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Friday Fun Thread for October 11, 2024

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What are your plans for Halloween? Going to party or trick or treating with kids?

What are your favorite things about this season?

We'll probably hit a trunk-or-treat or two before going trick-or-treating either in our own neighborhood or in a friend's. The various local schools and churches that do trunk-or-treats have realized they get better turnout if they schedule them before Halloween, so kids can do both.

I appreciate that the colder weather is killing my tomato plants so I can stop canning so much tomato sauce lol.

wait what is trunk-or-treat? never heard of this

A bunch of people get together in a parking lot and have candy in the trunks of their cars, and the kids go from car to car to get candy. I think it's kinda lame personally, but I can imagine kids enjoying the sheer efficiency of getting candy in that way.

A bunch of families will set up cars with various candy handouts from the trunk, usually in a moderately sized unused parking lot (eg church) or near some event space. Usually some sort of decoration around each participating car, though I’ve seen some nearly at the level of lower end convention booths.

It’s more popular in rural areas or where there are messy traffic spots between suburban subdivisions, since conventional house-to-house trick or treating can be kinda hard for younger kids there. But it’s sometimes done for weather reasons, too.

Gonna be giving out candy. My neighborhood is full of kids. Something I've noticed: they hardly ever remember to say "trick or treat" these days. Halloween has fallen.

A bunch of woo-woo amateur sluts I know are throwing a rager at their shared house.

They're early 30s, not married, and one bag of potato chips way from popping the buttons on their skinny jeans.

It'll be like shooting fish in a barrel.

(The above isn't actually what I'm doing for Halloween, but it is 100% accurately representative of how a lot of single Men perceive this Holiday.)

Never go for the girls slathered in makeup, they're too conscious of their makeup running or they'll look like melting clowns. The freakiest are the cosplayers, especially if they have multiple outside layers. They're assured to be wearing less underneath as a result.

I pitched this idea to a female friend: Find two other friends and you three can be the Powerpop Girls, a play on the Powerpuff Girls: Chappell Roan (Blossom), Sabrina Carpenter (Bubbles), and Charlie XCX (Buttercup).

Wouldn't Charli be Blossom (leader, most well known) and Chappell be Buttercup (rebellious dyke)

No. Keep things simple and go off hair color:

Red hair -> Chappell Roan/Blossom

Blonde hair -> Sabrina Carpenter/Bubbles

Black hair -> Charlie XCX/Buttercup

In terms of personality that makes sense, but in terms of appearance it’s immediately obvious who’s who.

Probably throw on a lazy cowboy/pirate outfit, get drunk, and hang out with some otherwise modest women dressed like strippers for the night

What are your favorite things about this season?

Iykyk

I think I might go as an Amish woman or something. I dunno.

Trunk or treat with the kids, boo at the zoo, visit the Day of the Dead memorials around Old Town Plaza. They say they put up 20,000 marigolds, it looks lovely. Apparently daughter’s going on a field trip where an Orchestra from Mexico will perform and talk about the music from Coco.

No Trick or Treat? Just trunk?

Possibly, but my neighborhood is kind of weird, everyone’s house is way behind their fence, so we would have to drive. There is a pretty good neighborhood haunted house only on Halloween, though.

It’s like tailgating, but for parents.

I've been pretty underwhelmed on the fun aspect of trunk or treat so far. Kids only having to walk 200 feet for 20,000 calories of corn syrup seems like the societal own-goal of the century.

Sometimes I worry I romanticized my childhood too much, but the experience of going door to door with your friends and collapsing, exhausted, to trade candy on the living room floor after such a long journey was consistently awesome. I don't see how this can really compete.

We were Evangelical homeschoolers when I was Trick-or-Treating age, and also didn't have any neighborhood friends, so I guess I don't have any trick or treat golden age to look back on.

My impression is that there's an ideal age range for real trick or treating, and that my kids (5, 2, and not eating solids yet) are a bit young still. I saw some kids doing it last year, I think three total, so it would be a bit of an adventure, people don't signal if they're giving treats or not. I haven't had a single kid try at my house in four years.

I 100% agree on your 2 year old, and I would be a long-range helicopter with the 5 year old. But I had my 3 year old do a turn of the cul-de-sac at least before he said he was too tired to continue. Por que no los dos?

There's a bit of a supply and demand spiral going on, too. People in great neighborhoods don't get enough kids (I got maybe 7 last year?) so don't bother answering the door or handing stuff out. Others don't understand the signal that if your light is on, it means you're giving out candy, which makes kids have to walk a ton to get to a couple doors etc....

If they are not giving treats, aren't you supposed to be a little juvenile delinquent and play a trick on them?

Theoretically, but I have not encountered that outside of movies

People criticize me for my negative view of cars but the fact that the majority of the middle class in the wealthiest country on earth never walk anywhere that isn’t from [parking lot] to [immediately adjacent building] is very unfortunate.

I'm a bit of a fast food addict, and watching people choose to get into a 30 (!) car deep drive thru line instead of hopping into a parking spot is insane. Even the journey from a parking lot is too much for the majority of people.

I wouldn't necessarily read too much into it. If I were going to make a culture war statement, it would be about saftyism, rather than willingness to walk, even with the two year old (though it's really annoying to walk with a tired two year old). The kids went on a two mile hike with us to find an ancient cliff ruin that we heard about from a stranger in a bar the other day. They can probably go trick or treating when they're old enough to take initiative about it.

Yeah, I had a similar experience. Shit was magical. I don’t know any current-year kids who don’t like it, either.

I have no plans. Halloween is a spook.

Seriously though, it feels like an import from America that exists purely to sell orange merchandise. Fake and gay.

+1

I absolutely hate Halloween. Reject Halloween, RETVRN to All Hallow's Day.

Wasn’t it all saints day? Do you celebrate it?

I thought "Hallow" basically means "Saint" / "Holy"?

Yeah, I do.

Maybe I was getting it confused with All Souls Day/Day of the Dead, which is more popular in my region.

"I want a civic ritual that will unite all of us"

"No, not like that!"

You can have it. I'm not American, and just want you to stop shoving it where it doesn't belong.

I also don't quite remember saying the above quote. I'm not one for "uniting all of us".

I sincerely doubt Americans are shoving Halloween into your country.

Where do you think it came from to my country? Mongolia?

The question isn't where it came from, but who's doing the shoving.

Well, it's not the Mongolians either.

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