Halloween........

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Genius. This is the way forward

He is in Australia where it isn't pissing wet and dark by 5pm. I'm presuming there aren't many asbos either.

Good point, but it does not seem to stop them walking the streets "trick or treating", does it?

-- Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:16 pm --

He is in Australia where it isn't pissing wet and dark by 5pm. I'm presuming there aren't many asbos either.

It'd be pissing wet outside my front door just the same. Asbos ? I wouldn't know.

Pominoz ?

What are asbos?

anti-social behaviour's

 

[pominoz]

He is in Australia where it isn't pissing wet and dark by 5pm. I'm presuming there aren't many asbos either.

Good point, but it does not seem to stop them walking the streets "trick or treating", does it?

-- Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:16 pm --

It'd be pissing wet outside my front door just the same. Asbos ? I wouldn't know.

Pominoz ?

What are asbos?

Sadly, Antisocial Behaviour Orders. Designed to keep chav lowlife away from the places they regularly cause trouble.

Please don't ask what a chav is or I'll know you're on the wum ;.)

Don't think we have them, we have jails for shit like that ;)

Edit- and coppers with big fuck off guns.

 

[CTID1988]

Good point, but it does not seem to stop them walking the streets "trick or treating", does it?

-- Thu Oct 31, 2013 4:16 pm --



What are asbos?

Sadly, Antisocial Behaviour Orders. Designed to keep chav lowlife away from the places they regularly cause trouble.

Please don't ask what a chav is or I'll know you're on the wum ;.)

Don't think we have them, we have jails for shit like that ;)

Edit- and coppers with big fuck off guns.

We used to have Australia for things like that :(

 

[OB1]

I thought the John Carpenter original was a superb movie. Great soundtrack too.

OK. Not that funny but there are some very responses on this thread.

On a serious note. We don't live in a highly populated place so I don't expect that we will get many, if any, trespassers knocking at the door but we have a bag of mini Cadbury bars just in case. There's a new family with kids on the drive.

In the village, it was the case that if your house was decorated, you were open for business and the trick or treating was a basically an organised procession around the Halloween friendly homes; followed by an adjournment of parents and kids to the pub for hot dogs and apple bobbing.

Talking of processions. I have been in the U.S. on a couple of occasions at this time of the year. The first time, my wife and I were on holiday in Naples and hadn't even thought about the fact that it was Oct 31 until we turned up at the local Mall to go and get some dinner. The place was packed with kids in costume going from shop to shop for a handout. A few years ago, we were at Disney with our daughters and they had a great time going round the shops at Downtown Disney, most of which were ready with staff waiting to hand out candy.

 

[pominoz]

Sadly, Antisocial Behaviour Orders. Designed to keep chav lowlife away from the places they regularly cause trouble.

Please don't ask what a chav is or I'll know you're on the wum ;.)

Don't think we have them, we have jails for shit like that ;)

Edit- and coppers with big fuck off guns.

We used to have Australia for things like that :(

Good innit?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV7zFMgdjlo[/youtube]

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Whilst a little part of me is tempted to wrap up a few dozen Brussels sprouts in Ferraro Roche wrappers, since I've had kids I'm happy to enter the sprit of things. I will be out later with the kids doing a few trick or treats on the neighbours, purely because it makes my kids happy. And on Saturday we are having our annual Halloween and fireworks party, purely because it gets everyone together, the kids love it and everyone has a good time.

I can't abide with this modern day trend for pontificating to all and sundry that these occasions have become 'commercialised', as though someone is somehow opening your wallet for you and removing notes to boost major corporations. If you resent spending money on a family occasion make a ghost costume from a sheet, stick a few crab apples in a bucket and do it like we did when we were kids. Or don't do anything.

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Whilst a little part of me is tempted to wrap up a few dozen Brussels sprouts in Ferraro Roche wrappers, since I've had kids I'm happy to enter the sprit of things. I will be out later with the kids doing a few trick or treats on the neighbours, purely because it makes my kids happy. And on Saturday we are having our annual Halloween and fireworks party, purely because it gets everyone together, the kids love it and everyone has a good time.

I can't abide with this modern day trend for pontificating to all and sundry that these occasions have become 'commercialised', as though someone is somehow opening your wallet for you and removing notes to boost major corporations. If you resent spending money on a family occasion make a ghost costume from a sheet, stick a few crab apples in a bucket and do it like we did when we were kids. Or don't do anything.

It is like Christmas, only enjoyable if you have kids of a certain age.... that sounds very Glitterish on read back.

 

[another generation]

Popped down to the Co-op to use the cash machine. First sight upon entering the shop - a young bloke dressed head to foot in a diamond-patterned jester's outfit, checking the prices on fruit. Is it now Co-op policy for their employees to distract members of the public? I kept trying to glance what was hidden behind the flap of cloth covering his crotch, but short of flinging myself into the fruit area, I wasn't ever going to find out.

Jester? Why?

 

[andyhinch]

Popped down to the Co-op to use the cash machine. First sight upon entering the shop - a young bloke dressed head to foot in a diamond-patterned jester's outfit, checking the prices on fruit. Is it now Co-op policy for their employees to distract members of the public? I kept trying to glance what was hidden behind the flap of cloth covering his crotch, but short of flinging myself into the fruit area, I wasn't ever going to find out.

Jester? Why?

Tom fool the murdering Jester of Muncaster?

I'm home alone, should I be scared.

 

[stony]

We've put some tubes of mini toothpaste in the sweet box. First kid that pulled one out thought we were trying to poison him.