Halloween or Christmas

[Terrier]

Which is bigger nowadays?
P.s. I think we are all becoming american bit by bit

[Bosscat]

Which is bigger nowadays?
P.s. I think we are all becoming american bit by bit

Sure are buddy ... Have a nice day y'all

[bfcjg]

Christmas is still bigger,however by the time the PC brigade have finished wintersville will be smaller than Karl Marks birthday.

[dougcollins]

I'm at a caravan holiday site place- Halloween is massive, two showbars now rammed with kids.

Kind of passed me by.

[Devils_Advocate]

I think Halloween has grown in this country because we've recognised how dangerous bonfire night can be and thankfully we are a lot more health and safety focused these days.

I like Christmas but I do think it could do with a bit of a rebranding to make it more inclusive now we have a much more diverse spread of people living in the UK.

[Bosscat]

I think Halloween has grown in this country because we've recognised how dangerous bonfire night can be and thankfully we are a lot more health and safety focused these days.

I like Christmas but I do think it could do with a bit of a rebranding to make it more inclusive now we have a much more diverse spread of people living in the UK.

Bah Humbug

[IPAclaret]

will someone pls give DA some new material, it was mildly amusing 10 yrs ago but it is all a bit predictable these days

He does keep bashing away with it to be fair to him and God does loves a trier after all

[bobinho]

******* tedious

[jrgbfc]

Definetely becoming more Americanised. Also social media, people think they have to follow the crowd and go out pumpkin picking because everybody else is doing it.

[ElectroClaret]

I hate Halloween with a passion, my least favourite night of the year, along with NYE (enforced jollity).

Christmas and Guy Fawkes night all the way.

[beddie]

Being an old un we didn’t really recognise or do much regarding Halloween, especially in the early 70s, since then it’s gone down the usual road of a money making exercise. Christmas was great as a kid, you got one main present (if your parents could afford it) and a few others from family, that’s changed as well these days. I just feel sorry for the children and their parents/ guardians that can’t afford either. Anyway to respond correctly to the thread it’s Christmas for me.

[whiffa]

I like Christmas but I do think it could do with a bit of a rebranding to make it more inclusive now we have a much more diverse spread of people living in the UK.

I've read some daft things before on here, but this is up there. Nor should Eid, Hannukkah or other such events be "rebranded". Nothing needs changing with Christmas.

[Clovius Boofus]

Halloween? Should be renamed 'cheap tat festival' given that amount of plastic shite that'll end up in landfill sites next week.

[exilecanada]

I hate Halloween with a passion, my least favourite night of the year, along with NYE (enforced jollity).

Christmas and Guy Fawkes night all the way.

Lead up to bonfire night was always fun when I was a kid. Nicking wood from local construction sites, 'borrowing' wood from a rivals bonfire, throwing penny bangers through letter boxes..........all good clean fun

[CaptainKirk]

I think Halloween has grown in this country because we've recognised how dangerous bonfire night can be and thankfully we are a lot more health and safety focused these days.

I like Christmas but I do think it could do with a bit of a rebranding to make it more inclusive now we have a much more diverse spread of people living in the UK.

I know it is a fishing exercise but still couldn't help myself logging in just to say bo****ks!

[tarkys_ears]

1) Don't feed the troll

2) Why ANYONE doesn't have this idiot on their foe list, I'll never know!

[TheFamilyCat]

Christmas is still bigger,however by the time the PC brigade have finished wintersville will be smaller than Karl Marks birthday.

I think you're right. I can't get my tub of Quality Street until September these days. These woke lefty loonies have ruined it for everyone.

[ClaretTony]

Lead up to bonfire night was always fun when I was a kid. Nicking wood from local construction sites, 'borrowing' wood from a rivals bonfire, throwing penny bangers through letter boxes..........all good clean fun

Hardly gets a mention now with this Halloween nonsense

[BurnleyFC]

As an adult, I dislike Halloween, Guy Fawkes’ Night, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve.

Yes, I’ve turned into a miserable ******.

[claret2018]

Halloween is great when people make an effort. Where I live there’s a lot of families and everyone takes part, the streets will be packed tonight, until about 8.30 when it fizzles out.

