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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2020 2:14:46 GMT -5
I really dug the Mars bar like several others.
The Snickers Almond bar is close but just not quite the same.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 13, 2020 8:47:35 GMT -5
3 Musketeers. I've liked those since I was a kid. Now my youngest boy likes them. So on occasions I'll buy a fun size bag, and pop one in for the occasional soft sweet chocolate taste. They are nice in the morning with a cup of coffee.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 19, 2020 8:11:38 GMT -5
So Which One is scarier? Ghost stories told sitting around a campfire or sitting in a candlelit room listening to things that go bump in the night stories?
A cold, dark fall night with the stillness of the forest wrapping you in it's chilling embrace as the crackling fire try's to warm your body and soul while hearing ghostly stories as always does it for me. Pouring in hot chocolate as the tips of your ears and toes turn blue and curl tightly as cold shivers have your body trembling even as your teeth chatter? That is a good Halloween evening indeed!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 19, 2020 9:01:02 GMT -5
Halloween Which One Candy choice continues. Baby Ruth or Snickers or Milky Way or 3 Musketeer? What is your go to candy bar in your bag of treats? Baby Ruth hits that sweet spot for me with chocolate, caramel and nuts. Really like it if refrigerated. If BR's not in the bag then I'm grabbing the Milky Way Dark! I'd go for Snickers, but my favourite chocolate bars are the German-made Ritter Sport. The hazelnut variety brings back very fond memories of a time when I had to rely on a snack-dispensing machine for my meals two days in a row, before I managed to puzzle out the local grocery's opening hours! |
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Post by impulse on Oct 19, 2020 9:52:48 GMT -5
So Which One is scarier? Ghost stories told sitting around a campfire or sitting in a candlelit room listening to things that go bump in the night stories? A cold, dark fall night with the stillness of the forest wrapping you in it's chilling embrace as the crackling fire try's to warm your body and soul while hearing ghostly stories as always does it for me. Pouring in hot chocolate as the tips of your ears and toes turn blue and curl tightly as cold shivers have your body trembling even as your teeth chatter? That is a good Halloween evening indeed! Well, this one is easy for me. I HATE camping and I get claustrophobic in a tent, so the activity that would require that is usually worse for me. If I'm inside and don't like it, I will just go turn on the lights, grab a snack and put on the TV. Pssh.. Easy. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 19, 2020 10:47:48 GMT -5
So Which One is scarier? Ghost stories told sitting around a campfire or sitting in a candlelit room listening to things that go bump in the night stories? A cold, dark fall night with the stillness of the forest wrapping you in it's chilling embrace as the crackling fire try's to warm your body and soul while hearing ghostly stories as always does it for me. Pouring in hot chocolate as the tips of your ears and toes turn blue and curl tightly as cold shivers have your body trembling even as your teeth chatter? That is a good Halloween evening indeed! The campfire, no contest. The great outdoors have a surfeit of things that go bump, crrrk, ssssss, aoo-aoo and squeak-squeak in the night. Funny true story: my wife and I own a wooden lot in a remote area, where our dreams of becoming lumber barons went to naught when we couldn't bring ourselves to cut down trees. We keep it for the kids, who can decide what to do with it when we're dead, and once every year or so we go see what the forest is like. My oldest son also goes camping there from time to time. A few years back, I was out there alone, in the isolated woods. I had strayed off the barely-visible trail to look at the state of the trees (mostly tall and dark spruce). It was very silent and I felt very much alone. At some point I had to crouch to avoid some low branch and when I got up... I came face to face with basically this : {Spoiler: Click to show}  You know that feeling, when you're facing something that just can't be, but is there anyway? I got it in spades and let out a heartfelt "HOLY $#@& !!!" It's only after a few moments that I realized Son #1 had been camping in those woods two weeks prior and that he must have been the wood-tying artist who gave me such a fright; his prank just worked much, much earlier than he had expected! I was half-tempted to strike him off my will, but if he remains that creative with those woods, he's welcome to them! Besides, they're obviously haunted.  |
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 19, 2020 11:24:16 GMT -5
So Which One is scarier? Ghost stories told sitting around a campfire or sitting in a candlelit room listening to things that go bump in the night stories? Definately the latter. I remember my father let me watch reruns of Tales From The Crypt on New Orleans' local Fox affiliate and it took years for me not to be absolutely petrified of the dark (I still kind of am, but only in wide open spaces in the darkness like a field)
Sometimes nothing is more terrifying than living in your own headspace
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 19, 2020 13:22:06 GMT -5
I have yet to be convinced that ghosts exist, so there's really no fear of them. I'd have less stress/fright watching Exorcists than Communion. And as Batflunkie pointed out sometimes nothing is more scary than what's right in front of you.
Unless it's xenomorph. Those *%$@$*$ are scary.
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 19, 2020 13:33:06 GMT -5
I have yet to be convinced that ghosts exist, so there's really no fear of them. I'd have less stress/fright watching Exorcists than Communion. And as Batflunkie pointed out sometimes nothing is more scary than what's right in front of you. Unless it's xenomorph. Those *%$@$*$ are scary. IDK, when I first started living in the house that my mom grew up in, I swore that I could hear footsteps on the carpet leading up to my bedroom. They stopped once I found a box of my Dad's things that me and my mom got from his live-in girlfriend when he passed away
I do think that there are certainly things out there beyond our own understanding and comprehension
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 14:40:28 GMT -5
So Which One is scarier? Ghost stories told sitting around a campfire or sitting in a candlelit room listening to things that go bump in the night stories?
