People putting up Halloween decorations nearly a month too early are risking life and limb come the revolution.
WTF is wrong with people?
Halloween decs always went up on the morning of the 31st and came down on the morning of the 1st.
Here’s the root of my big gripe: the theft of time.
There’s no time to exist in between the “things”. Just as soon as the back to school stuff has been cleared off the shelves in Tesco (where it appeared before the schools even broke up) the Halloween stuff is moved from where it’s been since fucking August and put in prime position and the Christmas stuff is brought out to replace the gap the Halloween stuff left and then on the 1st November that’ll all be moved and we’ll bring out the Easter eggs and then, and then, and then.
The corporate theft of time is relentless.
Yes! He looks terrifying too, great job 🙂
Baldrick: In that case, I shall prepare my Turnip Surprise.
Edmund: and the surprise is…?
Baldrick: …there’s nothing else in it except the turnip.
Edmund: So, in other words, the Turnip Surprise would be…a turnip.
Unless you’re going for ‘decaying corpse’ as your theme, this needs to go into the freezer until the 31st.
He shall not be named! Looks ace xD
What’s always good about carving your own is that the blood stains really add a particular authenticity
Well, that’s a turnip for the books.
It does look a little bit like a shrunken head.
We always did turnips as a kid. You could eat a bit of the insides while you do it. I’m disappointed by pumpkins
10/10
Who’s your knife dealer mate?
Proper Halloween not like the seppo pumpkins.
It’s a turnip and I will die on that hill!!
man’s work making one of them. 🖕pumpkins
Theres no way you still have all your fingers.
oOoo I’ve got that same knife
Ahh I love the tale of Stingy Jack! Love swing carved turnips
Supposedly they used to call these deaths heads and travelers would carry one on a stick at night to scare off thieves. They are pretty scary in the dark compared to the pumpkin ones, I would definitely shit myself if I saw one coming towards me across a dark field.
Burning turnip is the smell of halloween.
I want carved a pineapple for Halloween. It looked evil.
That’s a swede you turnip
Neep heads
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A proper neep is lovely and soft and can easily be done with a spoon. Try a butcher or farmers market.
I remember carving one of these with my dad once. He got fed up hacking away with a knife so went out to the garage and came back with a power drill and spade bit for drilling wood. He went at the turnip with the drill and sprayed turnip peelings all over the kitchen, up the walls, cupboards, bits stuck to the ceiling. Everywhere. 8 year old me thought it was hilarious until mum came in wondering what the noise was.
Any suggestions on how to carve out the middle bit? Last time I tried I ended up using a Dremel but their must be an easier way!
As long as your turnip isn’t shaped like a thingy!
Swede Swede Swede
I think you’re risking your soul too.
In my area it’s traditional to carve a mangelwurzel.
Looks pretty swede
No because it’s only the 4th of October
Oh god, yes. It’s expected in my family. Pro-tip for carving though? Use an electric drill. And for atmosphere use a coloured battery-powered tea light (you can get ’em in red or green on Amazon) or if you’re feeling artsy-fartsy, pin a bit of coloured cellophane to the inside of the lantern and pop in a battery-powered tea light.
wait are turnips and swedes the same?! I would call that a swede.
In Somerset the greengrocer’s always sold mangles (fodder beet) for carving punkies. They were like wood. I bought one one year and it turned out to be a sugar beet, I got covered in sticky black goo carving it. I’d call the OP one a swede, turnips are small and white.
When pumpkins and gourds were bought back to the British Isles for the first time, I bet our ancestors were well chuffed they didn’t have to carve Jack o Lanterns out of turnips anymore 🤣
We try to make our lanterns out of stuff grown locally, a few years back we couldn’t get pumpkins or turnips, so we opted for what WAS in the fields. Here’s our Sugar beet lantern!
In case anyone is thinking of giving it a go I’d wager sugar beet is harder than even pumpkin to carve! I ended up using a woodworking gouge.
It used to take hours but the smell once you had a candle lit inside of it (usually a stick candle or b’day candle) was infinitely better than pumpkins.
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How they should be. Stupid modern pumpkins.
People putting up Halloween decorations nearly a month too early are risking life and limb come the revolution.
WTF is wrong with people?
Halloween decs always went up on the morning of the 31st and came down on the morning of the 1st.
Here’s the root of my big gripe: the theft of time.
