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MrBump

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Halloween - making off like bandits
« on: October 31, 2009, 09:50:50 PM »
So, it was a busy night "trick or treating" with this kids this evening.

Pretty good haul, all in all.  There were about 37 sweets in the bag by the time we hit the grandparents, lord knows how much after we left...

And Mrs Bump and I have just been pigging out on the leftovers...

Glad Halloween only comes once a year though!
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2009, 10:02:37 PM »
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I was working tonight.
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2009, 12:34:07 AM »
Yeah I was gigging so missed it all.
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2009, 03:26:33 AM »
what?

Halloween is celebrated in the UK?

Damn...learn something new everyday :)
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2009, 06:18:45 AM »
Quote from: CaptainDesslock on November 01, 2009, 03:26:33 AM
what?

Halloween is celebrated in the UK?

Damn...learn something new everyday :)

Samhain and Nos Calan Gaeaf are from the British Isles.
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2009, 10:00:35 AM »
Quote from: CaptainDesslock on November 01, 2009, 03:26:33 AM
what?

Halloween is celebrated in the UK?

Damn...learn something new everyday :)

We all know Halloween, but it's never really been a big deal in the UK.   We were lucky to even get a scary movie on TV.

But the last few years, it's really taken off.  This year, it seemed, more than ever before.  Last night London was packed with people in "scary" costumes, and the pubs had pumpkins and fake cobwebs all over the place.  I guess someone finally recognised it as a marketing opportunity.

Personally, I've just got home from a horror movie all-nighter.
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2009, 12:32:47 PM »
I personally think the police should impose a curfew on 31 October on people under the age of 17 - our street was full of Peckham kids coming to do as much damage as they could.  Lucky for us I chose the day to do some new tiling outside so I could legitimately block off our front door path to stop toe rag urchins coming to do some tolerated vagrancy on my doorstep.

Apparently more money is now spent in the UK on Halloween than Valentine's day yet Guy Fawkes Night celebrations have diminished massively since the 1980s. 
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2009, 06:18:20 PM »
^ a growing appreciation that guy fawkes was the only person ever to go into parliament with good intentions, perhaps? :lol:

we've had hallowe'en here as long as i can remember, and as long as my mum can remember too. it's a complete myth that it's not celebrated in the UK, or at least ireland and northern ireland. we invented it. :D

of course, when someone pointed this out in a letter to the guardian's money section yesterday, it didn't win the letter of the week prize, but some old curmudgeon complaining about it did. :roll:
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2009, 08:57:57 PM »
We only had 2 groups come to the door last night, so either there weren't many kids out last night in my area, or the neighbourhood children know i despise them and are perceiving me as a kind of boogey man...

Loads of dressed up people in the pubs however!
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2009, 09:12:09 PM »
Trick or Treat kind of sucks, but there are some pretty cool parties in London for Halloween. Was playing abroad so didn't get to go to any, but it doesn't matter since the party I played at was really fine.
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2009, 10:23:49 PM »
some of the kids round here don't even dress up, they just go round houses in their hoodies, I think it's a case of "give us sweets or we'll nick your tele!!!!"

I was in Liverpool for a party on Friday night, damn fire alarm went off at 7am!!! and kept ringing until 11am, then another party last night that ended in disaster, had a nice drunken 90 minute walk home in the pouring rain...
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2009, 01:54:53 AM »
maybe a bit late now, but anyway, this was me on Saturday night :)

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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2009, 01:22:34 PM »
Quote from: Elliot on November 01, 2009, 12:32:47 PM

Apparently more money is now spent in the UK on Halloween than Valentine's day yet Guy Fawkes Night celebrations have diminished massively since the 1980s. 

I used to live a couple of minutes walk away from Hay Fawkes old house wher ethe ginpowder plot was devised.  It's in a place called Dunchurch in Warwickshire.  Very nice house and apparently linked to the pub across the road by the cellar (may be worth me living there).

Glad I live at the very edge of the village, only had one set of trick or treaters and they live at the other end of our cottages.  Got to eat the rest of the snack size milky ways myself  :D

Looking forward to bonfire night, got a load of branches need burning
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Re: Halloween - making off like bandits
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2009, 02:25:55 PM »
Quote from: blue on November 04, 2009, 01:54:53 AM
maybe a bit late now, but anyway, this was me on Saturday night :)



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