Mischief night would have some of you miserable bastards dying of impotent rage if it was still a thing.
Jumping through hedges, burning newspapers up the drainpipes. We nicked the school gates one year. Those were the days.
Penny for the guy won’t work any more – so few coins in circulation in a cashless society
What, no card reader?
Jumping through hedges, burning newspapers up the drainpipes. We nicked the school gates one year. Those were the days.
That would be a quite night for us.
so what?
I reckon we can do better than adopting all the look at me parts of American culture.
As a kid in the late 70s/early 80s, all we did was either duck apple/bob apple - and maybe carve a few pumpkins and put candles in them. Early teens was dressing up as ghouls, wizards/ witches......
But, the real occasion was Guy Fawkes Night - that was a far bigger deal.....
Now, the modern US version of Hallowe'en has taken over thanks to our cousins across the pond....They're all over social media, etc dressing up in fancy dress that has no relation to Hallowe'en.
Funnily enough, none of them bother with 5th November.....And you don't see as much here in the UK. I can't remember the last time I saw a 'penny for the Guy'.
I can't recall when costumes migrated from ghouls to generic but I have photos from a party in 1977 where I was dressed as a matador and there was a mix of other fun costumes scattered amongst the ghosts and vampires. I'm not sure what "social media" was influencing me back then.
Yeah there’s always been fancy dress not just spooky related at Halloween. Can’t remember pumpkins in the 70’s though just suedes.
Turnips.
But that's a whole new thread 🙂
Suedes. 😀
When I was a kid in Glasgow Guising consisted of going round the neighbours with a little act you had. Sing a song, tell a joke or something similar and you were rewarded with sweets. Trick or treat is to me a relatively recent thing and anyone trying it on me would get short shrift. fortunately living in a flat it just doesn't happen - indeed round here its just not a thing because everyone lives in flats
Yes I am Victor Meldrew.
Yeah there’s always been fancy dress not just spooky related at Halloween.
Yep, fancy dress parties used to be a big thing. So was Morris Dancing. I have no idea why.
Suedes.<br /><br />
Yeah, coming round here with their 2Tone Tonic trousers, Ben Shermans and Crombies! <br />Oops, sorry, that’s Suedeheads, my mistake! 😉
Being a Christian personally I don’t celebrate Halloween
As a person of no faith living in a country whose calendar is dominated by Christian festivals and holidays two things strike me;
1- If you're concerned by the crass, tasteless, thoughtless way people choose to observe Halloween you should probably examine the way people have started treating your Messiah's birthday.
2- Does anyone really 'celebrate' Halloween? There's some rowdy stupidity on a school night, plying kids with sugar and letting them watch scary films in the dark, but for most people it's not an actual celebration just a novelty... A bit like Easter 😉
Being a Christian personally I don’t celebrate Halloween
But you do celebrate the pagan midwinter and spring festivals which were co opted by christinity
Holly and ivy? Pagan symbols of the everlasting life thru the winter Easter bunny and eggs? Even worse - pagan fertility symbols
for most people it’s not an actual celebration just a
noveltymerchandising opportunity
FTFY
Another kid of the 70's and 80's from Central Scotland who went Guising. Halloween is when all the witches and goblins are out looking to snatch their victims from the streets, so any bairns that were brave enough to go out after dark had to do so disguised as a witch or goblin etc. We also had to perform a song, dance or joke before we got any treats and I still demand the same of the kids who turn up at my door.
We had about 100 or so kids, most of them escorted by parents, at our door over a couple of hours on Halloween. A couple of times we had a queue forming down our path and back onto the street. I had a tiny wee lass singing me a Ukrainian nursery rhyme, a few kids busting some excellent dance floor moves and a variety of truly woeful jokes. I'm 53, have no kids of my own, but still love Halloween. It's utterly brilliant seeing how well behaved and polite the majority of the kids are.
What do you call a cow with no legs?..Ground Beef!
Why did the skeleton refuse to jump down the chimney?...He didn't have the guts!!!
What do you call Bees who've died and turned into ghosts?.....BooBees!!!!!
Oh lordy, my sides are still aching.
Yeah, coming round here with their 2Tone
Oh bloody hell. I don’t care I spotted someone else making the same spelling mistake. Good job I can laugh my dyslexia off.
