• @[email protected]
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    I fucking love halloween. If this is true, it’s one of the few redeeming aspects of USA culture.

  • ivanafterall ☑️
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    144 hours ago

    How do you say, “Sucks to be you guys!” in non-American?

  • ekZepp
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    UK used to party pretty hard on Hallows’ Eve. I’m quite sure is still a thing.

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    • @CluckN
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      That would suck to clean.

  • @adam_y
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    84 hours ago

    Pretty sure we had Halloween before the US even existed.

    Admittedly we had to carve turnips.

    Some still do.

    • @nomous
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      73 hours ago

      I wish we still did trick or treating instead of the stupid communal “trunk or treat” that seems to have taken over everywhere.

      • ComradeSharkfucker
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        43 hours ago

        Well we can’t just have kids walking around outside can we? The outside is for cars

  • @systemglitch
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    107 hours ago

    Just so Americans are aware, other countries have been dressing up and celebrating Halloween for our entire lives as well.

    • @nomous
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      63 hours ago

      You should tell OP that, they don’t seem to be aware.

  • @[email protected]
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    519 hours ago

    That’s crazy to me. I don’t really like holidays but Halloween is such a fun vibe. It welcomes all types and can hit for any mood.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 minutes ago

      Yeah, I for real don’t know how or why more countries aren’t celebrating Halloween. It’s like the funnest one. Like y’all rest of the world don’t wanna play dress up and party for a night?

    • I Cast FistOP
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      99 hours ago

      The decor and spooky theming is fun to me, but all the candy and trick-or-treat stuff just flies over my head.

  • @[email protected]
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    2410 hours ago

    to be fair, it’s not just America, although it’s kinda just the uk as well, it is an irish/scottish holiday originally after all

    • @bandwidthcrisis
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      65 hours ago

      But in the US it’s a major event that’s ALL of October now. It’s a whole other level. Walk into CVS or Walgreens (equivalent of Boots) and there’s a wall of Halloween merch right inside the entrance.

      Or maybe the UK is the same now? After all, it has Black Friday sales.

      • @[email protected]
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        54 hours ago

        even in my lifetime the Americanisation of halloween has been really weird, it’s obviously a lot more commercialised, but also nobody calls it guising anymore it’s honestly kinda depressing since a lot of our traditions have just been replaced with american ones

        • @bandwidthcrisis
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          Back at school in the UK, in the 70s, I read a book about traditions from around the world. It included a description of trick-or-treating as part of the “what people do in other countries” theme. We would put candles in turnips in that era.

          In the 90s I had some kids at the door in costume but who got confused and said “penny for the guy”. Or maybe it was the other way around (they had a guy but said trick or treat).

    • @[email protected]
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      27 hours ago

      The holiday came about because that’s when the potato harvest is, and they needed schoolkids to work in the fields

      Halloween has always been a thing in the UK though, it’s just more for little kids

  • @[email protected]
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    410 hours ago

    I suppose we have pumpkins, too. At least this holiday is pretty fun, even if no one actually celebrates it here (there’s little chance it gets adoption here, where I live we even have a hard time getting into carnival, even though that holiday has native tradition).

    Anyway, late August christmas sweets are way better than any Halloween-themed food or drink.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 hours ago

      I’m confused if you mean America itself or pumpkin spice lattes, because, don’t worry, we’re exporting both.

      • @undergroundoverground
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        65 hours ago

        No, they mean deathtrap Americans. I think they’re like Irish Americans or African Americans but I’m not too sure where deathtrap is.