In Honour of Halloween

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LoudMusic
How is Halloween not simply '31st October, let's all get dressed up and get some sweets'? And the bit about Xmas, well that's a blatant removal of Christ from the holiday. A name that suits the way the holiday is celebrated.

So maybe those people aren't celebrating the same holiday you are. Can you force them to do so? Oh wait, to follow the same traditions as the name you're using for this holiday, in England I guess you can force people to celebrate your holidays your way. But in "America" (the United States of,) we don't force people to celebrate any certain thing any certain way. So they can call it anything they want.

I guess we're back to England versus the USA. Tradition vs New Age, or something.
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Hold up...

How did we get from people not knowing what "Hallowe'en" means to "England" forcing people to celebrate it? Here in the "Kingdom" (United) we don't force people to celebrate Hallowe'en - or Christmas, or Easter, or Kwanzaa, or Pesach or indeed anything. What a dim view you must have of us - considering you come from a country founded by Puritans.

What's wrong with people utilising their language? Why is wanting to spell English words in English in England suddenly turning us into an oppressive fascist regime?

And Halloween isn't 31st October (and vice versa). It is solely the dark hours in the evening of 31st October. October 31st is All Hallow's Day.


Anderton - the masses also put "Tomatoe's" on blackboards outside farm shops. Doesn't make them right.

Punctuation - where included - makes up part of spelling. The words "cant", "wont", "isnt" and "couldnt" are all spelled incorrectly (except "cant" which is a singing term) without apostrophes. The word "noone" is spelled incorrectly without the hyphen.

If someone has no understanding of the meaning of a word, are they automatically allowed to spell it differently? In US English "Halloween" is acceptable as it is actually an accepted word. In English it isn't - because it isn't an accepted word (although it is listed in the OED as "(US)")

LoudMusic
My biggest gripe is the huge collection of words which aren't spelled anything like they sound ... on either side of the pond.
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Spell it like it sounds then. No-one's forcing you to spell it differently. Apparently.
 
KM
The missing video camera and the undeveloped pictures of the symbol on the wall are a bit too convenient.
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I also started to get suspicious with that, and then when the Phone didn't work and the Glowlights were broken. Bit suspect.

The Joe guy was a bit "funny" too. It all seems a bit exaggerated.
 
I6-4-eva
hey it's Smigel! he's ALIVE!
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Of course you must mean SMEAGOL, right?

The way you spelled it, it looks like it should be pronounced "Smiguel", which sounds like someone's gardener. But to get back on topic, anyone else believe this cave story is a load of crap?
 
Ok, here is my 2 cents on this story.

From the looks of it, the parts about them enering the cane and finding the virgin passages is 100% real from the pictures and acuracy of the details. What I think then something happend, either they heard something, saw something (such as a marking on a wall), or they just got bored, but they wired in a few extra details to their cave journal of their adventures to make it seem a bit creepy and scary. Then they added a erie ending to finish it off.

But either way, real or not, it was a damn good story to read.

Anyone agree with me?
 
Anti Matter X17
From the looks of it, the parts about them enering the cane and finding the virgin passages is 100% real from the pictures and acuracy of the details. What I think then something happend, either they heard something, saw something (such as a marking on a wall), or they just got bored, but they wired in a few extra details to their cave journal of their adventures to make it seem a bit creepy and scary. Then they added a erie ending to finish it off.
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You have my 100% agree-ance. I was going to say that, but I just couldn't be bothered wording it properly. :lol:
Anti Matter X17
But either way, real or not, it was a damn good story to read.
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Agreed.
 
Those photos of the passage hole near the start are all messed up. He says he stuck his fist through the hole and in the photo you can see his fist coming through a hole, BUT that would mean the photographer was on the other side of the hole and therefore they didn't need to break through the hole to get in, It's all a load of bull.
 
donbenni
Those photos of the passage hole near the start are all messed up. He says he stuck his fist through the hole and in the photo you can see his fist coming through a hole, BUT that would mean the photographer was on the other side of the hole and therefore they didn't need to break through the hole to get in, It's all a load of bull.
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It said he stuck his glove in there for size comparison.
 
Yeah, that's his glove. It's also facing the side they were coming from.

I believe exactly what Anti Matter X17 said. It was a caving trip, and ended out as a big exaggeration. They would have heard some noises, and both, being the imaginative people they are, decided to far-fetch it quite a bit.
 
There's one thing about the story I find very suspicious. He claims to have found beer cans and graffiti inside the cave, yet also claims that you need a long length rope to rappell down the cave entrance. Are we to believe that people have been drinking six packs in a cave, tagging the walls and then climbing out when experienced cavers can't get in and out without climbing equipment?


KM.
 
KM
There's one thing about the story I find very suspicious. He claims to have found beer cans and graffiti inside the cave, yet also claims that you need a long length rope to rappell down the cave entrance. Are we to believe that people have been drinking six packs in a cave, tagging the walls and then climbing out when experienced cavers can't get in and out without climbing equipment?


KM.
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Yeah. Never noticed that one. This is just getting worse by the minute. I didn't even finish reading it.
 
KieranMurphy
There's one thing about the story I find very suspicious. He claims to have found beer cans and graffiti inside the cave, yet also claims that you need a long length rope to rappell down the cave entrance. Are we to believe that people have been drinking six packs in a cave, tagging the walls and then climbing out when experienced cavers can't get in and out without climbing equipment?


KM.
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Dude you'd be surprized by some of the things I've seen in my days.
 
Oh so now ur siding with the dinosaur boy huh? huh? "Mr.-Im-too-scared-to-face-a-pissed-off-tiger-covered-in-itching-powder"? Thought so. Hey its 200th post...cool.
 

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