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Shave
31-10-2005, 04:40 PM
yes. another halloween thread. this one's not quite so positive though.
personally, i don't like halloween. I like getting dressed up, and going to the parties that are sometimes on, but that's it really
I don't like the fact that the day is more associtated with vandalism and terror, than little kids going round and asking for sweets. The whole concept of a day where people scare other people into giving them sweets seems absurd to me in the first place, let alone a day celebrating evil and evil spirits.
call me a bitter old-before-my-time man, call it sour grapes as i never go out trick or treating, but i just don't like it.
the worst part is the egging and other vandalism that goes on even if treats are given. people are scared to open their doors, but then they're also scared not to open their doors. I think it takes it to extremes when the store i work in has to age restrict the sale of flour and eggs to over 18s only, that shouldn't need to happen. However, I know it's not easy to stop a holiday like this, as kids will keep doing it, and the corporations want more money.
plus, in these days of healthy eating do you think it's wise for kids to gourge on candy
so, join FAH (forumites against halloween)
Brought to you by a bitter, disillusion, young man
shaneout
Tweekish
31-10-2005, 04:43 PM
Sign me up for FAH. Im fed up with cleaning egg and flour off my car. I hope it rains tonight.
Bah Humbug I say. Dressing up and getting drunk is a big yes please. Getting yelled at by snot-nosed brats is a big no no.
carpefula
31-10-2005, 04:45 PM
Amen bruva...
I dislike it because it is essentially begging. I've been living with my Dad since August so this is our first Halloween together. I'm working tonight THANK GOD but he has bought a big bag of sweets to dish out to the little bastards.
The costumes are always shite and they have started to want money rather than sweets. It's not like carol singing (which i also hate) where they actually do something to earn whatever you give them.
I think he should jusy jump the gun and throw eggs at the little axe-wounds. They'll do it to him anyway so he might aswell get in there first!
FoxDhoj
31-10-2005, 04:45 PM
*Owl hoots for baron effect*
Oooo spoooooky.
I think it's all a bit Americanised. I personally prefer just carving pumpkins, and eating pumpkin everything, not like my friends, who prefer to go out, pickle their livers and lob eggs and flour bombs at OAP's bungalows...
A couple of them have paintball guns I hear...
And all the costumes are rather 'samey'. I mean come on - last time I dressed up, I did as some creepy, shady looking fictional figure with a gasmask, and before that, as a blue Winter pixie...
/edit: Chavvy trickers are the worst IMO.
charlieman
31-10-2005, 04:45 PM
you forgot about the fireworks. Seeing as halloween is so close to fireworks night, and that there are so many shops that dont care who buys fireworks it can prevoke so pritty nasty things happening.
The amount to twats i know that see this as an excuse to go out and try to inflict pain on people really makes me :nana:
especially when i know there are small people out there trying to have a nice time.
Tweekish
31-10-2005, 04:48 PM
Dont get me started on fireworks. We have been listening to them for the last few weeks. Fireworks are for November 5th! Not bloody October!
Our cat does a runner and wont come back until December. Which, incidentally, is when the people here finally run out of fireworks.
*Ooh Sparklies*
31-10-2005, 04:51 PM
Yes, it is once again something ruined by childish knobs that think throwing eggs and flower over people’s property is fun.
In work we have this rule, that anyone who is under 16 or looks suspicious just buying eggs or flower, or in general just looks suspicious will be refused at the checkouts.
I used to enjoy Halloween. And love going out, but I have gone off it with the violence.
FoxDhoj
31-10-2005, 04:53 PM
Fireworks at daytime are the worst, just when you don't suspect it.
The Police and Fire Service've managed to ban people under 18 from buying eggs and flour in our city, and threatened us with criminal charges and fines - which made all the chavs want to do it even more! ¬_¬
Sebastian
31-10-2005, 04:53 PM
I like Halloween, but some people take it too far with the egging and teepeeing it becomes evil. If you look at it's history though, it's not all about evil spirits.
I've got nothing against kids going around trick or treating for sweets..it's only abit of fun for them.
However, these little shits who use it as a excuse to damage our property can fuck right off.
As i mentioned in another thread, about 7 years ago, some drunk axe-wounds who looked about 30 from the local pub (which has now been demolished) found it funny to throw a firework at our windows. Thankfully, it bounced off the double glazing and landed on the front lawn, but if we hadn't have had double glazing, it would have gone straight through. Pricks.
