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over a year ago
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Am I being a misery guts as I cannot enthuse about Halloween and the hype around it? We seem to follow the septics on most things and this celebration is directly out of the US tat marketing manual. I really cannot see the point of my barbers (a real gents barbers who asks if you need anything for the weekend) putting cotton wool, string and incongruous fake pumpkins dotted around the place.
I for one will be out on Monday as its the only day in the year when parents encourage kids to take sweets from strangers?
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I'm completely the opposite to you OP, I love Halloween. Love the Halloween parties and the dressing up aspect to it. Like it or not Halloween is becoming more mainstream now and is one of the big calendar events of the year.
As for the kids trick or treating just a bit of fun for them isn't it? |
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"I'm completely the opposite to you OP, I love Halloween. Love the Halloween parties and the dressing up aspect to it. Like it or not Halloween is becoming more mainstream now and is one of the big calendar events of the year.
As for the kids trick or treating just a bit of fun for them isn't it? "
Blimey.
I agree with Centaur UK  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Am I being a misery guts as I cannot enthuse about Halloween and the hype around it? We seem to follow the septics on most things and this celebration is directly out of the US tat marketing manual. I really cannot see the point of my barbers (a real gents barbers who asks if you need anything for the weekend) putting cotton wool, string and incongruous fake pumpkins dotted around the place.
I for one will be out on Monday as its the only day in the year when parents encourage kids to take sweets from strangers?
Bah Humbug "
I,m with you OP, I have downloaded posters from police site to put on my door to say no trick or treaters. I gave sweets last year, will never do it again. Fed up of seeing all the Shite in shops too. Very commercialized and over rated. X |
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over a year ago
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"I will, as usual, be switching all the lights off, sitting in the back room instead of the front, and ignoring the doorbell. They can fuck right off. "
Firm but fair I would say! |
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I think it's just something for the kids, I love seeing the effort some of the kids/parents go to, I think it's brilliant. But, unlike centaur, I think more people are less enthusiastic about it compared to when I was a kid. Many households go out or pretend to go out an not get involved, which I have no problem with as it's their choice, but I have a problem with those doing it yet letting their kids go out to get treats from other houses  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I think it's just something for the kids, I love seeing the effort some of the kids/parents go to, I think it's brilliant. But, unlike centaur, I think more people are less enthusiastic about it compared to when I was a kid. Many households go out or pretend to go out an not get involved, which I have no problem with as it's their choice, but I have a problem with those doing it yet letting their kids go out to get treats from other houses "
I just don't see the attraction. But I am an old git! |
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"Never got it tbh. Get a job and buy your own sweets dumb kids
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Why when they can get it for free... Yes for fweeeeeee (film reference there, you may not know it) |
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By *andsonjohnMan
over a year ago
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"Oh I love Halloween! Not the commercial stuff but I like spooky creepy scary things "
Samhain you mean the celebration of summers end and the night when the souls of the dead are allowed to rise from the underworld to walk amongst us once more .
Its a night of great power for those who know how to walk the mists of the ether where time has no meaning and there is no life or death . |
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I believe that it should be optional as to whether a household participates in giving out candy. I tell my kids to only go to participating houses i.e. those which have a pumpkin or such like. Most people where we live do participate because most have kids, and with the very young kids the parents will take them round, as I used to. I'm not overly keen on older teenagers doing this though, that tends to be when things get out of hand. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Oh I love Halloween! Not the commercial stuff but I like spooky creepy scary things
Samhain you mean the celebration of summers end and the night when the souls of the dead are allowed to rise from the underworld to walk amongst us once more .
Its a night of great power for those who know how to walk the mists of the ether where time has no meaning and there is no life or death ."
Pesky kids will be walking in the mists dressed up to look like Willy Wonkas munchskins gone scabby.
What happened to knocking on doors and running away or nicking gates for the Bongy? |
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By *andsonjohnMan
over a year ago
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"Oh I love Halloween! Not the commercial stuff but I like spooky creepy scary things
Samhain you mean the celebration of summers end and the night when the souls of the dead are allowed to rise from the underworld to walk amongst us once more .
Its a night of great power for those who know how to walk the mists of the ether where time has no meaning and there is no life or death .
Pesky kids will be walking in the mists dressed up to look like Willy Wonkas munchskins gone scabby.
What happened to knocking on doors and running away or nicking gates for the Bongy?"
True but they are doing no harm and keeping a very very old festival alive even if they don't know its true meaning .
So I see no harm in kids having fun we where all kids once I used to love building a guy Fawkes as a kid and doing penny for the guy with the other kids down the street .
Halloween for the kids is more or less the same its a fun bonding experience for them harmless but fun . |
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I was over in America once at Halloween and it was breath taking the effort they go to. Was lovely to see whole porches decked out and their front doors covered.
Visited Salem too and their witchy bookshops and trinket stostorwas just....fab!
