Summer was yesterday here and it was 81℉ (29℃). Today it's autumn with a temperature of 65℉ (18℃). No worries, we'll still experience a few more days of summerlike temps this coming week. On the other hand, the leaves are beginning to come down from Bozo's sickly tree and Mother Nature has decided to blow at least half of them into my yard.
shareI love Fall and Winter in LA, they are just like summer 😀
Do you wish you could experience a variety?
shareNope. If I want snow the mountains are less than 1 hour away, and we do have rain in January and February. That's enough variety for me.
The blue skies are why I love it here so much, they put me in a good mood.
That would drive me crazy. As much as I hate spring and summer, the variety is nice and makes fall/winter that much better.
shareIt's spring in Aus, but that said, I love Autumn, it's a great movie season! Halloween movies are pretty fun.
shareA couple of years ago, I was discussing Halloween with a user from Australia (I can't remember if it was here at MovieChat or somewhere else). They were saying that Halloween wasn't a big deal in your country.
I can see that being the case since Halloween is tied to autumn and harvest season, making it more of a Northern Hemisphere thing. This user was saying that retailers have recently begun pushing this holiday on the populace, even though interest is fairly low. Is this still going on? Is the retail industry still trying to create an artificial need just to make money?
Save the holiday season.
Yeah, it's become much more of a thing given the big commercial push of Halloween products and I guess kids and adults alike wanting to dress up, but I still think it's not really that important to most people.
shareIt's not about the holiday, it's about money. So pathetic.
Halloween was meant to be a fun event for kids and families. The holiday was ruined in North America when the U.S. Congress extended that pointless Daylight Savings Time into the first week of November; Canada then followed suit. There were rumors that the big candy manufacturers were pushing this, thinking it would increase the sales of Halloween treats. What they forgot was Halloween events takes place after dark. With the clocks set incorrectly, kids lost an entire hour of trick-or-treating time, especially when the holiday fell on a week night with school the following day.
My guess is that they lost sales, and this is why we are now seeing Halloween candy displays up in stores as early as July. October 1 is plenty early to be promoting Halloween; when these displays are up in the summer it cheapens and trivializes the holiday experience.
Save the holiday season.
From my understanding, this made sense in a time when candy was a treat. But I think a lot of parents let their kids have far greater access to sweets, so it's not as big of a prize when Halloween rolls around, it's more about the competition of getting the most sweets even if you don't want to eat them, which is again based on the greed of companies rather than the joys of eating.
shareYes. It's important for these companies to instill greed in children. It helps the bottom line. Kids must be brainwashed so when they become adults they will continue to mindlessly spend money.
Save the holiday season.
Is it cold there during autumn?
shareAutumn is really wacky and transitional here, at least in Melbourne. It can be wet and it can be warm, but it's not predictable or consistent. It feels like an in-between season, where one transitions into another at an unsteady pace, rather than it's own season. Sure we have the leaves changing and all that, but in terms of the weather, it's not fixed in any way, every day is different and some days change to the extreme multiple times.
shareThat's kind of like how it is here. Sometimes it's t-shirt weather, sometimes sweater weather and at times even a winter jacket.
shareTotally unrelated to the OP but I’d like to suggest a very excellent book to you… The Fatal Shores: The Epic Of Australia’s Founding by Robert Hughes (86)
Wow, I’ve always had a fascination with Australia and I sure would like to see it someday!
This history book was so good and interesting I’ve read it twice and bought a couple more copies to give to friends. It’s very good👍
I don't know if it's being recommended to me, but I may check it out anyway, I've been getting back into reading lately so who knows, thanks for the rec.
shareSeason of the Witch
shareTrying to rally "summer haters"? I see that as justification to hate attention whores.
shareYou say that as if I care what you see it as.
shareAn attention whore feigned response.
shareCool. Are there any other things I don't care about you wish to discuss?
shareWhy am I not surprised that a pathological liar on this board is also factually wrong about something? "I'm Canadian. We don't do morbidly obese here." Recognize that comment?
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2024/03/message-from-the-minister-of-health-and-minister-of-sport-and-physical-activity--world-obesity-day-march-4-2024.html
Do you really expect the Minister of Health to say that Canada is healthy? He'd be out of a job.
Here are neutral sources.:
https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/
https://data.worldobesity.org/rankings/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/obesity-rates-by-country
But it's nice to see you so sensitive that your country ranks considerably higher than Canada.
