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are you dressing up to let loose from your stuffy buttoned up lifestyle in rule Britannia? are you doing high concept but esoteric costumes ala the Japanese? Are you dressing like crazed murderers on every day BUT Halloween like the Scandinavians? Are you an American who experienced it in another country? Do you wear  pantsplease do tell Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Oct 6, 2023 |
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As a Canadian, I can say we do Halloween time like as depicted in Hollywood movies. I'll be taking my daughter and her pals around the neighborhood for trick or treating, and handing out candy at home. We like to decorate spookily and carve jack o lanterns too. Thanks for including us. 
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Oct 4, 2023 08:42
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Same in the UK. If you're over eight years old, or don't have a kid eight or under, it's not a thing, but you can put some decorations up, put on a shirt with a picture of a ghost on it and hand out candy at the door. Maybe it's changing though because of US influence? I'm boring so I have no idea.
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Oct 4, 2023 08:52
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I Germany clubs/pubs have been doing Halloween for decades. In recent years it has been becoming more popular for children to go on trick or treat tours, but I wouldn’t call it common and I think the percentage of people being prepared for that is still rather small. Edit: For my partner Halloween is her most important holiday though, and she looks forward to it every year, making and wearing very elaborate costumes when going out. Like a gender-swapped Pennywise or a Silent Hill nurse. Tarquinn fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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Oct 4, 2023 09:01
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In the UK we dress up as actually scary things, because it's a spooky and scary time, and not just normal things or cute things like in America. I have never understood why princess dresses and bunny rabbits are Hallowe'en options in the US. Did you not get the memo that the point of dressing up for Hallowe'en is to be spooky and scary? Very strange.
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Bollock Monkey posted:In the UK we dress up as actually scary things, because it's a spooky and scary time, and not just normal things or cute things like in America. I have never understood why princess dresses and bunny rabbits are Hallowe'en options in the US. Did you not get the memo that the point of dressing up for Hallowe'en is to be spooky and scary? Very strange.  quote:Best Halloween costumes from Marks & Spencer, New Look, Asda and Amazon with prices starting from £6 oh yeah sounds real different anyway i went as the grim reaper for like six years as a younge because it was too expensive to not get more than one use out of lol
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Oct 4, 2023 20:59
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Australians are like bizarrely anti-halloween right? Anyway yeah Canada does Halloween the same as the US except maybe (ime) kids are allowed to trick or treat unaccompanied at an earlier age on average
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Oct 4, 2023 21:42
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In Canada as kids we pray that it doesn't snow before Halloween because if it does you have to wear your costume over your snowsuit. It's always awesome when you are 7 and don't have to do so because it hasn't snowed yet. ----------------
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Oct 4, 2023 21:45
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Justin Godscock posted:In Canada as kids we pray that it doesn't snow before Halloween because if it does you have to wear your costume over your snowsuit. It’s the same in New England. I remember my mother patiently explaining to tiny little me that all of the real flamenco dancers in Spain always wear turtlenecks under their costumes. I live one town over from Salem Massachusetts, which goes absolutely bonkers for the entire month of October. I lived near downtown Salem for three years and had to get very creative when driving to visit my parents in Beverly. Now that I am back in Beverly, I stay out of Salem until November 1. Thank goodness they finally opened a dispensary here.
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Bollock Monkey posted:In the UK we dress up as actually scary things, because it's a spooky and scary time, and not just normal things or cute things like in America. I have never understood why princess dresses and bunny rabbits are Hallowe'en options in the US. Did you not get the memo that the point of dressing up for Hallowe'en is to be spooky and scary? Very strange. It’s traditional to buy a sexy prepackaged costume from spirit Halloween, you’re doing it wrong ----------------
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gently caress that...I'll Halloween harder at their house and I'm 41 ----------------
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Killingyouguy! posted:Australians are like bizarrely anti-halloween right? About a decade ago I had a friend there. He hated Halloween when I mentioned it, and he refused to tell me why. But said that some people do give out candy, I think? But it's extremely rare that anyone goes trick or treating. I have no idea anymore.
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Hrist posted:About a decade ago I had a friend there. He hated Halloween when I mentioned it, and he refused to tell me why. But said that some people do give out candy, I think? But it's extremely rare that anyone goes trick or treating. I have no idea anymore. I feel like the only rationale I've heard is 'we're not America'
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Killingyouguy! posted:I feel like the only rationale I've heard is 'we're not America' That makes sense. But it's still funny to imagine them being angry about kids wanting to have fun. Or like Halloween had some personal extreme tragedy to them or something.
