Trick or treat

Frank the tank

Another bag of sh1t that's travelled "across the pond".

When I was a youngster f**k all was made of 31st October, but now it's yet another example of out and out commercialism which the public have unwittingly bought into.

So the next time someone knocks on your door and says "trick or treat" Biff 'em on the nose and say trick, now f**k off.

Either that or offer them a choice from a tin of roses which are currently on offer at Tesco for £5.00.

STEFANOS4784

This is definately a crock o shite. That's all i have to say on it other than why do people think Americans are so fat and Brit's are going that way

teagar

It's legal extortion.


Anyone seen the curb episode?

"bald asshole" etc?

afx237vi

Frank the tank wrote:

Another bag of sh1t that's travelled "across the pond".

When I was a youngster f**k all was made of 31st October, but now it's yet another example of out and out commercialism which the public have unwittingly bought into.

So the next time someone knocks on your door and says "trick or treat" Biff 'em on the nose and say trick, now f**k off.

Either that or offer them a choice from a tin of roses which are currently on offer at Tesco for £5.00.

How old are you? When I was a kid (late 80s / early 90s) I remember Halloween being a fairly big event with costumes, apple dunking, trick or treating and all that crap. It's not exactly a new thing that Britain has discovered in the last couple of years.

skinson

How old are you? When I was a kid (late 80s / early 90s) I remember Halloween being a fairly big event with costumes, apple dunking, trick or treating and all that crap. It's not exactly a new thing that Britain has discovered in the last couple of years.

Me too! Rest of you must have been living in a cave all your lives...... :?
Dave

Smokin Joe

Christ, I can't believe what a miserable bunch you lot are. Why don't you join in the spirit and enjoy it?

Take last year for example. I hung a freshly severed goat's head from the porch door to greet the little kiddies as they arrived, and myself and Mrs Smokin Joe sat at the upstairs windows, myself with a .22 air rifle and Mrs SJ with her catapult. Our two lovable little Rottweilers, Ronnie and Reggie were playing happily in the front garden to make the visitors feel welcome. You know how kids love animals.

I think the little ones round here are a bit shy though, because they all seemed to cross the road as they approached the house. Mrs Smokin Joe said afterwards that my little joke of pointing the rifle at them and shouting "Do you feel lucky, punk?", might have gone over their heads as they all looked too young to remember Clint Eastwood's films.

Anyway, towards the end of the evening one of the neighbours lads, a chubby little chap passed by on the other side of the road. I thought I'd have a little laugh with him and loosed a slug off which pinged against his fat little ar$e. How he squealed! These kids today really need toughening up, there was no need for all the tears as he ran home. How Mrs Smokin Joe and me laughed!

His father must have thought it was quite amusing too, he came over to have a crac about it later on, but by the time he prised Ronnie off his arm it was getting on a bit and he didn't bother to knock.

Nope, I'm not a miserable old killjoy like the rest of you. Roll on this year!

STEFANOS4784

I'm 25 and my mum said it was tacky and no better than begging on the streets so was never aloud to go, i kind of see her point. It's not really a British celebration. Don't know what it is a celebration of for that matter :oops: :arrow:

teagar

Smokin Joe wrote:

Christ, I can't believe what a miserable bunch you lot are. Why don't you join in the spirit and enjoy it?

Take last year for example. I hung a freshly severed goat's head from the porch door to greet the little kiddies as they arrived, and myself and Mrs Smokin Joe sat at the upstairs windows, myself with a .22 air rifle and Mrs SJ with her catapult. Our two lovable little Rottweilers, Ronnie and Reggie were playing happily in the front garden to make the visitors feel welcome. You know how kids love animals.

I think the little ones round here are a bit shy though, because they all seemed to cross the road as they approached the house. Mrs Smokin Joe said afterwards that my little joke of pointing the rifle at them and shouting "Do you feel lucky, punk?", might have gone over their heads as they all looked too young to remember Clint Eastwood's films.

Anyway, towards the end of the evening one of the neighbours lads, a chubby little chap passed by on the other side of the road. I thought I'd have a little laugh with him and loosed a slug off which pinged against his fat little ar$e. How he squealed! These kids today really need toughening up, there was no need for all the tears as he ran home. How Mrs Smokin Joe and me laughed!

His father must have thought it was quite amusing too, he came over to have a crac about it later on, but by the time he prised Ronnie off his arm it was getting on a bit and he didn't bother to knock.

Nope, I'm not a miserable old killjoy like the rest of you. Roll on this year!

Every halloween in my teenage years I spent sitting at home closing all the windows whilst other kids in my year from my school pelted them with eggs.

Great fun.

