So it's Hallowe'en Night...

[Chundles]

...and thousands of people across Australia are waiting at their doors to tell the kids trick or treating to bugger off.

Hallowe'en is an American holiday, it's never been big here but due to all the television we get from the states the kiddies seem to have it in their heads that dressing up in costume and asking for lollies at the doors of strangers on what is a hot, bright (daylight saving is doing its job) mid-spring evening.

You guys in the states have all the Hallowe'en you want but to all the Aussie kids here, take off the costumes, get some shorts on and go play some cricket in the backyard like we've always done this time of year.

Bah bloody humbug.

[Jaffa Cake]

...to all the Aussie kids here, take off the costumes, get some shorts on and go play some cricket in the backyard like we've always done this time of year.They bother to wear costumes over there? Over here they turn up at your door uncostumed weeks before hand demanding money.

Bah bloody humbug.Bah bloody humbug indeed. :mad:

[kretzy]

I've never seen anyone dressed up going around trick or treating. If they knocked on my door I'd probably just tell them to go away. I really just don't see the point of it all...

[Chundles]

They bother to wear costumes over there? Over here they turn up at your door uncostumed weeks before hand demanding money.

I had a couple like that a few weeks ago - spoke with an American acccent so I thought they were just disoriented with jetlag but, get this, they both turned up in the same costume... dressed as Men In Black only they had name tags.

They weren't after my money though, they wanted my soul.

[Badradio]

They bother to wear costumes over there? Over here they turn up at your door uncostumed weeks before hand demanding money.
So that's a trans-Pennine custom? I thought we were the only ones...

[Jaffa Cake]

...get this, they both turned up in the same costume... dressed as Men In Black only they had name tags.They do tend to go around in pairs I believe, so that isn't too bad, however as a general rule of thumb name tags are a bit of a no-no for top secret undercover types. :p

[MacBoobsPro]

So that's a trans-Pennine custom? I thought we were the only ones...

It happens in Sheffield too.

They seem to think a hoody and a knife is a costume :rolleyes:

[Badradio]

It happens in Sheffield too.

They seem to think a hoody and a knife is a costume :rolleyes:

It's a uniform around here....

Thanks to Chundles for starting this thread; I don't feel as much of a killjoy for planning to head home, turn off the lights, put on some music and ignore the front door now.

[Applespider]

When I was a kid in Scotland, we always dressed up at Halloween and went out 'guising' - which was long before we got all the Hollywood imports.

You went round your local street in your costume but it wasn't 'trick or treat'. Instead, you had to tell a joke or sing a song or read a poem. And depending on how good it was, you got more or less sweeties.

But now, yeah, they turn up here and just ask for Trick or Treat. Never had any down in London but Mum has a glowing pumpkin plate with sweets just waiting for those of her pals that she knows has kids and will likely turn up.

[MacBoobsPro]

It's a uniform around here....

Thanks to Chundles for starting this thread; I don't feel as much of a killjoy for planning to head home, turn off the lights, put on some music and ignore the front door now.

Champions League tonight so I wont be answering the door even if i hear it :D

[Chundles]

It's a uniform around here....

Thanks to Chundles for starting this thread; I don't feel as much of a killjoy for planning to head home, turn off the lights, put on some music and ignore the front door now.

No wuckers mate, always good to know there's somebody else out there, outside the US who thinks the whole thing is a waste of energy.

[Jaffa Cake]

So that's a trans-Pennine custom? I thought we were the only ones...No, the scrounging little beggers are a nationwide phenomenon.

Champions League tonight so I wont be answering the door even if i hear it :DAnd City are on the radio tonight so there's no chance of me answering, either. :p

[MacBoobsPro]

No wuckers mate, always good to know there's somebody else out there, outside the US who thinks the whole thing is a waste of energy.

It must be weird seeing witches, ghosts, goblins and michael jackson roaming the streets on a hot summers day. I still find Christmas in Australia a bit weird too. If it aint cold, dark and miserable its not Christmas. :D

BTW Christmas sucks ass too.

[Chundles]

It must be weird seeing witches, ghosts, goblins and michael jackson roaming the streets on a hot summers day. I still find Christmas in Australia a bit weird too. If it aint cold, dark and miserable its not Christmas. :D

BTW Christmas sucks ass too.

Well, my place is in a neighbourhood of mostly apartment blocks so there's not too many about but up where my folks live (small, highlands town, cool climate) there are a heap of them. Wasn't that hot today either, topped out around 26°C - 28°C. Up in western Sydney it was around 32°C so pretty mild really.

I actually like Christmas in the summer, amazing, fresh seafood, all the good fruit is in season and we've got air conditioning. I don't mind Christmas all that much - we're top-notch present givers in my family. The best thing is there's about 6 weeks between Christmas and my birthday which so far has proven to be just enough to get two sets of presents. :D

But Hallowe'en? No thanks. We may as well do Thanksgiving too...

[miniConvert]

I've already carved my pumpkin and filled a bowl with sweets to give to the little kids that bang on my door. Then I'm off to get smashed at a Hallowe'en party wearing a mask that I can only describe as 'Gandalf the Ghey®'.

Happy times!

Edit: Oh, and I brought in toffee apples for my employees :D

[MacBoobsPro]

No, the scrounging little beggers are a nationwide phenomenon.


And what about Bonfire Night?

"Penny for the guy?"

"**** off, you scrounging little ********* *** munching *******"

:mad:

The little gits only go and spend it on fireworks and cider anyway. And the best 'guy' ive seen lately was a carrier bag with a cushion in it, wearing a t-shirt. Minimalism perhaps?

Lazy ass scrounging skags more like.

/end rant

[savanahrose]

I am from the U.S. and let me tell you something about Halloween.

It is the pits!!!!

I used to give out candy and take my kids, but when I lived in Connecticut you had teenagers, teenagers!!! what a bunch of rubbish, all they did was complain what you gave them. They weren't thankful.

They weren't even suppose to be out trick or treating.

Ever since 1991 I have taken my kids out to eat and to a movie that night.

My kids thoroughly enjoyed that alot more than getting the candy!!!

Now I work most halloween nights not to mention i live in the country where we don't get any of the little buggers.

Hope you all enjoyed yours with what ever you had planned!

[Chundles]

I've already carved my pumpkin and filled a bowl with sweets to give to the little kids that bang on my door. Then I'm off to get smashed at a Hallowe'en party wearing a mask that I can only describe as 'Gandalf the Ghey®'.

Happy times!

Edit: Oh, and I brought in toffee apples for my employees :D

Yank. :D

[Jaffa Cake]

...
the best 'guy' ive seen lately was a carrier bag with a cushion in it, wearing a t-shirt. Minimalism perhaps?Hey, at least they bothered with a guy – the last time bonfire night scroungers knocked on my door they didn't even have one!

Scrounging kids Penny for the guy! (hold hands out expecting cash)
Jaffa Cake You don't have a guy! And it's only halfway through October!
Scrounging kids **** off, you ******!

:mad:

[MagicWok]

A couple of kids knocked on my door on the 28th 'trick or treating', and it knocked me sideways. For 5 minutes I couldn't remember if Haloween was th 28th or 31st! LOL

Brain must be tired and/or old... :(

[rdowns]

...and thousands of people across Australia are waiting at their doors to tell the kids trick or treating to bugger off.
(snip)
Bah bloody humbug.

When I was a kid, an attitude like that would have gotten you this.

http://www.morguefile.com/images/storage/c/click/lowrez/tp_tree_002.jpg

[Chundles]

When I was a kid, an attitude like that would have gotten you this.

http://www.morguefile.com/images/storage/c/click/lowrez/tp_tree_002.jpg

This is what my attitude gets me here:









Yeah, it's nothing. We don't do Hallowe'en.