I don't mind youngsters trick or treating but teenagers? No. |
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Actually does my head when parents stand at the end of the driveway letting their kids knock on doors asking for sweets or money
I don't agree with it
Love the costumes but nothing else that goes with it
Another bah humbug |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I like opening the door to all the little witches, wizards, goblins etc and pretending to be scared. I'm a woman of simple tastes "
I just think it's all contrived kids with tubs of sugary gunk aided and abetted by parents who have succumbed to the ad men and women! |
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"I like opening the door to all the little witches, wizards, goblins etc and pretending to be scared. I'm a woman of simple tastes
I just think it's all contrived kids with tubs of sugary gunk aided and abetted by parents who have succumbed to the ad men and women!"
There's truth in that but when a tiny kid dressed up as a witch is clearly having a great time I just enjoy it. |
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You see, I don't mind the kids having fun with it. I grew up in an ex pat community abroad that was mainly Americans and I loved it as a kid.
But as a kid.
I can't abide adults making a big deal of it. Something really tacky about it. |
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"I think it's just something for the kids, I love seeing the effort some of the kids/parents go to, I think it's brilliant. But, unlike centaur, I think more people are less enthusiastic about it compared to when I was a kid. Many households go out or pretend to go out an not get involved, which I have no problem with as it's their choice, but I have a problem with those doing it yet letting their kids go out to get treats from other houses "
I don't think Halloween is just for kids. Most pubs and nightclubs (even swingers clubs) have a Halloween theme night now and fancy dress parties for adults. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I like it, but the kids here are pretty good and only go to the houses with pumpkins outside.
Bonfire night is better though. "
Bongy night was my fav as a kid. Weeks before building the bongy and having fires around it on the lead up to it. Great fun |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I think it's just something for the kids, I love seeing the effort some of the kids/parents go to, I think it's brilliant. But, unlike centaur, I think more people are less enthusiastic about it compared to when I was a kid. Many households go out or pretend to go out an not get involved, which I have no problem with as it's their choice, but I have a problem with those doing it yet letting their kids go out to get treats from other houses
I don't think Halloween is just for kids. Most pubs and nightclubs (even swingers clubs) have a Halloween theme night now and fancy dress parties for adults. "
I agree with you there.
I went to a party at a club last year one lady went for the dressing up and make up gig but looked a little unusual emerging from a private room minus the costume and with the make up......shall we smudged a little! |
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"Cant stand it. We ignore the kids knocking on the door."
I just going to leave a tub of those dreadful haribos shite at the front gate with note saying knock yourself out kids |
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"Cant stand it. We ignore the kids knocking on the door.
I just going to leave a tub of those dreadful haribos shite at the front gate with note saying knock yourself out kids"
Hope Shag tonight doesn't know where you live. |
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"Cant stand it. We ignore the kids knocking on the door.
I just going to leave a tub of those dreadful haribos shite at the front gate with note saying knock yourself out kids"
TBH kids should not be going to non-participating houses. |
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So many people think the Americans 'invented' Halloween, when in reality, even a form of trick or treating was being done in medieval England! In fact, if anyone cares to come to the guildhall museum in Boston tomorrow, we'll happily show you how it all started. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I think it's just something for the kids, I love seeing the effort some of the kids/parents go to, I think it's brilliant. But, unlike centaur, I think more people are less enthusiastic about it compared to when I was a kid. Many households go out or pretend to go out an not get involved, which I have no problem with as it's their choice, but I have a problem with those doing it yet letting their kids go out to get treats from other houses
I don't think Halloween is just for kids. Most pubs and nightclubs (even swingers clubs) have a Halloween theme night now and fancy dress parties for adults. "
Oh I know that and if I ever went out for Halloween I would participate, mainly because I love dressing up. |
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"So many people think the Americans 'invented' Halloween, when in reality, even a form of trick or treating was being done in medieval England! In fact, if anyone cares to come to the guildhall museum in Boston tomorrow, we'll happily show you how it all started."
I can't I am trick or treating! |
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"Am I being a misery guts as I cannot enthuse about Halloween and the hype around it? We seem to follow the septics on most things and this celebration is directly out of the US tat marketing manual. I really cannot see the point of my barbers (a real gents barbers who asks if you need anything for the weekend) putting cotton wool, string and incongruous fake pumpkins dotted around the place.
I for one will be out on Monday as its the only day in the year when parents encourage kids to take sweets from strangers?
Bah Humbug
I,m with you OP, I have downloaded posters from police site to put on my door to say no trick or treaters. I gave sweets last year, will never do it again. Fed up of seeing all the Shite in shops too. Very commercialized and over rated. X"
There is one garden near me when I first saw it I thought it was a space hopper.. twice the normal size but it was a pumpkin made for kids that would soon go walkies if he left that out overnight. |
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"Cant stand it. We ignore the kids knocking on the door.
I just going to leave a tub of those dreadful haribos shite at the front gate with note saying knock yourself out kids"
Don,t tell shag that he,ll want some.. |
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