Halloween is the most overrated fake thing ever.

AMKC

Thankfully it's almost over and is only 1 day.

Dravokivich

Just like any other festival we celebrate?

MrStuffins

AMKC wrote: »

Thankfully it's almost over and is only 1 day.

Nowhere near as overrated as the movie The Big Lebowski!

Rodney Bathgate

We need to go back to bobbing apples etc.

Rodney Bathgate

MrStuffins wrote: »

Nowhere near as overrated as the movie The Big Lebowski!

Or pulp fiction

Seamai

I blame the Yanks, they made a complete mess of it.

Eduard Khil

MrStuffins wrote: »

Nowhere near as overrated as the movie The Big Lebowski!

Yeah, well that's your opinion man!!!!!

Eduard Khil

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Or pulp fiction

Say that again I DOUBLE DARE YOU

Karlos77

Many bonfires in dublin ???

AMKC

Dravokivich wrote: »

Just like any other festival we celebrate?

But Jesus did really happen lol so that means Christmas and Easter are real. Someones imagination more like is where it happened.

riclad

It's for kids , dressing up, and for shops to sell costumes and masks.
And for kids to set off fireworks or make bonfires.
I.m not sure I see the point of kids knocking on doors asking for sweets
If you are over a certain age is meaningless.
I just associate it with the noise of random bangers going off

Skeetur

I like Halloween. It's just 1 day, there's no family dinner crap. Just carve a pumpkin, buy some sweets and watch **** movies.

whisky_galore

Decorate your house with Chinese made plastic shyte. Shop bought "decorations" were unheard of years ago.

blindside88

As a child and teenager I really enjoyed Halloween. Collecting for the bonfire, fireworks displays and trick or treating for hours. Now though it’s an absolute pain, I’ve a dog that loses her mind at the noise of fireworks which seem to start early September now. In our last house we had between 100 and 150 trick or treaters call. This house we only had about 30 which is grand. Obviously none this year

Timberrrrrrrr

AMKC wrote: »

Thankfully it's almost over and is only 1 day.

You think it's the most operated fake thing ever?

Wait till you meet your first girlfriend and have to suffer through a valentines day.

Xtrail14

We need to get wet about Christmas for the next 3 months now.

kenmc

Halloween is the best of the "holidays". Sweets, fire, scary things. Love it. Pi5sed to have to take all the decorations down in the morning

con747

Only 53 days 23 hours 54 minutes to go now.

Mal-Adjusted

I love Halloween. It's the only thing keeping Christmas at bay.

Ikozma

It's awful ****e tbh,a total waste of time

Church on Tuesday

I'm always suspicious of those who don't like Halloween.

An Ri rua

MrStuffins wrote: »

Nowhere near as overrated as the movie The Big Lebowski!

Dude!!!?

An Ri rua

Halloween II is quite freaky though

An Ri rua

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

You think it's the most operated fake thing ever?

Wait till you meet your first girlfriend and have to suffer through a valentines day.

Depending on the orientation of the poster, 'their' first girlfriend could indeed be a Halloween moment.
How very Halloween of you though #LesbianVampireNunsWithBigGuns

DrSpongeBobz

well its fun for kids just like every major holiday except maybe New Years countdown.

bassy

got that many knocks on the door tonight unreal and unbelieveable,parenting ye.
ended up opening window all night throwing out bars taytos etc
any one else had the halloween knocks

bassy

bassy wrote: »

got that many knocks on the door tonight unreal and unbelieveable,parenting ye.
ended up opening window all night throwing out bars taytos etc
any one else had the halloween knocks

None. Not one.

jam_mac_jam

Not one.

Jimson

How many cans did ya drink tonight?

Citizenpain

Zero

bassy

Jimson wrote: »

How many cans did ya drink tonight?

zero

DrSpongeBobz

Time for bed buddy.

Purple Mountain

DrSpongeBobz wrote: »

Time for bed buddy.

Ye

Mulbert

None.

bassy

good job i had stacked up on banshee bones

Airyfairy12

AMKC wrote: »

But Jesus did really happen lol so that means Christmas and Easter are real. Someones imagination more like is where it happened.

To be fair Jesus has nothing to do with it.
Christmas and Easter are originally pagan festivals adopted by Christianity to convert pagans. Easter marks the Spring Equinox, Christmas marks the Winter Solstice.
Halloween is traditionally a harvest festival marking the end of Autumn and beginning of Winter and a celebration of the dead. Traditionally it was celebrated by lighting bonfires which were believed to create a spiritual cleansing. They believed on Samhain the vail between the mortal and spiritual realm was thinned, spirits and fairies could easily pass through into the mortal realm. People would dress up in costumes so as to confuse the fairies and spirits and protecting themselves from harm.
I think its quite special that we still hold onto traditions and festivals which originated in Ireland thousands of years ago.

