We had a couple of groups of trick-or-treaters around last night and I dealt with them accordingly; the correct procedure may be found here
The Americans are coming. We had our first trick or treaters here too last night. I didn’t have any sweets for them, so I just said “Sorry, nothing for you” and they smiled and sighed and trudged on their way. I don’t think anyone else had any for them either. Poor kids.
But soon… soon it will be Bonfire Night! With the big fire and and the fireworks and the cosy and the mittens and the sparklers! Hurrah for Guy Faulks!
Penny for the guy miss?
And if I wanted to see assholes, I’d have become a proctologist.
Yet here you are.
Fenris
My Dad was stationed in the UK from 1980 to 1991, and I remember the British kids in the council housing right next to the American housing coming to trick or treat. There were very few in 1980, and it became more and more widespread as time went on.
You can’t blame them. My God, if someone’s handing out free candy to kids, let 'em all come.
Mind you, they got Bonfire night five days later and we didn’t. I got a personal invite much of the time, but if the Americans had started showing up en masse, it would have been bad.
And for my second mind you, I wasn’t allowed to go trick or treating anyway, my fundamentalist parents being sure that a)Halloween is Satanic and b)there are far more baby-eating Satanists in the UK than there are in America. They were worried that we’d be kidnapped, Halloween being the big night for baby-eating Satanists and all. If you call them on this, they make vague references to Stonehenge.
ahem…
‘Americanization’
Calm down everyone. I was under the impression that you weren’t supposed to post without proof. Turns out you can do that in this forum, although why I would get my shit jumped by simply offering a dissenting opinion is beyond me. Carry on with your utter acceptance of everything you read, I’m off to GD and GQ.
You got your “shit jumped” because you were being an asshole. It’s rude to call someone a liar without proof that they’re lying.
It’s perfectly correct, however, to call you an asshole though, since you’ve provided ample evidence.
Fenris
Er… shouldn’t that be arsehole?
Bloody Yanks takin’ over.
What would you like as proof King Nifty? A news article that says at least one person in one country outside of America had at least one person come up to them yesterday evening and ask for candy? A time machine so you can travel back to yesterday in Australia and view it yourself? Well, you can use your pink unicorn detector and scan all the drawers, but I’m willing to take someone’s word for it on this story.
And I’m not willing to take someone’s word for it if I think it sounds like BS. What’s the problem? So I’m an asshole for offering up a different viewpoint and commenting that it sounds like BS. Hooo-kay. Relax, I won’t be in these forums anymore. You may continue sucking each other’s dicks in complete contentment, safe in the knowledge that whatever anyone says will be treated as gospel.
King Nifty, being a skeptic is fine as others have pointed out.
I completely fail to understand how you could possibly not believe someone when they say they saw a trick or treater in Australia. That’s what you’re arguing about here. That’s what the OP was about. One person saw a someone trick or treating outside America.
I ask you again:
- How could you not believe this story?
- What proof would be sufficient for you to believe this story?
King Nifty, I’m still curious as to why you assume that kids doing halloween here in Australia would necessarily be bullshit. What got your ‘cynic’ hackles up? Why is it so unbelievable? And why on earth would we want to bullshit about something so bloody trivial?
Hey, are you one of those ‘Flat Earthers’? Do you have a ‘different viewpoint’ about other equally objective and verifiable things? Tell us more about yourself mate…you sound like you’ve got an interesting story behind your derision and sanctimony. But make sure you’ve got some way of backing it up, wontcha!!
Oh, and you think you won’t be in these forums anymore eh? I get a funny feeling in my bones that we’re gonna see a LOT more of you down here in the raging pits of barbeque-dom.
Now I’m off to eat my OWN brekkie…I think I’ve fed this cough “creature that lurks under carriageways that traverse creeks” long enough.
It seemed to me like an Australian member was hoping to create a thread that the American members would appreciate, so he came up with “look Americans! Trick-or-Treaters in Australia!” Just seemed to me like he was making it up to get attention, that’s all. <<shrug>> Had I known everyone would go ape shit, I wouldn’t have said anything. I thought you had to have proof for what you posted on this message board, turns out that’s only GQ and GD. Now that I know better than to disbelieve threads in this forum, I won’t do it anymore. If you’d all leave me the hell alone with sending me emails by using my username I won’t come back to this forum, I’ll stay in GQ And GD where you have to have proof. OK?
What a bizarre little creature it is to be sure.
A couple of points:
I’ve never known any Antipodeans on this board to be in such breathless admiration of the Americans that we’ve needed to post bullshit threads to get attention.
And here in deepest, darkest Logan, yes! We had trick or treaters out and about! Third year in a row. Next year I must remember to take pictures for your edification.
And lastly King Nifty, do bugger off to GD and GQ because I am everso certain you will fit in there just dandy. ::snort::
Absolutely. We Australians, sluts that we are, do anything to get some US attention. And the Americans are so dumb that we need to provide US content in every post. :rolleyes:
Listen sunshine, the Aussies have been a strong sub-community on this board for several years. We know the American dopers well. They know us, and nobody feels a childish need to “make an impression”.
Well, almost nobody.
Yeah, except he was complaining about it. “My country is becoming too much like America.” Yeah, that has suck-up written all over it.
There’s nothing wrong with not believeing an OP. I often see OPs that I think are exagerrations or out-right lies. Y’know what I do? I ignore them. If I were to go in and call the OP a liar, and I was wrong, I’d look like a tremendous asshole, much like yourself. And if I accused them of being a liar and I was right, y’know what would happen? Not a damn thing. In this case, being “right” about the veracity of a post has precisely zero effect on anything, and you still end up looking like an asshole.
You keep saying you want all this to go away. Well, there’s a real easy way to do that. Go back to all the threads where you called people liars and say you’re sorry. Or barring that, shut up and lurk for a few weeks and then see if everyone has forgotten about this. But as long as you keep offering up justifications instead of apologies, people are going to continue to take you to task for your insufferable attitude.
You don’t know much about Aussies do you Potsy? The last thing most of us want to do is ‘impress those Merkins’ and if we DO want to show-off, we tell 'em about our wonderful wildlife. THAT’S what grabs their attention. Especially those drop bears, but I s’pose you’re going to tell me that THEY are bullshit to eh?
Maybe if you had lurked a little longer before posting such bilious dreck, you might have realized that there are plenty of Aussies on this board who could verify the OP’s ‘claims’. And in the process, you may have enlightened YOUR ignorance about the rest of the world.
Just for the record, that’s not true. There’s a higher standard of proof, but if the OP had started a GD thread about “Americanization: good or bad?” and started it off with the same anecdote, no-one would have questioned it. No-one, that is, except you, Bosco.
If you don’t believe me and if you want to test it, I humbly request that you go to GD, find a thread that has a post by Collunsbury in it and do the same sort of “I think you’re full of shit” post that you did here and in other threads.
On the other hand…don’t. We don’t need a flame-war in GD and “Let’s you and him fight” posts are not allowed.
In any case, if you go back to the ATMB thread, AudreyK said she had misphrased that statement you keep quoting.
Read for context, young Padwan. Read for context.
Fenris
You want a cite? I’ll give you a cite. Aussie fundies comment on Halloween activities in Australia. Bite me ya knob.