We have a sign up in the window telling them where to shove it this year. I can't help thinking that it's going to cause more trouble than it's worth.
MichaelJackson
31-10-2005, 04:58 PM
The thing I hate most is that nobody makes an effort anymore.
Then there is the twats who demand money.
I for one will be spending the night on the roof with my paintball gun.
Boyinabox
31-10-2005, 05:00 PM
Dont get me started on fireworks. We have been listening to them for the last few weeks. Fireworks are for November 5th! Not bloody October!
Our cat does a runner and wont come back until December. Which, incidentally, is when the people here finally run out of fireworks.
The only problem I have with fireworks is that everyone only buys the shitty ones, so you can hear them for miles around but sadly there's always a tree/house/OAP in the way. BTW, expect loads of fireworks tommorow. ;)
But back to Halloween, I'm not a big fan. Eveyone just gets their costumes from Woolworths and they all have crappy plastic masks, and always of the same three things as well (Vampires, Vampires and witches), what happened to mummies, werewolves, Frankensteins monster and all the others?
*my sisters gone as a vampire* :p
dude in a box
31-10-2005, 05:05 PM
halloween is just a marketing thing. I don't actually see the significance of dressing up and demanding sweets and money from random people or throwing eggs at their house or whatever it is these days, has to do with anything
Sebastian
31-10-2005, 05:08 PM
It would be so much greater if we did it like the Americans. It's really taking off in Europe now aswell. Over there, old people have this thing that they love to give away sweets!
bellybutton
31-10-2005, 05:08 PM
Last year my mom sent me to buy eggs and they wouldn't sell them to me it's shit when things come to this cos of some wee fucks who abuse the holiday and vandalise for the fun of it. If those lil bastards egg my house again this year i'll rip them with my bare hands
*not really :(
Sebastian
31-10-2005, 05:09 PM
Last year my mom sent me to buy eggs and they wouldn't sell them to me it's shit when things come to this cos of some wee fucks who abuse the holiday and vandalise for the fun of it. If those lil bastards egg my house again this year i'll rip them with my bare hands
*not really :(
No, do it!
All you people talking about assulting trick or treaters. FOAD. It doesn't make you sound l337, it makes you sound like a idiot.
LOLLUKMUMMY, I JUST BLINDED A CHILD. LOLRZAINTIFUNNEH.
Shave
31-10-2005, 05:11 PM
tbh i don't actually know the real meaning of halloween except that it's to do with spirits
and it's not the 6-8 o'clock round that i dislike, that's just the really young kids who go out before their bedtime and aren't going to cause harm, it's the 9 o'clocks and after you have to watch out for (for some reason we never have any between 8 and 9)
halloween is just a marketing thing.No, Halloween has been made INTO a marketing thing. It started as Celts believed that on the night before their new year (November 1st), the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.
Well anywho, I've never seen any vandilism this time of year...bonfire night on the other hand...
Most of ours seem to die off after 8.45...however, something doesn't feel right this year.
Maybe it was the fireworks going off at 2 in the afternnoon yesturday that's worried me...
bellybutton
31-10-2005, 05:14 PM
No, do it!
No, i learned my lesson last year.
I dont want another law suit on my hands
dude in a box
31-10-2005, 05:16 PM
The more tucked away your house is the better :D,
yes my house is tucked away
ZekeyLizard
31-10-2005, 05:16 PM
*eggs Shane's house*
*steals Shane's candeh*
*melts Shane's ancestors*
charlieman
31-10-2005, 05:16 PM
to be honest (as i always normally skate around the subject, mostly i plain lie) i don't actually know the real meaning of halloween except that it's to do with spirits
i think you light candles to guide the spirits back to rest or they hang around and haunt people. i have a vague memory of that from an RE class way back... might be way off tho :p
dude in a box
31-10-2005, 05:21 PM
What the hell zekey, go back to the cheese bin, this is general pap
Captain
31-10-2005, 05:25 PM
Halloween is the win
Shave
31-10-2005, 05:27 PM
because...
