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| Trick or treat?; Halloween again! | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 28 2017, 10:58 AM (1,026 Views) | |
| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 10:58 AM Post #1 |
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As I look out of the window I can see dozens of little kids dressed as witches etc...the only difference here is that these children go round the shops with their parents to fill their ''buckets'' up...Anyone else heard of this? |
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| Curious Cdn | Oct 28 2017, 12:11 PM Post #2 |
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That's been going on for decades, here. http://oakvilledowntown.com/event/tiny-tots-on-parade-2/ It's an inexpensive and simple way for the local Business Improvement Association to promote "shopping in town". They are trying to engage young parents at a time when they are moving to buying practically everything "on'line". Physical shopping is dying out, here. the malls are emptying out, old department store chains are falling like bowling pins and merchants in smaller town cores are really struggling in a lot of places. |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 12:22 PM Post #3 |
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However it must be better than knocking on strangers door and accepting the ''sweets'' given..there are some strange people about.. |
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| Curious Cdn | Oct 28 2017, 01:06 PM Post #4 |
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There is that, too. Helicopter parenting has led to the demise of "trick or treat" door-to-door begging. When I was a kid, there would be say 120 kids come to the door. Now, it's more like 30. The treats are better now, although it is mandatory that they have industrial seals on them. No more giving out candy apples. |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 01:43 PM Post #5 |
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I wouldn't have dared knock a strangers door and ask them for treats..It was called begging where I came from? |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 01:56 PM Post #6 |
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Asking people for money..stuff..sweets is begging..my fine feathered friend.. |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 02:15 PM Post #7 |
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Innocent fun...Ok..when your kids were little would you have allowed them to knock on strangers doors and accept the sweets that these people gave them?? And would you have allowed someone coming up to your children to give them sweets..when it wasn't Halloween? |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 02:16 PM Post #8 |
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It's feckin begging..get over it!! |
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| Steve K | Oct 28 2017, 02:23 PM Post #9 |
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3 posts trashedNext ad hom gets a warning and lets just say some people need to be very careful of getting another warning |
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| Tigger | Oct 28 2017, 02:24 PM Post #10 |
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Hubby gambles your income away and you find he's been shagging someone down the road, the pea factory closes and you lose your job, you can't pay your rent or mortgage, and your near relatives don't really like you. With minor adjustments this sort of thing is going on all over the country. You are closer to begging on the streets than you think.
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 02:26 PM Post #11 |
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so you would take your kids out begging..no idea where these ''sweets'' came from and absolutely no idea where they have been..lot of sicko's out there..however it doesn't matter as long as your kids are enjoying themselves?? |
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| Tigger | Oct 28 2017, 02:30 PM Post #12 |
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I used to go trick or treating with the kids when they were younger, they loved it and a lot of the peoples doors we knocked on seemed to enjoy it as well. If only we'd stuck burning rags through letter boxes or trashed some gardens.
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 02:31 PM Post #13 |
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Really? I think you are more closer to begging than I am.. Edited by marybrown, Oct 28 2017, 02:38 PM.
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| Steve K | Oct 28 2017, 02:44 PM Post #14 |
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Trick or Treat was a bit of a fad here in the eighties in a let's copy the Yanks sort of way (is that ever good?). Best thing it had going for it was it led to the end of the 'Penny for the Guy' lark which was often a cover for kids practising extortion on other kids |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 02:45 PM Post #15 |
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Why didn't you just buy them some sweets..did you really have to go around bothering OAP's? It doesn't come from England it comes from America?? |
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| Tigger | Oct 28 2017, 02:52 PM Post #16 |
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Trick or treating has it's origins in England, according to Wikipedia (and it gives references) in can be traced back to the 16th century. The Americans copied it from us, not the other way around. And are all neighbours OAP's? Certainly not where I live that's for sure! |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 02:57 PM Post #17 |
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It was begging.. |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 03:00 PM Post #18 |
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I remember coming back from work at 10 pm..and the whole of my front house had eggs thrown on it.. |
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| Tigger | Oct 28 2017, 03:04 PM Post #19 |
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But that was nothing to do with trick or treat was it?