[Jaffa Cake]

When I was a kid, an attitude like that would have gotten you this...Yeah? Very creative. Around here nowadays they just piss in your doorway, like the enterprising youngsters who were touring Miss Jaffa Cake's parent's street the other night.

Loveable little scamps.

[MacBoobsPro]

Yeah? Very creative. Around here nowadays they just piss in your doorway, like the enterprising youngsters who were touring Miss Jaffa Cake's parent's street the other night.

Loveable little scamps.

After stuffing fireworks through your letterbox. ;)

[Chundles]

After stuffing fireworks through your letterbox. ;)

Sometimes they just throw bullets through your window - those guys must have good arms because they can get them through the window and into the walls behind.

[Maxiseller]

Of course over here, this is what's going on:

(Link) (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006500393,00.html)


A SEX-MAD witch and a 200-strong coven plan to celebrate Halloween tonight — by deflowering a teenage virgin.

Creepy David Farrant boasted yesterday how he will oversee the orgy to initiate the girl into his cult.

The 19-year-old trainee accountant will have full sex with a 30-year-old High Priest chosen by Farrant.

As the teen writhes naked with the stranger on the floor, the rest of the priest’s coven drop their robes to watch the display in the NUDE. The 200 onlookers then take part in a MASS-ORGY at a property in Barnet, North London.

Farrant, 56, is High Priest of the British Psychic and Occult Society. He claims to have bedded 2,000 women in similar Wicca religious ceremonies.

He said last night: “Initiating a virgin on Halloween is very important for Wiccans in serious covens.



“After the girl has had full sex people are then free to have sex with one another.

“But it’s not an excuse for a mass orgy - sex is regarded as an essential life force.

“It’s all done in a private meeting place in Barnet with magical signs on the walls.

“This sort of thing has to be done behind closed doors because it is not understood by the modern day public.”

Farrant, from Muswell Hill, was jailed for nearly five years in the 1970s for damaging graves and sending voodoo dolls to police officers. His society now boasts 374 members and more than 200 are expected at tonight’s bash.

Farrant, who also describes himself as a Vampire Hunter, said in past years up to three women were initiated at the same time.

He added: “These girls are mainly students or people who have left school and are disillusioned with life. They are all over 18 and we don’t initiate them if we believe they are just coming along for the sex.”

[Applespider]

I've already carved my pumpkin and filled a bowl with sweets to give to the little kids that bang on my door.

Here's my pumpkin...

61017

Hmmm... sounds like an interesting party in North London too :eek:

[AndyR]

Halloween sucks over here. We had a group of 6 lads, all between 16-18yrs old last night come knocking at the door with those crappy plastic masks on. I ignored it 1st time, just looked out the upstairs window so they couldn't see me. Another knock came a few moments later, ignored again, which was followed by "WE KNOW YOUR F**KIN IN THERE!!!"

Jee.... Now I'm tempted to open the door. :rolleyes:

Woke up this morning to find my car covered in whipped cream and sand! GRRRR :mad:

This country bites!

[miniConvert]

Here's my pumpkin...
I'm definitely not showing you mine now :p

[Applespider]

Halloween sucks over here. We had a group of 6 lads, all between 16-18yrs

I thought going round the streets was meant to be for kids? :confused: And if you did Halloween when you were older, it was going to parties and having fun rather than round random strangers?

[raggedjimmi]

Last year my mum actually had a go at carving a pumpkin. We had nobody even call last year. I'm so glad the "holiday" seems to be dying on it's arse out here. Nobody likes it, it's rubbish and there's absolutely no point in it.
Anyone notice it's extra cold tonight? Hope that keeps everyone in. I'm off to watch a film. Ta da!

[MacBoobsPro]

Anyone notice it's extra cold tonight? Hope that keeps everyone in. I'm off to watch a film. Ta da!

