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Oct 2013
12:26pm, 9 Oct 2013
2,910 posts
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Wobbling
"Reply all" on personal emails. It's great I've been sent pics of my Godson, but I really don't want to hear all of the other's email recipients' thoughts on the baby, especially as they all seem to be saying the same thing - yes he's grown, it's what babies do.
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Oct 2013
1:38pm, 9 Oct 2013
13,425 posts
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*jono*
XB - c'mon you know Halloween is now a major religous festival, celebrated by all.
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Oct 2013
1:44pm, 9 Oct 2013
7,412 posts
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Son of a Pronator Man
A second for premature Halloween-ness. It's the 9th of October FFS. But to be honest they could stick it where the sun does not shine on the 30th for all I care . The barrista asked if I wanted a pumpkin chocolate powder image on my cappuchino. No I do not.
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Oct 2013
1:47pm, 9 Oct 2013
13,429 posts
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*jono*
children make the difference soap, mine love it - mind you so does Mrs J so thats were the problem lies. J Jnr (autistic dynamo) loves it and its one of the few things he's always looked forward to.
I'm working on Bonfire night
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Oct 2013
1:52pm, 9 Oct 2013
2,316 posts
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Bru-Bru
Halloween generally. If our kids did not watch it on american TV programmes they'd never have heard of "Trick or Treat", which is a form of juvenile blackmail we could well do without.
Also, going a little wider than v'rap, work spam and internet filters generally. Can't they trust their employees not to sit about all day playing games or watching porn? Don't they have managers who are supposed to know about that sort of thing? On the other hand, if an employee finishes their work early (or misses their lunch break because they are working instead) why shouldn't they be able to book up their family holiday during the work day? It's a combination of laziness and control-freakery on the part of employers.
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Oct 2013
1:58pm, 9 Oct 2013
2,915 posts
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Wobbling
I think it's a little unfair to blame the Americans for our affection for Hallowe'en. We used to get excited and dress up when we were kids and I'm 40 now! It's an religious festival really. Is it so bad we've taken on the Yanks enthusiasm for dressing up and carving pumpkins (tho when I was a kid pumpkins were unheard of here, we carved swede)? It's not like we take on all US habits, like universal gun ownership or marshmallow in savoury dishes. You rarely hear anyone moaning about Christmas trees, and how they're an unnatural expensive habit made popular by the Germans.
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Oct 2013
1:58pm, 9 Oct 2013
746 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Another vote for Halloween - trick or treat is just another name for making demands with menaces - hate it
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Oct 2013
2:10pm, 9 Oct 2013
49,038 posts
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Puddington
That's how my Mum always used to see it, TR. Not that I ever wanted to do it as a child anyway. No one really did in those days (how old?!) 
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Oct 2013
2:13pm, 9 Oct 2013
49,039 posts
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Puddington
I used to just re-read The Worst Witch or Gobbolino The Witch's Cat and be happy enough with that. I was a bit obsessed with Witches.
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Oct 2013
2:21pm, 9 Oct 2013
2,980 posts
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Doctor K
It's probably legitimate to blame the Americans for most things, their main cultural exports being junk food and theme parks, and rock and roll which we will forgive them for.
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