Trick or Treat. - Page 6

garinda · 31-10-2011, 18:17

Just taken the treats out of the oven for the next callers, and put them on a tray to cool.

There's spooky bat biscuits, flavoured with laxative powder.

Also ghoulish ghost cookies, spiced with Rohypnol.

jaysay · 31-10-2011, 18:25

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Originally Posted by garinda

Just taken the treats out of the oven for the next callers, and put them on a tray to cool.

There's spooky bat biscuits, flavoured with laxative powder.

Also ghoulish ghost cookies, spiced with Rohypnol.

Rohypnol

they won't be able to remember eating the cookies

garinda · 31-10-2011, 18:31

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Rohypnol

they won't be able to remember eating the cookies

Hopefully they'll give them to their parents, who'll forget to send 'em begging here next year.

Five lots now.

Hopefully be finishing soon.

No longer answering the door now.

Fingers crossed all the tubs haven't been rolled into the brook.

garinda · 31-10-2011, 18:37

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Rohypnol

they won't be able to remember eating the cookies

On a serious note, on the whole children are so mollycoddled nowadays, driven everywhere, wiped with anti-bacterial wipes, unable to eat jams purchased in church halls because of elf & safe-t issues.

Except for tonight, when the're sent off into the darkness, to meet all kinds of strangers, and given God knows what as a 'treat'.

jaysay · 31-10-2011, 18:50

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Originally Posted by garinda

On a serious note, on the whole children are so mollycoddled nowadays, driven everywhere, wiped with anti-bacterial wipes, unable to eat jams purchased in church halls because of elf & safe-t issues.

Except for tonight, when they're sent off into the darkness, to meet all kinds of strangers, and given God knows what as a 'treat'.

Ya and it won't be long before kids are being encourage to sit on the knee of this old bloke with a white beard that carries a sack round with him

katex · 31-10-2011, 19:45

Seen this ?

Times have changed from the small gathering of local people and horse riders :

BBC News - Halloween restrictions for visitors to Pendle Hill

Gayle · 31-10-2011, 21:02

Well you wouldn't catch me taking my children out on Hallowe'en. I don't condone begging.

Fortunately, no one knows that there are any houses down here so we rarely ever get trick or treaters. I'm not so hard hearted that I send them away, but I only give them one sweet each.

And if you're worrying that I'm a killjoy and my children are missing out - they aren't!!! Maddie went to two parties over the weekend and Zack went to one, so they're both in the 'spirit' but in the safety of organised parties.

Eric · 31-10-2011, 21:27

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Originally Posted by garinda

You'd love it now.

It's like living in Boise, Idaho.

Yes siree!

Yanks spread their bs all over the world ... maybe it's so that they feel right at home when they invade somebody

mobertol · 31-10-2011, 21:38

Am over at my aunts in Cleveleys - the only thing she had in was an open tin of Roses chocs from several Xmases ago - very generously distributed by me to all the teenage trick or treaters...hope they don't have to miss school tomorrow with tummy ache

accyman · 31-10-2011, 22:08

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Originally Posted by katex

Seen this ?

Times have changed from the small gathering of local people and horse riders :

BBC News - Halloween restrictions for visitors to Pendle Hill

For the past few years the council have blocked off all the places you could put a burger van or park a car with blockades.

I wonder how much they spend making sure people who want to celibrate a tradition cant have any fun

cashman · 31-10-2011, 22:18

Not ones knocked at our door tonight..................perhaps they don't like electric shocks.

garinda · 31-10-2011, 22:44

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Well you wouldn't catch me taking my children out on Hallowe'en. I don't condone begging.

That's what it is.

Or would be at any other time of year.

Trick or treat.

Demands with threat.

Fine, if it's you're all close neighbours, with a few families who've pre-arranged to visit each other's homes.

I don't particularly want disturbing. Unless it's by someone who knows me, and who knows I'll make them welcome.

I don't want phone calls from India telling me their records show I'm eligble to claim for medical injuries I incurred whilst working in the building industry...or it might be down a mine, as happened today.

I don't want knocks at the door, from God botherers who've found the way to my salvation, or even to tell me that Jesus wants me as his very own sunbeam.

I don't wan't double glazing, a conservatory, to give to a charity that pays a sales team on commission, or to have my tiles checked, nor am I thinking of selling my home.

It's a nuisance for me. Getting up, shuffling to the door, faffing with locks and keys, saying 'Sorry, no thanks'.

I feel really sorry for some of my elderly neighbours, who live alone, and who do have mobility problems. They must get really tired and fed up. God forbid they do fall, trying to answer the door.

Leave us be!

Take your twenty year old 'custom', and your pumpkin shaped plastic begging bowl, and post it back to America. Where it belongs, and where they are welcome to it.

cashman · 31-10-2011, 22:48

I take it thats a NO then Rindy?

garinda · 31-10-2011, 23:01

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Originally Posted by accyman

For the past few years the council have blocked off all the places you could put a burger van or park a car with blockades.

I wonder how much they spend making sure people who want to celibrate a tradition cant have any fun

You've got to feel sorry for innocent doggers, at this time of year.

garinda · 31-10-2011, 23:03

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Originally Posted by cashman

I take it thats a NO then Rindy?

It's a grouchy, grumbly, middle aged no.