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Don't think thanksgiving is about getting rid of the Brits.
Don't think thanksgiving is about getting rid of the Brits.
I always thought it was them (the Pilgrims) thanking God for the first Harvest, sort of yank harvest festival.
As for Halloween i can't remember ever celebrating it, Guy Fawlks night yes, penny for the Guy?
cookelad
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Isn't that what Independence Day is for, that and aliens?
Doon frae Troon
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On Radio Scotland at lunchtime they were discussing this on the radio equivalent of Question Time.
It was from Stornaway in the Western Isles
An audience member with a broad Southern American accent said, 'Why on earth do you Scots follow what America does.
What they do, is the reason I moved to Scotland.
It was from Stornaway in the Western Isles
An audience member with a broad Southern American accent said, 'Why on earth do you Scots follow what America does.
What they do, is the reason I moved to Scotland.
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It's only kids dressing up and asking for a treat ?! How can anyone have any issue with kids enjoying themselves !
My little nephew loved dressing up as Dracula
And just enjoyed himself
My little nephew loved dressing up as Dracula
And just enjoyed himself
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nothing wrong with dressing up, it's the trick or treating that's the issue, it's no better than begging. I wouldn't let my kid's go......it's all a bit 'estate'
We never went when I was a lad, but that was in the 80s,
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nothing wrong with dressing up, it's the trick or treating that's the issue, it's no better than begging. I wouldn't let my kid's go......it's all a bit 'estate'
We never went when I was a lad, but that was in the 80s,
We went out in the 80's trick or treating
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wasn't it called something else in Liverpool?
Lived on a RAF base in 80's mate
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shewy
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We used to carve neeps not pumpkins!
It was defo about in the 80 ' s followed by bonfire night where you went guysing penny for the guy or sweet, sort of merged these days.
Anyhow Halloween is a pagan tradition and they were about before America was colonised, they just commercialised it.
It was defo about in the 80 ' s followed by bonfire night where you went guysing penny for the guy or sweet, sort of merged these days.
Anyhow Halloween is a pagan tradition and they were about before America was colonised, they just commercialised it.
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Nobody had even heard of "trick or treat" in this country until the late '70s and it is to be regretted that it did not remain that way.
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Why is it regretted ? What harm is being caused by kids knocking on doors in fancy dress ?!
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Because it represents a thin end of the wedge that is the wish of some in our society to mindlessly copy the lead of or American "cousins" and it is not just kids dressing up but kids going from house to house begging.
May be relatively harmless but it remains undesirable.
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It's harmless - we stock up on sweets and the kids that have put effort into dressing up - it's great seeing them all about having harmless fun and enjoying themselves.
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Regretted???..Because it is an American tradition we do not need that puts pressure on families to live up to kids expectations..A good ghostly story, in front of fire spending quality family time would suffice..
Kids knocking on doors...Maybe,just maybe people want to just have a peaceful night , and not have to keep getting up every 10 minutes to hand out Haribos for being asked 'TRICK or TREAT...Or get your wing mirrors ripped off if you are near Liverpool...
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Fine!
I will tell them all to come knocking on your door as you are so fond of it.
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Regretted???..Because it is an American tradition we do not need that puts pressure on families to live up to kids expectations..A good ghostly story, in front of fire spending quality family time would suffice..
Kids knocking on doors...Maybe,just maybe people want to just have a peaceful night , and not have to keep getting up every 10 minutes to hand out Haribos for being asked 'TRICK or TREAT...Or get your wing mirrors ripped off if you are near Liverpool...
Our little community all get involved
But the kids know to avoid the miserable old guy in one house who called the police on 6 years playing football outside and also complained about xmas lights - the grinch he is called
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It's bad ......for my waistline. We got loads in this year, no one came around
. I was chewing on haribo for weeks.Similar threads
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