I know! But that's where the modern trick or treating comes from. Like our modern Christmas comes from a time long, long ago, when people didn't have mobiles and buffalo roamed the land, or something ...
I would say the closest we have to what we know as trick or treating today is the Scottish Guising which started in the C19! I don't disagree that the origins of trick or treat started with mumming but the modern trick or treating really comes from the US and only then really didn't start there until the mid C20.
I don't remember seeing trick or treating in his country until the mid 1980s onwards!
Well I'm Scottish and did it the 1970s. My parents used to do it and probably their parents. In fact it's actually died away a bit up here in recent years as parents prefer to have parties for kids rather than let them go to stranger's doors. Tumshie lanterns are a nightmare to carve, pumpkins are one import for the better!
Well I'm Scottish and did it the 1970s. My parents used to do it and probably their parents. In fact it's actually died away a bit up here in recent years as parents prefer to have parties for kids rather than let them go to stranger's doors.
Yep, Guising is a Scottish tradition from the 19th Century!
I quite enjoy Halloween.
I turn the lights off in the house, pull down the blinds, put an empty tub outside with a sign in it saying, "Please help yourself, but leave some for everyone else," and sit upstairs watching a film.
We have guy Fawkes an carol singing for extorcian for kids
So you have never had a McDonald's, KFC, Coke, Budweiser, Ford car, watched a Disney film? What TF is wrong with importing goods, ideas, and traditions from other countries?
Honestly it makes me feel uneasy to imagine little kids knocking on stranger's doors begging for chocolate.
What is the actual point of it other than to look stupid?
It's a bit of fun (look it up :rolleyes:). Kids love dressing up. Maybe you didn't.
So you have never had a McDonald's, KFC, Coke, Budweiser, Ford car, watched a Disney film? What TF is wrong with importing goods, ideas, and traditions from other countries?
Well, because the whole point of this 'tradition' is purely commercial. It's driven by the supermarkets who want to sell lots of cheap plastic masks and outfits and bags of sweets.
The business model of the major chains is driven by lurching from one seasonal promotion to another and suckering gullible consumers in to parting with their cash for unnecessary products.
If you want to spend your hard earned cash lining the pockets of supermarket shareholders, go ahead, but I'm not playing.
Well, because the whole point of this 'tradition' is purely commercial. It's driven by the supermarkets who want to sell lots of cheap plastic masks and outfits and bags of sweets.
The business model of the major chains is driven by lurching from one seasonal promotion to another and suckering gullible consumers in to parting with their cash for unnecessary products.
If you want to spend your hard earned cash lining the pockets of supermarket shareholders, go ahead, but I'm not playing.
So where do you do your weekly shop then? Obviously not in the supermarkets if that is your attitude about maybe spending a £1 or £2 on a bit of FUN.
The world is full of miserable people.
Well, because the whole point of this 'tradition' is purely commercial. It's driven by the supermarkets who want to sell lots of cheap plastic masks and outfits and bags of sweets.
The business model of the major chains is driven by lurching from one seasonal promotion to another and suckering gullible consumers in to parting with their cash for unnecessary products.
If you want to spend your hard earned cash lining the pockets of supermarket shareholders, go ahead, but I'm not playing.
Honestly it makes me feel uneasy to imagine little kids knocking on stranger's doors begging for chocolate.
What is the actual point of it other than to look stupid?
If done properly and taken in the spirit (no pun intended) of which it is meant, e.g. kids putting a bit of effort into their costumes, some harmless "tricks" and a neighbourhood equally receptive and ready to play along as well, then the "point" is merely harmless, traditional fun.
What you get instead is many kids wearing just a mask and a bin bag, who see it as an excuse to go on the scrounge, cause trouble, and ruin it by alienating their neighbourhoods and causing that traditional Victorian British attitude of "Children should be seen and not heard" to be taken to its extreme, meaning all those who take part are loathed and despised in equal measure.
Well, because the whole point of this 'tradition' is purely commercial. It's driven by the supermarkets who want to sell lots of cheap plastic masks and outfits and bags of sweets.
The business model of the major chains is driven by lurching from one seasonal promotion to another and suckering gullible consumers in to parting with their cash for unnecessary products.
If you want to spend your hard earned cash lining the pockets of supermarket shareholders, go ahead, but I'm not playing.
All of the above.
The only thing we ever used to do on halloween was sit in a darkened room, looking in the mirror to see the face of our future husbands.
Well, thats what Jackie magazine promised us, anyhow :D
I've been forbidden from going out trick or treating this year. What's so wrong about a person in his twenties wanting to dress up as a zombie and tell crappy jokes in order to get bucket loads of free chocolate?
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I would say the closest we have to what we know as trick or treating today is the Scottish Guising which started in the C19! I don't disagree that the origins of trick or treat started with mumming but the modern trick or treating really comes from the US and only then really didn't start there until the mid C20.
I don't remember seeing trick or treating in his country until the mid 1980s onwards!
Yep, Guising is a Scottish tradition from the 19th Century!
I turn the lights off in the house, pull down the blinds, put an empty tub outside with a sign in it saying, "Please help yourself, but leave some for everyone else," and sit upstairs watching a film.
Eat their children?
We were just going to take their shoes.
I've never been trick or treating in my life and the children around here only tend to go to their very close neighbours.
So you have never had a McDonald's, KFC, Coke, Budweiser, Ford car, watched a Disney film? What TF is wrong with importing goods, ideas, and traditions from other countries?
It's a bit of fun (look it up :rolleyes:). Kids love dressing up. Maybe you didn't.
It's probably my favourite Halloween segment.
"The bible says a lot of things...shove her!"
Well, because the whole point of this 'tradition' is purely commercial. It's driven by the supermarkets who want to sell lots of cheap plastic masks and outfits and bags of sweets.
The business model of the major chains is driven by lurching from one seasonal promotion to another and suckering gullible consumers in to parting with their cash for unnecessary products.
If you want to spend your hard earned cash lining the pockets of supermarket shareholders, go ahead, but I'm not playing.
So where do you do your weekly shop then? Obviously not in the supermarkets if that is your attitude about maybe spending a £1 or £2 on a bit of FUN.
The world is full of miserable people.
If done properly and taken in the spirit (no pun intended) of which it is meant, e.g. kids putting a bit of effort into their costumes, some harmless "tricks" and a neighbourhood equally receptive and ready to play along as well, then the "point" is merely harmless, traditional fun.
What you get instead is many kids wearing just a mask and a bin bag, who see it as an excuse to go on the scrounge, cause trouble, and ruin it by alienating their neighbourhoods and causing that traditional Victorian British attitude of "Children should be seen and not heard" to be taken to its extreme, meaning all those who take part are loathed and despised in equal measure.
All of the above.
The only thing we ever used to do on halloween was sit in a darkened room, looking in the mirror to see the face of our future husbands.
Well, thats what Jackie magazine promised us, anyhow
oh well,, at least you can eat the left overs yourself