Random Irritations

[Bunkermagnet]

Back in the day, Halloween didn't register but penny for the guy was a big thing. Now it has reversed. Penny for the guy is not really a great deal different to trick or treat when you think about it, you are still knocking on a door and asking for something . The good thing, on the whole, about ToT is that the pumpkin / decorations rule tends to be fairly well observed where I live.

We don’t do halloween, and anyone who knocks on the front door is left hanging once we see who it is.
Penny for the guy was something they did on the street, asking passers by (effectively begging).
What I don’t get though, is all the plastic and waste generated by halloween that is just pollution and unenvirolymental waste.

 

[Deleted member 29109]

What I don’t get though, is all the plastic and waste generated by halloween that is just pollution and environmental waste.

You could say the same for just about anything.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

You could say the same for just about anything.

Halloween does seem to be exceptionally plastic though, all imported from China so plenty of sea miles as well. Your point is right but I suspect Halloween tops the charts.

 

[Beezerk]

Dejphon Chansiri

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Customers. I've been talking to a customer for a few weeks about a large order. I told them it would have a 4 week lead time as it needs extra raw materials bringing in. This is to produce. It then takes a week to ship to the customer, in Belgium, customs depending. Email just come in, 'we need it by the end of next week'. Customers believe they can stamp their feet and products will magically appear .

 

[TimShady]

Posting things in the wrong thread like I did here.

 

[TimShady]

No decoration, no trick or treat rule has been ignored already. If I did stick my fingers up at any children they shouldn’t have been trespassing in my back garden.

 

[srixon 1]

All the clocks in the house were easy to change except this one…View attachment 50217

In Spring putting an hour on is easy, taking it off is a pain.

Turn it off for 1 hour

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Celulitis on my scalp.
More painful that having a vasectomy.

 

[PJ87]

I'm a firm believer if your old enough to go trick or treating alone your too old to be going out for it.

Left bowl sweets outside with the pumpkins whilst we bathed the kids

After bathtime I sorted through the kids stuff and anything strawberry (their allergic) I took out to put with the rest.

Half eaten sweets back in bowl. Lovely

Just taken it all in and half the bowl was across the drive

Told the Mrs next year don't bother putting stuff out for the older kids

 

[backwoodsman]

I don't remember doing Halloween as a child.
I do remember it becoming known as "mischief night" in the 80s.
It seems to go in phases. We've been in the same house for over 20 years. It started out with little kids and a responsible adult. 10 years ago there was a phase for a couple of years when it was teenage yoofs out for aggro with eggs, flour and fireworks. More recently it's more civilised - decorations out means please knock; no decorations means don't bother. We take option 2 and hope for heavy rain.

I think I'm from the same area. Halloween was nothing. Mischievous Night was always 4th November - when kids were 'allowed' to go round and undertake minor tasks of moderate inconvenience. (Nicking garden gates and such like)

 

[rudebhoy]

More amusing than irritating, American tourists.

Was in Rome at the weekend, did a guided tour of the Colosseum. We get to the meeting point 15 minutes before the tour starts. A small group of Americans are already there. We all stand about until the guide turns up. The guide asks if there are any questions before we start. Loud American woman asks if there is a rest room break on the tour. The guide says no, it's only a 45 minute tour. Woman makes a disgusted face. Guide points out there is a toilet 5 yards from where we are standing. Woman makes an even more disgusted face.

The tour begins, and the guide is telling us about the emporers who built the Colosseum. Same American then says "do you still have an Emporer?".

Guide patiently replies "No, the last Emporer was 1500 years ago. "So what ya got?" says the woman."We have a President and a Prime Minister." Woman says "Right, so The President is the King, yeah?"

 

[Voyager EMH]

I think I'm from the same area. Halloween was nothing. Mischievous Night was always 4th November - when kids were 'allowed' to go round and undertake minor tasks of moderate inconvenience. (Nicking garden gates and such like)

As a kid in Wakefield in the 1960s, Mischief Night was 4th of November and there was no such thing as Trick Or Treat on 31st October.
I ignore anyone doing Trick Or Treat, because I'm not American.
I don't do fireworks on 4th July and I won't be doing anything special on November 23rd for the same reason.
St David's Day and St Andrew's Day are a little bit of a thing for me.
I join in with most English people by ignoring St George's Day, because I like to fit in with them. Strange one that - but there you go.
Anyone celebrating 14th November this year?

 

[RichA]

Anyone celebrating 14th November this year?

Harold Larwood's birthday?
Or are you talking about National Pickle Day.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Harold Larwood's birthday?
Or are you talking about National Pickle Day.

Yes, but think of someone 44 years younger.

 

[Orikoru]

I don't think I ever went trick or treating once as a kid. At least, I don't remember doing it. Not sure why, don't think I was bothered. Perhaps my parents weren't keen on me begging for sweets, I don't know. They would always buy a bag of sweets for anyone that came knocking though - that 'no decorations, don't knock' rule wasn't a thing back then. We'd still wake up on the odd year and found someone had smashed an egg on my dad's car or something.

Nowadays I live on a cul-de-sac so it's 50-50 whether anyone knocks or not. One year we bought a bag of sweets and nobody came so we ended up eating them ourselves.

Turns out I was wrong about this. My wife put a pumpkin out and bought sweets and we had at least ten groups of kids come knocking - ran out of sweets before the end. My only irritation was that a couple of the groups had what looked to be 14 or 15 year olds in them! Surely that's too old for trick or treating??

 

[GB72]

Turns out I was wrong about this. My wife put a pumpkin out and bought sweets and we had at least ten groups of kids come knocking - ran out of sweets before the end. My only irritation was that a couple of the groups had what looked to be 14 or 15 year olds in them! Surely that's too old for trick or treating??

Not sure if it was on here or somewhere else I saw the post but someone mentioned that if you are old enough to go trick or treating on your own you are too old for trick or treating and I sort of agree with that.

 

[Orikoru]

Not sure if it was on here or somewhere else I saw the post but someone mentioned that if you are old enough to go trick or treating on your own you are too old for trick or treating and I sort of agree with that.

I'd just got home from work, my wife had already answered the door to a few groups and the doorbell went again. I said "what do I do just let them help themselves?" She said "yeah, just tell them you like their outfits and let them take the sweets". Then I answer the door to two 15-year-old girls - absolutely no chance I'm telling them that they look good in their outfits, I'll be put on a list! Here's the sweets, now sod off.

 

[Dando]

I'd just got home from work, my wife had already answered the door to a few groups and the doorbell went again. I said "what do I do just let them help themselves?" She said "yeah, just tell them you like their outfits and let them take the sweets". Then I answer the door to two 15-year-old girls - absolutely no chance I'm telling them that they look good in their outfits, I'll be put on a list! Here's the sweets, now sod off.

while walking the dog last night we saw 2 15/16 year olds out trick or treating wearing tracksuits and Ugg boots - i guess they dressed up as council estate mums

 

[PJ87]

Not sure if it was on here or somewhere else I saw the post but someone mentioned that if you are old enough to go trick or treating on your own you are too old for trick or treating and I sort of agree with that.

That was me, I'm a firm believer of it.

I saw groups of youths out with over the top scary costumes , jumping over fences to get to kind people just wanting to hand out a few sweets

Just go to a party or something

Those clowns that came up to our group to offer sweets was just beyond creepy