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Post by stxdpr on Oct 31, 2022 11:26:01 GMT
Which sweets are you giving out tonight crank?
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Post by RollingEscargot on Oct 31, 2022 11:33:50 GMT
Sheep2's face is a haunted cemetery.
Your face is a haunted cemetery.
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Post by crankcaller on Oct 31, 2022 11:45:06 GMT
Which sweets are you giving out tonight crank? Shop bought. I can assure you there will be no mixups. Mainly as they are crisps. Maoam, Fruitella, mini mars bars etc. |
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Post by crankcaller on Oct 31, 2022 11:45:21 GMT
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Post by Chumbles on Oct 31, 2022 11:50:51 GMT
Always amused/irked by the annual hand-wringing in the G about Halloween being an import from America, since it has a long history in many parts of the British Isles that aren't the south of England. The kids round here go guising pretty much the same as we did in the early 80s. It's not as if these festivals have a clear or single origin anyway. There are references to people partying in cemeteries on all hallows eve in sources written a thousand years ago, on the continent. Not just the British Isles; fact is that the celebration of Samhain along with similar festivals under a different name, spread from the Celtic heartlands. Galicia as a name is derived from the word Gaul; found as far apart as NW Spain and Anatolian Turkey. scamander and tenthenemy are much more knowledgeable about this than I, but the reason I think for the widespread dispersion is that the Romans hated the druids and more especially the converted empire with the early church did their best to suppress the rituals - consequently they only survived where the empire was weak.  |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Oct 31, 2022 11:52:00 GMT
Crank already whammed up on wham bars? I'm pretty sure Maoam, Fruitella and miniature mars bars are not crisps. Soon he'll be handing out grade A street valium laced Milky Way bars to toddlers.
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Post by scubar on Oct 31, 2022 11:52:27 GMT
Which sweets are you giving out tonight crank? Shop bought. I can assure you there will be no mixups. Mainly as they are crisps. Maoam, Fruitella, mini mars bars etc. How many times have you had to replace them, Crank? |
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Post by crankcaller on Oct 31, 2022 11:57:42 GMT
The Fruitella had to be replaced by me last week as they'd been arsed.
The bag of mini mars bars etc had to be replaced about three weeks ago - but that was a house effort - not just my late night munchin'
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Post by stxdpr on Oct 31, 2022 11:58:05 GMT
Always amused/irked by the annual hand-wringing in the G about Halloween being an import from America, since it has a long history in many parts of the British Isles that aren't the south of England. The kids round here go guising pretty much the same as we did in the early 80s. It's not as if these festivals have a clear or single origin anyway. There are references to people partying in cemeteries on all hallows eve in sources written a thousand years ago, on the continent. Not just the British Isles; fact is that the celebration of Samhain along with similar festivals under a different name, spread from the Celtic heartlands. Galicia as a name is derived from the word Gaul; found as far apart as NW Spain and Anatolian Turkey. scamander and tenthenemy are much more knowledgeable about this than I, but the reason I think for the widespread dispersion is that the Romans hated the druids and more especially the converted empire with the early church did their best to suppress the rituals - consequently they only survived where the empire was weak. Next thing you know it will be that Santa doesn't wear a red suit and schwartze Pete is racist. Are the original Grimm stories good for children? |
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Post by crankcaller on Oct 31, 2022 12:03:26 GMT
Whammed up on Porridge and coffee.
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Post by crankcaller on Oct 31, 2022 12:05:53 GMT
I'm pretty sure Maoam, Fruitella and miniature mars bars are not crisps Clever girl! Mixups are crisps though. Maize snacks to be pedantic but they all come under the crisps banner. |
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Post by Chumbles on Oct 31, 2022 12:26:37 GMT
Whammed up on Porridge and coffee. God, that actually existsAlthough that originated in Oz... There's a Vegan version that looks worse. |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Oct 31, 2022 12:31:58 GMT
I would like to retract my previous statement about a Mr C. Caller. He is not and never has been “whammed up on wham bars”. He is in fact whammed up on “Scottish oats” and Colombian brown.
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 31, 2022 12:33:38 GMT
One main reason for the survival pre-Christian religious ideas is that the church co-opted many of them and inserted them into Christian rituals.
Some things had to be suppressed, but so long as Christianity could be laid on top of them many others were allowed to continue and encouraged.
So no burned sacrifices on altars, definitely no one calling themselves druids, but day of the dead festivals are fine.
The theology and practices of the Catholic Church were surprisingly wide for centuries.
Yet also there were these amazingly intricate disputes between theologians who desperately tried to excommunicate each other for heresy.
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Post by Sheep2 on Oct 31, 2022 12:34:32 GMT
Sheep2's face is a haunted cemetery.
Your face is a haunted cemetery.
Which is why no one parties on it. |
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Post by amipal on Oct 31, 2022 12:47:02 GMT
Classic case of the SNP rewriting history, again.
I can just imagine Nicola reading the news. “What’s this? The English hate Halloween and see it as an American import?!”
[grabs type writer, shoves paper headed “SNP Educashun Order into it]
“This’ll wind up those southern-softies!”
[papers distributed to highlands and lochs by tartan-bedecked runners]
Probably.
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Post by MrTiddles on Oct 31, 2022 12:55:05 GMT
Whammed up on Porridge and coffee. God, that actually existsI do wish Crank would flush the bog occasionally. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Oct 31, 2022 12:55:53 GMT
The theology and practices of the Catholic Church were surprisingly wide for centuries. Yet also there were these amazingly intricate disputes between theologians who desperately tried to excommunicate each other for heresy.
Pagans were ok because they were just future Christians who hadn't seen the light yet. Great bunch of lads.
Heretics were not ok because they'd been shown the light and were doing it wrong. Awful. Like XBox owners or something.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Oct 31, 2022 13:00:19 GMT
Always amused/irked by the annual hand-wringing in the G about Halloween being an import from America, since it has a long history in many parts of the British Isles that aren't the south of England. The kids round here go guising pretty much the same as we did in the early 80s. It's not as if these festivals have a clear or single origin anyway. There are references to people partying in cemeteries on all hallows eve in sources written a thousand years ago, on the continent. Not just the British Isles; fact is that the celebration of Samhain along with similar festivals under a different name, spread from the Celtic heartlands. Galicia as a name is derived from the word Gaul; found as far apart as NW Spain and Anatolian Turkey. scamander and tenthenemy are much more knowledgeable about this than I, but the reason I think for the widespread dispersion is that the Romans hated the druids and more especially the converted empire with the early church did their best to suppress the rituals - consequently they only survived where the empire was weak.
Maybe, but how much of our modern story of Halloween = Samhain is inherited from 19th century 'Celtic' revivalism as opposed to actual early evidence?
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Post by RollingEscargot on Oct 31, 2022 13:01:39 GMT
Anyone else got double maths with old Tuffers after lunch?
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Post by Chumbles on Oct 31, 2022 13:15:16 GMT
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Post by Felice Landry on Oct 31, 2022 13:41:15 GMT
Anyone else got double maths with old Tuffers after lunch? You're lucky, I've got Chumbles. |
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Post by stxdpr on Oct 31, 2022 14:16:18 GMT
Anyone else got double maths with old Tuffers after lunch? I just hope I not sat behind crank when that works its way through, porridge and opiates seems like a bad version of vodka and red bull. |
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Post by Tuffers on Oct 31, 2022 14:47:27 GMT
Happy scrounging brats day!
Last day off work. Back tomorrow. Sigh.
Been to Morrisons and stocked up. Now making a big pot of vegetable soup.
People (usually hipster sheep twats) who go on and on about how Halloween is their favourite time of the year are worse than people who go on and on about Japan. And also worse than Hitler and Dave Cameron. Cunts every last one of them.
OTTM, no.
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Post by Felice Landry on Oct 31, 2022 15:02:14 GMT
I just found out that Jeff Wayne is American, mind blown.
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