Be Excellent To Each Other

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Oh yeah, can't leave the doggies out!

Hmm

Show me a factual inaccuracy in that statement, eh?

Granted they usually wear clothes, however they don't usually dress as characters from 1970s science fiction films for the amusement of their cruel, cruel parents.

If the baby doesn't know any different, and it doesn't make the baby uncomfortable, how's it cruel?

It's embarrassing, mind.

It's ammunition for later life when flicking through photo albums.

"Ha! There's you dressed as Chewbacca!"
"Who?"
"Shut up"

I know it's not really cruel, anyway I know I'm right because Zardoz who wants to dress his baby has a pumpkin has actually bought clothes for his dog before.

At a recent multi-period I saw some re-enactor's poor kid dressed up as a member of Hitler Youth (or whatever their younger section was called). Even I was slightly disturbed by this. He looked the part though.

And what's life without embarrassing childhood photos, eh? It's character building, innit.

Dog clothes can fuck right off, though. Especially people who dress up their dogs and refer to them as "their little babies".

No, that's just defeating evolution. If they were so stupid as to develop shitty metabolisms and short hair that's their own stupid fault and we shouldn't be encouraging them.

NervyPete recommends the Scary Godmother books by Jill Thompson for lil'l kid's Halloween reads.

I'm off to see Vampire Weekend in Bristol on All Hallow's Eve. Neat.

Hardly, we'd be letting them get on as nature intended. It's just nature intended them to freeze to death.



Yes, I know - I was aware of my hypocrisy there. Still, we're bigger than them, and as we've evolved the ability to make clothes and they haven't, they can fuck off.

Strewelpeter is also an awesome children's book for scares. I have a really old copy at home.

I think you'll find that "we" encouraged them to be like that so that they would run fast around a track.

Malc

I suppose it doesn't seem right but seeing as I actually have animals killed for me so that I can eat them I find it hard to get too worked up about.

They and their forebears were perfectly able to bite their owners and run off - after all they're *quick*, aren't they? But no - they *chose* to chase a stuffed rabbit around all day and visit that life upon their ever-more deformed children. Stupid dogs.

FTFY

Kids want to be scary and dress as Dracula. Fine, I'll be scary and open the door dressed as Gary Glitter.

Racing greyhounds for sport is a much more recent fad than racing greyhounds to catch rabbits so we could eat them. Greyhounds and whippets are only a few generations away from being working dogs.

Now small yappy-type dogs can fuck off.

I already noted the hypocrisy for needing clothes in the sentence before that - but what hypocrisy are *you* referring to?

Dogs are useless and never do what you want.

We have a really big, fancy-dress-mandatory Halloween party every year. Yes, it's a very American thing to do; I got over that because it's also very good fun.

I have an ace zombie costume from a few years ago. That year we had a kids party in the afternoon and a pissed up party in the evening and I literally scared my nieces to the point of not sleeping in this (my sister was not amused):

I hate watching horse racing especially, whenever they fall I always want the horses to get straight up and the bastard midgets to stay down.

My favourite costume was in 2003:


Sadly I couldn't get a swordcane though, no matter how many droogs I tolchocked.

Every time I see a tiny dog in a woman's handbag, I cross my fingers and hope it needs a shit...

I'd go naked and pretend I was one of those zombies from Zombie Apocalypse II on the Amiga.

Well, no. They banned me from the place the last time I went there, so unless they've had a change of heart I should probably stay away.

I guess that's what you get for pissing off the top of the Logger's Leap.

I've always wanted to make a dog wear a pair of trousers and then follow it around until it shits itself. What's wrong with that you spoilsport?

I made a Leatherface costume for a party once complete with a mask made out of a couple of Chamois leathers.. It looked awesome!

The best bit was I had a REAL chainsaw (minus the teeth) that started up and made all the noises! It was great!!

Scared loads of people with that and I'm really surprised I didn't get arrested!

A Christmas cape and Reindeer antlers are accessories, not clothes.

Wasn't someone genuinely arrested for using a chainsaw as part of their costume last year?

edit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfo ... 368777.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfo ... 372578.stm

Edit: No, and it wasn't halloween, and they should have said Leatherface, not Jason.

Edit again: TheVision, was that you then?

My buddies brother works as a makeup artist on Casualty. He comes to Halowe'en parties looking fucking awesome.

Alex never wore lippy did he?

Is that just your minxy twist?

If (wobbly) memory serves, I had drunk two Bloody Marys whilst decorating the house.

I didn't know what was funnier, the fact that you bought clothes for your dog or that you bought a Yorkshire Terrier sized outfit for a Weimaraner.

I don't think much of the costumes on display in that photo, but whoever it is that went dressed up as a fridge should be applauded, that costume is fucking brilliant.

Nope... not me! I don't live anywhere near there but since my chainsaw had no teeth then I guess I would have had the same treatment.

The worst part about the costume was lifting the chainsaw above my head and getting a face full of diesel fumes! Not nice when your breathings restricted with the mask.

Hmm, coincidence then. You nutter!
Also, petrol / oil fumes, not diesel

Ah yes, that would explain why you have pink lipstick on.

Going as Jack Torrance and my girlfriend is going as Wendy Torrance this year. Although, we don't actually have a party to go to yet...

Absolutely. I make strong Bloody Marys.