Why Halloween is depressing
POSTED BY: MAL4PREZ
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 06:32
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
It was never celebrated here, as far as I can remember, until about 10 years ago, when kids started trick or treating.
All Hallowed's Eve has never been particularly acknowledged, although as Catholic we had to go to church the next day as it was/is All Saints Day.
Oh come on. American culture is awful and the fact that it's so pervasive is disturbing, but trick or treating is legitimately fun. Sure, it's a bit of a pain for the adults, but people I've talked to in England said that they HATED it right up until they saw how happy it made their kids.
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I will note that the first section of the movie includes a whole lot of upskirt shots of this leggy little girl. Totally creeps me out. Am I just too sensitive?
Seconded "Japan is different" maybe with a "JAPAN!!!" *shake fist* or "Japan is really fucking weird."
There's a vending machine somewhere in Japan that sells panties. You don't even want to know.
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On the teacher theme, how about Professor McGonagall or Madame Hooch from Harry Potter?
"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."
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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:Quote:
I will note that the first section of the movie includes a whole lot of upskirt shots of this leggy little girl. Totally creeps me out. Am I just too sensitive?
Seconded "Japan is different" maybe with a "JAPAN!!!" *shake fist* or "Japan is really fucking weird."
There's a vending machine somewhere in Japan that sells panties. You don't even want to know.
Yeah, this is what I'm talking about:
Why oh why? Makes the day for dirty old men, I guess. *shakes head*
Thankfully, the movie seems to start taking her seriously a half hour or so in and this kind of thing stops.
McGonagall is awesome. Many ideas here for next year! I'm going for Marge though. Gonna stop by the costume store on the way home for a wig. I like wigs.
OK, I just had an idea: Pat Benatar, like from the Love is a Battlefield video. I love her. But none of my students would have any idea LOL!
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The French Revolution would have never happened if Marie Antoinette had just given every peasant an iPhone.
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There's always a witch, you know. "Crassic", as Rap would say.
I find Halloween depressing for several reasons. First, because the crap for it starts coming out (like everything else) way too soon, and it's all commercial bullshit. Second, because we don't have kids and don't want to spend money on crap sugar, so we turn off the lights, close the curtains and watch TV quietly until they pass.
Like most things, Halloween is for families with kids, and retailers, period. I used to dress up at work, and we used to put up a display in our front yard and I'd dress as a witch, sit totally still out front and scare kids (and sometimes their parents!) when I moved, then give them their "bakshish". Lost interest years ago.
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I never even noted it Mal4, she's wearing a tunic over pants so that never registered with me as what they call fanservice, usually the visual focus is elsewhere, sooo...
The reason both Nausicaa and Yuna rate so high with me is that they never give in to hate, they have their tempermental moments, being only human, but generally hold to a standard of compassion and tolerance which is laudable even in adversity - and they both have huge reserves of courage that isn't necessarily based in violence, Nausicaas headfirst rush on the gunpod is prolly hands-down THE gutsiest thing I've seen in anime, and she did so to rescue a critter generally hostile to her people simply because it was suffering.
Yuna chose to defy prettymuch EVERYONE to break a stupid cycle and prevent a needless sacrifice for a mere year of peace, then went for all the marbles and tried to make that peace as permanent as such a thing ever is.
Oh, and this'll interest you, no doubt - they're workin on actually BUILDING a functional Mowe-02J jetglider, still haven't got all the kinks out though.
I seriously want one of these.
-Frem
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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
Yeah, this is what I'm talking about:
Pants creep you out...?
Note the difference in *color* between the head and the area you seem upset by...
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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Originally posted by Storymark:Quote:
Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
Yeah, this is what I'm talking about:
Pants creep you out...?
Note the difference in *color* between the head and the area you seem upset by...
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
If that's the case, then I take my creeped-ness. About this movie anyway. :)
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The French Revolution would have never happened if Marie Antoinette had just given every peasant an iPhone.
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Granted, there is some freaky shit out there when it comes to anime....
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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Originally posted by Storymark:
Granted, there is some freaky shit out there when it comes to anime....
Which doesn't even necessarily have to be perverse, you'd have to go pretty far out there to beat FLCL or Paprika for sheer WTF?! factor.
-F
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