What did you wear for holloween??????

[harrisman]

well seeing as it was holloween i thought would see what everybody went as............

i went out clubbing and was gonna go as a vampire but then after havin the idea of makin sum wings i ended up goin out as a bat/devil kinda ensemble

i reckoned it looked very fetching................ well in a dark and mysterious way

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1473/cd91401d93d54ed5ab7f7f8zn4.th.jpg (http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cd91401d93d54ed5ab7f7f8zn4.jpg)

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/2630/f93ea90301c44968bcfa6ecde3.th.jpg (http://img66.imageshack.us/my.php?image=f93ea90301c44968bcfa6ecde3.jpg)

and the last one showing off my tattoo with its new bottom extension piece!

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/2125/sideonwithnewtatly3.th.jpg (http://img66.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sideonwithnewtatly3.jpg)

so come on guys dont b shy..................................

[Cronos]

It's not Halloween until tomorrow dude! :wink:

[northwind]

Harrisman, you're at least ten years younger than I thought you were :shock:

[rob13]

Its ok Northy, i thought you were old

[northwind]

Yeah, I got that a lot at the AR :lol: Whereas at work, I had to show one of my colleagues my driver's licence because she refused to believe how old I am!

[linco]

Well about 10 of us went out on the town, fancy dress. The worst and most boring was probably mine, a cowboy, and the best was my mate mark dressed as Vicky Pollard. It was just priceless!!!!

He won a prize to the lucky sod!

[Marshall]

Am i the only person who hates Halloween, i mean its nothing to do with the UK, its an American thing, that was brought over here solely to make money. Plus is just encourages the yobs to do your car/bike over with flour and eggs!!

[Kate]

Am i the only person who hates Halloween, i mean its nothing to do with the UK, its an American thing, that was brought over here solely to make money. Plus is just encourages the yobs to do your car/bike over with flour and eggs!!
Nope, you are not alone. I don't see the point of Halloween and haven't ever bothered with it so far, never even saw the point of it when I was a kid either.

[lynw]

Halloween started out as a pagan ritual which was appropriated [like most pagan rituals] into the Christian calendar as the evening before All Hallows day. So Hallows eve became Halloween.

Trick or treating actually has its origins in the practice of "souling" - going from door to door to solicit gifts of food in return for prayers for the dead. This was initially a pagan ritual and recorded as early as the 10th Century, but most definitely associated with Christianity by the 14th century where it is mentioned by Chaucer.

John Brand also noted it in his book "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain" written in 1779 where he writes: "On All Saints Day, the poor people go from parish to parish a Souling, as they call it."

Trick or treating is merely based on these rituals which would have been taken to America and practiced by European immigrants. It really isnt purely an American invention. But despite having a tradition going back a thousand years at least, what the Americans have done is the inevitable commercialisation of this. :?

And to some degree you can blame the Scots :wink: :P :lol: Guising is clearly a forerunner of trick or treating whereby children would earn a treat by performing some small entertainment. :lol:

[Kylie]

. I don't see the point of Halloween and haven't ever bothered with it so far, never even saw the point of it when I was a kid either.
Bah humbug! :) I'm the same, I do my best to make my place look like theres no one in (all the lights off, sit in bed reading with a torch) and ignore anybody that comes to the door. Works for me!

[timwilky]

As for trick or treaters, I have mixed views.

I don't mind young children out with their parents having a bit of fun. But I object to juvenile nuisances who are intimidating and demanding with menace.

My normal response to the shout of "Trick or treat" is "I will have a treat please". I usually get someone explaining I have got it wrong and I should give them a treat. to which "Why, what have you done to earn it"

some local yobs in recent years have resorted to eggs through the letterbox. urinating through the letter box. snapping aerials/wipers off cars. No wonder some particularly elderly people are petrified

[Grinch]

I thought he was younger...

[peanut]

I'm a Halloween party-pooper too. Can't stand it.

