Bree Giffen Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 This may be too early to talk about this but I'd like to nip it in the bud. I don't think Halloween sales or activities should start at the beginning of October. Last year, by the time Halloween rolled around on the 31st I was burnt out and absolutely didn't care. Maybe a single week would suffice. Thank you, Halloween Intelligentsia 💀🦇👾 1 4 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rat Luv Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 4 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said: This may be too early to talk about this but I'd like to nip it in the bud. I don't think Halloween sales or activities should start at the beginning of October. Last year, by the time Halloween rolled around on the 31st I was burnt out and absolutely didn't care. Maybe a single week would suffice. Thank you, Halloween Intelligentsia 💀🦇👾 I think Halloween should all be year long 😍🦇🧛♀️ 10 12 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quistess Alpha Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 1 minute ago, Rat Luv said: I think Halloween should all be year long 😍🦇🧛♀️ 🧛♀️I couldn't tell what that last one was so I made it bigger. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Bree Giffen said: This may be too early to talk about this but I'd like to nip it in the bud. I don't think Halloween sales or activities should start at the beginning of October. Last year, by the time Halloween rolled around on the 31st I was burnt out and absolutely didn't care. Maybe a single week would suffice. Thank you, Halloween Intelligentsia 💀🦇👾 I'm voting with you on this one, Bree. I have a friend in RL who lives Halloween so much, her Christmas decorations are festooned with cobwebs and her tree decorated with plastic spiders. Lovely woman, but . . . no. Just, no. 2 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriele Graves Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 I'm also good with this plan. We could cancel it completely for my money. 2 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) * Quickly rushes to hide her bag of pumpkin seeds behind her back* Oh Geeze, I forgot we were so CLOSE! Edited August 20, 2022 by Ceka Cianci 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garnet Psaltery Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 I have zero interest in Hallowe'en so I might take most of the month off, or hide in a corner 'til the snows fall. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madelaine McMasters Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 I'm quite looking forward to my local gas station advertising pumpkin spice gasoline again. 3 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 9 minutes ago, Garnet Psaltery said: I have zero interest in Hallowe'en so I might take most of the month off, or hide in a corner 'til the snows fall. If people can have 3-month Halloween, then we can also have months-long birthdays, Christmas, RezDays, anything! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Ahren Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 2 hours ago, Bree Giffen said: Maybe a single week would suffice A single day for Halloween is sufficient. Now that's settled, let's talk about Christmas. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Just now, Madelaine McMasters said: I'm quite looking forward to my local gas station advertising pumpkin spice gasoline again. Googling "why does gasoline smell so good" gets surprising results! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hexem Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 I'm actually looking forward to it this year, I'm all for it lasting all month. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee Pancake Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Halloween starts mid August and hits the broader consciousness just as soon as the cursed "back to school" season ends. I'm happy with it staying for good, at least it can in SL. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conifer Dada Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 I hope LL are stricter on the more gruesome aspects of Halloween this year. I've been to clubs with long lists of rules like 'no nudity, no bad language, no this, that or the other' only to be faced with rotting corpses hanging from the ceiling. Not nice at all. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orwar Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 7 minutes ago, Conifer Dada said: I hope LL are stricter on the more gruesome aspects of Halloween this year. I've been to clubs with long lists of rules like 'no nudity, no bad language, no this, that or the other' only to be faced with rotting corpses hanging from the ceiling. Not nice at all. That's not really LL's concern though, as all people are entitled to decorate their own land however they wish - I find it unlikely that they'll bother with temporary decor on the basis of it 'depicting death' in a non-adult venue. Heck, there's no shortage of M-rated places that are full of prim corpses all days of the year. 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee Pancake Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 18 minutes ago, Conifer Dada said: I hope LL are stricter on the more gruesome aspects of Halloween this year. I've been to clubs with long lists of rules like 'no nudity, no bad language, no this, that or the other' only to be faced with rotting corpses hanging from the ceiling. Not nice at all. Halloween being ostensibly a children's holiday and culturally far bigger in the US than the UK, I very much doubt LL will be taking anyone's decorations down. Severed "zombie" limbs with blood and bones to stake out on your lawn is a grocery store basic. