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[Ry]

:cry:
No Halloween?
How sad. It's my favorite holiday!
I love to scare the kiddies....muahahahahaha!
I go all out.
But, yeah...no Halloween sucks!
you do have christmas, right? lol

[Soup Parrot]

Calalily, for Halloween, if you dress up, you should buy some smarties candies and safety pin them all over your britches, cus you're Miss SMARTY-PANTS! :lol:

But yeah, they'd have to come up with something that doesn't put a bunch of crap directly into the game, though, because that's a horrible thought.

No Halloween in Aussie land.  

  their smart downunder! Here in the good old USA I dont even celebrate Halloween.

[Ry]

I know I'm opening a can o'worms here, but I have to ask...lol.
Is it a religious thing, Soup Parrot?

[mando]

I know I'm opening a can o'worms here, but I have to ask...lol.
Is it a religious thing, Soup Parrot?

Actually, oddly enough, Hallowe'en (Formally All Saint's Day and All Hallows Eve) was (still is? I'm agnostic  :lol: ) a very important religious holiday for many different groups (including Christians) in Europe and elsewhere and is still celebrated with a religious slant in many places currently as well. In North America, of course, it's all about free candy and scary movies nowadays, but it wasn't always like that.

Considering that it was for a long period for Catholics a day about saints and honouring the dead in the hopes that they would be sent to heaven, it always seems strange to me when religious groups have problems with it (although that dislike is more than likely connected to its earliest beginnings as well as more recent traditions).

[Soup Parrot]

I know I'm opening a can o'worms here, but I have to ask...lol.
Is it a religious thing, Soup Parrot?

Yes, but I dont people down for celebrating it. Its a choice thing

[mando]

I know I'm opening a can o'worms here, but I have to ask...lol.
Is it a religious thing, Soup Parrot?

Yes, but I dont people down for celebrating it. Its a choice thing

Plus, you're saving yourself a mint not having to purchase a ton of mini chocolates too, Soup Parrot.  :lol:

[KagomeKagome]

You know, I am probably one of the only people in the world who wanted to celebrate Halloween (trick-or-treat, pranking, dressing up, the whole lot of it) but couldn't -- not because my family is religious and against the holiday, but because my dad said it was complete bullshit to expect people to buy candy for kids who weren't even their own.  :?

And yet, he never bothered with buying us candy on the day to ease the hurt.  :roll:

In a way, I ended up hating the holiday for a while as a little girl...only because of an asshat tradition at our school involving marching the costumed little kids into the older kids' classrooms to show off.  Of course, I never had a costume, so I'd get all sorts of "Who are you supposed to be, dork?" responses.  I'd ask the teachers to let me stay behind, and each year, they said no.  

...I need rum.  :cry:

[SparklePlenty]

I know I'm opening a can o'worms here, but I have to ask...lol.
Is it a religious thing, Soup Parrot?

Yes, but I dont people down for celebrating it. Its a choice thing

Plus, you're saving yourself a mint not having to purchase a ton of mini chocolates too, Soup Parrot.  :lol:

I thought the whole point was to buy more candy than you need and you get to eat up the excess. I love the season when the Candy Corn is in bloom!

[Soup Parrot]

Definely, though I ussualy get some treat at the store, cause it tempted me. But my lights are out, I dont answer the door. This hood gets few treaters. I think everyone is down at the Community center, they encourage group activities, parties and all for everyone. its safer that way for the kids.

[calalily]

What the hell do you do for fun then, Cala?

Beer.
Beer.
Beer.

No seriously - we do some of those things - egging principals' car etc. - we just don't have a designated day to do it.  It's just when he pisses you off.  :lol:

Australia, at least when I was a kid, was severely anti-commercialism - so it never really caught on here.  Not to mention that most people - again from when I was a kid - would rather eat ground glass and nails than be like Americans.  Nowadays, with the saturation of American tv, and American style, kids are more apt to want to do the whole Halloween thing.  I had a friend who had some kids come to her door for Halloween - teenagers - and she had nothing to give them.  So it quickly dies out.

Oh, and I only ever tasted Candy Corn when I was in LA in the year 2000.

[Soup Parrot]

Calla, Candy corn is fun. Seriously, I think Hollywood's version of American life, and real American life are completely different. so I dont blame you all for not wanting to be like us. Its bad enough Hollywood pretends to be American and peddles it around the world.

[SnarkyShark]

I had a friend who had some kids come to her door for Halloween - teenagers - and she had nothing to give them.  So it quickly dies out.

Oh crap! :lol:  That is so sad, it's hilarious; "Trick-or....ohhh....bye."

[KagomeKagome]

I had a friend who had some kids come to her door for Halloween - teenagers - and she had nothing to give them.

Ah, now I was lucky because I grew up out in the countryside, far from neighbors.  You had to go to town to trick-or-treat.

First time I lived in town as an adult, I got trick-or-treaters.  I was dumb enough to leave my lights on (don't do that anymore).  In any case, I felt so damn dumb when they came to the door...I scrounged around my mom's house, looking for candy and found some cinnamon balls to give them.

I don't know how old that candy was (as my mom usually never eats it).  :oops:

[HawkGirl]

I know I'm opening a can o'worms here, but I have to ask...lol.
Is it a religious thing, Soup Parrot?

Yes, but I dont people down for celebrating it. Its a choice thing

Plus, you're saving yourself a mint not having to purchase a ton of mini chocolates too, Soup Parrot.  :lol:

I thought the whole point was to buy more candy than you need and you get to eat up the excess. I love the season when the Candy Corn is in bloom!

That's what I do. Always make sure to pick up a couple bags of my own favorites. My grandbabies only go to people's houses we know. So grandma sneaks and buys extra bags to dump in their bags when they aren't looking of mixed candy and a couple bags of their favorite candy. Couple toys. They probably wouldn't care if they got to go trick or treating, it's all about getting dressed up for them. Of course they are only 7,6, 3, and 2. Plus, I'll have three more soon. My own children didn't want to go trick or treating anymore when they were about 10, they figured out that pour the bags of candy in the bag trick. Plus, they didn't like that they couldn't just wander off with their friends. So they just liked dressing up and passing out the candy.

[Soup Parrot]

Ahhh I remember my mom use to get carried away dressing us up. She sewed costumes and all for us. Then she would carefully go through our bags checking for suspicious candy, then we'd be door greeters. But i think after 6th grade halloween wasnt that fujn anymore for me.