Thread: Halloween sales finally overtaking Valentines Day

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Welcome to the U.K stuck in the miserable Dark Ages, judging from some of the comments posted on the news story we have a long way to go yet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...retailers.html

Thankfully we have some great U.K halloween fans in the forum

Love this comment by one of the readers;

I have no problems with Halloween just the trick or treaters who tend to be offspring of scroats and chavs who become agressive when you don't give anything and groups of 10+ kids with an adult in tow which target abodes 3 plus times. Not nice ,especially for the elderly neighbours who feel threatened and intimidated.
- Lowen, Northern Soul, Mossley, 01/10/2010 10:25


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz116CTHb66

LOL! What the heck is a scroat?!!

My guess on scroat, is that it's short for scrotum?

At least one commenter posted that it's originally a Pagan festival that started in the British Isles.

Yet more ill informed rants after a poorly researched story.

Halloween (or Sahmain to give it it's correct name) is an old Pagan traddition that predates the middle eastern cults (such as Christianity) in the British Isles by thousands of years.
However as this story gets trotted out this time every year that will not stop the Daily Mail and the BBC linking it to devil worship and the influx of American tradditions. No need to let the facts get in the way of the story.

It is a time for respecting natures cycle, the dead and a gathering of community amongst other things.

- Jack Woodgreen, Romney Marsh, 1/10/2010 5:03

These folks get it too:

Actually the tradition went from Scotland and Ulster to America many years ago. Certainly here in Northern Ireland it has been celebrated down the centuries - my parents and grandparents always celebrated Hallowe'en by playing pranks on neighbours and engaging in activities like ducking for apples. Apple dumpling and apple tarts with treats inside were always eaten. It has only been celebrated in England over the past number of years because traditionally they celebrated Guy Fawkes Night.

- sophie, belfast, 1/10/2010 4:46



Carolyn Bradley, Tesco's UK marketing director, said: 'Halloween has become one of the main seasonal events during the last ten years, with sales almost trebling since 2005.

Maybe in England and Wales, but Halloween has always been a main event in Scotland and Ireland, although it is true that there is now more choice costume wise etc since the supermarkets 'got in on the act'. The custom of celebrating Halloween was taken over to America by Scots and Irish immigrants. It is traditionally British and not American as so many people think.

- June, Ayrshire, Scotland, 30/9/2010 15:47

Originally Posted by jdubbya

Love this comment by one of the readers;

I have no problems with Halloween just the trick or treaters who tend to be offspring of scroats and chavs who become agressive when you don't give anything and groups of 10+ kids with an adult in tow which target abodes 3 plus times. Not nice ,especially for the elderly neighbours who feel threatened and intimidated.
- Lowen, Northern Soul, Mossley, 01/10/2010 10:25


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz116CTHb66

LOL! What the heck is a scroat?!!

lol I can understand their point of view, there's nothing worse than a mouthy bunch of chav thugs.