The Annual PH how to get rid of Trick or Treaters thread
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Soov535 said:
B0llocks. We spend all year telling our kids not to interact with strangers and then one day a year we let them go off and demand money with menaces from old people.
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Actually originated in UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treatingAmerican bu115hit
si barone said:
Soov535 said:
B0llocks. We spend all year telling our kids not to interact with strangers and then one day a year we let them go off and demand money with menaces from old people.
American bu115hit
Actually originated in UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treatingAmerican bu115hit
Think I will start to go around houses in July demanding payments with abusive threats. Might take my parents as well so they can stand there all cooing and simpering over how cute I look in a balaclava and carrying a 4be2.
si barone said:
Soov535 said:
B0llocks. We spend all year telling our kids not to interact with strangers and then one day a year we let them go off and demand money with menaces from old people.
American bu115hit
Actually originated in UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treatingAmerican bu115hit
Fortunately it isn't very popular in Australia - although Hallmark and the fking supermarkets are doing their utmost to import it. bds.
As I type this next door's dogs are going mental - I may be about to get doorknocked. fk.
Jader1973 said:
I don't think it did. When I was little (in Scotland) we went guising - had to do a song or poem or something in order to get sweets etc. We certainly didn't knock on the door and say "trick or treat" that is a US invention.
Traditions get modified over time - just look at how much Christmas has changed over the last 200 years. Until Queen Victoria - Christmas trees in the UK were unheard of, same thing with Christmas cards etc.Does that mean the modern Christmas in the UK isn't really Christmas because it it has been embellished over time?
Well,sign hasnt worked so far,3 lots(actually Im sure the last kid was a part of an earlier group!!) at the door...fair play they made the effort to dress up,but
a)I dont care about Hallowe'en
b)Ive just got my daughter out of hospital so had no time to buysweets bribes,and am knackered
They keep making the dogs go mental too
a)I dont care about Hallowe'en
b)Ive just got my daughter out of hospital so had no time to buy
They keep making the dogs go mental too
Where I live if there's no pumpkin or other decoration out front you don't knock. Works perfectly and the kids love it.
I was pleased with my special effects make up this year.. My 5yo daughter was a vampire with a large knife wound to the face and her cousin slit her wrists.
1st time I've used liquid latex and face paints, it's good fun!
I was pleased with my special effects make up this year.. My 5yo daughter was a vampire with a large knife wound to the face and her cousin slit her wrists.
1st time I've used liquid latex and face paints, it's good fun!
Moonhawk said:
Traditions get modified over time - just look at how much Christmas has changed over the last 200 years. Until Queen Victoria - Christmas trees in the UK were unheard of, same thing with Christmas cards etc.
Does that mean the modern Christmas in the UK isn't really Christmas because it it has been embellished over time?
No. Does that mean the modern Christmas in the UK isn't really Christmas because it it has been embellished over time?
Point is that the "trick or treat" element is a US development that has spread back to the UK. It didn't originate in the UK.
It has been modified by marketing departments, just like Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Easter.
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