So... is anyone else dressing up and hitting any parties/bars? I'm all psyched to go out tonight and next weekend. It's about as close as I come to a religious observation in my dedication and commitment to a holiday. I'm going as Davish "Pops" Krail, aka Gold 5, aka "Stay on target!" this year. I had to convert the hell out of the x-wing costume to make it fit my shoulders and to make the helmet look right, but it's all worth it. :cool: :nerd:
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I'm going as a slutty STEM degree holder.
Quote from: The Brain on October 26, 2013, 04:53:41 PM
I'm going as a slutty STEM degree holder.
Isn't that what you did last year?
I'm eating some cookies and probably going to watch Vertigo or some shit, fittingly, as my life is an endless plunge into oblivion.
Vertigo is a world famous movie.
I like brunettes.
Timmy and Andrew are going as tigers. We have a lion costume for the new guy, but of course he's not going trick-or-treating.
If my black suit still fits I'll do my Reservoir Dogs/Men in Black thing again.
I got a rock.
I'm gonna be Captain Kirk
Wife is gonna be Princess Bubblegum.
Girls are gonna be..ponies. Again.
Michael and Alexander will be red shirts. Was gonna do old style Kingons, but they wasn't getting the karate chops down in time.
Yes, there is no matching theme. I'm the goddamn captain of a starship.
Never worked on my steampunk costume. Wife is going as Snoopy's World War One Flying Ace, I'll go as Charlie Brown (in ghost costume). No parties this year. Last time we did was two years ago when the ice storm came in and kicked the shit out of New England a day or two before Halloween. We'll stick with giving out candy.
I'm going to go as a drunk attorney whose wife is staying at home with the dogs and the cats.
I'll stay in.
I'll be Cousin Eddie from Christmas Vacation, a role I'll reprise on Christmas Day.
Tommy originally wanted to be a Death Eater or whatever from Harry Potter, then he saw the costume and changed his mind to Cad Bane. Lola is going as Minnie Mouse as that is her current obsession.
Quote from: derspiess on October 26, 2013, 11:18:16 PM
Cad Bane
Show him a few Lee Van Cleef movies, esp. the two Dollar Trilogy movies he's in. :P
Max and I went to a party last night. He went as a Skyrim guard, complete with arrow in the knee. I went as Lady Alexia Terabotti from The Parasol Protectorate. (Don't ask me; I've never read the books.)
Okay, that's what my friend ended up calling me. What I really did was go to Goodwill Friday night, buy a curtain, and make a Victorian skirt. Turned out pretty cool. I added a puffy underskirt, a corset, and a Bowler-style hat. Ta-da! Pseudo-Steampunk!
There's enough fabric left to make a jacket, so I'm set for next year, too. :) Just need a parasol...
I thought these were brilliant.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/17-brilliant-art-history-inspired-halloween-costumes (http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/17-brilliant-art-history-inspired-halloween-costumes)
Here are a few of them:
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The last one looks like Van Gogh decided to Van Jizz all over her.
I thought it was amazing how much like Van Gogh that guy actually looks in the second pic.
Quote from: merithyn on October 28, 2013, 11:44:15 AM
I thought it was amazing how much like Van Gogh that guy actually looks in the second pic.
He's in makeup.
Halloween is evil.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/dvd-r-hell/41083-pagan-invasion-halloween-trick-or-treat
Here in Florida some teenagers decided to go as their favorite characters from one of this year's biggest news stories:
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This weekend we helped our friends at http://www.brierfieldironworks.com/. All the RV's and cabins decorate and kids do their trick or treating. Very nice, great fun. My buddy also provides Haunted Tours (the park is known to be haunted) but we add a little bit to it. For example my son was in full camo/ghilli suit with a troll mask under the covered brigde, we also had another teenager under the church, and a plant in each tour group to slam a door at on specific cabin. Great fun was had by all. :) I got lots of candy too. ;)
BTW, we stay at the superintendents house when cold, there have been reports of sounds, apparitions, slamming doors, and a park ranger swears he saw a full body ghost that chased him out of the house. I have never heard or seen anything, but its great for creeping out the kids. :menace:
I intend to tax my kids candy haul. I will take smarties during candy inspection.