The kids enjoy it much more than going to a bonfire, which is pretty boring.

[exilecanada]

You can't say Merry Christmas or Happy Christmas here anymore, must be Happy Holidays. It's no longer referred to as the Christmas season, it's now the Holiday season.

[Devils_Advocate]

You can't say Merry Christmas or Happy Christmas here anymore, must be Happy Holidays. It's no longer referred to as the Christmas season, it's now the Holiday season.

[beddie]

You can't say Merry Christmas or Happy Christmas here anymore, must be Happy Holidays. It's no longer referred to as the Christmas season, it's now the Holiday season.

That’s sums it up for me. The worlds gone mad or should I say Woke.

[Bordeauxclaret]

Hold on, shouldn’t we be getting angry about people not wearing poppies before we get start getting upset about not being able to say Merry Christmas?

[Cirrus_Minor]

Bonfire night has definitely been ruined by that Karl Marks

[kentonclaret]

As an adult, I dislike Halloween, Guy Fawkes’ Night, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve.

Yes, I’ve turned into a miserable ******.

Where I live in NW London fireworks celebrations for Guy Fawkes last 2 days maximum, but for Diwali fireworks are being let off for the whole of November and most Asian stores have signs up advertising fireworks for sale. Fireworks are being let off well after midnight and there seems no enforcement of any restrictions (if any even exist).

[TheFamilyCat]

You can't say Merry Christmas or Happy Christmas here anymore, must be Happy Holidays. It's no longer referred to as the Christmas season, it's now the Holiday season.

What happens if you do let out an accidental "merry Christmas"?

[DCWat]

Where I live in NW London fireworks celebrations for Guy Fawkes last 2 days maximum, but for Diwali fireworks are being let off for the whole of November and most Asian stores have signs up advertising fireworks for sale. Fireworks are being let off well after midnight and there seems no enforcement of any restrictions (if any even exist).

It’s a year round thing in Bradford!

Thankfully, I’m well enough away to not hear them, but fireworks at Asian weddings have been a big issue in and around Bradford for many years.

I stayed at my Mum’s (Baildon) a couple of years back, whilst having work done on the house - most nights I was woken up by fireworks from the Shipley / Manningham area.

[cbx750]

Lead up to bonfire night was always fun when I was a kid. Nicking wood from local construction sites,

There's a bloke on YouTube tells how he and his mates were caught nicking wood from a wood yard and they were given a good hiding by the owner. That owner was Donald Neilson also known as the Black panther.

[cbx750]

There's a bloke on YouTube tells how he and his mates were caught nicking wood from a wood yard and they were given a good hiding by the owner. That owner was Donald Neilson also known as the Black panther.

https://youtu.be/2PD9o5pxigc?si=f2j-JSnWm9Q-bDBT

[Dark Cloud]

Neither. Both **** and should be binned and banned.

[AGENT_CLARET]

Some Spurs fan's have a good sence of humour with this Halloween decoration

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[IanMcL]

Never saw a pumpkin here until a few years ago. Certainly not in my youth, when Halloween was just for witches and the spirit world.

[mikeS]

Do people still go up Pendle on Halloween?

[exilecanada]

What happens if you do let out an accidental "Merry Christmas"?

Good question. Probably sent to Quebec to be re-woked at Justin Trudeau's school of wokeness.

[elwaclaret]

There's a bloke on YouTube tells how he and his mates were caught nicking wood from a wood yard and they were given a good hiding by the owner. That owner was Donald Neilson also known as the Black panther.

He jumped out in front of my dad walking the dog on Back Lane in Bash the night he killed the post master on Manchest Road. We lived in Baxinden and I still remember detectives coming round… my brother and I were expecting John Thaw and Dennis Waterman… but they were just blokes in suites.

[mikeS]

Halloween 1998 Burnley Express

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[Nonayforever]

Christmas has been maxed out retail wise, sales are falling year on year.
Amazon can't sell fireworks so they promote Halloween which still has legs as far as retail sales go.

It's not what the public want , it's what Amazon want to give them.

