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Originally posted by MarillionFan View Postwho can be wound up.
Next think you've got excrement through the door.
People have the right to opt out of pretending they like unannounced strangers who turn up on their doorstep. You don't need to be co-erced into having fun and giving gifts to people you like, private parties is where Halloween should be, the uninvited are.... Uninvited.
This isn't unfriendly, this is English.Comment
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Originally posted by shoes View PostThat's a community I wouldn't want to be a part of, thanks.
People have the right to opt out of pretending they like unannounced strangers who turn up on their doorstep. You don't need to be co-erced into having fun and giving gifts to people you like, private parties is where Halloween should be, the uninvited are.... Uninvited.
This isn't unfriendly, this is English.Comment
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Been out tonight with a 'crew' of 19 8yr olds. The kids only knocked at houses displaying halloween decorations and people were generous and the kids had a good time and got a good haul of sweets (mind you, with the reciprocal sweet giving it's probably an overall net 'draw').
What's the problem? All this vicious chav mob, egging, dog poo through the letterbox must be a Southern thing.Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."Comment
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As setting up systems for call centres is a speciality of mine, I've worked around loads and listened to some great calls.
One classic was a guy who dialled out to a customer. As he did so, his colleague said something to him he didn't like and with his headphones on started to F and Blind at the guy, he then just lost the plot screaming at him, swearing. On the other end of the phone the call had connected to an answer machine and the whole lot was recorded. He got fired.
At British Gas they had an account and call where a guy phoned up pissed off about his bill and then proceeded to lose the plot, went off and got an axe and then with the phone line open and him shouting from the other side of the room started to take the gas meter off the wall with an axe!!! He landed up rupturing the pipe. In the meantime the police and gas board turned up and arrested him. All on phone. Brilliant.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Originally posted by Alf W View PostBeen out tonight with a 'crew' of 19 8yr olds. The kids only knocked at houses displaying halloween decorations and people were generous and the kids had a good time and got a good haul of sweets (mind you, with the reciprocal sweet giving it's probably an overall net 'draw').Comment
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Once again my tactic of making sure no lights are visible at the front of the house and ignoring the front door has proved entirely unnecessary as nobody knocked. I think Halloween in Britain is a myth.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostOnce again my tactic of making sure no lights are visible at the front of the house and ignoring the front door has proved entirely unnecessary as nobody knocked. I think Halloween in Britain is a myth.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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We had a Zombie walk in town on Saturday, which as a spectator is surprisingly unnerving. Not least because of a concern of being smeared by the blood dye they use. They also gang up and howl together, especially on cars and buses that get trapped amongst them. There were thousands of them.Comment
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