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Oct 25, 2017 04:09AM
Any special plans for the occasion? -:)
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I'll be dressed as a black hole :-) How about you?
Pass out candy, scare kids, eat candy, scare some more kids..you know the usual.
Not celebrated here unfortunately.. But would love to hear in hope the spirit will rub off on us
Approaching again and therefore returns to actuality.So, is anyone going to desecrate a pumpkin, hit a party, don a costume? :)
Not us! It's not traditionally an Australian thing. However, more and more people are 'doing' Halloween here. I generally find it a bit irritating.
The weekend before Halloween I'll be taking advantage of the cooling nights by using the firepit to cook and seeking augeries in the flames. (Flames with meat and Irish whiskey are a potent combination, when the veil thins.) If any early trick or treaters show up, I'll have some candy ready. (That happens when the holiday falls on a weekday.)Halloween will find me watching horror movies and supplying candy to the neighborhood kids, on a school night.
Leonie wrote: "... I generally find it a bit irritating."Yeah, you don't like encroachment of foreign traditions...
J. wrote: "Flames with meat and Irish whiskey are a potent combination, when the veil thins...."Regardless of Halloween, sounds like a perfect pastime to engage in much more frequently than once a year!
Nik wrote: "Regardless of Halloween, sounds like a perfect pastime to engage in much more frequently than once a year!"I do. The menu varies with the calendar. The coming holiday will merit steak. November will see oyster stew, chilli con but jolokia, and corn bread.
This time of year adds a nice ambience which can be enhanced by listening to old Art Bell broadcasts, and contemplations of my Celtic ancestors. A Halloween bonfire also offers the opportunity for showmanship by adding some copper salts to freak out the trick or treaters with green flames.
Halloween is for fun. The kids get to dress up and get treats. The adults get to dress up in sexy outfits and get drunk. In my part of the country, there are many fundamentalists that think it's still some sort of pagan ritual; to them, I say bah humbug. Kids aren't even aware of that. Why not let them have some fun? As far as I know, tricking isn't even a part of it any more. It's all about the treats and make believe. A welcome relief from reality.
Last year's Halloween party in a night club in Kiev, feels like another life already.. But probably people still have their preparations underway. Ready with pumpkins, outfits and required paraphernalia? :)
I doubt parents here will take their kids trick-or-treating, but some churches do this thing where people park their cars in the parking lot with goodies in the trunk and kids go around and get their treats - all socially distanced.
Not a big fan of Halloween. It's got to be one of the worst things exported here from the US. What's good about going around scavenging sweeties and celebrating evil?
Beau wrote: "What's good about going around scavenging sweeties and celebrating evil?"Isn't that pretty much the biography of Cecil J. Rhodes?
J. wrote: "Beau wrote: "What's good about going around scavenging sweeties and celebrating evil?"
Isn't that pretty much the biography of Cecil J. Rhodes?"
Ha ha! Brilliant! I can't argue with that, J. If I was pushed, I'd have to say that Cecil Rhodes only scavenged extremely valuable sweeties and I've never seen one of those trick or treaters build a railway.
Isn't that pretty much the biography of Cecil J. Rhodes?"
Ha ha! Brilliant! I can't argue with that, J. If I was pushed, I'd have to say that Cecil Rhodes only scavenged extremely valuable sweeties and I've never seen one of those trick or treaters build a railway.
You under estimate the ingenuity of my twelve year old self.
J. wrote: "You under estimate the ingenuity of my twelve year old self."
Ha! I can well imagine (thumbs up). That level of innovation and technical know-how wasn't in evidence in the West Midlands of England during the 1970s and '80s. As you've said before, look at British Leyland.
Ha! I can well imagine (thumbs up). That level of innovation and technical know-how wasn't in evidence in the West Midlands of England during the 1970s and '80s. As you've said before, look at British Leyland.
Anything special for upcoming Halloween? Anyone's going with Biden/Trump or Boris's costume?
Tonight, I'm watching classic video rental horror movies from the 80's and 90's, eating takeout pizza, and drinking märzen. Happy Halloween 👻
Very cool! How many hours did that take, I wonder.
J. has generously supplied us a long Halloween playlist. Is anyone else busy preparing?
There is one thing I'm planning to do this Halloween...
Not answer the door.
Not answer the door.
Coming from the country that burns a Catholic in effigy every year.
Bonfire night is a good tradition, J. Nothing against Guy Fawkes - in fact, a lot of people think his main fault was simply being 400 years too early.
So, it’s tonight 🎃Not doing much myself, but raising my glass of bourbon 🥃 to those who gonna celebrate it to the fullest
