Time To Drop This Stupid Import Fom The Septics?

[ToraToraTora]

why have we adopted this sh!te from accorss the pond?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-24741250
I cannot even remember doing very much on All hallows when I was a saucepan!

[mikey4444]

I'm not normally a "Bah humbug" type but I tend to agree with TTT here. I have visited America on a few occasions at Halloween over the last 40 years, and its altogether different over there. Everybody is out on their front porches, there are lots of cakes and cookies being handed around. Its a family fun opportunity. It doesn't start until 1800 and its all over by 2000. If you don't want to partake, then you don't put your porch light on.

But in my housing estate here in South Wales, admittedly a "challenging area, full of local colour" as an estate agent might put it, Halloween is little better than semi-legalised mugging. The streets are full of scruffy urchins, making the least possible effort with their outfits, mostly using the free bin liners that the council give us, who terrorize the local neighbourhood and make life very difficult, for older residents especially. They also don't really seem to understand how it works, as they have been knocking my bl00dy front since Monday night !

[jackthehat]

Septic Tanks = Yanks
Saucepan lid = Kid

ToraToraTora = Cockernee Geezer.........from Bournemouth.

[RATTER15]

I like Halloween but detest the Trick or Treating. As kids we would make our Guys to sit in a pram or on a chair in the high street and would make a few bob calling "Penny for the guy" and then the guy went on the fire on November 5th.

[baza]

some years ago some snotty kid threw an egg at my front door, so I treated him to a thick ear, kids no longer knock, curious that.

[mikey4444]

The only reason that it has caught on in recent years in Britain, is that ASDA, Tesco, etc, etc. have learned that they can make a big pile of dosh out of selling cheap, plastic, made-in-China crap, to ever more gullible parents. Its just another "retail opportunity"

There...I have said my piece and I feel better now !

[craft1948]

Thanks for that Jack, I thought it meant he was a Tottenham supporter......

[tonyav]

No crafty, that would have been 3 x 2 !.

[craft1948]

lol Triggs............as ever.

[Mamyalynne]

Can't say I care for the Trick or Treat aspect, but the dressing up and innocent parties are fine.

Well done to James Creighton for his fundraising.

[friedgreentomato]

we went trick or treating when I was a nipper so hardly a new thing is it!

[tonyav]

Didn't in my neck of the woods.

[sp1814]

Fortunately I'm out tomorrow night for a colleague's leaving drinks, so will be able to avoid the whole 'trick or treat' thing...which for me is insane.

I grew up on a rough estate in South London, so the only time anyone came knocking at your door unexpectedly was when they'd been stabbed and needed to us your phone to call an ambulance.

[gness]

I got hooked on Halloween and Trick or Treating over thirty years ago in Canada and continued when we moved back here.
My children and grandchildren loved making the costumes...lanterns etc. with their parents and then going around the neighbourhood really to show the neighbours their costumes and makeup and pick up the odd treat.
I don't think it's the little ones likes Sherr's family who are egging doors and cars....that can happen at any time.
What a pity so many of us are grumpy and miserable instead of joining in a bit of fun with the kids....perhaps it's children of parents who didn't do fun things with them who are being a nuisance....☻

[bravejordy]

I have to confess I do like the fact that trick or treating has caught on over here. It's come a long way from the pathetic "duck apple night" we used to partake in to celebrate Halloween when I was a lad. In fact, I'd be quite happy to see them phase out Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Night in favour of concentrating more on Halloween (although hopefully, it might already be heading that way). Like RATTER, I do recall lovingly making our Guy Fawkes effigies and pushing them around in an old pram, but the kids of today just put a t-shirt and a mask on an old teddy bear and that's it! There's just no effort put into it whatsoever, whereas in total contrast, on Halloween, I am really impressed by the variety of little "monsters" knocking on my door. I can't wait for tomorrow, bring it on, I say!

[joko]

the only change is that it used to be just for kids - now adults get dressed up and have parties too, and we have scare attractions etc

its always been celebrated though

[joko]

oh and good luck 'dropping' it ... what do you propose it done exactly to drop it?

[weecalf]

Are there Halloween cards and if not why not there's cards for every thing else .think there's cards for I saw a big red lorry going by your house yesterday