It's not ridiculously high. The man and his business's reputation cannot be restored to its former state and other than suffering a monetary slam, the dealer can do nothing to help with that.
Realistically he should have removed the logo himself (or saw too it that someone else did it) before selling the car.
This would be laughed out of an Australian court because it was the business owners responsibility to remove the logo and all used car sales are "as is" so conditions cant be imposed after the sale.
This guy traded in a Ford F250, which is a medium duty full sized pickup truck with a 300HP engine vs, the toyota Hiluz a light duty compact pickup with a 150 Hp engine. The toyota has a hard time hauling a 12.5mm machinegun, that antiaircraft gun would definitely break it's back, I'd bet the F250 doesn't last long with that thing onboard. The gun is going to have no accuracy, after the first round the whole truck is going to rocking all over the place.
Hi, sounds like you know fuck all about cars, first off, the Toyota Hilux (not Hiluz) is not available in the US. The Hilux has a 1 ton tray capacity and a 2.5 ton towing capacity (both of these are conservative estimates), It can do this with a 2.8L Turbo Diesel engine where as the F250 requires a 6.7L v8. This is because Americans don't know how to make engines.
The gun itself looks to be a ZSU-23-2 and that weighs less than 0.95 ton on its mountings, so less when it's mounted on a ute. So the Hilux would have no problems carrying that gun. Also the F250 has a tray capacity of 1.1t, so if the Hilux would have trouble hauling it, the F250 would as well.
The Hilux has been a staple of improvised armies (and legitimate ones) the world over not just because it's affordable, but because it's nigh upon unbreakable, economical, easy to fix and did I mention, nearly impervious to damage. Your F250 wouldn't last 10 kilometres in same conditions. Top gear tried to destroy a Hilux by:
1) Driving it into the ocean.
2) Hitting it with a wrecking ball.
3) Setting it on fire.
4) Blowing up a building with the car on top.
They also drove them to the North pole and up an erupting volcano.
OTOH, Richard Hammond nearly destroyed an F150 by driving it in the English countryside.
Unfortunately, extremists are learning they can create lots of chaos withOUT the grandiose 9/11-style plans, which often leave too many clues to hide. Many had speculated on this shift before, but it looks like it's now happening.
I'm going to bet this was done by bored kids or idiots rather than real extremists.
This kind of shit has been done for decades and I highly doubt it's increased in frequency since then.
Because, if we give up imperial measurements, the terrorists will have won!
The next political movement is to move away from a decimal based dollar, and start having 240 cents to a US Dollar! (or has that been done already?)
The thing is, the US never even adopted imperial measurements. The Imperial system was defined by the Weights and Measures act of 1824, some 50 years after their revolution so the US Customary Units aren't even as current as the Imperial system.
The UK as a less regulated environment? Is this April first, or did I accidentally get to the Onion?
I think Google meant "less stupidly regulated". The UK doesn't mandate tyre pressure monitors because it expects people to be able to check their tyres on a regular basis on their own. Little things like that.
Also the UK has much better (read, trained and predictable) drivers than the US.
My first car was a 97 Honda Civic VTI, I bought it with 270,000 KM on the clock, sold it with 297,000. Current car is a 2001 Nissan 200sx (S15, yep the car so Awesome that America will not allow it's import) that's just ticked over 110,000 and as long as it's looked after, has at least another 200,000 left in it. I've seen several Toyota Hiluxes with over 500,000 on the clock and still going.
Japanese cars will keep going for ages, especially Toyotas, on very basic maintenance. European cars, not so much. Its rare to find an Astra with 150,000 K's on it, a lot of VW Golfs on their second tranny before 50,000 KM.
I suspect the manufacturers are realizing that quality cars == low turnover == infrequent return customers. They'd love to make the automotive equivalent of a "One Hoss-Shay" that self-destructs after 100k miles as you drive past the dealership.
You're basically describing European cars. Planned Obselecence is a big thing over there. They want to make sure things last just long enough to ride out the warranty period. Obviously not vital components like the drive train (well at least not intentionally) but things like sound proofing, electric seats and mirrors, heaters and other things that will annoy you when they break.
Japanese manufacturers dont have to worry about that as they get obsolescence built into the law in Japan (Shaken law). In this regard, they want their cars to be highly reliable as they want them to get a good resale price when exported out of Japan after 3- 5 years.
Plus Japanese businesses think for the long term. They know that a reputation for reliability is a huge advantage when it comes to new car sales.
