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[Elfeater]

Happy Halloweenreformation day everyone.

[optimumtact]

Happy Generic Commercial Celebration Day

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[Jackrabbit]

I wish we celebrated it properly in Australia. I want to see a street full of kids in sheets, I really feel like I missed out on that when I was younger.

[Max White]

There is something pretty cool about letting a small army of small people out onto the streets after dark dressed as horrors to beg for candy. I mean if you saw that in a movie you would complain that it wasn't realistic at all, and yet here we are. Hell, I should start a day where at exactly 2:14 pm everybody gets up and dances to Ziggy Stardust, because it makes a lot more sense.

[Jackrabbit]

Does it happen where you are, Max? Because people get shitty when my younger brothers go door-to-door over here.

[Max White]

Sydney? Well sort of. There are no little kids going door to door, just people in their early to mid twenties holding parties where a female Halloween costume involves underwear and animal ears. I went as Dave Strider, and the amount of free drinks I got out of it was well worth buying the shirt, and when somebody asked who I was I could reply with "How could you even not know who I am? Dude, your not even cool enough to know my name, so the only way I could be seen talking to you is ironically."

Shit was so cash.

[scriver]

Halloween is the best thing to come out of America. Next to the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Patti Smith.

[Jackrabbit]

Yeah, that sounds about right. Parties, but no trick-or-treating. It's a real shame.

[IronyOwl]

Does it happen where you are, Max? Because people get shitty when my younger brothers go door-to-door over here.

I am disproportionately offended and saddened by this. It sounds alarmingly close to hating fun, or something.


Also, go Max.

[Blargityblarg]

I got eight trick-or-treaters, but I think that's because my street has a good few things in common with a maternity ward. I used up the dodgy, suss candy you get from the Melbourne Show on them.

[RedKing]

Trick-or-treating on this side of the big pond was diminished in my area by the fact that it was only a few degrees above freezing, and was pissing ice-cold rain all day and night.

That said, my daughter proudly sported her homemade eyeball costume (that she said she wanted to be since like, May) and braved the elements to go get that sweet, sweet lewt. She colored it pink so she could be pink eye--the most terrifying thing in a daycare.

It really is amazing the amount of fortitude children have when chocolate and sugary snacks are on the line.

[Dsarker]

Does it happen where you are, Max? Because people get shitty when my younger brothers go door-to-door over here.

I am disproportionately offended and saddened by this. It sounds alarmingly close to hating fun, or something.

Or merely being unaware that anyone was going to go door to door, or that there was anything on at all.

[scriver]

I am disproportionately offended and saddened by this. It sounds alarmingly close to hating fun, or something.

Ehr.. You do realise having different customs does not equal hating fun? And that in an environment where trick-or-treating is not custom, it is the equivalent of going door-to-door begging for sweets, nay, trying to blackmail people into giving them candy?

A lot of people here in Sweden was hatin' very upset when Halloween made it's breakthrough in the 90's-something. Though that was mostly because the already existing All Saint's Day (which is what Halloween means, I know) is a national remember-your-dead sorrow-day and people did not want brats disturbing them at that time. Not so much the "door-to-door begging", though, we already did that for Easter (dressed up as witches) and Saint Lucia-day (well, it used to include "begging", anyway).
...End my slightly relevant but completely unprovoked lecture.

[Dsarker]

I am disproportionately offended and saddened by this. It sounds alarmingly close to hating fun, or something.

Ehr.. You do realise having different customs does not equal hating fun? And that in an environment where trick-or-treating is not custom, it is the equivalent of going door-to-door begging for sweets, nay, trying to blackmail people into giving them candy?

A lot of people here in Sweden was hatin' very upset when Halloween made it's breakthrough in the 90's-something. Though that was mostly because the already existing All Saint's Day (which is what Halloween means, I know) is a national remember-your-dead sorrow-day and people did not want brats disturbing them at that time. Not so much the "door-to-door begging", though, we already did that for Easter (dressed up as witches) and Saint Lucia-day (well, it used to include "begging", anyway).
...End my slightly relevant but completely unprovoked lecture.

I can say for sure that I do not know anyone who even knew that it was halloween in Australia except for those who play TF2.

[Max White]

I don't think Australians are very anti-Halloween, just indifferent to it. The larger chain stores are certainly pushing for it, for obvious reasons, although this is the first year I have ever seen them put up themed advertisements and make specials on mass candy.

But still, I live in a very safe area with many families, and two primary schools within walking distance. Safe to say this is the kind of enclosed yuppie burb where they would be into such an event, yet nobody...