How/if/do you celebrate halloween?
 

May sound childish but I am being a zombie, mainly because I can do shit like this.

This was a split knuckle and a cut I did not a few days ago. Practice, y'know.

http://i662.photobucket.com/albums/u...1/100_0548.jpg

It is fake.

What are you doing today for halloween?

I will try to restore bluetooth in my Wii, and maybe some TV.

Cower in the dark with my new 1984 book and sit out the hordes of trick or treaters that bring so much trouble to the area. If only I got a bb gun, it's great if you have one, to check through your spy hole to make sure the kid is like older than 13 then put your bb rifle through your letterbox and tell em they got four seconds to run!!!!

Nah but seriously, I had how 13+ walk around with a shitty mask on demanding sweets or worse my hard earned cash. Especially since my street is full of elderly people. I should start a militia.

Oh and @ Slag, that is disgusting but cool

I don't celebrate Halloween, because I disagree with it. I've said it before somewhere else on the forums, I believe it's just all about commercialisation. I don't like that sort of thing. I think it's very tacky. And I fucking hate "trick-or-treaters" over the age of nine. They get nothing off me. I park the car at an angle to make it difficult for people to get onto my drive.

I do nothing. I benefit by enjoying the increased amount of horror on television, and I'm loving the Halloween update to Minecraft. But no. Fuck Halloween. Just another excuse to have plastic tack in shops months prior to the event.

Yeah, Stephen Hawking's Universe is on!!! Let's all dance and celebrate!

We have no halloween.

Watch The Nightmare Before Christmas of course, god what the fuck is wrong with you people. :p

Oh but when Trick or Treaters come I don't give them any candy. I give them advice, I don't believe in giving people things, they should go out and earn it like me, why not? There are plenty of employment opportunities in America today courtesy of the 1980s.

I can't believe the shit you come out with sometimes.

Most of the time nothing, me and a couple friends did go to an abandoned house, camp site, and a bridge with a local urban legend around it. Was pretty fun. I probably wont do anything tonight.

If I ever move to a country where Halloween is practiced, I will deck out my front yard with all sorts of atmospheric props. Front and centre will be a scarecrow with a vision system that can detect kids with the gall to approach my house without wearing a costume and a robot arm that throws eggs.

I still get free candy. :D

Agree,; but in the end what holiday isn't? A majority of these anualy celebrated events only exist in such enormity (or even at all) because of commercialisation.

same here

To celebrate Halloween this year I am going to stay out of Halloween threads so that I won't have to tell people what ginormous, whiny wet blankets they are.

Which is why I dislike most national holidays.

I like to think Christmas still has an element of "goodwill to all men" in it.

Also, it's entertaining to say 'Trick' to teenagers who obviously haven't considerd that eventuality.

I got drunk at Halloween Party and I'm still sick, fuck.

I might post pictures at some point, but Abbey was a vampire rabbit. Cutest vampire rabbit ever.

She threatened to drink people's blood and eat their lettuce.

Was that her idea, or did a valued influence put her up to it?

There is no might.

She decided that one on her own. When we first started talking about costumes she wanted to be a cat, but by the time she was done mixing and matching stuff she was a vampire rabbit.

Please tell me you plan to supply her with Super Scribblenauts.

I was just thinking about that the other day. Weird.

You could still celebrate the holidy without acknowledging the commercial aspects, but you have to understand that America and England have "retail based" economies now. (sickening as that is) And rely on the sale of cheaply made Chinese Halloween decorations for survival, so you can't blame the corporations for advertising non-stop. Since our countries don't make anything anymore a bad holiday shopping season could be devasating to our economies.

Oh and buy domestic as often as possible and ifyou can't do that atleast buy from countries your country has good political relations with.

I'm celebrating Cup Day. It shits all over Halloween.

What? Can't hear you, eating too much candy to hear you.

The best thing you can do at this time of year is phone your cenile old Gran and tell her that zombies are running rampant around your area and then hope she tells you she'll keep her rifle loaded! Lots of dead chavs.

Cenile.

Penile.

I wish Denmark celebrated Halloween :-/ ... It's slowly picking up though. Every year, the stores sell more and more Halloween stuff.

But compared to USA, this is practically nothing. People don't really go out to trick or treat, and from what I read, in Denmark, trick or treating is incredibly lame. For example, this one lady was complaining about teenagers had come to her door, not even wearing any costumes, saying: "Treat or money".
Yea... They kinda butchered that thing, huh? Although we do have a direct translation for "trick or treat" people decided it should be "treat or money" instead.
But it may also have to do a lot with our older tradition, 'Fastelavn'. Which is essentially Halloween only in February and without all the scary crap(although, some people do dress up as scary stuff). It's more like princesses, kings, cats, mutant ninja turtles and stuff like that. During this holiday, people go out 'singing' for money. so yea.

Anyway, I really wish Halloween would be big in Denmark too. I find it a cute tradition, and I like horror stuff. And I carved pumpkins for the first time in my life with Chris, and that was fun.

Well, Chris was with my here in DK during Halloween(he just jumped on the plane back to USA today, and I already miss him :( ).
We watched a bunch of horror movies like Evil dead 1 and 2, drag me to hell(funny movie) and 'Trick'r treat". Trick'r Treat was actually quite enjoyable and fun, and I'd recommend it. It's a bunch of mini stories, but they are all connected in some ways. It has vampires, ghost/zombie thingies and everything that is basically Halloween.
It's based on some short cartoon of the same name.

Oh well... Not much happened as you see. Hopefully I can go to USA next time it's Halloween and experience it in its full glory =)

I'm a consumer whore.

Ah, yes. The ages old tradition of dressing up as Ninja Turtles.

That was way too much, I couldn't read it.

I do get the gist though, and I feel bad for you

What I usually do if it isn't Halloween, is call all my friends and just pull an improv everywhere style zombie walk.

Maybe you should try getting an education.

I tried that, but it didn't work.

I heard somewhere that Margaret Thatcher tried to promote Halloween in the UK in the hope that it would bleed some of the enthusiasm away from Guy Fawkes Night and its regular array of childhood cracker injuries.

She's certainly the scariest thing you'll see in a year.

She's like a shit that won't flush. Every time you think she's going to die, the evil little cow survives.

Related.

This Halloween I dropped acid in the woods for my friends' birthday and had one of the greatest nights I've had in a while

god bless the holidays

and what's wrong with candy and costumes! Anti-commercialism, pshaw!