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What time does trick or treating start?

  • 31-10-2017 03:54PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭


    What time is it start tonight.

    I want to know what time to have the cats in at?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Is it ok to stick an electrical charge to the doorbell? I'm thinking 2.5v, not trying to kill them or anything - just a nasty sting


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    when the sun goes down,

    The sugar hungry monsters emerge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    begbysback wrote: »
    Is it ok to stick an electrical charge to the doorbell? I'm thinking 2.5v, not trying to kill them or anything - just a nasty sting

    Get out now and buy loads of sweets while you still can you fool!

    Normally dark between 6 and half 6 - kicks off then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    2 lots - about 8 kids - here already. They were 5 years old or younger, so out before it got dark.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    I used to start as soon as it got dark, so I'd have time to get to as many housing estates as possible.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,391 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    More importantly, what time does it bloody finish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    begbysback wrote: »
    Is it ok to stick an electrical charge to the doorbell? I'm thinking 2.5v, not trying to kill them or anything - just a nasty sting

    Try and aim for about 24v , 2.5v is just a tickle.

    Keep the current down , ya don't want to be cremating any little ones.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    I know the trick or treat I'll give them.

    A good crack on the arse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,322 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I'd say after 6


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    when the sun goes down,

    The sugar hungry monsters emerge.
    I've seen more out and about from 3-5pm than later in recent years. I'm in a relatively quiet area for trick or treaters but I'd say a good 80% have come and gone before it even starts to get bright.

    Either we're at the start of the route for most of them, or I've got to feel sympathy for those kids. Being allowed out and about after dark on Halloween as a young kid (while looting all the sweets you could and quietly learning to curse the monkey nut houses - what is the deal with that!?) was one of the most fun nights of the year.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    I started at lunch time, few more houses to do in the area then its off to the next housing estate


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭badabing106


    GBX wrote: »
    I started at lunch time, few more houses to do in the area then its off to the next housing estate

    What kind of stuff are they giving you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Grouchy fcuk that lived close to us when I was a lad used to dip raw onions in chocolate and then stick a lollipop stick in them for the trick or treaters:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    What kind of stuff are they giving you?

    Abuse and foul language


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,880 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    It is not an Irish tradition and i'm against allowing children out after dark to knock strangers doors. That could be very dangerous and not a good message to be giving to children.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    Brussell sprouts dipped in chocolate.

    We head out with the kids about 5.30/6.00 I find before that a lot of people aren't ready


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,436 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Once it's dark so usually starts about 5.30. I remember as a kid beibg dressed up early on + wait for it to be dark so you would be allowed out. Never had calls when it's bright. No need for kids to go out that early.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    We are expecting the 1st few younger kids any time soon, then from 6 till 9, I may as well just stand outside with bags of sweets


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,049 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    There's more Christmas movies on tonight than horrors.

    Load of ****.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    I would expect trick-or-treaters between 5.30 and 8.30. Bangers have been going off since 10am though, and every day for the past two months, so the cat is already in. I wouldn't view the trick-or-treaters as the problem when it comes to posing a threat to pets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    It is not an Irish tradition and i'm against allowing children out after dark to knock strangers doors. That could be very dangerous and not a good message to be giving to children.

    It is an Irish tradition - my grandparents would have knocked on doors asking for help with the Halloween party and it is probably far older than that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    I would expect trick-or-treaters between 5.30 and 8.30. Bangers have been going off since 10am though, and every day for the past two months, so the cat is already in. I wouldn't view the trick-or-treaters as the problem when it comes to posing a threat to pets.

    I have one cat in, just waiting for the other one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    I have one cat in, just waiting for the other one.

    Waiting for my fecker to come back too, he's been out since early morning.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    It is not an Irish tradition and i'm against allowing children out after dark to knock strangers doors. That could be very dangerous and not a good message to be giving to children.

    Pity they hand out sweets and not towels at Halloween because you should dry the f*ck up. It's a bit of harmless fun.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Lux23 wrote: »
    It is an Irish tradition - my grandparents would have knocked on doors asking for help with the Halloween party and it is probably far older than that.

    Not really. It was a night for tricks and pranks certainly but the calling door to door is relatively new.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    I know the trick or treat I'll give them.

