| tia 21.10.2005 20:09 |
Does everyone celebrate Halloween? I understand in some countries they dont know what it is.Do you celebrate Halloween? If so what are you dressing up as? |
| Robin 21.10.2005 20:12 |
I teach preschool so I will be dressing up as a baseball player at work. |
| iGSM 21.10.2005 20:16 |
I know Australia doesn't...it has gained some popularity recently but we don't have people coming to our door and what not. Halloween usually goes by un-noticed over here. We've got Labor Day instead. |
| Mr.Jingles 21.10.2005 20:29 |
Halloween is more like a kid's holiday in Colombia. You don't really see anyone past 12 dressing up. |
| iGSM 21.10.2005 20:36 |
Heh, Halloween always makes me think of the Halloween episode (funny that) on the Simpsons where Marge sees Homer in a tatty outfit complete with broken stovepipe hat and says 'Homer, you're not going as a hobo again?' to which Homer replies 'Going where?' I love it. Plus I'd dress up a carton of milk with a missing person on the side. |
| KillerQueen840 21.10.2005 21:46 |
I stopped trick or treating years ago, but every other Halloween or so I decide to dress up when handing out candy. But, this year a friend of mine is forcing me to go trick or treating with her, LOL. I'm either going to be a thing wearing a monk's rob with a random monster mask, a vampire, a hippy, or a vampire-hippy. :-P |
| Yuri 21.10.2005 22:08 |
i love halloween! This year im going as alex from a clockwork orange |
| iGSM 21.10.2005 23:27 |
Awesome. Going to be killing old ladies with large ceramic penises? Or kicking a woman to death while yodelling 'Singing in the Rain'? :D |
| My Melancholy Blues 22.10.2005 14:29 |
I'm going to have a little costume party with my friends, so I need to prepare materials for it( i.e. the ones we could find out around not to spend much money). Oh yes, we'll have sweets and snacks and anything we like... p.s. in my country we don't have custom of "trick or treat" nor celebrate Halloween in general. So, if some people want to do anything, they usually do it among them. |
| Queenleaf 22.10.2005 15:34 |
I'm going as Zorro! Woot! |
| @ndy38 22.10.2005 15:42 |
I'm going as a cowboy and this topic just reminded me that i need to go and buy a cowboy hat! |
| thePresence 22.10.2005 17:35 |
seeing as i am 16, ill be 17 the next day, i still "trick- or treat" because i like getting stuff from strangers....:D im going as a roadie i think...unless i find something... |
| dragonzflame 22.10.2005 18:11 |
*grinds teeth* Hallowe'en (I insist on the apostrophe) is another Pagan tradition taken on by the marketing arsehats to make money. I don't like the idea that 364 days of the year it isn't okay to take sweets from strangers but on this one day it's all right, and I also don't like that you're encouraged to go round strangers' houses demanding treats just because it's Hallowe'en. And it may have some sort of American traditional/cultural significance but it sure as buggery doesn't here, however said marketing arsehats try to make it so. I don't like NZ becoming so Americanised (not to say anything against all of you!). Thank the Goddess we live down a back section with a long, dark, tree-lined driveway so we hardly ever get them. Maybe this year I'll withhold the sweets unless they can tell me what Hallowe'en's really about. That'll show 'em :-) |
| thePresence 22.10.2005 18:43 |
dragonzflame wrote: *grinds teeth* Maybe this year I'll withhold the sweets unless they can tell me what Hallowe'en's really about. That'll show 'em :-)do that! see what their responses are! |
| Yuri 23.10.2005 01:15 |
iGSM wrote: Awesome. Going to be killing old ladies with large ceramic penises? Or kicking a woman to death while yodelling 'Singing in the Rain'? :Dactually this will be one night that i WONT be doing that ;) |
| dragonzflame 23.10.2005 17:31 |
As a Pagan, yes :-) |
| Deacons 1st Choice 23.10.2005 21:17 |
If you are observing this night from a Pagan standpoint, Halloween is the most sacred night of the entire year. It is the Pagan's "Christmas" per sey....a holy night. It is not "evil" at all...that is where it has been twisted by marketing over the years. I live near Salem Ma and it is famous for it's high volume of real witches and wizards living there. Every year they hold a huge month long event honoring every aspect of the Holiday. On the actual night, it's more of a celebration of the harvest ( both physical and psycological sense) and a time to be thankfull for that which you have reaped this year. In ancient times, the Druids and Celts considered this time of year to be when Summer ended and Winter began. Okay...enough speiling....if you really want to learn the "real story" behind All Hallows' Eve do some reserch via Google or whatnot. It is interesting...and makes you rethink the way it is presented to society as a whole now. |
