I don’t like it, creeping Americanism and getting more popular each year. Am I being a miserable bastard?

no, i think it’s shite too

And me.

Can’t stand it, and not to keen on November 5

Hallowe’en is actually a British & Irish tradition that was exported to the colonies back in the C16th/C17th. We let it fall by the wayside because we found out it was more fun burning effigies of catholics & attempting to blow ourselves up with fireworks!

Quite enjoy the little kids coming round for sweets etc, although i always buy way too many & the kids are so polite they only take 1 or 2 & leave the rest for me!
😆

It’s just an excuse for girls to dress sluttily for parties every year now…

…oh hang on 🙂

The only time of year i feel like fit in.

All Hallow’s Eve actually began in the British Isles.

However, it took the Americans to turn it into a fiesta of petty vandalism at the hands of little brats buzzing off a Chupa Chups induced sugar rush.

Obviously, they also introduced the venerable tradition of top heavy girls dressing as slutty witches too, so it’s not all bad.

Halloween is ace , miserable buggers.

Halloween is fun

I think it is a fun event for the kids but as with anything these days it gets over commercialised to the point it becomes rediculous and overbearing.

I can understand why people don’t like it, a pensioner answering the door to 5 Freddy Krugar looky likes.

I prefer bonfire night as Dad (me) gets to play with bangers 😉

“Guising” – Scottish tradition – trick/’doing a turn’ – (can’t think of the word) also down to old scots (?)

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It’s just an excuse for girls to dress sluttily for parties every year now…

…oh hang on

Good excuse to Par-T (especially during Uni daze!)

Already bought twice as much chocolate for local neighbourhood kiddies -trick or treat. But if they don’t wear costumes then they can **** off. 😈

‘Halloween’ – still one of the scariest films ever.

Agree with O.P. Got fed up with lazy teenagers turning up at the door, with an old sheet flung over them and expecting loads of goodies with an apology of a thankyou, ‘cos they didn’t get expensive treats.

It’s supposedly the time when the boundaries between worlds of the living and dead are most easily traversed. A time to commune with the spirits of your ancestors apparently. Probably a load of old bollocks but we tend to dig out as many different pictures of our deceased family members as we can. Quite odd to look at pics from the Victorian era with all those relatives staring back at you.

* is disappointed at the cultural ignorance of modern-day Brits *

Years back when I was living in Sheffield, we had three kids knock on, none of them in costume…

Kids ‘Trick or treat?’
Me ‘You’re a week early!’
Kids ‘We’re Irish we celebrate it a week early’

Brilliant.

It was called hop tu neh back on the isle of man when I was a kid and we hollowed out turnips not pumpkins. A turnip makes a far scarier lantern.