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# Halloween is shit
But your picture makes me smile.
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:22, archived)
# why for is halloween shit?
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:22, archived)
# Trick or treaters mainly.
I really don't understand why on one day of the year parents see it fit to let their kids essentially go 'begging' to strangers houses.

(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:24, archived)
# it is an odd tradition
i think it's a bastardisation of letting kids be 'little devils' for one night, but yes, the UK version is a rather desultory affair, round our way it's usually very little kids being dragged round by their parents

having said that, the really little kids look very cute
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:26, archived)
# *cough*
















pedao
(I helped save b3ta! Sir T. Skellington, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:30, archived)
# pedao?
Is that like a Spanish kiddie fiddler?
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:30, archived)
# hahahahahaha
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:33, archived)
# pedallo?
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:31, archived)
# A neighbour came to our house with her very spotty 4 year old son who was dressed as a pig with a trident.
She said he did not want to miss the event even though he had chicken pox.

(Smudger, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:34, archived)
# A pig with a trident?
Porkseidon
(I helped save b3ta! AutoPrawn is glad we're living in the future now, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:36, archived)
# Hahahahahaha
burp
(Smudger, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:37, archived)
# hahahaha
hahahaha
(I helped save b3ta! swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:39, archived)
# thereby spreading teh pox to the whole neighbourhood?
that's the hallowe'en spirit!

edit: is that just a picture of three condoms?
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:57, archived)
# It's not begging
It's demanding money with menaces. Much bigger crime.
(I helped save b3ta! The Blue Aardvark Unavoidably detained by reality, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:27, archived)
# give em sweets
then when they look disappointed shout "FUCK OFF THEN", making sure to liberally spray child and parent with spittle, and slam the door in their face
(I helped save b3ta! gravytrain, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:28, archived)
# money?
bollocks,
they get sweets or nowt
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:30, archived)
# They're lucky if they get sweets some of 'em.
It's when they're bigger than me that I get worried...
(I helped save b3ta! The Blue Aardvark Unavoidably detained by reality, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:33, archived)
# ah, no thats a bit shit
but its simple, only supply crap cheap sweets.

That way you stay cheery and don't get happyslapped
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:29, archived)
# I don't even answer the door. Little fuckers don't even dress up at all where I live
They just put their hood up or something.
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:30, archived)
# ah yes
the carollers we get at christmas are SHIT
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:30, archived)
# I just sing back at 'em
better than they are singing at me.

If the family's round, we can do full-on four part harmony at 'em.
(I helped save b3ta! The Blue Aardvark Unavoidably detained by reality, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:31, archived)
# you crazy fool! :)
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:33, archived)
# Years of practice
singing in a choir that does carol "services" and gets paid with a slap-up meal and as much booze as you can drink, and then have to sing "Ding Dong Merrily On High" while as drunk as a skunk. Marvellous.

Not done that for a couple of years, though. I now need to look at the words to remember them. Still got the harmonies in my head, though.
(I helped save b3ta! The Blue Aardvark Unavoidably detained by reality, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:35, archived)
# is there any other kind?
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:33, archived)
# Same here
Or a couple of cheap & nasty masks bought from the pound shop...
(I helped save b3ta! The Blue Aardvark Unavoidably detained by reality, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:31, archived)
# Thats ok, Give 'em a punch in the face
Its cheaper than buying sweets anyway
(I helped save b3ta! AutoPrawn is glad we're living in the future now, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:31, archived)
# ones that don't make the effort don't deserve anything

Another good trick is to have a really loud Halloween party. That way you can;t hear the door or you're too drunk to answre it
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:32, archived)
# it's tuesday
getting drunk on a school night is NAWTY
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:33, archived)
# Yea another of lifes problems solved by heavy drinking
(I helped save b3ta! AutoPrawn is glad we're living in the future now, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:33, archived)
# alcohol:
is there anything it can't do?
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:37, archived)
# I was JUST going to type that.
I'm getting scared that we are starting to think the same
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:39, archived)
# i am legion, for we are many
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:40, archived)
# Fruit is the way to go...
apples with razor blades embedded in 'em... yeah...
(I helped save b3ta! The Blue Aardvark Unavoidably detained by reality, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:30, archived)
# i plan on going out
until late, thus avoiding any young scallywags.
(I helped save b3ta! Spunky McPunk not dead yet, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:30, archived)
# where i l ive is in a really nice area
and people drive their kids in because they think they will get better treats.

