Halloween

[Farriercm]

Halloween on friday, how will the Conservative Party celebrate this event,???

[ToraToraTora]

I'm not wrong! I never said it was american originally, it has it's origins in the British Isles - think I said that, NWAP?

[ToraToraTora]

similar to Thanksgiving that's British too but we don't have a bank holiday do we?

[kvalidir]

What's a bank holiday got to do with anything, we have a 'Harvest Home' which is our equivalent of Thanksgiving.

[naomi24]

Stupid question.

[mikey4444]

Farrier...Umm is correct but then again so is TTT !

Halloween did originate in Europe, but was exported to America, like so many other things...our language for instance. But the recent reinvention of it over here is entirely due to the shops wanting to make more money. We are being sold things that we didn't realise that we needed....a wonderful example of the marketing industries success !

Its reappearance is 100% due to commercial concerns, led I suspect by ASDA/Walmart. I can never remember all this orange plastic crap being piled high and sold cheap in British supermarkets until a few years ago.

By the way, we have the same discussion about this subject here on AB every year !

[naomi24]

Farrier's not interested in Halloween. He's trying to be smart - and failing as usual.

[ummmm]

It's been going on for more than a few years, Mikey. My daughter is 22 and it was happening when she was little.

[mikey4444]

But where you able to buy all this plastic crap when you were little Ummm ? I am 61 and I can't ever remember it in the shops when I was a kid...never.

Anyway, 22 years isn't very long in the scheme of things is it !

[youngmafbog]

We had a shop about 18 years ago. There was no Halloween stuff readily available then as I remember bringing it back from New York for the shop when I was out on business, We were quite unique in the high street.

To answer your question Farrier, I doubt they will 'celebrate it any more than labour, liberals, UKIP or the greens.

[Baldric]

Farrier + smart, in same sentence Naomi?

[mikey4444]

YMG...quite right at 13:14

I remember bringing Halloween stuff back from visiting my friends in New Hampshire, for my nephews in the early 80's. But nobody knew what to do with it come the 31st, so it stayed at the back of my brothers garage ! You have just proved that its a Americanism, and its relatively new for us Brits.

I'm not against the kids having fun but its just that a lot of them around my way haven't really grasped how to do it properly. I am pestered every year, days before the 31st by kids begging at the front door, When I point out that it isn't for another few days, they don't really understand and just want the sweets !

[ToraToraTora]

first I really noticed of "halloween" was really mid nineties when a load of thugs got arrested for going round trick or treating and their "tricks" were based on what sort of lager they were given. Unheard of in the eighties in my experience. To be fair though I have tin of chocs for the sauceepans that knock on the apple in my kermit, fortunately they are usually 5-9yo nippers at about 5:30pm so no trouble!

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Perhaps they go around trick or treating on each other, but wearing Nigel masks, rather than the normal fright ones.....I can't think of anyone that
scares them more than Nige at the moment..except perhaps Boris ? ///

No contest Labour wins in the Halloween stakes.

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[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Why do we have to ape everything American all the time ? Isn't it enough that they have hi-jacked our language :-) ///

Now don't be so racist mikey. :0)

[Baldric]

We lived out in the sticks, when I was little, there was no-one to Trick or Treat.

[BlackadderV]

I remember going out with my turnip lantern in the 50s. The difference was that there was no Halloween tat in the shops and no Trick or Treat, which IS an American import.

[Mamyalynne]

I'm 61, when we were young we'd be off to the joke/magic shop and buy plastic spiders, webs and vampire teeth - make our own witches hats from black crepe paper and besoms from fallen twigs.


Parties with treacle toffee and parkin and bobbing for apples, ghost stories by the roaring open fire.

The nearest we got to 'Trick or Treating'was'Penny for the Guy'.

[mikey4444]

Blackadder has made a very good point here. We should differentiate between Halloween and "trick or treating", because I have no recall about the plastic crap either !