| Author | Message | ||
     jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 294 Registered: 07-2005 |
This is really big now in Britain. It is high up on being my worst night of the year.Added to which fireworks keep going off and frightening my beagles, which affects their fox hunting abilities | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 295 Registered: 07-2005 |
only joking re the foxhunting with you guys on this | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1053 Registered: 03-2006 |
They shoot fireworks off there to mark Halloween? One annoyance we're spared here...Largely I agree with your take on it, but I do like that so many women (and to be fair, men do it too) use the occassion to dress scantily - I saw a sexy nurse in a bar over the weekend that made me weak in the knees. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 818 Registered: 04-2005 |
That's hilarious, Jerry. My first laugh out loud moment of the day... | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 121 Registered: 01-2006 |
It's been very big in Ireland since the year dot. November the 1st is Samhain, the Celtic New Year. When the Christians came along they tried to replace the festival with All Souls Day. So Happy New Celtic Year!! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1073 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lets hope its Happy Celtic Day in Lisbon XY765. (if you know nothing about football this probably means zilch to you  ) ps LK, the fireworks are probably being let off early in the run up to Guy Fawkes day on November 5th. I swear to God it gets earlier each year. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 122 Registered: 01-2006 |
I'm with you on that Kevin, it can only get better after last night's fiasco between Chelski and Barca. It would be great to see Celtic qualify for the knock out stages, both for the fans and the tournament. Some of the British papers are ignoring the theatre of last night and saying it was the best game of the tournament but that would have to be Man Utd V Celtic in Old Trafford. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 289 Registered: 04-2006 |
halloween. hate it. seems to me sense evacuated. it is more a money making thing. take note that i am only talking about germany where the within last few years those halloween nonsense beagan to take over. and please take note that i know that halloween has its tradition and is older than the religious feasts and so on. hate it anyway. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1078 Registered: 05-2005 |
not looking good XY765. 2-0 down at half time - need a quick goal back in 2nd half. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 773 Registered: 05-2005 |
I used to live on Clanbrassil St in Dublin and the bangers and fireworks being set off for weeks around Halloween used to really piss me off. I always thought one would come through the window or wake my sleeping, month old baby. Neither scenario ever happened of course. | ||
| Aidan Brewer Member Username: Uptowninvisible Post Number: 8 Registered: 10-2006 |
I didn't do anything for Halloween except sit alone in my room listening to music (just like every other day). I was going to watch 'The Woman In Black' but the dvd kept on skipping so I gave up. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 177 Registered: 05-2005 |
I hate to offend our American friends here, but Halloween is only good in America. It sucks a big one that kids, force fed a Tsunami of American culture via TV and the like, now go parading around Australia like it's part of our culture. It isn't. It used to be that you'd ask the grown ups why you couldn't do it and the answer (because we're not American ) would be enough. Don't even get me started on how young ABC announcers live in os-tray-LEE-uh instead of Os-trayl-ya....!!!! The omnipresent nature and influence of American culture around the world at the expense of local culture is frightening. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 123 Registered: 01-2006 |
Kevin, commiserations about Celtic, would have been a great occasion if they had even drawn. Feel sorry for that defender. They still have a good chance of qualifying though. We had dressed up kids call around to the house on Halloween, we lived in a flat for years so it was a bit of a laugh having them call around. You can only give them sweets now, when I was a kid you only got nuts. If you gave them nuts now they'd probably throw them back at you. Big bonfires all around us. A friend flew into Dublin that night and said the city looked like something from a warzone with all the flashes across the sky. The American Halloween seems to be a hybrid from their immigrants - Halloween from the Irish and Day of the Dead from the Mexicans. |