I saw trick or treaters in ireland for the first time

towel401

just a mile away from my house in Culchie Land. They calling to all the little houses in the village. I couldn't ****ing believe it. Who ever decided to bring this cheesy american tradition to Ireland deserves a good hard kick up the hole. I also saw them walking along a backroad at night that has the houses well spaced out and I feel sorry for poor old biddies who live in these houses when a bunch of badly dressed children show up at the door. Like these people have lived in relative peace here in culchie land for most of their life and then this happens.

They won't come to my house though. gate locked and if they decide to come in anyway I have a few chainsaws laying around..

Trick or treaters in rural Ireland - It's more likely than you think!

DarkJager

towel401 wrote: »

just a mile away from my house in Culchie Land. They calling to all the little houses in the village. I couldn't ****ing believe it. Who ever decided to bring this cheesy american tradition to Ireland deserves a good hard kick up the hole. I also saw them walking along a backroad at night that has the houses well spaced out and I feel sorry for poor old biddies who live in these houses when a bunch of badly dressed children show up at the door. Like these people have lived in relative peace here in culchie land for most of their life and then this happens.

They won't come to my house though. gate locked and if they decide to come in anyway I have a few chainsaws laying around..

Trick or treaters in rural Ireland - It's more likely than you think!

Throw them out some spuds..

towel401

DarkJager wrote: »

Throw them out some spuds..

waste of perfectly good spuds

Wibbs

Well my mother(not UR MA) has told me that in the distant past of her youth, people did this. My dad told me the same and he was born in 1920. So american or not it's been around a while. I think it just died out for a time.

Big Knox

towel401 wrote: »

just a mile away from my house in Culchie Land. They calling to all the little houses in the village. I couldn't ****ing believe it. Who ever decided to bring this cheesy american tradition to Ireland deserves a good hard kick up the hole. I also saw them walking along a backroad at night that has the houses well spaced out and I feel sorry for poor old biddies who live in these houses when a bunch of badly dressed children show up at the door. Like these people have lived in relative peace here in culchie land for most of their life and then this happens.

They won't come to my house though. gate locked and if they decide to come in anyway I have a few chainsaws laying around..

Trick or treaters in rural Ireland - It's more likely than you think!

Have you been living under a rock??

towel401

Big Knox wrote: »

Have you been living under a rock??

no read the damn thread i just never saw them here in culchie land before

galwayguy22

Why do you call it culchie land when you live there yourself?

And they've always been trick or treating in the rural parts, so you have been living under a rock.

towel401

galwayguy22 wrote: »

Why do you call it culchie land when you live there yourself?

And they've always been trick or treating in the rural parts, so you have been living under a rock.

because I'm a proud culchie.

damn townies who can't fix anything themselves.. we need another good townie vs culchie thread in this forum

Shacklebolt

towel401 wrote: »

just a mile away from my house in Culchie Land. They calling to all the little houses in the village. I couldn't ****ing believe it. Who ever decided to bring this cheesy american tradition to Ireland deserves a good hard kick up the hole. I also saw them walking along a backroad at night that has the houses well spaced out and I feel sorry for poor old biddies who live in these houses when a bunch of badly dressed children show up at the door. Like these people have lived in relative peace here in culchie land for most of their life and then this happens.

They won't come to my house though. gate locked and if they decide to come in anyway I have a few chainsaws laying around..

Trick or treaters in rural Ireland - It's more likely than you think!

What annoys me is that traditional wren-boying is dying out while this American crap is becoming rampant.

WindSock

Dip the sugary sweets into chilli powder for a titter.

dSTAR

Shacklebolt wrote: »

What annoys me is that traditional wren-boying is dying out while this American crap is becoming rampant.

They come around on St Stephens Day evening don't they?

BaZmO*

dSTAR wrote: »

They come around on St Stephens Day evening don't they?

Culchies are a bit thick, they always get the two days mixed up

Shacklebolt

Yes indeed the wren-boys come round on Stephens Day but not so often these days they cant be bothered after the trick or treat crap a few months beforehand. Wren-Boys are already non-existent east of the Shannon within the next 20 years or so they will probably have disappeared completely.

stovelid

Shacklebolt wrote: »

What annoys me is that traditional wren-boying is dying out while this American crap is becoming rampant.

I know, beats me how young lads these days could prefer bags of sweets to going round barefoot in old dresses with a dead bird on a stick..

themadchef

Halloween in my day meant, we robbed your gates and hid them, parked the donkey cart on your lawn that your neighbour down the road had out to decorate the front garden. Swapped your garden ornaments with the neighbours. Hid your push bikes.

Great craic in the local when someone put a scraw of turf/ bog over the top of the chimney and the place filled with smoke ...ahh the good old days are almost gone. Trick was you had to move your own gates as well, so it wouldint look so suspicious. Dad was never impressed lol. Their still firing spuds on the roof in the Whest, still robbing gates. so it's not completly dead, but getting there!

Stephens day still gets the wren boys out..but it's PC now. Wren girls too!

dSTAR

There is a crew of Irish pikeys flogging dodgy gear in Melbourne at the moment.

I wonder if they will come around on St Stephens night

Amazotheamazing

I dunno, my dad was born in the 1920's and he used to remember it happening when he was a kid. Halloween was always an Irish feastday.

Shacklebolt

stovelid wrote: »

I know, beats me how young lads these days could prefer bags of sweets to going round barefoot in old dresses with a dead bird on a stick..

Its clear you have never seen anybody wren-boying.. It hasnt been done like that for about 50 years.

ChewChew

towel401 wrote: »

just a mile away from my house in Culchie Land. They calling to all the little houses in the village. I couldn't ****ing believe it. Who ever decided to bring this cheesy american tradition to Ireland deserves a good hard kick up the hole. I also saw them walking along a backroad at night that has the houses well spaced out and I feel sorry for poor old biddies who live in these houses when a bunch of badly dressed children show up at the door. Like these people have lived in relative peace here in culchie land for most of their life and then this happens.

They won't come to my house though. gate locked and if they decide to come in anyway I have a few chainsaws laying around..

Trick or treaters in rural Ireland - It's more likely than you think!

Ah you're having a laugh you are!! Halloween is for kids to get dressed up and get free treat and go home to stuff their faces till they feel sick!!!

There's not enough playgrounds for kids, or enough activities (that cost nothing) and they get something ONCE A FRIKKIN YEAR and theres the typical moany shoites who are too tight to open their gate, open their door and give the kids a treat.

bloody world is gone too PC dude. . . you dont happen to work for the BBC now or anything do ya? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

dSTAR

When I was a kid I used to get nuts and fruit. Now kids are given lollies.

These same kids sugar rushing and bouncing off the walls will be graduating to the harder stuff when they grow up. Mark my words