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I plan to do a couple of Halloween bashes tomorrow, but do I generally approve of Halloween?

NO.

Anyone else feel the same way? :rolleyes:

 

no i don't, i for one won't be about, as it often ends up not being for the kids and for teenages to come and spoil it for the every one else

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I plan to do a couple of Halloween bashes tomorrow, but do I generally approve of Halloween?

NO.

Anyone else feel the same way? :D

 

Yes and No. I have no problem with Halloween itself, or more properly Samhain, but I have severe misgivings about the gross commercialisation and worst excesses of it's current form.

 

What's more, it detracts from November the 5th, when we celebrate the persecution and torture of Catholics in this country 400 years ago! :D

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In our village, we used to offer one child from every family to the witch in the spooky cave. We'd then wait for her to come out, and stab her to death with her own broomstick. She always managed to come back to life, which made sure next hallowe'en was just as enjoyable. I took the kids to take part last year, but the tradition seems to have died down of late. I'm told it's because they were finding it hard to puncture the rib cage with her new Dyson.

 

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Yes and No. I have no problem with Halloween itself, or more properly Samhain, but I have severe misgivings about the gross commercialisation and worst excesses of it's current form.

 

What's more, it detracts from November the 5th, when we celebrate the persecution and torture of Catholics in this country 400 years ago! :)

 

I am not sure I am allowed to comment on this without causing more sectarian hatred :D I do love a pagan knees up though :D

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Hallowe'en? Fine by me. It's the "Trick or Treat" bit I deplore :D along with the over-commercialisation of the evening.

 

Paul

 

No problem with Halloween, but it's the kids teenagers trying to extract with petty menaces that gets me. I'm off out tomorrow night to sit in our field and fettle my bonfire for the weekend, definately NO chance of being harassed there! Yes, I probably am a M-O-G, bit do I care??? Not a bit!!!

 

Richard

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Hallowe'en? Fine by me. It's the "Trick or Treat" bit I deplore :(

First time I came across trick or treat was at my sister's place in the US, about 20 years ago. I was babysitting and my sis gave me some goodies to hand out to trick or treaters. I (and kiddy) simply sat in the back room, ignored the front door and ate all the goodies. Easy. :(

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In Scotland it was traditional to go out "guising" on Halloween. Neighbours would have sweets and things to give to the kids but only after a satisfactory, joke, song, dance or poem was performed. Thousands of hours of blood sweat and toil went into my new seasonal avatar.

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