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Do they have Halloween in France?
Like do kids go trick-or-treating and stuff?
ps. Happy Halloween |
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i always thought it was just an american thing...but we'll just have to see what aFrenchie and whoever else is from france says
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They started celebratting Halloween here in 1997.
Trick-or-treat! |
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I don't even know what or who tried to launch that in France around 1997 (indeed) and why, but it quite failed. We still can see disguised young children asking for candies at every house around 7-8 pm but that's all about it...
What does "trick-or-treating" mean? Off topic, I see that you (US) haven't changed the hour yet. I don't know how you call that, I mean here in France it's now "winter hour" again (as opposed to the "summer hour") since last Sunday night (last weekend of Oct.). For example, it's now 7:00 when last Saturday it was 8:00. That was made for energy economy... When do you change it? Last edited by aFrenchie; 10-31-2006 at 03:04 PM.. Reason: am instead of pm. When do you switch to standard 24 format time? :) |
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Hmmm, Halloween originated in Europe I thought, would think everyone in Europe would be celebrating Halloween, interesting.
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It's called "winter time" in English. Or "standard time". "Summer time" is same as "daylight saving time". And yeah, Europe and most of the world switched to standard time last weekend. USA switched same time, too. |
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it originated in the british isles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_or_treat and the times have changed here in the states, i guess brad hasnt been able to update it yet Last edited by nurvonic; 10-31-2006 at 01:40 PM.. |
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it is called 'standard time' and 'daylight savings time' here. trick-or-treating is what the kids do on halloween. basically, a kid rings your doorbell, and says 'trick-or-treat' .. and then you have to give them candy (that is the treat part). if you don't give them candy, then they might play a trick on you .. like throw eggs at your house or something, lol. |
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i wouldnt so much call them 'tricks' as i would 'vandilization'... lol..at least in my town
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vandilization-or-treat doesn't have the same ring to it though |
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