Happy Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Have a safe and happy holiday! If you see me scream.

You know what we should all do.. is make a Halloween map.. Not some lame one, but something really fun and scary.

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...it's a bit late for that. Docrock has made a scaryish Halloween map though (I don't know if it was meant to be for Halloween)
<I>But hey, if you want something scary:
http://netmonkey.cellosoft.com/5days/
It's a horror point-and-click game made with AGS. It isn't that bad though for an amateur, and it does have some reasonably scary bits.

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I hate Halloween! Argr!! Stupid little brats everywhere wanting candy or they will crap in your mailbox!! Grrr

Haloween is the best holliday of the year!

I bulit my own coffin with which to scare trick or treaters when I was 16

Kapten Ljusdal said:
I hate Halloween! Argr!! Stupid little brats everywhere wanting candy or they will crap in your mailbox!! Grrr

this mental image is so scary, i get shivers thinking about the contortions necessary to achieve this feat.. :eek:

Heh, I just have a pair of pants sticking out of the bushes that's stuffed with leaves, and then I put a sign over it that says "This is the trick or treater who came to my door!"

Ah well, I like candy. :biggrin: And parties with drunk girls. :biggrin:

Orpheus said:

Kapten Ljusdal said:
I hate Halloween! Argr!! Stupid little brats everywhere wanting candy or they will crap in your mailbox!! Grrr

this mental image is so scary, i get shivers thinking about the contortions necessary to achieve this feat.. :eek:

Haha, indeed, but this time ill be ready with my paintball gun :ar15firing:

I don't like halloween that much I preffer Bonfirenight but then that's only a British thing.

But I did here of a thing that I mught try next year called trick or drinking go round houses trying to get a beer that sounds more fun to me

Yeah Sim I know, thats why I said not some lame one.. If thats the same map I saw b4.

I love Halloween.. I get to dress up and scare kids, and people, and steal my kids candy.. I also Play Santa come Christmas. ( Yes Im a big fat white man. )

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when I was in a flat I used an intercomm to scare the s**t out of people who came trick or treating. Where I am now, We dont get bothered thankfully.

The Brits do it now?!

BTW, three minutes left of it, Happy Haloween!

The high light of theis halloween was that my brother and his mate riged up a pully so we could hang a dummy from it and then let it go when they came to the door so we sat up on the roof doing that all night and listing in on peoples conversations with the walkie talkies.

gimpinthesink said:
I don't like halloween that much I preffer Bonfirenight but then that's only a British thing.

But I did here of a thing that I mught try next year called trick or drinking go round houses trying to get a beer that sounds more fun to me

It may not only be the Brits. So what exactly is Bonfirenight?

Bonfire night is on November 5th, and is where we make a big burning fire, usually in a field. And fireworks are let off everywhere (which is a bloody nuisance because we get fireworks going off in February). The idea is that it is to celebrate Guido Fawkes' (or Guy Fawkes for short) foiled attempt to blow up the Houses of Pariliament, thus killing king James I (I think it was him). There were about 6 of them (I think), and they put loads of gunpowder under where the king was. They got caught and were all hung, drawn and quartered (hung until you nearly die, then dragged around by a horse, and then the limbs get cut off and you die).

Cassius said:
The Brits do it now?!

uhm, where do you think the americans got it from?

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fishy said:

Cassius said:
The Brits do it now?!

uhm, where do you think the americans got it from?

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people, worldwide being in the majority of a superstitious lot, i would think that "all hallows eve" would be pretty wide spread.

i really don't know the origins, but i also doubt its important to anyone except the really self possessed types anyways.. if its important to anyone here to think that halloween originated in the UK.. then i can live with that..

I don't know where it started, but it seems that in America it is celebrated more than here.
Oh yeah, and Bonfire Night also involves people doing 'penny for the Guy' outside in the street, starting about October the 20th. The idea is that kids try and make something resembling Guy Fawkes with clothes and stuff so people would give them money for doing a good job. But now kids just sit outside next to an Adidas sweater and trousers (the Guy).
No, it's not <I>that<I> bad all the time.