The A-10 isn't quite so old, having been introduced in 1977, but it too is uniquely successful at its job, with no practical replacement in sight.
Ask any Army Soldier or Marine Rifleman that has seen combat and needed close air support what their favorite jet is, and you'll hear only one name.
Rather than talking about retirement, we should be building more of these two jets. Yes, I know it would be expensive to re-create all of the tooling. In my opinion, new production lines for them should be established and maintained in perpetuity as national treasures, at least until suitable replacements are found and validated by real-world experience.
(The C-130 should probably be included too, and would be much easier, since it is still in active production.)
The problem is, the B52 is without a role any more so they really should be retired.
The heavy bomber has gone the way of the battleship, it doesn't add any value to an air force hence this is why forward thinking air forces like the UK are retiring them and up and coming air forces like India and China aren't building them.
The B52 might look good bombing the dust of Bumfuckistan into, uh... dust, but it will be as useful as tits on a bull against any enemy that could shoot back. Its big, slow, inaccurate and shows up on radar like a flamboyantly gay, pro-choicer in the Westbro Baptist church.
The A-10 is a different story. That should be modernised (I.E. more efficient engines, avionics, sensors) but every modern aircraft seems to be suffering from feature creep, not just the F35 but the Eurofighter and the Russian PAK FA seems to be becoming a worse project than the F35 (which has at least delivered some airframes).
form a deportation task force to get rid of 11 million Mexicans? Fantastic!"
I bet these are the same people who will ask "why cant I get someone to clean my house or mow my lawns for less than $4 an hour" after all the eeeebil brown people are sent home.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
I don't care who said it. That quote is demonstrably false and the notion behind it is asinine. If you really need a gun to get people to speak "politely" to you then you are doing something REALLY wrong.
This,
An armed society is a scared society.
Politeness is a trait of how much redness a society accepts. It is never attached to how many guns are available as there are many societies where guns are readily available but are also incredibly rude (Russia for one).
Cheaper than Dirt is where most guys that really like guns go as you can get all the parts you need. Cabela's lets you fondle them and will have prices better than most gun shops. And ordering a gun online or from a shopping channel will have to be picked up with the added fees at a local gun dealer anyways so unless they are 30-50% less on everything than normal sources it will be an epic failure of a channel.
I had to wonder about this.
You can go to a store and buy something for $40, who would buy the same thing from a TV channel for six easy payments of $29.99 plus $49.99 shipping and handling.
Hey, but I think there'll be enough people who are crazy enough to support this channel. Mostly they'll be the anti-"gubbermint" types.
The market for this channel (hunters, rural or suburban gun owners) isn't the demographic that kills for its political beliefs
That is completely wrong. The market for this channel isn't hunters, rural or suburban gun owners, it's for nutbars who are too scared to go to a proper gun store.
What self respecting gun owner... or person in general would forgo paying $40 to get something from a proper store in favour of paying six easy payments of $29.99 + $19.99 shipping and handling? If you're a legit gun owner, its cheaper and easier to go to a store.
Only the people who want to think their purchases are under the radar. This may not be solely the demographic that kills for political belief or out of insanity but if we drew a Venn Diagram, there'd be a lot of overlap.
But people DO break into houses, I'm guessing they do where you live too. They often carry weapons...at least a knife or club or whatever.
Or far more likely a gun. If you have easy access to firearms, so do the criminals and lets face it. If they have broken into your house they have the drop on you.
Now I'd rather a potential inturder only be armed with a knife or club as that means even unarmed, I have a fighting chance against them. If they have a gun they will be the ones blowing you away.
However you'll find that not having easy access to guns turns criminals into complete and utter cowards, so much so that home invasions are not a common thing here in Australia.
I prefer to have the option to blow them away
What is far more likely is that your own kid blows themselves away. Or yourself. Even the NRA loves to parade the fact that the most gunshot victims are the victims of their own gun.
The difference between us is that I don't buy junk.
As I said, the good stuff was always sent straight to auction where you pretty much buy it as is (meaning as per the description) so no difference there. People with things that are actually usable don't go to swap meets, the put it on Ebay.
Why would I go to a rainy field to buy a box of old SATA cables that _might_work when I can get new ones for the same price off any number of sites.
With your penchant for buying junk, I can imagine your house looks a lot like this.
And good riddance. Why would I pack everything I want to sell in my car, drive to a field and get rained on while tight fisted arseholes gawk and argue over 50 cents then not buy anything even when they get their $0.50 discount when I can stick it all on Ebay/Gumtree/Facebook et al. and have the buyers come to me.
