I agree! Women have really gone overboard with their costumes and each year it gets worse. But hey it’s their choice 🤷♂️
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I agree! Women have really gone overboard with their costumes and each year it gets worse. But hey it’s their choice 🤷♂️
LOL, I used to live in San Francisco where people dress like it's Halloween 365 days of the year. I live in an SF Bay Area suburban city these days but I still find the Halloween antics amusing.
In fact, Halloween in SF continues to attract non-residents just like on New Year's Eve. Mass transit on Halloween is normally full of folks headed to SF. Stormtroopers on BART? Yes, yes.
When I lived in SF back in the Nineties, we'd call them the BAT People (Bridge-And-Tunnel) or the Nickel-And-Dimers (for the 510 area code).
Trust me, I'm used to the Halloween aesthetic even on the 364 days other than October 31st. It's part of the territory here. Just do a Google Image Search for "the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence." I sat next to one at the bar at Hamburger Mary's way back in the Eighties. We struck up a conversation, I think it was about baseball.
Whether it's something like Santarchy/Santacon (originally 12:12pm on 12/12), the Bay to Breakers footrace (late May) or the weekly Hash House Harriers' run, it's all part of the regular landscape around here.
Halloween isn't considered particularly racy around here. That's usually the Folsom Street Fair weekend (normally early October). Halloween in SF is downright sedate considered to Folsom.
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Very well said.
And it is a real shame to see tacky and tasteless commercialisation and sexualisation replace what was once a wonderful and impressive tradition of acknowledging the dead, especially the dead who had been close to you.
It’s a short list, Hocus Pocus (1993), and Sleepy Hollow (1999). We are not looking for serious terror, although I’ve been considering the The Haunting (1963) with a superb atmosphere, and House on Haunted Hill (1999) a fun, worthy remake.
As someone who loves the beauty of the female body, the lady on the right dressed as an angel kind of saddens me. Less than 30 and soooo much plastic and botox.
Maybe she's actually in her 70s. lol I know it's off topic and everyone has the right to do as they please with their body, but I agree, some people get far too carried away and at such a young age.
It’s a short list, Hocus Pocus (1993), and Sleepy Hollow (1999). We are not looking for serious terror, although I’ve been considering the The Haunting (1963) with a superb atmosphere, and House on Haunted Hill (1999) a fun, worthy remake.
HAve you watched The Haunting of Hill House (2018 miniseries)? If not, it's a must watch.
Rather than silly "Slut-o-ween" stuff, I would argue that a far better role model for young (and indeed, not so young), women (especially around Hallowe'en) are the wonderful witches (Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Tiffany Aching, et all) who inhabit the work of the late, great, Sir Terry Pratchett.
Ha ha, very good. Mind you given the choice of going to that sort of party or spending the evening with a washing up bowl of freezing water with a bag of budget apples floating in it and having previously cut your hand while bodging the impossible task of carving up a swede (the vegetable not a Scandinavian) I know which sort of Halloween would have got my vote when I was younger...
We almost always do a haunted maze and scare more adults I think than children...lol. We change up the theme ever few years. In recent years we have done a Haunted Hotel theme that has worked really well. But this year we are not doing that. Instead we have found these country band skeletons at a few different stores. They seemed to match each other well and two even talk to each other as they were a package deal. We bought some hay bales too and are going to make a little country band scene out of all that out front. Then my husband got these cute ziplock bags with a skeleton face on them and is filling them up with candy that he plans on sending down a sloped socially distanced pipe into a dish that each kid can then take. But not before a spider tries to grab their hand.
We’ll see how this all works out...lol. I’m not sure if we are going to get anyone at all. We shall see I guess. But at least we are trying to keep a tradition going. Even withoit covid it’s not the same as it used to be though. We used to get over 400 kids each year. Our long driveway was full of people. We haven’t seen that much activity in years as the neighborhood children have all grown. The daylight savings time change being pushed back until after Halloween did not help matters. It took an hour off our haunts. Although truth be told, getting older I have needed the extra time to get ready. I don’t move very fast anymore!
We’ll see how this all works out...lol. I’m not sure if we are going to get anyone at all. We shall see I guess. But at least we are trying to keep a tradition going. Even withoit covid it’s not the same as it used to be though. We used to get over 400 kids each year. Our long driveway was full of people. We haven’t seen that much activity in years as the neighborhood children have all grown. The daylight savings time change being pushed back until after Halloween did not help matters. It took an hour off our haunts. Although truth be told, getting older I have needed the extra time to get ready. I don’t move very fast anymore!
I saw a picture somewhere of a guy who has fashioned some sort of special tube or chute in order to be able to stand on his porch or in his doorway and put the wrapped candies in at the top and the recipient will be able to hold his or her trick-or-treat bag at the end of the tube and the candies would slide right on into the bag: no contact, no touch, plenty of safe social distance.....
The role model these days is Kim Kardashian. If you haven’t heard of her, she’s a Hollywood celebrity here in America who got famous after making a tape. She has no real skills some say, but she’s still really famous. She is married to a famous rapper here as well, who is running for President
She's a businesswoman, and very good at it considering she built an empire. THAT'S the part that should be seen as a role model.
LOL omg I know! I saw that too and was like um...
But I’m not going to mean. Anyone who does Halloween big is cool in my book
Too bad girls these days don’t care about that and look up to her for, um, “other reasons” you could say haha
I just thought it was a great event to party, drink hunch punch, and for your significant other to wear a hot costume lol.
My girlfriend doesn’t care about all that stuff she just wants to me to dress as Hugh Hefner so she can dress like a bunny and look hot for ig 🤷♂️
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Really? Halloween is one of the oldest traditions.
Yeah, dude, it's a real shame some only value women for their sex appeal… anyway, slut-o-ween is gonna rock, amirite, bro?! Wooooo! 🎉🎉🎉
I think people have different role models. No one in my social circle looks up to or follows Kim Kardashian. I’d not recognise her if she walked into my office to be honest.
So your partner has to wear a hot costume? Not able to choose just a costume? So much for freedom of choice.
Maybe you could do something similar for the seed distribution!
I agree no social freedoms just to wear a normal costume, like witch as @Scepticalscribe might approve of. It’s terrible! All these girls compete to look hotter than the next one so then the costumes just get more ridiculous each year until one day they’re not going to be wearing anything lol. I wish my girlfriend would cover up but she wants me to be Hugh Hefner so she can be a bunny. But hey if it makes her happy, then I’m happy 🤷♂️
My wife is happy as long as her clothes keep her warm. We have all the social freedoms we like. If it’s not considered cool or trendy, we are fine with that.
If I ever were to consider donning a costume for Hallowe'en, - not that I would - Granny Weatherwax - one of the most wonderful female characters in all of literature - is the individual I would seek to channel or attempt to represent, in respectful homage. She rocks.
I am told I already look like Gru from Despicable Me, so no need to buy a costume. As a bonus: I have a similar accent.
