Halloween - bah humbug

[u4ea]

Not if you don't know how to spell the dude's name, you weren't.

'Fawkes' is not a plural.

If your mum's still around, give her a call sometime and point out that having a baby born cognitively impaired is no excuse for subsequently dropping it on its head.

whatever.........................

[jrandom]

whatever.........................

Did you type that post with the little head-wiggle and talk-to-the-hand gesture, and the second and third syllables accentuated and elongated?

You gotta do the moves. Please tell me you did the moves.

[mstriumph]

Not if you don't know how to spell the dude's name, you weren't.

'Fawkes' is not a plural.

If your mum's still around, give her a call sometime and point out that having a baby born cognitively impaired is no excuse for subsequently dropping it on its head.

a tad tetchy, methinks?

must be the weather

[u4ea]

ffs..fish...get over yourself!!!!!!!!

[jrandom]

must be the weather

Mmm, no. I'm just a horrid person, really.

[jrandom]

ffs..fish...get over yourself!!!!!!!!

Don't want to play?

OK, OK. Nothing to see here, move along...

[Pillick]

I would have blung you if you'd had the wit to just use this line on its own.

I know, I was so proud of that one. I even swelled a little.

[mstriumph]

Mmm, no. I'm just a horrid person, really.

come come now

over-precise... mebbe, confrontational... perhaps, downright scratchy on occassion... definately

but horrid?? ....i find that very hard to believe

[jrandom]

horrid?? ....i find that very hard to believe

u4ea doesn't like me, and that's screwing with my self-image.

I just... I just want to be loved.

[mstriumph]

buy a puppy mebbe??

[jrandom]

buy a puppy mebbe??

Awww.

Will you be my puppy?

[Pillick]

bling me that bling you almost blunged and I will. I'm all about the bling.

[Virago]

There was a time when I used to view the current Halloween culture as yet more creeping Americanism. But then I had kids..........

At the end of the day, it's a community thing. What's wrong with one day a year when the kids in the community can dress up in fancy dress, and parade around the neighbourhood, with perhaps the occasional reward of a lolly or two? Where's the harm in it?

With today's "Fuck you" culture, the majority of residents have no interest in their local community, and hate being forced to participate in community contact.

Jeez, these are the neighbour's kids. It's not going to kill you to be nice to them.

Forget the arguments about pagan rituals. It's just a bit of harmless fun for the kids.

Just as relevent in NZ as Guy Fawkes - and a damn site less harmful.

(But then again fireworks fit in more with the "fuck you" community culture.....)

[James Deuce]

Local community is a load of crap. Try participating in a local "community" with a kid who's not quite right.

Local "community" is a brilliant way for people to band together and display their contempt for anything out of the norm.

[Virago]

Local community is a load of crap. Try participating in a local "community" with a kid who's not quite right.

Local "community" is a brilliant way for people to band together and display their contempt for anything out of the norm.

A sad outlook on life Jim, but perhaps a sign of the times.

There's always been a kid around who's "not quite right". But a seige mentality is not the answer.

We had to go out last night before the trick-or-treating got well underway. But we enjoyed immensely the early birds who came to our door.

A couple of years ago I rigged a "special" doorbell for them. A 120 decibel siren. The kids loved it.

If somehow I'm "banding together and displaying contempt", then my apologies to those affected.