Hello, my name's Pete and I'm a miserable git

[Bluepete]

I HATE HALLOWEEN!

Feckin begging kids, pressure to become even more American.

That is all.

Rant over.

Feel free to join in.

PS, No, this isn't Timwilky in disguise

Pete ;)

[Spiderman]

well i'm going out to a halloween ball and getting all dressed up but i do agree that the whole trick or treat thing is a bit nasty tbh.

Give me something or i'll do something nasty to you/your house/your car. Not a nice way to be really is it?

[shifter]

O.k I will!

I can't stAND IT either, I'm doing a Halloween gig with my band so we all have to dress up.
Do we get paid extra to cover the costs of our costumes or extra rehearsals to learn songs we can only do one day a year? No.

[xXBADGERXx]

I have a Werewolf mask , a big bowl of sweets , the bike is covered and I have a Video Camera set up to watch the little buggers crap em selves when I rip the door open and "RAAAAAAR" at them :)

[Kate Moss]

I hate it, i don't like feeling intimidate in my own home. Thankfully Phil is home this year.
Last year i was sat in the dark, taped the letter box closed and pretended there was no one home.

[Sally]

Why complain?

Go out on the ****...

No excuse, its the weeeeeekend.. :)

[xXBADGERXx]

My house is well spooky to look at anyway , I am gonna get my own back this year :)

[Specialone]

My wife buys bags and bags of sweets and hands the kids that knock the door loads of em.
Most kids that knock our door are normally with their parents and only small kids.
Upside to that is there is normally loads left over which i scoff :D

[Tim in Belgium]

And it's not even Christmas yet, bahhhh humbug!

[yorkie_chris]

I have a Werewolf mask , a big bowl of sweets , the bike is covered and I have a Video Camera set up to watch the little buggers crap em selves when I rip the door open and "RAAAAAAR" at them :)

You need a mask?

[JamesMio]

We just bought one of those big buckets of sweeties and left a pile of them out on the doorstep with a note saying "NightShift Workers"

Saved us the hassle of shooing neds off the doorstep all night, and for the cost of a pint. Job done!

[xXBADGERXx]

You need a mask?

Yeah I just had a weird experience , I put it on , opened the door , scared the kids , they all got sweets and as they walked off , one of the kids said "I didn`t know Yorkie Chris lived here ?"

[Holdup]

I hate the trick and treat thing as well, i never went out begging and vandalising.

Out of tonight tho for a "Zombie rave" and i wont be dressing up...

[kitkat]

up in scotland you had to do a party piece to get any sweets (dont get anything for nothing up there). I took kids round a few of the neighbours houses and connor recited a rhyme he had learned at nursery and becky sang a song. I dont agree with the trick or treat thing. had a couple of kids at the door tonight already, we have disconnected the bell and are ignoring them

[Richie]

I agree with KateMoss.
we're just ignoring the doorbell and the knock on the door.

I'll find out tomorrow what tricks the youths of today have played, if any.

[Dave20046]

I agree with KateMoss.
we're just ignoring the doorbell and the knock on the door.

I'll find out tomorrow what tricks the youths of today have played, if any.
If the local scum wreck my car I'll be seriously pee'd :smt012
My cunning plan's to padlock the gate ;)

[skeetly]

I don't like it either.
Landy's rammed up against the gate so they cant get in :)

[Ed]

I just come back from T&Ting with my 11yo daughter. About half the houses didn't answer, the other half gave her a few sweets.

[Owenski]

I dont mind if they're 6-7 and with the parents but its the 15 16 year olds how have a 99p mask and then take handfuls of stuff, they get told to go jump.
They do scare me though.

[7755matt]

They can do something worthwhile or bugger off
Trick or Treat means they do a 'treat' and get a reward or they play a trick on me.

I do *sometimes* give them the opportunity to amuse me, otherwise they can sod off

[Mrs Blue Pete]

He might be a miserable git but his face has just lit up when he saw how many chocolates were left in the bowl.

;)

[maviczap]

You're lucky Pete, Halloween is only once a year. Strictly come dancing is on every Saturday night for at least 26 weeks :nomore:

[Bluepete]

You're lucky Pete, Halloween is only once a year. Strictly come dancing is on every Saturday night for at least 26 weeks :nomore:

I know! I have a wife and ten year old daughter who love it! Zoe Lucker does make it worth while though! (drools)

Pete ;)

[maviczap]

Snap, except mines 11, the 4 year old isn't into it yet. I'd rather do the dishwasher, although my wife goes and watches it upstairs until its the young ones bedtime. So I do get some relief from it :p

I had enough this afternoon, when 'Come dine with me' was on, and turned it over to the Star Wars movie. Should be titled 'Come slagg me off ':hackedoff:

Time for a quick drink

[boot]

Maybe a little late in the day now, but you could try...