Taekwon-joe
31-10-2005, 05:34 PM
I hate Halloween. Those damn scangers (chavs) and their bangers (small piece of explosive) annoy the hell out of me. Every few seconds *BANG*. All they do is make a loud noise,Whoop-di-fucking-do. Then there are the complete retards who think:
Idiot 1"Hey lets put one of these things in a glass bottle"
Idiot 2"thats gonna be cool looking!!" (he says this while he still has his eyes)
Wait a second...
ITS RAINING HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
EDIT: Crap it stopped :nana:
The bangs are due to fireworks being sold before bonfire night...
Taekwon-joe
31-10-2005, 05:39 PM
The bangs are due to fireworks being sold before bonfire night...
We dont have bonfire night in Ireland although we still have plenty of fires at halloween.
Does anyone ever get any idiots coming to the door asking if you have any wood?
Mittwoch
31-10-2005, 05:40 PM
Hello, good evening, I've come to piss on your parade.
The actual Hallowe'en is derived from All Hallows Eve, the day before All Saints Day. It was believed (when the holiday still meant something) that this was the day when all the mischeivous spirits came out (along with all the good ones in preparation for the next day), so it was celebrated by placing lanterns and food out to guide the saints and wearing masks to banish the evil ones.
Don't hate the holiday, hate what we've made it.
I don't particually hate the holiday. Just the fact that i have to feel mildly nervous because my pc is pretty near the front door, and if someone puts a firework through, i'm fucked.
Arkwright
31-10-2005, 05:41 PM
Cheer up, it's a bloody holiday!
Taekwon-joe
31-10-2005, 05:44 PM
I can already hear trick or treaters assembling outside and its like 5:45. thats way too early.
basstard
31-10-2005, 05:44 PM
Cheer up, it's a bloody holiday!
No it's not, we get no time off
work / university / school [delete as appropriate], but have to give kids chocolate that I could have for myself
What bothers me now is that in previous years kids have come up to the door and actually done something to earn sweets = whether it be dance, sing, tell a poem they've learnt from heart or [on one occasion] play the clarinet for us. The past couple years it's just been "give us sweets!" or [on one occasion] "give us sweets and we won't egg your house".
Bah.
Having said that, the clubs are great at this time of year with every 2nd person in fancy dress.
woobi
31-10-2005, 05:54 PM
Hallowe'en is the only night of the year, where I HAVE to turn off all the lights in my house, and pretend that there is no one in.
I hate this day, its like christmas, but with all the fun taken out.
That is why I have decided to pile bricks up at my bedroom window, and chuck them at any would-be trick or treaters.
Also, the last time we did give things out for Hallowe'en, the trick or treaters didn't want candy, they wanted money. MONEY, they had the cheek to ask nicely for it.
bastards
Sign me up.
"Jabberwocky"
31-10-2005, 06:03 PM
According to Richard and Judy (the discerning idiots source of news) Halloween is now the 3rd biggest festival in England (beaten by Christmas and Easter.
Personally I never really got. I am however a huge fan of Fireworks night, it stems from my love of setting fire to things, so I will therefore be boycotting Halloween this year in order to do my bit to lower its ranking and raise bonfire night to its rightful place!!
TX_101
31-10-2005, 06:09 PM
I don't have anything against Haloween, just against some of the vandalism that goes on.
Likewise nothing against trick or treaters, as long as they can take no for an answer at times.
I hardly get any trick or treaters, which means more sweets for me.
Bones
31-10-2005, 06:21 PM
People who are over 10 just shouldn't be out trick or treating, anyone else I don't really have a problem with, unless they go demanding money and the eggs and vandalising and such. That flamethrowing pumpkin which was on that Jeremy Clarkson show yonks ago sounds awesome for those lot.
Also, I was just wished a happy new year by a small devil..
:confused:
BeverlyHillHobo
31-10-2005, 06:30 PM
We have ones around here that come up to the door in normal clothes and demand sweets. Also the occasional 16 year old chav demanding money for fags/drugs/burberry/neon lights.
Ste150
31-10-2005, 06:39 PM
I have to say, young Shaney-boy that I agree with you on this.
I've never been a big fan of going out trick or treating, as it seems pointless and not much fun, especially as i get older and older and it seems like I’m well past the age to be going round asking for sugar. Plus the fact my mum told me not to take sweets from strange people.