What a stupid and twisted response. You're suggesting his position is dependent upon emphasizing the negative and deceiving the populace.
shareI'm suggesting he's propping up his purpose especially considering everywhere else the numbers are nowhere near what he's claiming. 4 different links refuted his incorrect statement.
shareAnd the one link I posted refutes your absurd, factually false claim that morbid obesity does not exist in Canada.
shareBut I thought you didn't like when people brought up old posts, so why did you bring up mine? Honestly, I don't care, but it's hypocritical.
But there's also this from the Canadian government that says that
close to 1/3 of adults are obese, which is a far cry from 2/3.
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/5742-overview-weight-and-height-measurements-world-obesity-day
Furthermore, the criteria for what is considered obese in Canada was changed in 2020 (4 years before your link). They state that they don't consider people obese strictly on their weight.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53656651.amp
A claim you made about a week ago can hardly be considered an "old" post.
There you go, obfuscating again with your usual anal-retentive bs. I've been consistently and specifically commenting about "morbid obesity", while you keep harping about obesity in general and trying to downplay it. That just increases my suspicion that maybe you really are morbidly obese.
You didn't send me any evidence to support that Canada was morbidly obese, so I figured you didn't care about the "morbid" part.
And also, whether a post is a week or a month old, your standards of what is considered old doesn't mean we all have to follow it.
Damn this is a weak and twisted attempt at logic! 🙄
Then surely you would be able to show me in your link where they discuss morbid obesity.
sharePathetic! It's like I would have to prove there's a difference between being thin and being emaciated. It's just a given, actual logic.
shareAnd yet you write this:
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There you go, obfuscating again with your usual anal-retentive bs. I've been consistently and specifically commenting about "morbid obesity", while you keep harping about obesity in general
Another lame, twisted attempt at logic. It makes absolutely no sense.
shareYou:
And the one link I posted refutes your absurd, factually false claim that morbid obesity does not exist in Canada.
There you go, obfuscating again with your usual anal-retentive bs. I've been consistently and specifically commenting about "morbid obesity", while you keep harping about obesity in general
Pathetic! It's like I would have to prove there's a difference between being thin and being emaciated. It's just a given, actual logic.
Even more anal-retentive bs! You've been throwing up a massive smoke screen to avoid addressing "morbid obesity", which as I said, raises my suspicions that maybe I hit an unintentional bulls eye with that comment. It would explain a lot of things, namely your hateful spirit.
shareThe links I showed you clearly show the obesity rate in Canada is considerably lower than the Canadian Health Minister claimed. Canada ranked as low as 86th in one link. If we are talking about morbid obesity, that obviously means that the amount would be even less than obesity in general. Because the obesity rate is low here, and even less for morbid obesity, it's accurate to say that we don't do morbid obesity here. But that doesn't change the flip-flopping I called you out on.
It would explain a lot of things, namely your hateful spirit.
You have repeatedly mentioned over the years, even made thread topics of how you hate people, spring, summer, sunlight...all the things most people love to some extent. This is how I see you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB2CNr692RE
shareSo because most people like something, I'm supposed to like it too? You can go with the crowd if you want, but that lacks any uniqueness.
But this is how I see you:
https://img.freepik.com/premium-photo/older-man-prison-jumpsuit-using-laptop-while-sitting-bed-jail-cell-with-metal-bars_124507-316205.jpg
Hah! Coming from a misanthrope who's obsessed with being popular here. That epitomizes going with the crowd. I'm very nonconformist, rebellious. You've got things all twisted and turned around again.
That pic is actually a compliment. What a classy looking elderly gent. Hope I have a beautiful head of white hair like that some day. The Bible says it's " a crown of glory."
You quoting the bible is like Hitler marrying a Jew.
shareWhat would you even know about the Bible, you hateful lowlife? Making a comparison to Hitler is such a trite internet response and you want to try to make a point about uniqueness.🙄 You're a non-stop, walking contradiction.
share"What would you even know about the Bible, you hateful lowlife?" - Guy who went to prison who has many enemies on this site.
shareMany? Exaggerate some more, pos. Also a guy that went to prison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAWXyzVWwRc
shareIf you don't care, then why this long, drawn out, superfluous response. And at least I didn't claim you were "attacking" me simply because you referred to me as hypocritical. 🤨
shareI said "I don't care what you see it as." But I like to keep old people happy by making them feel like they have someone to talk to.
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