Please refer to the slutty Halloween costume thread before pronouncing the holiday dead.

Won't somebody please think of the sluts?

Fail for Subby. He didn't link to the entire article.

I was told there wouldn't be math.

Harry_Seldon: I was told there wouldn't be math.

I was told there would be no candy corn, but there is always candy corn.

video man: So says you, subbster. Adult Halloween kicks the shiat out of kid Halloween.

"Adults ruined Halloween FOR KIDS . Here comes the math and science to prove it"

gadian: Please let your kids at least walk up a driveway by themselves. :(

AND KEEP YOUR GODDAMN DOG OFF MY LAWN!

HappyLittleTree: Harry_Seldon: I was told there wouldn't be math.

I was told there would be no candy corn, but there is always candy corn.

Personally, I love popcorn balls.

Clete Orris: video man: So says you, subbster. Adult Halloween kicks the shiat out of kid Halloween.

"Adults ruined Halloween FOR KIDS . Here comes the math and science to prove it"

Well seriously, who cares about the kids. They need to go get jobs, and walk to school in the snow.

Dwight256: Please refer to the slutty Halloween costume thread before pronouncing the holiday dead.

Very much THIS. And leave it to Americans to turn every major holiday into an excuse to get drunk off your ass.

Haven't ruined Thanksgiving. Yet.

rebelyell2006: Fail for Subby. He didn't link to the entire article.

I've noticed this before with Salon articles. Not sure why. It isn't hard to submit the article link of http://www.salon.com/2011/10/31/halloween_scrouge_gilttaste/singleton/ instead of what subby chose http://www.salon.com/2011/10/31/halloween_scrouge_gilttaste/

That being said, part of this is on Salon's shoulders. What kind of moronic site decides that the second URL with prototypical internet URL formatting shouldn't link to the full article? Bleh.

Harry_Seldon: HappyLittleTree: Harry_Seldon: I was told there wouldn't be math.

I was told there would be no candy corn, but there is always candy corn.

Personally, I love popcorn balls.


I like mine washed with a warm wet rag.

/to each his own

gunther_bumpass: Harry_Seldon: HappyLittleTree: Harry_Seldon: I was told there wouldn't be math.

I was told there would be no candy corn, but there is always candy corn.

Personally, I love popcorn balls.


I like mine washed with a warm wet rag.

/to each his own

*snert*

im glad i was able to roam freely on Halloween as a kid. i would have hated having mom n dad take me everywhere.

there is a plus side though of the current trend...scoping out hot moms ^.^

Stargazr10: im glad i was able to roam freely on Halloween as a kid. i would have hated having mom n dad take me everywhere.

there is a plus side though of the current trend...scoping out hot moms ^.^

When I was a kid, we also roamed freely, and scoped out the hot moms who were giving out the goodies.

gunther_bumpass: Harry_Seldon: HappyLittleTree: Harry_Seldon: I was told there wouldn't be math.

I was told there would be no candy corn, but there is always candy corn.

Personally, I love popcorn balls.


I like mine washed with a warm wet rag.

/to each his own

That's gross...washing candy corn with a wet rag...ew!

Clete Orris: gadian: Please let your kids at least walk up a driveway by themselves. :(

AND KEEP YOUR GODDAMN DOG OFF MY LAWN!

Agreed, driveway should be enough distance that I should be able to snatch the little ones before the parent can intervene. Adults need Halloween treats too.

Clete Orris: "Adults Media fearmongering about urban legends ruined Halloween FOR KIDS ."

FTFY.

TeachingRoland: I dressed up as Dirty Sanchez today.
I was subbing at an Elementary school..

Helicopter parents screwed it up around here. I remember seeing hundreds of kids in my neighborhood out getting their free candy when I was a kid. Tonight, we had three kids - and their parents were following in the car. Farking lame.

I walked up-hill both ways in the snow to get my candy, damn it. And I always ended up with enough to last until Christmas.

