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Well, it's that time of year again and there are currently no threads already about it on GD so here I go.

What's everyone opinions on the growing acceptance of Halloween as an event in Australia? Personally I'm torn. I hate the notion of kids roaming the streets knocking on strangers doors demanding lollies. * em. I dislike the increasing commercialism, the pumpkins, the witches and demons and the lot of it.

On the other hand, I do personally enjoy, and even look forward to, a Halloween themed party with friends or themed night out at the pub/club. I, as an individual, enjoy dressing up for something a bit different, and enjoy being in costume with mates, and Halloween is as good an excuse as any, but it is not the only time/excuse for a dress up party.

So I guess maybe in short, I think it's a cool social thing for older kids/people of legal age, but not the young ones and not the trick or treating. Maybe I just really don't like kids?

Tonight however there is nothing planned, so I'll gladly be sitting on, probably on GTA V, not answering the door.
 
edgie said:
Well, it's that time of year again and there are currently no threads already about it on GD so here I go.

What's everyone opinions on the growing acceptance of Halloween as an event in Australia? Personally I'm torn. I hate the notion of kids roaming the streets knocking on strangers doors demanding lollies. **** em. I dislike the increasing commercialism, the pumpkins, the witches and demons and the lot of it.
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Just really an excuse for the kids to get some free lollies. Otherwise it is all that big in Australia. Not something I really care much about.
 
If I had kids I would be opposed to them going out and doing it, but if they wanted to host a party/go to a friends house for a party and I trusted there would be o trick or treats, go for it
 

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Was just about to post something about this. Had a flock of kids screaming at the door not long ago... Does anyone actually expect people to come around and prepare crappy lollies? Didn't think people trick or treated here.
 
I think it's awesome in America because people get so into it, they spend a lot of time on their costumes etc. but over here, kids can cut some eyeholes into a large white rubbish bag (I swear that's what I saw when I was driving home tonight) and demand free lollies. I'm not opposed to making sure we have a bag of chocolates handy one day a year though, pretty harmless (well, mostly harmless, depending on the neighbourhood!).
 
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Sums up my thoughts pretty well.
 
Is it the acceptance really growing ? It seems to be the same level of crap every year.

I assume in America it's a great time because everyones right into it. It's just cringeworthy here.
 
little graham said:
What is halloween? why is it "celebrated"?
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Halloween is the evening before All Saints' Day (Nov 1) and All Souls' Day (Nov 2), and was apparently a day when you were supposed to remember/"celebrate" the dead.

Take that, throw in hundreds of years of pagan rituals, gothic literature, and commercialism and taa-daa....modern Halloween.

Like many "Americanisms" it was actually an old English thing that died out in the mother country but was preserved in America.
 

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Would be embarrassed if I had to walk around with my (fictional) kids while they trick or treat - it's an American thing.

Nonetheless, we still have a bowl of lollies for those that come to our door (some just turned up then).
 
I just find it kind of strange how something which I don't really remember celebrating here has sprung up these last few years. The first time I had kids knocking on my door, asking for candy, I was pretty bamboozled. I mean, it was something I'd always seen in movies, but I'd never known it to be practiced here, or at least not where I live.

Funny how mothers now condone their young children taking candy from me on one night of the year, when it would surely earn me a torrent of abuse, as she forcefully pulled her child away, if it happened at any other time of the year.
 
Just had a knock on my door, got up to answer it, saw fairy costume through the window at the side, sat back down.
The dreams of small children may be crushed, but I'd rather not be the one to tell them. Nothingness can be the one to do that.
 
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