Halloween

[Leesoh]

What a bag of testicles

I take it you won't be contacting your forefathers? :icon_bigg

 

[Brauny Blue]

I take it you won't be contacting your forefathers? :icon_bigg

Well i might, but usually when i'm pissed.

 

[Darth Vodka]

doesn't it have some link to a pagan thing, or am I completely wrong ??

bit like christmas then

 

[bocadillo]

Hilarious, bet you sold it as manure.

:icon_eek:

 

[Boy Genius]

What a bag of testicles

I take it you won't be contacting your forefathers? :icon_bigg

Don't confuse him by telling him he has four fathers, he is busy trying to find his first father.

 

[H T B]

I take it you won't be contacting your forefathers? :icon_bigg

Brauny's got fourfathers, goes with the turf I suppose?

 

[lazzer]

Avoid all the annoyance of trick or treaters on October 31st by attending the Old Aylestone social club for an evening of classic rock with Teenage kicks.

 

[drummindefender]

shameless

 

[SJN-Fox]

On the plus side though ... it's the one night of the year that my ex-wife is allowed out without a bag on her head.

 

[Joe_Fox]

something that has come over from the USA

Not true. Common misconception.

It's from the Celtic festival Samhain, and it's been adopted by pagans. It's a festival of the dead; if I remember rightly, the veil between the earth and the afterlife is at it's thinnest, so people believed that they could contact their loved ones and/or ancestors.

Or something like that.

Nearly spot on.

 

[Lako42]

Not true. Common misconception.

Nearly spot on.

Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Macky]

Nearly spot on.

Halloween isn't purely based on Samhain, it's an amalgam of lots of different traditions. Most cultures celebrate at that time of year, all marking the end of the summer, harvest festivals and the autumn equinox.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Re: Hallowe'en

Got to agree with Harbs on this one. What a bag of shite it truly is.

And Easter. And Christmas. And Tuesdays.

 

[bocadillo]

Re: Hallowe'en

Got to agree with Harbs on this one. What a bag of shite it truly is.

And Easter. And Christmas. And Tuesdays.

What about Tuesdays with football?

 

[Blue Maniac]

Re: Hallowe'en

What about Tuesdays with football?

The ones where I (surprisingly often) have to get up at 3.30 in the morning to catch a coach going in the wrong direction? Shite until about 7.45pm :icon_wink

 

[foxychik]

Re: Hallowe'en

Got to agree with Harbs on this one. What a bag of shite it truly is. And Easter. And Christmas. And Tuesdays.

yep Tuesdays are pants !

 

[beaumontfox]

Well it's the Trick or Treating that comes from the muppets over the water.

Isn't it also cos it being All Hallows Eve they 'celebrate' the dead thing cos November 1st is All Saints Day? Or am I just thinking they are linked when they ain't?

 

[Blue Maniac]

Re: Hallowe'en

Well it's the Trick or Treating that comes from the muppets over the water.

Isn't it also cos it being All Hallows Eve they 'celebrate' the dead thing cos November 1st is All Saints Day? Or am I just thinking they are linked when they ain't?

:thumbs_up

Isn't the thread title spelt wrong though?

 

[beaumontfox]

Yes. Hallowe'en.:icon_razz

 

[Profondo Rosso]

all year round we tell kids "don't take sweets from strangers", then send them round to strangers houses for sweets on halloween.... load of old bollocks.

Just stock up with chocolate laxatives and hand them out freely

I know this was a joke, but I'm tempted, any idea where I can get hold of some?