[Closed] Cheeky little twit.......

There will be tears if that happens here tonight!

It happened a couple of years ago, and I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the same bloody kid. Saying that, they must have spent a few bob on their costumes, they made me jump a mile when they knocked on the garage door!

<[i]grumpy mode ON[/i]> And they never actually do anything to get their treat. Just stand there, earn it you little ****ers!<[i]grumpy mode OFF[/i]>

see, when I went trick or treating as a kid we were always real miffed if someone gave us money, WTF do you do with money at this time of night when what you really want is to get off your face on CANDY! Honestly, cheeky little sh 😛 ts
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Could always keep a stash of diabetic chocolate handy for such urchins, more than 25g in a 24hr period apparently has a laxative effect 😀

I just get the dog to sit in the porch 😉

Ive had a sign on my door for the last few nights saying "sorry no trick or treat" but the little bastards keep stealing the sign off the door.

😆

carbon337 - Member
Ive had a sign on my door for the last few nights saying "sorry no trick or treat" but the little bastards keep stealing the sign off the door.

Good!

Should have looked earlier today to see if you can get chocolate laxative 😈

An owl's taken to roosting just above my front door over the last couple of weeks. Scares the crap out of me each time I come home as it launches itself out of the dark just as I approach the door.
Maybe I should put a warning sign up 🙂

trick or treat ?

CANDY ffs ?

got the baseball on ?

😉

i just had the knock at the door, "trick or treat" they said, "trick", I said. So i get squirted with a water pistol, excellent i think " a water fight"! Needless to say i won , they were no match for me and my kettle....

There's one house nearby that takes it really seriously, decorates the entire house, and they always answer the door in really awesome costumes. One year they had a bowl of sweets that had a secret hole in the bottom, so they could stick their hand through to grab yours when you went to take a sweet. Scared the S**T out of me.

I'm thinking of handing out single speed conversion bits. You know, SS sprockets, half-height chainring bolts, that kind of thing.

got the baseball on ?

NFL pre-match as it goes 😉

I'm thinking of handing out single speed conversion bits.

Where do you live...?

One year they had a bowl of sweets that had a secret hole in the bottom, so they could stick their hand through to grab yours when you went to take a sweet. Scared the S**T out of me.

Glad you said hand 😆

Trick or treat is more americanism cheapening the culture, guising was much better. Sing a song or do a party piece to get your treats.

I hate Halloween. I've sent the brood out and I'm pretending to be out.
Reminds me too much of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Which I can't stand either.
Friday it'll be penny for the guy, when they haven't got a guy.

Thanks, I feel better now.

boxeider - go with the sign option - i use them regularly - penny for the guy/haloween/xmas carols

Im a miserable ****

I agree with TJ - it's guising 🙂

A few years back I put what I thought was a bit of effort in, bought loads of monkey nuts and sweets etc. Two wee guys knocked at the door, told me a joke and I gave them a bag of goodies each. One of them looked at his, squinted, shook his head and gave me it back. Cheeky little bast@rd!

this american crap can **** off.
i'm all for celebrating all hallows eve but not some commercial yank activity centered around sweets and pumpkins, a cynical marketing exercise by the big supermarkets.

No guising round these ways. They don't do any party pieces. Not even some lame jokes. They just ring the bell and hold out the buckets.

I invite them in though: I've got a big mystery-bucket-o'-sweets (two each you greedy wee bastards) and dookin' for apples (with coins stuck in the back of them cos kids don't really want any apples these days!)

was just reading this thread when the doorbell went. ok, they were dressed up, but they didn't even say anything, just stood there, until one of the teenage thugs escorting them said "you're supposed to give them sweets or something". I did, I but i got the feeling i'd get stabbed if i didn't.

God there's some grumpy old farts on here tonight. We used to live next door (In a terrace) to a similar couple of grumpy old farts who used to hate us advertising with our ornate lit up pumpkin outside, as they'd always go next door after knocking on ours.... 😈

Sometimes there's little kids who have spent ages dressing up and getting excited about it, then nobody opens the door. It's amazing how a couple of cheap sweets can cheer a 5 year old up. 😀

we've got a big bag of haribo sweet mini-packets. One lot have been, and now I'm sat in the kitchen with the washing machine going - couldn't hear them if they did knock

IanMunro - Member
An owl's taken to roosting just above my front door over the last couple of weeks. Scares the crap out of me each time I come home as it launches itself out of the dark just as I approach the door.
Maybe I should put a warning sign up

How cool is that, do you rent it out? I need one in my life 🙂

As your on here, I was out today & was marveling at a couple of buzzards, a little later I saw something else, definitely not a buzzard, but some sort of bird of prey. Wingspan of about 3-4', very forked triangular tail, watched it circle & dive for about a minute, very impressive but I've not seen one around here before, any idea's as to what it could of been, it seemed to big to be a sparrow hawk?