My daughter accused me of eating all the butterfingers out of her candy bag this weekend. :whistle:
I'll be taking out our two tigers. Pretty sure the older tiger, who now has a well-developed sweet tooth, will want to go to as many houses as he can. The younger one though, well, hopefully he can be convinced to follow his brother to 3 or 4 houses before wanting to go inside.
One of my nephews still gives me shit over the Uncle tax I took when he was little. And he's 25 now.
So I took out the Reese's minatures. Big deal.
Quote from: Savonarola on October 28, 2013, 01:35:03 PM
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Ouch. Why aren't the guys slutty? :mad:
Quote from: The Brain on October 28, 2013, 02:26:59 PM
Ouch. Why aren't the guys slutty? :mad:
Sexy Trayvon Martin costume coming next year to Halloween City
Quote from: Savonarola on October 28, 2013, 02:33:15 PM
Quote from: The Brain on October 28, 2013, 02:26:59 PM
Ouch. Why aren't the guys slutty? :mad:
Sexy Trayvon Martin costume coming next year to Halloween City
They could
almost have gotten away with it if they hadn't used blackface.
Took the kids to one of those 'safe' Halloween events. I got in my Kirk outfit and the kids there didn't know who Kirk was. Young people. :mad: Had a Romulan there challenge me, so I karate chopped him. Suck on my sweet fighting skills.
The kids got some sweet loot though. A nice pre trick or treat haul.
Reese's cup content?
Quote from: Ideologue on October 29, 2013, 07:26:54 PM
Reese's cup content?
Medium. Plus homemade Buckeyes. :mmm:
Most people just don't grasp how hurtful Dracula costumes are for native Transylvanians. :(
QuoteHalloween costumes unmask cultural stereotypes
On college campuses and off, civil rights groups are trying to raise awareness of the insensitivity of both revelers and retailers who might choose Halloween costumes that range from a taco wearing a sombrero to a "Pocahottie," an overtly sexualized Native American woman.
Just as alarming, the costumes aren't limited to the end of October. A growing trend of "racist ragers," parties students attend in costume as ethnic or racial stereotypes, has school officials — and other students — increasingly concerned.
Christina Gonzales, dean of students at University of Colorado Boulder, sent a letter to students on Thursday encouraging them to "celebrate" diversity on Halloween by refraining from "inaccurate and hurtful portrayals of other peoples' cultures in the CU community."
Her letter is part of a growing movement led by Students Teaching About Racism in Society (STARS), a student group at Ohio University that aims to "facilitate discussion about diversity and all isms."
STARS does this by hosting workshops and teach-ins on tolerance and respect. But its annual "We're a Culture, Not a Costume" poster campaign is what has propelled it to Internet fame and inspired other universities, like CU, to follow suit.
The posters, which have gone viral every year since 2011, depict annoyed looking 20-somethings next to images of costumes that stereotype their cultures. They're accompanied by messages that challenge students to consider the consequences of wearing them.
Paris Aaron, an OU junior and STARS' vice president, says the campaign was inspired by the rising popularity of race-themed parties on university campuses.
"Just as there were ugly sweater parties for Christmas, they would have race-based parties where you'd come dressed up as a black person or an Asian nerd or stereotypes that other cultures would, of course, find offensive," he explained.
In fact, "racist ragers," as some students call them, are one of the many "hurtful" incidents Gonzales cited in her letter to CU's student body.
"The CU-Boulder community has in the past witnessed and been impacted by people who dressed in costumes that included blackface or sombreros/serapes; people have also chosen costumes that portray particular cultural identities as overly sexualized, such as geishas, 'squaws,' or stereotypical, such as cowboys and Indians," she wrote.
"Additionally, some students have also hosted offensively-themed parties that reinforce negative representations of cultures as being associated with poverty ('ghetto' or 'white trash/hillbilly'), or with crime or sex work."
