"Halloween?" or "Halloween."
 

The only thing I liked about Halloween is that it delayed the inevitable Christmas merchandise rush, but not any more in recent years. My local Sainsbury's started selling Christmas stuff 3 weeks ago.

There are literally mince pies on the shelf next to "spooky" chocolate cake rolls.

It's not a "scary" costume, but for the first time in years I have a costume planned for the day.

A TF2 Engineer. I have roughly the body structure for it (Though I could stand to lose a few pounds to really look the part) and I already have a hardhat and two tool belt pouches. Just got some articles of clothing and equipment to find.

And I was wondering. Should I get a massive haircut for the costume, or should I just let it grow and say I'm wearing this hat?

You may just want to be the Pyro or Heavy if you can't get the Engie shape right.

See, I'm not fat enough for the Heavy. I am overweight, but not big enough for him. And I'm not going to gain weight for a costume. And I already bought a hard-hat, dude. I'm not turning back now.

It's not like I'm enormous to the point that I'll make the costume look horrible. Especially once I have all that other stuff on, like the overalls.

so at what point did halloween costumes change from "monster" to "relevant pop culture reference"? Im curious.

also, costume already picked, see: avatar

http://cdn.costumesupercenter.com/cs...32/R889807.jpg

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I dunno, man. I can't think of any real monstrous costumes that I can pull off, and I plan to use this costume for something else after Halloween, so two birds with one 200 dollar budget, man.

However, for something that's both a reference and a monster, I do think that it'd be interesting if I could do a Halloween costume.

I don't think those shoes are the best choice for tree climbing.

Mulletize me Captain!