Cheers.

Well said Peter, my pumpkin is proudly lit outside. 🙂

Not sure about cheap sweets though. I've got about twenty quids worth in that bucket and it's going fast!

It's not Halloween. It's not All Hallows Eve. It's called Samhain.

The idea of trick and treat is you are supposed to leave food out to entice spirits to your house. Not evil ones as such. The idea is the veil between realms is at it's thinnest tonight and you might want to commune with spirits of ancestors or people you've lost.

So you'd put a bit of grub out and a lantern (pumpking mask) to both light the way and scare off the evil spirits.

The yanks have kind of messed it up. But no worse than the bible bashers in the UK that think it's a night of evil.

It's an age old celebration (essentially the Wiccan New Year). Just enjoy it.

By Mrs PP's fair hand.... 😀

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Unfortunately i'm a bit hung over and I've eaten all the sweets.

[i]Sometimes there's little kids who have spent ages dressing up and getting excited about it, then nobody opens the door. It's amazing how a couple of cheap sweets can cheer a 5 year old up. [/i]

This... ^

Had a couple lads come round carrying a door...in a frame. They knock on my door, I opened it to find myself confronted by their door, so I knocked, they opened it...he turns around as if he's in a house, "Can I help you?" he said...pissed myself laughing, genius

Mrs T tells me that in the Tesco store in a nearby village they've taken all of the eggs from general display. You have to go to the counter to buy them, as you would cigarettes........

They can knock on my front door all they like!

I'm in the pub! Ha ha ha (waiting for my mates band to arrive & set up)

No-one really seems to make an effort round my way....which is fine by me as not really fussed by it all.

Saying that, when I was younger the village I lived in had a housing estate where all the Americans who worked at RAF Alconbury lived. Trick or Treating round there was awesome as they really went for it. Plus you got loads of American 'candy'.

......the only problem was afterwards you had to run the gauntlet of the bigger kids who cut out the middle man and used to just mug the younger ones for their sweets.

2unfit2ride, what you saw was one of these:
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A Red Kite, one of the most beautiful birds to see flying, and something you'd have only seen in a couple of places in Wales ten or fifteen years ago. Starting to see them around North Wilts now, truly makes my day when I see one.

Now THAT is an impressive outfit. They've done a lovely job of the flight feathers. 😉

If anybody want to visit us we have a big bucket of goodies ( although i have eaten all the mini chomps) and nobody has rung the door and the street is deserted

Some real effort put in by the last bunch that came round, all about 5-6 years old, mums standing on the road. Good harmless fun 🙂

Well that went a bit wrong: some wee fat kid just hurled the fork at the apples with such enthusiastic might that it burst through the bottom of the cheapo basin and flooded the living room.

Good work Chunk!

We had a small supply of stuff which went in the first few visits. Took the dog to the shop, spent £8 and no visits since 🙁

Also very unimpressed by the lack of effort - no jokes, songs or anything else - lazy wee f3ckers.

CountZero - Member
2unfit2ride, what you saw was one of these:

A Red Kite, one of the most beautiful birds to see flying, and something you'd have only seen in a couple of places in Wales ten or fifteen years ago. Starting to see them around North Wilts now, truly makes my day when I see one.

Hmmm, I'm in Hertfordshire, deffo not seen one of those around here before,
although the bird I saw had a very pronounced fork to its tail, not that triangular if it makes sense.
Cheers.

It's a buzzard. Lots in Berkshire too.

ive had tons of kids tonite ! they are very greedy too ! (honestly has nobody fed them today.. 🙄 .... i put my scary mask on and opened the door dead slow then jump out..give them a fight nite too ! 😉

In the spirit of things, I've put this picture up on my front door, as a little treat for the kiddies.

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I've not had a single knock tonight. 🙁

It seems that I was not paying proper attention when MrsTGA was explaining what I was supposed to do.