As for surplus, it's all online these days. The good surplus was always sent to auction anyway, but now thanks to Ebay and other sites just about everyone can auction off their excess crap. I can sell and buy from the comfort of my own home and no longer deal with the duck-arsed wankers that swap meets attract.
are half the reason why people think that diesels are stinky
The other two halves of the reason is because burned Diesel actually does smell. An unhealthy diesel is about the worst thing you can smell on the road (marginally beaten by the smell of an unhealthy LPG engine).
"Rolling coal" isn't really a thing here in Oz but I can still smell a diesel long before I see it (or hear it, but I usually have my music up pretty loud).
e. It was basically Roddenberry's idealistic version of the USA in space. I mean, come on, the starship was named after one of the most staunchly pro-capitalist concepts ever.
Well, it's set in a post-scarcity communist utopia.The bridge crew was expressly made up of Americans, Russians and Japanese people in an era when fighting the "Japs" was a recent memory and the Russians were the new enemy, in a direct appeal to get over our differences. It featured the first inter-racial kiss as though black people and white people could get along (in spite of the still existent legal segregation). The one guy who was racist was shown as anachronistic.
But yeah, if you ignore everything and focus on the starship name, totally a paean to America!
It appears you know nothing about Communism, or Star trek.
The post scarcity thing was not introduced until TNG, there was still an idea of scarcity in TOS.
In TOS, the Federation represented the US with it's democracy and respect of freedom, the Klingons represented the Russians, barbaric and imperialistic. This is why The Undiscovered Country was produced during glasnost and the fall of communism. It was, at the time, quite subtle propaganda (well obvious propaganda to non-Americans like myself).
Also the society in TNG was far from communist. Post scarcity made working for a living no longer necessary, when you no longer need to work it is not communism. Communism would be where all Federation Citizens receive 5 metres of Andorian cotton each year and have to make all their clothes out of that.
Realistically, I doubt this will have much local effect. It's not 1965 anymore, and there are much more effective ways of distributing propaganda. It just sounds like the Party is trying to cover all their bases and sees an easy way to do so.
This sounds more like old fashioned political posturing. The Chinese government knows that their propaganda (which is designed for the Chinese psyche and attitude) will have no effect what so ever on Americans. Especially Americans in Washington. Its just a message from the Chinese Government saying that Washington is not outside their reach.
The US is doing exactly the same thing by sending Destroyers to sail past China's new islands or Russia sending an old bomber to buzz a US aircraft carrier.
Seriously. Go down to costco. Buy 10 boxes of full sized candies. It will cost you $200. Much less than a lot of crappy Halloween decorations. I guarantee you, the kids will remember. Often into adulthood. "There was this one house that gave out full sized bars!"
For bonus points, keep your receipts, and return any box you didn't end up opening.
You don't get it.
Halloween isn't about giving candy to children, it's about an aging generation attempting to hold onto the tattered memories of their youth by trying to recreate it.
The decorations are for the decorators who go mad because their life is dull, boring and conformist that a commercialised holiday is the only form of expression they're capable of.
Its the same with Christmas (which is much bigger in Australia than Halloween is), parents here in Australia have spent their Decembers driving kids nuts with insane amounts of decoration. So much so that a lot of Gen X/Y/Z are foregoing Christmas all together. Christmas, like Halloween has long since lost it's religious connection, it's not longer about the Babby Jeezus rather how many hideous plastic, bearded, white geriatrics you can cram in your yard and surround with garish, fire hazard lights.
Sorry for the rant... I'm not a Christmas person in case you haven't guessed. I've had Halloween in 3 countries, Australia, the US and Colombia. Colombia was by far and away the best experience because it wasn't commercial, it was just a big party in the streets and parks where everyone had fun. No need to hand out candy or anything like that. Australia is the worst because Halloween is an American holiday. No offence intended but traditionally it's never been done here in Oz and I don't think we should in the same vein as I wouldn't expect Americans to be comfortable celebrating Australian holidays like ANZAC day or the Queens Birthday (which has nothing to do with Her Majesty's actual birthday or the Queen in general for that matter).
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It's not ridiculously high. The man and his business's reputation cannot be restored to its former state and other than suffering a monetary slam, the dealer can do nothing to help with that.
Realistically he should have removed the logo himself (or saw too it that someone else did it) before selling the car.
This would be laughed out of an Australian court because it was the business owners responsibility to remove the logo and all used car sales are "as is" so conditions cant be imposed after the sale.
