Halloween is the most overrated fake thing ever.

cj maxx

Halloween is the one holiday that’s a bit of fun !

BorneTobyWilde

cj maxx wrote: »

Halloween is the one holiday that’s a bit of fun !

Yea, it has memories for sure.


The games, the scares, the mischief , the bon fires, fireworks,

Dognapper

Christmas is worse , going to waste hundreds
of euro on something that gets played with once and is then forgotten about , dragging the decorations from the attic spending all day putting them up , getting woken up at 6 am to see what fat boy dragged down the chimney and then yet worst slop the shops can sell for dinner. If I didn’t have two kids I wouldn’t bother with it and I didn’t for many years , my wife bought me my first Xmas present 11 years ago and I bought her nothing

The Tetrarch

My dogs didn't like it. Wouldn't even go out for a Jimmy Riddle.

screamer

Just thought about all the waste we create with celebrating Halloween, hopefully this year it’s better than others, but between kids having to have shop bought outfits, new ones every year too as they outgrow them, all the plastic crap for the house and the pumpkins grown and wasted just to scoop them out and stick a candle in them, it’s mental. We really do need to take a long hard look at the crap we generate with nonsensical rubbish like Halloween.

bb1234567

Walked through loads of estates in South Dublin last night around 7-8 to go see the fireworks from Kingston HIll. Most were completely deserted, looked like Christmas day, saw absolutely no children trick or treating just a few groups of teenagers with bangers or around bonfires

Necro

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nj27

Dognapper wrote: »

Christmas is worse , going to waste hundreds
of euro on something that gets played with once and is then forgotten about , dragging the decorations from the attic spending all day putting them up , getting woken up at 6 am to see what fat boy dragged down the chimney and then yet worst slop the shops can sell for dinner. If I didn’t have two kids I wouldn’t bother with it and I didn’t for many years , my wife bought me my first Xmas present 11 years ago and I bought her nothing

Do you work hard at being miserable or does it come naturally to you?

Dognapper

Dognapper wrote: »

Christmas is worse , going to waste hundreds
of euro on something that gets played with once and is then forgotten about , dragging the decorations from the attic spending all day putting them up , getting woken up at 6 am to see what fat boy dragged down the chimney and then yet worst slop the shops can sell for dinner. If I didn’t have two kids I wouldn’t bother with it and I didn’t for many years , my wife bought me my first Xmas present 11 years ago and I bought her nothing

Them M&S Christmas food booklet is food porn. No need to take everything away from us poor creatures

chrissb8

Don't mind Halloween, not much fuss about it really and have some great memories of it as a kid. Get to dress up and head out if you want or stay in and act like it doesn't exist because it's only 1 day/night after all.

85603

Black Friday is the most overrated fake thing ever.

Fck that money spinning nonsense from a great height.

IAMAMORON

screamer wrote: »

Just thought about all the waste we create with celebrating Halloween, hopefully this year it’s better than others, but between kids having to have shop bought outfits, new ones every year too as they outgrow them, all the plastic crap for the house and the pumpkins grown and wasted just to scoop them out and stick a candle in them, it’s mental. We really do need to take a long hard look at the crap we generate with nonsensical rubbish like Halloween.

I just put it in the attic beside the bag of Christmas shight?

Pumpkins are biodegradable.

screamer

IAMAMORON wrote: »

I just put it in the attic beside the bag of Christmas shight?

Pumpkins are biodegradable.

Doesn’t matter if they’re biodegradable look up how much water is used to grow them, and they’re not even grown for food purposes. That’s just a scandalous use of resources when we have people starving in the world.

Jenna James

Bonus if there's a few decent horror flicks on terrestrial TV

IAMAMORON

screamer wrote: »

Doesn’t matter if they’re biodegradable look up how much water is used to grow them, and they’re not even grown for food purposes. That’s just a scandalous use of resources when we have people starving in the world.

I eat the insides myself, I am good like that.

Lovely roasted with cajun powder or chilli.

Capt'n Midnight

Dognapper wrote: »

Christmas is worse , going to waste hundreds
of euro on something that gets played with once and is then forgotten about

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keepalive213

Halloween is great, follow the consumer herd and buy a load of plastic tat which ends up in landfill.
The human virus rumbles on.

SMC92Ian

Halloween is? Eh have you heart of Christmas? Hate it.

Sugarlumps

I adore horror, so it's all good for the most part.

topper75

It is an agrarian harvest festival from a time when we were self-sufficient but quality of harvest could have meant life or death. It capped off a lot of hard work and there would be a feeling of gratitude and preparation for quieter darker months.

Hard for that to stay relevant in an age where the greater percentage of Irish people live in concrete jungles and pop down to buy avocados and golden kiwis in Tesco metro any old day of the year they like.

joeguevara

topper75 wrote: »

It is an agrarian harvest festival from a time when we were self-sufficient but quality of harvest could have meant life or death. It capped off a lot of hard work and there would be a feeling of gratitude and preparation for quieter darker months.

Hard for that to stay relevant in an age where the greater percentage of Irish people live in concrete jungles and pop down to buy avocados and golden kiwis in Tesco metro any old day of the year they like.

wtf is a tesco metro?

Hangdogroad

My aunt in her late 70s told me she never heard it called Halloween when she was growing up, they called it Snapapple Night.

WrenBoy

joeguevara wrote: »

wtf is a tesco metro?

A tesco in skinny jeans and a flowery shirt with a sharp haircut.

Eduard Khil

Says the wrenboy

joeguevara

Hangdogroad wrote: »

My aunt in her late 70s told me she never heard it called Halloween when she was growing up, they called it Snapapple Night.

Famous painting by Daniel Maclise depicting Snap Apple night.

https://thewildgeese.irish/photo/snap-apple-night

joeguevara

WrenBoy wrote: »

A tesco in skinny jeans and a flowery shirt with a sharp haircut.

Do we have them in Ireland?

topper75

joeguevara wrote: »

wtf is a tesco metro?

A small Tesco, no big carpark around it, limited stock range. Maybe they are called something different here. In London they were called metro. I've seen Carrefour metro shops in French downtown areas.

The ones I'm familiar with are in Westbury in Clare/Limerick border and on Headford Rd. in Galway.

Anyway the point is that harvest of food, as it relates to a time of year, is not relevant to modern Irish people. So Halloween ends up as a kind of pointless commercial Hallmark day built around shifting Asian tat and stuffing kids' faces with e-number laced junk. People like to boast that the festival originated here but the celebrations of today are nothing at all to do with that and are chiefly an American import.

Hotblack Desiato

Graces7 wrote: »

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.

Well, I didn't vote for him!

https://youtu.be/ZtYU87QNjPw?t=102