| Drummer imense! 24.10.2005 14:48 |
Yeah dont like it myself......... bit of a kak day and night really if im being honest! Ok some people enjoy it and fair enough, but not for me :) |
| LiveAidQueen 24.10.2005 15:54 |
There's nowhere to really trick or treat here... |
| Daburcor? 24.10.2005 15:57 |
I love Holloween! I am thinking of going to a college celebration... I think I'll go as Meat Loaf. |
| Mean Mistreater 24.10.2005 16:42 |
Halloween has become my annual Rocky Horror Picture show night for the past 10 years. |
| dragonzflame 24.10.2005 17:51 |
Deacons 1st Choice wrote: If you are observing this night from a Pagan standpoint, Halloween is the most sacred night of the entire year. It is the Pagan's "Christmas" per sey....a holy night. It is not "evil" at all...that is where it has been twisted by marketing over the years. I live near Salem Ma and it is famous for it's high volume of real witches and wizards living there. Every year they hold a huge month long event honoring every aspect of the Holiday. On the actual night, it's more of a celebration of the harvest ( both physical and psycological sense) and a time to be thankfull for that which you have reaped this year. In ancient times, the Druids and Celts considered this time of year to be when Summer ended and Winter began. Okay...enough speiling....if you really want to learn the "real story" behind All Hallows' Eve do some reserch via Google or whatnot. It is interesting...and makes you rethink the way it is presented to society as a whole now.Absolutely - that's why I get sad that shops use it just to make money and why people celebrate this event just as an excuse to get free sweets. It doesn't work here anyway - being spring and all. But then people don't get that anyway. It's like selling Easter eggs in our autumn - silly to those who understand the symbolism, just another excuse to eat chocolate for those who don't. |
| INXS 24.10.2005 21:14 |
I loved Halloween when I was a kid in the states, it was my favourite day of the year, after christmas of course. Now in Spain they're starting to celebrate it a little more each year, it's still nothing really big here yet but maybe within some years it will be, they already have their own carnival weekend in february which is quite crazy! |
| carboengine 25.10.2005 16:12 |
Bring on the candy! My niece and her husband, John, always go all out on Halloween. Shanna makes the custumes. John is 6'5" tall and weighs as much as a bulldozer. One year John went as John-John (remember the little tyke at JFK's funeral with the blue jacket and the short pants, saluting.) John's blue outfit was a bit bigger, well, a LOT bigger, well, it was HUGE, knees hanging out, white anklets with black shoes, and he carried a little US. flag. It seemed a bit irreverant, but it was sooo funny! |
| its_a_hard_life 25.10.2005 17:09 |
Halloween is all about ghosts and witchs the day when all evil stuff come out, someone told me that all spirts come out there grave on that day. Freaky and they said its the devils way. So they dont celebrate it. I dont really care myself. |
| dragonzflame 25.10.2005 20:42 |
Your friend needs to be better informed. |
| its_a_hard_life 26.10.2005 06:10 |
dragonzflame wrote: Your friend needs to be better informed.I didnt say it was a friend i said "Someone" Thats how they think there problem not ours lol. |
| Sherwood Forest 26.10.2005 15:56 |
every year i just take a sheet over me and walk blindly through school- dont have to listen to the teachers for a day, and no one else does that ghost sheet thing- its the least original thing ever and no one even remembers it, but yea thats my costume |
| tia 26.10.2005 20:29 |
Ive noticed this year that more people are decorating thier houses with Halloween things.Its not cheap stuff either. Its out of control.They have contests here to see who has the scariest decorations. |
| dragonzflame 29.10.2005 19:22 |
ah yeah |