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What do you think?

Haloween?
2 (13.3%)
No way jose, here in Mayheko or (insert home country here) we have haloween every February 31st like everyone else
2 (13.3%)
Yes, Americans are pigs and that's why they have an entire night devoted to sugar and slop
5 (33.3%)
Mommy told me that sand was really cat litter, but i wasn't going to let her crush my childhood dream of making a sand castle of the Golden gate Bridge
2 (13.3%)
Our Haloween is in October, unlike Mayheko
4 (26.7%)

Total Members Voted: 15

Voting closed: August 15, 2002, 08:23:12 pm

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Offline Galemp

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Just get loads of little kids swanning about the streets asking strangers for sweets.  Which, given recent events, is a bit dodgy.


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Without wanting to turn this to religious debate (heh, good luck)... why would an occult date in a calendar shock? Christmas is in the calendar and that's just another religious date... to suggest Haloween is any different is an exercise in prejudice against other peoples beliefs... by rights every religious festival should be in a calendar - but they aren't. Ho hum...


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going trick or treating isn't dangerous if the child is occompanied by an adult and only goes to houses owned by people the parent can trust. that's what i did when i was little.
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[color=sky blue]Halloween's precursor is the Celtic harvest festival of Samhain traditionally celebrated with feasts and primitive sorts of pyrotechnics.  One of the secrets to St. Patrick's success in getting so many pagan Celts to convert to Christianity was his ability to intertwine existing holiday traditions with Roman Catholic ones.  Hence he created All Hallow's Eve to sanctify the pagan festival instead of insisting they abolish it.  Smart guy.[/color] :nod:
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wow, and the celtics take all once again :)
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Is Haloween an American Only Holiday or Not?
I could use this thread to illustrate how mass-comnsumer capitalism has co-opted any and all major festivals that they could make novelty hats/sweets/syringes for.

I think I'll give it a rest, though.

 

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Hmm, it's probably not the worst one, Here when kids get to be about 12, Halloween becomes an excuse for them to trash the neighbourhood. The police are usually so busy dealing with complaints for simmilar incidents that the chances of them being caught are usually about one percent of what they are any other time.

 
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Hmm, it's probably not the worst one, Here when kids get to be about 12, Halloween becomes an excuse for them to trash the neighbourhood. The police are usually so busy dealing with complaints for simmilar incidents that the chances of them being caught are usually about one percent of what they are any other time.


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It's that bad where you live? That's odd. (For reference, I live a few miles down the road from Top Gun).

It's always very quiet down here, although my streets only has little kiddies. Hell, it's hardly Luton. :p

 

Offline aldo_14

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Bah...we only have 4 kids in our 'area'.  which does, admittedly, make Halloween relatively pleasant.... I still remember stoating about in my Teenage Mutant whatever-the-hell turtles costume with a shell made out of the kitchen floors linoleum :D

 

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Dude!!! I had a Leornardo Outfit with a Shell made of styrofoam and a rubber mask!

Hard to breathe in but was the coolest thing!
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Offline Kellan

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Ah, we are all children of our times... :wink:

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