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| Thread ID: 63049 | 2005-10-27 18:43:00 | Halloween - yes or no? | Peterj116 (6762) | PC World Chat |
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| 399808 | 2005-10-27 20:27:00 | I shall smite any child who comes knocking. Keep in mind what is supposed to be said when they knock on your door: "Trick or Treat!!" ... which means if you don't give them a treat i.e. lollies, then they may well give you / your house - property a trick (knocking over pot plants, toilet papering, etc.). |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 399809 | 2005-10-27 20:30:00 | You must have had a sheltered life Terry, you don't even know the customs in your own country. www.jackolanterns.net I understand Halloween has its origins in the UK, but the Americans have taken it over and commercialised it as they do with everything. As someone commemnted, we'll be "celebrating" Thanksgiving next! It's about time we started thinking about our own culture before it disappears under an avalanche of Americana - it's happening. I put up a sign each year that says, "Trick or Treat Free Zone" and I have no callers. I do not think it is harmless - it is teaching our kids how to obtain something for nothing - by menacing - and it is encouraging foreign culture which we have enough of. Why can't we celebrate something NZ for a change. How many people have heard of, for example, Dominion Day? Do you know what and when it is? There is more reason for celebrating the day that NZ became independent from England, but do you know anything about it? Doubtful. Roscoe. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 399810 | 2005-10-27 20:44:00 | I understand that Halloween originally started in Germany but the yanks have of course done their best to commercialise it. They came to my door one year and I frightened the life out them (so much so that one fell over) by opening the door just as they were about to knock and yelling "boo". They didn't get anything from me but went away highly amused. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 399811 | 2005-10-27 21:09:00 | I don't believe in it as said in above posts. It was started in NZ by THE BIG RED SHED. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 399812 | 2005-10-27 21:10:00 | You must have had a sheltered life Terry, you don't even know the customs in your own country. www.jackolanterns.net Well I knew about those ancient customs, but none of that described on that website took place in my area, anyway that is an Aussie site, and what would they know? Roscoe is right. Halloween goes way back, but by the time I came along the Brits generally had long since grown out of those habits, except for the backward "oop north" and especially in darkest Derbyshire where Cicero comes from, Lancashire, and other outlandish places where it is difficult to understand what is being said. :) As with many things we call "Americanisms" they originated from England and Europe and were taken across the Pilgrim Fathers and later settlers. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 399813 | 2005-10-27 21:34:00 | Who cares where it come from, just a bit of fun, same as Guyfawkes day, Christmas, Easter, who realy gives a schite how they come about. Halloween = Lollies Christmas = Presents Easter = Chocolate eggs Guy fawks = Fire works If there are any more fun days celibrated around the world I say we pick these up too. Lifes too short. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 399814 | 2005-10-28 00:36:00 | Who cares where it come from, just a bit of fun, same as Guyfawkes day, Christmas, Easter, who realy gives a schite how they come about. Halloween = Lollies Christmas = Presents Easter = Chocolate eggs Guy fawks = Fire works If there are any more fun days celibrated around the world I say we pick these up too. Lifes too short. Hmmm. But what if at Xmas you had a horde of kids turning up expecting you to give them presents? I don't much like Halloween cause its seems to consist solely of kids asking strangers for lollies. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 399815 | 2005-10-28 00:51:00 | Think back to when you were a kid what were the most important things; lollies, presents, chocolate eggs and fire works were very high on my list. I still rate most of those pretty high, infact presents would be #1, thats what Christmas is all about, getting presents. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 399816 | 2005-10-28 01:46:00 | The gates to the Metla hacienda will be closed and locked, and perhaps the hellhounds set loose. Yeah thats a good idea Met. I'm gonna scare 'em off with my dog, Schnappi. |
Mr Wetzyl (362) | ||
| 399817 | 2005-10-28 04:06:00 | Hmm Guy Fawkes and Halloween... Nothing wrong with a double happy being dropped into their treat bag... lit of course! :thumbs: |
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