The latter. I've also got a very open mind where ghosts are concerned.
Have a friend who's an IT tech and was highly skeptical of ghosts, until an incident he experienced. A radio came hurtling across the room and crashed into the wall just above his head. A room he thought he was alone in. Not something he shares with everyone, but he saw it happen with his own eyes. Happened at a site reported to be one of the most haunted places in Canada.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 20, 2020 8:41:39 GMT -5
I have yet to be convinced that ghosts exist, so there's really no fear of them. I'd have less stress/fright watching Exorcists than Communion. And as Batflunkie pointed out sometimes nothing is more scary than what's right in front of you. Unless it's xenomorph. Those *%$@$*$ are scary. IDK, when I first started living in the house that my mom grew up in, I swore that I could hear footsteps on the carpet leading up to my bedroom. They stopped once I found a box of my Dad's things that me and my mom got from his live-in girlfriend when he passed away I do think that there are certainly things out there beyond our own understanding and comprehension
I certainly agree that there are things in this world we might not yet understand or comprehend. I just tend to feel we can with science at some point (as we have with many things in our species existence) as oppose to spirits roaming our plane of existence in some kind of limbo over something more ... corporeal. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 20, 2020 9:10:52 GMT -5
IDK, when I first started living in the house that my mom grew up in, I swore that I could hear footsteps on the carpet leading up to my bedroom. They stopped once I found a box of my Dad's things that me and my mom got from his live-in girlfriend when he passed away I do think that there are certainly things out there beyond our own understanding and comprehension
I certainly agree that there are things in this world we might not yet understand or comprehend. I just tend to feel we can with science at some point (as we have with many things in our species existence) as oppose to spirits roaming our plane of existence in some kind of limbo over something more ... corporeal. Fully agreed! There are lots of things we do not understand. That's why scientists exist! There might even be things that are truly beyond our comprehension, because our brain evolved to respond to rather mundane problems (how to survive on the surface of a small planet) rather than ponder the nature of dark energy and assorted mysteries. That we progressed so far in our understanding of the universe is already extraordinary, but simple humility forces us to accept that we may never go all the way. That being said, there is nothing truly «supernatural». Even if some aspects of nature were incomprehensible to us, they would still be part of nature. If someway, somehow, ghosts exist, due to whatever unfathomable mechanism, then ghosts exist and that's all. If they do exist, then there is a way to measure their interaction with the ordinary world (either by direct or indirect observation, using normal senses or special devices, or by studying the traces they leave behind). Dinosaurs haven't been around for 65,000,000 years, and we have managed to acquire a lot of information about them. Gravitational waves or neutrinos are invisible to our senses, but we managed to detect them. The same should hold true for ghosts, if they exist. Arthur Conan Doyle, who was quite the science buff, became an avid spiritist in his latter days. He was convinced that ghosts were real, and even his Professor Challenger character saw in ghostly studies a whole new branch of science. That's the spirit! (pun unintended). History did not agree with his position, but it is still the default one: any data is worthy of being studied, and may open the door to a brand new field of unexpected knowledge. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 20, 2020 11:19:02 GMT -5
Things that can be supported with data of some kind, even if the data is not complete is far more scary to me then what isn't. Is there creatures/entities of this realm that we are mistaking as the lost soul of humans? Maybe. But I haven't seen/read anything that convinces me of that yet. Alien abduction? That I have read a lot about. And there's just too many coinciding and corroborated stories that I at least think that there are extra-terrestrial entities involved or interferring with humanity. Are they like the Hollywood movies? Don't know, I thank God (if they are malevolent) haven't experience that yet. But the evidence to me is far more convincing of some kind of extra-terrestrials than there is ghosts. So that's why after finally watching Exorcist I was like "meh people were/are scared of this movie?" Communion on the other hand made me look around corners in the house for months after watching it.
I will say, though, and I don't know why, The Omen got to me. Maybe it was just a well made film, with a great cast and it made it at very convincing, even if I don't believe Satan inhabits little boys named Damien.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 20, 2020 11:24:14 GMT -5
So Which One is scarier? Ghost stories told sitting around a campfire or sitting in a candlelit room listening to things that go bump in the night stories? A cold, dark fall night with the stillness of the forest wrapping you in it's chilling embrace as the crackling fire try's to warm your body and soul while hearing ghostly stories as always does it for me. Pouring in hot chocolate as the tips of your ears and toes turn blue and curl tightly as cold shivers have your body trembling even as your teeth chatter? That is a good Halloween evening indeed! Neither one are really something that I've ever done. Probably because I'm just not a "horror" oriented person. Oh...and I hate camping. I guess if I had to choose I'm fine with hanging on the patio with the firepit going. But I'd be far more likely to have music going and just shooting the shit or playing Cards Against Humanity than telling ghost stories. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 20, 2020 12:24:05 GMT -5
Can I propose a which one? In vintage Superman comics, which were/are you happiest to find in a story: bizarros or super pets? Or of course neither if you disliked both. My personal favorite would be to see Streaky appear, close second for one of those Super turtle fillers, but any critters with red capes spells fun to me. The bizarros were entertaining sometimes but their shtick could wear thin, although I'm sure they had/have their fans. It'd be pretty much a tie as to if I would buy a collected volume for either (anyone thought of that?).
I'm not really into Halloween but something from Hammer I haven't seen before on Svengoolie would be my ideal.
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