Students of Pennsylvania State University, Duke University and Dartmouth College, among others, have staged similar parties—raising ire among Asian-, Mexican- and African-Americans on campus.
So prevalent have the offensive parties become, that some schools, like the University of Minnesota, have taken proactive measures to curb them.
Earlier this month, Vice President of Equity and Diversity Katrice Albert and Vice Provost and Dean of Students Danita Brown Young sent a joint email to UM students to remind them that the coming holiday was not a free pass to be culturally insensitive.
"Halloween is just one occasion on a broad continuum where we all benefit from acting with an understanding of the concepts of diversity, inclusion, and respect," they wrote.
That's precisely the message civil rights groups want educators to send.
'Not just fun and games'
Ling Woo Liu, director of strategic communications at Asian Americans Advancing Justice, said minority communities don't just contend with negative stereotypes on Halloween, but all year round.
She pointed to recent offenses in pop culture to illustrate how Asian-Americans are routinely lampooned — including Ashton Kutcher's appearance in "brown face" to play the role of a Bollywood producer in a Popchips commercial; and Ken Jeong's portrayal of the emasculated Mr. Chow in the movie "The Hangover."
"It's not just fun and games and folks reacting because they want to be politically correct," Liu says. "There's actually real harm that can come out of these jokes."
The characters, she says, accentuate Asian-Americans' otherness, and reinforce stereotypes that they're "foreign and don't belong." Overtime, that can lead "to the idea that they're not trustworthy."
Distrust, she notes, is what led to the U.S.'s internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II — an event many Americans still view today as a stain on the country's history.
Arab- and Muslim-Americans fear they're headed in a similar direction, says Abed Ayoub, legal and policy director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
"Halloween or TV, we're only ever portrayed as the three B's: Bombers, billionaires or belly dancers," he says. "But we're more than just somebody whaling a sword or riding a camel. We have a rich history that we're proud of."
Ayoub believes that television shows like "24" and "Homeland," which feature Middle Eastern antagonists, "fuel misconceptions that all Arabs and Muslims are terrorists," and lend credence to "unconstitutional government programs that employ surveillance and racial profiling."
The compound effects of these negative stereotypes can lead to hate crimes, he says.
'Understand the context'
That's the concern Rajdeep Singh, director of law and policy at The Sikh Coalition, had when he wrote to retailers Walmart, Rite Aid, Amazon and Fun World in September asking them to stop selling a turban costume modeled on a man wearing a fake beard and dressed in a camouflage jacket like Osama Bin Laden.
"This item insults those who lost loved ones during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, insults American soldiers injured or killed in pursuit of Al Qaeda, and perpetuates negative stereotypes about turbans and beards that have led to violence and discrimination against Sikhs and other minorities," he wrote.
To their credit, all but Fun World promptly agreed to stop selling the offending costume. But the positive response was hardly a policy change. Other offensive costumes are still being sold.
Singh says that anyone who thinks The Sikh Coalition's letter was an overreaction "should try to understand the context in which we made the request."
Since attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, American Sikhs have faced increasing harassment and violence by individuals who don't understand who they are or what they represent.
On Aug. 5, 2012, white supremacist Wade Michael Page killed six members of the faith and wounded four others when he opened fire in a temple in Oak Creek, Wisc. More recently, on Sept. 21, Columbia University professor Prabhjot Singh was savagely beaten by a mob that yelled "get Osama" and "terrorist" as they descended upon him.
While some rights groups are wary to draw a direct correlation between stereotypes in pop culture and hate crimes, many contend that the link – even if somewhat ambiguous – is there.
In a sign of the times, the Justice Department announced in August it would start keeping track of hate crimes targeting Sikhs, Hindus, Arabs and Buddhists, among other minorities.
That's a good start, rights groups say, but merely counting hate crimes isn't enough. What's needed is diversity in education.
Transcending stereotypes
"In schools, you're never taught about the true history of this country," says Ray Ramirez, spokesman for the Native American Rights Fund. "You're never taught about the tribes that existed prior to European conquest. You never hear about the tribes that exist today."
