Originally posted by gingerjedi
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A Yank once asked me if we celebrate independence day in the UK. 
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Don't we celebrate that the same week as thanksgiving?
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The one day of the year when the little darlings who otherwise are never let out of doors are trained in how to beg from strangers and how to demand money with menaces.
As far as I am concerned it is illegal, and the parents should be arrested and fined for condoning it.
End of.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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Did you eat him? That would have been the treat bit.Originally posted by zeitghostComment
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Must be rough around your way, we get 4 year olds (with parents) who are happy with a sweet or biscuit.Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
I wouldn't give cash though, word travels fast when money is involved.Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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It's not that its rough, and it is not just where we live. It is having your doorbell go time after time after f**king time all f**king evening to find a bunch of strangers on the doorstep begging.Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
Just what sort of message are their children being given?
It is not fun. It is intrusive, rude, antisocial, tulipe behaviour.
And the occasion I came home from the library to find shaving foam had been sprayed through the letter box pissed me off.
And the occasion we came home to find eggs smashed on the front window pissed me off and upset my wife.
And the time I answered the door to a gang of middle-class kids who were armed with eggs saying "trick or treat" (my very first encounter with the appalling behaviour and I had no idea what it was) left me furious and very concerned for some of my solitary neighbours.
It is a stupid f**king marketing concept that should never have been allowed to start, and those that encourage it by disturbing me at me home to scrounge free stuff from me for their offspring can f**k right off.
This year I shall be showing them my signing on book and ask them for hand-outs and let's see how that goes, shall we?
"Tenner for the gas meter, Missus? Go on, love. Those kids' outfits must have cost a small fortune to hire, so you know you can afford it."My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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Thankfully it's not that bad round our way (fingers crossed).Comment
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I live too far away from the nearest village to get bothered, then there's the 8' high gates.Comment
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I like to invite the little folk in, for the purposes of interrogation. It's important to establish whether they are mischievous kids or real agents of the devil
I find that if you beat them with a bicycle pump , the innocent will come out in bruises, and satans spawn on earth will cast spells to make themselves appear to come out in bruises. Thats a win/win
its good exercise as well
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According to *cough* wikipedia, guising was started in Britain and Ireland. It's only the phrase "trick or treat" that came back from the States.
Me and the kids enjoy it. Mind you, we'll be in rural Ireland where everybody knows everybody else and it's still quite traditional so the kids are on their best(ish) behaviour and the adults can party.Comment
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Is it ok to give small change instead of sweets? If I had any I'd eat them - sweets, not children
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