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[–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago

Use it as a helmet at the Motocross!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Well that escalated quickly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

No Paige, don’t!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I bet the inside of a pumpkin feels like... really really good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago

Not as good as a warm apple pie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I hear coconut is a real treat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

That's what the pumpkin told them, too!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

So almost nobody read the whole image?

[–] Cethin 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What makes you think that. Is there something odd that people aren't commenting on or something? Maybe calling the inside guts? That's the only weird thing I recall seeing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

A 'smash party' could sound like some sort of euphemism, I suppose. I'm guessing that's what they're referring to. They've just got a much dirtier mind than the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 hours ago

That's the only reason it got my upvote

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

Chickens do like to eat pumpkin. I always get 5-6 pumpkins and after they are done as decoration, they're fed to the chickens. Not at all wasted.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

Planter doesn't work very well, they shrivel and rot within a few weeks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

At a medium pace.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman were travelling abroad and needed a place to sleep for the night. They stopped at a farm and asked the farmer if they could sleep there. The farmer said "Yes, you can. But all of you must promise not to have sex with my beautiful daughter." They all solemnly agreed and were shown to their room for the night.

One by one though, each of them was overcome by temptation and sneaked down the hall to farmer's daughter's bedroom to have their wicked way with her.

I'm the morning they came downstairs and were greeted by the farmer. "Good morning!" he said, "I hope you all slept well. Take a basket each and go out and pick something from my farm to eat for breakfast". Being very hungry from their travels they all eagerly went out to look for their favourite food.

The first to return was the Englishman. The farmer was waiting for him - with a loaded shotgun. "I know what you did last night!" shouted the farmer, pointing his gun at the Englishman. The Englishman threw his hands up in the air, dropping the basket of strawberries he'd picked for breakfast. "Bend over and put those strawberries up your arse and let that be a lesson to you!" The Englishman did as he was told and pushed the strawberries up his bum. Seeing that the farmer was satisfied the Englishman ran out the door and off into the distance.

Next to return was the Scotsman. "What did you pick for breakfast young man?" asked the farmer. "I picked carrots" answered the Scotsman. "Well put them up your arse you dirty bastard!" screamed the farmer, pulling out the shotgun "I know what you did last night!" "Please dont shoot me sir!" Cried the Scotsman, as he painfully pushed each of the carrots up his bum before making a break for it and running out of the house.

Last to return was the Irishman, carrying his basket on his back. "You dirty lying son of a bitch!" screamed the farmer "You had sex with my daughter last night!" "Now tell me what you picked for breakfast."

The Irishman heaved his basket onto the floor with a thud.

They both looked down at its contents.

"I picked a pumpkin sir."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I was thinking more like a 1Guy1Jar type of thing, but with a pumpkin. At least it won't shatter into glass shards this time!

(I can still clearly hear the sound of the glass after all these years...)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago

I mean you could start by composting and not throwing into a landfill… many cities accept with leaf collection

[–] [email protected] 77 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

It’s not a waste if its sole purpose for existing is to rot on porches. It’s just a bonus if you can squeeze out another use, like becoming an emergency room curiosity.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 14 hours ago (12 children)

It's still waste even if the primary purpose is wasteful.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Of all the things to worry about when it comes to waste Halloween doesn't even scartch the surface for me

Still waiting on someone to talk about how fishing nets are 50% of the plastic in our oceans

[–] Cethin 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Well, this is talking about food waste, not pollution. Even if it rots and doesn't do anything, worst case it's a pile of bio-matter. The land, and everything involved in growing them could be used for actual food though, which could decrease food prices potentially.

Still, it's not a big deal and there's bugger fish to fry, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be considered. Changing your mindset can make other issues and solutions more obvious.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

Halloween food - no.

Halloween plastic decorations, wrapping, costumes.... yeah, we can do without

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago

Time to ties some mini gourds into an anal bead 😔

[–] [email protected] 26 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

complain about throwing a billion pumpkins into landfill

Order a billion tonnes of plastic shite off Temu which then breaks, and throw it into landfill

Fucking keep chucking the pumpkins, guys

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

It's not like it's one or the other. We need to improve in both of those areas.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

At least the pumpkins are compostable.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 14 hours ago

Last year I placed two dozen or so pumpkins around my property and got up on the roof and started shootin with my AR until the neighbor called, claiming some maniac was on my roof shootin a gun so I went inside cuz that sounded pretty spooky smh can’t have nothin nice no more

[–] [email protected] 25 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

If you know someone with chickens, give your pumpkins to them. The chickens love to eat the insides all the way to the edge of the rind. It is also supposed to be a natural dewormer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Farm period. Cows/goats/horses/pigs all love pumpkin. Plus when they crap out the seeds, you're going to find a bunch of pumpkins in the fields

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

It's disgraceful that we grow food to deliberately throw away.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Eh it's better than making plastic shite to deliberately throw away

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

No, we shouldn't be doing that either.

[–] Cethin 4 points 4 hours ago

Two things can be bad.

I hate the "this thing is worse so let's not talk about that" mentality, as if you've never held two opinions at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

beats straw, which is fully inedible

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

Imagine if we just didn't grow them in the first place since clearly people don't want to eat them anyway...

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