Sim said:
Bonfire night is on November 5th, and is where we make a big burning fire, usually in a field. And fireworks are let off everywhere (which is a bloody nuisance because we get fireworks going off in February). The idea is that it is to celebrate Guido Fawkes' (or Guy Fawkes for short) foiled attempt to blow up the Houses of Pariliament, thus killing king James I (I think it was him). There were about 6 of them (I think), and they put loads of gunpowder under where the king was. They got caught and were all hung, drawn and quartered (hung until you nearly die, then dragged around by a horse, and then the limbs get cut off and you die).

Aah, I remember that from history class :smile:

Orpheus said:
i really don't know the origins, but i also doubt its important to anyone except the really self possessed types anyways

for the really self possessed types (whatever that means), go here and scroll down to part3

I believe quartering does not refer to having one's limbs cut off. Rather, it involves the sign of the cross being cut deeply upon your abdomen. Basically it's more like disembowelling/eviscerating. A very, very nasty way to die.

yeah, you are pulled by horses sidewards apart afaik & then hung & have a cross on your stomache so that your guts spill out for all to see.

Aye, a tiny bit more to it as well. i.e. they burn your insides in front of you...

http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hdq.html

Also, the final hanging, drawing and quartering took place in Derby! The Pentrich martyrs were sentenced with the evil punishment... I saw a re-enactment of their trial and execution at the old courthouse, most entertaining it was :smile:

tell ya what guys, no more crying about my fixation on things, this topic went into morbid rather rapidly :smile:

from now on <I>"poop,rotten.com, and touching"<I> are all cool :dodgy:

BLOODY AMERICANS!!!!!!!!

Just another useless important.

I take it hanging, drawing and quartering (HDQ henceforth) has been banned now because of human rights? Does anyone know when?

I love it when people declare abbreviations and then never use them (henceforth, ILIWPDAATNUT) :biggrin: But yes, I think HDQ has been banned in most (perhaps all) nations now.

Gollum said:
I love it when people declare abbreviations and then never use them (henceforth, ILIWPDAATNUT) :biggrin: But yes, I think HDQ has been banned in most (perhaps all) nations now.

i think its universally banned everywhere, BUT if you need a bit of excitement, you can still find a bit of cannibalism now and then :biggrin:

HAPPY DAY OF THE DEAD!

Yepp thats right today and tomorrow are the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations.

I live in El Paso TX, right on the boarder or Mexico, and we get to celebrate Halloween, and Day of the dead here.. Day of the Dead is alot more fun though.. the Parade and the food.. Not to mention the parties and drinks they make for this holiday.

Its not morbid as people may think.. its kinda neat.. people gather near the graves of thier family, and have a picnic, and tell stories of thier family that has past. Its a neat way to connect to family that has past on.

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More info on day of the dead..

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/muertos.html

Looks like everyone had a great time. Lucky you :smile:

In Ireland, witchcraft is actually classed as a religion. Strange. :smile:

Crap, double post. Where's the delete option gone?

Alien_Sniper said:
In Ireland, witchcraft is actually classed as a religion. Strange. :smile:

not really, both have pagan origins, i would be more apt to believe in witchcraft, far sooner tho..

More apt to believe in witchcraft over what? Ireland? I'm more inclined to believe in Ireland, personally.

Witch Craft is a Religion in the US of A as well.

Did I mention im an Ordain Minister? No really I am. heh

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Cash Car Star said:
More apt to believe in witchcraft over what? Ireland? I'm more inclined to believe in Ireland, personally.

shakes head sadly

you have your ups, and your downs cash, this is one of the latter :wink:

MoneyShot said:
Did I mention im an Ordain Minister? No really I am. heh

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they'll let anyone is won't they :heee:

I have friends that agree with you Orph, they don't believe in Ireland either.

