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Outkast_IRE · 31-10-2012 11:21PM

Had more than ever tonight.

It seems to run in phases, in my estate a few years ago it was quiet cause all the families had grown up.

Now theres a new crop of youngsters and the cycle has begun again.

Its nice to see really

saintsaltynuts · 31-10-2012 11:21PM

Two here and they were twins.

Hande hoche! · 31-10-2012 11:22PM

Probably something to do with either childhood obesity or paedophilia.

girl2 · 31-10-2012 11:22PM

I stood yesterday and made up wee treat bags for them full to the brim of great things for them to stuff their fat faces.

Had about 10 to the door in total (a few came back twice - chancers).

Now, there is a problem. I will end up eating all the great things and stuff my own fat face

Mint Sauce · 31-10-2012 11:22PM

10pm past their bedtime?

recylingbin · 31-10-2012 11:23PM

What tradition?
It only seemed to start up in this country about 9 or 10 years ago.
Before that it was just trick.

Outkast_IRE · 31-10-2012 11:24PM

recylingbin wrote: »

What tradition?
It only seemed to start up in this country about 9 or 10 years ago.
Before that it was just trick.

what are you talking about we were all trick or treating 20 years ago !!!

Lenin Skynard · 31-10-2012 11:24PM

These days it's automatically assumed that every adult is Jimmy Saville in disguise. Besides, somewhere along the way it became customary to give the kids sweets or money instead of fruit which sours the whole thing.

Giving sweets is to kids is for paedos and giving fruit to kids is for non-paedos! Once those lines were blurred there was no hope.

How Strange · 31-10-2012 11:26PM

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

what are you talking about we were all trick or treating 20 years ago !!!

But we didn't call it trick or treating. We only started calling it that when we started aping American culture in late 90's/early 00's.

Outkast_IRE · 31-10-2012 11:29PM

How Strange wrote: »

But we didn't call it trick or treating. We only started calling it that when we started aping American culture in late 90's/early 00's.

Wrong again there, trick or treat was used a long time before the late 90's , out of interest how old are you ? and do you live in a town/city or the middle of nowhere ?

I was saying trick or treat since around 1990 when i started going door to door.

Wiki article backing up my point , it was the early 80s when it started being said here/scotland/uk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating

Max Power · 31-10-2012 11:30PM

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

Did they show The Simpsons halloween special this year?

Yep they did on Sky1 anyway.

recylingbin · 31-10-2012 11:31PM

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

what are you talking about we were all trick or treating 20 years ago !!!

nonsense.

Outkast_IRE · 31-10-2012 11:31PM

recylingbin wrote: »

nonsense.

no proof http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating

Lenin Skynard · 31-10-2012 11:32PM

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Wrong again there, trick or treat was used a long time before the late 90's , out of interest how old are you ? and do you live in a town/city or the middle of nowhere ?

I was saying trick or treat since around 1990 when i started going door to door.

I live in a town in the middle of nowhere (Athlone). We were yelling trick or treat at people's front doors in the mid '80s. I don't think we were the first either. The idea that it's some new thing recently copied from American tv is absurd.

johnr1 · 31-10-2012 11:32PM

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Wrong again there, trick or treat was used a long time before the late 90's , out of interest how old are you ? and do you live in a town/city or the middle of nowhere ?

I was saying trick or treat since around 1990 when i started going door to door.

"and that's liiiikkke, aaaaannncient, ya know"

Outkast_IRE · 31-10-2012 11:36PM

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

I live in a town in the middle of nowhere (Athlone). We were yelling trick or treat at people's front doors in the mid '80s. I don't think we were the first either. The idea that it's some new thing recently copied from American tv is absurd.

thanks for that, some others here were questioning my childhood , the bastards

recylingbin · 31-10-2012 11:36PM

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

no proof http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating

Proof indeed

Despite the concept of trick or treating originating in Scotland in the form of guising, the use of the term 'trick or treat' at the doors of home owners was not common until the 1980s. Guising is devoid of any jocular threat,[36] and according to one BBC journalist, in the 1980s it was still often viewed as an exotic and not particularly welcome import, with the BBC referring to it as "the Japanese knotweed of festivals" and "making demands with menaces".[37] In Ireland before the phrase "trick or treat" became common, children would say "Help the Halloween Party". Very often, the phrase "trick – or – treat" is simply said and the revellers are given sweets, with the choice of a trick or a treat having been largely discarded.