They will all be jacked up on Cider so they wont feel the cold. Thats why they can tolerate hanging out on shop corners in just a hoody when its -50.

[Ja Di ksw]

Wow, I'm surprised Halloween is done in other countries, and that it's done so rudely. Everyone is normally nice about it here, and just does it for fun. I doubt most people even know the reasoning behind Halloween. The worst that's happened where I live are some pumpkins getting smashed, and then the fools who did it got to spend the night in jail.

I carved a pumpkin, but it was done in about 2 minutes, tops. And I handed out some candy to my students, but that's about as much as I'll be doing for Halloween.

[njmac]

:eek: Wow there are a lot of Halloween haters here!

My kids are napping right now, but they are so excited to go trick or treating later and they look sooooooo cute in their costumes. Cookie Monster, and Tigger :)

They have their little plastic pumpkins all ready, hopefully they won't run into any Halloween scrooges :mad:

[Applespider]

We've just had a couple of groups of kids round (from age 4 through to about 10) who have told us some dreadful jokes (What did the Italian ghost have for dinner? Spookghetti) and collected a sweetie from the big pumpkin tray that Mum has.

But hearing them talking about going home to dook for apples and eat the treacle scone made me wonder whether that goes on in other places too?

Apparently the Halloween traditions were taken to America by Celtic (Scots and Irish) immigrants which is perhaps why Scottish guisers still do it in the spirit it was intended? It's not new up here - even my grandparents used to have stories about going out to go guising.

Dooking for apples means sticking 6 or 7 apples in a bowl of water and then making someone kneel in front of the bowl with their arms behind their back to try to grab one in their mouth - alternatively, you let them cheat and drop a fork from standing to try to get one. Dad used to be mean and stick pound coins on the bottom of the bowl... :D A variant had getting your apple and before drying your face having to stick it in a bowl of Rice Crispies that had sweeties hidden in it. :p

The treacle scone got messy - basically, you made a giant scone, threaded a piece of string through the middle of it and dunked it in treacle/syrup. Then you hung it from something, blindfolded a child and made them try to eat it... in later years, we replaced the scone with chocolate donuts. ;)

[njmac]

Why couldn't the Warlock couldn't get the Witch pregnant? Because he had a hollow-weenie

We call it bobbing for apples here... you put apples in a tub of water, tie your hands behind your back and stick your face in the water to get an apple.

We also have caramel apples for treats and every family I know orders a pizza for dinner.

[jsw]

But hearing them talking about going home to dook for apples and eat the treacle scone made me wonder whether that goes on in other places too?We do it here, under the term "bobbing for apples".

Edit: too slow. :o

[yellow]

I enjoy halloween. We heavily decorate the external of our house for all the kids in the neighborhood. They all really seem to enjoy it, particularly since no one else in the neighborhood seems to do it. Anti-religious or some such bull****.

[Foggy]

We have pumpkins and ghosts and spiders in the window etc. Big bowl of sweets by the door. Loads of kids all dressed up with parents keeping a distant eye etc - all been really polite, lots of thanks for the sweeties etc. Like all things I find if you get involved it becomes a lot more enjoyable - although I would draw the line at a bunch of 16 year olds.

[savanahrose]

so why couldn't the warlock get the witch pregnant?

[balamw]

so why couldn't the warlock get the witch pregnant?
Select the whole post to view the invisitext answer...

Halloween was much shorter than usual around here this year as the temperature was far lower than it has been for the past few weeks & days so I think people went home early. Now we're stuck with a bunch of candy... I think average age of the kids that visited was ~13.

B

[savanahrose]

oh that was so funny!!

Thank you for the info, I never seen that before.

[Lau]

When I was a kid in Scotland, we always dressed up at Halloween and went out 'guising' - which was long before we got all the Hollywood imports.