This guy traded in a Ford F250, which is a medium duty full sized pickup truck with a 300HP engine vs, the toyota Hiluz a light duty compact pickup with a 150 Hp engine. The toyota has a hard time hauling a 12.5mm machinegun, that antiaircraft gun would definitely break it's back, I'd bet the F250 doesn't last long with that thing onboard. The gun is going to have no accuracy, after the first round the whole truck is going to rocking all over the place.
Hi, sounds like you know fuck all about cars, first off, the Toyota Hilux (not Hiluz) is not available in the US. The Hilux has a 1 ton tray capacity and a 2.5 ton towing capacity (both of these are conservative estimates), It can do this with a 2.8L Turbo Diesel engine where as the F250 requires a 6.7L v8. This is because Americans don't know how to make engines.
The gun itself looks to be a ZSU-23-2 and that weighs less than 0.95 ton on its mountings, so less when it's mounted on a ute. So the Hilux would have no problems carrying that gun. Also the F250 has a tray capacity of 1.1t, so if the Hilux would have trouble hauling it, the F250 would as well.
The Hilux has been a staple of improvised armies (and legitimate ones) the world over not just because it's affordable, but because it's nigh upon unbreakable, economical, easy to fix and did I mention, nearly impervious to damage. Your F250 wouldn't last 10 kilometres in same conditions. Top gear tried to destroy a Hilux by:
1) Driving it into the ocean.
2) Hitting it with a wrecking ball.
3) Setting it on fire.
4) Blowing up a building with the car on top.
They also drove them to the North pole and up an erupting volcano.
OTOH, Richard Hammond nearly destroyed an F150 by driving it in the English countryside.
Unfortunately, extremists are learning they can create lots of chaos withOUT the grandiose 9/11-style plans, which often leave too many clues to hide. Many had speculated on this shift before, but it looks like it's now happening.
I'm going to bet this was done by bored kids or idiots rather than real extremists.
This kind of shit has been done for decades and I highly doubt it's increased in frequency since then.
Because, if we give up imperial measurements, the terrorists will have won!
The next political movement is to move away from a decimal based dollar, and start having 240 cents to a US Dollar! (or has that been done already?)
The thing is, the US never even adopted imperial measurements. The Imperial system was defined by the Weights and Measures act of 1824, some 50 years after their revolution so the US Customary Units aren't even as current as the Imperial system.
If the job wont go to Habib, bring Habib to the job.
Plenty of "H1-B/457/whatever your country calls it" visa abuse goes on.
The UK as a less regulated environment? Is this April first, or did I accidentally get to the Onion?
I think Google meant "less stupidly regulated". The UK doesn't mandate tyre pressure monitors because it expects people to be able to check their tyres on a regular basis on their own. Little things like that.
Also the UK has much better (read, trained and predictable) drivers than the US.
My first car was a 97 Honda Civic VTI, I bought it with 270,000 KM on the clock, sold it with 297,000. Current car is a 2001 Nissan 200sx (S15, yep the car so Awesome that America will not allow it's import) that's just ticked over 110,000 and as long as it's looked after, has at least another 200,000 left in it. I've seen several Toyota Hiluxes with over 500,000 on the clock and still going.
Japanese cars will keep going for ages, especially Toyotas, on very basic maintenance. European cars, not so much. Its rare to find an Astra with 150,000 K's on it, a lot of VW Golfs on their second tranny before 50,000 KM.
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It's not a backdoor, it's [redacted].
Unlock the power of rebranding... Call it a FREEDOM portal.
I suspect the manufacturers are realizing that quality cars == low turnover == infrequent return customers. They'd love to make the automotive equivalent of a "One Hoss-Shay" that self-destructs after 100k miles as you drive past the dealership.
You're basically describing European cars. Planned Obselecence is a big thing over there. They want to make sure things last just long enough to ride out the warranty period. Obviously not vital components like the drive train (well at least not intentionally) but things like sound proofing, electric seats and mirrors, heaters and other things that will annoy you when they break.
Japanese manufacturers dont have to worry about that as they get obsolescence built into the law in Japan (Shaken law). In this regard, they want their cars to be highly reliable as they want them to get a good resale price when exported out of Japan after 3- 5 years.
Plus Japanese businesses think for the long term. They know that a reputation for reliability is a huge advantage when it comes to new car sales.
I watch what I want when I want it, not what/when live feed tells me to.
Clearly you're not familiar with Apple, when you buy an Apple product, they tell you what to do and when.