'exotic' = d4 wannabe american.

As I said, nonsense.

L1011 · 31-10-2012 11:39PM

recylingbin wrote: »

nonsense.

Try 50 years ago. At least. The US did get the entire sodding idea from us, remember, before they packaged it up as the shiny orange ****efest it is now.

recylingbin · 31-10-2012 11:40PM

MYOB wrote: »

Try 50 years ago. At least. The US did get the entire sodding idea from us, remember, before they packaged it up as the shiny orange ****efest it is now.

oh ffs.

Outkast_IRE · 31-10-2012 11:44PM

recylingbin wrote: »

Proof indeed

'exotic' = d4 wannabe american.

As I said, nonsense.

yeah that article says it started being said here in the 80s, quite obviously it grew like most things from rarely used to commonly used. As i said 1990 onwards everyone in my locality was saying it , and we are a hell of a long way from dublin.

just cause you didnt use it doesnt mean the rest of the country didnt!
:rolleyes:

recylingbin · 31-10-2012 11:50PM

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

yeah that article says it started being said here in the 80s, quite obviously it grew like most things from rarely used to commonly used. As i said 1990 onwards everyone in my locality was saying it , and we are a hell of a long way from dublin.

just cause you didnt use it doesnt mean the rest of the country didnt!
:rolleyes:

but, I am ireland.

Miss Lockhart · 31-10-2012 11:51PM

I posted in another thread earlier, but my parents were saying "trick or treat" in the 50s. That has been met with derision and disbelief in the other thread, but that's the truth.

My mother says they used to have a halloween party and would go around door to door and sing or whatever to get treats (fruit mostly). They would attach a string to the door knocker of a house that didn't give them anything and pull the string until the people answered, then shout "trick or treat".

Everybody in my area was trick-or-treating in the early 80s and it was, according to those older than me, definitely the norm here in the 70s too. On the other hand, friends who live only a mile away never said, and still don't say, trick or treat - they only use(d) "help the Halloween party".

Outkast_IRE · 31-10-2012 11:51PM

recylingbin wrote: »

but, I am ireland.

You are a country

andromeda76 · 31-10-2012 11:52PM

We used to sing "any apples or nuts or cigarette butts". Never received the latter for some reason.

Outkast_IRE · 31-10-2012 11:52PM

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

I posted in another thread earlier, but my parents were saying "trick or treat" in the 50s. That has been met with derision and disbelief in the other thread, but that's the truth.

My mother says they used to have a halloween party and would go around door to door and sing or whatever to get treats (fruit mostly). They would attach a string to the door knocker of a house that didn't give them anything and pull the string until the people answered, then shout "trick or treat".

Everybody in my area was trick-or-treating in the early 80s and it was, according to those older than me, definitely the norm here in the 70s too. On the other hand, friends who live only a mile away never said, and still don't say, trick or treat - they only use(d) "help the Halloween party".

Thank god backup, has arrived . Some people think if they didnt experience it , it must not exist

Miss Lockhart · 31-10-2012 11:53PM

andromeda76 wrote: »

We used to sing "any apples or nuts or cigarette butts". Never received the latter for some reason.

We said this too!

andromeda76 · 31-10-2012 11:54PM

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

We said this too!

That's was the back in the eighties.

Miss Lockhart · 31-10-2012 11:55PM

andromeda76 wrote: »

That's was the back in the eighties.

Same here.

Washington Irving · 01-11-2012 12:01AM

I've had a load of trick or treaters. There was almost a constant steam of them between 7 and 8, must have been around 15 groups altogether. None since 9pm though, gone very quiet

pappyodaniel · 01-11-2012 12:03AM

Kess73 wrote: »

Better to be seen as Jimmy Saville than to be like this poor misguided Boardsie.

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii606/gavredking/298257_10150333556041862_1698009193_n.jpg

Is that a Justin Bieber poster underneath the dartboard??

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