With it now actually being the Halloween month for some there’s more likely cause of screaming fits and peed pants than coming home to find your other half has dressed puppy up as a pumpkin (Latest Picks 22nd Sept. 2017):
Get ready for 150 million giant spiders creeping into our houses for mating season (metro.co.uk).
“Early October is prime time for male arachnids to seek out a sexy female—preferably in your attic, airing cupboard or even that corner of the shower near the ceiling. And this year, experts have warned that 150 million giant spiders will be invading our houses. These ones are dark, orangey-brown house spiders measuring around 7.5cm, and they’ll be getting down to it over the next few weeks…
Indeed, lying in bed now aware you are surrounded by giant copulating spiders. And, if the build up earlier each year is making it seem more and more like another commerce-friendly festival:
Halloween trees are back and they’re looking spookier than ever (metro.co.uk).
“We were super excited when last year, people introduced the concept of the Halloween tree. Trees were adorned with orange decorations, bats and witches and topped with skeletons and ghosts, making it the perfect way to add a little darkness to your living room. And they’re back this year. The best thing about the trees? You can go cheap with them.”
For sure, from the looks of things a change of decorations is all that is needed to keep it up until after Crimbo.
And on the topic of costume, why follow the increasingly offensively dressed crowd?
5 Halloween costumes that are current but NOT offensive (metro.co.uk).
“While it is always nice to have a topical costume, 2017 has been a bit of a buzzkill for funny but non-tragic news stories. There are still some though, so you can go to your parties without donning a ‘hilarious’ terrorist costume or parodying Dia de los Muertos.”
Parodying Dia de los Muertos (Latest Picks 18th Oct. 2016) being last year, this years offensive stakes so far being Mexican Wall border guards (Latest Picks 17th Sept. 2017) and lynched manikins in Georgia (Latest Picks28th Sept. 2017).
The “jumping-off” points picked following determined trends from last month—Pennywise and GoT’s Jon Snow (Latest Picks 8th Sept. 2017)—but adding pregnant Kardashians (Latest Picks 23rd Sept. 2017) and “leather wearing, diamond eating, bad-ass” look what you made me do T-Swift (Latest Picks 6th Sept. 2017).
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