He says that if students were taught about Native American culture, they wouldn't "disrespect" it by wearing sacred headdresses for Halloween or project such "hostility" towards assertions that names of popular sports teams, like the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians, are racist.
Other rights groups agree that diversity education – like STARS' poster campaign – is key to countering dangerous stereotypes, and have even taken steps of their own to educate teachers on how to address issues of multiculturalism in classrooms.
The Anti-Defamation League, for example, has developed free lesson plans that aim to curb anti-Semitism by helping teachers "integrate multicultural, anti-bias, and social justice themes into their curricula."
However, minority groups say that's not the only type of diversity needed in education.
Khaled Beydoun, critical race studies fellow at University of California's School of Law, says initiatives that teach diversity are "well-intended," but their success is hampered by the "diminished" presence of minorities on university campuses.
"The absence of these students from the spaces of learning eliminates the prospect of humanizing 'people of color,' and leaves white students to subscribe to racial caricatures ubiquitous in history texts, music, film, and the like," he says.
To that end, civil rights groups like the NAACP and National Council of La Raza have launched programs to fight for equitable opportunities in education and build the capacity of black and Latino youth to succeed in classrooms.
The objective, as the NAACP puts it, is to eliminate "education-related racial and ethnic disparities" so that minority students can transcend stereotypes.
Oh, college, how I miss your earnest outrage. :)
Is there a way to kind of time warp 15 year olds to fully formed 35 year olds without the retard years in between?
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QuoteHow about a little tribal trouble? Or a lot of it! Sexy Pocahottie girls in Indian costumes strongly believe in trivial tribal conquests. After all, it's harmless and they're allowed to do as they wish when wearing this Sexy Pocahottie Costume.
This Sexy Indian Costume features a brown micro suede stretch dress with intricate beading and layered fringe hem. The Sexy Indian Costume also comes with a matching beaded headpiece with red and yellow feathers. If you've ever wished to be Pocahontas, here is your chance to feel as strong as her!
Yes, but can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
What is up with all the racist Halloween parties?
Anyway further evidence adults are not fit to dress up for Halloween.
Windbreaker is such a great Native American movie.
/makes note to go to Fun World for costume
QuoteDistrust, she notes, is what led to the U.S.'s internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II — an event many Americans still view today as a stain on the country's history.
Oh Jesus fucking Christ.
Yeah, that's how the interment camps started. People dressing up as Toshiro Mifune for Halloween.
That article is a never-ending litany of waaa.
I am sensitive to the idea that white frat bros shouldn't be parading around in blackface,* but why isn't culture fair game?
*Super-ironic Silas Lynch costume excepted?
Dressing up like a Samurai reinforces stereotypes of Asians as psychotic warlords.
I find slutty Vikings offensive. We didn't just rape willy-nilly.
Quote from: The Brain on October 30, 2013, 03:45:28 PM
I find slutty Vikings offensive.
So does everyone else. Visually.
Brother Willy-Nilly was indeed not the only rape victim at Lindisfarne.
I'm going to leave work early so I can get home before barricades and crowds.
Miley Cyrus goes Lil' Kim circa (was it the VMAs?) where Diana Ross felt up Lil' Kim's boob.
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OK now I finally get it.
Yuk
Not bad. I'd do it, Little Pony style.
Tonight we're chilling at the house and passing out candy. Tomorrow night we're going to a party as Despicable Me characters - I'll be Gru and SFG will be a minion.
Those are the Booger People?
All she was trying to do was raise awareness. :(
QuoteHalloween grinch to replace candy with fat notes?
I know whose house I would avoid on Halloween if I lived in Fargo, North Dakota.
Instead of handing out candy, a local woman called into a radio station, saying she plans to pass out letters to trick-or-treaters she feels are "moderately obese."
How do you say killjoy?
"I just want to send a message to the parents of kids that are really overweight," said the woman, who identified herself only as Cheryl, during an interview with WDAY-FM radio in Fargo.
"I think it's just really irresponsible of parents to just sort of send them out looking for free candy just 'cause all of the other kids are doing it," she said.
Since news of such a Halloween plan went viral, people have called CNN affiliate KXJB-TV questioning whether the story is a hoax, according to the station.
But "Rat," WDAY-FM's morning co-host, told CNN it was definitely not a radio station stunt. "The woman Cheryl did call into our show," he said. "We have been unable to get her back on the phone."
It remains unclear if the woman truly plans to hand out obesity letters or if this was all a prank.
"Whether Cheryl goes through with handing out letters or not seems to be a Halloween mystery," said JT Thaden, brand manager for WDAY-FM. "If any local children do get a letter, we're encouraging them to stop by (our) studios and we'll exchange it for a piece of candy."
The radio station said the woman e-mailed it the following message for parents: "Your child is, in my opinion, moderately obese and should not be consuming sugar and treats to the extent of some children this Halloween season.
"My hope is that you will step up as a parent and ration candy this Halloween and not allow your child to continue these unhealthy eating habits."
Her goal, she said in the interview, is spurring action to battle a communitywide problem.
"Their kids are everybody's kids. It's a whole village," she said.
CNN iReport contributor Tony Posnanski said he was motivated to write a response of his own after hearing about what he calls the "fat-shaming letter."
"Any kind of fat letter is just a shame. It doesn't solve anything, it just shames people," he said in his iReport.
Prank or not, Posnanski said the whole concept could still affect people. "It can influence others to send in fat letters, too. When I was a child, I was overweight. I think the more that people pointed it out, it only put me through hell."
Posnanski said he plans to hand out his own positive letter along with Halloween candy to trick-or-treaters, pointing out how "awesome" they are.
"I don't think (my letter) is going to affect kids or parents, but it is better than handing out fat letters. This is a holiday for kids to have fun; this isn't a holiday for candy," he said.
Plenty of people in my social community had some other choice words.
"This is despicable," said Sue Scheff, author of the book "Wit's End: Advice and Resources for Saving Your Out-of-Control Teen," on Facebook. "Talk about giving a child a complex and deflating their self-esteem especially in front of their peers."
"Holy cr*p! This is just plain mean," said Sarah Winer Maizes of Los Angeles, a children's book author and blogger, also on Facebook. "It's just plain heartless. Can we videotape someone giving her a 'you're a heinous creature of a human being' note?"
"This is terrible, particularly for the girls already overly concerned about body image," said new mom Katie Resnick Lamoureux of Hyannis, Massachusetts.
Lynn Grefe, president and CEO of the National Eating Disorders Association, agrees, saying such a concept, along with letters from schools to parents about a child's body mass index, would be the wrong way to go.
"So-called 'fat letters' have no place in schools and certainly no place in our kids' Halloween buckets and bags," Grefe said. "Bringing attention to a child's weight and size in this way is yet one more thoughtless approach that targets and bullies children, putting them at risk for low self-esteem and ultimately developing an eating disorder."
She added, "Health should be assessed by a medical doctor, certainly not a stranger who might be dressed as one."
Everyone in my social networking circles was horrified by the North Dakotan's possible approach, but some also recognized there's a real problem.
"I agree that the community as a whole should support and promote healthy lifestyles because it does take a village, but this is not the way to go about it," said Janet Abrams Piechota on Facebook.
Said a reader who goes by the Twitter handle @nunoc3, "Wrong strategy for a real problem."
"Maybe she should just give out healthy snacks to all," @patgee59 tweeted. "Don't be the fat monitor."
Yes, she can join the small number of families (less than 5% according to a poll for a story I did a few years back) who give out healthy snacks -- raisins, fruit, even toothbrushes and dental floss on Halloween.
Like the woman in North Dakota, I guess these families also have good intentions, but come on, folks, it's Halloween.
Mike Adamick, a stay-at-home dad in San Francisco, had another idea. "I want to hand out letters to people who hand out raisins or dental floss ... although with a kid there, I suppose the correct response would be, 'Thank you.' Still, killjoys," said the blogger and author of the book, "Dad's Book of Awesome Projects."
