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Call me a Grump but the UK didn't really take much notice of Halloween to until ET came out, now people my age are parents hmmm. Yet more evidence of creeping US culture.
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I agree.
But.
It started off over here, then moved to the US and died out here some time ago before creeping back with the influx of US film and TV in more recent years.
It's basically just begging.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Begging with menace and you don't event get a Big Issue out of it 
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"Demanding money with menaces" is the legal term, I think.
We don't get many here (just the neighbor's kid, and at 11 or 12 now I think he will think it a bit too childish for him) but we did in the previous house. I used to keet a dozen eggs in the cupboard all year, just waiting for them to come round...:EvilLaughSmiley:
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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No, we don't get many either, just a few young kids in groups or with their parents who are always very polite.
I normally give them fruit. They're too polite not to say thank you for it.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: They're too polite not to say thank you for it.
I think that part is the UK contribution.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Yep. And they can have Valentine's Day as well which in Oz is apparently now the busiest day for florists.
Not against the festivals per se but the commercialism.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Blame Chaucer.
The problem I have with Valentine's Day is that it is about lovers...
Us married folk should be exempt.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: about lovers
and stalkers
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Same this side of the Planet!
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We had mischief night[^] when I was a kid - no demanding sweets with menaces, just lots of menacing!
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'White Mischief'... wasn't that a film set post World War I in South Africa about racism, or am I going down the V rote today...
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I remember Mischief Night too, but in my memory it was separate to halloween on the 4th of Nov. Halloween didn't involve any knocking on doors though.
Regards, Stewart
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I remember doing it before ET, perhaps it is a northern thing? The Americans must have gotten it from somewhere. We also used to make jack'o'lanterns, though we used turnips* rather than pumpkin - much harder to carve out -- better for parent's though, it kept us amused longer. I've heard the turnip thing is really ancient. The other thing we used to do was "dookie apple" - apple bobbing and eating hanging off a string with no hands. One of the best nights of the year, and still had Bonfire night to look forward to. Oh and mixed mash potato and turnip/swede(from the lantern scrapings) sandwiches = top culinary form.
*The rest of the world seems to call these Swedes. The bigger yellow ones anyhoo.
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glennPattonWork wrote: Yet more evidence of creeping US culture.
More evidence of expanding culture period. Hardly unique to the US, UK or any place else for that matter that isn't strictly isolationist.
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Sorry I didn't mean to sound anti-US 
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My wife has some ideas for me this year:
Steampunk outfit (Plague Doctor)
Freddy Kruger
Donnie Darko
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Is this for when you answer the door, or are you going door-to-door mugging?
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Normal Attire 
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Sue Baker from Mind told BBC Radio 5 live that the worst thing about the costume was it reinforced outdated stigmas about people with mental health illness.
^ Sue Baker is a woman who is desperately seeking an issue.
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Nope, she's a woman[^] with £20,000,000 to spend "to end mental health stigma and discrimination".
So this is just her waving the flag and trying to pretend she is earning the (undoubtedly large) wage she gets for doing basically sod-all.
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I think the stigma against meat clever wielding maniacs is a good stigma to maintain.
Sue and I obviously differ on that point.
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