It's also very Americanised...perhaps that’s the wrong word, and I’m not tying to offend the Americans, but it the day itself has its roots in Celtic tradition, and was then jumped on by les ameriques and commercialised to crap.
And like you said, it has just turned into an 'excuse' for violence and thugery. Where i live, two estates (a semi-rough one and my nice clean tidyish one) are joined together by a couple of little alleys. The dya after Halloween on my walk to school, i never see less than 5 houses that have been egged or vandalised in some way, not to mention the streets and pathways, and it seems to get worse every year.
Another pet peeve of mine about Halloween, is people over the age of 15 who go trick or treating and don’t dress up, just knock on people doors and demand sweets. Make some effort for god's sake.
So there you have it, my slightly dis-jointed agreement rant. Thanks for reading..
Ahem.
Well, well, well, hallowe'en is upon us again.
Hoo-fucking-ray.
Now, you may get the idea I don't approve of hallowe'en - you'd be wrong, though. I love hallowe'en. It's one of my favourite holidays. What I don't like is that my father hates it, so every hallowe'en, everyone else is having a good time and my dearest father is ranting about the little vandals (we've never been egged etc.) extorting from us, and naturally I get to do nothing except answer the door to them - out of pity in case my father does it instead - and feel a little more bitter every year.
And it doesn't help that no-one understands hallowe'en either. It's not to go out trick-or-treating, or to dress up as a monster, it's about honoring and easing the passing on of departed souls, which is of course now a sideline feature, much like the good and noble Christians spending Christmas stuffing their faces and giving each other presents. It's all ended up a load of bullshit, and I'm not even able to join in the fun.
And, to make it especially perfect, I have two essays to do.
Yippee.
I'm so glad I wrote that. I need never write another word about hallowe'en again.
gruff
31-10-2005, 06:46 PM
Yeah sign me up to FAH. I'm not a scrooge but, to go on a Jack Dee-esque rant, on Halloween its called 'Trick or treating', any other day of the year its called 'begging'. Just go down to your local equivalent of Wilkinsons and spend 10 pence on all those e-numbery shitty crapballs...
mumble mumble in my day you had real sweets mumble mumble
Dyakson
31-10-2005, 06:58 PM
Bah, humbug. Humbugs are best for long motorway journeys or for watching films with, not giving to those pesky kids. Sign me up to MEH (or whatever it was called).
AngryPaul
31-10-2005, 06:58 PM
Penny for the guy is another thing that fucks me off.
Now thats begging. Teaching kids to sit on the street corner or outside the Spar asking for spare change? What kinda fucking parenting is that? "Don't worry son. Bonfire night is soon, then we make the munehs!"
Pie-X-
31-10-2005, 07:04 PM
i was gonna post in the halloween thread and say "happy halloween". BUT.. i feel i didnt fit in as 90% of the posts said they were gonna go out get drunk and egg some houses. I've just stayed inside and a had a mini partay with my family. boo halloween. BOO i say.
BOO.
The original purpose of hallowe'en's earliest roots was simply to commemorate the dead, and to help spirits, ghosts in particular, to go through to the next world. It obviously morphed through many formats, spreading widely, through the celtic meaning Jay mentioned, the lovely ritual of lighting candles and floating them away on paper boats to guide the spirits into the next world, and of course its modern meaning as an excuse to have a good time.
In Christian lore, it's the night before all saints' day, or all hallow's day - thus, hallow evening, hallowe'en. All saints' day is simply a celebration of all the saints, and as an apology to any saints you may not have celebrated, and was traditinonally celebrated on the aniversary of the consecration of your basilica, before being widely extended to 1st November. More information can be found here. (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315a.htm)
Preasure
31-10-2005, 07:11 PM
Well I'm not doing anything. There's no parties on, and besides people nowadays just use it as an excuse to egg houses. I'll save my enphusiasm for Fireworks Fortnight, or Bonfire night as it used to be called. :p
Penny for the guy is another thing that fucks me off.
People do that?
Blimey \o/
FoxDhoj
31-10-2005, 07:17 PM
They came and robed us of our colourings!
Oh no, more!
charlieman
31-10-2005, 07:19 PM
one of the bastards stole one of the pumpkins outside my house... i feel the need for revenge
Dyakson
31-10-2005, 07:25 PM
Instead of carving a pumpkin, I think I should carve out a Peugoet 106 with a plasma torch. It would be much more symbolic.
