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The Voice of Labor posted:oh yeah, do you have corn mazes? a good corn maze totally makes it AKA a maize maze |
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Sep 27, 2020 08:52
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No corn mazes lol. Australia doesn't have these things gang I have to make my own halloween fun 
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Sep 27, 2020 08:55
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Chewbecca posted:No corn mazes lol. Australia doesn't have these things gang Get a bunch of popcorn kernels and make a lil maze out of it! |
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Sep 27, 2020 08:58
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FPzero posted:I live on a dead end street at the far end of my neighborhood, which means no one comes over my way aside from like, the few kids on the street. So after they come and go, I'm generally left with tons of candy all for myself. a couple years ago when I was in an apartment, there was no trick or treating, so i just bought a bag of candy for myself--after halloween was over so i got discounts on them! Same here. When I was a kid (which would be the 80s and 90s), it would be normal to go to people's houses (especially ones that had porch lights on with halloween decorations like a jack-o-lantern) and ring the doorbell and say whatever phrase is customary to your age and locale. But I guess the culture changed while I was in college and I never really got any trick-o-treaters while I was living in an apartment (late 2000s to mid 2010s). Talking to some parents, apparently the new cool thing is to have parents bring their kids to a parking lot and now the trunk stands in for the front door. Weirdly enough, where I'm staying now, I didn't get any trick-or-treaters except for one year when there were too many and I got cleaned out. Well, it was less candy for me to have to pawn on coworkers the day after, so I'm not disappointed. Anyways, supermarkets and pharmacies and whatnot will have bags of halloween candy front and center and usually at steep discounts, which get even steeper after halloween itself. It's important to note that these bags come with a dozen (or a couple dozen) servings each, and each serving is individually wrapped and meant to be eaten in one or two bites. However, if you're well off, you can distribute full size candy bars to the local kids and definitely be the king (or queen) of the neighborhood for just one night. https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/1179791562307338240
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Sep 27, 2020 09:42
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Man I wanna eat a jolly rancher 
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Sep 27, 2020 09:47
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Chewbecca posted:Man I wanna eat a jolly rancher MAYBE U SHOULD ASK THEM FIRST!!! 
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Sep 27, 2020 09:50
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Prof. Crocodile posted:if you are under 13 years of age you can wear storebought costumes of fictional characters and go through your neighborhood asking people for candy It goes without saying that if you are unmarried or married without kids, then you continue to go to grown up parties. Or stay home and drink beer and pass out candy.
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Sep 27, 2020 09:52
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starbucks hermit posted:It goes without saying that if you are unmarried or married without kids, then you continue to go to grown up parties. that's strange, I thought I decided against posting this
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Sep 27, 2020 09:54
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starbucks hermit posted:It goes without saying that if you are unmarried or married without kids, then you continue to go to grown up parties. |
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Sep 27, 2020 09:55
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Anyways, at risk of getting into trouble, I have some relevant 2020 information regarding Halloween: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/holidays.html#halloween cdc posted:These lower risk activities can be safe alternatives: You have only one guess as to what the CDC totally recommends against doing. I'm probably going to carve a pumpkin and leave out some candy in a bucket. Or maybe I'll just leave the lights off and just drink.
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quote:Using alcohol or drugs, which can cloud judgement and increase risky behaviors the cdc is basically saying up yours byob |
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Sep 27, 2020 10:06
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starbucks hermit posted:Anyways, at risk of getting into trouble, I have some relevant 2020 information regarding Halloween: this idea is getting better by the hour
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Sep 27, 2020 10:07
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One interesting new trend (which apparently has been going on for about a decade or so? maybe more?) are businesses taking over large retail spaces (think large office supply stores or pet shops, maybe 3/4 the size of a supermarket) and turning them into haunted houses. (and halloween costume shops as well, and also other seasonal stuff) I went to one in Tustin, CA about a couple of years ago and I think it was "the 17th door" (https://the17thdoor.com/). It was pretty cool and there was a lot of screaming by both employees and guests. Only later did I find out that stuff of this nature sometimes has a bit of an evangelical christian bent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_house). I guess they disguised it enough that it didn't detract from the experience because I didn't really notice it. If you have a lot of money, though, you can instead go to a theme park such as Knotts Berry Farm (and I guess Disneyland or Universal Studios or etc) and they're usually kitted out with halloween themed stuff (including having costumed employees chase guests and modifying some rides to go backwards). It's one of the few seasonal events (maybe the only seasonal event) where Knotts has a better reputation than Disneyland in terms of the premier Halloween theme park experience. Well, this is all 90s talk, so I dunno if things are different, but Knotts generally caters heavily towards the teen crowd at any rate.
