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Post by Harmless elf on Aug 3, 2019 0:44:47 GMT
What are your thoughts of them wanting the date changed of Halloween so it's always on a Saturday?
Snickers will give away a million bars if date is changed.
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Post by kls on Aug 3, 2019 0:50:10 GMT
What are your thoughts of them wanting the date changed of Halloween so it's always on a Saturday? Snickers will give away a million bars if date is changed. Do kids even care about it anymore? Seems like Trick Or Treating is way down.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 3, 2019 1:10:44 GMT
What are your thoughts of them wanting the date changed of Halloween so it's always on a Saturday? Snickers will give away a million bars if date is changed. Do kids even care about it anymore? Seems like Trick Or Treating is way down. Hence, a candy manufacturer encouraging a change.
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Post by alpha128 on Aug 3, 2019 1:22:15 GMT
What are your thoughts of them wanting the date changed of Halloween so it's always on a Saturday? The date doesn't need to be changed. Local communities can and do set a "Trick or Treat" night that happens to be the Saturday closest to Halloween.
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Post by mecano04 on Aug 3, 2019 1:51:56 GMT
Meh, make it "Oh Henry" or "Mars" and you got a deal!
Might be "Rolo" too, I'm not that difficult.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 3, 2019 1:52:13 GMT
It will fuck up the Silver Shamrock song.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Aug 3, 2019 1:58:36 GMT
Local jurisdictions where I live have had, all the way back to when I was an active trick or treaters, made the actual Beggar's Night on a day that wasn't the 31st when it fell on any day that wasn't a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Primarily due to this thing called football, on Friday nights and Saturday.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Aug 3, 2019 15:18:40 GMT
I guess kids could eat all their loot on Halloween and get sick without their parents worrying about them having to miss school the next day.
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Post by Utpe on Aug 3, 2019 19:34:05 GMT
I would've loved this when I was younger, only make it a Friday night so kids have the entire weekend to splurge. As an adult, it's pretty much a Saturday night no matter what day the 31st falls on. Nobody's gonna get plastered during a weeknight and come into work with a pounding headache the next day.
Edit: Rereading the responses, I actually do wonder if children go trick-or-treating nowadays. Nobody knocked on my door last year. The previous apartment complex I lived in advised against it for safety concerns. This may not even be an issue at all if attending a scheduled festivity.
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Aug 3, 2019 21:17:32 GMT
What are your thoughts of them wanting the date changed of Halloween so it's always on a Saturday? Snickers will give away a million bars if date is changed.
On my way to work yesterday, they discussed this topic on the show.
Trick or treating is nothing like it was in the mid/late 80s and early 90s. Back when I started going out with my friends for trick or treating, we would get in the neighbourhood of 200 trick or treaters! Now, we're lucky to get even a couple of dozen.
I don't think it'll make much of a difference if it's changed to being only on Saturday. The kids are fired up to go trick or treating regardless of the week day on which it falls.
Hey...free candy!
Joker's Wilde
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 3, 2019 22:06:20 GMT
My birthday is two days before Halloween, which means the days will converge every time my birthday falls on a Saturday. Not sure I like the idea of having only one day to look forward to rather than two.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 4, 2019 0:20:43 GMT
Where's the fun in that?
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Post by maxwellperfect on Aug 16, 2019 1:48:23 GMT
Neighborhoods in this area just choose a convenient night for trick or treating anyway.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 16, 2019 4:21:15 GMT
I think the 31st is ideal, like a mini-holiday for kids often on a school night.
I'll agree that I do think the uber fad of it all seems to have thinned over the recent decades, maybe not least of all ppl are having fewer kids - fewer kids trick or treating, & there's no way there were as many dark non-participating homes when I was a kid. Honestly, I feel like it stopped in these parts early 2000's. Seems that kids celebrate it at school &/or parties instead.
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Post by novastar6 on Aug 16, 2019 4:24:42 GMT
I think it's a dumb idea, this is all just for the parents' convenience.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Aug 16, 2019 7:50:30 GMT
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Aug 16, 2019 16:41:50 GMT
Neighborhoods in this area just choose a convenient night for trick or treating anyway.
This brings to mind the one year I was in grade school when Hallowe'en fell on the Sunday. It was either 1983 or 1984.
I remember a big calendar in the classroom. On October 30th, it said, "Hallowe'en in (my hometown)".
Now, doesn't matter if it falls on the Sunday.
Joker's Wilde
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 16, 2019 18:39:39 GMT
Isn't that what JGL says in H2O?
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Post by politicidal on Aug 16, 2019 18:47:58 GMT
Isn't that what JGL says in H2O? Wouldn't know, didn't see it.
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 16, 2019 18:52:38 GMT
Isn't that what JGL says in H2O? Wouldn't know, didn't see it. Right before Joseph Gordon Lewitt and friend break into a house on Halloween, he says "Where's the fun in that?" in response to something the nurse said.
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