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Reply #15 - Oct 31^st, 2022 at 2:38pm

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 8:42am:

One Melbourne resident said while he's not against people having
fun, he will not be celebrating Halloween. He said the October date
represented "Americanisation at its worst". [I agree]

I agree too - it's ridiculous

But if that's what floats your boat, good luck to you.

While we're bashing Americans (yes, I know they didn't invent Halloween), I'm starting to hear more and more Australians use the word 'diaper' now.

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In context it's okay - Trump is American, so it makes sense to call him 'Diaper Don' - but Australians in their local Woolworths store asking where the diapers are is just ridiculous.

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But yeah, if kids are having fun - good luck to them. Just don't let them knock on any Liberal Party members' doors.

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Reply #16 - Oct 31^st, 2022 at 2:45pm

Initially…. yonks ago I was annoyed at copying this American thing…
Then I got used to seeing carved out scary looking pumpkins, and white web like cobweb all over everyone’s front fence, with spiders everywhere!
Now I laugh and think it’s colourful and fun.
I actually bought a scary castle backdrop with flying bats as a photo op for kids dressed up hallowe’en.
And I’m dressed as the scary ole witch of eastVic Grin

It’s so cute when mum’s I know bring kids around dressed up … the kids are so excited …
I see no harm as long as kids are safe.
Let’s kids be kids and have dress up fun. They grow up too fast with stresses waiting in the big grown up world…

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Reply #17 - Oct 31^st, 2022 at 2:50pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 2:38pm:

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 8:42am:

One Melbourne resident said while he's not against people having
fun, he will not be celebrating Halloween. He said the October date
represented "Americanisation at its worst". [I agree]

I agree too - it's ridiculous

But if that's what floats your boat, good luck to you.

While we're bashing Americans (yes, I know they didn't invent Halloween), I'm starting to hear more and more Australians use the word 'diaper' now.

FFS Roll Eyes

In context it's okay - Trump is American, so it makes sense to call him 'Diaper Don' - but Australians in their local Woolworths store asking where the diapers are is just ridiculous.

Wink

But yeah, if kids are having fun - good luck to them. Just don't let them knock on any Liberal Party members' doors.

And in the US, hopefully no kids are knocking on Matt Gaetz's door.

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Reply #18 - Oct 31^st, 2022 at 2:52pm

Belgarion wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 9:03am:

The bastardised version of the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain has arrived in Australia via US TV and movies and is exploited by businesses to make a profit. That the concept of allowing children to enter strangers premises and demand lollies with menaces is something to be embraced shows the intelligence level of some people.

Today's trick 'n tricksters are tomorrow's home invaders.

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Reply #19 - Oct 31^st, 2022 at 3:10pm

Then there was the scary 'clowns' of Campbelltown appearing where people least expected them to be.
I don't know what the problem was really? It seemed to upset the virtuous Australian Media.
Maybe this form of Entertainment has to be sanctioned by the Media first and pay a fee, before performing publically?
Campbelltown fames itself on Fischer's Ghost too, btw.

Santa Claus: based on a true Finnish account of an old forest hobo guy who would eat the same mushies the reindeer ate and get high on his magic sleigh. The reindeer are famous for bumping into trees on mushies - hence the sore red noses.

...funny how the Mafia-Media of the USA has basically changed the facts of nearly every 'international' thing.

Just like the Fake-Political Democrats who are the Mafia Media and its international crimes of terrorism against other nations. F*ucking Taiwan was still calling itself a part of China just a few decades ago.

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25130 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Halloween in Australia; Insidious US Disease? Reply #24 - Nov 1^st, 2022 at 4:00pm There is a suburb around Parkhurst in north Rockhampton called "Edenbrook Estate". On Saturday night, I watched as children (mainly teens) were dressed up in Halloween costumes. It seems that the suburb was the only one in town doing the Halloween theme.
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Reply #27 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 6:22am

Lisa Jones wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 9:58am:

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 9:41am:

Gordon wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 9:11am:

Who cares where it came from, it's really fun for kids. Don't be such a misery guts.

I'll be taking my 5yo this arvo.

Trick or treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat

In our little town, we have a register of people's names and their
addresses where the kids can safely knock in order to get their
sugar kicks. It also stops hoards of kids banging on my front door for half the night.

Come on! If your house isn't decorated the kids bypass it.

Unless of course it's my place! I seriously can't stand this dark pagan celebration and I have nothing on my property remotely suggesting that I'm into Halloween.

Unfortunately the kids and their parents know that I give treats to everyone ALL the freaking time!

Anyway .... later on this afternoon I'll do what I always do...chop up lots of fresh carrot sticks for the kids to grab and chomp on.

Why?

They're orange and sweet (fits the Halloween theme).

They're refreshing and healthy. And parents VERY MUCH appreciate seeing their kids eat veges instead of chocolates and lollies.

Pagan?

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What is the meaning of All Hallows Eve?
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Halloween, contraction of All Hallows' Eve, a holiday observed on October 31, the evening before All Saints' (or All Hallows') Day. The celebration marks the day before the Western Christian feast of All Saints and initiates the season of Allhallowtide, which lasts three days and concludes with All Souls' Day.28 Oct 2022

Halloween | Definition, Origin, History, & Facts | Britannicahttps://www.britannica.com › ... › Festivals & Holidays

Like any kid would knock on your Housing Commission flat door!

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Re: Halloween in Australia; Insidious US Disease?
Reply #28 - Nov 5^th, 2022 at 6:58am

issuevoter wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 1:14pm:

Insidious? Here we go again. There is a section of the Australian population that fixates on Anti-Americanism. Halloween is not American and until recent years, it was not "celebrated" in the US, except in the old New England states like Mass, Conn, NH, Maine and Vermont. It was particularly frowned upon by the Southern Baptists and other Christian US sects.

Holloween, as we are now seeing it in Australia is nothing more than a marketing ploy by Australian importers of garish orange and black plastic geegaws produced in China. Americans don't give a rats ass whether Australians buy into it or not. What is insidious is Anti-Americanism in Australia.

BS. I remember halloween in VA, colarado, and california in 1964.

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Reply #29 - Nov 6^th, 2022 at 10:26am

issuevoter wrote on Oct 31^st, 2022 at 1:14pm:

Insidious? Here we go again. There is a section of the Australian population that fixates on Anti-Americanism. Halloween is not American and until recent years, it was not "celebrated" in the US, except in the old New England states like Mass, Conn, NH, Maine and Vermont. It was particularly frowned upon by the Southern Baptists and other Christian US sects.

Holloween, as we are now seeing it in Australia is nothing more than a marketing ploy by Australian importers of garish orange and black plastic geegaws produced in China. Americans don't give a rats ass whether Australians buy into it or not. What is insidious is Anti-Americanism in Australia.

I beg to differ ... what do you call "recent times"?

It's been a thing in the US pre- television in Australia 1956...... my whole life time.

I'm not anti-american ...... I'm against the adoption of their social/cultural practises, the blatant consumerism pushed & the use of American language.

Footpath not sidewalk, mobile phone not cell phone, ute not pickup truck, railway line not railroad track, patty cake not cup cake, arse not ass, nappy not diaper.

hell we've even lost the old 2 up salute to the extended middle finger of "flipping the bird".

I even have one of my grandsons saying the US version for grass - "grr -ass".

Do you pronounce "buoy" as boy or

like a yank - "boo-ey"?

Do you say "semi" or "sem-eye" trailer?

"hemi" or "hem-eye sphere"?
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