Alien_Sniper said:
In Ireland, witchcraft is actually classed as a religion. Strange. :smile:

for some odd reason i couldn't quote you, but this should be enuff..

he was comparing witchcraft <I>TO<I> religion, not his home :razz:

But if witchcraft is a religion, then you can't believe in witchcraft more than you believe in religion. That's like saying I gave more candy to Little Jimmy last night than I gave to boys - provided little Jimmy is a boy. I know more about the brontosaurus than I know about dinosaurs. I've seen more Quality Inns than I've seen roadside motels.

Fishy we got it from Ireland.. check that link on the origins.. Not from U rotting teeth red coats. =)

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Cash Car Star said:
But if witchcraft is a religion, then you can't believe in witchcraft more than you believe in religion. That's like saying I gave more candy to Little Jimmy last night than I gave to boys - provided little Jimmy is a boy.

you know, you remind me of a guy here in arkansas, he has the most unusual way of posing an argument/discussion i have ever seen..

once he got mad, and was trying to convince me that everyone is discriminatory, his example was, the lane i was driving in at the time, was chosen because i discriminated against the other one :/

your statement is along that line too, its just as esoteric :biggrin:

the fact that both are considered religions, does not mean they are, but i was basically pointing out that if they are so, both have pagan origins.. also someone can believe in one religion, but discount another, this world is full of them to decide upon :smile:

Orpheus said:
the fact that both are considered religions, does not mean they are, but i was basically pointing out that if they are so, both have pagan origins.. also someone can believe in one religion, but discount another, this world is full of them to decide upon :smile:

Ok, once again an ambiguous "both." Almost all of my stupid comments of this sort come from people using ambiguous pronouns without saying what they mean by them. I can take this both to mean:

• Witchcraft v. Ireland (which isn't a religion)
• Witchcraft v. Religion (which is retarded to call a religion, because religion is a category)
• Witchcraft v. Religion but you mistakenly used the word religion to mean "Christianity," which is a specific type of religion.

I'm willing to bet the third is the correct one, cause the first two are just stupid and I doubt you'd have tried to argue either.

^^points up^^

did i mention esoteric :biggrin:

i follow you cash, my bad for being unclear, but i am also known for that failure.

I heard they only just discovered television in Ireland.

Haha. :razz:

MoneyShot said:
Fishy we got it from Ireland.. check that link on the origins.. Not from U rotting teeth red coats. =)

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Actually if I remember right it probably came from Scotland cos when the English invaded Scotland a lot of the Celts fled to Ireland and then a few centuries later we invaded there aswell.

Well, if you're gonna put it that way, all those people in Scotland and Ireland were hanging around in France for some time until the imperialistic romans drove em out in like 50 BC

Gwil said:
I heard they only just discovered television in Ireland.

Haha. :razz:

nah, one bnloke has only just soba'd up & noticed he had one :razz:

/me awaits smug english joke.

No need, we already know U english are a joke.

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Cash Car Star said:
Well, if you're gonna put it that way, all those people in Scotland and Ireland were hanging around in France for some time until the imperialistic romans drove em out in like 50 BC

No the french didnt invade England untill 1066AD be for that it was the Algos (germans) Vikings and romans but the romans didnt get to scotland because they thourght it was untamabe (or something like that) and Hadrian built a wall along the border which is nown as Hadrian's wall and they invaded at around 500BC.

But if you want to get really technical we all came from Africa

I said France not the French. The Francs as a tribe weren't in France during Roman times, they were in some region of what is now Germany I think. What you had were the Gauls some of whom sort of evolved into Celts coming from the south, as well as the Viking influence up north. The Anglo-Saxons came from somewhere around Germany during the fall of the Roman Empire and kinda pushed the Celts around.

european border controls were just as s**t then as they are now.