RealAmerican wrote: Depending on what you might do to rile them RA, I wouldn't be too hasty in ruling that possibility out btw.

I heard all kind of weird reasons for Halloween as a kid, when I got old enough to have some sense I looked it up.

LesleyPumpshaft wrote:
The real serious stuff I know, like don't piss the English off over their tea.

Used to work with a guy who always fell asleep in the corner of the workshop.

So I hung a penny-for-the-guy sign around his neck.

Everyone who came in pissed themselves laughing, and by the end of the shift we'd earned the princely sum of 24p.

Time's gone weird. It only seems like about a week since last bonfire night to me, when we were setting off fireworks in my sister's garden.

We lit some Chinese lanterns too, and one of them just drifted over the privet, and by the sounds of it, straight into the neighbours cache of fireworks.

I can't believe a year's almost gone by since then.

RealAmerican wrote:
Pfft trick or treat .......load of fucking bollocks.. the shit tradition has taken off here Trick or Treaters fucking perverts love it
any trick or treaters come to my house, they get told to fuck off

What ever happened to going guising? eh?

jhado wrote:
Same as what happened to galoshin. (gotta love wikki)

I'll have my life size cut out of Gary Glitter (complete with moving predator eyes) stuck to the door to keep the little perishers away.

Tradition is stronger than ever.

"Remember, remember
The fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot."