The internet, every October

That’s crazy to me. I don’t really like holidays but Halloween is such a fun vibe. It welcomes all types and can hit for any mood.

The decor and spooky theming is fun to me, but all the candy and trick-or-treat stuff just flies over my head.
- That’s my point. You can take what you like and avoid the rest.

Canada as well

Mexico too
- I feel like North American countries can be united in this one thing and that’s neat.
People from the U.S. think they are majority. While they are actually the minority. Halloween/Day of the Dead is celebrated almost every where.

UK used to party pretty hard on Hallows' Eve. I'm quite sure is still a thing.

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That would suck to clean.
- It would actually be self cleaning in a way.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicker_man

to be fair, it's not just America, although it's kinda just the uk as well, it is an irish/scottish holiday originally after all

But in the US it's a major event that's ALL of October now. It's a whole other level. Walk into CVS or Walgreens (equivalent of Boots) and there's a wall of Halloween merch right inside the entrance.

Or maybe the UK is the same now? After all, it has Black Friday sales.
- even in my lifetime the Americanisation of halloween has been really weird, it's obviously a lot more commercialised, but also nobody calls it guising anymore it's honestly kinda depressing since a lot of our traditions have just been replaced with american ones
- UK same. Pumpkin patches everywhere in Oct . I like it.
The holiday came about because that's when the potato harvest is, and they needed schoolkids to work in the fields

Halloween has always been a thing in the UK though, it's just more for little kids

How do you say, "Sucks to be you guys!" in non-American?

Pretty sure we had Halloween before the US even existed.

Admittedly we had to carve turnips.

Some still do.

I fucking love halloween. If this is true, it's one of the few redeeming aspects of USA culture.

i wish Halloween was as important to people as Christmas....

Wait til next month...

Lemmy about to POP OFF about five centuries of American genocide.
- Canada already celebrated thanksgiving. And we have a dark past also.

I suppose we have pumpkins, too. At least this holiday is pretty fun, even if no one actually celebrates it here (there's little chance it gets adoption here, where I live we even have a hard time getting into carnival, even though that holiday has native tradition).

Anyway, late August christmas sweets are way better than any Halloween-themed food or drink.

I wish we did trick-or-treating as much as you guys :(

I wish we still did trick or treating instead of the stupid communal "trunk or treat" that seems to have taken over everywhere.
- Well we can't just have kids walking around outside can we? The outside is for cars
- The.... What?!

It's this time of the year again already?

And you know what's coming after this month...

She is about to come out of cryostasis...
- November?

Enjoy your deathtrap Americans

I'm confused if you mean America itself or pumpkin spice lattes, because, don't worry, we're exporting both.
- No, they mean deathtrap Americans. I think they're like Irish Americans or African Americans but I'm not too sure where deathtrap is.

Non-United-Statesian here; try it; trust me.