Get your Pumpkin out

[BigMoaner]

 

[BigMoaner]

Honestly knew a bloke at Millwall who used to look like that.

 

[quimcunx]

Mine is a bit too cheery looking this year.

 

[cesare]

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Have you given it an earring?

 

[spitfire]

First pass, no lights yet.

Mini Fire's idea. Joint execution.

 

[sealion]

American shite

 

[Silas Loom]

So has a convention been formalised that small children only demand money with menaces at houses which display a vaguely anthropomorphised pumpkin? We’ve never bothered with carved squash and we are never bothered by costumed children, and every year Mrs Loom buys a tub of cheap nasty sweets just in case, which I have to eat the next morning.

 

[krtek a houby]

So has a convention been formalised that small children only demand money with menaces at houses which display a vaguely anthropomorphised pumpkin? We’ve never bothered with carved squash and we are never bothered by costumed children, and every year Mrs Loom buys a tub of cheap nasty sweets just in case, which I have to eat the next morning.

Why next morning? Do the sweets turn into pumpkins at the stroke of midnight?

 

[JimW]

Why next morning? Do the sweets turn into pumpkins at the stroke of midnight?

Got to hang on in case there's late callers. My kids went round a friend's gated community and only visited houses who'd signed up for the experience on a list the staff had. Insert old man grumble here.

 

[Elpenor]

So has a convention been formalised that small children only demand money with menaces at houses which display a vaguely anthropomorphised pumpkin? We’ve never bothered with carved squash and we are never bothered by costumed children, and every year Mrs Loom buys a tub of cheap nasty sweets just in case, which I have to eat the next morning.

Possibly, I’ve never had anyone knock on my door in 15 years, in various places and haven’t ever done a pumpkin. Though where I’ve lived, I imagine people wouldn’t knock at a house where they don’t know the occupants anyway.

 

[Spymaster]

American shite


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That’s mine.

 

[Winot]

So has a convention been formalised that small children only demand money with menaces at houses which display a vaguely anthropomorphised pumpkin? We’ve never bothered with carved squash and we are never bothered by costumed children, and every year Mrs Loom buys a tub of cheap nasty sweets just in case, which I have to eat the next morning.

Yes (round our way south London anyway).

 

[seeformiles]

American shite


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More of a “Cuntkin” then?

 

[seeformiles]

We always made “Turnip Lamps” when I was a kid and go “Guising” but, with no swedes to be had, I carved this miniature pumpkin instead. It bears an incredible resemblance to the fella who replaced our guttering a couple of weeks ago.

 

[moochedit]

Ah it's annual don't awnser the door day.

* turns lights off *

 

[Silas Loom]

Every day should be don’t answer the door day.

 

[dessiato]

I accidentally put my pics on the wrong thread. We've now got a pumpkin, and a wreath on the door.

Post in thread 'Christmas 2023' https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/christmas-2023.380442/post-18368092

 

[weepiper]

I haven't done one this year because the boys are at their dad's and because last year I discovered that I am now apparently allergic to pumpkins, by having a respiratory reaction immediately after we were carving them and before anyone says neeps no, I need my knuckles to remain unhacked thanks. Although that hasn't stopped my dad, who has just posted this magnificent effort

 

[seeformiles]

I haven't done one this year because the boys are at their dad's and because last year I discovered that I am now apparently allergic to pumpkins, by having a respiratory reaction immediately after we were carving them and before anyone says neeps no, I need my knuckles to remain unhacked thanks. Although that hasn't stopped my dad, who has just posted this magnificent effort

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A proper turnip lamp! (I used to hollow mine out with a gouge chisel)

 

[quimcunx]

Did another tonight.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I'd rather eat one than carve one and I don't like carving ones for food so... no pumpkin. I lit up Baba Yagas hut and some candles instead.

 

[weepiper]

My eldest has sent me a picture of the ones she and one of her brothers did last night. Patrick has gone for the classic but well-executed jack o'lantern, and Sophie has done some sort of fairly terrifying Blue Meanie/evil cat hybrid.

 

[pogofish]

One of Mrs Fish's neighbours, a former member of one of Aberdeen's original punk bands, gets a bit serious about Halloween:

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Strange/creepy music plays quietly outside and children brave enough to approach the door might be greeted by one of a number of scary creatures, proffering a big bowl of sweeties - this year, it was the Wolf-Man..!

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[Yossarian]

 

[moochedit]

 

[MickiQ]

Mrs Q always stocks up ready since we get mugged every year, to a certain extent it is our own (or hers at least) fault. She is big mates with the woman who runs the local after school group to the point that when Youngest Q was a teenager, Mrs Q would often loan her to them as indentured labour. This included Halloween whereupon Youngest would lead her cadre of underage extortionists back to our door knowing full well there was a rich motherlode of candies to be had. Youngest is away at Uni now but we are on their list of easy marks.

 

[Idaho]

Was busy here last night despite the rain. A steady stream of cute, squeaky witches, skeletons, etc.

 

[A380]

Got to hang on in case there's late callers. My kids went round a friend's gated community and only visited houses who'd signed up for the experience on a list the staff had. Insert old man grumble here.

Has this been fully imported to China, or is it just in areas with quite a few Americans/ other westerners?

 

[JimW]

Has this been fully imported to China, or is it just in areas with quite a few Americans/ other westerners?

Think bars use it for an excuse etc but trick or treat is fairly limited as you say. No one did it round our way.

 

[Aladdin]

Only 3 trick ot treaters came to ours last night.
For the first time in ages I was not prepared. Had to run around trying to find sweets. I've always got a stash of barley sweets for glucose. So they got a fistful of those each.