Fake blood (or real if you wish) all over clean white vest, rubber gloves and the blade of a saw, splat some little speck on your face too, maybe sport an apron.

Fit 1.21 gigawatt bulbs in every room and switch on so your house can been seen from space. Open all the curtains and spray a bit of the fake blood on the windows upstairs. If you can live with repainting the walls near your front door, some hand smears of blood there too would help.

Download some crying and wailing noises and have that playing in an upstairs front bedroom with window slightly open.

Invite everybody in while telling them not to be scared and to excuse your appearance, you're preparing the food for the cricket club's bbq bonfire next weekend.

[Rich]

Well the little scrotes didn't even knock they just launched eggs at the house, fecking hate this time of year.

[punyXpress]

[QUOTE=maviczap;2081399]Snap, except mines 11, the 4 year old isn't into it yet. I'd rather do the dishwasher, although my wife goes and watches it upstairs until its the young ones bedtime. So I do get some relief from it :p

Bluepete reckons he does too! and Timwilky's sweetness & light compared to him.

[xXBADGERXx]

Well I scared the Crap outta the local kids with my werewolf mask , they were all little uns with parents near , nobody touched my bike , no eggs or drama and I got sweeties left over ....... has been the first time that I embraced it for what it is nowadays , I did notice that 50% of them didn`t even bother with my house this year ...... probably because I had the curtains open , lights off , candles burning and werewolf mask on :)

[fenjer]

I would never take my wee lass to folk who weren't expecting us, I don't agree with the random "knock on every door" and up here it's guising, none of this trick or treat crap... She does her poem, song, joke or whatever, and says thanks for the monkey nuts or sweeties or whatever she is given.

[speedplay]

Same here.

I hate halloween.

I just dont answer the door.

The little gits round here that are complete knobs all year round banging on the door for me to give tham money/ sweets etc..



Dont get me on my soap box!!


Anyone know how I can wire the doorbell to the mains...?

[dizzyblonde]

I'm kinda glad that I was at work all night. :-)

[Fizzy Fish]

As a kid I used to do trick or treat around in the little community that I lived in - was great fun making outfits, all the kids really loved it and most families took part. That kind of thing I have no problem with at all.

London though can be a totally different ballgame. You do get the occasional good uns, but more usually it was a case of being constantly harangued by nasty kids who just tried to grab all the sweets off you, or threatening teen gangs in no costumes just asking for money. Best to just go out, taking any cars/motorbikes with you!

Glad I don't live there now on Halloween. Where we are now is great, and they generally leave you alone unless they know you or you've dressed the house up. And it's secretly quite fun playing with fake cobwebs and carving pumpkins! :lol:

[ArtyLady]

As far as I'm concerned it's just not British old chap! - its now just another "Americanised" event - never had trick or treating I was a kid.

It goes completely against the grain of how we were brought up (and how I bought my kids up) not to accept sweets from strangers and not to speak to/knock on strangers doors! :smt012

[sv-robo]

up in scotland you had to do a party piece to get any sweets (dont get anything for nothing up there).

Ahh so its true what they say about the jocks;)

[timwilky]

I saw the classic on my neighbours door as I went out last night. A piece of paper that read

Trick&treaters
Lewis and his dad both have swine flu, if you don't want it. Dont knock.



As for me being miserable. I bought a big bag of sweets. Nobody even knocked on my door. Guess the word must be out.

As for it being an american tradition. My local pub quiz says it began in Ireland

[Wideboy]

Trick&treaters
Lewis and his dad both have swine flu, if you don't want it. Dont knock.

thats a good idea!! will try that on for the ****mas carolers

[xXBADGERXx]

Or you could have Sprayed a pair of Wellies in Silver and throw Glitter on them and then leave them outside yer front door ...... no kid is gonna knock if they think Gary lived there ;)

[Ed]

What a miserable bunch of old farts there are on here:rolleyes:

[punyXpress]

What a miserable bunch of old farts there are on here:rolleyes:
The Chief old fart ?

