Trick Or Treating In AUS

[Uzigawa]

ya but really, it is kinda intolerant to ask why someone is celebrating a holiday, just because you don't, doesn't mean no one else should, its like christmas and chanukah, just because a christian doesnt celebrate chanukah, they wouldn't really question why a jewish person would

 

[tkioz]

I can see you have the same attitude as most Aussies (I'm Aussie too) and really so what? It's a bit of fun, the stores get some extra dosh and hey, the modern version of Christmas is fairly Americanised. I mean it's not like we Aussies have any better holidays, I know it's annoying having to answer the door every five minutes and there's always the risk of getting egged (one year my house got egged) but refusing to partake in a day of candy and cosplay on the grounds that it came from the land of cheeseburgers and Valve is just silly.

I agree (and I'm also from Australia). It's just a bit of fun for kids - why ruin it for them? I for one wish that more Australians embraced this holiday (dressing up and eating candy is FUN). Australia has so many people from different cultures living here - it seems rather intolerant to complain about this one because it is seen to be a purely 'American' influence. Anyways... "There's no need to be so negative" is basically what I'm trying to say.

It's not the fact they are celebrating a holiday, it's the fact they are forcing that holiday on us, festivals, parties, gatherings are all well and good, you can choose to go or not, if I don't want to go to the Chinese New Year party in town I don't have too, but when someone is banging on my bloody door it has an impact on me, it's rude, and frankly goes against the idea of multiculturalism.

 

[Uzigawa]

its the same with christmas carolers and such, just put up a sign that says "not celebrating halloween" now if they still knock after that, it's not the holdiay's fault they're just annoying little pissers

 

[StBishop]

I'm surprised Hallowe'en isn't celebrated in Australia. Do you guys have a major autumn holiday that rivals the United States' Thanksgiving or Hallowe'en?

Why would we 'celebrate' Halloween? What is there to celebrate?

OT: I posted a sign on the door saying "No candy. Piss off." XD

Good luck cleaning the egg and toilet paper off your house in the morning then. :|

It's not accepted practice in Australia. We'd call the cops.

It's not in the U.S. either, it doesn't stop people from doing it though.

Allow me to reword, it's not expected practice. We'd call the Cops, who would actually do something about it.

You seem to know a lot about the US and what happens in 50 states, I'll bow to the expert who doesn't actually live here. It was a joke to begin with, no need to get all serious about it.

I did not claim to know about the United States or be an expert, I didn't even know there were 50 states (I thought there were more). I was simply saying that regardless of what pre-conceptions you may or may not have about egging and papering houses, it's not acceped or expected in Australia and the cops would do something about it here.

I put that in on the off chance that in your region, maybe the cops look the other way on Halloween.

I'm sorry I just can't see it as a joke when people tespass, are rude, and then vandalise someone's property when they aren't given candy. I don't have candy, lollies, sweets, chips, soft drink or any other shit like that in my house and I don't particularly want to deal with shitty kids having a whinge about it and vandalising my place when I tell them so.

I don't buy junk food for myself, why would I buy it to give away to some random stranger?

 

[Keepitclean]

I can see you have the same attitude as most Aussies (I'm Aussie too) and really so what? It's a bit of fun, the stores get some extra dosh and hey, the modern version of Christmas is fairly Americanised. I mean it's not like we Aussies have any better holidays, I know it's annoying having to answer the door every five minutes and there's always the risk of getting egged (one year my house got egged) but refusing to partake in a day of candy and cosplay on the grounds that it came from the land of cheeseburgers and Valve is just silly.

I agree (and I'm also from Australia). It's just a bit of fun for kids - why ruin it for them? I for one wish that more Australians embraced this holiday (dressing up and eating candy is FUN). Australia has so many people from different cultures living here - it seems rather intolerant to complain about this one because it is seen to be a purely 'American' influence. Anyways... "There's no need to be so negative" is basically what I'm trying to say.

It's not the fact they are celebrating a holiday, it's the fact they are forcing that holiday on us, festivals, parties, gatherings are all well and good, you can choose to go or not, if I don't want to go to the Chinese New Year party in town I don't have too, but when someone is banging on my bloody door it has an impact on me, it's rude, and frankly goes against the idea of multiculturalism.

Pretty much what I was gonna say. The massive influx of other cultures have their events and they invite people. They don't come to your bloody door pretty much saying "lollies or eggs asshole".

 

[Fanta Grape]

I complain all the time to people here in Australia when they go trick or treating. It's so damn un-Australian.

 

[Keepitclean]

I'm surprised Hallowe'en isn't celebrated in Australia. Do you guys have a major autumn holiday that rivals the United States' Thanksgiving or Hallowe'en?

Why would we 'celebrate' Halloween? What is there to celebrate?

OT: I posted a sign on the door saying "No candy. Piss off." XD

Good luck cleaning the egg and toilet paper off your house in the morning then. :|

It's not accepted practice in Australia. We'd call the cops.

It's not in the U.S. either, it doesn't stop people from doing it though.