MichaelJackson
31-10-2005, 07:30 PM
Three people have rang my doorbell so far. I have ignored all of them.
Looks like my house is in for a egging.....and there faces a bricking.
Never the less my revenge will come soon............
On a more serious note, I think we need to start an official Halloween boycott society (The name's not important). We could have shirts and bumper stickers and badges and posters and stamps and chocolate.
WHO'S WITH ME!?!?!
*Runs into distance screaming. Nobody follows*
ANYONE who does it to be antisocial deserves a slap courtesy of the Rob.
Those 8 year old kids who come to your door dressed as scream or Osama Bin Laden (cosz hez a p--i lolololotfw) say "trikkatrea'" to you. You give them a healthy, cheap nutritious and tasty tangerine, they go "wha da fook yo givvn meh herebbq??/?" and their big brother comes up and says "if ya gonna fookin jus givvim tha' you be'ah fookin daaaah you gey". So you say "take it or leave it, some people would love to receive this" (like me because I adoooooore fruit).
So the 8 year old walks off muttering such obscenities he's not meant to know about at his age, and you wake up to nice crusty egg and flour over your doorstep, and idiot scallies setting off fireworks in daylight.
I personally don't like fireworks anyway as the nice looks don't compensate for the loudness and misuse (last year some people stuck a ferret to one, the fucking bastards).
So that's halloween.
But there's some good in it.
It's an opportunity to have a do with your friends where you can watch films and have lols. Maybe hold séances. Tell ghost stories. Eat jaffa cakes. This part of it is innocentish and makes it so fun :]
AngryPaul
31-10-2005, 07:34 PM
On a more serious note, I think we need to start an official Halloween boycott society (The name's not important). We could have shirts and bumper stickers and badges and posters and stamps and chocolate.
WHO'S WITH ME!?!?!I think it would take more than the 5 hours reminaing to plan that. We could always aim for next year though.
woobi
31-10-2005, 07:37 PM
It's unofficial then, everyone add it to your calenders.
Next year, we shall ruin hallowe'en for everyone.
[offtopic]Hey, AngryPaul, how's that thieving coming along, hehe[offtopic]
Pie-X-
31-10-2005, 07:38 PM
ANYONE who does it to be antisocial deserves a slap courtesy of the Rob.
Those 8 year old kids who come to your door dressed as scream or Osama Bin Laden (cosz hez a p--i lolololotfw) say "trikkatrea'" to you. You give them a healthy, cheap nutritious and tasty tangerine, they go "wha da fook yo givvn meh herebbq??/?" and their big brother comes up and says "if ya gonna fookin jus givvim tha' you be'ah fookin daaaah you gey". So you say "take it or leave it, some people would love to receive this" (like me because I adoooooore fruit).
So the 8 year old walks off muttering such obscenities he's not meant to know about at his age, and you wake up to nice crusty egg and flour over your doorstep, and idiot scallies setting off fireworks in daylight.
I personally don't like fireworks anyway as the nice looks don't compensate for the loudness and misuse (last year some people stuck a ferret to one, the fucking bastards).
So that's halloween.
But there's some good in it.
It's an opportunity to have a do with your friends where you can watch films and have lols. Maybe hold séances. Tell ghost stories. Eat jaffa cakes. This part of it is innocentish and makes it so fun :]
thats sorta what i said in a tiny fizzled way. BOO TRICK OR TREAT YAY HALLOWEEN! enjoy the 5 hours you have left with your families!!!
Dyakson
31-10-2005, 07:49 PM
But there's some good in it.
It's an opportunity to ... hold séances. This part of it is innocentish and makes it so fun :]
As innocentish as joining the Wehrmarcht to fight Soviet Russia, in my haughty opinion! :P
But the dead get lonely :[
woobi
31-10-2005, 07:56 PM
ANYONE who does it to be antisocial deserves a slap courtesy of the Rob.
Those 8 year old kids who come to your door dressed as scream or Osama Bin Laden (cosz hez a p--i lolololotfw) say "trikkatrea'" to you. You give them a healthy, cheap nutritious and tasty tangerine, they go "wha da fook yo givvn meh herebbq??/?" and their big brother comes up and says "if ya gonna fookin jus givvim tha' you be'ah fookin daaaah you gey". So you say "take it or leave it, some people would love to receive this" (like me because I adoooooore fruit).
