Black & Orange Day, What A Ripoff
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Must be an eastern Canadian thing Orange Black day
and the have a football team called the Red Blacks go
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Explains why she was big. Many candy bowls were stolen that night to feed her evil, little heart (was going to say blackened heart, but people would more than likely misconstrue what I was saying).
Halloween is a once-great ancient festival, first practised by the Celts of ancient Britain which, like so many other things these days, has been ruined by incessant Americanisation-commercialism.
Up until just twenty years or so ago, hardly anybody in Britain knew what a pumpkin was. We used to carve turnips and mangelwurzels at Halloween (and they still do during Punkie Night, the last Thursday in October, in the Somerset village of Hinton St George). But then in the early Nineties pumpkins started arriving on our shores en masse and we started carving pumpkins at Halloween like the bloody Yanks do.
It's time to bring back the turnips!
Down with pumpkins!
Hugo Rifkind
The Spectator
1 November 2014
Pumpkins: Feckless American imports
Possibly you’ve missed this. However, for the last three years or thereabouts, I have been conducting a low-key campaign for the revival of the turnip lantern. And this year, for the first time ever, I am remembering to write about this before Halloween, rather than afterwards, albeit narrowly so.
Fie on this pumpkin nonsense. If you are thirtysomething or older, one surefire way of figuring out whether somebody comes from outside the M25 is to ask them whether they have ever carved a turnip. ‘A what?’ they’ll ask, if they are from the south-east, because they don’t even know what turnips are, because they call them swedes. Which is just one of many ways in which they are wrong.
It's time we dumped the pumpkins and brought back the turnips (above) at Halloween
For them, anyway, the feckless American import that is a pumpkin has been an autumnal fixture. For them, the carving of a lantern has always been an easy, weak-wristed process, with the bulk of the work done for you before you even begin. Never have they hurt themselves doing it. Not unless they’re cack-handed as hell. Never has their honest childhood blood added a purple tinge to the inside of the lid.
You want to know the true metropolitan elite? They’re the people who don’t even realise that, outside London, pumpkins were more or less unheard of until about 1992. Yet now they have come and spread like grey squirrels (another unwanted American import), usurping that which came before. Where’s Ukip on turnip lanterns, that’s what I want to know. Please, guys. It’s what you’re for.
Hugo Rifkind is a writer for the Times.
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Up until just twenty years or so ago, hardly anybody in Britain knew what a pumpkin was. We used to carve turnips and mangelwurzels at Halloween (and they still do during Punkie Night, the last Thursday in October, in the Somerset village of Hinton St George). But then in the early Nineties pumpkins started arriving on our shores en masse and we started carving pumpkins at Halloween like the bloody Yanks do.
It's time to bring back the turnips!
Down with pumpkins!
Hugo Rifkind
The Spectator
1 November 2014
Pumpkins: Feckless American imports
Possibly you’ve missed this. However, for the last three years or thereabouts, I have been conducting a low-key campaign for the revival of the turnip lantern. And this year, for the first time ever, I am remembering to write about this before Halloween, rather than afterwards, albeit narrowly so.
Fie on this pumpkin nonsense. If you are thirtysomething or older, one surefire way of figuring out whether somebody comes from outside the M25 is to ask them whether they have ever carved a turnip. ‘A what?’ they’ll ask, if they are from the south-east, because they don’t even know what turnips are, because they call them swedes. Which is just one of many ways in which they are wrong.
It's time we dumped the pumpkins and brought back the turnips (above) at Halloween
For them, anyway, the feckless American import that is a pumpkin has been an autumnal fixture. For them, the carving of a lantern has always been an easy, weak-wristed process, with the bulk of the work done for you before you even begin. Never have they hurt themselves doing it. Not unless they’re cack-handed as hell. Never has their honest childhood blood added a purple tinge to the inside of the lid.
You want to know the true metropolitan elite? They’re the people who don’t even realise that, outside London, pumpkins were more or less unheard of until about 1992. Yet now they have come and spread like grey squirrels (another unwanted American import), usurping that which came before. Where’s Ukip on turnip lanterns, that’s what I want to know. Please, guys. It’s what you’re for.
Hugo Rifkind is a writer for the Times.
Argentina's six-week sulk is starting to make me feel sorry for Jeremy Clarkson » The Spectator
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But it is OK to use tax dollars to ram religion down kids throats right? Or maybe history?
Multi-culureism only includes others celebrations not ours. We should not be offended by Ramadan or Hanika but heaven forbid somebody says Merry Christmas.
You know, it would go a long way to teach kids about inclusiveness, and equality, if all these traditions were shared in school.
What a novel concept Bear! Shame that the people who run the schools don't seem to see that.
Sterilization, that's exactly what it is. In a place that purports to be the place to help young minds grow, this death march towards the banal is probably the thing that actually bothers me the most.
all of our LINC program Muslims were...the babies were all dressed up for daycare with their little bags open and ready to go
what kid doesn't like candy