There were in fact two covered bowls in the porch, one full of sweets, the other full of jelly with coppers in it. In answer to 'trick or treat' I was supposed to invite them to pick a bowl, then stick their hand under the towel and see if they got a treat or a slimy trick, then give them sweets anyway.

I did think this is a bit shit as all the local kids wandered off from our house with a miserly jelly coated penny. On the other hand, I'm making inroads into the bowl of sweets. Every cloud an all that...

Every cloud an all that...

😆

You sound like a bastard after my own heart...

A trip down to my local offie a few minutes ago was proper horrorshow; I really don't think some people ought to be sold alcohol. 😯

I never thought much of it, and a few years back really it started to get out of hand round here with eggs and flour bombs and the lot. But the local police womble CSO's and community folks have done really well at claiming it back for the kids. So I and a mate took our combined offspring out this evening and I was very impressed by the number of households taking part with either a lantern or a display of some sort at the window. And not just households with kids either, quite a few older couples and even some of the younger dinkies on the posh new estate. Felt almost 'community like' tbh.

For the records we had a vampire, a black cat a spooky cheerleader and a crocodile. And two jokes:

'What do you call a wolf that's lost? A where-wolf'

and

'I used to be a werewolf but I'm alright nowhooooo!'

All jolly and polite here. Last ones came just before 8.
Apart from the wear on the knees getting up and down a harmless evening.

There's been a lot of cleaning up to do but the freezer's full now. Enough of the little beggars wandered down to our isolated house to keep us in meat through the winter 😈

Took my two girls out earlier with two of their mates. All good fun, only called at houses with lit pumpkins or obvious signs of "taking part" and it was good fun. All young kids all dressed up with their parents, no idiot teenagers with eggs and flour.

Much though I hate the ever-persuasive encrochment of Americanism, I actually quite enjoy Halloween now.

Reckon I probably had around 30 kids through the doors. First at 5:30, last at 7:30.
All nice kids. Lots of "thankyous". Fun night.

I used to be a grump - but not only do I now have little kids, so do most of the people on our little bit of close. Last year we even had a big party in the middle of our road with barbecue and all. Living on a posh housing estate in the middle of the country in Middle England we don't seem to get the yobs - just hundreds of little kids coming round. I'm sure some of them must be bussing in as it's not like the housing estate is that big (we weren't the only ones to get cleaned out of sweets - quite a few of those we went to were also sold out)! From what I could see everybody nowadays seems to abide by the rule that you only knock on houses with a pumpkin, so no need for a sign - though one house chose to confuse by having a sign up with a ghost on you could see from a distance, only when you got close could you read the words "no trick or treat please" 🙄 All very innocent pleasure, and I can't see why you could get upset when you can just ignore it all if you want.

But the local police womble CSO's and community folks have done really well at claiming it back for the kids

So I and a mate took our combined offspring out this evening and I was very impressed by the number of households taking part with either a lantern or a display of some sort at the window. And not just households with kids either, quite a few older couples and even some of the younger dinkies on the posh new estate

Five lots this evening all with decent costumes . I ran out of sweets after four so I offerred the last lot a tin of pringles. "oh gosh we couldn't possible eat all your pringles!"

kids today.

[i]As your on here, I was out today & was marveling at a couple of buzzards, a little later I saw something else, definitely not a buzzard, but some sort of bird of prey. Wingspan of about 3-4', very forked triangular tail, watched it circle & dive for about a minute, very impressive but I've not seen one around here before, any idea's as to what it could of been, it seemed to big to be a sparrow hawk?[/i]

Sorry for the 4 hour delay - found a pub nearby to try 😉
Yeah as others have said, could be a Red Kite, they've been spotted over Sandridge and Harpenden. Gutted that I haven't seen one yet though.
Also apologies for not getting over to see you about mid-life crisis cars. Pissing rain all week didn't really seem the best weather to try em 🙂

I don't like 'Trick or Treat' as such, but my family celebrate Samhain in our own home. We have been writing wishes on leaves and putting them in the fire in the garden, jumping the fire, apple bobbing, lighting lots of candles, had a nice big meal and put some out in the garden by the green man.

All good fun and also a time for reflection.

Had to go round with my pervy little brother. He got a carrier bag full of crap

One of my other half's colleagues had a true inspiration for last years trick or treaters.

He actually went to the trouble of making...wait for it...

Chocolate covered...

...raw brussel sprouts! Genius.