Bollocks to Halloween it's a nakedly, trashy, commercial, money-grubbing, tat-gift flogging piece of Ameri…

Sorry. No, it's not. It's actually a British festival. Originally. Thanksgiving? That's purely an American thing. But All Hallows Eve? That was once celebrated Over Here. As I pointed out earlier to the very nice young British Pakistani lady who forgot to take the tags off my whisky as she was serving me (because I was distracting her by waffling, presumably), the Founding Fathers et al took All Hallows Over There with them... where it survived. Over Here, I may be wrong (because I'm doing this from memory & not looking it up!), but I think it fell out of favour during the puritan Victorian era (and not the puritan Puritan era!).

So know you now. Or now you know. Or possibly not, if I've got this more than a little bit wrong. Hah! But you're going to go & check. Or come back to see if someone else (Steve, probably) has gone off & done the checking for you, you idle buggers...

What we have now is the "nakedly, trashy, commercial, money-grubbing, tat-gift flogging piece of..." which is what it seems to have become in the US & certainly is what we have imported back. But it was a British festival orangeally… Originally... Whatever! ;-)