking on doors demanding treats 'or else'. That is not the appropriate way to teach our kids to respect their elders as far as I am concerned...
Sounds wonderful , respect to your Mum obviously a very loving parent , sadly this is not the experience of many children and yes I agree about teaching kids appropriate behaviour but you cant blame children for the way their parents bring them up.
Sounds wonderful , respect to your Mum obviously a very loving parent , sadly this is not the experience of many children and yes I agree about teaching kids appropriate behaviour but you cant blame children for the way their parents bring them up.
I don't see where in my comment I have blamed the children Paul. In fact I agree with you, good parenting is what is needed in this case and as such myself and my partner do not allow our step-children to go out trick or treating, they get the same deal as I did when I was a kid, a party at home.
sorry Dave I did not mean you I meant we , good on you for making the effort ,but I genuinely like the idea of local kids knocking on their neighbours doors and getting a few sweets for their effort ,after all their usually little and its chuffing freezing I just think it spreads a little love:)
Paul
walpurgis
06-10-2013, 21:40
If any of the little rats knocks on my door they will be vivisected with my electric carving knife. :eyebrows:
If any of the little rats knocks on my door they will be vivisected with my electric carving knife. :eyebrows:
Is that a trick or a treat?
Is that a trick or a treat?
When Geoff does it I imagine it's a little of both...
No issues here as no kids in the whole neighbourhood - there used to be a few years ago - I would give them a couple of quid to piss off - I mean who buys in sweets specially?
Nowdays I just don't answer the door unless I am expecting someone - I mean it's not going to be good news is it? Some wanker from the council complaing that you haven't sent back your voter registration. I once nearly had a fight with some prick selling gas contracts who wouldn't piss off right in the middle of Space 1999. I work for a living I don't need that crap on my doorstep when I come home.
The Grand Wazoo
06-10-2013, 22:29
Is that a trick or a treat?
It's a trick to carry out such a fantastic filleting job when they're running off screaming. But it's a treat to watch a craftsman at work!
Oldpinkman
07-10-2013, 06:17
Very dark spooky country lane - half mile from village, locked gate 300 yards from the house, two large german shepherds loose.
So what is this trick or treat then? :eyebrows:
Very dark spooky country lane - half mile from village, locked gate 300 yards from the house....
Sounds like the perfect place for a nice murder..... :eyebrows:
No kids ever dare knock on our door. We're known as the 'funny folk' who live in 'that dark, spooky old house', where weird things reputedly happen in the depths of the night...
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Marco.
Ya, that's our little abode... Respect on the Hammer House thing - I'd love to live there! :)
Marco.
Beobloke
07-10-2013, 09:46
Luckily we now live in the middle of nowhere so none of this rubbish goes on. However, our last house was in a small village and the unwritten rule was that, if you were happy to welcome trick or treaters then you put a lighted pumpkin in your front garden - if you didn't have one, then they left you alone. In the house before that we frankly found it easier to go down the local pub for dinner and a few drinks on Halloween - was easier than sitting there trying to ignore the repeated knocks on the door!
I always liked the story a former work colleague told me a few years back, though. A friend of his used to work for a television company doing prosthetics and the like for television programmes, many of which involved making up convincing dead bodies for crime shows. He got so fed up with trick or treaters that, one year, he decided to do a bit of dressing up himself. Consequently, the cherubs knocked on his door to have it opened by a big chap wearing a 'bloodstained' mask, goggles and labcoat, with a chainsaw in one hand and what appeared to be a severed human head in the other. Apparently, one or two parents weren't impressed, but no-one came knocking ever again! :D
Quality!! :respect: :lolsign:
Marco.
I detest Halloween and the American import of "trick or treat". Strange to say, I'm never "at home" during the evening of 31st October - and for this year I shall be the other side of the Atlantic during Halloweeen. :ner:
losenotaminute
07-10-2013, 11:38
There's a brilliant episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm (maybe series 3?) when Larry is visited by two teenage girls (they look about 17) who haven't dressed up and as a consequence Larry doesn't feel obliged to give them anything. He debates the issue of age cut-off with them, so they tell him to eff off and when he wakes in the morning his garden is completely covered in loo roll. There may be a clip on YouTube...
Lawrence
There's a brilliant episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm
Brilliant show - I'm sure Larry is based on me...
istari_knight
07-10-2013, 18:38
I recall a joke that did the rounds a couple of years back... "Just painted me wellies silver, I'm gonna put them outside me house tonight, them little basterds wont knock on it if they think Gary Glitter lives here."
losenotaminute
07-10-2013, 19:09
Felony ot treat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RfNl9fcJtM
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