Halloween and you

NickSCFC · PostHalloween and you by **NickSCFC** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:52 pm

Successor to the "what happened to Penny for the Guy" thread viewtopic.php?f=7&t=38955&hilit=penny+for+the+guy

This is something that's been growing exponentially over the past couple of decades. My only memories as a kid we trick or treating once with parent's friends kids (dressed as a devil) and the odd Simpsons Halloween Special.

This seems to have exploded into something huge since I was a kid, there's a week to go and my local Tesco has a whole isle dedicated to the event, we no have huge events like Alton Towers' "Scarefest" attracting millions, nightclub Halloween nights with everyone in fancy dress and every kid in the neighbourhood seemingly trick or treating now (we had at least 10 groups at the door last year).

How about you? Is it something you've bothered with? Have you noticed the increased emphasis on it over the last few years?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/fatherh ... halloween/

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/10/onc ... f-october/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11647319

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Preezy** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:54 pm

I will most likely watch a scary film with the wife, and give out sweets to the few kids that actually make the effort to go trick or treating (usually very young with their parents hovering the background).

Went to a fancy dress party last year but no plans for anything like that again, it was a bit rubbish (but then I've never been fond of house parties).

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Drumstick** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:55 pm

I'm open to all of the poll options except trick or treating of which I have no interest in participating.

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Photek** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:57 pm

In a former life, fancy dress was awesome...lots of half dressed ladies about.

This Halloween I'll be playing some of those horror games that popped up on Gamepass. Missus is gonna bring daughter around trick or treating.

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Moggy** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:58 pm

As a kid I would go trick or treating. As a young adult I would go out on the piss. As an older adult I don’t really do anything any more. I expect in a few years when my son is older I will take him out trick or treating.

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Photek** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:00 pm

I thought you dudes only celebrated Guy Fawkes Day, burning effigies and that no?

Penny for the guy and all that malarky. AFAIK Halloween started over here.

NickSCFC · PostRe: Halloween and you? by **NickSCFC** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:02 pm

Does anyone else decorate their homes?

We've got a plush Jack Skellington and a ceramic pumpkin candle holder (within safe proximity from eachother) on the fireplace.

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Preezy** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:03 pm

I'm quite good at carving pumpkins, so I'll be doing a few of them to stick outside the front of the house. Don't decorate inside though, my kids are too young really.

NickSCFC · PostRe: Halloween and you? by **NickSCFC** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:05 pm

Photek wrote:I thought you dudes only celebrated Guy Fawkes Day, burning effigies and that no?

Penny for the guy and all that malarky. AFAIK Halloween started over here.

It's not really much of a done thing these days.

There's usually an organised fireworks display in towns (as with New Years Eve), but the days of Penny for the Guy and shoving fireworks through the letterboxes of the elderly have been consigned to the past it seems.

No great loss.

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Photek** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:05 pm

Being married to an American we've had decorations up for the past week, we'll be carving pumpkins this weekend. I don't enjoy it at all tbh. I don't know what Halloween is like in the UK but over here it's tons of illegal fireworks going off non stop till the early hours. Thankfully, our little alcove of houses is small enough so it shouldn't be too bad, no bonfires near us either.

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Moggy** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:05 pm

Photek wrote:I thought you dudes only celebrated Guy Fawkes Day, burning effigies and that no?

Penny for the guy and all that malarky. AFAIK Halloween started over here.

Halloween is of Celtic origin (Samhain), it would have started in ancient Briton and Ireland.

Trick or treating was originally a Scottish tradition, the Americans then tweaked it into what we know today.

We celebrate Guy Fawkes day and Halloween. We are capable of more than one celebration in a week.

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Tomous** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:08 pm

Photek wrote:Being married to an American we've had decorations up for the past week, we'll be carving pumpkins this weekend. I don't enjoy it at all tbh. I don't know what Halloween is like in the UK but over here it's tons of illegal fireworks going off non stop till the early hours. Thankfully, our little alcove of houses is small enough so it shouldn't be too bad, no bonfires near us either.

Supermarkets have to stop selling eggs to under 16 year olds in the week before, to help reduce the number of people's houses getting egged.

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Photek** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:10 pm

Guy Fawkes day is also My birthday and also the date Marty went back to 1955 in Back to the Future. :datass:

Remember Remember, the 5th of November. :capnscotty:

I'll be 42. :cry:

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Preezy** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:11 pm

Photek wrote:I'll be 42.

There's still time for you to atone, Photek. Step out of the Xbox darkness and join us in the PS4 light

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Moggy** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:12 pm

Photek wrote:I'll be 42.

Finally! Your age will now match your IQ!

Gemini73 · PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Gemini73** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:12 pm

I love Halloween and even though the wife and I are going through a difficult time Halloween will continue as it always has for us as a family.

This weekend we're going to Warrick Castle in the day then on to Kenilworth Castle for the ghostly tour, staying overnight to come home Sunday.

Halloween Night we'll decorate both the inside and out of our house, right down to polystyrene tomb stones, creepy skeletons and the like in the front garden. That evening the kids will go out with their mum and friends trick or treating while I remain home so as I can hand out the mini Halloween 'treat bags' my wife always conjures up for the local kids. I'll play a horror video game in between answering the door to hand out said treat bags.

I usually stay up to continue to play my game, or if the wife isn't knackered we'll watch a horror film together.

I used to live in the States so Halloween has always been a big thing for me, but I've only really seen an explosion of it here in the UK since my late 20s.

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Vermilion** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:19 pm

I shall carve a pumpkin as per usual, but that is as far as i go when it comes to halloween.

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Photek** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:20 pm

I can't get my wife to watch any Horror movies, I've only seen the IT remake (which is excellent btw) in recent times and I watched it alone. Going to try and talk her into watching it Halloween night.

I'll more than likely have a few cans on the night itself, treats will be sorted because apart from the surplus of crap I didn't hand out at the door, my daughter hasn't got a sweet tooth at all and doesn't really eat sweets so she'll donate them to her dad. :wub:

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Robbo-92** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:21 pm

I was never into Halloween as a kid (mainly due to parents not being into it at all), now though I don't mind it but I really don't get the huge increase in spending on it.

I do make sure to have some sweets in though for kids who do come around trick or treating. I do buy pumpkins though as they make a lovely soup, still yet to try making a pumpkin pie though (looking it up it's pretty easy though).

Mainly I just load up Animal Crossing as the music is fabulous

PostRe: Halloween and you? by **Bunni** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:33 pm

Got pals coming over to carve pumpkins. Gunna stick on a Halloween film for background noise and have a couple drinks. Its just bribery for one lass so we can do all the Christmas gooseberry fool I wanna do.

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