clamhan - Slashdot User

Comment Re:As every year... (Score 2) 249

by clamhan on Thursday October 27, 2011 @01:32PM (#37858422) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Are You Haunting Your House This Hallowe'en?

...sign from the local police saying "NO TRICK OR TREATERS HERE" will be going up in the window.

Speaking as a Brit, I feel Hallowe'en here is talked about far more than it is actually celebrated.

Willing to be proven wrong!

No, you're speaking as an Englishman. We've always celebrated Halloween in Scotland.

The U.S. got their Halloween customs from us.

by clamhan on Monday May 18, 2009 @05:17AM (#27992859) Attached to: Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans?

I now know why obesity is a problem in the modern world.

It's not been brains or an opposable thumb that got us to the top, it's just been a good appetite.

Humanity has eaten its way to the top of the simian evolutionary tree.