Tyrone Biggums
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Started in the UK. So not American in origins.
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Haloween.
- Thread starter Uncle Spielberg
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My favourite film of all time.
Phat Baz 68
Get a ****ing life mate !
- Apr 16, 2011
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How can you work out its an American import ?
It's based on Samhain a Celtic tradition over 2000 years old around for centuries in this country also.
The only American import is Trick Or Treat !!
It's based on Samhain a Celtic tradition over 2000 years old around for centuries in this country also.
The only American import is Trick Or Treat !!
DanielT
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More than that in fact, it goes back to 500BC.
The giving of treats was part of samhain too, gifts for the spirits, which is the reason for the costumes, to appear to be a spirit.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,015
with no religious context in our secular-agnostic population, trick or treat is about all there is to haloween.
Pretty pink fairy
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- Jan 30, 2008
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Albumen
Don't wait for me!
Halloween is what you make it. For me it's watching as many great horrors as I can pack in a week. Dressing up is y'know for kids. Shit poll by the way, I love it and I'm 40.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
Still laughing at the pumpkin in the photo!!
me too its a classic
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Anyone who tricks or treats here will have the hose turned on them (although looking at the weather forecast I might let nature take its own course).
Used to enjoy it until my parents told me Satan doesn't exist. :-(
Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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I don't mind it. For kids innit. I wouldn't put too much stock in the satanic bobbins Hybrid X et all spout on about, the date is significant in many different calendars, some more sinister than the rest but most not sinister at all and celebrating the souls of loved ones. Some folks find the bad in anything. You wanna be more upbeat, like me.
In my experience kids were more menacing with tricks when I was a nipper. Nowadays it's mostly Ocado kids and their PTA Mums knocking on doors. No harm.
As long as we still get bonfire night, black peas in vinegar, wellies, a few decent fireworks, I'm tickety boo. Not your Lewes snobbery either, proper bonfire on a village green where all are welcome.
Don't forget to check your bonfires for hibernating beasts though. Scream if you find a grizzly.
In my experience kids were more menacing with tricks when I was a nipper. Nowadays it's mostly Ocado kids and their PTA Mums knocking on doors. No harm.
As long as we still get bonfire night, black peas in vinegar, wellies, a few decent fireworks, I'm tickety boo. Not your Lewes snobbery either, proper bonfire on a village green where all are welcome.
Don't forget to check your bonfires for hibernating beasts though. Scream if you find a grizzly.
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Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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Point of fact, they weren't Celts. Celt is a fairly modern term used by lazy archaeologists. They would have ben Domnuii or similar. Cheers, bye.
HastingsSeagull
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Please change 'fun for kids' to fun for kids and single guys........ always good fun
The Stout Yeoman
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Halloween ... the only time of year kids use their legs ... and the longest time their parents are out of their four by four safety zone .....
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
There's more cobwebs being removed today than at a Womens Institute fire station visit.
Tricky Dicky
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Didn't get any callers last night - not that I would have answered the door, but I looked out when I was going to bed and I saw some adults taking their kids round - the kids must have been no more than 3 or 4, dressed up etc., .... but it was half past ten - WTF ?? it it just me that thinks that doesn't sound right.
Sweeney Todd
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As a Catholic, I hate Halloween. Like Christmas, it has been overtaken by pagans and atheists who haven't a clue what they are "celebrating". It is another of society's empty rituals and is worse for being an import from the US.
As I said to someone yesterday: Here's a radical idea, on this first day of Hallowmas, please take a moment to remember the saints, martyrs, and the faithful departed (who might well be your loved-ones). After all, that is the point of today (All Hallows' Eve), tomorrow (All Saints' Day) and Tuesday (All Souls' Day).
Happy All Saints' Day!
As I said to someone yesterday: Here's a radical idea, on this first day of Hallowmas, please take a moment to remember the saints, martyrs, and the faithful departed (who might well be your loved-ones). After all, that is the point of today (All Hallows' Eve), tomorrow (All Saints' Day) and Tuesday (All Souls' Day).
Happy All Saints' Day!