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    Halloween...

    Let's talk about it...

    Why do Scots get monkey nuts and scabby oranges instead of the usual treats associated...? Any method behind this or did somebody just happen to have them one year...?

    Why is the fancy dress theme extending to costumes completely unrelated to halloween...(I am one to talk....because I do it...)

    Why is it 'wrong' to kick your foot out your catflap and scare the living day lights out of young children?? (Aside from the fact you might break the cat flap...)


    Any general thoughts??
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    Re: Halloween...

    I resent the wholesale adoption of the American Trick or Treat phenomenon. I am old enough to remember having had to do something (however awful) in return for a treat but nowadays complete strangers turn up at your door expecting to just get something (and don't try giving them an apple, they want money!) for free. Isn't that just begging?
    Last year I had a small child of around 5 knock at the door. His Dad stood on the pavement outside (20ft away?) and shooed him on. I didn't know either of them at all and I find it absurd that a parent would encourage their (surely) most previous possession to go around on a dark night knocking at strangers doors!
    No, I'll have the gate wired up this year. Sadly not to the mains, just tape, but its enough to discourage them.

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    Re: Halloween...

    Quote Originally Posted by The Little 'un View Post
    Why is the fancy dress theme extending to costumes completely unrelated to halloween...(I am one to talk....because I do it...)
    Any Halloween parties I went to as a child very few people dressed in 'halloween' costumes, it was always just fancy dress.

    I really don't want to dress as something associated with death, hell, demons, or magic. That's just not something I want to celebrate in that way or 'play' at being.

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    Re: Halloween...

    Quote Originally Posted by crystaltips View Post
    I resent the wholesale adoption of the American Trick or Treat phenomenon. I am old enough to remember having had to do something (however awful) in return for a treat but nowadays complete strangers turn up at your door expecting to just get something (and don't try giving them an apple, they want money!) for free. Isn't that just begging?
    Generally parents will only knock on doors of neighbours they know well or at houses that have decorated the house with halloween stuff. Yes there are people who will just knock on every door, but if I didn't want to join in, I'd just ignore the door bell.

    Quote Originally Posted by crystaltips View Post
    Last year I had a small child of around 5 knock at the door. His Dad stood on the pavement outside (20ft away?) and shooed him on. I didn't know either of them at all and I find it absurd that a parent would encourage their (surely) most previous possession to go around on a dark night knocking at strangers doors!
    Previous possession? One careless owner, etc, etc.

    C'mon! Kids love dressing up and too be honest, so do I. This year I will be mostly dressed as an evil witch with a red bob, warty face and a massive hairy nose (that's after I've dressed up by the way, for those that can't tell the difference)

    It's mostly just a bit of fun. We won't be door knocking this year as Trouble is having a halloween party at her new house instead, so we'll just upset the neighbours with a shed load of fireworks instead.


    Quote Originally Posted by crystaltips View Post
    No, I'll have the gate wired up this year. Sadly not to the mains, just tape, but its enough to discourage them.
    Humbug!

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    Re: Halloween...

    May I humbly suggest that our civilisation has somewhat lost the plot on this one?!?!?!

    Halloween is Hallow's Eve: The Eve of the Hallowed Ones: the Holy Ones: All Saints Day: the day the good guys come out...

    Halloween is when the bad guys get to play... Yep, witches, goblins, ghouls, Scooby Doo extras, etc, etc...

    Dressing up randomly then extorting money from neighbours through menace or the threat of egged windows wasn't really what it was about... though, somewhat ironically, it kinda sticks to the theme...

    The idiots are taking over the assylum... it's made easier for them the more Americanised (sorry, that should be Americanized) our society becomes... chicken, egg, chicken, egg, chicken eye soup, chicken....

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    Re: Halloween...

    It's my favourite time of the year!

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    Re: Halloween...

    Quote Originally Posted by CJ View Post
    The idiots are taking over the assylum...
    What goes around comes around .... correct me if I’m wrong, CJ, but the early emigrants took the custom across the water. Yet the pleasures were simpler: “tattie bogles” (potato scarecrows), “neep (turnip) lanterns” and “dookin’ fer apples” (apple dunking). And is not “guising” the traditional forerunner of trick or treating?

