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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Kesa on October 31, 2011, 10:00:29 AM
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So what is everyone doing for Halloween?
I saw some kids walk up the other side of the street a while ago trick or treating. The next time they come to my house i will be all ready for them. The shotgun is fully loaded and sitting by the door... :uzi:
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It's been a bit weird here (Helloween). For the last few weeks shops (even my local supermarket) have been promoting it, even to a point they had decorations and whatnot. Id never seen anything like it for Helloween here in Victoria, and yesterday there was a few parades around Melbourne, but now today, actual Helloween, and Ive seen neither head nor hide of it. Even the shops have taken thier decorations down.
It was like everyone celebrated 1 day early. Pretty strange, none less so when Helloween really isnt usually celebrated here much at all in the first place.
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Je,je,je, I was programming a special Bed Games I: Special Halloween, I have the models, mystic graphics, etc., but now I'm working in Convierteme 2.10 because I need this program for work with pictures.
Perhaps for the next year, because also I have finish the "Bed Games II: Los Chinos".
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We had over 100 kids come through and had to run down to the shops for more bags of candy twice after already being stocked up on it.
Here's the Jack o' lantern we carved this year:
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6298592378_fdbc30ae75_z.jpg)
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We don't even tip waiters and waitresses why the f### are we adopting the American tradition of having kids go begging at strangers doors? It's just so wrong in many ways. Yes the fancy dress is fun, but the whole Autumn in Spring thing is just silly down here.
I think the whole thing started with the elimination of the penny, no longer could kids go around asking for a "penny for the Guy" and they started looking towards America for inspiration.
What's the point of carving those unnaturally yellow pumpkin squashes during the Spring planting season?
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Kim and I plan on taking Terry out tonight after dinner. She's having a parade at school and then a little party. She'll also have a party at the after school program she goes to.
Here's our pumpkin for this year:
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@Cammy
Your Jackolantern is horrifically scary. Its like something out of a halloween nightmare. :cool:
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@Cammy
Your Jackolantern is horrifically scary. Its like something out of a halloween nightmare. :cool:
Yeah, that's because our pixel artist Rebel cut his face off after I scooped his guts out.
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:roflmao: :laughing: :lol: :crazy: :eek:
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So what is everyone doing for Halloween?
Bloodletting and praying to my ancestors... ..well I will be once I've popped out for some nibbles and incense.
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Mayan Trick or Treat:
(http://www.bluecorncomics.com/pics/aztecs.gif)
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So what is everyone doing for Halloween?
No such holiday around here, even though some large corporations would for sure want us to have one.
There's of course the all saints' day. Around here the tradition is to light candles and visit the graves of deceased relatives.
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Praying to the one and only God, same as every other day.
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The next time they come to my house i will be all ready for them. The shotgun is fully loaded and sitting by the door... :uzi:
Surely you have some old worthless amiga games you can give them?
If I get time to dig them out I might offer visitors c64 tapes.
Welcome to 1985, help yourselves!
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Surely you have some old worthless amiga games you can give them?
If I get time to dig them out I might offer visitors c64 tapes.
Welcome to 1985, help yourselves!
I doubt kids these days will know what a cassette tape is never mind a c64.
As for me, our lights are off in the house (trick or treater repellent).
If you do answer the door anyone, ask them for a trick.
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So what is everyone doing for Halloween?
I saw some kids walk up the other side of the street a while ago trick or treating. The next time they come to my house i will be all ready for them. The shotgun is fully loaded and sitting by the door... :uzi:
Happy Halloween
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So what is everyone doing for Halloween?
Same as last year. Giving out decent, brand name candy to rude insolent youths.
Its an American tradition.
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I think there were about 30 kids asking for trick or treat here, most accompanied by their parents. The whole Halloween thing is not really a genuine local thing here, but became popular during the last years. While I generally see no need for imported customs (we have plenty traditions already) I also don't play the teacher/Mr. I_know_it_better_and_have_my_principles when they are ringing at the door.
There's a little detail I cannot withstand to play teacher, the kids here do the command for trick or treat wrong. The just ask/command "süßes oder saures" (sweets or sours), and don't tell the rule or pronounce it as "Süßes, sonst gibt's saures" (Sweets otherwise we'll give you sour).
And if you ask for sour, they even don't know what to do...
But well, since I am kind of Mr. Niceguy eventually all the kids got their sweets.
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I doubt kids these days will know what a cassette tape is never mind a c64.
Thats the point :-)
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I was going to order a pair of these and make up a really creepy, really tall, ghoul costume and wander around town and scare the **** out of kids, but alas...
car died, need to redirect my money there instead.