You went round your local street in your costume but it wasn't 'trick or treat'. Instead, you had to tell a joke or sing a song or read a poem. And depending on how good it was, you got more or less sweeties.

My mum (who's Scottish) would always make us do it that way when we lived in England, and would make any kids who came to the door do the same. :p Otherwise it was "cheating". :D

[bartelby]

Yeaterday evening we pulled up outside the house, after a trip to Sainsburys, and there were a couple of kids at our front door. So we just sat in the car and waited for them to leave. We crossed paths just by the garden gate and they looked at me expectantly, I just carried on unloading the car.
I then disconnected the doorbell and had a nice peaceful evening.

Of course, now Hallowe'en is out of the way I'll get "carol singers" this evening!

[Badradio]

Of course, now Hallowe'en is out of the way I'll get "carol singers" this evening!
You're forgetting the two solid weeks of fireworks first.

[bartelby]

You're forgetting the two solid weeks of fireworks first.

They overlap around here!

[yellow]

It was sweet.. our decorations made some kids cry.
And a bunch wouldn't come up onto the porch.
Awesomeness.

[njmac]

The funniest thing was when my 2 year old was dressed in her Tigger costume, she looked at me so seriously and said: "Mommy, am I scary?" :)

I told her she was and the rest of the night when anyone said they liked her costume she said, yes, I'm so scary!


61121

[MarkCollette]

A SEX-MAD witch and a 200-strong coven plan to celebrate Halloween tonight — by deflowering a teenage virgin.

Creepy David Farrant boasted yesterday how he will oversee the orgy to initiate the girl into his cult.

The 19-year-old trainee accountant will have full sex with a 30-year-old High Priest chosen by Farrant.

As the teen writhes naked with the stranger on the floor, the rest of the priest’s coven drop their robes to watch the display in the NUDE. The 200 onlookers then take part in a MASS-ORGY at a property in Barnet, North London.

That, my friends, is how one celebrates Halloween.


The funniest thing was when my 2 year old was dressed in her Tigger costume, she looked at me so seriously and said: "Mommy, am I scary?" :)

I told her she was and the rest of the night when anyone said they liked her costume she said, yes, I'm so scary!


61121

Oh my goodness, she's the most adorable little thing ever!! :)

[savanahrose]

Ahh how sweet. She is beautiful with her tigger costume.

Arent kids so precious at that age? my 2 are all grown up. Now I am just waiting for the grandkids so I can experience the TERRIBLE TWOS all over again, i miss it so much. :(

Am I absolutely crazy???!!!! Yup!

[Cybix]

I got a knock on my door, first time I've ever had a knock, perhaps it's becoming increasingly popular here in Western Australia.

four little kids, parents in tow... heh

[kretzy]

I got a knock on my door, first time I've ever had a knock, perhaps it's becoming increasingly popular here in Western Australia.

four little kids, parents in tow... heh

Wow, that's really quite surprising. How did you react? They can't have expected many people to have anything prepared to give to them.

[Cybix]

Wow, that's really quite surprising. How did you react? They can't have expected many people to anything prepared to give to them.

a bit concerned at first, coz the bratts rung my door bell about 5 times, then proceeded to BANG on my front door.

luckily i had a packet of caramel chocolate koala's in the fridge. unlucky that I only had five left, four of which I gave away, the fifth I ate on my way back inside the house. :D

[njmac]

Oh my goodness, she's the most adorable little thing ever!! :)

Ahh how sweet. She is beautiful with her tigger costume.

Arent kids so precious at that age? my 2 are all grown up. Now I am just waiting for the grandkids so I can experience the TERRIBLE TWOS all over again, i miss it so much. :(

Am I absolutely crazy???!!!! Yup!

Thank you! :) They are precious at that age. The terrible twos can be trying, but its all worth it with the cuteness that comes with it. The mispronounciation of the words is hilarious. Lauren say's "wook at me" and "wisten" among a ton of other funny things :)