D. Australian.
WTF is Halloween. Oh, you mean the thing that Americanised (globalisationed) children started doing from a couple of years after my generation?
Foolz said:D. Australian.
WTF is Halloween. Oh, you mean the thing that Americanised (globalisationed) children started doing from a couple of years after my generation?
Yup.
I was saddened to find Halloween in Australia when I returned after a long stint in the US. Also Christmas lights on houses.
aspro said:
Yup.I was saddened to find Halloween in Australia when I returned after a long stint in the US. Also Christmas lights on houses.
That's another weird thing. A neighbour used to hang up epic, proper light bulbs in her tree around and have a small Christmas tree in her window around Christmas time, but otherwise you'd have to go to Ivanhoe to see such things. Now they're just in random houses.
Halloween is awesome. I don't wear costumes much anymore, but it's a lot of fun seeing what others come up with. I'll be watching Jeff Dunham's Minding the Monsters on Halloween while drinking copious amounts of hot chocolate. 
Like Halloween overall (not that I participate in any fashion mind you) but as I get older I hate Christmas. I hate shopping for people and going broke and blah blah blah, I hate the stupid songs, I hate christmas movies, and carols, and everything about it. Im sooooo over it.
^For people who celebrate it for religous/ spiritual reasons I completely honor their choice. But all the non-religous, sacarine, commercial side of Christmas, yeah it was fairly suffocating in the US. Not as much in Australia.
Christmas is boss, but since my bro started his new family it's not the same as it was when we were both together locked in a house with presents and stuff like the old days.
Halloween was never big here, I went trick or treating once, felt a bit foolish. Would be cool in America if it's anything like the movies.
The secular tradition of Christmas is exactly the same as the modern religious tradition of Christmas, let's not beat around the bush. Commercialism doesn't necessarily come into either, and can come into both.
^From an historic sense you might be right, but that doesn't mean that there are not people for whom Christmas has deep and true meaning, either as a part of their spirtiual life or as a part of their familaral/ cultural identity.
aspro said:^From an historic sense you might be right, but that doesn't mean that there are not people for whom Christmas has deep and true meaning, either as a part of their spirtiual life or as a part of their familaral/ cultural identity.
Well, that's what I meant. 
I probably took parts of the second sentence of the previous post too literally. My apologies.
^ you just like dressing up like a power ranger and throwing eggs at little children ADMIT IT.
It would probably be the most amazing thing in the universe to egg a little shit halloween kid.
True.
I really want the pikachu one...
DON'T JUDGE ME.
GodModeEnabled said:I really want the pikachu one...
DON'T JUDGE ME.
I'm judging you.
I totally understand it.