So the 8 year old walks off muttering such obscenities he's not meant to know about at his age, and you wake up to nice crusty egg and flour over your doorstep, and idiot scallies setting off fireworks in daylight.
I personally don't like fireworks anyway as the nice looks don't compensate for the loudness and misuse (last year some people stuck a ferret to one, the fucking bastards).
So that's halloween.
But there's some good in it.
It's an opportunity to have a do with your friends where you can watch films and have lols. Maybe hold séances. Tell ghost stories. Eat jaffa cakes. This part of it is innocentish and makes it so fun :]
I can bet that in 5 years time, you'll have those same 8 year olds, yet 5 years older, coming up to your door, in no costume, just their £150 shoes, £300 jacket, £100 trousers and £1000's worth of 'bling', expecting to get a £200 Berghaus jacket. (If none of you know what I'm on about, neds/chavs/townies/whatever the hell you call them)
And if you don't give, you recieve, a quick stab that is.
dude in a box
31-10-2005, 07:59 PM
Who agrees with me here that haloween is tacky? i.e. the 'scary' suits, the pumkins with the carved faces and the candle
I can bet that in 5 years time, you'll have those same 8 year olds, yet 5 years older, coming up to your door, in no costume, just their £150 shoes, £300 jacket, £100 trousers and £1000's worth of 'bling', expecting to get a £200 Berghaus jacket. (If none of you know what I'm on about, neds/chavs/townies/whatever the hell you call them)
And if you don't give, you recieve, a quick stab that is.
urgh.
-__-
I'm sorry but I'm fed up of people telling me I'll get beaten up for whatever. If they don't like me they don't have to interfere with my life.
I'll win. There's hardly any kids round my area anyway that can be asked to get here. I have a 'long scary drive'.
AngryPaul
31-10-2005, 08:04 PM
Who agrees with me here that haloween is tacky? i.e. the 'scary' suits, the pumkins with the carved faces and the candleIf done by kids: No
If done by teenagers on mopeds: Yes
Oh don't me started on fucking mopeds..
Pumpkins are the win though. Saving me £30 entrance into thorpe park=win.
FoxDhoj
31-10-2005, 08:17 PM
Apparently kids will get fined £18 tonight if found with flour and/or eggs, and worse for fireworks ^_^
Don't you just love twat-prevention.
Oh don't me started on fucking mopeds..
Pumpkins are the win though. Saving me £30 entrance into thorpe park=win.
I reckon we should make a general moaning thread. Topic Uno: mopeds in the UK (and Europe).
I seem to have noticed that in Italy and Spain in particular, everybody rides a moped, even if they only need to go to the tabacco shop oppostite. [/offtopic]
It's not just flat out a fine is it? I mean, honestly, some could be getting it for their parents, so they're allowed a call right?
Kid walks down street with a bag.
Cop- What's in the bag, son?
Kid-Flour for my mom.
Cop-You're not allowed to have flour, now sit in the back of the car while I make out your ticket.
Kid-But my mom needs it!
Cop-Give me the flour, kid!
Kid run.
Cop shoots kid.
Partner come up.
Partner- Why'd you do that? It was just a kid!
Cop- He was resisting arrest. Do you really want to know if he had anything else with that flour? Eggs even?
Partner-I suppose......
Cop-I'm just doing my good, and protecting this town.
Yelling from down the road
Billy, did you get the flour?
FoxDhoj
31-10-2005, 08:29 PM
Hang on - don't they use tazers now?
Apparently some nutcase is gonna go 'round tonight with a BB replic gun, just to see what happens when the cops see him...
Yeah, but what is the chance of most sane parents asking kids to go and get flour for them after dark on halloween?
FoxDhoj
31-10-2005, 08:31 PM
I reckon it's a big bomb conspiracy.
They said that if under-18's are caught with "eggs, flour, alcahol and fireworks", then they'll get fined.
They sound like good ingredients for a home-made bomb if you ask me...never should've put all four in the same sentence...
/edit: A lot of people love to do "what if"'s. My fav's are:
Halloween cake.
Pumpkin pie.
Apples are probably more fun to lob at houses...but don't go telling that to the kids, mind...