STEFANOS4784

We got egged once, unfortunately for them i have 4 older brothers lol, not so funny when they were weeping on the floor begging for forgiveness

(Thought i'd add that nothing happened, just the fear made them cry)

Smokin Joe

Seriously though, it is nothing more than an excuse for legalised vandalism. The police round here took a tough line on it with a zero tolerance policy on offenders. I hope both that they do the same this year and that it pisses down heavily all night.

And bonfire night too.

And the carol singers can feck of and drown themselves.

jrduquemin

Bloody trick or treaters, some smart little sh!t decided to stab a hole in one of my car tyres 2 years ago...

Pity I didn't catch the little fecker...

finchy

Well, maybe you lot don't remember trick or treaters from your youth, but I'm 2,049 years old, and I remember when it was a pagan British tradition for youngsters to do this.

Unfortunately it died out, but personally, every time a child threatens to smash our windows if I don't give them a load of chocolate, it brings the happy memories of pre-Roman times flooding back.

That said, I'll burn the little f**kers in a wicker man* if they try to get anything out of me.

* note to teagar - yes, I am aware that there is no evidence for wicker men, other than Roman propaganda.

holmeboy

Yeah the Americans, bloody Guy Fawkes an All, trying to blow up the Houses in Washington! :roll:

shouldbeinbed

Smokin Joe wrote:

Seriously though, it is nothing more than an excuse for legalised vandalism. The police round here took a tough line on it with a zero tolerance policy on offenders. I hope both that they do the same this year and that it pisses down heavily all night.

And bonfire night too.

And the carol singers can feck of and drown themselves.

line of the day


you sound just like one of my football pals. not from Ashington are you?

and by the way, bollox to halloween another commercial rip off

pedylan

The deadly combination of America and commercialism could kill off anything.

In my youth (60's/70's) we dressed up in home made costumes and then learnt songs and poems and little recitals. We'd then go to neighbours (all people we knew well) and perform these recitals for sweets, fruit, nuts etc. Never money and never with a threat. We'd also do apple "dooking" and other autumn traditional stuff.

Now it's just demanding money with menaces, costumes are bought and the "tradition" is imported and commercialised - halloween is a major sales activity for supermarkest full of orange tat.

I do though remember a rhyme that went "The sky is blue the grass is green may we have our halloween" that had added to it "If you haven't got a penny a halfpenny will do, if you haven't got a halfpenny your windows are going through"

Cressers

When the little urchins knock at my door I give them a bag. Their little faces light up, up to the momnet they find it is full of healthy root vegetables...

daviesee

pedylan wrote:

The deadly combination of America and commercialism could kill off anything.

In my youth (60's/70's) we dressed up in home made costumes and then learnt songs and poems and little recitals. We'd then go to neighbours (all people we knew well) and perform these recitals for sweets, fruit, nuts etc. Never money and never with a threat. We'd also do apple "dooking" and other autumn traditional stuff.

Now it's just demanding money with menaces, costumes are bought and the "tradition" is imported and commercialised - halloween is a major sales activity for supermarkest full of orange tat.

I do though remember a rhyme that went "The sky is blue the grass is green may we have our halloween" that had added to it "If you haven't got a penny a halfpenny will do, if you haven't got a halfpenny your windows are going through"

+1

Halloween is not new but trick or treat is an American import from over the last decade or two.

Roscobob

STEFANOS4784 wrote:

We got egged once, unfortunately for them i have 4 older brothers lol, not so funny when they were weeping on the floor begging for forgiveness

(Thought i'd add that nothing happened, just the fear made them cry)

Same happened to me. They were walking down the street as I was walking up it, they never saw me and launched an egg at my window and ran straight in to me. Needless to say the rest of their eggs were used on their heads. Being a sociable kind of guy, I told them their fathers were more than welcome to come round and discuss it but the miserable so and so's never took me up on my offer :twisted:

Anonymous

I remember halloween, when you dressed up, knocked on doors and said, "Sky is blue, sea is green please can I have my halloween". You would then tell a joke/sing/party piece. Then you would get fruit, monkey nuts or homemade tablet or toffee. West coast of scotland in the 70's rocked !

tatanab

It is true that Halloween was celebrated years ago - I mean YEARS. It was taken over by Guy Fawkes because the Protestant church was trying to rid us of pagan festivals and also needed to rub the Catholics face in the failure of the gun powder plot (I may have Protestant and Catholic the wrong way around). Hence we have Guy Fawkes night not halloween. Then along came the idea that all things American must be good and we got halloween back mainly because school teachers thought it would be fun for the little darlings.