Hey, John Wayne Gacy has to get his trick or treating in too.

FirstNationalBastard: Meh. Dumbass parents always ruin the cool shiat they had or wanted when they were kids for their own kids.

It's like when you spit out a crotchgoblin, you forget what it was like to actually be a kid.

You and I have vastly different definitions. I prefer "crotchfruit" for offspring. For obvious innuendo reasons.

I never see Trick or Treaters here, but I was just surprised by a horde of about a dozen really cute kids on our doorstep.
Thank god my roomie has a pretty big candy stash. Otherwise I would have had to hand out old computer parts and packs or ramen.

TeachingRoland: We only had 42 trick or treaters this year.

Living in a town of about 7000-8000, that's a fail for Halloween.

Ten years ago there was 200+

People must not have liked my razor filled Kitkat bars

Bah. In my city, Sterling Heights, with a population of 129,699 (2010 Census), we had a grand total of 6 trick-or-treaters this year. And it's not like I live on 8 Mile or something; I live in a nice part of town, within walking distance of city hall, a court house, police HQ, three elementary schools, a high school, and the city library.

Parents these days are just farking paranoid is all.

/More candy for me.
//Why yes, I do sound fat.
///Om nom nom.

So you want your property plastered with eggs and toilet paper and you want to be shot by BBs by random teens?

I prefer the cute costume and candy version of the holiday we have, thanks.

awfulperson: So, all the fundie asswipes have ruined yet another fun thing for everyone. I hope that, when they arrive in heaven, the only candy they serve is that generic peanut butter taffy candy in the orange and black wrappers.

Nope, not the fundies...they're totally cool with witchcraft and goblins and such. It's them godless farking atheists and their mutherfarking War on Halloween^TM that ruined it!

Halloween in our neighborhood is so much cooler than the semi-rural area I grew up in. Most everyone gets in the spirit around here in some form. I wish I was my kids' ages this year. My 6 yr old ran through so many yards and my 3 yr old kept tripping over her costume in the gusto of following big sis. Back at the homestead, Mr. C ran out of candy an hour in. And a lot of the parents dress up right along with the kids when they walk around the neighborhood.

/Certified Candy Quality Control Inspector
//the reeses pumpkins pass muster

Pretty much everything has been sanitized for the sake of kid's safety these days. It is sad. Kids aren't allowed to do much of anything anymore.

You can't make anything 100% safe... But the parents try. I'd hate to grow up now.

Here comes the science.

I like when kids don't come to my house. I get to keep the candy.

TeachingRoland: We only had 42 trick or treaters this year.

Living in a town of about 7000-8000, that's a fail for Halloween.

Ten years ago there was 200+

People must not have liked my razor filled Kitkat bars

I have seen the same thing happen in a few neighborhoods, but it's due more to the kids in the area growing up rather than fear of razor filled kitkat bars. Just five or six years ago in my mothers neighborhood, there would be tons of kids trick-or-treating, but they've grown up, the parents still live in the area,which leaves little room for new families to move in.

Do you know what else ruined Halloween? Day Light Saving time, or back to Standard time, or whatever the fark it is we are switching to next week.

It used to be it would start getting dark around 6pm. Now with DST still active, it does not really dark until well after 7. So the city set 'official' TorT time of 6 to 8, with only the last 30 minutes being really dark. Farking suck.

Thanks Congress, you worthless farkers, for screwing with time changes for no damned good reason.

The local "historic town" near where I live ended up having basically an early "Trick or Treat" thing near the weekly farmer's market...then again, said town is rather well known for festivals, including a week of basically a town fair celebrating its artificial gaslights (go figure).