I agree, which is why I sent my children to school with what my husband called an "unconscionable" amount of candy in small baggies to give out to their friends.
Now I just hope their moms don't send me a letter.
Fat kids are harder to fit into the wood chipper. In Fargo you have to think of thing like this.
I'm rent asunder by inner conflict.
Beggar's night has turned into a wet, windy soggy mess. Instead of going out, the kids and their friends will come to my house, where I will dispense with the largesse of my empire.
I however got soaked going to CVS to buy enough extra candy to fill a cargo ship. Skittles and Smarties lay at my side.
And after the kids go home, I'm pounding my wife in her Princess Bubblegum outfit.
And I just found out that they rescheduled trick or treat for Saturday. I'm done with this bullshit.
Supposed to be around 34 degrees with 15-20 mph winds here. All of the little kids will be dressed up as witches and ghosts with snowmobile suits on.
No matter how cold it gets around here the college girls still manage to make it out in their thongs and pasties.
:)
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 31, 2013, 05:45:49 PM
No matter how cold it gets around here the college girls still manage to make it out in their thongs and pasties.
God bless America!
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Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 30, 2013, 03:51:40 PM
Quote from: The Brain on October 30, 2013, 03:45:28 PM
We didn't just rape willy-nilly.
Bullshit.
We had a system!
PJ O'Rourke's historical research on this topic in Eat the Rich really opened my eyes to the equities of Viking economics.
So, we trick or treated two different neighborhoods, ours last. During this second outing, I stayed home watching The Lost Boys on TV and giving out candy while they got soaked in the rain. I have enough candy in the house for what seems a year, they will eat it all in a month I bet.
Weirdly, this year we got just enough candy so that we don't have any left over laying around the house.
I'm practicing my JIT supply chain skillz.
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:D :thumbsup:
:D
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 31, 2013, 04:59:48 PM
And after the kids go home, I'm pounding my wife in her Princess Bubblegum outfit.
Terrifying.
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:lol:
I was wearing my Kirk outfit also. Gold sweaty shirt, too tight pants.
SO last night Andrew, of course had no clue what was going on. I took him to three houses, then took him tome.
Timmy however knew EXACTLY what was going on, and loved it. We went around the cul-de-sac, and he wanted to keep going. So we started down a neighboring street for awhile. Eventually though his little bucket got heavy for him, and he wanted to head home. He stuffed himself with candy, but then was very into giving out candy. He'd sit by the front steps waiting for kids to come by. :cool:
Henry and David had an awesome time. In one of those inexplicable David moments he remarked last month he wanted to be a blue M&M for Halloween. So he was a blue M&M and Henry was a red M&M. People kept complimenting me and my wife on our creativity and we had to tell them it was, in fact, all David's idea.
We don't go around collecting around my neighborhood since it's old folks that don't give out candy anyway.
We went to my half bro's house & went around collecting with his kids. It was a rough start, Ariel was scared, trembling scared by my bro's zombie mask & it took a good 30mins for her to calm down enough to understand what was going on. She wanted badly to go home, at some point she went & climbed in the car. I did 3 house with her before mommy made everything alright by showing up.
<_<
My son won the costume prize at his high school. He wore a wrecking ball (which he made out of a box and duct tape) and put a picture of Miley Cyrus on the front.
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 01, 2013, 11:35:51 AM
My son won the costume prize at his high school. He wore a wrecking ball (which he made out of a box and duct tape) and put a picture of Miley Cyrus on the front.
So he had Miliey riding him? :lol:
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picture of the niece.
So Tommy was all down on his costume because nobody in his Kindergarten class had a clue who Cad Bane was. So he refused to go trick or treating in that costume. So we dug out a Darth Vader costume my brother had gotten him for Christmas last year.
Trick or treat got postponed until tonight because of the "wind advisory" :rolleyes:
Raz, your niece is absolutely adorable. :wub:
No one in my house dressed up. Kids are too old to go trick-or-treating, and in fact, Riley managed to unintentionally shame a few of the teenagers who came to the door.