Wahey, some spackola's who sounded way too old to be doing this just rammed our door and tried to get our back gate open. Lovely.
Banging on my door doesn't get sweets. Being 18 doesn't get you any either.
AngryPaul
31-10-2005, 08:50 PM
Thank god I live on a main road.
No Trickatre'ers for me. :)
However, I see all the roads that do get them.
Messy. Very messy.
Pork Pies
31-10-2005, 09:06 PM
I'm sorry but I just don't agree with the "Let's have a cutting party!" or a "Burning party!" or "Let's go down to the graveyard and try to talk to my dead friend!". It just pisses me off how people don't understand the true meaning of Hallowe'en and start getting too much into evil spirits and tell their kids that that's what Hallowe'en is about as well (bothering evil spirits,that is.). They raise their kids saying that witchcraft and ghosts are harmless and wi-gi boards are fine but they're not. All that evil stuff shouldn't be associated with Hallowe'en but these days it is. And the dead don't get lonely. Some believe that they just die and have no feelings or spirit existance afterwards. I think that they're put in Heaven or Hell and completely cut off from the Human race and that when you think you're talking to Dead people you're not talking to Dead people at all. Call me crazy or stupid if you like but that's my opinion.
Glitch
31-10-2005, 09:39 PM
Urgh, Hallowe'en. Should be banned. The whole "give us food or we'll toothpaste your car/egg your windows/flour bomb your cat" is just plain...I dunno, wrong. Not to be a whiner or anything. I wonder how many arrests are made on Hallowe'en?
da-geezer
31-10-2005, 09:43 PM
I wonder how many arrests are made on Hallowe'en?
Not as many as you'd imagine. Most of the police work on Hallowe'en stems from calls from the public, saying "oh these boys came around earlier and asked for candy and I said no so they egged my house". When you specifically ask them whether they saw them egging the house, they say "welll... no", which effectivley ties your hands.
You do get an elevated amount of arrests related to public order offences, but it's just busy with the aforementioned style of calls, rather than an arrest-frenzy.
(last year some people stuck a ferret to one, the fucking bastards).
Haahahaahaha!!! That's funny!!
I stand on my roof and throw eggs at the trick or treaters, as most kids in my village i hate and have had fights with.
Haahahaahaha!!! That's funny!!
...and why?
carpefula
31-10-2005, 11:36 PM
With my father being a policeman and living in the same house for 14 years... the neighbourhood kids love to give the house an omlette feel every year.
This being so... he went to stay at his girlfriends and i went to work. I thought i would be safe from the little bastards at my beloved pizza restaurant.
Alas this was not so.
Two little shits came in dressed like tramps saying "trick or treat smell my feet" to all the customers at the tables. (no parents anywhere to be seen)
I tried to kick them all out but the little bastard was so rude "BUT ITS TRICK OR TREAT DAY" (proving carbs point that none of the axe-wounds know what it's really about)
EDIT: i could smell the cider on their breath
I managed to kick them out in the end but only after they trew dough balls at me... little shits.
Mittwoch
01-11-2005, 12:08 AM
They raise their kids saying that witchcraft and ghosts are harmless and wi-gi boards are fine but they're not. All that evil stuff shouldn't be associated with Hallowe'en but these days it is.
Excuse me? Evil stuff?
Firstly, it's spelt ouija board.
Now I'd like to proceed with my rant (I'm sorry to be so emotastic in this thread, but mleh. I like to be ironically serious on Hallowe'en). Witchcraft is a branch of Paganism, one of the oldest religions in the world, and it's still practised by many decent people. Witchcraft (or Wicca) is a religion that focuses on spiritual and mental development of yourself in order to help others. We do not cause any harm. We do not believe in devils or curses. Our laws state that no other person's free will is to be altered and we must have their full permission to even consider involving them.
The general consensus now is that witches are evil. Sure, some are, but they don't deserve the title of witch that they give themselves. I've spent the last two years being the constant subject of all sorts of rumours and other shite, I've been a scapegoat for whatever slightly unnatural may happen (oh teh noes! My pen has gone missing! Fucking witch!). (2 points well and truly buried, neeext)
And guess what? Hallowe'en is originally a Pagan festival! As is the way with most Pagan celebrations (Yule, May Day) the Christians snapped it up. The Celts originally introduced their traditional holiday to America, and, well, the rest is history.
