Halloween spirit

Caveman1 · 31-10-2011 07:22PM #1

Where is the spirit of Halloween gone ? When I was a kid we would start collecting wood for the bonfire about 6 weeks before Halloween, we would be up first thing in the morning and stay out all day, nowadays kids just dont bother the lazy ****s. I havnt seen a decent sized bonfire in about 5 years

Are kids just gone soft now or has Halloween just lost the appeal it once had to kids?

WoollyRedHat · 31-10-2011 07:24PM

Dey tuk er bonfires!

Fbjm · 31-10-2011 07:25PM

I'm guessing your area is growing up. If no young families have moved in recently, are you really surprised the whole halloween thing has stopped? You didn't think you were the only one aging, did you?

4leto · 31-10-2011 07:25PM

Caveman1 wrote: »

Where is the spirit of Halloween gone ? When I was a kid we would start collecting wood for the bonfire about 6 weeks before Halloween, we would be up first thing in the morning and stay out all day, nowadays kids just dont bother the lazy ****s. I havnt seen a decent sized bonfire in about 5 years
Are kids just gone soft now or has Halloween just lost the appeal it once had to kids?

The Fire brigade just put them out it is illegal to have an open fire and rightly so. But in saying that I can see one in the distance.

Its a great night out, which is what I will be doing a few hours from now, can't wait so I am excited.

31-10-2011 07:26PM

Kids are all about Health and Safety these days, won't lift a pallet without a manual handling cert.

Back in my day we'd have a truck load of pallets stashed in June for our bonfire.

Yes, I miss a good fire :-(

Spunge · 31-10-2011 07:26PM

It's political correctness gone mad.

mikom · 31-10-2011 07:27PM

Caveman1 wrote: »

Where is the spirit of Halloween gone ? When I was a kid we would start collecting wood for the bonfire about 6 weeks before Halloween, we would be up first thing in the morning and stay out all day, nowadays kids just dont bother the lazy ****s. I havnt seen a decent sized bonfire in about 5 years
Are kids just gone soft now or has Halloween just lost the appeal it once had to kids?

Time to move to the country.

4leto · 31-10-2011 07:28PM

jaybee747 wrote: »

Kids are all about Health and Safety these days, won't lift a pallet without a manual handling cert.

Back in my day we'd have a truck load of pallets stashed in June for our bonfire.

Yes, I miss a good fire :-(

Yeah but the real prestige was how many tyre your bonfire had.

Mickeroo · 31-10-2011 07:28PM

Bonfires at holloween is an English thing, we don't light bonfires round these parts til June ya hear?? :pac:

Dyr · 31-10-2011 07:30PM

It's all bollix, my neighbourhood would be awash with massive bonfires when we were kids, we'd be collecting from summer and the older kids and adults were in on it too. It would be like a scene from apocalypse now

There's no space anymore for bonfires but the kids can't be arsed either

Cassidy28 · 31-10-2011 07:35PM

The number of fires seem to be dwindling each year,there are also less fireworks which might be due to people having less money

cournioni · 31-10-2011 07:38PM

I remember when rotten eggs and urine filled water balloons were all the rage at Halloween. No sign of them these days either...

Saila · 31-10-2011 07:40PM

thats what happens when the health and safety brigade run the show

The King of Moo · 31-10-2011 07:45PM

The Halloween spirit is hiding under your bed, waiting to grab your ankle when you least expect it.

But yeah, we used to have great bonfires as a kid, and in fact I never went trick-or-treating. Why would I when I could spend the night very close to lots of fire!

My favourite was when I threw a can of oil onto a fairly meagre fire (don't try this at home). The fire became so big it could be seen by the local older-hard-lads' bonfire which was on way higher ground.

Cue a couple of them coming along with cans of Scrumpy Jack, making 11/12-year old me slightly uneasy. The embers didn't go out till well into the late afternoon on November 1!

Maybe it actually is all down to health and safety though. This morning I saw some guys in high-vis vests removing the parts of a big pile of wood and old furniture in a park on the Howth Road in Dublin.

laoch na mona · 31-10-2011 07:45PM

i noticed a lack of Halloween tv this year the gardai killed the bonfire thing
that said the lads in the estate up the road from my girlfriends house have a good one built

Caveman1 · 31-10-2011 07:45PM

Ive just come back from my local bonfire, it looks like something we would light on the build up to the real thing, its shocking, nobody even drinking at it :eek:
What is the world coming to:rolleyes:

BluesBerry · 31-10-2011 07:47PM

My housing estate banned the bonfire because it was damaging the front green :mad: and I'd imagine its the case in a lot of estates around the country

it used to be great to get rid of waste fro the shed

Cassidy28 · 31-10-2011 07:47PM

Caveman1 wrote: »

Ive just come back from my local bonfire, it looks like something we would light on the build up to the real thing, its shocking, nobody even drinking at it :eek:
What is the world coming to:rolleyes:

An end

Batsy · 31-10-2011 07:47PM

Caveman1 wrote: »

Where is the spirit of Halloween gone ?

