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Halloween
Halloween on friday, how will the Conservative Party celebrate this event,???
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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 !
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 !
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.
To answer your question Farrier, I doubt they will 'celebrate it any more than labour, liberals, UKIP or the greens.
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 !
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 !
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!
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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/// 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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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'.
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'.