Now we have chavs hammering down our doors with fireworks, begging like limbless six-year-olds for spare change.
And to make this post fit in with the thread: oh angst I have fucking trick-or-treaters throwing eggs at me house.
Actually, I didn't get ANY trick-or-treaters :p <3 the countryside
Erasmus
01-11-2005, 12:40 AM
It just pisses me off how people don't understand the true meaning of Hallowe'en and start getting too much into evil spirits and tell their kids that that's what Hallowe'en is about as well (bothering evil spirits,that is.).
Sounds like it's you who doesn't understand the meaning of hallowe'en because that is pretty much it.
From Britannica:
"At Samhain, held on November 1, the world of the gods was believed to be made visible to mankind, and the gods played many tricks on their mortal worshipers; it was a time fraught with danger, charged with fear, and full of supernatural episodes. Sacrifices and propitiations of every kind were thought to be vital, for without them the Celts believed they could not prevail over the perils of the season or counteract the activities of the deities. Samhain was an important precursor to Halloween"
EDIT: Just so you know I hate what Hallowe'en has become as well. Hallowed evening? What's hallowed about an excuse for a piss up?
da-geezer
01-11-2005, 12:51 AM
What's hallowed about an excuse for a piss up?
Oh lordy, looking at it like that, I wish every day was Hallowe'en :D
Erasmus
01-11-2005, 12:56 AM
sorry, I think I gave the wrong impression there.
Piss ups are all well and good, but using Holy days as an excuse for them.... just seems sacrilegious.
EDIT:
They should be honest about it! Create national piss-up, beg for sweets and throw eggs at strangers day.
ZekeyLizard
01-11-2005, 06:09 PM
Who agrees with me here that haloween is tacky? i.e. the 'scary' suits, the pumkins with the carved faces and the candle
wtf dude in a box? go back to the cheesebin.
...and why?
Because they aren't meant to fly
But it was cruel :(
I don't like it when 4 scallies go up to me and stick me on a firework. Or I wouldn't like it go figure.
Tweekish
01-11-2005, 07:17 PM
The general consensus now is that witches are evil.
I think you have Hollywood to thank for that one, you rarely get films or tv shows that portray witches as they really are. Its all warts and cackling.
We had some trick or treaters who rang our doorbell for ages then yelled things through the letterbox. One of them said something about trashing our cars but their parents were with them.
btw, happy Diwali for those who celebrate it. Did I spell it right?
EDIT - Better?
Erasmus
01-11-2005, 07:23 PM
btw, happy Divali for those who celebrate it. Did I spell it right?
almost. 'tis Diwali I believe
No it isn't - she was right all along.
Fine, I'll tell the truth. It can be both.
Sloth
01-11-2005, 07:33 PM
I think you have Hollywood to thank for that one, you rarely get films or tv shows that portray witches as they really are. Its all warts and cackling. uhhh..... heh... ooookeyyy
Tweekish
01-11-2005, 07:33 PM
I just googled it. You can spell it Divali, Diwali, Dewali, Deepavali etc.
So technically I was right, and so was Erasmus.
Anyway, thank goodness Halloween is over for another year.
Shave
01-11-2005, 09:11 PM
I think you have Hollywood to thank for that one, you rarely get films or tv shows that portray witches as they really are. Its all warts and cackling.
what about sabrina? :p
escaped unharmed, but i still fear answering the door
Pork Pies
31-12-2005, 08:41 PM
Sorry. You guys have proven me wrong. I thought the true meaning of Hallowe'en was to scare off evil spirits. Clearly it isn't. Apologies.
Why'd you just bump this one month old thread that's about halloween, which was bloody ages ago? Someone finish this, re...
Pork Pies
31-12-2005, 08:49 PM
I just don't know. I finally looked at my User CP after months and months and I found lots of replies to a thread I posted in. Don't get too uppety. Unless you want me to start referring to myself as the Piester again.
...member to check the date of posts. :eng101:
moovok
31-12-2005, 08:58 PM
and don't bump threads without a good reason to. It's New Year, Halloween is gone.
Glitch
31-12-2005, 09:01 PM
According to the "dateulator" on my phone, last Halloween was 61 days ago and next Halloween is 304 days away. Ergo, it is frowned upon, if not actually illegal, to post in this thread.
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