    It’s the degradation of American commercialism we have to fear: Burns will be spinning in his grave. And, yes, we’re in danger of losing the plot ....

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    Re: Halloween...

    yes tis true, i am hosting a kids party - well, four kids in total but me Sam, Gav and Scarface biggest kids of all.

    So, i have a few games in mind which i will have to buy stuff for but would welcome any other ideas....

    1. Bobbing Apples - bit messy this one so might do hanging doughnuts instead of ring biscuits.
    2. Guess whats in the box
    3. Wrap the mummy - fastest team wins.
    4. pin the nose on the pumpkin or witch

    If its a dry nite, we will have the wood burner going, barbecue on with jacket potatoes and steak and of course good ole fashion wine.... yummmmy.

    Gonna dress scarface up as something, not sure what yet. !!

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    Re: Halloween...

    Yes, but....


    "Why do Scots get monkey nuts and scabby oranges instead of the usual treats associated...? Any method behind this or did somebody just happen to have them one year...?"



    That's what I really want to know....

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    Re: Halloween...

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post
    yes tis true, i am hosting a kids party - well, four kids in total but me Sam, Gav and Scarface biggest kids of all.

    So, i have a few games in mind which i will have to buy stuff for but would welcome any other ideas....

    1. Bobbing Apples - bit messy this one so might do hanging doughnuts instead of ring biscuits.
    2. Guess whats in the box
    3. Wrap the mummy - fastest team wins.
    4. pin the nose on the pumpkin or witch

    If its a dry nite, we will have the wood burner going, barbecue on with jacket potatoes and steak and of course good ole fashion wine.... yummmmy.

    Gonna dress scarface up as something, not sure what yet. !!

    Awwh sounds lovellly!

    Hehe 'create your own alcoholic jelly?'

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    Re: Halloween...

    Quote Originally Posted by The Little 'un View Post
    Awwh sounds lovellly!

    Hehe 'create your own alcoholic jelly?'
    mmm thats an even better idea - get the kids drunk - bed early and we can get on with our own evening..... LOL

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    Re: Halloween...

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post
    mmm thats an even better idea - get the kids drunk - bed early and we can get on with our own evening..... LOL

    And that's what we call Halloween!!

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    Re: Halloween...

    Not sure about when the peanuts and apples came in - before my time... I was allowed to go round with a giant group of school friends to each other's family and friends. We each had to do a turn of some sort to earn the treat - a mixture odf peanuts, plenty of apples, the occasional sweet, chocolate and if people were extra generous up to 50p or so per night.

    This year we are having a big family party - Age 4 to 70+ Dooking for apples - true dooking or with fork, treacle scones to hang, pass the parcel (probably an adult and a kids version), lots of sweet and savoury finger food, music, and a good chance to catch up..

    Cheers WT

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    Re: Halloween...

    my 4 year old impressed me, upon hearing my explanation of "dooking for apples" and the fact that you could not use your hands only your mouth, her response was "is the stalk still on?".

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    Re: Halloween...

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post

    Previous possession? One careless owner, etc, etc.
    Yes, obviously I did mean precious, not previous! (Oh, the number of times I embarrass myself when I type "Pension"!!)

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    Re: Halloween...

    Any ideas on some good old drunken halloween party games??

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    Re: Halloween...

    Quote Originally Posted by crystaltips View Post
    No, I'll have the gate wired up this year. Sadly not to the mains, just tape, but its enough to discourage them.
    I just open the door that seems to do the trick ?
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    Re: Halloween...

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    I just open the door that seems to do the trick ?
    I see the diets going well Stewart. You're losing weight!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    I see the diets going well Stewart. You're losing weight!
    Thanks, for those who dont know what I look like, that picture was taken about a week ago. I have been on a crash diet and was about 60lbs heavier when I last danced in September at Skegness.

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