The A-10 isn't quite so old, having been introduced in 1977, but it too is uniquely successful at its job, with no practical replacement in sight.
Ask any Army Soldier or Marine Rifleman that has seen combat and needed close air support what their favorite jet is, and you'll hear only one name.
Rather than talking about retirement, we should be building more of these two jets. Yes, I know it would be expensive to re-create all of the tooling. In my opinion, new production lines for them should be established and maintained in perpetuity as national treasures, at least until suitable replacements are found and validated by real-world experience.
(The C-130 should probably be included too, and would be much easier, since it is still in active production.)
The problem is, the B52 is without a role any more so they really should be retired.
The heavy bomber has gone the way of the battleship, it doesn't add any value to an air force hence this is why forward thinking air forces like the UK are retiring them and up and coming air forces like India and China aren't building them.
The B52 might look good bombing the dust of Bumfuckistan into, uh... dust, but it will be as useful as tits on a bull against any enemy that could shoot back. Its big, slow, inaccurate and shows up on radar like a flamboyantly gay, pro-choicer in the Westbro Baptist church.
The A-10 is a different story. That should be modernised (I.E. more efficient engines, avionics, sensors) but every modern aircraft seems to be suffering from feature creep, not just the F35 but the Eurofighter and the Russian PAK FA seems to be becoming a worse project than the F35 (which has at least delivered some airframes).
form a deportation task force to get rid of 11 million Mexicans? Fantastic!"
I bet these are the same people who will ask "why cant I get someone to clean my house or mow my lawns for less than $4 an hour" after all the eeeebil brown people are sent home.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
I don't care who said it. That quote is demonstrably false and the notion behind it is asinine. If you really need a gun to get people to speak "politely" to you then you are doing something REALLY wrong.
This,
An armed society is a scared society.
Politeness is a trait of how much redness a society accepts. It is never attached to how many guns are available as there are many societies where guns are readily available but are also incredibly rude (Russia for one).
Cheaper than Dirt is where most guys that really like guns go as you can get all the parts you need. Cabela's lets you fondle them and will have prices better than most gun shops. And ordering a gun online or from a shopping channel will have to be picked up with the added fees at a local gun dealer anyways so unless they are 30-50% less on everything than normal sources it will be an epic failure of a channel.
I had to wonder about this.
You can go to a store and buy something for $40, who would buy the same thing from a TV channel for six easy payments of $29.99 plus $49.99 shipping and handling.
Hey, but I think there'll be enough people who are crazy enough to support this channel. Mostly they'll be the anti-"gubbermint" types.
That is completely wrong. The market for this channel isn't hunters, rural or suburban gun owners, it's for nutbars who are too scared to go to a proper gun store.
What self respecting gun owner... or person in general would forgo paying $40 to get something from a proper store in favour of paying six easy payments of $29.99 + $19.99 shipping and handling? If you're a legit gun owner, its cheaper and easier to go to a store.
Only the people who want to think their purchases are under the radar. This may not be solely the demographic that kills for political belief or out of insanity but if we drew a Venn Diagram, there'd be a lot of overlap.
Or far more likely a gun. If you have easy access to firearms, so do the criminals and lets face it. If they have broken into your house they have the drop on you. Now I'd rather a potential inturder only be armed with a knife or club as that means even unarmed, I have a fighting chance against them. If they have a gun they will be the ones blowing you away. However you'll find that not having easy access to guns turns criminals into complete and utter cowards, so much so that home invasions are not a common thing here in Australia.
What is far more likely is that your own kid blows themselves away. Or yourself. Even the NRA loves to parade the fact that the most gunshot victims are the victims of their own gun.
The difference between us is that I don't buy junk.
As I said, the good stuff was always sent straight to auction where you pretty much buy it as is (meaning as per the description) so no difference there. People with things that are actually usable don't go to swap meets, the put it on Ebay.
Why would I go to a rainy field to buy a box of old SATA cables that _might_work when I can get new ones for the same price off any number of sites.
With your penchant for buying junk, I can imagine your house looks a lot like this.
The old swap meet is no more.
And good riddance. Why would I pack everything I want to sell in my car, drive to a field and get rained on while tight fisted arseholes gawk and argue over 50 cents then not buy anything even when they get their $0.50 discount when I can stick it all on Ebay/Gumtree/Facebook et al. and have the buyers come to me.
As for surplus, it's all online these days. The good surplus was always sent to auction anyway, but now thanks to Ebay and other sites just about everyone can auction off their excess crap. I can sell and buy from the comfort of my own home and no longer deal with the duck-arsed wankers that swap meets attract.