There are lots of spirits about on halloween. And ghouls, too.

pudzey101 · 31-10-2011 07:48PM

Jesus years ago we would be going round knocking at peoples doors asking have they any timber or stuff they;d like to get rid of

and the bonfires would be so big they still be lighting the next morning!:) it might come back into fashion in the next couple of year, never know

im much more happier there are no fires though:)

The King of Moo · 31-10-2011 07:53PM

laoch na mona wrote: »

i noticed a lack of Halloween tv this year the gardai killed the bonfire thing
that said the lads in the estate up the road from my girlfriends house have a good one built

I've noticed this too. It gets worse every year. BBC can be relied upon to show Halloween every year (they did on Saturday) but that's it. UTV had Constantine on Saturday, and Channel 4 are showing the remake of Friday the 13th at some ungodly hour.

Even the movie channels aren't showing any horror films!

I suppose they're more risk-averse than the old days, where you'd get genuinely scary horror films no not-so-late, even when it's not Halloween.

RichT · 31-10-2011 07:56PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

Bonfires at holloween is an English thing, we don't light bonfires round these parts til June ya hear?? :pac:

Nope. Bonfires are lit on the 5th November for Guy Fawkes night. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night

laoch na mona · 31-10-2011 07:56PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

I've noticed this too. It gets worse every year. BBC can be relied upon to show Halloween every year (they did on Saturday) but that's it. UTV had Constantine on Saturday, and Channel 4 are showing the remake of Friday the 13th at some ungodly hour.

Even the movie channels aren't showing any horror films!

I suppose they're more risk-averse than the old days, where you'd get genuinely scary horror films no not-so-late, even when it's not Halloween.

tg4 had a great thing on all day last year about irish ghost stories
its a tragedy this is:mad:

orchidsrpretty · 31-10-2011 08:02PM

AA few years ago i had a load of wood in my garden and brought it to the bonfire in my estate. Some old bag reported my reg to the council and i got a 250 fine for littering:0

Batsy · 31-10-2011 08:04PM

RichT wrote: »

Nope. Bonfires are lit on the 5th November for Guy Fawkes night. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night

It's also common to see bonfires lit on halloween, too. And not just halloween but on several days leading up to Guy Fawkes Night. In fact, for several weeks leading up to Guy Fawkes Night it's also common to hear fireworks going off - even during the day.

But the main event by far is Guy Fawkes Night.

Guy Fawkes Night is great. There's nothing better than attending a local professional bonfire on Guy Fawkes Night (many pubs have them in their car park or adjoining field) and watching a huge fire with a Guy being burnt on top of it (and probably a few hedgehogs who decided to sleep under the bonfire being roasted, too) and eating treacle toffee and black peas in vinegar whilst watching the fireworks display.

And the whole place sounds like WWII. You can't sleep at night because almost continuously you can hear BANG, BANG, whistle, bang, BANG, WHISTLE, bang, bang, , whistle, WHISTLE,bang, KABOOM,bang. It just doesn't stop until well into the night.

And then the next day the air outside smells of gunpowder and burning, the ground is littered with used fireworks and the local newspaper - The Bolton Evening News - loves printing stories about someone who has been maimed after a stray rocket hit them and exploded in their face.

phasers · 31-10-2011 08:05PM

There's like 4 massive bonfires down the road from me, the kids collect stuff on the day now because the gardaí take all the wood if they collect early.

Patser · 31-10-2011 08:12PM

The lack of bonfires is all down to the local councils. They realised that what 15 year old kids really, really want is Daffodils!!!! Damn their research departments:mad: :mad:

http://www.sdcc.ie/bulbsnotbonfires/

Mind you there are 2 decent sized blazes going here in West Clondalkin:cool:

im invisible · 31-10-2011 08:16PM

Batsy wrote: »

It's also common to see bonfires lit on halloween, too. And not just halloween but on several days leading up to Guy Fawkes Night. In fact, for several weeks leading up to Guy Fawkes Night it's also common to hear fireworks going off - even during the day.

But the main event by far is Guy Fawkes Night.

Guy Fawkes Night is great. There's nothing better than attending a local professional bonfire on Guy Fawkes Night (many pubs have them in their car park or adjoining field) and watching a huge fire with a Guy being burnt on top of it (and probably a few hedgehogs who decided to sleep under the bonfire being roasted, too) and eating treacle toffee and black peas in vinegar whilst watching the fireworks display.

And the whole place sounds like WWII. You can't sleep at night because almost continuously you can hear BANG, BANG, whistle, bang, BANG, WHISTLE, bang, bang, , whistle, WHISTLE,bang, KABOOM,bang. It just doesn't stop until well into the night.

And then the next day the air outside smells of gunpowder and burning, the ground is littered with used fireworks and the local newspaper - The Bolton Evening News - loves printing stories about someone who has been maimed after a stray rocket hit them and exploded in their face.

what night is this?

Caveman1 · 31-10-2011 08:19PM

phasers wrote: »

There's like 4 massive bonfires down the road from me, the kids collect stuff on the day now because the gardaí take all the wood if they collect early.

It was the same years ago but you would always get a sound parent that would let you hide your wood out the back garden, gone are the days

Superbus · 31-10-2011 08:19PM

As still technically a child I'm like the Grinch who stoll Hallowe'en. I've always hated it. Never saw the appeal whatsoever.

Maybe there's loads of others like the me of a few years ago who just plain don't like it. That wasn't my perception though, I always felt left out.

hatrickpatrick · 31-10-2011 08:24PM

The fact that it was pissing out of the heavens all day today AND yesterday might have put a bit of a dampner on any bonfire plans...

On the other hand, I can hear a steady barrage of Anti Aircraft fire, so it's not a completely lost cause

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