Having lived in the USA I found halloween to be quite different to here. I used to go out to the shopping malls which were all made up to attract the extra customers. Adults as well as their children would dress up and the kids would collect their treats. Kids were also taught not to accept fruit or unwrapped sweets because they may conceal a razor blade or other nasty. Very different to this country where we have to turn everything bad and halloween is just an excuse for thuggery and vandalism. One place I lived had great piles of soggy toilet paper thrown at it. I was not even home. Being a rental house I left it all in place for the wind and rain to wash off. It was a reminder for weeks to local parents about the misbehaviour of their offspring.

Any kid knocking on my door gets the history lesson above. At Christmas, carol singers are invited to sing two verses of a carol. They inevitably fail and are told to stop taking the P.

Miserable old git! Moi?

Barkiesnake

A few years ago Terry Wogan suggested on his radio show that if some spotty 'erbert bangs on your door and asks you "trick or treat" you should politely answer, "Treat please" and help yourself from their goody bag. 8)
Alternatively a friend of mine coats brussell sprouts in chocolate and then puts them on old lolly sticks and wraps them in cling film. When asked he then distributes them into childrens goody bags quite happilly. the kids go away happy and he returns smugly to his lounge and imagines their cheery little faces when they bite into his healthy snack lollys. :evil: :evil: :evil:

deptfordmarmoset

I just saw a sign outside a shop on the high street - I don't promise to have the exact wording but it went pretty much like this:

This store has been asked by SNT* not to sell eggs or flour to children under 16 years in the weeks running up to Hallowe'en.

*Safer Neighbourhoods Team

From the wording it was clearly not anything backed up by law - it's probably hard to legislate against cake-making materials - but it does seem to both demonise kids and superimpose a kind of nanny law over the real law. It struck me as very dubious.

Wooliferkins

I got a bowl of fruit for the halloween beggars one year. Parents were shocked, kids digusted, result peace for years.

Frank the tank

afx237vi wrote:

Frank the tank wrote:

Another bag of sh1t that's travelled "across the pond".

When I was a youngster f**k all was made of 31st October, but now it's yet another example of out and out commercialism which the public have unwittingly bought into.

So the next time someone knocks on your door and says "trick or treat" Biff 'em on the nose and say trick, now f**k off.

Either that or offer them a choice from a tin of roses which are currently on offer at Tesco for £5.00.

How old are you? When I was a kid (late 80s / early 90s) I remember Halloween being a fairly big event with costumes, apple dunking, trick or treating and all that crap. It's not exactly a new thing that Britain has discovered in the last couple of years.

I'm 48.

will3

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

From the wording it was clearly not anything backed up by law - it's probably hard to legislate against cake-making materials - but it does seem to both demonise kids and superimpose a kind of nanny law over the real law. It struck me as very dubious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwylBRucU7w

deptfordmarmoset

will3 wrote:

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

From the wording it was clearly not anything backed up by law - it's probably hard to legislate against cake-making materials - but it does seem to both demonise kids and superimpose a kind of nanny law over the real law. It struck me as very dubious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwylBRucU7w

softlad

Frank the tank wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

Frank the tank wrote:

Another bag of sh1t that's travelled "across the pond".

When I was a youngster f**k all was made of 31st October, but now it's yet another example of out and out commercialism which the public have unwittingly bought into.

So the next time someone knocks on your door and says "trick or treat" Biff 'em on the nose and say trick, now f**k off.

Either that or offer them a choice from a tin of roses which are currently on offer at Tesco for £5.00.

How old are you? When I was a kid (late 80s / early 90s) I remember Halloween being a fairly big event with costumes, apple dunking, trick or treating and all that crap. It's not exactly a new thing that Britain has discovered in the last couple of years.

I'm 48.

I think Frank's right - I don't remember doing anything like this when I were a lad, and I don't remember anyone else doing it either. And I ain't far behind him in terms of age....

I think the turning point was 'ET' (the movie) which introduced 'trick or treat'ing to the great British public en masse....

ConsciousPilot

Some of you guys are really devious and have given me a few ideas for this year! :twisted:

I seem to recall apple bobbing, but it was done on bonfire night. Also remember "guising", wheeling our home made guy fawkes round the neighbourhood calling out "penny for the Guy"

crown_jewel

Due to concerns about child safety and whatnot, trick or treating is not as active as it once was in the US. There are still random acts of senseless vandalism, but usually pretty tame. The real growth industry are costume parties for adults, which I have never been a fan of.

UncleFred

Halloweens always been big for me. It's my birthday.

Buckled_Rims

ConsciousPilot wrote:

Some of you guys are really devious and have given me a few ideas for this year! :twisted:

I seem to recall apple bobbing, but it was done on bonfire night. Also remember "guising", wheeling our home made guy fawkes round the neighbourhood calling out "penny for the Guy"

We used to call it "Dookey Apples".

Strange how kids are so forward nowadays. We would have been sh*t scared to approach a bloke in case he thumped us.

(I'm a child of the 1960's)