Till next year.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/?_nkw=jumping%20stilts&rvr_id=270511785224&clk_rvr_id=270511785224
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Feel like playing cauldron 2 on the c64, Jumpin pumpkins...way out there! ;)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfi6TkpCv-I
and while I'm at it..... :)
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Watching all the Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors :)
Oh and making some Halloween related Commodore youtube vids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hyjIMj_F2M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lle-YFt82aQ
Enjoy :)
(Youtube put those stinking adverts on my videos NOT me btw, some bullcrap copyright ownership error/excuse)
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Thats the point :-)
Oh, I thought you were genuinely trying to get rid of some old junk...
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So what is everyone doing for Halloween?
I saw some kids walk up the other side of the street a while ago trick or treating. The next time they come to my house i will be all ready for them. The shotgun is fully loaded and sitting by the door... :uzi:
Landmines are more effective.
I'm sat in a hotel in Midland TX. I had lunch at Hooters and the waitresses had all dressed up for Halloween. The two best ones were the "catwoman" (skin-tight PVC complete with whip) and the "naughty cop" in a skirt so short you could see her lips moving even when she wasn't talking.
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[youtube]qvlhRoDvR0c[/youtube]
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I was going to order a pair of these and make up a really creepy, really tall, ghoul costume and wander around town and scare the **** out of kids, but alas...
car died, need to redirect my money there instead.
Till next year.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/?_nkw=jumping%20stilts&rvr_id=270511785224&clk_rvr_id=270511785224
Sorry to hear about the car, never fun to pay out cash on necessities when you should be spending it on fun.
As for the jumping stilts, I would love a pair of them myself. Great for dressing up as Namtar from Farscape and experimenting on people.
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I'm shutting myself in my room and reading SomethingAwful ghost-story threads.
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I watched the cult BBC show Ghost Watch, spent some time playing some Amiga and then went to see my gran in hospital. then went to work and missed all the little rotten kiddies.
:laughing:
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So what is everyone doing for Halloween?
Cowering behind my couch, waiting for the nightmare to end...
It's a MAD HOUSE! A MMMAAADDD HHHOOOUUUSSSEEE!
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I'm writing coding documentation for a tilemap library. It's just another day. We don't get many (if any) trick-or-treaters out here on the farm.
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Our Americanisation
Tonight there'll be the sound of the front gate opening, whispers, scuffling noises and a knock, and will you open the door to trick or treaters expectantly or grudgingly? Or will you hide in a back room?
Halloween has been just the trick or treat bit in Australia for a few years, but Woolworths' reporting of tripling sales for all things Halloween suggests that the American tradition, or at least the American version of the tradition, is taking a hold. That's to be expected, I suppose, as simply a part of the Americanisation of Australia, a late part since the the Americanisation is very well advanced.
American culture is now the major influence in our food, our language, our sense of humour, our clothes, our emotional responses, our attitudes, and that is at its most obvious in the swapping of Australians' British reserve for American emotionalism. Another marked change is our new division of people as winners and losers, a division based largely on money.
Most of us have railed against trick or treating, and we've railed too against the wider Americanisation of Australia, but I suspect it's too late to fight. Should we spare ourselves the angst and embrace Halloween? Should we order a turkey for Thanksgiving? Are we be better off Americanised than when we were Anglicised?
http://www.theherald.com.au/blogs/jeff-corbett/our-americanisation/2339684.aspx (http://www.theherald.com.au/blogs/jeff-corbett/our-americanisation/2339684.aspx)
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Our Americanisation
Tonight there'll be the sound of the front gate opening, whispers, scuffling noises and a knock, and will you open the door to trick or treaters expectantly or grudgingly? Or will you hide in a back room?
Halloween has been just the trick or treat bit in Australia for a few years, but Woolworths' reporting of tripling sales for all things Halloween suggests that the American tradition, or at least the American version of the tradition, is taking a hold. That's to be expected, I suppose, as simply a part of the Americanisation of Australia, a late part since the the Americanisation is very well advanced.
American culture is now the major influence in our food, our language, our sense of humour, our clothes, our emotional responses, our attitudes, and that is at its most obvious in the swapping of Australians' British reserve for American emotionalism. Another marked change is our new division of people as winners and losers, a division based largely on money.
Most of us have railed against trick or treating, and we've railed too against the wider Americanisation of Australia, but I suspect it's too late to fight. Should we spare ourselves the angst and embrace Halloween? Should we order a turkey for Thanksgiving? Are we be better off Americanised than when we were Anglicised?
http://www.theherald.com.au/blogs/jeff-corbett/our-americanisation/2339684.aspx
Marg bar Amrika!
