Frighton (Brighton given a spooky temporary name by GTR)

[Techniquest]

It is not ridiculous when you look at it in the context of capitalism which is all about encouraging consumption and spending money. If the Halloween (or any) festival is extended then it means people can be encouraged to buy more useless paraphenalia which will get discarded when it is over. We have it with Black Friday which is just another way of getting people to spend money they don't have by extending the pre-Chritsmas spending frenzy by an extra week or three.

From a pure business point of view, then yes it makes sense. From a 'normal' point of view, which doesn't focus on over-consumerism and such like, then no it just makes no sense. In the modern era, we should be discouraging wasteful behaviours, not promoting it!

I could discuss my opinion on Black Friday, but I'll be here a while with that! Let's just say that encouraging people with little money to spend even more than they could ever realistically afford to pay back is ridiculous. I have more views on that, but for the sake of my own sanity I'll steer clear for now!

 

[Silver Cobra]

So, from the looks of things based on what has been posted in this thread, the 'Hogsmeade' on the destination displays of the Class 700 I took a picture of yesterday was pure coincidence rather than related to this event. It does make me wonder then what it was actually in relation to, like another upcoming event or something.

**EDIT: A quick Google search reveals it's related to Harry Potter. So I'm guessing a Harry Potter event is coming up soon.

 

[Bishopstone]

It's a shame Halloween has become such a big, commercial thing.

Come this time of year, what was wrong with the innocent pleasure of gathering as a large group under nightfall and burning effigies of a religious minority?

 

[jon0844]

So, from the looks of things based on what has been posted in this thread, the 'Hogsmeade' on the destination displays of the Class 700 I took a picture of yesterday was pure coincidence rather than related to this event. It does make me wonder then what it was actually in relation to, like another upcoming event or something.

**EDIT: A quick Google search reveals it's related to Harry Potter. So I'm guessing a Harry Potter event is coming up soon.

That's odd as they said they were only changing the CIS, not the displays on trains (and not the announcements, which of course would have required recording new sound samples as Text To Speech isn't used).

 

[Cowley]

Well that’s probably it for this thread now that Halloween is over for another year. No doubt we’ll be having another thread like this next year though.