She was dolled up because she'd planned to go to the volleyball regional championship game, and then opted not to. Still, she looked very pretty. Three teen boys who were roughly Riley's age, maybe a little older, came to the door in full get-up.
Boys: :w00t: TRICK-OR-TReeeeee......
Riley: :yeahright:
Boys: :mellow: :unsure: :blush: "Trick-or-Treat"
Riley: *hands each boy a sucker*
Boys, walking away: We're really too old for this...
Riley: :lol:
Who is Cad Bane? :huh:
Shame on Riley! Free Candy until 16 is a sacred right!
Quote from: Grey Fox on November 01, 2013, 12:28:40 PM
Shame on Riley! Free Candy until 16 is a sacred right!
As they walked away, she said to me, "That's ridiculous. They're old enough to get a job and buy their own candy!" :lol:
Oh please, I am proud my son has no shame like me, he got a bag full of loot trick or treating without a costume. :punk:
Quote from: lustindarkness on November 01, 2013, 12:32:37 PM
Oh please, I am proud my son has no shame like me, he got a bag full of loot trick or treating without a costume. :punk:
I will give candy to teenagers like that, but I most definitely give them shit for it, too. It was all the more funny that they didn't have to take it from a frumpy, middle-aged woman, and instead got it from a beautiful teen-aged girl. :D
Quote from: merithyn on November 01, 2013, 12:34:50 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on November 01, 2013, 12:32:37 PM
Oh please, I am proud my son has no shame like me, he got a bag full of loot trick or treating without a costume. :punk:
I will give candy to teenagers like that, but I most definitely give them shit for it, too. It was all the more funny that they didn't have to take it from a frumpy, middle-aged woman, and instead got it from a beautiful teen-aged girl. :D
Oh yeah, I was the first one giving him shit for it at every door (and then stealing his Butterfingers).
Raz, your niece is as cute as a button. :wub:
She really is adorable.
I went with Carl despite the rain - he was in his Samurai armour I made for him last year. It took me a damn month to make, so he gets two years out of it! :lol:
It looks cool on him, and best of all, he can see and move around with it on. He met up with his little buddy down the street, who was in a "Creeper" costume from Minecraft. He could barely totter in that thing, and his headpiece gave no visibility.
YOu guys are more adventurous than us - we just took Timmy down to Walmart and had him pick out a costume he liked (which turned out to be a tiger - he loves animals that growl and make loud noises).
But you know - kids costumes are light-years ahead of what we had as kids. Remember those crappy store-bought costumes that were just a plastic raincoat with a picture of what you were supposed to be on the front (e.g. if you were E.T. you had a picture of E.T. on the front) together with a cheap plastic mask?
David:
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Henry:
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BB's american kids are very blond.
Nice costume idea, V.
I don't think they are any less blonde than BB's Canadian kids :hmm:
Thanks but the idea was actually entirely David's :lol:
Quote from: Razgovory on November 01, 2013, 12:00:10 PM
picture of the niece.
My 10 year old niece went as Dorothy from Oz last night.
So needless to say, I now have to completely flush the once very happy memories of all that bondage sex with my ex in the same costume forever and ever.
I feel so queasy now. SPLASH ONE FLYING MONKEY I REPEAT SPLASH ONE FLYING MONKEY
Quote from: merithyn on November 01, 2013, 12:31:15 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on November 01, 2013, 12:28:40 PM
Shame on Riley! Free Candy until 16 is a sacred right!
As they walked away, she said to me, "That's ridiculous. They're old enough to get a job and buy their own candy!" :lol:
So she takes her first steps toward womanhood--that is, being horrible to men and undermining them at every turn.
Matriarchy. :rolleyes:
That said, it is somewhat lame to be actually trick or treating at >14, or so.
Mad lewt to be grabbed, bro.
Actually, given that house and field parties and the like have been hunted to extinction and kids these days seem to be eschewing alcohol and drugs (at least until they get to college)--and this is probably a good thing, wish I had--I wonder what they're supposed to do on Halloween? Volleyball championships, I guess. :yuck:
I had a mad crush on a volleyball player in High school. They have the best turdcutters.