fortunately i live on the 1st floor, so i just don't answer the door
(I helped save b3ta! swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:32, archived)
# how is an excuse to get pissed, eat sweets and dress up like a monster
in any way a bad thing?
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:23, archived)
# i shalll be doing neither of these tonight
instead i shall be sitting on my roof with pots of boiling oil.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:24, archived)
# i was just thinking the exact same thing

(I helped save b3ta! gravytrain, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:26, archived)
# TRICK YOU LITTLE CUNTS! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:27, archived)
# I don't need an excuse to do that
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:30, archived)
# It surely is.
It's such an Americanised tradition, and like all things American has been adopted wholeheartedly by this nation's retailers.
The annoying thing is that it seems to be promoted in preference to bonfire night, which is a much nicer thing to celebrate (people tortured to death as opposed to ghostly dead things and graveyard crazinesses). As an example, this government wants to ban the sale of fireworks!
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:31, archived)
# It's a Celtic tradition
(done properly) but with added monstery goodness
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:34, archived)
# Well it's Celtic festival,
but the trick or treating and all that silliness is surely a modernish Yankee thing?
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:37, archived)
# Well Samhain was to celebrate the end of the Summer Equinox (I think)
so the gathering of food to see you through the Winter one was probably undertaken during the three day festivity.


so.................. it's not that big a leap, especially as kids don;t want to eat Barley as much as they used to.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:43, archived)
# The impression I got (and this is confirmed by the ever reliable Wikipedia)
is that Halloween was ditched as something to celebrate in England and bonfire night celebrated instead. It's only recently (the 1980's according to Wikipedia) that there was a resurgence, and the American style of Halloween celebrations used. Hence it being imported as a tradition.
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:52, archived)
# It was resurgent well before the nineties.
Edit:(sorry misread your post)

I remember as a student in the mid to late eighties keeping a battery powered water pistol near the front door to soak any trick or treaters who came knocking.

I believe the whole thing was started off in England by US servicemen's families in East Anglia.
(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:57, archived)
# There's no such thing as a summer equinox.
You have a summer solstice (June 21/22), an autumn equinox (Sept 21/22) a winter solstice (Dec 21/22) and a spring equinox (March 21/22).
(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:54, archived)
# which is why I said "I think"
I'm no expert, mainly due to not being alive hundreds of years ago
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 10:14, archived)
# Hundreds of years?
How dare you! I'm not forty yet.
(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Tue 31 Oct 2006, 10:21, archived)
# well, fireworks are more likely to take your face off
than a witches costumes,
but yes, we're british, we can bob for apples
but the main focus has always been (and should remain) on november the 5th
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:35, archived)
# ^ This
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:37, archived)
# I love that bonfire night.
It is a good night. Our little town of Stansted Mountfitchet puts on a lovely display in a big field each year, and there's a big bonfire that you can stand near. Shame they don't sell mulled wine.
Also, November is a lot warmer that it was when I were a kid. I remember being absolutely freezing on bonfire night, but these days I can go in shorts and a light shirt.

I wouldn't buy fireworks myself, but it's silly to ban them when you need to be over 18 to buy them anyway. What next? Ban bleach? Ban cars because they might possible kill someone. I mean, how many people are actually killed by fireworks each year anyway? It's probably a lot less than people who die of alcohol poisoning. Grrr.
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:41, archived)
# ^ this
I've died of alcohol poisoning, many, many times. (well, it fucking feels like it!)
(I helped save b3ta! Tesco Quality 60.825659, -0.788337, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:45, archived)
# i'm in harlow
what a small world

and i agree wityh you about the fireworks
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 31 Oct 2006, 9:47, archived)