There’s no time to exist in between the “things”. Just as soon as the back to school stuff has been cleared off the shelves in Tesco (where it appeared before the schools even broke up) the Halloween stuff is moved from where it’s been since fucking August and put in prime position and the Christmas stuff is brought out to replace the gap the Halloween stuff left and then on the 1st November that’ll all be moved and we’ll bring out the Easter eggs and then, and then, and then.
The corporate theft of time is relentless.
Yes! He looks terrifying too, great job 🙂
Baldrick: In that case, I shall prepare my Turnip Surprise.
Edmund: and the surprise is…?
Baldrick: …there’s nothing else in it except the turnip.
Edmund: So, in other words, the Turnip Surprise would be…a turnip.
Unless you’re going for ‘decaying corpse’ as your theme, this needs to go into the freezer until the 31st.
He shall not be named! Looks ace xD
What’s always good about carving your own is that the blood stains really add a particular authenticity
Well, that’s a turnip for the books.
It does look a little bit like a shrunken head.
We always did turnips as a kid. You could eat a bit of the insides while you do it. I’m disappointed by pumpkins
10/10
Who’s your knife dealer mate?
Proper Halloween not like the seppo pumpkins.
It’s a turnip and I will die on that hill!!
man’s work making one of them. 🖕pumpkins
Theres no way you still have all your fingers.
oOoo I’ve got that same knife
Ahh I love the tale of Stingy Jack! Love swing carved turnips
Supposedly they used to call these deaths heads and travelers would carry one on a stick at night to scare off thieves. They are pretty scary in the dark compared to the pumpkin ones, I would definitely shit myself if I saw one coming towards me across a dark field.
Burning turnip is the smell of halloween.
I want carved a pineapple for Halloween. It looked evil.
That’s a swede you turnip
Neep heads
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A proper neep is lovely and soft and can easily be done with a spoon. Try a butcher or farmers market.
I remember carving one of these with my dad once. He got fed up hacking away with a knife so went out to the garage and came back with a power drill and spade bit for drilling wood. He went at the turnip with the drill and sprayed turnip peelings all over the kitchen, up the walls, cupboards, bits stuck to the ceiling. Everywhere. 8 year old me thought it was hilarious until mum came in wondering what the noise was.
Any suggestions on how to carve out the middle bit? Last time I tried I ended up using a Dremel but their must be an easier way!
As long as your turnip isn’t shaped like a thingy!
Swede Swede Swede
I think you’re risking your soul too.
In my area it’s traditional to carve a mangelwurzel.
Looks pretty swede
No because it’s only the 4th of October
Oh god, yes. It’s expected in my family. Pro-tip for carving though? Use an electric drill. And for atmosphere use a coloured battery-powered tea light (you can get ’em in red or green on Amazon) or if you’re feeling artsy-fartsy, pin a bit of coloured cellophane to the inside of the lantern and pop in a battery-powered tea light.
wait are turnips and swedes the same?! I would call that a swede.
In Somerset the greengrocer’s always sold mangles (fodder beet) for carving punkies. They were like wood. I bought one one year and it turned out to be a sugar beet, I got covered in sticky black goo carving it. I’d call the OP one a swede, turnips are small and white.
When pumpkins and gourds were bought back to the British Isles for the first time, I bet our ancestors were well chuffed they didn’t have to carve Jack o Lanterns out of turnips anymore 🤣
Ude s drill with a scroller bit.
Donald Turnip
https://preview.redd.it/jisqsmfen4tf1.png?width=1224&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2f4e6843e99bcda64c0393bc773419c4f0bd30a
We try to make our lanterns out of stuff grown locally, a few years back we couldn’t get pumpkins or turnips, so we opted for what WAS in the fields. Here’s our Sugar beet lantern!
In case anyone is thinking of giving it a go I’d wager sugar beet is harder than even pumpkin to carve! I ended up using a woodworking gouge.
Mine got hooked on meth
https://preview.redd.it/7hf8ymq3o4tf1.jpeg?width=2880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97dbf46aca863c665c2096aa7099f8953ef5e104
Peaky Blinders Turnip
https://preview.redd.it/z0ds4k9ap4tf1.jpeg?width=664&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca6e321e9530eca1f01500f114fbd59988643c2a
It used to take hours but the smell once you had a candle lit inside of it (usually a stick candle or b’day candle) was infinitely better than pumpkins.
Why are you doing it on 4th October?
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If I did that, I would be in A&E.
I thought /r/valheim is leaking
You need a specially sharpened spoon for that
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