ot (kind of) : Halloween

when did Halloween become the new Christmas? People are going mental
in the shops for pumpkins and beer.

The post is only kind of off-topic because, in this morning's trip to
Sainsburys, I saw not one, but two vehicle collisions in the fucking
carpark, one which involved (I think) a Blaney-brown CBR600, and a
dead-looking bloke[1].

[1] I don't care you understand, but it's odd to see it down Saino's.

 

I blame ASDA, being a fucking septic company they push it like ****.

I fucking detest halloween & fucking christmas too, so I'm double fucked
off they have now fucked the end of October for me now.

Fucking nora, we'll be celebrating thanksgiving next.

Mind you, i am related in some distant way to one of the pilgrim
fathers, so .......

 

**** halloween, just another excuse for chavvy kids to knock on front
doors and beg IMHO. I'm sure it must be a recent import too as there
was none of that stuff 20 years ago when I was still a schoolkid.

 

I absolutely fucking agree.

 

I noticed yesterday that Argos in Enfield Town has a fucking Christmas
tree up and decorated already. FFS, give me strength - it's October!

I'd have thought you'd be a Diwali kind of guy.

 

oddly enough, we did have it in NI, mainly because they don't do the
5th of November thing there[1]

[1] we symbolicly burn catholics on the 11th of July instead - you can
have too much of a good thing.

 

There's been a few up since early Oct in hotels etc. Utterly fucking
stupid. Why not just the week before & then down ffs. The best one was
the Leeds centre christmas tree has had to be chopped down a week after
it got put up, due to some nazis demonstrating - wtf?

 

fucking great - I've now reminded myself of the cunting place and have
the lyrics of "Oh, No Pope in Rome" going through my head[1]

[1] actually a quite inventive and cleverly worked-out sectarian
song[2]
[2] though not with the brevity and wit of "Could you eat a Chicken
Supper (Bobby Sands)"

 

A couple of years ago, the local kids were banging on the doors on 29
October. When I asked why, they said: "It's Halloween!"

"No it isn't. Not for two days. Bugger off."

For the last few years, when I've heard the giggling little brats coming
down the street, I've sneaked out and crouched down in the dark behind
the car. Then, as they've approached our front door, I've leapt out,
roaring. Great to hear them scream.

I suppose one of these days I'll have Plod Lite on my case about it,
mind.

 

No you won't.

I got the shock of my life in the Purley Tesco a month or two ago.

They were flogging *Ramadan* "Advent" calendars. I coudn't fucking
believe it. How does that work, then? Open the window and there's a a
little sign saying: "No, you can't have your choc until sunset"?

Ramadan calendars. Un-fucking-believable.

 

<Googles>

Well, here you go

http://www.tahira.com/web/ramadan-calendar-pr.pdf

http://tinyurl.com/yg4cpuc

 

Adie's left sweets for me to feed the little shits and I'm sitting
here eating them as I type. I'd have been happier if she'd left beers
for them but you can't win every time.

 

We get it in France (and have done for a few years now). I can only say
that I'm glad it's not as prevalent as the UK.

Mind you, today, I saw loads of nippers dressing up and made up, which
was a new one on me.

 

I would have thought the French were more interested in burning Jews
than Catholics.

 

Hah. Reminds me of that terrible old playground joke:

Q What was Bobby Sands' phone number?
A Eight-nought eight-nought

 

No need to, oggers. They pity you.

 

He was the MP for Nuneaton, wasn't he?

 

There were some kids wandering down the street letting rockets off
across the road. They were heading into the local park. Round the
corner, down the street I passed two plastic police and a real copper,
before I knew what happened the window was down and I'd grassed them.
What kind of killjoy am I?

 

Here you go

<http://www.islamicfinder.org/prayerDetail.php?country=germany&city=Darms
tadt&state=05&id=23708&month=&year=&email=&home=2009-10-31&lang=&aversion
=&athan=>

Actually Darmstadt has quite a nice mosque IIRC

 

I turn the doorbell off.

Which was a bit of a bugger when my takeaway pizza came earlier.