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Not a favourite night of mine. Youngsters dressing up in masks and dark clothing wandering the streets = recipe for accidents and sadly in some areas damage to peoples home and cars.
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Not a favourite night of mine. Youngsters dressing up in masks and dark clothing wandering the streets = recipe for accidents and sadly in some areas damage to peoples home and cars.
I am going to get my Harry Potter wand out and practice turning Tom carroll into JDG
Back in the 70's and early 80's we all had swedes instead of pumpkins. You could never buy a pumpkin up the valleys. But yes,it's overboard nowadays, a lot of american traditions have embedded themselves over here. I mean - a f u c k i n g prom! What;s wrong with an end of term disco and a knee trembler behind the bike sheds!!
This. As soon as kids start looking like teenagers that should be the end of it. Until you reach Uni and then it's another excuse to dress up like a tvvat and get slaughtered.
Back in the 70's and early 80's we all had swedes instead of pumpkins. You could never buy a pumpkin up the valleys. But yes,it's overboard nowadays, a lot of american traditions have embedded themselves over here. I mean - a f u c k i n g prom! What;s wrong with an end of term disco and a knee trembler behind the bike sheds!!
It seems the youngsters if today in the YK have lost the ability to lead and just want to jump on everything American
Totally agree about the prom. It was a disco in my days but I was never lucky enough for that other thing you mentioned
Carved some pumpkins and put them out front with electric tea lights inside, that was a couple of weeks ago though so they are getting a bit soft with fruit flies. Decorated front with corn plants too.
Will be getting some multipack sweets in for trick or treaters.
Will probably carve more pumpkins out on the weekend. I just do a jackolantern face, but you can do all kinds of fancy designs.
Joe_bradshaw -I thought the cryochamber was the new name for Cardiff's stadium.
Absolutely bloody detest it. When I was young, it was just another day. Nowadays, we've gone all American trick 'n treat. Cr@p!
Totally agree. Bang Bang on the door every few minutes - trick or treat. As you say "American crap" Come Christmas, when I'm hoping to hear some traditional carol singers at the door.....silence.
American sh*t. We tell our kids not to take sweets from strangers or talk to strangers and then send kids to strangers' houses to ask for sweets. Complete b*llocks!
Totally agree. Bang Bang on the door every few minutes - trick or treat. As you say "American crap" Come Christmas, when I'm hoping to hear some traditional carol singers at the door.....silence.
Sound like there's a opportunity for a PlanetSwans Christmas choral society. Or even a panto.
Back in the 70's and early 80's we all had swedes instead of pumpkins. You could never buy a pumpkin up the valleys. But yes,it's overboard nowadays, a lot of american traditions have embedded themselves over here. I mean - a f u c k i n g prom! What;s wrong with an end of term disco and a knee trembler behind the bike sheds!!
I've spent 30 years thinking we only had a swede because my old man was tighter than a ducks arse and they were cheaper than pumpkins. I guess I owe him an apology.
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Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
I always find it strange when people dismiss Halloween as silly and what not but they all celebrate Christmas every despite most not believing in everything that Christmas stands for and represents.
They're happy to have a holiday and what not when it suits them but only if it suits them.
I've spent 30 years thinking we only had a swede because my old man was tighter than a ducks arse and they were cheaper than pumpkins. I guess I owe him an apology.
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When I was a kid, I thought that 'pumpkin' was what you called a swede after it had been hollowed out, cut, and candled.
I'm not sure about the posts on here about the Americanization. I was trick-or-treating over thirty years ago. The end of October marked the start of a good week.. Trick-or-treating and usually getting coins, then penny-for-the-guying, and ending with torching a pile of wood.
Back in the 70's and early 80's we all had swedes instead of pumpkins. You could never buy a pumpkin up the valleys. But yes,it's overboard nowadays, a lot of american traditions have embedded themselves over here. I mean - a f u c k i n g prom! What;s wrong with an end of term disco and a knee trembler behind the bike sheds!!
What's wrong with subsequent generations not wanting to duplicate what older people did? When the 'it was better in my day' starts being thrown around, you know you're talking to a miserable old wang.
When I was a kid, I thought that 'pumpkin' was what you called a swede after it had been hollowed out, cut, and candled.
I'm not sure about the posts on here about the Americanization. I was trick-or-treating over thirty years ago. The end of October marked the start of a good week.. Trick-or-treating and usually getting coins, then penny-for-the-guying, and ending with torching a pile of wood.
Exactly. It's kind of sad how anti-social and depressed people seem to have become
Joe_bradshaw -I thought the cryochamber was the new name for Cardiff's stadium.
I always find it strange when people dismiss Halloween as silly and what not but they all celebrate Christmas every despite most not believing in everything that Christmas stands for and represents.
They're happy to have a holiday and what not when it suits them but only if it suits them.
Christmas is a British tradition, irrespective if you're religious or not. Halloween is an American tradition...but hey! if Halloween is for you - fill your boots.