    A good crack on the arse.

    is that you kevin spacey


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 LLL11


    Is 8:30 too late to start? I won't be home to bring the little fella before that but don't want to annoy people either


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It is not an Irish tradition and i'm against allowing children out after dark to knock strangers doors. That could be very dangerous and not a good message to be giving to children.

    Oh give over. It's a bit of fun for them. The 'message' is just your mind running riot.


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  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,241 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Jaysis, some awful miserable ****ers in this thread!

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,880 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Burial. wrote: »
    Pity they hand out sweets and not towels at Halloween because you should dry the f*ck up. It's a bit of harmless fun.
    Ah shucks.
    Sending children to strangers door is not fun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,295 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    Turn off the lights and close curtains and they won't bother you. I hope.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭Doylers


    0ph0rce0 wrote: »
    There's more Christmas movies on tonight than horrors.

    Load of ****.
    Then binge watch stranger things !!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    Waiting for my fecker to come back too, he's been out since early morning.

    It's like they know they have a curfew on a particular day, and stay out for hours.

    I actually got the hard one in easy enough. The other fella should be back when he wants food.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    Ah shucks.
    Sending children to strangers door is not fun.

    Ask any child tonight if they have had as much fun all year dressing up, playing pranks and getting sweets. The vast majority of houses welcome them too. It's actually surprising how many people go along with Halloween. Seems more people complain about Christmas than Halloween.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    LLL11 wrote: »
    Is 8:30 too late to start? I won't be home to bring the little fella before that but don't want to annoy people either

    Probably a bit late if it means you'll still be knocking on doors at 9.00. A lot of people will have run out of sweets by then, and others will have just stopped answering the door.

    To the original question, it usually starts to kick off at about 5 in my area with the small kids, and then the rest would normally come between about 6 - 7.30.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    It is not an Irish tradition and i'm against allowing children out after dark to knock strangers doors. That could be very dangerous and not a good message to be giving to children.

    Most groups of children will have an adult with them, hovering at the gate somewhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    I live in a huge estate. My dogs are going to go awol. They hate the doorbell and the puppy finds its a personal task to run out anytime I open the door


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Oh give over. It's a bit of fun for them. The 'message' is just your mind running riot.

    Mad isn't it how children weren't mass kidnapped back even in the early/mid 90s on Halloween when we used to go trick or treating?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,391 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    It is not an Irish tradition and i'm against allowing children out after dark to knock strangers doors. That could be very dangerous and not a good message to be giving to children.

    Actually, Halloween originates from the Irish/Celtic festival of Samhain. The Irish tradition of going around from house to house dressed up, masked and asking for food is at least 500 years old.


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  • Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    .....
    A good crack on the arse.

    Can't be spanking kids


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    It is not an Irish tradition and i'm against allowing children out after dark to knock strangers doors. That could be very dangerous and not a good message to be giving to children.

    Actually, Halloween originates from the Irish/Celtic festival of Samhain. The Irish tradition of going around from house to house dressed up, masked and asking for food is at least 500 years old.

    And if the householder was a miserable git, he was dragged from his house , decapitated, brains gouged out and his skull filled with the crap no-one eats.Usually crisps.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,529 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Im not going to be home until about 7. So hopefully the majority will be gone by then because i dont have any sweets. Well i do, but they're mine. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,391 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    And if the householder was a miserable git, he was dragged from his house , decapitated, brains gouged out and his skull filled with the crap no-one eats.Usually crisps.

    True.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Feck, just realised that I have no sweets in the house. And I don't want to have to stop on the way home


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    LLL11 wrote: »
    Is 8:30 too late to start? I won't be home to bring the little fella before that but don't want to annoy people either

    I was just about to post on thread about people in your predicament.

    I have a stash put away for the kids whose parents don’t get home till late. Those poor parents already miss out on sports days and Christmas plays so please think of them tonight and not add to their guilt.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    A knock on the door....

    tenor.gif


  • Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ..........That could be very dangerous and not a good message to be giving to children.

    A guy was telling me that in the 80s when himself and his buddies went trick or treating in New Hampshire they'd bring the sweets to the local hospital to be x rayed (for bits of blades etc) before consuming them :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,213 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Live in an apartment with 2 outer doors and my doorbell (genuinely) doesn't work. I don't expect to be bothered!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    I left all the sweets out at the front door, disconnected the doorbell (so the dog wouldn't have a meltdown), and now I'm in the pub.


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