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Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time wackiness
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:01:59 +1300
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On 2024-03-12 20:22:11 +0000, moviePig said:
> On 3/12/2024 3:23 PM, Your Name wrote:
>> On 2024-03-12 07:37:40 +0000, FPP said:
>>> On 3/11/24 4:36 PM, super70s wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Savings time has been around for as long as I remember and I'm old. 
>>>> They did lengthen it several years ago and now you have kids trick or 
>>>> treating while the sun is still up.
>>> 
>>> It's safer that way...
>> 
>> Even safer to ban silly Halloween altogether.
>> 
>> Parents spend 99% of the year telling their kids "Don't take candy from 
>> strangers" ... then this one stupid "holiday" comes around and those 
>> same parents are virtually pushing kids out the door saying "Go beg for 
>> candy from strangers". Just yet another example of the two-faced 
>> hypocritic stupidity of the human race.  :-\
> 
> Halloween's about teaching kids to be extroverts, which many need.

Halloween, as with pretty much every other "holiday", is today simply 
about retailers selling as much product as they can.  :-p

The origin of Halloween is in the pagan seasonal celebrations ... it 
has absolutely nothing to do with going door-to-door begging for candy 
nor "sppoky" ghosts, etc.