I take your point
maybe we get a different class of trick and treater. Usually they're just small kids with a group of parents who knock, wait a moment then leave if the door isn't answered, and who only want sweets.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 19:13, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Even that is bad enough.
How would you feel on another night of the year if your evening was disturbed by a knock at the door to find someone you don't know demanding something?
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 19:15, Reply)

What I'm saying is
I'm not bothered. Here it's not an issue obviously, but even at home, if we want we can ignore it, if not giving out a few sweets on ONE night of the year is hardly terrible. It's not a license to do what they want, nor is it very often.

Your point of any other night doesn't hold water. It's a fairly long standing tradition that doesn't happen on any other night.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 19:18, Reply)

We had them last Sunday, Friday night, last night and tonight.
It's not that longstanding either - it's an Americanism that has existed for about 30 years over here.

In Battered's Britain it will be illegal.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 19:22, Reply)

Well different POV
we only get them on one night here.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 19:26, Reply)

Reasonable people can disagree.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 19:27, Reply)

This is true
My mother just phoned so I enquired about trick or treaters to back my point up, and apparantly the stupid children lined both sides of a narrow country road so she almost ran them over. No loss to the gene pool there
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 19:33, Reply)

There would be a certain irony to child slaughter on Halloween.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 19:38, Reply)

Bring your daughter to the slaughter!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 19:40, Reply)

I'm pretty sure that's where the tradition
of masks evolved from,
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 19:59, Reply)

That's an idea, maybe debt collection agencies could send their heavies round on Hallowe'en with Scream masks and baseball bats.
It would lighten the arduous task of debt collection and make Hallowe'en a bit more exciting for householders. Especially the ones that live nearby and don't actually have any debts.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 19:19, Reply)