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| Steve K | Oct 28 2017, 03:06 PM Post #20 |
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I have an alibi |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 03:10 PM Post #21 |
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Well not where I lived..that's for sure..I wouldn't have dared going around..knocking doors and asking them for sweets? Wasn't heard of.... |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 03:12 PM Post #22 |
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I didn't realise you were a Yorkshire yobbo? |
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| Tigger | Oct 28 2017, 03:13 PM Post #23 |
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I've always lived in England, yourself?
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| Steve K | Oct 28 2017, 03:16 PM Post #24 |
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Neither did I. |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 03:22 PM Post #25 |
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Obviously no one opened the door..so it was trick.. |
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 03:24 PM Post #26 |
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Weel I have lived ''somewhere else'' however never got my head around ''begging?'' in Britain.. Edited by marybrown, Oct 28 2017, 03:25 PM.
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 03:38 PM Post #27 |
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I have seen a lot of true beggars..eyes white from blindness...limbs going black from septicemia... |
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| Tigger | Oct 28 2017, 03:57 PM Post #28 |
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Were any of them at the doctors yesterday?
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| marybrown | Oct 28 2017, 04:07 PM Post #29 |
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Maybe not.. It would have been a long journey..which I am sure they could not have afforded.. |
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| Deleted User | Oct 28 2017, 06:01 PM Post #30 |
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I’ve always kept sweets in the house for Halloween since I had half a dozen teenagers come to my house after abusing my neighbour for telling them to piss off. I didn’t have any sweets so I offered them 5 Mr Kipling cakes and a 10 pence piece. I never had a single egg thrown at the house that night Two of the girls had a slash in my downstairs toilet too so I always wipe the seat with a damp cloth on Halloween too.👍 |
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| Barry | Oct 28 2017, 09:04 PM Post #31 |
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On 31st I'll be putting two very bright lights on at the front of the house, closing the curtains and ignoring anyone that rings the doorbell, whilst observing them. If they do anything criminal it will be recorded. Victor Meldrew's got nothing on me. |
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| Jessamy Bride | Oct 28 2017, 10:29 PM Post #32 |
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I've got a bag of sweets ready for the door on halloween. Is neighbours kids mostly and the parents hover outside ...as I did when my kids we small. No harm is there?.....Is a small bag of haribos..... not racketeering. |
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| Curious Cdn | Oct 28 2017, 11:11 PM Post #33 |
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The Yanks think that utilizing your NHS is begging. |
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| Deleted User | Oct 28 2017, 11:27 PM Post #34 |
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Actually it’s seem the other way round. In the UK you are sometimes left with the feeling that the NHS staff think they are doing you a favour in getting an appointment or test ..especially if it is urgent....instead of facilitating a service that has been previously paid for. As an aside my wife recently had a doctors appointment, a test and some very effective medicine for 120 dollars in Walgreens USA. |
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| Curious Cdn | Oct 29 2017, 12:07 AM Post #35 |
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It's a damned good thing that she didn't have to spend the night in the hospital because you would have been presented with a $40,000 tab the next morning. |
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| Deleted User | Oct 29 2017, 12:48 AM Post #36 |
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Yup and it’s a damned good thing that most Yanks dont witness our poor attempt to mimic their effort for Halloween. ... which as some of us know has nothing to do with the NHS |
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| Curious Cdn | Oct 29 2017, 01:10 AM Post #37 |
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It's an old tradition here, too and we're most definitely NOT Yanks. |
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| Deleted User | Oct 29 2017, 11:39 AM Post #38 |
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Good for you but for most people in the UK Canada is an afterthought. |
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| Curious Cdn | Oct 29 2017, 11:46 AM Post #39 |
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For a lot of people in Canada, the UK is a place that they left willingly. |
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| Deleted User | Oct 29 2017, 11:53 AM Post #40 |
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Probably more that their grandfathers did. After some Great grandfathers took it off the natives. Most definitely not Yanks? |
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