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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/18/2011 Posts: 12,069 Location: Kianjokoma
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Middle class fellows, are you taking your kids for Halloween parties? What will you be celebrating?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/25/2011 Posts: 2,103 Location: Nrb
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 Really? What is halloween now? Watu waache kuiga vitu hawajui. I am happy
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/31/2008 Posts: 7,081 Location: Kenya
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Wacha kwanza tumalize kutoa jiggers..
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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"Halloween" in Africa was and has always been there.Not a day to be celebrated but those of my age and people will tell you of the legendary "Wanjiru wa Kweru".Anybody? Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 7/22/2011 Posts: 1,325
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I have never celebrated Halloween and never will, it makes no sense to me to celebrate the underworld and dress up as hellish as possible. Ati turn my house into a mini replica of hell, just so I can fit into society? Nimekataa!! Halloween, in the western world, is not of God, in my opinion its a day of reincarnating hell and celebrating the devil. I really hate this day, having to look at skulls and zombies, and blood goblets, spiders, bats, human skeleton replicas, just basically what I would imagine hell to be like!! Ati, then you expect me to celebrate that coz everyone else is, and its all in fun? How come no one celebrates a heaven like day where we all dress like angels and decorate our homes like heaven would look like? And don't tell me there's Easter for that, coz Easter in the west was hijacked a long time ago and has been reduced to rabbits and decorating eggs!! It pisses me off that I will have to deal with Halloween when back in Africa, just a load of crap!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/9/2008 Posts: 5,389
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Your neighbours hapo kileleshwa kwa apartment block watakucheka if you don't put up a few Halloween paraphernalia.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/18/2011 Posts: 12,069 Location: Kianjokoma
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Nabwire, what if when you come back your kids who shop at Westgate, Village market, Galleria want to celebrate this day to be with it?
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 7/22/2011 Posts: 1,325
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Jaggernaut I am not one to keep up with the Joneses, especially in this case where Africans are just blindly aping cultures they have no clue of. Lolest, you can set rules of what you will and wont tolerate, worst comes to worst I can always relocate to shags, that's how serious I am about not blindly following nonsense! By the way, not every American celebrates Halloween, there are those who abhor the holiday too, but they are the minority. What I hate about this holiday is its a month long thing, every store has Halloween paraphernalia, you cant even go to the grocery store without seeing cookies decorated with bats, the malls are worse!! And the worst thing is its expected in American culture that even if you don't decorate your house, you atleast give candy to kids who come to your door. The way you signal to them that you celebrate the holiday is you leave your front porch light on, if you turn off all the lights plus the front porch light, you're signaling that they shouldn't knock for candy. Now this is where this holiday gets annoying, if you turn off your lights, especially if you live in the suburbs, be sure that the next day you will find toilet paper strewn all over your front yard, or even worse they will throw eggs on your front door. And this is culturally allowed, so its society's way of pressuring you to give in, which just makes me more determined in my resolve.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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Nabwire wrote:Jaggernaut I am not one to keep up with the Joneses, especially in this case where Africans are just blindly aping cultures they have no clue of. Lolest, you can set rules of what you will and wont tolerate, worst comes to worst I can always relocate to shags, that's how serious I am about not blindly following nonsense! By the way, not every American celebrates Halloween, there are those who abhor the holiday too, but they are the minority. What I hate about this holiday is its a month long thing, every store has Halloween paraphernalia, you cant even go to the grocery store without seeing cookies decorated with bats, the malls are worse!! And the worst thing is its expected in American culture that even if you don't decorate your house, you atleast give candy to kids who come to your door. The way you signal to them that you celebrate the holiday is you leave your front porch light on, if you turn off all the lights plus the front porch light, you're signaling that they shouldn't knock for candy. Now this is where this holiday gets annoying, if you turn off your lights, especially if you live in the suburbs, be sure that the next day you will find toilet paper strewn all over your front yard, or even worse they will throw eggs on your front door. And this is culturally allowed, so its society's way of pressuring you to give in, which just makes me more determined in my resolve. You should move to those states where the "stand your ground law" is in force...that ujinga cant happen.  "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 7/22/2011 Posts: 1,325
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Its done by teenagers, siko sure but there's no way a court of law would let you off. You just have to accept and move on that ni nchi yao.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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ujinga ya wazungu! trick or treat? fungulia mbwa! fuga pitbulls to patrol your compound... All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/9/2008 Posts: 5,389
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Nabwire wrote:Its done by teenagers, siko sure but there's no way a court of law would let you off. You just have to accept and move on that ni nchi yao. When in Rome, do as the Romans do....
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 10/1/2013 Posts: 25
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a voodoo party...might be beta than halloween...LOL...no blood..but tomato sauce n dancing...
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Rank: Chief Joined: 5/9/2007 Posts: 13,095
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Haiya, Interesting stories @nabwire. I thought these guys r 'civilised' thus they shud leave people to do what they want without forcing them. Now do @Kiash celebrate it?
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 7/22/2011 Posts: 1,325
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Washiku to be fair, one is not forced to celebrate it, the society just expects it from you, I get dumbfounded looks every time I tell them I don't celebrate it. Lets not judge a society by its teenagers behavior. But, this is the kind of nonsense that goes on in "haunted houses" where you pay to be a part of this nonsense, I swear lemme be backward, never ever! http://ravenblackcat.com...aunted-houses-in-america
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