This year I'm going out as King Diamond (you've heard of him, RambOrc? <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->), and everybody was impressed with my costume! With luck, I'll be able to show a photo to you all eventually. <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

RambOrc, you should be happy to know that this year, while I gave out candy to the little ones, I blasted Keeper Of The Seven Keys Pt. 1 at maximum volume. <!-- s:twisted: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_twisted.gif" alt=":twisted:" title="Twisted Evil" /><!-- s:twisted: -->

Luckily Eve of all Hallows doesn't mean a lot here.

Well in all truths, Halloween doesn't mean shit anymore... It's been so bastardized and commercialized by Capitalism and marketing that it's just an excuse for the junk food and costume industries to make a profit. <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->

Hehe, it's one of those traditions a guy don't have the slightest idea of it's origins... <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) --> Just like Carnival (?), Christmas, etc... I mean, you know WHY it's a "holy"day but you can't really imagine how the procedures developed to it's current state. <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: --> I do remember though there's a "urban myth" that states today's Santa Claus whole appearance and costume comes directly from Coca-Cola image advertising (you know, the red and white costume). Some say he had traditional clothing before Coca-Cola's version, that is for some reason now world-wide accepted. Never bothered to look into it, but if this is true, I guess they must be pretty proud of themselves, no? <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: --> Graphic design at it's best.

[quote="The 4th Class":1c31odyw]Well in all truths, Halloween doesn't mean shit anymore... It's been so bastardized and commercialized by Capitalism and marketing that it's just an excuse for the junk food and costume industries to make a profit. <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( --> and? i like costumes and junk food! i just got back from getting a load of hyperness and tooth decay bundled together in a bag. yay for celebrating evil, death, fear, and chocolate!

All I can say is: watch out for celulite! <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->

No, not that satanic witchery <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P --> I shall celebrate 7th November instead. <!-- s8) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cool.gif" alt="8)" title="Cool" /><!-- s8) -->

[quote="The 4th Class":it305b0d]Well in all truths, Halloween doesn't mean shit anymore... It's been so bastardized and commercialized by Capitalism and marketing that it's just an excuse for the junk food and costume industries to make a profit. <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( --> Exactly.

I'll eat lots of candies and chocolates! <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P -->

I had storms

ok cheap alert, now that halloween is over you can take that disturbing thing from your avatar. thanks <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P --> The closed neighborhood (private security) where i live now is quite new, so there a lot of young marriages with little kids. I don't know why but parents encourage their kids to go out in costume and ask for candy... it pisses me off quite a lot <!-- s:evil: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_evil.gif" alt=":evil:" title="Evil or Very Mad" /><!-- s:evil: --> If you think a bastardized holyday is bad, figure out how bad is for a society to copy it <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->... and be proud...

That's not quite good, I sadly see my own traditions on these days are being "thrown away" by halloween and other american traditions, I couldn't find our very own traditional sugar skulls (they really exist <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->), or the "papel picado" cut paper for english speakers, which is mainly a piece of paper made with scissors to represent different images of death <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->, I couldn't even find the traditional candies we eat this days, I think there are some things we must keep doing and others which might change to adapt to modern times, but this is not the best way to do it.