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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. We have a holiday on November 11, Sint-Maarten, that's associated with lanterns and jack-o-lanterns, and kids going door to door to sing songs in exchange for candy. We also have our own different dress-up holiday, Carnaval. Apparently around 15% of people celebrate Halloween in some way, according to this article I just read. But I think it's been growing in popularity. ----------------
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Australian here, I feel like the sentiment is really starting to shift. My boomer parents hated it, and as a kid I was sad that we had all these American Halloween movies and tv specials knowing I was never going to experience it. I think there's a lot of people in the same boat as me, and as a result I've been seeing more and more Halloween stuff in recent years, with some areas really pushing to make it a proper community event. I don't care if it's poisoning our culture or whatever, the closest public holiday we have chronologically to Halloween is for a loving horse race (in Melbourne at least). We have a real problem.
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in high school years ago we had a french exchange student who fell in love with halloween because it was such a novel experience for her. when she went home everyone made fun of her for trying to celebrate it lol, and stole her pumpkins
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I've been in Japan for nearly 20 years. Halloween is currently the territory of preschool-kindergarten (daytime events at school or the mall) and young adults (drinking in costume in Tokyo). When my kid(s) were little I started trick-or-treat with 4-5 neighbors on our block, which has since expanded to about 50 kids. It's usually on the last Saturday before 10/31. We need to do pre-registration to set a fixed time (sunset), tell candy providers how many kids to prepare for, and make a map of which houses are participating. Last year we relocated to a park to avoid people jumping in without registering. Now everyone is equally "local" and we don't need to worry about parking and ringing the wrong doorbells. Everything is done in 90 minutes and everyone goes home when it's over. Then the grownups get trashed while the kids play video games. peanut fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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Alan Smithee posted:are you dressing up to let loose from your stuffy buttoned up lifestyle in rule Britannia? This always strikes me as weird because all the usual Halloween practices originated in the UK (trick or treating, spooky costumes, jack-o'-lanterns, etc) and were exported to the US, now the tables have turned and the entire world thinks of it as an American holiday. plasticbones posted:Australian here, I feel like the sentiment is really starting to shift. My boomer parents hated it, and as a kid I was sad that we had all these American Halloween movies and tv specials knowing I was never going to experience it. I think there's a lot of people in the same boat as me, and as a result I've been seeing more and more Halloween stuff in recent years, with some areas really pushing to make it a proper community event. Yeah all the supermarkets and department stores in Australia have doubled down on Halloween in a big way and have entire aisles dedicated to Halloween stock all throughout October. There's always been lots of fun-hating parochial wowsers who were completely opposed to Halloween being celebrated here in Australia but now that Capitalism has latched onto it Halloween is here to stay and will only get bigger every year. The fun-haters lost the culture war.  I live in inner suburban Melbourne and Halloween has been pretty big here over the last decade, with more and more families joining in every year and entire streets joining together to decorate all their yards. There's always hundreds of kids going trick-or-treating in my neighbourhood, I always put out some decorations and hand out kilos and kilos of lollies and help coordinate things via Facebook community groups. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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That sounds awesome, peanut! You must be super proud. I'm gonna be in Japan for Halloween myself (we'll be in Tokyo Disney on the day). Can't wait!
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Apparently a lot of kids here in Australia aren't real familiar with the Halloween "rules" and will try to trick-or-treat at houses which aren't participating in Halloween and this absolutely enrages certain people who will throw screaming tantrums because kids knock on their door
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“We want c words!”….”not that c words!”
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peanut posted:I've been in Japan for nearly 20 years. Halloween is currently the territory of preschool-kindergarten (daytime events at school or the mall) and young adults (drinking in costume in Tokyo). This was how we did it when I was a kid in the UK, on smaller scale. My friends grandma would throw the most amazing kids party, and the whole school class would be there. House decorated, a buffet of food and sweets, games. The whole attic was decorated for halloween and would stay so every year, so it just got more and more built up as time went on. She'd arranged with the neighbours in her cul-de-sac which houses we went to, and we all went round as a big group. It was probably like ten houses at most, but they all gave us big handfulls of stuff so it was good. One or two would do little events for it. I remember sitting in somebody's living room and them telling us spooky stories. When I opened my present from the grab bag later, they've given me a wade whimsy eagle. Everyone else just got sweets I think?? Weird, but I still have that little guy. 
