I'd love to have given out monkey nuts and grapes.

Think with the weather people just stuck to their main street which was good news for me.

Creep. 

An IT marathon today. Just finished reading it for the first time. Stephen King is f**king insane

The long weekend making it feel a way longer event this year 😃

 Life catches up fast 

Indeed 

Not too long ago, Andy would be telling us about being at said party after a night down level 4

What are the bets something goes wrong?

A) Phone dead and no sign of him and on a search party all evening until he comes through the door at 2am

B) Begs can he stay, gets someone on the phone pretending to be a parent and that he can stay.

C) phone call of him in tears needing to be come collected

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Won't say I am not jealous about the period of life he is starting off right now. The golden years.

B) That was me. I had a really mature sounding voice back then.

You're the adults, you set the rules. You pick a time and you pick him up or hes not going, end of story. Any pricking about and hes grounded.

My own parents at that age gave me a bit of freedom once I respected their rules. i.e they'd buy me a 4 pack of cans on the condition I drank no more and no spirits. I told them where I was actually going and be back when I was told. At 16/17 they had to drop me off and pick me up or I wast going. Though they were sound enough to park down the road out of view and let me walk down the road to them to save embarrassment.

Most my group of mates parents were like that, often we'd have gaff parties at Halloween or whatever with whoevers parents upstairs in the gaff but keeping out of the way and letting us do our own thing downstairs. Few cans, few games of FIFA/PES, few tunes and films or whatever. Everyone out by a set time.

Without it we'd have probably just have been sneaking out, or lying where we were going, getting blacked out drunk in a freezing cold field surrounded by all sorts of scummers.

Our neighbour, slightly older than me, who I grew up with was a lot like a young Andy growing up. Now he's a very mature and responsible parent/step-parent who's inherited same house. My older brother was at his house and said that this lad took the door off the oldest's bedroom to prevent her sneaking out/trust issues or some such. Seemed a bit excessive. Even moreso considering their living room stinks of weed.

He is a lot more sensible and innocent than I was. 

Came home at reasonable time, only had a bottle 

Stinky fingers? Used to love Halloween as a teenager/ early 20s

Sweets ready to go for trick or treaters. Dawn of the Dead, Ring, Blair With and Lost Boys lined up from the minute I'm home from work

Love it 

I have some full match DVDs of EIRE under Stephen Kenny to scare me

EIRE v Luxembourg

EIRE v Armenia

EIRE v Greece 1 and the sequel

HERE'S KENNY

The wife didn't get any treats in. I'm thinking WTF am I going to to do from 5pm to 9pm today.

If there was a Halloween version of Scrooge, I would definitely be 1 of them. 

Going out for a nice autumn stroll at sunset only to see a Z type Honda civic burning down the end of your road.

Bliss.

Noticed that this year. Even the shops and the houses arent done up as much. Last year at the start of October there seemed to be loads of talk of Halloween, this year was much later. Maybe people were mad to celebrate anything after covid and after last year they realised unless you are under 12 years old Halloween is a load of sh*te

'They've going way over board with Halloween these days, it's nearly as big as Christmas'. 

Yes you've said it 4 times already.

Hate it with the dogs, they've been going mental barking since the start of October with the fireworks and bangers.

Yes, modern Halloween is very much an Americanised holiday, but it's roots are here 

Theres loads of festival and parades on around the country.

Puca fest in Meath, Samhain in Limerick, Bram Stoker in Dublin, Macnas Parades in Galway and Dublin and other counties.

Micheal Myers is from The EIRE

I saw some horror film when I was about 5 or 6 and the memory of it still sticks in my head.  I have no idea what film it is though.  I specifically remember some special needs child was in the hospital and during the night some sort of evil spirit or ghost appeared outside his window and lured him to the window and I cant remember but he died by either falling out the window or the ghost killed him.

Then another scene in the film is they are at the graveyard (I guess for his funeral) and then the wind started howling out of nowhere.

It was an American film.

Anyone any guess what film it was?

Walkers or those fake Monstor claws things from Lidl/Aldi?

Love the Walkers ones myself

I remember when they used to start lighting them in August up there in the run up! How is the community morale since the Bog closed?

actually the original which are now

Called mighty munch from Tayto.  

Meanies and banshee bones came in the door too 😀😀

Monster Munch were always Tayto though right?

I know Banshee Bones were Perri but they were bought out by Tayto hence they are now Tayto maybe Monster Munch were similar 

Seriously in my day you knocked on the doors of the people on the road you knew that's it

Genuinely never heard of this before? Is it a culchie thing?

Ah well then call them Might Munch. Also a fine crisp. But still not as nice as the original Tayto Monstor Munch in yellow pack 

I think when I was very young going around with parents we used this

Mighty much are the original monster munch in Ireland.  They were forced to change the name of them when Walkers came into the market and messed it all up.  Tayto are the original and the Irish brand.  Just like James McClean I am not going to flip 😀😀😀

Help the Halloween party was prevalent in Dublin too in the 80s. Trick or treat is an American thing.  Also when we were younger we had to sing or say a poem, we just didn’t stick our hand out.   We all sang darling Nikki by prince 😀😀😀

We had a family of travellers knock on our door last night and one of their kids was 3 weeks old all dressed up. Genuinely couldn't believe it 

Don;t know.  I grew up in the projects of west Dublin.

Loads of Travellers would usually come around our estate, literally bailing out of the back of a hiace van 

Would rarely eat sweet\crisps and don't eat chocolate but.

That's my sweet blow out until Chrimbo.

Same for me.

6 packs of crisps and 25 bars?! 

 

How the fook did you manage to eat all that. 

A guy I work with said he ate I think it was 5kg of chocolate in 1 day - he was sick for a few days,

Needless to say he was on the bench most weeks 

I stopped that and gave up chocolate about 3 years ago - will eat it 2/3 times a year now. Yesterday was my blow out until Christmas.

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