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Halloween and Christmas your thoughs please

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  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    thecat said:
    Who remembers 'jumping' Jacks fireworks. Must of been the most dangerous firework you could get. Basically you light it and it jumped around the garden. I was so scared I used to hide in the garage.
    That's because you're a cat.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,981
    Addickted said:
    Off_it said:
    Eleven years old. This thread is ELEVEN years old.

    *shakes head
    I don’t ever remember a poster called @101 yet I can see they had 2.4k posts!
    @Ru1986
    He was hilarious
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,844
    As a kid, Halloween was nothing more than my mum telling me that I had to be in bed and asleep early! American based rip-off.

    Christmas on the other hand is a very special time and I love it as much now as I did as a child. It is comfortably my favourite time of the year, although I deliberately try to avoid as much commercialism as I can until the beginning of December.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    I do like Xmas - but Halloween is dog shit. Piss off back to America. 
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,223
    I know I shouldn't bother but people do realise the Americans didn't find Halloween when they arrived there.

    They brought it with them from Britain.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    I know I shouldn't bother but people do realise the Americans didn't find Halloween when they arrived there.

    They brought it with them from Britain.
    They also brought smallpox and I really don't fancy that either.
  • Addickted said:
    I know I shouldn't bother but people do realise the Americans didn't find Halloween when they arrived there.

    They brought it with them from Britain.
    They also brought smallpox and I really don't fancy that either.
    I think Hernan Córtes took it (smallpox) to the Americas though via Mexico.

    Día de los Muertos as also on the 31st October.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    Halloween is bobbing apples, witches, ghosts and basically all souls eve or dia de los muertos. Don’t mind that.

    dressing up as iron man or whatever is not to my mind Halloween.

    Christmas is over commercialised but still have a soft spot for it. It is after all really the winter solstice celebration in slightly the wrong day. Santa can do one though. 
  • Christmas is the difficult one for me, my mum (90) lives a long way from us, I can hear my wife now blaming covid for not wanting her to stay, what's that song,    'see trouble ahead '.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    edited October 2020
    I like Christmas, but I think it should start in December. My wife watched a Christmas movie on channel 5 today! It is also far better when you are a kid or have kids. 
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  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,107
    My wife and I have made the decision not to have kids. 
    So if anyone wants a couple of under 5's for Christmas drop me a pm
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    Not a huge fan of Christmas but we've got small kids so we kind of have to go along with it. Halloween can however sod right off. 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    Having a lovely evening at my mums for a Halloween and fireworks party.

    My daughter’s friend was supposed to be coming over but obviously couldn’t so her parents came over with her and we took them out trick or treating (we gave them a sweet every time they saw a pumpkin).

    A few fireworks, hot dogs, jacket spuds and beans. Lovely.


  • Never mind 101 - what I mostly took away from this post is that Ben Hayes is 60 next year... 😳
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,107
    Kids threw eggs and flour at our milkman yesterday so he battered them. 
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,223
    Never mind 101 - what I mostly took away from this post is that Ben Hayes is 60 next year... 😳
    You should get a career in accountancy with maths skills like that Leroy 😁
  • Never mind 101 - what I mostly took away from this post is that Ben Hayes is 60 next year... 😳
    You should get a career in accountancy with maths skills like that Leroy 😁
    Are there graphs? 
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,223
    Never mind 101 - what I mostly took away from this post is that Ben Hayes is 60 next year... 😳
    You should get a career in accountancy with maths skills like that Leroy 😁
    Are there graphs? 
    There can be
  • Never mind 101 - what I mostly took away from this post is that Ben Hayes is 60 next year... 😳
    You should get a career in accountancy with maths skills like that Leroy 😁
    Are there graphs? 
    On a wax tablet with a sharp stick probably.