It goes back so far that some Neolithic tombs are aligned with the Sunrise on October 31st.

Id argue that in Ireland Halloween has much more importance than Christmas or Easter.

DrSpongeBobz

All that came after Jesus.FAKE NEWS

bazz26

OP, if it weren't for Halloween then there would be no opportunity to start a thread complaining about it.

Graces7

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

To be fair Jesus has nothing to do with it.
Christmas and Easter are originally pagan festivals adopted by Christianity to convert pagans. Easter marks the Spring Equinox, Christmas marks the Winter Solstice.

Is very much to do with Jesus

Christmas is marked as the official birthday of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour. All royalty have official birthdays

So we can unite in our deep thankfulness.

Easter too is totally valid as being full of Jesus. At the right season.

Also right and good to place these on other past festivals.

Del2005

DrSpongeBobz wrote: »

All that came after Jesus.FAKE NEWS

Halloween came before Jesus, it's just his religion hasn't stolen this celebration yet.

gimli2112

fathers day, mothers day and black friday, whatever they call the monday are far more atrocious. holidays literally made up so you can spend your hard earned cash on shyte

whiskeyman

I missed all the slutty, sexy outfits.






Giggidy!

Airyfairy12

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

To be fair Jesus has nothing to do with it.
Christmas and Easter are originally pagan festivals adopted by Christianity to convert pagans. Easter marks the Spring Equinox, Christmas marks the Winter Solstice.
Halloween is traditionally a harvest festival marking the end of Autumn and beginning of Winter and a celebration of the dead. Traditionally it was celebrated by lighting bonfires which were believed to create a spiritual cleansing. They believed on Samhain the vail between the mortal and spiritual realm was thinned, spirits and fairies could easily pass through into the mortal realm. People would dress up in costumes so as to confuse the fairies and spirits and protecting themselves from harm.
I think its quite special that we still hold onto traditions and festivals which originated in Ireland thousands of years ago.

It goes back so far that some Neolithic tombs are aligned with the Sunrise on October 31st.

Id argue that in Ireland Halloween has much more importance than Christmas or Easter.

Fascinating, thank you.

joeguevara

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

To be fair Jesus has nothing to do with it.
Christmas and Easter are originally pagan festivals adopted by Christianity to convert pagans. Easter marks the Spring Equinox, Christmas marks the Winter Solstice.
Halloween is traditionally a harvest festival marking the end of Autumn and beginning of Winter and a celebration of the dead. Traditionally it was celebrated by lighting bonfires which were believed to create a spiritual cleansing. They believed on Samhain the vail between the mortal and spiritual realm was thinned, spirits and fairies could easily pass through into the mortal realm. People would dress up in costumes so as to confuse the fairies and spirits and protecting themselves from harm.
I think its quite special that we still hold onto traditions and festivals which originated in Ireland thousands of years ago.

It goes back so far that some Neolithic tombs are aligned with the Sunrise on October 31st.

Id argue that in Ireland Halloween has much more importance than Christmas or Easter.

When the Roman Empire conquered the Celts they amalgamated the Samhain festival with two of their own ones. Feralia I think was to remember the dead and the other was to worship Pomona which is depicted by an apple. This probably is the reason my memories of Halloween as a kid is trying to bite an apple out of a basin full of water or from an apple dangling from a string in the door way.

Not something I researched but was bet in to me by a crazy 4/5 class teacher who spent more time on Norman's, Celts, pagans, motte and baileys and vikings than irrelevant things like spelling, maths, comprehension and measurements.

Airyfairy12

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Id argue that in Ireland Halloween has much more importance than Christmas or Easter.

Why?..Are they not all kind of as significant as each other, marking the cycle through the year/seasons?..

My least favourite night of the year. Just had beers with my brother and avoided the messiness of it all.

First Up

Giving kids an excuse to dress up is a good thing but I feel sorry for the cats and dogs

Quantum Erasure

Most overrated, fake thing, ever? I thought that was democracy

IAMAMORON

I like it. I like the way it indicates the start of the dark nights and the spookiness. Last night was a proper scary one with big winds and bits and bobs of rain. Samhain is a great and ancient time, it is physically older than Christmas, so as a festival it technically deserves more respect.

I missed the bonfires last night, I like the concept of a community descending around a massive fire erected to cast away evil spirits. It is soothing.

2lazytogetup

haloween is my faviourite festival. it has that darkness to it. great horror books and movies.

people dressing up, funny costumes.

and when in college, goign to parties to see the ladies dressed up in slutty costumes.

Mad_maxx

the one thing i like about Halloween is that its much shorter than christmas