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A Scottish Halloween Fuck the funk - it's time to ditch the worn-out Vegas horns fills, pick up the geee-tar and finally ROCK THE MUTHA-FUCKER!! He hinted at this on Chaos, now it's time to step up and fully DELIVER!!
KrystleEyes 22/03/05 | |
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i woulda said "and here's a tasty bit of haggis for ye" | |
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Looks like Govan?
Happy Halloween.
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Quite right! "Trick or treat" my arse. The Americanisation of Halloween here is infuriating. "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"" ~ Isaac Asimov | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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~ Same as it ever was ... | |
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I live in New Zealand and all the kids do it here. I used to feel the same as you until I realised that I was just being a miserable old curmudgeon.
Tonight I will welcome the kiddies in my neighbourhood dressed up in fake bloodstained surgical scrubs and giving them BBQ'd hotdogs instead of confectionary. Something I started last year and it went down really well. It's a poor immigrant neighbourhood and lots of the kids don't always eat too well. Heaps of fun. One litle girl asked me last year if I was on Grey's Anatomy and one little Samoan boy reached up on his tip toes to see on the bbq and asked if I had any steak. If the milk turns out to be sour, I aint the kinda pussy to drink it! |
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There are still plenty around here who do it properly. I'm not being a miserable old curmudgeon, by the way, I just have an interest in trying to preserve our culture. It's been sorely persecuted over time (including by government policy), so it's sad to see our Halloween traditions being eroded (even if it is by less nefarious ways). [Edited 10/31/12 2:15am] "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"" ~ Isaac Asimov | |
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Lianachan said:
There are still plenty around here who do it properly. I'm not being a miserable old curmudgeon, by the way, I just have an interest in trying to preserve our culture. It's been sorely persecuted over time (including by government policy), so it's sad to see our Halloween traditions being eroded (even if it is by less nefarious ways). [Edited 10/31/12 2:15am] Fair point. Though it's really unavoidable that cultures absorb foreign elements into thier own and evolve them. Take the pagan origins in the British isles of Christmas and Easter for example. Totally lost thier traditional meanings having been infiltrated by strange ideas introduced from Rome which innturn had their traditions infiltrated from The middle east. If the milk turns out to be sour, I aint the kinda pussy to drink it! |
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Ah yes, the christian adoption of existing pre-christian festivals and beliefs to make it easier to convert people. Plus, of course, the absorption of several gods as angels or saints for the same reason. A favourite subject of mine. "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"" ~ Isaac Asimov | |
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Ah yes, the christian adoption of existing pre-christian festivals and beliefs to make it easier to convert people. Plus, of course, the absorption of several gods as angels or saints for the same reason. A favourite subject of mine. How about a compromise? Keep trick or treating but give Christianity the boot.  If the milk turns out to be sour, I aint the kinda pussy to drink it! |
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Why not keep both? Doesn't necessarily have to be one or the other... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Indeed. It was just a joke. If the milk turns out to be sour, I aint the kinda pussy to drink it! |
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Yup. Plus, it's the specific "trick or treat" American nonsense that's annoying - would gladly keep our traditional Halloween. "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"" ~ Isaac Asimov | |
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^ excuse me, but don't you mean samhain? | |
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There's no need to go quite that far back! "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"" ~ Isaac Asimov | |
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I post this every year and this is the most replies ever!!!!
Fuck the funk - it's time to ditch the worn-out Vegas horns fills, pick up the geee-tar and finally ROCK THE MUTHA-FUCKER!! He hinted at this on Chaos, now it's time to step up and fully DELIVER!!
KrystleEyes 22/03/05 | |
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~ Same as it ever was ... | |
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