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Who's out tonight? Yes, its very American, but I'm off with the kids to get some sweets. I am going dressed as me.
Out Guising...none of the US mince
My son wants to go out dressed as a CX racer. i.e. he wants to ride his bike 🙂
(dark street, kids dressed in dark clothing, small hooligan who can only ride flat out - what could go wrong?)
Yes, my boy is apparently going as a scooterer. Meaning just riding his scooter around eating sweets.
Well, one better than me. I plan to wander around moaning with the other parents...eating sweets.Meaning just riding his scooter around eating sweets.
Parents spend 364 days a year telling kids not to talk to strangers or accept sweets, and then, come Halloween, they send them out begging door to door dressed as sexy witches in the dark. Genius.
and then, come Halloween, they send them out begging door to door dressed as sexy witches in the dark. Genius.
Just gave some sweets to a bunch of youngsters all in great fancy dress. Two adults in charge, only knocking on doors of people they know in the area. Oh yes one of them was dressed as a witch but being six nothing sexy there. Get a grip man !!
Not out ..just doling out sweets at the door .
My son used to come back with a carrier bag full every year ..so just giving a little back ..
It's great to see the effort some kids / parents go to with their fancy dress ..
Mischief night last night, Halloween tonight. Non of this American nonsense thanks.
Mind you it always seems the wrong way around, harassing and vandalising the neighbours one night then expecting sweets off them the next 🙂
My son wants to go out dressed as a CX racer
We used to go out and just leave a bowl of sweets for any visitors. Last year the first batch of kids stole the lot! Little t***TS.
councilof10 - Member
Parents spend 364 days a year telling kids not to talk to strangers or accept sweets, and then, come Halloween, they send them out begging door to door dressed as sexy witches in the dark. Genius.
Sexy kids you say?.....
Freudian slip by councilof10 ?
Wife has got dressed up to take the kids round while I stay back dishing out the sweets.
Note to self...stop scoffing the mowams.
councilof10 - Member
Parents spend 364 days a year telling kids not to talk to strangers or accept sweets, and then, come Halloween, they send them out begging door to door dressed as sexy witches in the dark. Genius.
Was going out, but Kevin Spacey's coming over with some sexy kids
Loads this year, two big bags of maoams gone already 🙁 was hoping to pig out on those later
thomasthetankengine - Member
Who's out tonight? Yes, its very [u]American[/u]
No
Its
Bloody not
Scotland has been guising into the ancient times.
joshvegas- blame ET. While you and I might have watched that and noticed nothing out of the ordinary (apart from the some, obvs) it must have been completely new to many of those in the uneducated south.
Loads here. Got the night riding lights out in the hallway so I can cast a massive shadow on the front door as I stomp down the hall. Great atmosphere, lots of laughing
No sexy witches though. Need to have a word with my wife about that
I’m manning our house while the kids and Mrs are out.
I see Shibolleth is spouting shite again.
Kids are out, my installation is currently successfully scaring little kiddies (have had a couple running to their mums in the last few minutes) - win!
You find children dressed as witches 'sexy'. Get a grip you sick ****!
Please just put your clothes back on aracer
One very unhappy 10 week old and two very stressed parents in our house right now, going to spend our first Halloween in a new neighbourhood with the lights off, doorbell unhooked and car parked round the corner 🙁
Will make up for it next year, promise!
[quote=leffeboy ]Please just put your clothes back on aracer
😆
it's actually this skull
though with a longer sequence - that's the first part, it screams next
and a spider going up and down on a string
Disappointingly the kids seem to be more scared by the spider than the skull - all I'm doing with the spider is switching a motor on and off.
Tried to take a video of it all working just now, but the light's no good.
thegreatape - Member
Freudian slip by councilof10 ?
Your misreading of my post says far more about you, and coyote, than Freud would ever deduce from what I wrote. I said [b]DRESSED AS[/b] sexy witches. Nowhere did I say the children were sexy or that I found them sexy. Morons.
I'm dressed as a scary ginger bread man with a house full of sweets and candles outside.
No takers so far?
Thankfully no banging on the door at all so far, but lights are off while watching telly, and there’s a curtain across the front door so the Christmas lights* around the kitchen window don’t show through the glass, the house looks empty as a result.
*Put them up years ago and found them handy going into the kitchen at night to get a drink or stick something in the microwave without needing to put main lights on, so they’re in use all the time.
I think shib protesteth too much. I have to admit it wouldn't have occurred to me to describe the way kids are dressed for Halloween as "sexy". Maybe some of the mums who dress up, but not the kids.
begging door to door dressed as sexy witches
Yup, that's pretty saville-esq. Can't say I would use the adjective "sexy" to describe kids dressed in bin bags and a pointy hat.
Got a Fire pit in the front garden, Im dressed as scary clown..
Let the kids and parents toast their own marshmallows instead of handing out sweets.. seems like a big hit.
My kids are out with mrs cloudnine and the dog (dressed as a giant spider) scrounging sweets around the village
Round here there's a simple code - pumpkin outside you can knock, if there isn't you don't. Seems to work and if you don't want to do Halloween you don't have to hide.
