Is Halloween getting too big? Page 4

Personally I couldn't give a shit about pagan festivals and the fact that it's getting "too commercialized", "too Americanized" and all that mean-spirited bollocks.
As far as I can see Halloween is increasingly-becoming a great time for British kids to get dressed up and have fun and eat sweeties. Really, I couldn't care less about the deeper-meaning. If our kids are walking around smiling and having a good time, what does any of that other crap matter?

To all you Hallo-Scrooges, buy some sweets this Saturday and hand 'em over to the kids who've spent all night dressing up for it you miserable, miserable bastards.

And if you don't I'll be round each and every one of your houses with my big red devil's trident in my hand. And I swear by the great pagan God of bummery that you'll wish you'd spent a couple of quid on a bowl of candy.

Bob those apples.

Amen brotha, pass me a snickers.

Quote: Curt @ October 30 2009, 4:20 AM BST

Amen brotha, pass me a snickers.

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One rectangular turd coming right up dude.

I'm kinda hoping Halloween replaces Christmas. It's got no religious connotations so it's much less hypocritical.

So if lots of kids really are trick-or-treating in the UK theseadays, when they knock on a door and don't get sweets, do they then hurl eggs and toilet roll at the house?

If the little bastards knock on my door I shall report them for begging and vagrancy.

Don't have any sweets anyway now - best I could offer would be a Jacob's cracker and I don't think they would like that.

Do kids still do "Penny for the Guy"? The last two kids I saw doing it, years ago, hadn't even bothered to make a Guy, and just took turns wearing a Womble outfit, sitting still on the floor, pretending to be a stuffed toy.

By the way, if you ever see any old photos of George Harrison, when he had a beard and was doing solo stuff, he looked a lot like Guy Fawkes.

I like nothing better than saying, 'Treat please' when they knock on my door ! The little gits don't know what to do. Or you can just say 'Trick' ..again they don't know what to do! (The latter is a bit dangerous, you have to make a snap judgement, you might end up with dogshit and fireworks put through your letterbox). The scrounging little bastards may as well walk from door to door say, 'Treat or Treat'.
I don't mind kids having a nice time but the little scally wankers that knock on my door don't even dress up. They just wear their same trackie bottoms and hoodies. If you give them a sweet (god forbid a bit of fruit) they look at you as if you're wanting your windows putting through. And they don't seem happy with anything less than 50p. each !!
Once when I was a kid we had an old lady read us ghost stories by candlelight in the local library basement. After we had mushy peas and mint sauce...brilliant! But none of this Americanised crap.

Still, if they make it a public holiday and I got a paid day off work then I for one would be prancing up and down the street dressed as Dracula and Trick or Treating with the rest of em.

Bah! Humbug !

One year there was a family of Jehovah's Witnesses that tried to open the door to trick or treaters and tell each any everyone one of them (including myself) that Halloween was against their religion because "it's the devil's holiday'. I never saw a house get so covered in toilet paper and eggs.
Every year after they just pretended they weren't home or actually left.
That's fine by me, just don't answer the door douche bags.

Quote: Chappers @ October 29 2009, 6:25 PM BST

When I was a kid (go on!) it was very low key and has gradually got more and more commercial.

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When I was a kid, it was Christmas which was very low key.
In fact, you could get into much trouble for celebrating Christmas. Losing your job and having a some sort of stigma for not getting any high position jobs, especially if you were a teacher or dealt with children, would be the least of it.

And less than two decades later I learned that it was universally celebrated.

What gives?

Quote: Curt @ October 30 2009, 12:44 PM BST

One year there was a family of Jehovah's Witnesses that tried to open the door to trick or treaters and tell each any everyone one of them (including myself) that Halloween was against their religion because "it's the devil's holiday'. I never saw a house get so covered in toilet paper and eggs.
Every year after they just pretended they weren't home or actually left.
That's fine by me, just don't answer the door douche bags.

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Not really any excuse for vandalising the front of a house though, is it?

Not to mention: frightening any children that were inside at the time.

My mum hates Halloween. She is quite nervous and hates the way kids come to the door. We used to go out, and still find our house egged.

Quote: EllieJP @ October 30 2009, 1:52 PM BST

My mum hates Halloween. She is quite nervous and hates the way kids come to the door. We used to go out, and still find our house egged.

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Exactly. The whole thing can be quite intimidating.

Quote: EllieJP @ October 30 2009, 1:52 PM BST

My mum hates Halloween. She is quite nervous and hates the way kids come to the door. We used to go out, and still find our house egged.

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You balls if you do and balls if you don't.

We'd do the same thing or just ignore them, then we get egged, or we give sweets and get swamped by about a billion children... can't f**king win

Quote: Curt @ October 30 2009, 12:44 PM BST

One year there was a family of Jehovah's Witnesses that tried to open the door to trick or treaters and tell each any everyone one of them (including myself) that Halloween was against their religion because "it's the devil's holiday'. I never saw a house get so covered in toilet paper and eggs.
Every year after they just pretended they weren't home or actually left.
That's fine by me, just don't answer the door douche bags.

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This statement was produced by the Canadian ministry of religious tolerance.

I bet Garry Gitter and Jonathon King get left alone (grumbles luck pedos).