So who is going out Guisin' for Jesusween?

lol
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-complete-guide-to-jesusween

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guising#Guising
Guising

In Scotland and Ireland, "guising" — children going from house to house in disguise — is traditional, and a gift in the form of food, coins or "apples or nuts for the Halloween party" (in more recent times chocolate) is given out to the children dressed up in various costumes.[33][34] The tradition is called "guising" because of the disguises or costumes worn by the children.[35] In the West Mid Scots dialect, guising is known as "galoshans".[36] Among the earliest record of Guising at Halloween in Scotland is in 1895, where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money.[2] Guising also involved going to wealthy homes, and in the 1920s, boys went guising at Halloween up to the affluent Thorntonhall, South Lanarkshire.[37] An account of guising in the 1950s in Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, records a child receiving 12 shillings and sixpence having knocked on doors throughout the neighborhood and performed.[31] There is a significant difference from the way the practice has developed in North America with the jocular threat. In Scotland and Ireland, the children are only supposed to receive treats if they perform for the households they go to. This normally takes the form of singing a song or reciting a joke or a funny poem which the child has memorized before setting out.[31] Occasionally a more talented child may do card tricks, play the mouth organ, or something even more impressive, but most children will earn plenty of treats even with something very simple. Often they won't even need to perform.[33] While going from door to door in disguise has remained popular among Scots and Irish at Halloween, saying "trick-or-treat" has become common.

Guess which is the most fun!

Wee feckers that come to our house never do tricks, they just ask for stuff and then get right huffy and send their dads round if we don't give them stuff.

What would they do if you handed them bibles like with 'jesusween'?

Probably put my windows in.

with the bibles!

That was the unwritten bit, aye.

We never did tricks in my day, I didn't even know you were supposed to. The earliest record in Scotland is only 1895?

Must be just the fecking thieving Paisley kids :) I was sent out with a full repertoire of dad jokes and wee songs.

Well you if you go out guising in Paisley you're not expecting to get very much of anything, let's face it

Halloween in Paisley's like the Blitz, a whole street full of people with the lights off, cowering under their beds

Halloween in Paisley's like the Blitz, a whole streets full of people with the lights off, cowering under their beds

Fixed that for you

we just played fuck, we were terrors. Tying doors shut and lifting and turnin cars in drives into austin powers positions, then we'd get fucked on naggins and go swimmin. Treats weren't in it tbh

This sounds like a particularly weird ep of Homestar Runner

We had to tell jokes usually. I remember in the early 80s when we said 'trick or treat' we would get told by the houseowner that it was Scotland and you only said that in America. So its definitely not a new thing saying trick or treat here (nobody ever did a trick btw)

Now you get carved pumpkins here in supermarkets and everybody tells them that in Scotland we use turnips not pumpkins.

is it true that english kids never bothered with halloween until recently?

Not in the south anyway, I think they might have in the North though. I'm fed up explaining to English people that America didn't invent "trick or treat"

we would get told by the houseowner that it was Scotland and you only said that in America

Cuff round the ear out of the question by the early 80s I suppose?

aye haha

back then of course you went to houses of people you didn't know if you saw other 'guisers there even if your parents said to only go to people you know. Nowadays most parents seem to take the kids out.

i remember doing trick or treat inc. dressing up in the sarf nigh on 25 years ago.

i'm considering a full on grinch this year

Yeah but what you doing for Halloween?

damn, clean hit

Anyway... Jesusween

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you can get some of these!
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JesusWEEN would be a vast improvement. And I don't even like Ween.

I have at times uttered "Jesus, Ween" when being forced to listed to their tripe, it is true.

you were definitely expected to perform something round here - usually a joke but sometimes a song - although you still got your treat if you were shy. oh what a hideous thing halloween is now.

those who recited a poem definitely seemed to go down the best

How It Started

In 2002, Pastor Paul Ade requested 300 copies of New Testament pocket size Bibles from the Bible Society to use for personal evangelism. A few days before Halloween, a word came to him to give out bibles to everyone knocking at his door expecting candy. On that day over 40 bibles were given out went into the trashcan without him stepping out of his house. All it took was putting a bible into every bag as they opened each bag with a smile. It was much easier than expected and since then God kept on talking to Pastor Paul about how to help Gods people make use of the “Go Ye” instruction every October 31st and on major public holidays.

God, got to remember this is coming up and no answer the door for the next couple of weeks. THought the whole door to door thing was a yank tradition anyway.

no, scottish supposedly and the scots/irish took it to america

We got guisers in tonight from next door. Noone with bibles for jesusween though.

It seems to be standard round our way now that kids only call to you if you have decorations up or some indication that you're playing along. I'm quite happy to help the Halloween party, but I draw the line at decorations. Also I will give your kid more swag if they're wearing a home-made costume. Shop-bought costumes can eff right off.

oh wow. so at one point, kids were just knocking on every door? even when I was a kid, my parents told us to only go to houses that were decorated.

Decorations? Nobody put decorations up when I were a lad. That is an American thing.

and it were turnips not pumpkins, isnt that right mr d?

Pumpkins schmumpkins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20172392

lucky weans

Turnips not pumpkins