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Ireland/Scotland have ye olde Samhain/Halloween traditions like dressing up, carving turnips and dunking for apples and poo poo like that, also was the only time of year we had big firework displays at parties. More recently there's been a weird backlash of little englanders calling the whole thing an Americanism, probably because the costumes got more plastic and the turnips turned into pumpkins, and they were apparently never invited to their cooler neighbors parties.
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MyChemicalImbalance posted:Ireland/Scotland have ye olde Samhain how do you pronounce this correctly
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Over the last 10 years I've watch NZ go from not knowing Halloween to being ok with it so it's somewhere between Australia and USA/Canada. Probably the thing that messes it all up is that October 31 is mid spring so the sun doesn't set until like 830 and pumpkins aren't in season so no jack-o-lanterns. Also the candy people give out is absolute garbage. I want fuckin mars bars n poo poo, not these dumb gross marshmallow things
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Yeah, Spring in Australia doesn't really feel right for Halloween. Bees, birdsong, long sunny afternoons etc are not exactly turbo spooky.
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MyChemicalImbalance posted:Ireland/Scotland have ye olde Samhain/Halloween traditions like dressing up, carving turnips and dunking for apples and poo poo like that, also was the only time of year we had big firework displays at parties.
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bssoil posted:Probably the thing that messes it all up is that October 31 is mid spring so the sun doesn't set until like 830 and pumpkins aren't in season so no jack-o-lanterns. Here in Australia it's also mid Spring and the supermarkets are all selling locally grown "Halloween Carving Pumpkins" but they're crazy expensive  https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/364450/halloween-carving-pumpkin-whole 
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Alan Smithee posted:how do you pronounce this correctly I've been dying to know this for about 20 years due to a niche and long-forgotten, out-of-print trading card game.
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Alan Smithee posted:how do you pronounce this correctly SAH-win or SAW-win, depending on region, accent etc.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here in Australia it's also mid Spring and the supermarkets are all selling locally grown "Halloween Carving Pumpkins" but they're crazy expensive Yikes. I just picked up a huge pumpkin at the local pumpkin farm for $8. It's maybe 15-20lbs. I was actually a little surprised at how expensive they're getting. ----------------
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Update: I went to a different supermarket and they were selling carving pumpkins for $3.90 a kilo If you want a decent sized one that'll run you around $29  Yeah I'm gonna have to pass on that
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yo them green peppers look even more expensive
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Yeah in Melbourne Australia some places seem to trick or treat, but the main thing seems to be halloween parties. There always seems to be tons about. Can't remember a year I wasn't at one. Plenty of people like to do up their houses with Halloween decorations as well. My Sister and her kids are up in a more rural town in Queensland. A few houses are decorating, and Sister and her kids love to put up Halloween Decorations and watch scary movies all month. I'm up there at the moment, and will probably run a murder mystery for them as well, as one of my nieces loves to play a detective (although she's sent the wrong person to the electric chair more times than not)!
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Update: I went to a different supermarket and they were selling carving pumpkins for $3.90 a kilo Jesus. There is a big farm here (a lot actually) so I went up to the gazebo outside where you pay for the pumpkins to ask the cost and the girl gave it to me in ball sizes (american). Softball is this much, basketball is this much, we can judge it.... so I knew straight away that if I were probably very nice to her I could get away with a bit more. I grabbed my pumpkin and waited for the same girl and she said wow that's a great pumpkin and said it was basketball sized lol. 8 bucks.  Almost 15 pounds. I'm gonna wait to cut it open because I want the seeds and I don't want it to spoil until Halloween. ----------------
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Pennywise the Frown posted:....and she said wow that's a great pumpkin.  The difference is important!!!!
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dr_rat posted:Did she say "Wow that's a great pumpkin" or "Wow that's The Great Pumpkin" There were literally 1,000+ pumpkins out there with an operation out in the field bringing in new ones so I'm guessing she says that to everyone. However, a lot of people grab the carts (wheelbarrows) to get a bunch with their families so I spent like 10 minutes like an idiot trying to find the best one. It's a good pumpkin! edit: good looking for carving and a special guest star of Pennywise the Cat 
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