Topic: Trick or Treat...

[thifasmom]

Yes, this halloween nonsense came from America. It was never practised in this country before WW2.

The origin can be read about if you google "All Hallows Day" (1st November).

Strange that these religious festivals are more celebrated (for the wrong reasons) by non believers.

this is what i found on Wikipedia....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

[Hyacinth]

A very big and special hug to Jeannine today - I'd give her three (((J)))'s but that would be too too tacky, wouldn't it :P ;D

Now then...this from a Religious Tract I found on my doormat this morning...."Hallowe'en is upon us, making light of scary things. Actually it mocks evil things, except that we don't talk about evil any more..."

So there you have it, from a Man of God no less, hotwired to Imself,  so it must be true. 8)

Bets, no wonder you moved out of Moseley, if you like the quiet life - was I partly to blame I wonder? Back in the late 80s we had street Hallowe'en parties in the Chantry/Church Road area....lots of pumkins, lots of trick'n'treating for the children - and lots of boozin and street jazz for the rest of us. Bloomin riot it was ;D

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

Don't think we should import this American stuff. We should support our own festivals, like Bonfire night - the great British tradition of setting fire to Roman Catholics

[Hyacinth]

And ban all Christmas trees!...bloody German import >:(

[Hyacinth]

...and dump Christianity anorl...

too much influence in Ower Country from them thare foreigners >:(

[grawrc]

And bring back the birch while we're at it .. and public hangings ... or send them to Australia... ;) ;D ;D ;D  mmmm sounds like a plan! ;)

[Hyacinth]

And wot about the French and Italians with their 'al dente' veggies ruining our Good Wholesome English cooking?

Everyone knows that frozen sprouts for the traditional  25th December meal should be put on a low light back-end of October...

(and spam....why don't we eat more spam?....seems that I'm well into a tin of it atm...) ::)

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

my first exposure to trick or treat was from Peanuts, where Linus Van Pelt spends all night in the pumpkin patch awaiting the arrival of The Great Pumpkin (who never shows), and Charlie Brown goes trick or treating and ends up every year with a bag of rocks

and the second exposure was from all those slasher movies, starting with JAMIE LEE CURTIS  ;D

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

WHO IS AL DENTE, AND WHY CAN'T HE COOK FOOD PROPER??

[Hyacinth]

WHO IS AL DENTE, AND WHY CAN'T HE COOK FOOD PROPER??

Cos as soon as he brought his ghastly Foreign ideas over here, we sent him back Ome toot sweet ;D

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

is al dente Italian for "i've broken a tooth on a sprout" :D

[betula]

Jeannine,

It was a throw away remark.

I have read it again and I can not see how it was cruel.

I can not help but feel this is an over reaction.

[Hyacinth]

Bets.... :-[....I really hesitate writing this, cos I know I've the choice of PM'ing you or even mailing you, but no, here goes....

As I read it this morning, Jeannine merely and only wrote about Hallowe'en traditions in the part of Canada in which she lived for x years, isorl. The part of Canada....

Not all of Canada, you understand? Undoubtedly there are city parts which are as crime-ridden and scary as our own (including and never forgetting our Own Dear City)...  :-\

Jeannine is a long-standing member of our Lotties4 community who has been noted, surely, for her sheer bloody kindness? and generosity to all the members here - she's attacked, her friends come to her defense....

Jeannine is English and surely has therefore an equal right to you or me to remark that things in other parts of the world she's lived in are different?

Jeannine, also, is, I understand, coping, and coping remarkably well I'd say, with dismantling her and her husband's lives here to take him back to his roots - to be amongst his family, etc. for the final part of his life...

And she gets 'emotional' when told to "get out of the kitchen"?

Cruel..well it came out that way, but not, I'm sure, by intent...

Uncalled for, yes, because Jeannine was only, but only, telling us how things are done differently where she has lived - so what's wrong with that, please?

Regards, Lishka

[rosebud]

 I fully agree with Alishka, on this comment.

Hugs & kisses to Jeanine,  :-* :-* :-*

For Gods sake WHAT has happened to A4A, when one or the other has to be so critical & quick to insult , it was never like this.
Pleas let us all be the lovely friends we used to be so much nicer.

[Hyacinth]

Pleas let us all be the lovely friends we used to be so much nicer.

What we need is another Choklit Tasting/Testing thread 8)

An I'm going to open one in The Watershed toot-sweet  - peeps to judge whether or not the chocs contain sprouts, OK? ;D

[grawrc]

Woohoo! Do i get to be the fat controller??Drat I've lost all my credibility by being nice to folk >:( >:( >:(

[Hyacinth]

Woohoo! Do i get to be the fat controller??Drat I've lost all my credibility by being nice to folk >:( >:( >:(

Pleeeeeeease, pleeeeeeeeeeease,pleeeeeeease do 8)

Well folks, we gotta Quality Control Administrator (post girl=me)
we gotta Fat Controller (grawcr).....ooo be afraid, be v.v.afraid...

We's Ready to Roll...

(an soddit Ann....nobody signs up, we'll eat the bloody choklits outselves  8))

[grawrc]

say no more. let's get at 'em! 8) 8)

[rosebud]

Me, me , me, i`m in choklit pleeeeeeeeeeeease.

[Old Neddy]

Mountains out of molehills

Pots calling kettles black.

Ned