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In central London I keep seeing people - that's grown-ups - walking around in trick-or-treat Halloween costumes. At lunchtime. This country's going to hell in a handcart, and we're wearing fancy dress and taking selfies. Jesus wept. I give it five years till the first reports of otherwise normal adults wearing nappies because they don't like using loos.

Sexist comments disguised as banter. It's still sexism, chaps. If you're the kind of man who finds it difficult to know whether you respect women or not, try replacing the word 'woman' with 'black people' or 'muslims' and see if you're still comfortable with it.


Thought not.

Last Friday - bought three big bags of trick or treat sweets

Tuesday - noticed we'd scoffed them all. Bought four big bags to replace them.

Thursday - bought two more to make up for more scoffing.

Friday - Hoards of small children roam the neighbourhood. Large bowl of sweets gone by 7.15. Took pumpkin picture down from door.


Hallowe'en has cost me a sodding fortune. Burp.

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Buying sweets for Trick or Treaters that don't

> even bother to turn out.

>

> Foxy



Did you put a pumpkin in the window? If not, unlikely that anyone will knock which is a shame if you went to the trouble of buying sweets.


Having said that, I never participate in Halloween but my road is usually full of trick or treaters & tonight was really quiet.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Sexist comments disguised as banter. It's still

> sexism, chaps. If you're the kind of man who finds

> it difficult to know whether you respect women or

> not, try replacing the word 'woman' with 'black

> people' or 'muslims' and see if you're still

> comfortable with it.

>

> Thought not.


hmmmm "chaps" ???

aquarius moon Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Buying sweets for Trick or Treaters that don't

> > even bother to turn out.

> >

> > Foxy

>

>

> Did you put a pumpkin in the window? If not,

> unlikely that anyone will knock which is a shame

> if you went to the trouble of buying sweets.

>

> Having said that, I never participate in Halloween

> but my road is usually full of trick or treaters &

> tonight was really quiet.



No, I did not put a pumpkin in the window. I never do, but I usually get

4-5 lots of children with their mums. I did look out but there was no one out.


So I am left with loads of sweets that I cannot eat. :(

It's because the bus never stops in the same place twice.


So you just find an empty spot under the shelter and wait for the bus. When it arrives, if you're lucky, it stops near you and you get on quickly. Other times it pulls up short or goes long and you get subsumed by the crowd.


Win some, lose some.

The bus never stops in the same place and/because the stop serves multiple routes. So if you take the one outside ED station, that serves what, 5 different routes. Do you have 5 queues? Or one queue for all routes and then when 2 different buses arrive, somehow everyone for those buses politely removes themself?


It's sunrealistic to expect a queue in these situations, to my mind

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> What we need is a War and Rationing. Then we would

> all queue for everything.


If you enjoy that kind of thing you can experience it every Saturday at William Rose, and often at Moxon's too.

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