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Sep 27, 2020 10:22
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starbucks hermit posted:that's strange, I thought I decided against posting this Ok, I remember, I was going to dunk on Rancho Cucamonga and decided against it. Suffice it to say that it's an area with a lot of warehouses, an outlet mall, and where two major freeways meet (the 10 and the 15). It doesn't strike me as being affluent, but I guess I don't know enough about it. Then again, I have a rule of thumb that if a city has an REI, its residents are probably doing pretty ok.
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Sep 27, 2020 10:34
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halloween isnt that big on this side of the atlantic, but i think it involves dressing up as sexy professions |
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Sep 27, 2020 13:23
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Nosfereefer posted:halloween isnt that big on this side of the atlantic, but i think it involves dressing up as sexy professions I can only buy internet things but I'm thinking of going as a goon who has been sexily decapitated
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Sep 27, 2020 13:30
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when the weather is good we still get trick-or-treaters (I assume not this year) but we live in a pretty dense neighborhood with a lot of families with kids in a big city I think this year we'll leave a bowl out on the steps with a thing of hand sanitizer and a sign that says "take one" or something to that effect
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starbucks hermit posted:One interesting new trend (which apparently has been going on for about a decade or so? maybe more?) are businesses taking over large retail spaces (think large office supply stores or pet shops, maybe 3/4 the size of a supermarket) and turning them into haunted houses. (and halloween costume shops as well, and also other seasonal stuff) i went to knott's scary farm a looong time ago and it was really cool. there were random staff members dressed in black who had little knee pad things that let them slide, so they'd sneak run up on you and come sliding out of the shadows to scare you, which was great. also a lot of very loud haunted walk thrus/haunted houses that were spooky where i live now there is usually at least one person in a town who goes completely all out and either does a haunted house, or decorates the whole yard with little spooky vignettes. i helped a coworker who was one of the former make a pretty great haunted house that included a horror butcher shop display and a smoke machine one year. it's a lot of work but people really appreciate it. we also have some corn maze/pumpkin patch places that will do spooky nights in the maze where guys with chainsaws (sans chain of course) will run around laughing maniacally and zombies will chase you
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Sep 27, 2020 17:10
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we live in one of those unfortunate neighborhoods where people bus in their children to get the good stuff. i retaliate by asking to see ID to make sure they're really neighbor kids 
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Sep 28, 2020 20:57
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duckie's house, halloween night TRICK OR TREAT! oh look. a little ghost. aren't you cute. i haven't seen you around here. where do you live? where is your school? did you have to get in a car to get here? what's the mascot of the local elementary school? i'm sorry those are all wrong. (reaching for the bowl of jolly ranchers)
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Sep 28, 2020 20:59
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i'm dressing up as sexy internet poster |
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Sep 28, 2020 21:00
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Nosfereefer posted:i'm dressing up as sexy internet poster "dressing up" 
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Sep 28, 2020 21:05
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chewbecca imma post genuine Halloween scenes from ‘merica for you, so you don’t have to rely on the curated images from google. here is one I saw today. please note the glow in the dark skeleton on the tractor who I believe to be beer pal irl 
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Oct 2, 2020 16:49
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Prof. Crocodile that rules, holy heck 
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Goons I've been halloween decorating while listening to halloween playlists and now I'm knackered  When do people normally decorate? Is it too early? If it is too early then too bad, but just out of curiosity!
