Nagesh does Halloween
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It's the modern-day version of trick-or-treat. Because apparently walking to random houses and asking for candy is less safe now than it was in the 70's, the fact that crime rates were higher back then notwithstanding.
Filed under: we didn't wear bicycle helmets either
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It's the modern-day version of trick-or-treat. Because apparently walking to random houses and asking for candy is less safe now than it was in the 70's, the fact that crime rates were higher back then notwithstanding.
As said previously, I'd assumed it was either a typo or victim of autocorrect. I hadn't realised it was a real thing.
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It's the modern-day version of trick-or-treat. Because apparently walking to random houses and asking for candy is less safe now than it was in the 70's, the fact that crime rates were higher back then notwithstanding.
We tend to do it more as a social event than to keep the kids safe. Plus, living on the outskirts of the Phoenix-metro area, a lot of the people who come live in fairly rural areas, so it gives their kids a chance to actual get some candy.
Out in the serious boonies, I can actually understand this: walking 3 miles to get to the next house over would make for a long and sluggish trick-or-treat.
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Don't mind me. I'm just ranting because Americans have completely lost the capacity to evaluate relative risks (assuming they ever had it).
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I realize this. And I agree with you. We panic over minuscule risks, and routinely accept (and even go out of our way to engage in) much bigger risks.
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Out in the serious boonies, I can actually understand this: walking 3 miles to get to the next house over would make for a long and sluggish trick-or-treat.
Even the suburbs this can be a problem. There are neighborhoods of horse property in Gilbert and Mesa. Each house sits on an acre plus lot and the houses are set back 50+ yards. Would you want to trick-or-treat in a neighborhood like that? It would make for too much walking for my taste.
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My apartment complex is doing some doggie costume thing. I'm thinking of bringing my wife's brindle boxer, as a tiger.
Or putting a tie on him, and having him be a _tie_grr.
Or cutting construction paper in fire shapes and having him be a tiger tiger burning bright.
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My apartment complex is doing some doggie
I had to double take there, the first time through I read that as
My apartment complex is doing some dogging
I blame @algorythmics
Filed under: That sexy motherfucker!
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I'm enjoying my evening. Beer and games, plus we've got some good efforts on costumes
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That gives our kids a chance to hit our neighborhood on Halloween, too.
How many Elsa's did you have in your house?
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None. Had Sleeping Beauty, Princess Sofia, and Rapunzel. Two of those were picked by the children in question. As for Sleeping Beauty, well, she's too young to know what's going on.
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As for Sleeping Beauty, well, she's too young to know what's going on.
You where hoping for a real sleeping beauty ?
I had a big and a small witch. And a black cat.
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Nobody came to my apartment despite the complex arranging for trick-or-treating.
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Awwww, I know how you feel. We didn't have any trick or treaters either. We live on a quiet street with mainly old people so we never get them.
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Yes, a sleeping daughter. No yapping. Perfect.
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. We live on a quiet street with mainly old people so we never get them.
I used to live in a pretty big subdivision--900 or so houses. Annoyingly, all the trick-or-treaters generally stopped two streets over from us--we lived almost at the very last street in the back.
It's really weird because I used to live (even earlier, that is) in Salem, MA, which was the epicenter of Halloween.
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How many Elsa's did you have in your house?
None here, either. Had a real ball on my first time out running capital escalations though! Even if it took some yelling-at from the dreadnought pilots before I figured out just how they wanted their targets tagged...
Filed under All Hallows' Eve was fun. All Saints' Day wasn't. Thanks a lot, cheap electrolytic caps...
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As said previously, I'd assumed it was either a typo or victim of autocorrect. I hadn't realised it was a real thing.
To me, "trunk-or-treat" sounds like "either you give us candy, or we'll break your legs, stuff you into the trunk of your car, and roll it down the river, so better cough up those Snickers, and no fun-sized bullshit".
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no fun-sized bullshit
Just when you thought you understood...
"+ :jack_o_ lantern" becomes