I shall be spending this evening holed in the Mrs's flat with the lights off ignoring the door buzzer, watching movies and drinking red waaaine.

[Ping]

Halloween's my favourite time of year. :) I've carved my jack-o-lantern and just need to buy in sweets in case anyone comes a-knocking (bought loads last year but no-one turned up).

Haven't had any proper costume parties in a while now but my 21st halloween/birthday party I made myself a succubus costume... I had a 6ft wingspan (black leatherette, sprung steel frame).

Hopefully will have a party next year and it's going to be a cracker to make up for all the years i've missed.

My only problem with Halloween over here (as opposed to Canada) is how the british half-hearted attempt makes it a pretty sad affair. :( Teens in black tracksuits with cheap masks they've bought at asda knocking and expecting treats just ticks me off.

[TT Dee]

Am i the only person who hates Halloween, i mean its nothing to do with the UK, its an American thing, that was brought over here solely to make money. Plus is just encourages the yobs to do your car/bike over with flour and eggs!!


Trick or treating is generally regarded as a "new custom" imported from America. However, it is in keeping with Samhain, or Hallowe'en - mischief night - The end of the Solar year, the night on which the sprites and other fey folk are expected to play tricks on human kind on behalf of the Lord of Misrule, the aspect of the Horned One that reminds us not to take ourselves too seriously. Lighten up and enjoy :wink:

What will I be wearing this eve? A black gown and a pointy hat

Happy New Year

[TT Dee]

Ping

You have a PM

[Warthog]

I am playing in Scruffy Murphy's Irish bar in Birmingham with my band tonight for Halloween; everyone come along hahaha!

:reaper:

[cuffy]

Haloween humbug here too....have already taken the chimes out of the door bell, tonight i shall be sat in my shorts n trainers waiting for some snivellin little chav to throw eggs at the house or car, then it'll be game on...chase the little $hit down tie him up and knee cap him with the paintball gun :D

Am i taking things too serious?? :lol:

[Cronos]

And to some degree you can blame the Scots :wink: :P :lol: Guising is clearly a forerunner of trick or treating whereby children would earn a treat by performing some small entertainment. :lol:

Halloween to me will always be about guising. I used to go guising as a kid and it was all about home made costumes and going door to door singing a wee song for some sweets.

Halloween is coming, the goose is getting fat
Please put a penny in the old man's hat
If you havenae got a penny, a ha'penny will do
If you havenae got a ha'penny, then God bless you!"

We also had halloween games like dookin* for apples and all our lanterns were made out of neeps**.

* dookin - dunking
** neeps - turnips

[Horney]

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l37/SJHorne01/GhostbustersScotttheDaddyandClaire.jpg

Me, 2nd from the right

[Ping]

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l37/SJHorne01/GhostbustersScotttheDaddyandClaire.jpg

Me, 2nd from the right
Awesome! :lol:

[TT Dee]

My pumpkin carvings

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n31/Trampie_2006/pumpkin4.jpg

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n31/Trampie_2006/pumpkin3.jpg

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n31/Trampie_2006/pumpkin2.jpg

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n31/Trampie_2006/pumpkin1.jpg

[Spiderman]

Wow :shock: Theyre all good but this is my fave...

My pumpkin carvings

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n31/Trampie_2006/pumpkin4.jpg

[silent]

copper uniform...on duty being a special....nothing was happening where we were...how boring!

[Warthog]

copper uniform...on duty being a special....nothing was happening where we were...how boring!

Get your ass to Birmingham then, bloody chavs everywhere throwing stuff at people and generally being obnoxious.

[harrisman]

I am the ripe old age of 21!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

i dont normally do halloween either but i thought u know what stuff it i will!!!!!!! i had a great time doin it and am gonna do more as it is hillarious.

and those pumpkins are fantastic!!!!!!

[Jdubya]

Trampie...should've invited need2ride or myself over...I would have loved to have taken photos of those pumpkins :D