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Room 101 (like the TV prog)

Lesleywo said:
At the risk of offending people on this forum (apologies in advance) ... something that has bugged me for many a year is 'Trick or Treating' at Halloween. Personally I think it's wrong on many levels to allow your children to (a) go to complete strangers' houses and demand sweets and (b) throw an egg at their house if they don't oblige. (Forgive me if this is not big in England, it didn't happen when I lived there!)

'Back in the day' we used to dress as Witches, carve lanterns out of swedes or pumpkins and participate in apple dunking (?). I reckon kids would get a great deal more pleasure out of doing that sort of stuff .... Trick or Treat is American, whatever happened to good old British traditions?
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You thought this would offend??
I say chuck em in accompanied by the feckless parents, and the stores that sell the most disgusting scary merchandise to encourage the behaviour.
Someone I know hands out little cards with religious texts and gives them a little talk about Jesus. They don't call back.
 
Heathenlass said:
Worry not, we still carry out the Olde Traditions here, like soaking toast in beer , hanging it in apple trees, singing to them then walloping them with sticks Notto mention rolling cheeses and wheels set on fire down steep hills . Jolly good fun we have in the country :D

Signy
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Sounds fun? Does the cheese get toasted on the way down the hill?
 
Pipp said:
You thought this would offend??
I say chuck em in accompanied by the feckless parents, and the stores that sell the most disgusting scary merchandise to encourage the behaviour.
Someone I know hands out little cards with religious texts and gives them a little talk about Jesus. They don't call back.
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Here here! Can't believe parents allow it ... chuck 'em in, lock 'em up and throw away the key!
 
I nominate feeling cold and it is still only August.
Got me wanting to make stews and soups and other comfort food. The fridge is full of ruddy salad!
 
Pipp said:
I nominate feeling cold and it is still only August.
Got me wanting to make stews and soups and other comfort food. The fridge is full of ruddy salad!
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I'm sitting on my sofa under a duvet with my cardigan on. I fully support coldness going in lol
 
MrsB said:
I'm sitting on my sofa under a duvet with my cardigan on. I fully support coldness going in lol
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Nooooooooooooooo!!! I won't have that!! I hate the heat ... put that in! I know, I know, I'm living in the wrong country - Anyway, I thought you lot over there were having a scorcher of a summer? That's what my rels have been telling me :-)
 
Lesleywo said:
Nooooooooooooooo!!! I won't have that!! I hate the heat ... put that in! I know, I know, I'm living in the wrong country - Anyway, I thought you lot over there were having a scorcher of a summer? That's what my rels have been telling me :)
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The scorcher stopped abruptly last week. Rain and gales and freezing cold.
However, the scorcher was not much fun either. Sun brings me out in a rash. How about extremes of weather going in?
 
While I am on a roll with the rants, how about Christmas merchandise being pushed at us before the summer bank holiday?
Prize for the first xmas email this year goes to DUK!
Almost put DUK in, but that would mean all of us, so amend to anyone sending out touting emails for xmas tat, especially if it is before December?
 
Pipp said:
While I am on a roll with the rants, how about Christmas merchandise being pushed at us before the summer bank holiday?
Prize for the first xmas email this year goes to DUK!
Almost put DUK in, but that would mean all of us, so amend to anyone sending out touting emails for xmas tat, especially if it is before December?
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A friend told me just this morning that she'd seen Xmas decs for sale 2 weeks ago in one of our leading department stores. Gets earlier every year. Cracks me up when I see the Hot Cross Buns appear in the supermarkets on Boxing Day .. they just can't help themselves
 
Ooh.

I hope this thread is still running for Xmas... The potential is mind boggling...

It'll be like Father Christmas vomited in 101.

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Whistling! My friend who I work with constantly whistles all day from 7.30am to bed time I expect and it gets louder and louder... Usually I just ignore but recently my patience has waned lol ;)
 
Seriously_Sax1989 said:
Whistling! My friend who I work with constantly whistles all day from 7.30am to bed time I expect and it gets louder and louder... Usually I just ignore but recently my patience has waned lol ;)
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Yes. Whistling is IN.

My father in law whistles, jigs his leg and taps tables with his fingers.

He's a lovely man, but I can only cope for about 2 hours before the chainsaw-massacre-fantasies start creeping in.

I'm amazed you can work with a whistler. All day. What a dreadful thought.

And why O why can they never hold a tune?
 
Ahh yes leg jiggling and finger tapping come part and parcel with these whistlers!

I must be a great friend to said whistler or glutton for punishment as I give him a lift home after work and many times I've panicked that my car is rattling when in actual fact it's him tapping fingers on the roof!!
 
I hold my hands up to being a major fidget. Bouncing legs usually. Apparently some report somewhere stated that people like me burn off an extra 300 calories a day because of it. It's my excuse fir not doing more exercise usually but I know it drives MrB mad. Especially as our 7 yr old son also does it lol
 
I've told my Mr B that if he ever turns into his father (the whistling tapping bits) then I will divorce him. I would be very sad, possibly heartbroken - because I love him deeply - but I just wouldn't be able to stand it.

However, I have discovered a very effective way of deterring him. As soon as I feel the couch/table/bed begin to vibrate with his fidgeting, I gently reach out and start to lightly tap his arm in a different rhythm.

After all, if his tapping annoys me, why shouldn't my tapping annoy him?

Works every time.

He actually gets more annoyed by tapping than I do.

Who'da thought? :rolleyes:
 
Brunneria said:
I've told my Mr B that if he ever turns into his father (the whistling tapping bits) then I will divorce him. I would be very sad, possibly heartbroken - because I love him deeply - but I just wouldn't be able to stand it.

However, I have discovered a very effective way of deterring him. As soon as I feel the couch/table/bed begin to vibrate with his fidgeting, I gently reach out and start to lightly tap his arm in a different rhythm.

After all, if his tapping annoys me, why shouldn't my tapping annoy him?

Works every time.

He actually gets more annoyed by tapping than I do.

Who'da thought? :rolleyes:
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That's just cruel :) it is a completely subconscious action.
 
Pipp said:
While I am on a roll with the rants, how about Christmas merchandise being pushed at us before the summer bank holiday?
Prize for the first xmas email this year goes to DUK!
Almost put DUK in, but that would mean all of us, so amend to anyone sending out touting emails for xmas tat, especially if it is before December?
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I have just received my regular spam from Harrods (bought posh marmalade for my mother in law 4 yrs ago now get almost daily emails) trying to sell me Jasper the Christmas bear!!!!! Agh
 
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