[MrTopTier]

He jumped out in front of my dad walking the dog on Back Lane in Bash the night he killed the post master on Manchest Road. We lived in Baxinden and I still remember detectives coming round… my brother and I were expecting John Thaw and Dennis Waterman… but they were just blokes in suites.

The seeteeny.

[kentonclaret]

It’s a year round thing in Bradford!

Thankfully, I’m well enough away to not hear them, but fireworks at Asian weddings have been a big issue in and around Bradford for many years.

I stayed at my Mum’s (Baildon) a couple of years back, whilst having work done on the house - most nights I was woken up by fireworks from the Shipley / Manningham area.

The fireworks this evening have been going off since around 8pm and are still going off now as I post this at 10.40pm. It will be like this now for the next 4 weeks. Bonfire night will just get lost amidst the pyrotechnics going off for Halloween/Diwali.

[elwaclaret]

The seeteeny.

Very good hadn’t noticed the misspelling, may be predictive… but may also may be me not concentrating.

[evensteadiereddie]

I think you're right. I can't get my tub of Quality Street until September these days. These woke lefty loonies have ruined it for everyone.

Excellent pi&& take there, fella.

[evensteadiereddie]

That’s sums it up for me. The worlds gone mad or should I say Woke.

Yup, if only it were true...

[Dazzler]

Which is bigger nowadays?
P.s. I think we are all becoming american bit by bit

"Halloween’s origins can be traced back to the seventh century, when Pope Boniface IV established All Saints’ Day on 13 May, to honour saints who had reached heaven. This feast day was moved to 1 November in the eighth century. Upon this change, the day before it – 31 October – became known as All Hallows’ Eve or Halloween."

"After 1605, Hallowtide was eclipsed in England by Guy Fawkes Night (5 November), which appropriated some of its customs. In England, the ending of official ceremonies related to the intercession of saints led to the development of new, unofficial Hallowtide customs. In 18th–19th century rural Lancashire, Catholic families gathered on hills on the night of All Hallows' Eve. One held a bunch of burning straw on a pitchfork while the rest knelt around him, praying for the souls of relatives and friends until the flames went out. This was known as teen'lay. There was a similar custom in Hertfordshire and the lighting of 'tindle' fires in Derbyshire. Some suggested these were originally lit to "guide the poor souls back to earth". In Scotland and Ireland, old Allhallowtide customs that were at odds with Reformed teaching were not suppressed as they "were important to the life cycle and rites of passage of local communities" and curbing them would have been difficult."

[Dazzler]

"Lesley Bannatyne and Cindy Ott write that Anglican colonists in the southern United States and Catholic colonists in Maryland "recognized All Hallow's Eve in their church calendars" However, the Puritans of New England strongly opposed the holiday, along with other traditional celebrations of the established Church, including Christmas. Almanacs of the late 18th and early 19th centuries give no indication that Halloween was widely celebrated in North America."

"It was not until after mass Irish and Scottish immigration in the 19th century that Halloween became a major holiday in America. Most American Halloween traditions were inherited from the Irish and Scots. "In Cajun areas, a nocturnal Mass was said in cemeteries on Halloween night. Candles that had been blessed were placed on graves, and families sometimes spent the entire night at the graveside". Originally confined to these immigrant communities, it was gradually assimilated into mainstream society and was celebrated coast to coast by people of all social, racial, and religious backgrounds by the early 20th century. Then, through American influence, these Halloween traditions spread to many other countries by the late 20th and early 21st century, including to mainland Europe and some parts of the Far East."

[Stonehouse]

I think Halloween has grown in this country because we've recognised how dangerous bonfire night can be and thankfully we are a lot more health and safety focused these days.

I like Christmas but I do think it could do with a bit of a rebranding to make it more inclusive now we have a much more diverse spread of people living in the UK.

Definitely living up to your name DA.

[Spike]

You can't say Merry Christmas or Happy Christmas here anymore, must be Happy Holidays. It's no longer referred to as the Christmas season, it's now the Holiday season.

There’s only one proper season and that’s the Football season

No need to ask if All Hallows is Bigger than Christmas . Only one is that big that it is a National Holiday

I love Christmas

[Pearcey]

The kids love it. That’s what it’s about isn’t it?