What is it with this pumpkin shit?Doesn't anybody make turnip lanterns any more, or have they all been sucked in to the all-American consumerisation of Halloween?
(nicely carved though)
((nicely carved though)
finnbar has officially retired,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:20,
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Yes, they are, although it depends where you're from.What are called turnips oop north are called swedes darn sarf and vice-versa.
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Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:24,
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*carves up Ulrika Jonsson*LOL!
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:27,
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The Irish started it.They used to use turnips and swedes and shit until they went to America and discovered pumpkins and found they were so much easier to carve.
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Bob Todd whee,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:32,
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Fucking Manx and their Hop to fucking Naa! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:35,
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are you including christmas as well?...or is it just selective holidays
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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:32,
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You make turnip lanterns at Christmas?No, I'm not selective. I think the yanks have turned Christmas into shite too.
The again, I'm an atheist, so I don't really care what they do with it.
(The again, I'm an atheist, so I don't really care what they do with it.
finnbar has officially retired,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:39,
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an atheist moaning about halloween...yea
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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:48,
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and?Religious twats moan about stuff that has nothing to do with religion all the time.
Does being an atheist mean I can't critise stuff that's religious (and anyway, I was criticising rampant consumerism/bastardisation)?
(Does being an atheist mean I can't critise stuff that's religious (and anyway, I was criticising rampant consumerism/bastardisation)?
finnbar has officially retired,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 12:04,
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if there's no heaven or hell why does it bother you that halloween's been commercialised?surely as an atheist it should mean nothing to you,
thus not affecting your beliefs or lack of them..it was just a thought
(thus not affecting your beliefs or lack of them..it was just a thought
prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 12:19,
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ahhad a more considered think than "yawn" have we?
It bothers me that people are being exploited, regardless of whether or not it has religious connotations.
If people want to believe in the great sky fairy, that's fine by me, but if somebody is ripping them off financially (which is what I'm "moaning" about), that's not on.
(It bothers me that people are being exploited, regardless of whether or not it has religious connotations.
If people want to believe in the great sky fairy, that's fine by me, but if somebody is ripping them off financially (which is what I'm "moaning" about), that's not on.
finnbar has officially retired,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 12:47,
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the prices of pumpkins now-a-days are shocking
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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 13:06,
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Does anyone really celebrate Halloween as a religious holiday any more? Bob Todd whee,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 12:04,
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I think anybody of a 'pagan' religion, Wicca etc. celebrate All Hallow's Eveas a kind of Winter's Festival. I knew a woman who described herself as a White Witch and I was invited along to one of their All Hallow's Party and they had cloaks, robes and knives and suddenly I knew how it felt to be that Policeman in The Wicker Man hehe. But they were all very nice and only used the knives to mark symbols in the earth in a ceremony in the back garden that I wasn't allowed attend as I wasn't a pagan - so I sat in the kitchen by myself, ate carrot cake and felt like a lemon :D
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 12:34,
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