[phi-dan]

Had loads of kids round last night, mostly littluns (all the teens from the village had gone into town for the Hallowe'en disco) and, apart from one or two oiks, they all took 1 sweet each, and all said thankyou. I do like living in a little village out in the countryside :smt023

[Ed]

The Chief old fart ?

Chief, and old:D - but not a fart:smt044

'Chief' is cos wifey read an article in the Daily Mail about a judge. He got his nix in a twist cos someone in a trial referred to their wife as their 'partner'. So I said that the wife was the hired help, and as the bloke I was the Chief Executive. Daughter now calls me 'Chief'.

We are using our pumpkin for pumpkin pie. Think it's going to be tasty:cool:

[Bluepete]

We are using our pumpkin for pumpkin pie. Think it's going to be tasty:cool:


We have just had spiced pumpkin soup with cheesy croutons made from home made brown bread. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, cheesy croutons!

Pete ;)

[missyburd]

I agree with you Pete. I never had the misfortune of having to trick and treat when I was a wee bairn as my ma was too protective. I don't think I'd let any kids of mine do it either, at least not unsupervised anyway. All it takes is one sick weirdo to ask some poor kids in as they've "left their sweeties on the table" and BAM he's got his treat for the night :smt104

At my folks' house they have a distorted glass front door. Our big Alsatian sits at the other end of the hallway and when any poor souls come knocking he runs down the hallway barking his head off and growling. Funnily enough not many trick or treaters go to that house! :lol:

[-Ralph-]

Don't need a warewolf mask, my dog growls and barks like hell if you whisper "who's that?" just after he's heard any noise, and until people see it's only a labrador, he does a pretty good job of getting the wee baggers hearts beating, before I even shout "wait just a minute until I get a good hold of this dog, he made a right mess of the postmans arm last week!"

[metalangel]

In a country like Canada or the US where the kids aren't drunk and in tracksuits, it's fine. But in the UK you don't wanna answer the door to treak or treaters OR carol singers in case you then return to the living room to find another one came in through your garden door, nicked your DVD player and did a poo in the corner.

[gruntygiggles]

Ah...the joys of living in a little rural viallage, we didn't get one single knock on the door. We didn't last year either, so I didn't bother buying sweets, didn't even think about it...just made a gruesome cheesecake for the party next door. They've lived in America for 7 years so have really got the whole "lets overdo everything" vibe...lol. It's not an American thing though, I think it did start in Ireland or over here somewhere.

[barwel1992]

In a country like Canada or the US where the kids aren't drunk and in tracksuits, it's fine. But in the UK you don't wanna answer the door to treak or treaters OR carol singers in case you then return to the living room to find another one came in through your garden door, nicked your DVD player and did a poo in the corner.

haha made my moarning ps not awake yet......

my house got egged dident last year but we were in, this year i was at a pink concert and mum n dad were out on the town so house was a prime target.

the year befor last i got one of the buggers in the act.......shot him with a rubber ball baring from my hunting caterpult :D go the tw*t right in the u know whats would have a nasty bruse lol

i think it needs to be stoped as soo it will be bricks not eggs

[Swin]

Firstly, we always go trick or treating with out kids, so no chance of them being kidnapped by the local perv :)
There seems to be a convention around our way that if you are going to get involved in trick or treating you put a pumpkin thingy in the window, if there's no such halloweeny display showing then we don't knock there!
I personally dislike trick or treating, we teach our kids not to take sweets from strangers and then encourage it on halloween!

[Jabba]

Missed it this year due to being on hols :-D

Usually okay round here..... parents with their younger kids and they make an effort to get dressed up. Usually over by 9:00pm at the latest.

Also, a pumpkin lit up inside the window means T & T-ers welcome, no pumpkin means please don't. Generally works okay :-)

Having said that, I find the whole thing a PITA and would rather it didn't happen. Now Bonfire Night and Fireworks..... that's different. Anyone got a recipe for Parkin? :-D

[timwilky]

Anyone got a recipe for Parkin? :-D

Don't ask a southerner, they won't know what you are on about. If you find one, post it I might just stuff my face

[Von Teese]

I spent Halloween working on the town centre.
Interesting night to say the least!

[punyXpress]

Anyone got a recipe for Parkin? :-D
Ride up to kerb, sidestand down, get off & find pub.
Collect coat & disappear.

[timwilky]

correction Jabba, don't ask a geordie either

[Jabba]

correction Jabba, don't ask a geordie either

Seems that you and I are the only cultured folks on here ;-)

Will dig out my mum's recipe and post it :thumbsup: