Guisers/halloween

[BrianFaePerth]

It is trick or treat, what the fuck is guising?

 

Some strange tradition practiced by the Scotch

[Pash]

Three scary costumes in Drummonds on Saturday night.

 

Think the one in the middle is meant to be Amy Winehouse before she died.

[BrianFaePerth]

Three scary costumes in Drummonds on Saturday night.

 

That's jist The G_L_A / Bad Mobby. The fact it wis Halloween is coincidental.

[daytripping]

So what do you say when folk answer the door if you are guising?

 

Penny for the guy................the guy was usually in a hand constructed cartie!

 

You then burnt the guy on the bonfire on the 5th.

[daytripping]

It is trick or treat, what the fuck is guising?

 

Trick or treat is american poofery.

[thebladder]

So what do you say when folk answer the door if you are guising?

 

is that a serious question?

 

used to be 'penny for the guy' when I was a loon (only silver would have been appreciated though)

 

I would support 'pound for the guy' nowadays.

 

While we are on it, what is with this pumpkin shite?

Pumpkins are for lazy americans, if I ever have kids, I'll make them howk oot Neaps.

That's fit I did as a kid, and so what if I bent every spoon/tattie pealer in the hoose dein it.

 

Hollowing out and carving a neap is something you can be proud off,

any idiot can carve a face/cat/spider on a pumpkin.

[daytripping]

[Henry]

You were a stylish dresser, even then Daytripper.

[daytripping]

is that a serious question?

 

used to be 'penny for the guy' when I was a loon (only silver would have been appreciated though)

 

I would support 'pound for the guy' nowadays.

 

While we are on it, what is with this pumpkin shite?

Pumpkins are for lazy americans, if I ever have kids, I'll make them howk oot Neaps.

That's fit I did as a kid, and so what if I bent every spoon/tattie pealer in the hoose dein it.

 

Hollowing out and carving a neap is something you can be proud off,

any idiot can carve a face/cat/spider on a pumpkin.

 

Going out to the farmers field and stealing a big neep was a job in its own right, kids these days just don't have the same imagination.

[Pash]

is that a serious question?

 

used to be 'penny for the guy' when I was a loon (only silver would have been appreciated though)

 

I would support 'pound for the guy' nowadays.

 

While we are on it, what is with this pumpkin shite?

Pumpkins are for lazy americans, if I ever have kids, I'll make them howk oot Neaps.

That's fit I did as a kid, and so what if I bent every spoon/tattie pealer in the hoose dein it.

 

Hollowing out and carving a neap is something you can be proud off,

any idiot can carve a face/cat/spider on a pumpkin.

 

I am 23 so yes it was a serious question!

 

I have never been out guising so I didn't know and all the kids that come to my door say trick or treat.

[amancalledbuck]

Some strange tradition practiced by the Scotch

 

 

The scotch took it with them to Americeh.

 

The whole shebang is a Scottish thing.

[thebladder]

I am 23 so yes it was a serious question!

 

I have never been out guising so I didn't know and all the kids that come to my door say trick or treat.

 

I'm aboot ten years older than you and trick or treatin was just comin in fan I was still guising.

the Americanization annoyed me even back then :D

[Pash]

I'm aboot ten years older than you and trick or treatin was just comin in fan I was still guising.

Bugged me even back then :D

 

Going by Dayts photo I reckon guising is cooler than trick or treating.

[The Boofon]

It's guising for Halloween. Penny for the guy has nothing to do with guising at all. Totally different thing altogether and Dayts you're just associating the word "Guy" with guising when the two are in no way related whatsoever.

 

First two letters are the same but that's coincidence and nothing more.

[360]

I though penny for the guy was for bonfire night.

[looksgoodinred]

It's guising for Halloween. Penny for the guy has nothing to do with guising at all. Totally different thing altogether and Dayts you're just associating the word "Guy" with guising when the two are in no way related whatsoever.

 

First two letters are the same but that's coincidence and nothing more.

 

Guy Fawkes Night. i didn't know that.

 

The fifth of November, since I can remember,

Was Guy Faux, Poke him in the eye,

Shove him up the chimney-pot, and there let him die.

A stick and a stake, for King George's sake,

If you don't give me one, I'll take two,

The better for me, and the worse for you,

Ricket-a-racket your hedges shall go.

 

and according to the internet... "Guy Fawkes Night became a domestic celebration, and children often congregated on street corners, accompanied by their own effigy of Guy Fawkes. This was sometimes ornately dressed and sometimes a barely-recognisable bundle of straw and rags. Collecting money was a popular reason for their creation, the children taking their effigy from door to door, or displaying it on street corners. But mainly, they were built to go on the bonfire, itself sometimes comprising wood stolen from other pyres; "an acceptable convention" that helped bolster another November tradition, Mischief Night."

[Pash]

I though penny for the guy was for bonfire night.

 

Aye as in Guy Fawkes?

[Marty13479]

As a dad of two wee ones what has got me this year is the fact they have been going to Halloween parties since last Friday. House has been decked out in all sorts of scary stuff. Wife bought it and I spent the best part of 3 hours putting it all up.

 

I prefer the concept of guising but to be fair my two have had a lot more fun over the last 4 days than I ever did at Halloween. So if it

[Nelly]

It's guising for Halloween. Penny for the guy has nothing to do with guising at all. Totally different thing altogether and Dayts you're just associating the word "Guy" with guising when the two are in no way related whatsoever.

 

First two letters are the same but that's coincidence and nothing more.

 

Guising was going round the doors asking for a penny for the guy and it was done the week running up to bonfire night. On Halloween we used to just have a fancy dress party where you bobbed for apples, tried to eat a donut (or doughring as we called them back then) dangling from a piece of string plus some other games, usually finished with a disco and a competition for best fancy dress. No knocking on doors required.

[tainboy]

This neep and pumpkin thing was discussed on here last year where it was agreed that the current scale of neep us far smaller than jeeps of old.

 

 

Also I'm sure guising came from disguising. In "olden" days, the nuggets thought ghouls, goblins, trolls, zombies and Gary glitter etc would rise from the dead and steal their offspring, so to trick them, they would dress up the bairns as said scaries so that they wouldn't steal one of their own.

[Red Morning Light]

Da never let me go out guising as we are from Aberdeen and don't do begging for food. I now fully agree with this! Didn't as a greedy little kid like!

[daytripping]

Bofoon,

 

I can assure you on halloween night we took our guy round the houses in a cart and said penny for the guy, the idea was you got money for squibs but it usually got blown on sweets.

[Coopy100]

Hollowing out and carving a neap is something you can be proud off,

any idiot can carve a face/cat/spider on a pumpkin.

Neeps are far it is at. Instills a bit o discipline dis carvin oot a neep. Richt bastard o a job it is ana. Nae like a pumpkin far yi can use a spoon an be deen in fuckin' seconds.

 

doughring

Still a doughring roon my hoose. Ony fanny ca's it a doughnut gets a skelp.

[tightbreeks]

I had a haribo multipack ready for the guisers and nobody came round. they must hate me, but at least i've got wee bags of tangfastics and starmix to munch.

[tup]

Hate it, total nonsense.

 

I'm getting dressed up for no cunt, shocking when you see adults in fancy dress, I cannot reconcile my head to the mentality required to ham it up bigtime.

 

It's basically legitimised scrounging, promoted by mendacious shopkeepers looking to turn a

[tainboy]

Every time I go to wick it's like fancy dress all the people wearing out of date clothing. Last time up there everyone was wear Naff co jackets.

[tup]

Every time I go to wick it's like fancy dress all the people wearing out of date clothing. Last time up there everyone was wear Naff co jackets.

 

Seb min I hardly think Tain is a cultural mecca, full of weegies who murder each other last I checked.

[tainboy]

That's Alness. Tain is full of guffies and ned-wannabes.

 

 

Plus Tain is cultured. It's got me as an ex-inhabitant.

[tainboy]

Whoops

[tup]

That's Alness. Tain is full of guffies and ned-wannabes.

 

 

Plus Tain is cultured. It's got me as an ex-inhabitant.

 

As a world famous DJ you are probably the only decent thing to emerge from there, Dornoch is much more cultured, Tain is quite simply weird.