HALLOWEEN ...do you celebrate it?

[hollisbrick]

I dont really celebrate halloween at all...lol i dont even follow a religion, there are lots of reasons why but the main one is that I dont wanna take sides. I made up my own religion lol. The only celebration i follow is valantines day.

[JINZONINGEN73]

Holy crap! I'm legitimately shocked to hear how violently Halloween is being executed outside the US!

Parents making threats? Stopping your door from closing? Kids doing the same?!?

What the hell? lol

Here in the US, we have Prankster's Night. Growing up, it was either the day before or after Halloween.

All that really went on was kids soaping your car windows with something rudely humorous, egging your house from afar, and running toilet paper across the street from one tree to another.

To do anymore than that might result in some angry homeowner scaring them off by brandishing a firearm lol.

I'm serious... I'd hate Halloween too if it were that... barbaric here. 8-

[Wout]

I like Sint Nicolaas very much. He always coming on tv when he comes with his steamboat and his Pete's from Spain to a dutch town somewhere between 10 and 20 November (always a Saturday). He's played since 1986 by an actor who plays him well.

There is now also a movie in Dutch Cinema's called " waar is het paard van Sinterklaas?" (where is the horse of Saint Nicolas?) The right answer is ofcourse "under the butt of Saint Nicolas", but the story is a bit more prozaic and a little less rude. X-D

The Saint Nicolas feast is feasted in The Netherlands, Flandres/Vlaanderen (the north Side of Belgium where they talk a langueage related to dutch, some former kolonies and emigration places and a little part of North-Rhine- WestFalen (in Germany)

The Saint Nicolas from this feast is based on the 3rd or 4th century Saint Nicolas of Myra (now in Turkey).

[Norro]

Well to get back to some more harmless pumpkin stories... A few years back when I lived in rural Canada a doctor moved in up the street (don't think neighborhood ;-) ). He was from Toronto but thought he had a bit of green thumb and decided to join the local tallest sunflower/biggest pumpkin semi-formal competition. A few of us thought his garden was so hilarious that we couldn't resist 'helping' it on a little. Every week we replaced his prize pumpkin with a slightly larger one (he never noticed the stalk wasn't attached) and come halloween he did indeed have an incredibly large jack o lantern and could never figure out why everyone found it so funny...

X-D

God Bless,

Nathan

[Khorne]

Here in Belgium, we don't celebrate Halloween that much, like Bonaparte already said. I really dislike Halloween, way too American and commercialised for my taste :-X :-P . Instead we celebrate St. Martin, like The Frisian stated:

We have the St Martin festival as well, but without the processions. The kids do go round the neighbourhood (often with self made lantarns) ringing doors, singing special St Martin songs and then getting sweets. Among kids this usually turns into a contest about who gets the most sweets, but that's hardly surprising. It's actually kinda funny to see how, as the kids grow older, the texts of the songs grow less and less appropriate (to put it mildly) as they start to make up their own texts. X-D

I too am very sad to see youngsters gradually losing touch with old traditions like St Martin in favor of more commercial events like halloween, but there's probably no way to prevent that from happening.

[LordGalewind]

HELL YES!!!!!!!! Halloween is one of my most favorite times of the year next to christmas. Jinzinogen prankster night was really cool, although a tad bit extreme for what me and my friends did. Among them is nailing dead cats to people's doors, yard jobs, and i have done the egging. I must say though the 250$ ticket for one of the things we did really got me to simmer down on the wild stuff.

Among my pastimes on Halloween are of course scaring the small children with perhaps the most ejoyable fear inducing items ever....

plus equals the 50 and a 250$ ticket..

One of my favorites is punkin' chunkin!!!!!!! Here's one of those monstrous machines that lauches them nearly a mile out...

[JINZONINGEN73]

what me and my friends did. Among them is nailing dead cats to people's doors,

Oh my. Seems you've been in an accident. Let me take you to the hospital.

[Opproperaar]

I like Sint Nicolaas very much. He always coming on tv when he comes with his steamboat and his Pete's from Spain to a dutch town somewhere between 10 and 20 November (always a Saturday). He's played since 1986 by an actor who plays him well.

There is now also a movie in Dutch Cinema's called " waar is het paard van Sinterklaas?" (where is the horse of Saint Nicolas?) The right answer is ofcourse "under the butt of Saint Nicolas", but the story is a bit more prozaic and a little less rude. X-D

The Saint Nicolas feast is feasted in The Netherlands, Flandres/Vlaanderen (the north Side of Belgium where they talk a langueage related to dutch, some former kolonies and emigration places and a little part of North-Rhine- WestFalen (in Germany)

The Saint Nicolas from this feast is based on the 3rd or 4th century Saint Nicolas of Myra (now in Turkey).

I agree, I like Saint-Nicolas as well and I'll always celebrate it before I celebrate something as Halloween. Though scaring the heeby jeebies out of womeone in the middle of the night is equally fun. I think Halloween should be all about pranks and the night and horror instead of going around asking for candy. Trick but no treat! that's the way it ought to be. Surprise your fellow man in the middle of the night by whacking him really hard! :-D

I don't think "related" is a good word. We both speak Dutch here, it's just the same situation as with the US and the UK. You guys pronounce words differently and have some words we wouldn't ever even think of using.

e.g. If you wanna say somebody is crazy call them 'gek' and not 'mesjogge'. Though on the other hand, people in Flanders find that outright hilarious when you use such words. :-P :-D :-)

Edited October 21, 2007 by Hairy Ruben

[LordGalewind]

Oh my. Seems you've been in an accident. Let me take you to the hospital.

:'-( Oh crap.......

[Wout]

I don't think "related" is a good word. We both speak Dutch here, it's just the same situation as with the US and the UK. You guys pronounce words differently and have some words we wouldn't ever even think of using.

Well, I thought it was the best word, and I was afraid to step on some belgian toes when I say that they speak also Dutch, because some Flemmish people find some Dutch people a bit Big-Headed. And I don't want to insult people because they talk a little different.

I think now, American people who reads this, will find it very stupid that 2 people from 2 such small states have even some different language, even when it is the same language. :-P :-D :-)

@ Jinzoningen and Lord Galewind X-D

Did some freak really nail Cats to doors? :'-(

[doug7172]

I do noy care what others say I will never be old enough for free candy *sweet* *y* *y*

[optimus-convoy]

I celebrate Halloween. Not a major holiday for me, but still fun nonetheless. Though it was more of a big thing when I was younger. With the costume and the trick or treating. *wub* These days I usually just pass out candy or whatever. (We usually go through about four bags around here. *wacko* )

As for bad Halloween stories, When I was maybe 7 or 8, I once walked up to one of those houses where the people were out. So they left this bowl of candy on the lap of their stuffed scarecrow with a sign saying "take only one" or something like that. So I, of course, tried to take more than one when the "stuffed" scarecrow leaped out at me!

That was seriously freaky... :-D

[JINZONINGEN73]

*sigh*

[iamded]

Is that a Transformer gathering grime in the garden? X-O

I went to a 'Halloween' party, we were supposed to dress up, I was a 'gangster'... X-D

Not everyone was Halloween themed. And the only Halloween decoration was a 'cauldron' in the corner with a machine in it that made it glow, bubble, and steam. Other than that, we just ate, drank, and played pool and air hockey! :-D Good times.