I'm definitely having fun - got the last lot of kids to jump 3 times - they kept saying "there's sensors" (there are, it has a PIR sensor to start the sequence - I can tell when people are coming) but it still made them jump. It seems the key is to have pauses of it not doing anything, wasn't anywhere near so effective when it was continuous.
Well, our street has been stripped clean of sweets, the boy has a weighty bag full himself and we've had a fair few (very friendly) kids knocking on our door. I remember Halloween very fondly as a kid and I'm glad to see that, round here at least, it's still got a lot of the charm it had when I was young.
Oh and I properly LOLed at the "Office Halloween Costume" link above. Wonderful 🙂
We're all out here too.
At the old house we never got trick or treaters. I think our neighbour put people off - he was a right ****.
First Halloween in the new house and I've had a handful round. All very polite so haven't had to be nasty to anyone yet :).
Wife and boy out pestering others.
Yup. All confectionery gone. Picked clean. 😥
Children all seemed to have a good time and were exceptionally polite and well behaved.
Sexy kids -
Back. Slightly sugar shocked. We- us lot and another family - hit up one of the local streets that are all in competition with each other, and they get better each year. Loads of people out, seems more than last year.
Scottish people - looked up guising. Didn't know it was a thing. So you gave it to the Americans and they gave it to the English? Long way round.
We found another tub of sweets so it’s back on.
[quote=thomasthetankengine ]Scottish people - looked up guising. Didn't know it was a thing. So you gave it to the Americans and they gave it to the English? Long way round.I'm not sure if the Welsh also have some Samhain traditions. The Irish do.
One group attempted, ignored.
Others contemplated and walked on by, the right decisions.
Hopefully that's it for tonight.
Go and put another lump of coal on the fire now Larry ..great job ..well done 🙄
Our stash is all gone 😯 not run out before, did I eat that many! It tends just to be the older kids now so it's gate closed and lights off time here.
hodgynd - Member
Go and put another lump of coal on the fire now Larry ..great job ..well done
Too warm for a fire, not in minus territory yet.
Guising is not the same as trick or treat. Guising you do a turn to get your sweets - a song, tell a joke that sort of thing
trick or treat is rather nastier its basically extortion 😉
Here we go... 😀
Calling time at 8. Good night. 50+ kids through the door. Some great costumes.
Now shaking slightly from all the sugar. 😆
Halloween is like Christmas for old goths, bloody love it.
Staying with the mother in law for a month, waiting to move into new house. She did her level best to spoil the night for our four year old, starting with bollocking both of us for carving our pumpkin at the kitchen table - apparently we should have been outside doing it in the rain and dark...
Ignored her instructions not to go out "begging from the neighbours" and he came back with a decent haul. She's still fizzing as I type this 😀
Won't let me answer the door though so I'm eating a massive bag of Haribo as noisily as possible.
Dished out loads of sweets - bit of a mad rush between 6 and 7pm as we'd just got in. The 9 month old kitten had been trashing the witches broom during the day - twigs all over the lounge.
All the kids were very polite though, and most supervised by parents. Anyone wanting visitor's usually decorates their houses round here - pumpkins and a smoking skull in our porch. The kids seem to respect that if the house isn't decorated, you aren't getting sweets.
Looked like we might run out of sweets at one point, but I can confirm there is almost a full tub of Haribo left 🙂
Mischief night last night,
Isn’t that 4 November? I am sure it was for when I was a kid.
We had a great time - three 8 yr olds (one autistic) and a 4 yr old . Knocking on doors and saying ‘hallowe’en sweets’ 🙂
Nobody chooses ‘trick’ these days...
For all in darkest Lanarkshire.
Youngest is back with loads of sweets as an added bonus I found another bag in the kitchen I’d forgotten about.
Just checked and apparently mischief night is on different nights depending on where you are from:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8339617.stm
All done. A bit of a rush as we missed the group start from the pub as we were still in the woods with the kids mtb club night. Made it back as the big scary group got to ours. So they all scoffed sweets for a bit while waiting for my kids and I to get changed. Then we got going with the group scoring lots of sweets from the 2nd half of the village before finishing at a friend's garden for hot cider and biscuits. All good fun imo.
We went down a narrow close to be confronted by a massive screen that sprang to life with a scene from a horror movie a dark house with a convincing ghost hologram at an upstairs window a silent motionless but real woman in a mask sat in the garden, as my mesmerised boy walked up the drive a bloody zombie with an axe jumped out at him a few steps later a killer clown from nowhere! Utterly brilliant made every house there after an anti climax. Crankbrat now wants to watch more horror films.
I think this year is the first time I've stopped in and watched the reaction - have always been out with the kids before. My installation has gradually developed, though it was almost the same as last year's this time - just that I had a bat rather than a spider going up and down last year. Definitely fun having something which really frightens the kids - I felt a bit mean with some of the little ones, but even some of the teens were a bit bothered when the spider came down on them!
Had loads of kids round, but actually ended up with sweets left this year - I guess previously we've left the tin out and some might have taken a load (and we did stock up well).