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Chewbecca posted:Goons I've been in my experience (in Southern California)... If you are hosting a party at home, then you want to be done before the party starts. Most parties are hosted closer to the 31st (likely the first Friday night or Saturday before halloween, or halloween itself on a weekday if you feel lucky), since the guests will need all the time they can get to prepare their costumes. If you are hosting a party at work, and if halloween is on a weekend, then workplaces (if they allow it) will be decorated on the Thursday or Friday before that weekend. If it's a weekday, then decorations will usually happen the day before or the day of halloween. Most workplaces don't do any decorations at all and simply grant a minor concession to allow costumes in the workplace and maybe order a pizza for lunch so that people can congregate and comment on each others' costumes. If you are not hosting any parties but you want to get into the spirit of the season and not be a disappointment to your community (although generally most households don't bother with it) then you just need to be done before the 31st. This is a stark difference in comparison to Christmas, since generally you want to be done about a week before Christmas itself because you won't have time to put up lights or ornaments or etc in the actual week before Christmas (due to the shopping, the holiday travel, the whatnot).
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It should be said that it's never too early to do Halloween decorations. As long as your municipal regulations allow it, it is always cool to have a glowing green skeleton riding a tractor on your front lawn.
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Oct 3, 2020 06:39
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And you can turn that skeleton into a christmas decoration just by putting a jaunty x-mas hat on it. Easy, yet novel.
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Oct 3, 2020 06:40
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I took a couple of pictures at a local CVS, which is a mid-sized pharmacy. Places like these always have a seasonal aisle, and for this month, the season is Halloween Candy. Orange colored kitkats, https://imgur.com/a/FHgznmK The only difference between a place like this and a supermarket is that a supermarket will also have cardboard bins next to the front entrance overflowing with pumpkins. (and then again, if you are near a Trader Joe's, they go all out with the fall/halloween/thanksgiving products.) EDIT: I meant to say "orange colored kitkats, dense bags of various mars chocolate, peanut butter cups in a multitude of spooky shapes" sb hermit fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Oct 3, 2020
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This is the kind of neighborhood where you really have to go out of your way to get Brach's candy. An eagle eye can actually spot the one location in this entire aisle where you can pick some up. There's also the halloween pretzels, which I've never seen before, and now I want to try out.
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Oct 3, 2020 06:56
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lol what are halloween mini pretzels
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Oct 3, 2020 07:51
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more falafel please posted:lol what are halloween mini pretzels gently caress, this is now my new task
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Oct 3, 2020 08:48
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i hope trick or treaters this year will like halloween mini pretzels and not egg my home out of disappointment
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Oct 3, 2020 08:49
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 Look at my glittery black skeleton, I  him 
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 I got a candle that drips red wax, a spiderweb tablecloth, and a bottle with witches on it It doesn't photograph well cos it's a candle, but it looks very spooky irl imo
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Chewbecca posted:Goons I've been starbucks hermit posted:It should be said that it's never too early to do Halloween decorations. Your stuff about work in that unquoted post seems off too me, in that either a workplace allows it or it doesn't. If it does it is usually "second half of October" instead of the very last minute. For houses the hardcore around here seem to do it the very end of September just to show they are hardcore, there has been more of a trend of Halloween getting "earlier" here in the last decade or so just like Christmas has been for quite a while now. With that said the more stuff that gets put up, the earlier it tends to go up, but for most "sometime in October" is pretty much it, especially with houses. Some that just carve pumpkins and maybe a little more has to be last minute so they don't wilt and rot so you might not see anything until then. Also around here more houses then not will have little to no decorations but a fair amount will have a pretty good setup and a small handful will go all out and have an impressive haunted house type getup where there isn't more then half a foot anywhere that doesn't have something going on. The part about adult parties usually being the Friday or Saturday before with actual Halloween being more for the kids is spot on, unless it falls on the weekend, then it pretty much comes down to "what's your kid situation?". Again this is "around here" so ymmv.
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Twenty Four posted:Your stuff about work in that unquoted post seems off too me, in that either a workplace allows it or it doesn't. If it does it is usually "second half of October" instead of the very last minute. You're right. I haven't worked in too many workplaces but usually I'm in smaller office suites that don't try to do anything fancy. Any decorations are usually what people put in their own cubes or offices. Twenty Four posted:For houses the hardcore around here seem to do it the very end of September just to show they are hardcore, there has been more of a trend of Halloween getting "earlier" here in the last decade or so just like Christmas has been for quite a while now. This is also true for my neighborhood as well. Thank you for talking about the pumpkin rot. I already got candy, so I'm probably going to put out a pumpkin as well. I hope I don't forget the candles. If I carve a pumpkin this year, I'm going to see if I can do something cool with the pulp. Roasting seeds is fun and all but it's so much work.
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