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Subduction Zone
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Winning by developing a method to test my favorite hypothesis. Now I only need another volunteer to do the testing for me:
Subduction Zone
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Perhaps it is the season here. I could not see doing Halloween in the spring. Also our seasons vary a bit more than Australia's. Snow is common in the winter in a good chunk of America and Halloween is almost at that time of year. With autumn well underway a lot of life looks as if it has died. Spooky pessimistic times. In the spring you can see everything coming back to life. That is the opposite of Halloween, it just cannot work there. You would have to have it in May.
I can accept that but it's not really what I don't understand. It's the nervous distrusting society that once a year lets its most vulnerable out on the streets to beg for lollies off strangers bit I don't understand.
It's slowly becoming more popular here from marketing by the confectionery companies and supermarkets.
Subduction Zone
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These days very few kids go out on their own. Parents are usually there. I really can't say that much about my youth, but I do believe that then we would go scrounging for ourselves with parents not worried. Being more worried about kids is a more recent activity. Heck even in first grade on my brothers and I would walk to school alone. Probably about a half a mile. Well there was a short period of time where we did live right next to the local school, but that was only the first half of first grade for me.
But you're old SZ, was the internal combustion engine even invented back in your school days?
Subduction Zone
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They were just phasing out buggy whips.
Back in the dark ages when "free range" children were just children, we went out on our own. Then in adolescence, we still went out on our own but then thinking of things to do that I can't mention because of RF's rule 6. Fortunately no one was injured.
Subduction Zone
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In my adolescence my closest neighbor was a half a mile away. Quit a ways to pull a prank, especially when it is all but guaranteed that the homeowner had a shotgun. It would be an oddity if they did not have one. The neighborhood was pretty safe from adolescent antics.
nope, no way, I've seen that VW commercial before.....
If i went trick or treating, this would have been my costume...
I'd fool them.... I'm a Kodiak
That is so easy to misread, as "im really a grizzly berk"
Edit For me to misred
Its a good ad for Halloween though