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

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

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

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

It's not Halloween until tomorrow dude!

[northwind]

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

Its ok Northy, i thought you were old

[northwind]

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

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!

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!!

Originally Posted by 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!!

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.

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 :P Guising is clearly a forerunner of trick or treating whereby children would earn a treat by performing some small entertainment.

[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!