Halloween isnt strictly American.
Better stop celebrating Christmas as well I guess, unless of course you're deeply religious
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Better stop celebrating Christmas as well I guess, unless of course you're deeply religious
Halloween isn't strictly American - but the practice of dressing up in costume & walking around the neighbourhood begging for sugary treats (trick or treat) most certainly is. It's this practice which many find objectionable, and an unwelcome intrusion of American culture into Australia (and elsewhere).
SugarShane
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Agreed. It's like that Seinfeld bit.
"It offends you as a jew?"
"No it offends me as a comedian!"
It's just braindead, tone deaf, edgelord shit. People often confuse bad taste with humour. Humour isn't dying, if anything now we just have higher standards than "It's funny because it's so wrong" type humour that 14 year olds in 2002 would've found funny.
Its harmless fun (IMO)
SugarShane
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And stop watching American movies and TV shows and listening to American music.
Sometimes stuff just ages out and people get mad when the things they liked in their formative years isn't cool anymore. It's not enough to like something, they get validation out of knowing that other people like it too and anything that contradicts that notion is going to piss them off. I'm sure one day Simpsons memes will be like cave drawings and I'll be complaining that the world has gone to hell because some teenager doesn't appreciate my shit.
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it’s been a longtime celebration for Australians of Scottish/Celtic descent descent (not meaning fans of that distasteful Irish Catholic Glasgow football team).
It’s all associated with the harvest, end of summer, ghosts of the dead walking among us on the night of 31 Oct, with big bonfires to scare away evil spirits.
Well, most of us also do Christmas and that's from the middle east!
The point of conjecture always seems to be whether you were (A) representing your employer, or (B) what I do in my non-work time is up to me.
It’s murky - but if the employer has an interest in the behaviour … the employee is bound by a few things.
The main one being if it’s damaging to the employers interest, that’s not good. Which this stuff probably falls under.
I’ve seen it first hand and was surprised how much reach the employer has.
Not so much about being woke as people would claim! Usually a very clear legal and contractual aspect to these situations.
It’s murky - but if the employer has an interest in the behaviour … the employee is bound by a few things.
The main one being if it’s damaging to the employers interest, that’s not good. Which this stuff probably falls under.
I’ve seen it first hand and was surprised how much reach the employer has.
Not so much about being woke as people would claim! Usually a very clear legal and contractual aspect to these situations.
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I just throw west end cans out the front and no one comes to the door. Easy
Punchy Bassett
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It's bad parenting when those parents can't do simple things like make sure their kids don't run out into the middle of busy streets. It was crazy in my suburb, just cause it was Halloween people lost all sense of common sense. My daughter had to get two kids who we didn't know off the street near our house before they got hit.
Pretty long bow to draw there, bad parents are bad parents regardless of Halloween.
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Jetty Rd Brighton was crazy - especially around the railway line
I nearly cleaned up a father and 2 kids who stepped onto the road while I was driving 80% blind while trying to avoid the setting sun , looking out for side entry cars and heaps of adults and kids around
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The setting sun just makes it a lottery
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The idea that I should deprive my children the joy of dressing up, not to mention the exercise of going for a long walk around our neighbourhood, just because it's "American" is ridiculous. The accepted rule is that you only knock on houses that have Halloween decorations out, so nobody gets trick-or-treated that doesn't want to be. And as for the sugar high, the kids get to enjoy 2-3 lollies max on the night and the rest go into a container in the cupboard to be dolled out in appropriate portions over the next month or two. It's one of the highlights of my kids' years, and it's also a great way of meeting other young families in your local area.
Anybody who has a problem with that needs to find something more important in their life to get upset over.
No .. that clearly would've missed the brief of the time period for the costume
Surely you understand not everyone is putting in those necessary guard rails. You think every parent has adopted your set of rules? It sounds like you have that shit down to a science but not everyone does.
In our area they seem to as well, which is nice.
Perhaps if it wasn't so organised id hold a similar opinion to yours.
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The Melbourne Cup winning jockey today is a man of many talents! Was also on The Voice a few years ago and has a seriously good singing voice tbh.
I think it bothers me partly because it wasn't how things operated when I was a kid. There was definitely some Americanisation going on here during the 90s. Michael Jordan was everywhere. Rap and Hip Hop became popular. California culture of skateboards and roller blades was a thing. We were always importing their stuff but there is something about adopting their customs and rituals that just feels like it's gone to a new level.
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