Halloween

[nicholas]

Praying to the one and only God, same as every other day.

[nicholas]

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!

[nicholas]

Well, bless you too! :rolleyes:

I apologise for being British! :rolleyes:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sarcasm

[nicholas]

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  

You mean this isn't a typical Aussie?

[nicholas]

Ah. I see. I must have missed that "sarcasm punctuation mark." you put at the end of the sentence. :p

:lol: