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Is it just me or is it bang out of order to knock on someone's door and ask for free sweets?
I could do with a beer so I might go up and down the street asking all the parents to empty their fridge.
Sat with the windows shut ignoring the knocks at the door. bah humbug
As it's not actually Halloween yet....
It's out of order today. Fair game come Monday. The tykes love it!
Phew! I was worried no one was going to post this shite again this year.
Can I be the first to say @#?%$£&ing firework &%'~>]###er's?
chocolate covered brussels sprouts should sort them out
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Can I be the first to say @#?%$£&ing firework &%'~>]###er's?
Can I be the first to say racist!
Happy Diwali!
Just put a big sign on your door saying..'IF YOU DON'T WANT A BUCKET OF WATER CHUCKED AT YOU, DO NOT KNOCK OR RING BELL'
Failing that, don't answer the door.
Depends how they do it. Not so keen on the ones that jam a tree branch in the door when you open it so that you can't close it. Tree branch gets removed once you've given them enough money.
Depends how they do it. Not so keen on the ones that jam a tree branch in the door when you open it so that you can't close it. Tree branch gets removed once you've given them enough money.
Are these kids 18-19+ years old?
That's tomorrow....it's just the @#?%$£er's tonight.
Bucket of piss should sort them out.
Stopped complaining after a couple of (properly) grown up young ladies came round the village trick or treating a couple of years ago dressed as "naughty witches".
I did think I'd just dreamt it but several other neighbours remember it.
They have never been back, btw.
Wwpadler, they would be in a and e having part of a tree removed from their anatomy
We're fairly remote so can't see us getting any.
Also can't hear any fireworks either.
That's tomorrow....it's just the @#?%$£er's tonight.
It's tonight just as much as tomorrow
I like to keep the outside of my house looking fairly run down and uninviting. That keeps most people away. That and the rumours...
Round our way it is most pre-teen kids supervised by an adult who only call out houses with a pumpkin outside. I thought that this was pretty much standard procedure nowadays.
Ok.
Some people are letting off fireworks.
Some of them are @&*%£"%er's.
Some of them may be celebrating another slightly different and also unsubstantiated fictitious belief system (as they are fully entitled to).
Both are as annoying as ****.
Betterer?
I like to keep the outside of my house looking fairly run down and uninviting. That keeps most people away. That and the pampas grass
time to put my framed photo of Jimmy in the window ?
Round our way it is most pre-teen kids supervised by an adult who only call out houses with a pumpkin outside. I thought that this was pretty much standard procedure nowadays.
Same here. We get involved. Last year I would nip out the back door and run round to chase any kid that knocked at the front. This year I'm feeling lazy so I'm just going to photocopy my head and stick it in a big glass jar to be left on the doorstep. Plus my wife always buys too many sweets. Win all round.
Round our way it is most pre-teen kids supervised by an adult who only call out houses with a pumpkin outside. I thought that this was pretty much standard procedure nowadays.
Same here and it works really well, the streets are rammed with kids its a real community feel to the evening. It has taken a turn recently with many housholds putting increasingly scary shows, the ultimate aim is to make the kids (or even parents!) wee themselves just a little. Great fun.
@BiggerButSlimmerBloke I'm mixing it up this year with chocolate pickled onions 😈
Proper e-numbers and sugar treats on Monday though.
Super Soaker filled with piss usually sorts them out
Take it back to America and celebrate with Charlie Brown.
Penny for the guy is fair enough next week though.
Started in Ireland actually... well the jack o'lantern did. Pumpkins being easier to carve than swedes (turnips as we used to call them) and plentiful, pumpkins it became
FTFYStarted in Ireland actually... well the jack o'lantern did.Pumpkins [s]being easier to carve than swedes [/s] because they could'nt get potatoes.
😆
We have the pumpkin thing round here too, works quite well. Mostly younger children with their parents. Often meet up with friends and go round altogether. We only knock on the doors that have a lit pumpkin. We have a pumpkin in our window and turn it off when we run out of goodies and the kids respect it. All works out quite well
A jar of Soor Plooms and a slingshot. Jobs a good un 🙂
Super Soaker filled with piss usually sorts them out
They challenged me to a water fight last year. I won, just me and my kettle.
Its guising and it involves doing a turn.
Joke or poem and you get a sweet
Hot water obvz?
[quote=Cletus ]Round our way it is most pre-teen kids supervised by an adult who only call out houses with a pumpkin outside. I thought that this was pretty much standard procedure nowadays.
Another +1 - is a really big thing on our ~200 house estate with a lot of effort being made to decorate houses and other stuff - this will be outside the front of mine, along with some other stuff. We made a graveyard last year.
I'm wondering if I should warn our new neighbours who don't have kids!
Its guising and it involves doing a turn.
Joke or poem and you get a sweet
That's next week and no need for a poem or joke, it's a penny for the guy not opportunity knocks.
I like to keep the outside of my house looking fairly run down and uninviting
Like a haunted house? That will keep them away this halloween
Guising has nothing to do with Guy Fawkes. Guise comes from the same root as the word Disguise and is to do with dressing up, possibly so the dead wouldn't recognise you to haunt you when they rise on All Hallows Eve.
It's merely co-incidental that we also celebrate the death of a freedom-fighter/terrorist so close to the end of October.
Druidh has it. Guising has been a (Scots at least) tradition for generations. Nothing to do with failed gunpowder plots. Trick or treating is a different animal - back in my day, if you didn't at least tell a half decent joke you'd leave with a flea in yer ear.
Different Guysing then, I see.
In fact very different.
"Historically, guisers were adults, often men who wore false faces and dressed up, sometimes in women’s clothes."
Politicians?
It was guising in my day, tell a joke or do a daft dance or something and get a sweet. Usually all ended up at someones house for a party where dooking for apples was mandatory even if your turn was after the slevery kid who spent 10mins trying to get his. 👿
Think we had our visitors last night - we put pumpkins out, cob webs and spooky balloons for the kiddies - lots of visitors.
Done the same tonight but not a soul (groan) tonight.
Hopefully some tomorrow or we've got a shed load of sweets to eat!
Just had our first their parents are working tomorrow so taking the kids around a few houses tonight. Not seen any cross dressing poets yet.
"Historically, guisers were adults, often men who wore false faces and dressed up, sometimes in women’s clothes."
LibDems?
Depends how they do it. Not so keen on the ones that jam a tree branch in the door when you open it so that you can't close it. Tree branch gets removed once you've given them enough money.
At which point I'd say, 'oh goody, firewood, back in a sec" and return with my axe...
Usually all ended up at someones house for a party where dooking for apples was mandatory even if your turn was after the slevery kid who spent 10mins trying to get his.
We do "Spearing Apples" at our house: drop a big two-prong carving fork into the bucket of floating apples. If you hit one you get the coin stuck in the back of it (which ranges from a 2p booby prize to a £2 star prize).
Dooking for apples is definitely more fun but pretty unhygienic, especially as half the guisers are wearing facepaints and makeup.