I've flown on an AA MD80 with an engine that had to be started with an external APU (starter was broken)
It should be noted that the parent means American Airlines, not Air Asia here. Air Asia never had any MD aircraft.
Air Asia operate A320's exclusively (excepting Air Asia X which operates A330's exclusively).
are half the reason why people think that diesels are stinky
The other two halves of the reason is because burned Diesel actually does smell. An unhealthy diesel is about the worst thing you can smell on the road (marginally beaten by the smell of an unhealthy LPG engine).
"Rolling coal" isn't really a thing here in Oz but I can still smell a diesel long before I see it (or hear it, but I usually have my music up pretty loud).
I can think of many times I am driving I wish others would get pulled over for driving too slowly :)
Having driven a lot in California recently, it's always a fucking Prius.
Well, it's set in a post-scarcity communist utopia .The bridge crew was expressly made up of Americans, Russians and Japanese people in an era when fighting the "Japs" was a recent memory and the Russians were the new enemy, in a direct appeal to get over our differences. It featured the first inter-racial kiss as though black people and white people could get along (in spite of the still existent legal segregation). The one guy who was racist was shown as anachronistic.
But yeah, if you ignore everything and focus on the starship name, totally a paean to America!
It appears you know nothing about Communism, or Star trek. The post scarcity thing was not introduced until TNG, there was still an idea of scarcity in TOS.
In TOS, the Federation represented the US with it's democracy and respect of freedom, the Klingons represented the Russians, barbaric and imperialistic. This is why The Undiscovered Country was produced during glasnost and the fall of communism. It was, at the time, quite subtle propaganda (well obvious propaganda to non-Americans like myself).
Also the society in TNG was far from communist. Post scarcity made working for a living no longer necessary, when you no longer need to work it is not communism. Communism would be where all Federation Citizens receive 5 metres of Andorian cotton each year and have to make all their clothes out of that.
Barbie of Borg was there only to rescue the failing ratings. The character added nothing of significant value beyond looking good in a tight jumpsuit.
It was the same with Jolene Blalock in ENT. Why the hell was a logic driven, emotionless Vulcan dressed in impractical tight clothes?
Even Marina Sirtis and Nichelle Nichols fulfilled the role of "eye candy" in their respective series.
The only real exception to this was DS9... or maybe it's just that I didn't find Terry Farrell that attractive.
This sounds more like old fashioned political posturing. The Chinese government knows that their propaganda (which is designed for the Chinese psyche and attitude) will have no effect what so ever on Americans. Especially Americans in Washington. Its just a message from the Chinese Government saying that Washington is not outside their reach. The US is doing exactly the same thing by sending Destroyers to sail past China's new islands or Russia sending an old bomber to buzz a US aircraft carrier.
Simple political dickwaving.
Seriously. Go down to costco. Buy 10 boxes of full sized candies. It will cost you $200. Much less than a lot of crappy Halloween decorations. I guarantee you, the kids will remember. Often into adulthood. "There was this one house that gave out full sized bars!"
For bonus points, keep your receipts, and return any box you didn't end up opening.
You don't get it.
Halloween isn't about giving candy to children, it's about an aging generation attempting to hold onto the tattered memories of their youth by trying to recreate it.
The decorations are for the decorators who go mad because their life is dull, boring and conformist that a commercialised holiday is the only form of expression they're capable of.
Its the same with Christmas (which is much bigger in Australia than Halloween is), parents here in Australia have spent their Decembers driving kids nuts with insane amounts of decoration. So much so that a lot of Gen X/Y/Z are foregoing Christmas all together. Christmas, like Halloween has long since lost it's religious connection, it's not longer about the Babby Jeezus rather how many hideous plastic, bearded, white geriatrics you can cram in your yard and surround with garish, fire hazard lights.
Sorry for the rant... I'm not a Christmas person in case you haven't guessed. I've had Halloween in 3 countries, Australia, the US and Colombia. Colombia was by far and away the best experience because it wasn't commercial, it was just a big party in the streets and parks where everyone had fun. No need to hand out candy or anything like that. Australia is the worst because Halloween is an American holiday. No offence intended but traditionally it's never been done here in Oz and I don't think we should in the same vein as I wouldn't expect Americans to be comfortable celebrating Australian holidays like ANZAC day or the Queens Birthday (which has nothing to do with Her Majesty's actual birthday or the Queen in general for that matter).