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Post by beagle on Oct 31, 2012 17:20:28 GMT 12
Have got the sprinkler going right across the driveway and path to the front door to stop the little blighters.
Had 2 kids not even dressed up at 1/2 past 3.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 31, 2012 17:23:38 GMT 12
The BULLSHIT has started in my neighbourhood....
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Post by beagle on Oct 31, 2012 18:14:19 GMT 12
bugger, some have braved the sprinkler... mmmmmmmmmm
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Post by Bruce on Oct 31, 2012 18:34:13 GMT 12
Get the air rifle out....
good old International "demanding with menace" day...
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Post by phil82 on Oct 31, 2012 19:03:44 GMT 12
We have prominently displayed signs:"Halloween Free Zone" displayed at the entrance to our drive and on the front door, and they seem to work.
I'm not a natural grinch, but I really draw the line at this imported American bullshit and won't tolerate a bar of it!
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Post by 701driver on Oct 31, 2012 19:13:44 GMT 12
have eight foot fence two rows of barbed wire on top and the dogs are out(and not feed yet)if i get a knock on my door they will have deserved a treat (and a ride to the ED)
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Post by beagle on Oct 31, 2012 19:28:35 GMT 12
sitting here laughing like hell mate.....
the mrs stopped me from attaching an old extension lead plugged in with bare wires to front door
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 31, 2012 19:31:44 GMT 12
"imported American bullshit"
Halloween is actually British, going right back to the Celts. The trick or treating in costume on Halloween is also British, being recorded in Scotland in 1895 - they also call it Guising there.
It's just Hollywood and US TV has popularised it in the USA so people tend to think it's an American thing.
Personally I quite like the idea of Halloween and the traditions surrounding it.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 31, 2012 19:37:01 GMT 12
Hmmmm.....we spend most of the year educating kids to stay away from strangers.
Then, on Halloween, they go off attempting to feed their sugar-fix by bludging lollies from strangers.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 31, 2012 19:41:10 GMT 12
I can hear dogs nutting off everywhere from my place.
I guess the dogs don't like their streets being invaded by hoardes of rug-rats.
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Post by beagle on Oct 31, 2012 19:46:01 GMT 12
i thought of not feeding the cat today, but a purr is nothing like a set of drooling fangs.
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Post by phil82 on Oct 31, 2012 20:39:19 GMT 12
"imported American bullshit" Halloween is actually British, going right back to the Celts. The trick or treating in costume on Halloween is also British, being recorded in Scotland in 1895 - they also call it Guising there. It's just Hollywood and US TV has popularised it in the USA so people tend to think it's an American thing. Personally I quite like the idea of Halloween and the traditions surrounding it. Just as I said: Imported American bullshit, and it's origins are Irish...... |
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Post by jonesy on Oct 31, 2012 20:41:55 GMT 12
Tend to stand naked when I answer the door.They havent been back for a couple of years now.....Works the same for religious door-knockers too!
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Post by sparrow on Nov 1, 2012 9:37:41 GMT 12
It's huge here, they're mad for it. Fireworks are illegal, but the place sounds like Normandy the night of 5/6th June 1944 for several weeks, as you can simply drive up the North and buy in the UK. All the parks and greens have huge bonfires, kids scavanging anything that will(or won't) burn for weeks, leaving a real mess. The busiest night of the year for all 3 emergency services. Naturally the 'less fortunate' the area, the more money goes up in fireworks and smoke. Like any celebration in this country, drink plays a huge part, with all ages getting as drunk as they can, any excuse.
Then there's the adults, several nights of revellry, a lot really go to great lengths getting dressed up, and some do actually look very good. The girls seem to have lost the normal Halloween style costumes, and most wear the skimpiest outfits that Ann Summers and the like sell, a real flesh fest. I got home on Friday evening to find the house full of women getting ready, and a few pre-town drinks, and I blushed a lot!
Not one knock at the door tonight though, so guess I'll be munching chocs for weeks to come. Two years ago the teenage Nigerian girl from next door knocked in and said 'trick or treat', she had made no effort to dress up in any way, shape or form, and held out a very large black plastic rubbish bag, I'm afraid I wasn't too polite.
In short, just another excuse to get plastered.
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Post by baz62 on Nov 1, 2012 16:07:08 GMT 12
sitting here laughing like hell mate..... the mrs stopped me from attaching an old extension lead plugged in with bare wires to front door One of the guys at work has a lawn sprinkler attached to a motion sensor..............................I kid you not! ;D |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Nov 1, 2012 21:18:05 GMT 12
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