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the_tyrant
10-24-12, 09:19 PM
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For those who do celebrate it, how does everyone here enjoy Halloween?
Well, this is me in my costume.

My friends think I cannot cosplay, well this should show them. I'm going to the school dance as Mr 47 this year, to celebrate the release of the new Hitman game early this November.
Takeda Shingen
10-24-12, 09:24 PM
Halloween's fun. My eldest is going trick-or-treating for the first time. We made her a ladybug costume. Cute as a button.
geetrue
10-24-12, 10:11 PM
I have a zero degree sleeping bag ... I am under the covers by 7pm

I hate demons, devils, spooks, ghost, zombies, shaking bones or even big bird coming to my door.

Turn out the lights the parties over ... all good things must come to an end :o
Sailor Steve
10-24-12, 10:35 PM
These days I just make some popcorn and put in a movie.
August
10-24-12, 10:51 PM
I spend Halloween returning the Karma (and cavities) I got trick or treating as a kid. Might be swamped out by a nor-easter this time though if Sandy keeps on a westerly track.
Task Force
10-24-12, 11:02 PM
I usually watch a movie or something.
Garion
10-25-12, 06:42 AM
I celebrate Samhain in the company of a group of friends, with a small ritual for the dead.

I then cast left over fruit from our trees into the hedgerows.

After that we invite the dead to supper with lanterns to guide the way and get totally hammered:rock:

All around a fire to keep as warm where we play 'hunt the baked tattie' which ends with burnt fingers all round.:yeah:

Cheers

Gary
Skybird
10-25-12, 06:49 AM
Having been in town yesterday, I think it is celebrated by buying buying buying.

It even has no traditional cultural basis in germany. Just twenty years ago, Halloween had the odor and exotic flair from America on it.

The more Halloween has netered Germany, and elementary schools, another tradition that is more typical for Germany, has been lost: Laternenumzüge (lantern procession) done by the very young ones (elementary school). Has become very rare.
Garion
10-25-12, 07:34 AM
Having been in town yesterday, I think it is celebrated by buying buying buying.

It even has no traditional cultural basis in germany. Just twenty years ago, Halloween had the odor and exotic flair from America on it.

The more Halloween has netered Germany, and elementary schools, another tradition that is more typical for Germany, has been lost: Laternenumzüge (lantern procession) done by the very young ones (elementary school). Has become very rare.

Wotcha Skybird

I just found this... How Accurate is it in regards to Germany?

http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/aa102600a.htm

Cheers

Gary
Aces
10-25-12, 07:51 AM
Well, I don't so much celebrate as prepare for Haloween by getting the boulders and boiling oil ready on the battlements of "Aces Towers" to repel any trick or treeters foolish enough to approach our front door :D.
Skybird
10-25-12, 08:55 AM
Wotcha Skybird

I just found this... How Accurate is it in regards to Germany?

http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/aa102600a.htm

Cheers

Gary
We always had some of that, but mostly in regional traditions and usually not on such a big display practiced like santa claus, easterbunnies, or now the commercial Halloween with children dressing up and doing trick-or-treat and all that. This format is relatively new to Germany, and it has become a big boom indeed. Especially commercially.
Gerald
10-25-12, 09:06 AM
In Sweden celebrated it especially hard rock, mostly young people that drive around with rubber legs,:O:
Rhodes
10-25-12, 09:27 AM
Heathen holliday!:woot:
Oberon
10-25-12, 09:57 AM
http://g3nqf.co.uk/images/97.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Bren1.jpg/300px-Bren1.jpg

Just in case someone with some eggs arrive.... :hmmm:
Jimbuna
10-25-12, 10:01 AM
Doors locked blinds drawn and on occasion, batteries taken out of bell receiver.
Takeda Shingen
10-25-12, 10:34 AM
I spend Halloween returning the Karma (and cavities) I got trick or treating as a kid. Might be swamped out by a nor-easter this time though if Sandy keeps on a westerly track.

I'm just hoping it's not snow like it was last year. We shivered in the dark for three days afterward.
BossMark
10-25-12, 10:36 AM
Never really celebrated Halloween, but if there is a good horror movie on then I will watch that.
August
10-25-12, 11:15 AM
I'm just hoping it's not snow like it was last year. We shivered in the dark for three days afterward.

I hear ya. Last years "October surprise" put a lot of folks in the dark. Our governor is already threatening the utility companies if they're not ready for this.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061170252&srvc=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bostonherald%2Fnews+%28News+% 26+Opinion+-+BostonHerald.com%29
AVGWarhawk
10-25-12, 11:18 AM
Hand out candy to the neighborhood kids.
Tribesman
10-25-12, 12:17 PM
well there's thishttp://www.thelatinquarter.ie/article/galway-abooo-halloween-festival.html
then a housefull of kids on Halloween itself...again
RickC Sniper
10-25-12, 03:25 PM
Hand out candy to the neighborhood kids.


Me too.

One for them, one for me, one for them, one for me. :ping:
Jimbuna
10-25-12, 04:46 PM
Don't tell but we do get the candy in and I tend to pig out on it for a week or two :03:
eddie
10-25-12, 04:48 PM
Don't tell but we do get the candy in and I tend to pig out on it for a week or two :03:

Thanks for giving away our secret!!!:haha:
Jimbuna
10-25-12, 04:56 PM
Thanks for giving away our secret!!!:haha:

LOL :)
August
10-25-12, 06:36 PM
Don't tell but we do get the candy in and I tend to pig out on it for a week or two :03:

My wife has been buying bags of candy every time she goes food shopping for the past couple months. I've probably gained 5-6 pounds. :o I gotta pawn off all this stuff to the little neighborhood monsters before I explode!
magic452
10-26-12, 12:24 AM
I've always enjoyed Halloween both as a kid and as an adult.
It's always been one of those fun days. Put up a few decorations etc.
Like to see the little kids all dressed up.

The big draw back is the same for me as August.
Can't do that this year blood sugar is a little high.

Magic
Sailor Steve
10-26-12, 12:35 AM
Never really celebrated Halloween, but if there is a good horror movie on then I will watch that.
I just found a link to one of my favorites. A simple made-for-TV movie which turned out to be one of the best vampire films ever. This is what I'll be watching this October 31st.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPGlYeZCK2g
HunterICX
10-26-12, 03:37 AM
Never celebrated it and probably never will.

HunterICX
BossMark
10-26-12, 07:20 AM
I just found a link to one of my favorites. A simple made-for-TV movie which turned out to be one of the best vampire films ever. This is what I'll be watching this October 31st.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPGlYeZCK2g
Thanks for that, that is what I will watching looks pretty good :yep:
fithah4
10-26-12, 09:47 AM
Going to P.C. Fla and having a costume bar crawl with 85 friends and folks , staying up all night maybe a crappy C based movie to watch together , and awful waffle in the morning.........
Mmmmmmm.......Hashbrowns !
Platapus
10-26-12, 09:23 PM
We don't get a lot of kids T/Ting on Halloween in my neighbourhood. About 6-7 and it is done. I think the kids are mostly going to Halloween parties. Probably safer in these crappy days.

Here is a pretty cute story about how Halloween "used" to be

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/10/25/the-trick-of-the-treat/?hpt=li_mid