Si Gull
Way Down South
Mini bags?…not much point in them…get a large bag…just by chance I’m tucking into one now ..yum
Yeah, they're a bit shit tbh, always end up eating several or tucking into a proper bar of chocolate!
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[Misc] Has anyone knocked on your door yet?
- Thread starter TomandJerry
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Yeah, they're a bit shit tbh, always end up eating several or tucking into a proper bar of chocolate!
swindonseagull
Well-known member
Run out of sweets ....Curtains closed....Lights off Pumpkins removed.......Now squirrel food in the back garden
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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Meant nothing when I was a kid and bit of an American tradition we seemed to have adopted.
However, I've got young kids who love it so I'm prepared to play ball.
That was until tonight! Our kids have already been to a party this afternoon so their treat was opening the door to any callers tonight. Half a dozen well behaved kids in great outfits duly came accompanied by watchful adults. However, just been out to retrieve our carved pumpkins and the nice little welcome sign and pumpkin is smashed to pieces down the road and the wooden sign has been nicked! WTF! Won't be bothering next year
However, I've got young kids who love it so I'm prepared to play ball.
That was until tonight! Our kids have already been to a party this afternoon so their treat was opening the door to any callers tonight. Half a dozen well behaved kids in great outfits duly came accompanied by watchful adults. However, just been out to retrieve our carved pumpkins and the nice little welcome sign and pumpkin is smashed to pieces down the road and the wooden sign has been nicked! WTF! Won't be bothering next year
jakarta
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While we are on the subject of witchcraft, it occurred to me that next time we are visited by the black hoards of Palarse, a good loud blast of this (most loud in the away end) during the warm up might be delightfully unsettling for them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmtjLD8bJBI
Black Hordes You Say? Reckon this would put the willies up 'em...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVdMbUx1_k
Miserable old sod-yes
Bothered- no
Good fun for kids knocking doors that are decorated with Halloween stuff or have a pumpkin outside.
Trouble is some groups of teenagers / kids ruin it by banging on every door.
Mrs T (fake blood) and nipper (Wednesday) have just returned with a bag of apples full of nails and razors. Yum.
I may have exaggerated a bit, there
I may have exaggerated a bit, there
Black Hordes You Say? Reckon this would put the willies up 'em...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVdMbUx1_k
You do realise what the song is I posted, right? It's the Palace song, but twisted
Bit of fun innit. So what if it is perceived as being American? what would people rather have? A good old British witch burning?
Anyway, it's very much a British tradition. People were "guisin" in the UK hundreds of years before the yanks even thought of it.
In Scotland and other parts of Britain and Ireland, the tradition of guising, going house to house at Halloween and putting on a small performance to be rewarded with food or treats, goes back at least as far as the 16th century, as does the tradition of people wearing costumes at Halloween. There are many accounts from 19th-century Scotland and Ireland of people going house to house in costume at Halloween, reciting verses in exchange for food, and sometimes warning of misfortune if they were not welcomed.[1][2] While going house to house in costume has long been popular among the Scots and Irish, it is only in the 2000s that saying "Trick or treat" has become common in Scotland and Ireland.[3] Prior to this, children in Ireland would commonly say "Help the Halloween Party" at the doors of homeowners.[3]
In North America, trick-or-treating has been a Halloween tradition since the 1920s. The earliest known occurrence there of the Irish and Scottish Halloween custom of "guising" – children going from house to house for food or money while disguised in costume[2] – is from 1911, when children were recorded as having done this in Ontario, Canada.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating
Anyway, it's very much a British tradition. People were "guisin" in the UK hundreds of years before the yanks even thought of it.
In Scotland and other parts of Britain and Ireland, the tradition of guising, going house to house at Halloween and putting on a small performance to be rewarded with food or treats, goes back at least as far as the 16th century, as does the tradition of people wearing costumes at Halloween. There are many accounts from 19th-century Scotland and Ireland of people going house to house in costume at Halloween, reciting verses in exchange for food, and sometimes warning of misfortune if they were not welcomed.[1][2] While going house to house in costume has long been popular among the Scots and Irish, it is only in the 2000s that saying "Trick or treat" has become common in Scotland and Ireland.[3] Prior to this, children in Ireland would commonly say "Help the Halloween Party" at the doors of homeowners.[3]
In North America, trick-or-treating has been a Halloween tradition since the 1920s. The earliest known occurrence there of the Irish and Scottish Halloween custom of "guising" – children going from house to house for food or money while disguised in costume[2] – is from 1911, when children were recorded as having done this in Ontario, Canada.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Yes the “yummy mummies” and their spawn came round earlier. We fed them chocolate.
Sid in the Sharknado
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On the boring subject of history, witches in England were almost invariably hanged rather than burned.
A quiet night in with a good book?
Personally I think we should be allowed to hide mousetraps in the bowl of sweets. That would probably be more "horrifying" than "spooky" though. I'm also told by the local police sergeant that it would be "illegal"
On the boring subject of history, witches in England were almost invariably hanged rather than burned.
A quiet night in with a good book?
Personally I think we should be allowed to hide mousetraps in the bowl of sweets. That would probably be more "horrifying" than "spooky" though. I'm also told by the local police sergeant that it would be "illegal"
Ha!
It’s my experience that kids only approach houses with Halloween decorations in the drive/window.
In the 80’s and 90’s kids went to every house.
The new way seems good .
I thought this was the unwritten rule, but in Newhaven it seems like any door is fair game, including knocking doors at 10pm.
Insel affe
HellBilly
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
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I have zero recollection of anything trick or treat related in the 1970s. My own theory is that became "re-popularised" by the release of ET in 1982.
We were far too bothered with the more politically correct activity of burning Catholics on November 5th.
In all seriousness I think that has also led to the popularity in recent years of Halloween, it's probably a bit easier to explain.
ET was def an influence
- Apr 19, 2018
- 2,134
In the 70s and 80s I remember Halloween being an "occasion" every year at Cubs with apple bobbing and fancy dress and various themed games. Weirdly it's the only event I can remember us doing at Cubs every year, probably because apple bobbing was followed by sticking your wet face into flour to find sweets with your nose and mouth before you suffocated. Used to hate that. Don't remember trick or treat but do remember people guising our doorstep in leafy Surrey. All that said, I'm a fan of anything that helps kids enjoy their life and get a sense of community especially at the moment, and we had two lit pumpkins in the window and got through a tub of Heroes, a big selection bag of Maoam and a load of mini Haribo bags.
maffew
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Loads of houses participating round here almost every other house had pumpkins out in some streets, kids loved it, great stuff.