Allow me to reword, it's not expected practice. We'd call the Cops, who would actually do something about it.

You seem to know a lot about the US and what happens in 50 states, I'll bow to the expert who doesn't actually live here. It was a joke to begin with, no need to get all serious about it.

I did not claim to know about the United States or be an expert, I didn't even know there were 50 states (I thought there were more). I was simply saying that regardless of what pre-conceptions you may or may not have about egging and papering houses, it's not acceped or expected in Australia and the cops would do something about it here.

I put that in on the off chance that in your region, maybe the cops look the other way on Halloween.

I'm sorry I just can't see it as a joke when people tespass, are rude, and then vandalise someone's property when they aren't given candy. I don't have candy, lollies, sweets, chips, soft drink or any other shit like that in my house and I don't particularly want to deal with shitty kids having a whinge about it and vandalising my place when I tell them so.

I don't buy junk food for myself, why would I buy it to give away to some random stranger?

Coz they might egg your house bro hurr huurrr duurrr

As you can probably tell I'm not a fan of trick or treaters.

 

[Andronicus]

Ha, it's been pissing down with rain all day where I live, and I suspect it shall continue to do so long into the night. I laugh at any kids stupid enough to walk up my very long, very steep driveway, plus stairs, in the rain, only to be greeted by my cold, unwelcoming door.

To tell the truth, I don't really have anything against Halloween (not that I've found the time to actually find out what it's about). But the very concept of trick or treating is, in it's most basic form, blackmail. I don't like being blackmailed. You want sweets, you can go to Woolies and pay for it out of your own pocket money.

 

[StBishop]

I'm surprised Hallowe'en isn't celebrated in Australia. Do you guys have a major autumn holiday that rivals the United States' Thanksgiving or Hallowe'en?

Why would we 'celebrate' Halloween? What is there to celebrate?

OT: I posted a sign on the door saying "No candy. Piss off." XD

Good luck cleaning the egg and toilet paper off your house in the morning then. :|

It's not accepted practice in Australia. We'd call the cops.

It's not in the U.S. either, it doesn't stop people from doing it though.

Allow me to reword, it's not expected practice. We'd call the Cops, who would actually do something about it.

You seem to know a lot about the US and what happens in 50 states, I'll bow to the expert who doesn't actually live here. It was a joke to begin with, no need to get all serious about it.

I did not claim to know about the United States or be an expert, I didn't even know there were 50 states (I thought there were more). I was simply saying that regardless of what pre-conceptions you may or may not have about egging and papering houses, it's not acceped or expected in Australia and the cops would do something about it here.

I put that in on the off chance that in your region, maybe the cops look the other way on Halloween.

I'm sorry I just can't see it as a joke when people tespass, are rude, and then vandalise someone's property when they aren't given candy. I don't have candy, lollies, sweets, chips, soft drink or any other shit like that in my house and I don't particularly want to deal with shitty kids having a whinge about it and vandalising my place when I tell them so.

I don't buy junk food for myself, why would I buy it to give away to some random stranger?

Coz they might egg your house bro hurr huurrr duurrr

As you can probably tell I'm not a fan of trick or treaters.

Well I'm renting so I'm not too fussed. There's limited space for them to actually egg, it's the principal that gets to me.

 

[ethaninja]

I have no idea. I've never gone trick or treating in my life. But it gives us an excuse to party at least. I guess we just love copying everything the Americans do.

 

[Uzigawa]

I can see you have the same attitude as most Aussies (I'm Aussie too) and really so what? It's a bit of fun, the stores get some extra dosh and hey, the modern version of Christmas is fairly Americanised. I mean it's not like we Aussies have any better holidays, I know it's annoying having to answer the door every five minutes and there's always the risk of getting egged (one year my house got egged) but refusing to partake in a day of candy and cosplay on the grounds that it came from the land of cheeseburgers and Valve is just silly.

I agree (and I'm also from Australia). It's just a bit of fun for kids - why ruin it for them? I for one wish that more Australians embraced this holiday (dressing up and eating candy is FUN). Australia has so many people from different cultures living here - it seems rather intolerant to complain about this one because it is seen to be a purely 'American' influence. Anyways... "There's no need to be so negative" is basically what I'm trying to say.

It's not the fact they are celebrating a holiday, it's the fact they are forcing that holiday on us, festivals, parties, gatherings are all well and good, you can choose to go or not, if I don't want to go to the Chinese New Year party in town I don't have too, but when someone is banging on my bloody door it has an impact on me, it's rude, and frankly goes against the idea of multiculturalism.

Pretty much what I was gonna say. The massive influx of other cultures have their events and they invite people. They don't come to your bloody door pretty much saying "lollies or eggs asshole".

thing is that no one really does the trick part anymore, at least not in good neighborhoods, and its kinda like a give and you shall recieve thing, but in reverse, we recieve tons of free candy as children, we have fond memories of it, so we try to give some to other children, its a holiday full of generosity, plus its like 10 bucks for enough candy for the night so its like its dipping into your savings

 

[Snotnarok]

I'm surprised Hallowe'en isn't celebrated in Australia. Do you guys have a major autumn holiday that rivals the United States' Thanksgiving or Hallowe'en?