Other than that, I think the local families (not that there's that many kids where I live--most folks either are young families without kids yet, or are geezers whose kids have long since moved out and had kids) are now either doing stuff like that (the "trick or treat" stuff done by civic organisations and malls and such) or that "trunk or treat" thing where kids go from car to car in a church parking lot getting candy :P

(To which I think: "I'm rather surprised someone hasn't come up with the most inappropriate Trunk or Treat vehicle yet...an old red Ford Econoline van with "FREE CANDY" spray-painted on it, with the driver in a Pedobear fursuit." It would either get someone saluted or arrested or both. :D)

Still, it's rather sad kids don't go door-to-door anymore on Halloween (even where I live where families still go out and do Family Stuff on Friday nights)...

It must suck to live in such a place. Chicago near west burbs, trick or treat til 7 'legally' but the big kids keep coming for an hour later at least. Parents that did come (with the younger than 6 crowd), were dressed up and jolly. Ran out of 5 lbs of candy in about an hour and a half.

Just went for a 6 pack, saw 3 houses TP'd and hooligans still out running amok. Couple of the neighbors make a scary maze you have to go through to get to the front door. People laying in yards acting like props, only to jump up and scare the little ones.

Seems just like I remember it

Old enough to know better: Dwight256: Please refer to the slutty Halloween costume thread before pronouncing the holiday dead.

Very much THIS. And leave it to Americans to turn every major holiday into an excuse to get drunk off your ass.

Haven't ruined Thanksgiving. Yet.

Wait, you think Americans need excuses to get drunk off their asses?

Benni K Rok: Old enough to know better: Dwight256: Please refer to the slutty Halloween costume thread before pronouncing the holiday dead.

Very much THIS. And leave it to Americans to turn every major holiday into an excuse to get drunk off your ass.

Haven't ruined Thanksgiving. Yet.

Wait, you think Americans need excuses to get drunk off their asses?

I know right, it's Monday Night Football anyways.

I hand out condoms - who knows whqt the 6 - 10 year old are doing. or the occasional MILF. fap

Last year about 200 trick or treaters, this year 20, and the wife bought candy for about 500.

/WIN

wingnut396: Do you know what else ruined Halloween? Day Light Saving time, or back to Standard time, or whatever the fark it is we are switching to next week.

It used to be it would start getting dark around 6pm. Now with DST still active, it does not really dark until well after 7. So the city set 'official' TorT time of 6 to 8, with only the last 30 minutes being really dark. Farking suck.

Thanks Congress, you worthless farkers, for screwing with time changes for no damned good reason.

I don't know about you, but in MY household growing up, and everyone else's, trick or treating hour ended when you ran out of candy to give away. The ONLY reason for turning off your lights and hiding the jackolanterns was as a signal to kids that "sorry, we're out". My dad would make trips to the grocery store if it looked like we were going to run out. And when I was still at the trick or treating age, the only rule of how late we could go be out was "we're heading back when your bag of candy weighs heavily enough that you can't lift it anymore". This rule was put in place after the first rule of "we're heading back when you start eating the candy". Hahaha...I had two and a half pillow cases full, at least 30lbs of candy.

//my mom later admitted to throwing out HALF of it, and yet we still had candy in our lunches and after school for about 4 months.

Took my kids out tonight, (shut up, 2 year old cant go alone, the 10 year old of course could do whatever he wanted as long as he doesnt get hit by a car...). Anyway, yes, i was actually very suprised by the amount of kids out. On one of the streets we went down i actually had to pass people in the street, because there was no room to walk around the sidewalk or even the grass between the sidewalk and street.

Very pleasantly suprised. Its usually not a ghost-town here (suburban detroit), but it was definitely more active than in the last several years. Good times! Now to drink and rest my farking feet.

We were discussing it earlier in my house, that halloween is dead. We took the kids out for maybe 4 or 5 blocks and hit like every house, and everyone commented on how few kids they got and loaded up my kids with a ton of candy. It was like everyone is afraid of the dark, even as we drove through town to get home from the grandparents house, we saw no kids, no adults, not even random teens wandering around. My in-laws had 8 trick or treaters total, all night. It's like people forgot how to let kids have fun.