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahKB7 Koskinen Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) Hallowe'en is traditionally a non-event here in England, because our population is overwhelmingly atheist or agnostic. But how Hallowe'en is "celebrated" elsewhere in the world is weird. Imagine if you celebrated Christmas Eve, but then completely forgot or ignored the significance of the day after Christmas Eve, the 25th December! Let me explain.... The name Hallowe'en is an old contraction of All Hallows' Evening. Hallow means "Holy one" (implying someone who is/was Saintly) and the e'en of Hallowe'en is from the Old English contraction of the word "evening" in its context of meaning "the day before". Hallowe'en (All Hallows' Evening) is just the day before All Hallows' Day, which is the 1st of November. The 1st of November is an actual Christian day of solemn celebration of all Saints of the Christian religion and is known as All Saints Day, All Hallows' Day or Hallowmas. The whole ghosts, ghouls, witches, costumes and pumpkins thing really has nothing to do with the true Hallowe'en either. That all originates from the Christian and corporate America reinvention and rebranding of the ancient Celtic-Pagan festival of Samhain, as both a way to persuade non-Christians into their churches, and for businesses to make money out of a completely ficticious and remanufactured "holiday" event. Edited August 20, 2022 by SarahKB7 Koskinen 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardus Raymaker Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Let's make it 25 days long. Everybody happy. People have enough time todo halloween in secondlife a it's nit a month ling for you. 😉 Halloween need to be longer in secondlife to do events and things that only can be done once a week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rat Luv Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 7 minutes ago, SarahKB7 Koskinen said: Hallowe'en is traditionally a complete non-event here in England, because our population is overwhelmingly atheist or agnostic. Just my opinion...but I find it weird when people say Halloween isn't celebrated in the UK (not just by you...a few people have said it on here) Maybe it's not as big here as in America, but I can't remember a Halloween where you didn't see bars and shops putting out pumpkin heads and skulls, or people taking their kids trick or treating. I live in a mostly Jewish area, but there are always houses putting 'zombie' crime scene tape around their front doors. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahKB7 Koskinen Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) I deliberately said England, not the UK - which includes Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland too. Edited August 20, 2022 by SarahKB7 Koskinen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordyn McGregor Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Personally I say let's not have one at all. It's not a "thing" here. But I know that's about as realistic as Kim Kardashian's butt! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee Pancake Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 1 minute ago, SarahKB7 Koskinen said: Hallowe'en is traditionally a complete non-event in England, because our population is overwhelmingly agnostic or atheist. I think capitalism has well and truly expunged any religious connections to Halloween. There has been a deliberate effort to export American Halloween to the UK and it's been broadly successful, it's still not the huge deal it is in the US but that's mainly a generational thing, give it another decade and even in England it will be completely indistinguishable (then you will be ready to import Jesus Ween too!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee Pancake Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 10 minutes ago, Rat Luv said: Maybe it's not as big here as in America, but I can't remember a Halloween where you didn't see bars and shops putting out pumpkin heads and skulls, or people taking their kids trick or treating. I live in a mostly Jewish area, but there are always houses putting 'zombie' crime scene tape around their front doors. There is more sulking and sneering about it from older generations looking down their noses at yet another "fun" American import. For kids, shops, schools .. it's getting close to the US norm. Retail goes just as mad as the US and pumpkins are everywhere .. and no one is eating them 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahKB7 Koskinen Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) Well, Hallowe'en is still not a thing here in the South-East region of England. Bonfire Night (5th November) is HUGELY more anticipated and widely celebrated, especially in Hampshire, Sussex and Kent. Edited August 20, 2022 by SarahKB7 Koskinen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rat Luv Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 I think one big cultural difference is we keep it focused on ghouls and spooky stuff, and not dressing as celebrities or certain occupations, which seems more common in the USA. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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