Why would we 'celebrate' Halloween? What is there to celebrate?

OT: I posted a sign on the door saying "No candy. Piss off." XD

Good luck cleaning the egg and toilet paper off your house in the morning then. :|

It's not accepted practice in Australia. We'd call the cops.

It's not in the U.S. either, it doesn't stop people from doing it though.

Allow me to reword, it's not expected practice. We'd call the Cops, who would actually do something about it.

You seem to know a lot about the US and what happens in 50 states, I'll bow to the expert who doesn't actually live here. It was a joke to begin with, no need to get all serious about it.

I did not claim to know about the United States or be an expert, I didn't even know there were 50 states (I thought there were more). I was simply saying that regardless of what pre-conceptions you may or may not have about egging and papering houses, it's not acceped or expected in Australia and the cops would do something about it here.

I put that in on the off chance that in your region, maybe the cops look the other way on Halloween.

I'm sorry I just can't see it as a joke when people tespass, are rude, and then vandalise someone's property when they aren't given candy. I don't have candy, lollies, sweets, chips, soft drink or any other shit like that in my house and I don't particularly want to deal with shitty kids having a whinge about it and vandalising my place when I tell them so.

I don't buy junk food for myself, why would I buy it to give away to some random stranger?

Edit: Just forget it, I'm sick of arguing.

Happy Halloween

 

[Sedrine]

It's not the fact they are celebrating a holiday, it's the fact they are forcing that holiday on us, festivals, parties, gatherings are all well and good, you can choose to go or not, if I don't want to go to the Chinese New Year party in town I don't have too, but when someone is banging on my bloody door it has an impact on me, it's rude, and frankly goes against the idea of multiculturalism.

Well, I'm sorry for your troubles. I can't say that I entirely agree with your views though. Maybe you could hang up a sign saying "no trick-or-treaters, please" like other people have already suggested. I don't know what else to say, really.

 

[Uzigawa]

It's not the fact they are celebrating a holiday, it's the fact they are forcing that holiday on us, festivals, parties, gatherings are all well and good, you can choose to go or not, if I don't want to go to the Chinese New Year party in town I don't have too, but when someone is banging on my bloody door it has an impact on me, it's rude, and frankly goes against the idea of multiculturalism.

Well, I'm sorry for your troubles. I can't say that I entirely agree with your views though. Maybe you could hang up a sign saying "no trick-or-treaters, please" like other people have already suggested. I don't know what else to say, really.

agreed, not that hard to not be a douche.....

 

[Korolev]

It's due to a number of things:

1) Retailers pushing costumes and candy, trying to get Australians to join in
2) Kids LOOOOVE candy
3) With so much American TV here these days, Kids automatically think that it's an Australian thing to.

We don't get trick-or-treaters around my area - well, we did once, but we didn't have any candy. They were polite about it though, so it wasn't bad.

If Halloween takes off here, looks like I'm going to have to do the ol "Not-at-home, no-lights-on" trick.

Look, I've got nothing against kids who want to do this Halloween stuff. But it's just not a common thing here. Right now, I've got NO CANDY at ALL in my house. Not a snicker's bar in sight. If Trick or Treaters come to my door, the only thing I could give them is either a lump of ice cream or a sack of sugar.

It's also out of season - November is when summer STARTS over here. We've gotten a LOT of rain recently, so everything is bright and green and sunny. Not exactly keeping in theme with the Halloween motif, ya know?

I don't like the holiday myself, I certainly never went trick or treating when I was a kid. It's only been in the past few years that people have tried it, and I'm sick of it. Our local Woolworths had Halloween decorations put up SOLELY to increase the sale of pumpkins. It was shameless (and it worked too).

Looks like I'm going to have to turn out the lights. I hear a gang of troublesome kids nearby.

 

[Uzigawa]

or another option, just go out and do something on halloween, go to a bar, see a movie, go have a date, that way you get to enjoy yourself and not worry about kids at your door

 

[Uzigawa]

btw, is it really already halloween night over there? luckies...its still like 3 am here...

 

[Korolev]

And we do have a November thingy - we've got the Melbourne Cup. I don't live in Melbourne, and I don't gamble, and I have no interest in horse racing whatsoever, but you can sort-of see it as Australia's November-time party. We don't get the day off, but loads of people bet on it, and it's actually treated as a pretty big event down here. I much prefer it to Halloween, because I don't have to DO ANYTHING.

 

[cystemic]

i think the reason we dont like people coming to the door and asking for candy is because it makes you feel awkward that you dont have any because you dont celebrate it. I reckon parents should just teach their kids to trick or treat in places decorated for halloween and not at every door that hasn't a clue why they show up

 

[Vryyk]

Won't kangaroos eat any kids out that late in Australia?