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So what do you think of the halloween tradition of trick or treating? Harmless fun or another form of begging? I go for the latter.
I know for a fact that several old ladies living on some of our estates are dreading tonight and are planning on sitting with the lights out to avoid being 'tricked' for not answering the door.
Did anybody see the trick or treaters in Yates' before the Wolves gig? Two girls whose only effort was to buy a mask. If you want money, at least push the boat out a bit!
went to a HSBC cash point last night. keypad covered in flour. jibbed it.
went to Lloyds TSB further up. covered in egg and flour.
ran away looking over shoulder...
...wallet empty.
i'm goin the match, so I'll let me bird deal with the little horrors.
fuckin nuisance though. worse than Bommy night.
the horrible Gyppo's in Liverpool have got it well oiled.
send a kid (and mum) in the alehouse, begging.
send them in near last orders, when everyones bevvied, and its quids in.
El Jarvo wrote: Too American by 'alf.
Careful, I got slated for saying that last year, it's a load of bollocks.
Uncle Liam wrote: As I said to some kids in Yates' on Sunday,
"I've told you to fuck off once already"
Not that anyone wouldn't believe this kind of behaviour of Liam, but this did indeed happen.
Uncle Liam wrote: As I said to some kids in Yates' on Sunday,
"I've told you to fuck off once already"
And if you'd seen the trick or treat kids, you'd have told them to fuck off too!!
El Jarvo wrote: Too American by 'alf.
Precisely what I told the wee shites in the pub, but with a lot more expletives.
do people try and trick or treat all friggin week?
and we don't trick or treat here btw--7 or 8 years old at the latest. I think it's one of those stereotypes like everyone has a perfect Norman Rockwell thanksgiving etc etc
Shitey American tradition.
The greedy fcukers are never happy with what you give them either.
Only thing worse than a beggar is a part-time beggar in a costume.
Ally wrote: Shitey American tradition.
i entirely disagree. dressing up as pippi longstocking and the razor-in-the-apples scare and all.
damn fine film, as well. just finished watching it about an hour ago. i'm now on halloween II and it's all going downhill from here.
Fookin' kids round here get their parents out with them to Trick or Treat. They just knocked next door, heard the parent demand, I kid you not, demand more money for her kids. She said "there's three of them, they all get some". What is the world coming to?
We're not in by the way, doorknockers.
AgentWood wrote: money? who the f*ck asks for money on halloween?
oh god yeah i forgot that bit!!
we don't get money here it's chocolate... and like i said for 7 year olds
C-Ro wrote:
AgentWood wrote: money? who the f*ck asks for money on halloween?
oh god yeah i forgot that bit!!
we don't get money here it's chocolate... and like i said for 7 year olds
they ask for money in the UK? that's bold! i wish i had known that when i lived over there but i never did. shame.... 
but seriously, like chrissy said, halloween trick-or-treating is a bunch of kids (i did it until i was 12 or so--went as tammy faye bakker my final year, i think) going from house to house (if the porch light is on, that is) collecting chocolate and sweets and sometimes fruit from people. you wouldn't dare ask for money!
NOOLigan wrote: it isn't big here. no kids came round last night. a few have come in years past.
Would you go near DRACULA's CASTLE?
i wouldn't give no kid money. that IS begging. throw the scamps some candy and be done with it. you fucking brits nicely misinterpreted the whole point, which is to rot your teeth...then again, you might already have rotten teeth, so money it is then.
ROCKET MICK wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: it isn't big here. no kids came round last night. a few have come in years past.
Would you go near DRACULA's CASTLE?
you may come, but you may never leave. 
AgentWood wrote:
Ally wrote: Shitey American tradition.
i entirely disagree. dressing up as pippi longstocking and the razor-in-the-apples scare and all.
damn fine film, as well. just finished watching it about an hour ago. i'm now on halloween II and it's all going downhill from here.
razors in apples is fucking ace.. when I become old and crazy I'm going to do that!
One year growing up (in Kindergarten to be exact) I was in a what one call a "not nice" neighborhood. It's basically been burnt out since then. Anyway, there was a poisoning scare at the Rite Aid in our neighborhood and I remember that we were all in Kinnygaren for a costume party, and the class moms had all bought their candy at Rite Aid, and they were throwing the candy out and stomping on it and stuff...
The kind of stuff that's a nitemare to 5 year olds. It's normally the first Halloween they realise they just have to be cute and people will give them candy!!! Everyone was crying... I think they went to another shop.. but I can't remember that much.
I also remember taking our pillow cases to McDonalds to put them through the metal detector to make sure there were no razors. Good lulz
My costumes as a kid always sucked, the whole plastic-mask-and-irritating-rubber-band, and god knows what the "costume" part of it was made of, every year. I think one year I was He-Man (the gayest costume ever). But the Sweet Tarts more than made up for it
Halloween's on a Tuesday this year...a Tuesday! Nothing scary about Tuesdays (but plenty scary stuff about the band Til Tuesday). Hard to get excited about it, about the only thing scary anymore is tomorrow means the beginning of November and the slow build to the hell that is the holiday shopping season 
I would go as Max Fischer to any Halloween party though (that would be fun).
It's also an excuse for Sci-Fi to run endless shitty horror movies...which how it differs from their usual programming choices, you got me. All I know is, they're hyping it like it's a big deal 
Don't like it much at all. Luckily I'm in bed by 7 p.m tonight, so I don't have to deal with it at all........I just wish it was gonna be pissing down rain rather than the sub-freezing temperatures here.
J.A.K wrote: went to a HSBC cash point last night. keypad covered in flour. jibbed it.
went to Lloyds TSB further up. covered in egg and flour.
ran away looking over shoulder...
...wallet empty.
i'm goin the match, so I'll let me bird deal with the little horrors.
fuckin nuisance though. worse than Bommy night.
are you high?
violaine wrote:
J.A.K wrote: went to a HSBC cash point last night. keypad covered in flour. jibbed it.
went to Lloyds TSB further up. covered in egg and flour.
ran away looking over shoulder...
...wallet empty.
i'm goin the match, so I'll let me bird deal with the little horrors.
fuckin nuisance though. worse than Bommy night.
are you high?
Could YOU live in Liverpool straight?
Quite honestly, I like this Halloween tradition. The kids are very sweet and polite, and they don't seem to be brats.
And we only give sugar candy in our neighborhood, not money and certainly not apples...
I think the kids enjoy the camaraderie of the experience, and adults, like me, enjoy spending time joking around with the kids. I especially love the joy of the small kids who are new to trick or treating. It's a great experience for all.
