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ekuNNN posted:In the Netherlands some adults and teenagers organise costume parties for Halloween. Sometimes primary schools organise activities, even including some trick and treating. But mostly people dont celebrate it I think. is that the holiday you put on blackface or was that christmas?
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I googled "festive racism netherlands" and first result says Christmas.
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In Scotland we called it "guising" and you were supposed to sing a song or something to earn your sweets. Also turnip lanterns, which are way harder to carve than pumpkins
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Unfortunately no chicken on earth is capable of producing eggs large enough for that house.
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Jesus was well known for not giving things away to people. ----------------
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Jesus was well known for not giving things away to people. Attention Satanic Socialists!!!: If you give a man a kit-kat, he'll probably hog all the sticks for himself. If you teach a man to make his own kit-kats, you got some business competition, and you hosed up your whole income. No handouts, you bastards!
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Render unto Caesar that which is fun size, render unto God that which is fun size, render unto me, howevereth, the full size bars -Jesus Christ ----------------
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And lo, the angel of death saw the tax receipt upon their doorframe and passed over them.
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In Denmark there's been a push over the last ten years or so to make Halloween a "thing" here even though our only cultural connection to it is cultural osmosis from American media. As a result, this means every store selling "Halloween" junk through October, while like... ten kids across the entire country are going to get disappointed when they learn that "trick or treating" is only a thing in the US. So far it's utterly failing to make any serious inroads, which is honestly a bit of a surprise, but I suspect it's because they're aiming at the "young kids" demographic rather than connecting it to older teens/early 20's people having a chance to get blackout drunk. If they just launched some horrible seasonal pumpkin-flavoured booze, it'd get adopted in a heartbeat. It gets even weirder when you get around to the fact that we already have a Halloween-esque holiday in February, Fastelavn, which simplifies the whole matter by having kids dress up in funny costumes and then smash barrels full of candy with bats. Plus the seasonal buns(apple filling is best) for Fastelavn are just plain beter than any of the seasonal Halloween candies or pastries.
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In Finland, kids dress up as witches and go collect candy during Easter:  They are holding pussywillow branches, kids go door to door and exchange decorated ones (and a small chant) for candy. I think for Halloween there's mainly kids/young adults themed private parties, and stores have a pile of vaguely Halloween themed candy and some small decorations for sale. A local manor restaurant has been advertising their Halloween pumpkin garden and I'm deffo going to check it out, because I love Halloween. I'd love to be in the US for it once.
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Oct 14, 2023 18:49
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PurpleXVI posted:It gets even weirder when you get around to the fact that we already have a Halloween-esque holiday in February, Fastelavn, which simplifies the whole matter by having kids dress up in funny costumes and then smash barrels full of candy with bats. Plus the seasonal buns(apple filling is best) for Fastelavn are just plain beter than any of the seasonal Halloween candies or pastries. This sounds excellent
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I recall hearing about a particular Japanese island that has an annual tradition whose broad strokes sound a lot like a reverse Halloween: essentially it's the single adults that dress up as monsters and go knocking on people's doors to collect booze, under the pretense that they're here to "get" naughty children and the parents are sort of bribing them off with free drinks.   
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that's mari lwyd the welsh dead horse battle rapper
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Alan Smithee posted:that's mari lwyd the welsh dead horse battle rapper That does sound similar. (And cripes what a freaky-looking, bars-spitting, booze-loving, skull-headed mare!)  But apparently the Japanese do indeed have their own tradition of dressing up as neighbor-harrassing alcoholic monsters!   “Are any of you lazy? Are any of you crybabies?” Every New Year’s Eve in communities on the Oga Peninsula, Akita Prefecture, men in demonical masks and barbaric costumes of straw barge into homes and growl angry questions like these in the local dialect, their voices booming through the room where the family is gathered. Small children inevitably burst into tears at this apparition. Then the head of the household offers them sake. With this, they turn jolly. “This sake’s good!” they declare, and they do a happy little dance before they leave for the next home on their route. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-video/ct051000039/the-demonical-but-droll-namahage-deities-of-oga-akita-prefecture.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib5abAEYhj0&t=30s
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whoever wins we lose
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I’m an astronomy nerd, so I set up my telescope so the kids can see Saturn or whatever’s up while I hand out candy. Had a line of over 50 people at one point last Halloween.
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What kind of weird island nation is “New Hampshire”
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peanut posted:This sounds excellent The kid who knocks open the barrel first and the kid who knocks down the last of the barrel are also given crowns and named, respectively, as the Cat Queen and Cat King.
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Oct 15, 2023 21:03
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Mister Macavity gives me a cavity
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Killingyouguy! posted:Australians are like bizarrely anti-halloween right? Its less anti-halloween and more trying to resist Americanisation, because whether wrong or right its seen as an American thing. That said child care centres, schools etc will nearly always have a dress up day, do Halloween craft etc and maybe you'll see some trick or treaters around (but probably not - we prepare every year but I think we've had one year only in the eleven or so years we've lived here where they turned up. We have friends a couple suburbs over who have loads turn up so its quite variable). Shops would love Halloween to be a bigger thing and they really push it! I'd also say there's a lot more of a focus on the traditional Halloween things like witches and cauldrons and stuff, not so much dressing up as whatever you want. Also adults don't dress up at all (except like, if you're trick or treating with your kids or working at the aforementioned child care centres and schools) and there aren't really adult Halloween parties (not saying they don't ever exist, but it's not usual), its more of a dressing up for/with the kids thing. While the opposite seasons thing is a factor in why its less of a deal as well I don't think that fully explains it, as Christmas here is obviously in summer and thats never stopped us from going all out for Christmas. genovefa fedelmid fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Oct 17, 2023 |
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here in spain it used to not be a thing when i was little. I think nowadays it's more of a thing, kids get dressed up, teens do to when going out that weekend and so on. I even got a couple of neighbours knocking on my door last year. here in catalunya (and i think in some other regions in the country?) we have la castanyada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta%C3%B1ada) which is fun but not exactly the same thing. as someone who loves spooky stuff, i was so jealous of halloween when growing up!!! my ex gf was super into this goff-horror-buff kind of thing and she loved to do this "challenge" where you watch a horror movie/show/short you haven't watched before every night for the whole month, something i adopted and keep doing to this day. it's fun! it's a great way to keep up with new releases and forgotten gems 
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So 39 kids are signed up for my trick or treat in the park :3 It all started 10 years ago with a reverse trick or treat, when I rang my neighbor's doorbells and gave them chocolate.
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Halloween in Kazakhstan this year. There’s not any trick or treating, or such but shittons more people on the street in costumes and going to parties than you’d expect*. Yesterday I bobbed for apples for the first time since like age five. *Or arguably exactly what you’d expect from a rapidly internationalizing and young country seeing a fun thing and wanting to do it Watched American horror films with my grannie who remembers Stalin this evening. ----------------
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