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Post by grolt on Nov 1, 2008 22:38:12 GMT
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Post by rupert on Nov 2, 2008 14:07:11 GMT
lol. I guess we do 'celebrate' it as it started in Scotland and Ireland - not America and Canada. I don't think we get into it quite as much as you guys do though. As it fell on a Friday night this time round there were alot of people going to the pubs, bars and night clubs dressed in costumes. But not much of it seemed horror related. I saw alot of lady's in short skirts and suspenders with their hair in a mess.. Supermarkets try and jump on it by selling all manner of usless crap relating to haloween. Personally for me it was just like any other day, it is totally over shadowed by Bonfire night (Guy Fawkes Night) which falls on the 5th of November. That is a night i've always enjoyed. I always go to an organised bonfire rather than making my own. Usually mush better quality of fire works than I could afford myslef. Everyones always in a good mood, nice atmosphere. Usually try and get some black treacle and a toffee apple Not really fan of the black peas in vinegar.
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krooper13
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Post by krooper13 on Nov 2, 2008 14:14:55 GMT
I really don't like Halloween, I don't really get why it's fine for kids to demmand stuff with the threat of menaces. Bonfire night however is great, even if what it is celebrating slightly macarbe.
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Post by Chunkchenko on Nov 2, 2008 15:20:05 GMT
I went to a metal party with local bands performing and general rock/metal music. i dressed up as Elvis and i was well out of place most of the other people dressed up as jesus, satan, draculas etc some guy dressed up as corey taylor "Slipknot lead sing" with the original white mask with dreds and jump suit.
A friend told me someone came dressed as a inflatible penis in the party he went to lol
I prefer bonfire night nothing beats playing with rockets.
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Aypok
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Post by Aypok on Nov 2, 2008 15:46:52 GMT
I stopped caring about Halloween when people started dressing up as corporate mascots and TV characters (that's not aimed at you, by the way) instead of "scary" stuff. Isn't it supposed to be about horror and frights, etc? Seeing groups of Pokemon, Power Rangers and other such characters wandering around begging for sweets doesn't seem the same to me.
Then again, I don't pay attention to any holidays (except Xmas, but that's only because everyone around me is banging on about it)...
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Post by grolt on Nov 2, 2008 16:30:50 GMT
Interesting responses here. I'm not familiar with the bonfire day as we don't celebrate that here, it sounds fun though. I do agree that Halloween isn't as much about scaring away the spirits as it once was, but now it's more just about the ritual of performance and becoming someone else. I always go as someone from horror, but we made an exception here since we thought this was indeed horrific as is! Our whole celebrity infatuation is horrific in and of itself, too.
I think it's easy to be disenfranchised about holidays - I know I certainly was with capitalistic stagings like Christmas and Valentine's Day throughout my college years. I just sort of push those ill feelings aside because, kind of like you Aypok, I see how much of a big deal it is to everyone else and who am I to spoil the party. If you embrace it all, it can be quite fun. Look at it from the outside, and for sure, it's all a farce.
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drrotule
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Post by drrotule on Nov 2, 2008 16:43:21 GMT
I live in France and as most of french I'm not interested by Halloween (I think many of ours don't know when halloween is). 5 years ago few people were interested and halloween became a little bit famous but this year halloween have totally disappeared of France...
Good pictures Grolt, I don't know you like smelling sugar (or salt maybe?)
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Post by grolt on Nov 2, 2008 20:20:27 GMT
I live in France and as most of french I'm not interested by Halloween (I think many of ours don't know when halloween is). 5 years ago few people were interested and halloween became a little bit famous but this year halloween have totally disappeared of France... Good pictures Grolt, I don't know you like smelling sugar (or salt maybe?) It was flour standing in for cocaine. I never want to smell that stuff again after all the accidental inhales I did that night.
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Post by Stan on Nov 3, 2008 18:36:50 GMT
Hahahahaha, nice photos! I've always loved Halloween, and I think it's interesting you guys over there get the same amount of cheap, overpriced crap at stores that's sold for 75% off the day after the holiday is over. I decorate my place the FIRST day of October and keep the stuff up until the last day or a few more. This year I had this skull in the window that looks like it takes up the whole thing and is almost 'hovering.' My favorite decoration of all, however, is this thing called Donna the Dead Leacher. God I hate it. Just look at it. During the night it can light up, but I leave it off because 1. it sucks batteries like nothing and 2. it looks like a real person in spite of how fake it may seem in the picture. During the day when the lights are off it looks like a ghost staring out of the window and scares the junk out of everyone. Stills tricks me for the first week we put it up.
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Post by grolt on Nov 4, 2008 17:32:01 GMT
Haha, that is pretty creepy. Decorating the house is fun, it just sort of offsets the mundane routing of every day life to just let your house go crazy for a month.
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