Hey man, I have loads of fun with my own version of Halloween. Turning away kids empty handed is some of the best fun I have all year.kortin said:SL33TBL1ND said:
The internationalisation of Halloween.
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You don't send them off with a sealed envelope for their parents containing a note saying "This Could Have Been A Ransom Note"?SL33TBL1ND said:
Sorry, should've been clearer. What I meant was, turning away kids without their hands is some of the best fun I have all year.RhombusHatesYou said:
Local council won't let you burn them at the stake anymore?SL33TBL1ND said:
I miss Bonfire Night.
Australian- I'm not against it. I know some people here are, but I just see it as another excuse (like one is needed) to put on costumes and eat candy/get drunk/both.
Edit: fixed typo.
Edit: fixed typo.
Nah, it's been way popular over here in Germany for quite a while now. No true reason for celebrating it here, but it's an opportunity for fun and laughs, and people will jump on any chance for that. The economy has reacted accordingly, so you can find all kinds of costumes and accessories, facepaint etc to prepare for the event.Helmholtz Watson said:
We're gonna have a Halloween party come weekend, and today I plan to use the occasion to weird out the good folks at uni by dressing up as the Doctor for my morning lectures. xD
I really, really, really hate Halloween. Not the american version, because I'm not american, but the stupid bastardised version we have here in Australia. Nobody knows what it is, but they still let there little spawn run around the neighbourhood begging for Lollies, then becoming disappointed and sometimes angry when the family and I don't give them anything. Whether it is Scottish/Irish/Mexican in origin, it is not something I want to be a part of, plus October in Australia is already unpleasant, why add to that by dressing up and sweating all night.
I think the best costume at the moment for the weather, would be a homage to the great opposition leader that is Tony Abbot. Buggie smugglers all the way mate. As for the topic, I've already provided a response.Starik20X6 said:
Don't need no Halloween here in Denmark, we got our own tradition called Cat of the Barrel.
You put a cat in a barrel, and hang it in the air. Then you each take a turn to whack the barrel with a bat till it breaks!
At least we used to. These days, the barrel is filled with sweet delicious candy.
The kids also puts on costumes while celebrating this, and walks around the neighbourhood threatening innocent people with acts of vandalism if they don't receive candy/buns/money.
We celebrate it in February, though.
You put a cat in a barrel, and hang it in the air. Then you each take a turn to whack the barrel with a bat till it breaks!
At least we used to. These days, the barrel is filled with sweet delicious candy.
The kids also puts on costumes while celebrating this, and walks around the neighbourhood threatening innocent people with acts of vandalism if they don't receive candy/buns/money.
We celebrate it in February, though.
I suggest Australia starts its own festival of Boganalia, where anyone with a mullet and wearing a flanny shirt can come to your door and demand cigarettes and alcohol and if you don't hand them over, then they can shit in your letterbox. Those not wishing to partake in Boganalia festivities must indicate this by pinning a lifesized cut out of Steven Jobs on their door... to do otherwise is to risk getting more shit in the mail than usual.mrhappy1489 said:
You wait here, I'll go fetch the XXXX and the Winnie Blues. It will be a Boganalia to remember!RhombusHatesYou said:
"Lemme tell you sumthin kiddos, back in my day, we had this holiday called "Halloween". It was all fine and dandy for a while, and all the parents made their kids dress up like idiots and demand candy from anyone with a pumpkin on their porch. But things started to go bad when the parents decided that dressing up like idiots themselves and forgetting the children was a good idea. They didn't even demand unreasonable things of random people anymore, just the bartender and the girl who dressed up like a sexy piano! People eventually started ditching the dumb costumes and now all that's left is the pumpkin-flavored everything."
The history of Halloween. Full series to air on SyFy on February 34th, 1568.
The history of Halloween. Full series to air on SyFy on February 34th, 1568.
They've been trying to make it set foot in Holland, too, for the last couple of years.
I don't mind Halloween, but the desperate attempt to have it catch on in a country that has never bothered with it is just annoying.
I don't mind Halloween, but the desperate attempt to have it catch on in a country that has never bothered with it is just annoying.
just wana throw out that its not just the ultra conservatives its the libral nuttballs too.T0ad 0f Truth said:That happens here too (America)... Though they (the ultra conservatives) have learned to stop putting signs out and just turn off all the lights because... reasonsTopazFusion said:
OT: the reason people like it is its one of the few times a year you can go out dressed up looking like a fool and no one will care, at least thats why i like it
Austria here (though I think I can also speak for Germany)
It depends - commercially, Halloween is a moderately important event, with major stores running promotions (selling pumpkins and "spooky" decorations) and the TV stations having Halloween programming (like an evening of Simpsons Halloween episodes).
Some kids and young adults will have Halloween parties, although going trick-or-treating is not considered obligatory (i.e. kids won't necessarily vandalize your property for not giving out candy). Dressing up in costumes is also a lot less common than during Fasching/Karneval.
It's really a relatively new trend that started around the late 80s/early 90s, when youth TV became dominated by American shows.
It depends - commercially, Halloween is a moderately important event, with major stores running promotions (selling pumpkins and "spooky" decorations) and the TV stations having Halloween programming (like an evening of Simpsons Halloween episodes).
Some kids and young adults will have Halloween parties, although going trick-or-treating is not considered obligatory (i.e. kids won't necessarily vandalize your property for not giving out candy). Dressing up in costumes is also a lot less common than during Fasching/Karneval.
It's really a relatively new trend that started around the late 80s/early 90s, when youth TV became dominated by American shows.
Fellow Aussie and anoyed at it gaining popularity here. Were already being culturally taken over by the states and its another example of it.ResonanceSD said:
Were already losing our national identity, at this rate we may as well raise the red white and blue :-/
