[Misc] HALLOWEEN - It's a stupid American event and we should have nothing to do with it, discuss

[Left Footer]

I hate Halloween too but I`m 47 and when I was a kid barely anyone celebrated it, or maybe they did and I wasn`t invited.
Anyway I`m still a miserable fecker, have never celebrated it and never will.

 

[Eric Youngs Contact Lense]

The commercialisation has taken off, but only because enough consumers justify it.. there is a demand, whether we like it or not.. If you want a local example, Tulleys Farm near Turners Hill!! When my kids were mere nippers, we used to take them there for Halloween fun which consisted of firing pumpkins at wrecked cars (scene of one of funniest spectacles I have ever witnessed!), motorised train ride, winter vegetable market, and in the last year we went a tractor ride, with a few student zombies came running our of the woods.. its a massive, massive "thing" now! [URL="]https://www.shocktoberfest.co.uk/ [/URL]

 

[studio150]

I hate trick or treat, and refuse to answer the door for anyone on the day.

I just see this as teaching children that crime pays, as they are effectively demanding with menaces and the Police should be out on the street arresting all the children and their parents for this illegal activity.

Can we just wrap it up and dispatch it back to America where it needs to stay

 

[SK1NT]

I like it... It's one of the few things i am jealous of the Americans for. Wish we celebrated Halloween like that. What's not to like about a day of dressing up, sweets and fun. Any day that isn't the norm works for me Plus the kiddies love it...

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

At least (most) people get some time off work at Christmas to spend with friends and family. Halloween just involves putting up tatty plastic decorations (whilst the government are trying to ban straws FFS), scaring vulnerable people and eroding he great British Guy Fawkes tradition.

Oh yeah I forgot about that great British Tradition of burn a catholic night, that we have celebrated since early Britannic times..........

 

[papajaff]

Yet another thing that someone doesn't like on NSC so has to raise the subject. Why?

I don't buy in to it because I don't have kids. So I ignore it. If you like it, then go and damn well indulge in it.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Oh yeah I forgot about that great British Tradition of burn a catholic night, that we have celebrated since early Britannic times..........

Offended?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Cannot stand it, personally, but plenty of people love it, so good luck to them.

 

[A1X]

If it wasn't for Halloween we'd have Christmas overload from some point in mid-September

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Offended?

By the ritual practise of making effigies of a catholic freedom fighter and setting them a light in a funeral pyre some four hundred years after the event......

Nah not me, but I do see this as just perpetuating hate, for example as in Northern Ireland this kind of hate will never go away if we still celebrate things like this, and even when I was younger I recall some right wing groups would celebrate over enthusiastically Guy Fawkes night precisely for the this reason.

 

[dazzer6666]

Friends and neighbours knocking on the door with their dressed-up young kids to get some treats is fine, gangs of marauding teenage chavs threatening to egg your door, not so much.

 

[Notters]

Yet another thing that someone doesn't like on NSC so has to raise the subject. Why?

I don't buy in to it because I don't have kids. So I ignore it. If you like it, then go and damn well indulge in it.

Surely it's just as suitable topic for debate as anything else that ever has or ever will be on NSC, and probably more so than most.

 

[Geestar]

This again

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[Tony Towner's Fridge]

In an age where we have an Uber Nanny State where everyone can get counselling for anything from child obesity to hair colour insecurity I find the idea of frightening wee kiddies with ghouls, ghosts, vampires etc a complete double standard. Millions of pounds of Chinese kack in the shops, plastic which will be thrown into landfill....the list is long as to why it should be banned.

Bores the @rse of me.....

TNBA

TTF

 

[BNthree]

It's fione for the little ones to dress up and get some sweets. Though no one over the age of 14/15 should be "excited" by halloween.

 

[Winker]

If you put your clocks forward by 24 hours, then you'll miss it.

 

[lawros left foot]

I have already had trick or treaters knocking at my door.
One was a Zombie Gloria Gaynor,
Well, first I was afraid, I was petrified.







My favourite Hallowe’en joke.

 

[Nottseagull]

It's not American

Reminds me of when I got my fingers burnt on NSC for accusing them of exporting 'The Fall' to us!
Mind you, didn't stop me having a go at Bozza today for using 'math'

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

reminds me of when i got my fingers burnt on nsc for accusing them of exporting 'the fall' to us!
Mind you, didn't stop me having a go at bozza today for using 'math'

awesome!

 

[Nottseagull]

awesome!

Which one?

Millions of pounds of Chinese kack in the shops, plastic which will be thrown into landfill....

If only it all was. One wonders how many plastic spiders have been consumed by the world's sea creatures.