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Marg bar Amrika!
Well, bless you too! :rolleyes:
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@persia
That's depressing. Not the "points" made in content, but the content itself. It's inaccurate, cynical, and reads like tabloid "reporting".
This "Americanisation" he talks of is nothing more than globalisation, something thats happening, err,.. globally. As technology brings the world closer together its only natural that some things are going to blend and become more global.
I disagree that our sense of humor is becoming americanised, and "emotional responses"? What the heck is that even meant to mean? As for our food, well that's down to the individual,... but personally the only similarities I see are if a person limits themselves to processed garbage from international franchises, you know, like anywhere in the world.
To drone on anything is to succumb to it in the same way anti conformity is simply conforming (ie. youre still being dictated to if you go out of your way to go against it).
Im personally a little embarssed to have others think that article is anything like a typical Australian. Why would you post such an obviously exaggerated, cynical, inaccurate, and down right stupid article?
Even sounds to me like youre trying to agree, which is baffling (unless youre trying to be irrationally cynical?)
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Oh, and back to the original topic, I didnt intentionally even think of Helloween on the day, but did coincidently spend the day reading a Richard Laymon novel, which is pretty Helloween-ish :)
p.s. anyone ever read any Laymon?
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Spent Halloween in Providence, Rhode Island reading original manuscripts from the H. P. Lovecraft collection. Well okay, they were photocopies of the original manuscripts but I was able to read, "The History of the Necronomicon" and several other documents written in his own hand!
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Praying to the one and only God, same as every other day.
And which one of them would that be? And pray for what, not to do nasty things to us?
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Our Americanisation
Tonight there'll be the sound of the front gate opening, whispers, scuffling noises and a knock, and will you open the door to trick or treaters expectantly or grudgingly? Or will you hide in a back room?
Halloween has been just the trick or treat bit in Australia for a few years, but Woolworths' reporting of tripling sales for all things Halloween suggests that the American tradition, or at least the American version of the tradition, is taking a hold. That's to be expected, I suppose, as simply a part of the Americanisation of Australia, a late part since the the Americanisation is very well advanced.
American culture is now the major influence in our food, our language, our sense of humour, our clothes, our emotional responses, our attitudes, and that is at its most obvious in the swapping of Australians' British reserve for American emotionalism. Another marked change is our new division of people as winners and losers, a division based largely on money.
Most of us have railed against trick or treating, and we've railed too against the wider Americanisation of Australia, but I suspect it's too late to fight. Should we spare ourselves the angst and embrace Halloween? Should we order a turkey for Thanksgiving? Are we be better off Americanised than when we were Anglicised?
http://www.theherald.com.au/blogs/jeff-corbett/our-americanisation/2339684.aspx
Given that the forerunner of trick or treat came from Scotland and the UK, was taken up and changed in the USA and is now kind of of an import, I don't really see the point.
What are the Aussies worrying about, they have no culture of their own, so like the borg they must assimilate
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Given that the forerunner of trick or treat came from Scotland and the UK, was taken up and changed in the USA and is now kind of of an import, I don't really see the point.
What are the Aussies worrying about, they have no culture of their own, so like the borg they must assimilate
Oh boy, it seems Amiga.org has turned into, "lets generalise with nonsense and insult other nations".org.
Good job persia, your usual chirpy attitude is doing your fellow country men proud (ok, thats blatant sarcasm for "you really are a sad, depressing cynical person"). Seriously guy, why are you even here? You do nothing but offer negative input towards *anything* unless its apple related.
@JJ
I understand your attitude. After all you sent your ciminals to a warm, rich. tropical island paradise while the rest of y'all stayed in cold, depressing, tiny england. Seems only natural to hold a grudge :P
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Our Americanisation
You're not spelling it "Americanization" yet, not American enough!
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@persia
Man, I thought I was cynical!.....
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Spent Halloween in Providence, Rhode Island reading original manuscripts from the H. P. Lovecraft collection. Well okay, they were photocopies of the original manuscripts but I was able to read, "The History of the Necronomicon" and several other documents written in his own hand!
A Lovecraft Halloween, I salute you sir.
As for the America bashing I keep reading I will say only this: I've met a fair few Americans in my life and my own Grandmother was born in Boston. I've liked nearly every American I've met and I think in general the American people are nice enough. Your government however are a bunch of evil psychos, sadly the same is true for our own UK government, I implore everyone to look beyond the lies of the media and to never judge a people by that countries politicians. Talk to people, be open, most of humanity is pretty decent.