I never got her. :cry:
I'm not saying female athletes aren't hot, I'm saying watching them hone their hotness is boring, especially if you can't masturbate.
Quote from: Ideologue on November 01, 2013, 05:38:32 PM
That said, it is somewhat lame to be actually trick or treating at >14, or so.
:yes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktl12fXazac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktl12fXazac)
Raz, so cute niece. :)
Quote from: Ideologue on November 01, 2013, 05:51:53 PM
I'm not saying female athletes aren't hot, I'm saying watching them hone their hotness is boring, especially if you can't masturbate.
Why wouldn't you be able to masturbate?
Schools' draconian, sex-negative policies.
Quote from: Ideologue on November 01, 2013, 06:12:34 PM
Schools' draconian, sex-negative policies.
I would never let school cramp my style.
Why did I buy Circus Peanuts? Why did I give them out?
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I have sinned against humanity. :(
I knew they were shit from my younger days. :blush:
:yuk:
A special place is reserved in hell for people that give out circus peanuts, candy corn and off, off brand candy.
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 01, 2013, 07:41:20 PM
circus peanuts,
:yuk:
Quotecandy corn
:yuk:
Quoteoff, off brand candy.
Some regional candy bars can be pretty tasty.
I'm thinking dollar store or Big lots candy.
I question the patriotism of both of you. Hating on circus peanuts and candy corn would've gotten you blacklisted in the 1950s.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 01, 2013, 08:01:22 PM
I question the patriotism of both of you. Hating on circus peanuts and candy corn would've gotten you blacklisted in the 1950s.
Circus peanuts can go die. Candy corn's alright. What I always hated was the endless supply of Double Bubble from houses giving out a single piece. My "goodies" bag was usually 2/3 Double Bubble, 1/4 Tootsie Rolls, and the rest was Smarties/one or two token pieces of actual chocolate.
When I trick-or-treated, Reese's cups were big game.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 01, 2013, 08:01:22 PM
I question the patriotism of both of you. Hating on circus peanuts and candy corn would've gotten you blacklisted in the 1950s.
Go drink your Ovaltine and leave us alone.
My black suit fits (just barely) so I am now transformed into a Reservoir Dog. Or a Man in Black, which is the exact same getup.
Wish I could find some collar stays.
Found some collar stays in the pencil holder! I am saved! :punk:
Also found my long lost nostril hair trimming scissors in the same place. :yeah:
Candy corn tastes ok, not worth the toothache though.
Toothache?
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 01, 2013, 08:24:38 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 01, 2013, 08:01:22 PM
I question the patriotism of both of you. Hating on circus peanuts and candy corn would've gotten you blacklisted in the 1950s.
Go drink your Ovaltine and leave us alone.
Ovaltine is too rich for the constitution of an Old. It's a young man's game.
I always wondered if I contacted the manufacturer directly if I could get just a whole bag of orange Tootsie Rolls.
Quote from: Ideologue on November 02, 2013, 12:23:26 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 01, 2013, 08:24:38 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 01, 2013, 08:01:22 PM
I question the patriotism of both of you. Hating on circus peanuts and candy corn would've gotten you blacklisted in the 1950s.
Go drink your Ovaltine and leave us alone.
Ovaltine is too rich for the constitution of an Old. It's a young man's game.
Ovaltine? What oldies do that shit? All about the Hershey's syrup. :)
Brush your teeth? :unsure:
Many years ago when she was ~1 my youngest was a Hershey's Kiss. I think this is the same costume, very close if not
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Very cute, but not as cute as Raz' wicked cute niece.
My daughter was cuter, but I'm not sure I have a pictur eanymore. :)
This is later, Halloween 1998:
My youngest as Snow White, my niece (ex-niece?) as a witch and my oldest as some sort of a princess or something.
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Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 01, 2013, 08:31:28 PM
Also found my long lost nostril hair trimming scissors in the same place. :yeah:
And people call me the luddite around here. Get yourself a Norelco, man. Jam one of those fuckers up there, you're blowing back the tree line a couple clicks.