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The problems there is no attempt to "Australianise" Halloween, just a wholesale absorption of it. Right now it's the middle of Spring, it would be nice to incorporate bits of Spring into the holiday and less begging. But maybe in today's world Australia is no longer an island and we need to accept the wholesale importation of a foreign culture. Trick or Treat seems to have pretty much been absorbed by the UK too, so if we are following in the UK's footsteps.....
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Well, bless you too! :rolleyes:
I apologise for being British! :rolleyes:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sarcasm
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Oh boy, it seems Amiga.org has turned into, "lets generalise with nonsense and insult other nations".org.
Good job persia, your usual chirpy attitude is doing your fellow country men proud (ok, thats blatant sarcasm for "you really are a sad, depressing cynical person"). Seriously guy, why are you even here? You do nothing but offer negative input towards *anything* unless its apple related.
I have a feeling Persia is the same person that formerly used the alias 'iamaboringperson' in the old days of amiga.org. I could be wrong.
@JJ
I understand your attitude. After all you sent your ciminals to a warm, rich. tropical island paradise while the rest of y'all stayed in cold, depressing, tiny england. Seems only natural to hold a grudge :P
You mean this (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sir_Les_Patterson) isn't a typical Aussie? ;)
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@nicholas
"If Israel decides to launch a war against Lebanon, this time breaking the bones of the Israeli army will not be enough. We will crush them.” - Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (ha)
.......Don't you think working to encourage the Israeli pacifist movement and mutual understanding would be a better place to direct your energy?
....and yes, I know that was off topic.
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I apologise for being British! :rolleyes:
Ah. I see. I must have missed that "sarcasm punctuation mark." you put at the end of the sentence. :p
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Halloween is in my blood, being part-Irish (and we all know Halloween originated in Ireland, right?) so I fully enjoy taking advantage of the popularisation of the holiday in Australia by decorating the front yard and entrance, handing out good candy and dressing up. We had over 100 kids come by this year, not as many as last year (which was on a Sunday rather than a Monday) but it's not a bad turn-out compared to when I was younger when there were only a few groups of kids in the whole neighbourhood out trick or treating.
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IYou mean this (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sir_Les_Patterson) isn't a typical Aussie? ;)
Uncle Leslie!! What's he doing at amiga.org :P
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Halloween is in my blood, being part-Irish (and we all know Halloween originated in Ireland, right?)
Ah, you Celts and your weird holiday traditions...what does a night of costume fun and candy have on a Christmas dinner of...congealed, lye-soaked fish...
:/
Okay, so I'm a little jealous.
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I'm not sure about the whole Halloween thing. I have nothing against the holiday itself just the commercialisation of it all. It's like Christmas. Christmas is just an excuse to sell cheap plastic junk. Sure there is a legitimate holiday there but that is clearly outweighed 100/1 but the commercialism of it all. But otherwise i hope Halloween continues to grow in Australia.
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I kinda cringe a bit at the thought of taking on another culture's traditions and pretending they are ours...
At least when the Americans took on Halloween they 'Americanised' it, instead of pumpkins we should be putting candles inside stuffed Koalas and kids should dress up as real scary stuff... Something like 40 year old men playing with 25 year old computers:)
Oh and for god's sake, don't hand out candy in Australia, hand out lollies!
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@Cammy
Couldn't you at least grab a couple of the kids and do a traditional human sacrifice on a bonfire? Now that's tradition!
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Ah. I see. I must have missed that "sarcasm punctuation mark." you put at the end of the sentence. :p
:lol:
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Sure there is a legitimate holiday there but that is clearly outweighed 100/1 but the commercialism of it all.
Only if you let it, my friend, only if you let it.
And if you need encouragement against the crass commercialization of the holidays, there's always A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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Only if you let it, my friend, only if you let it.
And if you need encouragement against the crass commercialization of the holidays, there's always A Charlie Brown Christmas.
yeah, agreed, we live in postmodern culture where where traditional values, have been replaced by referent symbol within the media, and thus Halloween, Christmas, Easter, become evil Pumpkins or witches on broomsticks (hopefully ecological broom sticks which aren't SUV's!l), beer bellied Santa Claus, and chocolate bunnies... but the point is, you don't have to buy into this, just celebrate it in your own way ;)
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@ cammy
hey, i'm irish and love Halloween too. fuggum.
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Speaking of Irish Halloween, why can't we get Barnbrack? I suppose bonfires are out in this sunburnt country, but what about Colcannon with coins in it? Or even monkey nuts? And if you're really Irish then why not a turnip instead of an American pumpkin?
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What's stopping you (http://www.squidoo.com/alternative-pumpkin-carving), Persia? Certainly ain't us Americans. ;)