Does anyone actually like halloween?

L.Ball

Bangers from September onwards, bonfires in the middle of housing estates, robbed cars, underage drinking. Does anyone outside a certain cohort actually enjoy any of this? Even the kids banging on doors now, if I pounded on someone's door and shouted through letterboxes I be told where to go. I dunno we can't ban it but it seems like a chore of a "holiday" that no one besides scrotes enjoy.

EmmetSpiceland

Love it. Scary books, scary films, kids dressing up, lots of sweets. Really liking this new “development” of putting decorations up for more than a day.

Would prefer it a bit dryer but it is what it is. Fireworks haven’t started round here yet, would prefer if they could be more of a “controlled” show, like they do in England for November 5th but that’s mainly for the dog’s sake.

thegame983

When you were a kid it was great because you dressed up

As a teen it was hands down the highlight of the year for drinking and maybe dropping the lamh

Going into town was always great cause the women were dressed extra slutty.

Now? Maybe it's a bit annoying but it's younger peoples turn to have fun now.

KilOit

Loved it as a kid and teenager and hope future generations enjoy it too, don't agree with pulling the ladder up once I had my fill

SEPT 23 1989

Disconnect your doorbell and turn off your lights you miserable fcuk😀

There was a wonderful sense of lawlessness that night as a child years ago

Huge fires and explosions

paradise lost for the majority of kids today including my own children

you only get it now in the more lively areas in the city

dazzler101

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Sounds like Where I spent it last year in Dublin. I genuinely love it, and the build up to it.

endacl

I came to know it as ‘disconnect doorbell day’. Lights off at the front of the house, chill out at the back. We bought a place in Spain a few years ago, and spend every Halloween there, where there’s no need to disconnect the doorbell.

Hypocrite bit: Used to love it as a kid, back in the ‘help the Halloween party’ days. Pre-imported ‘murican trickortreat shyte. We’d only knock on the doors where other kids lived, and if you couldn’t assemble your costume from bits around the house, you’d no costume.

odyssey06

Just because Michael Myers went on a rampage through your street, posters think its ok to bad mouth Halloween.

Snowflakes.

Or is a Puritan thing... ban Halloween and burn witches.

Leg End Reject

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Black sack and whatever random mask took your fancy and you were sorted. I can still remember the awful feeling of my breath condensing on the plastic.

El_Duderino 09

I see it as an important hostorical celebration and part of our celtic culture.

It's the end of autumn and the "death" of the growing season. Its the beginning of the long nights and short, cold days. It's nice to think of being close to dead relatives as they "veil" between the living and the dead is shallowest on Halloween eve.

I don't live in an area with much antisocial behaviour so it's probably harder to focus on the cultural aspect of Halloween if it causes people to act the maggot. But I enjoy it.

Quitelife

It’s been hijacked by scumbags in many towns and the majority of people dread Halloween - might be great crack in affluent parts of Dublin but in many rural towns and villages it’s a free pass for scumbags of Irish ethnicity to intimidate the fcuk out of the community

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the good old days 😎

I couldn’t abide the masks, your own breath making your face hot and wet was beyond bearable.

Feisar

Loved it as a kid, loved it as a teen, loved it as a young man chasing skirt, we loved the kids coming trick or treating, love bringing our lads trick or treating. (I buy a few scratch cards and give them out to the houses we trick or treat at). Love the wee games as well, ducking for apples etc.

Jinglejangle69

Where can I get some cosmics and blackcats!!

Photobox

Love it. Love this time of year in general before the madness of Christmas. Love horror films too. Cant wait to do some binge watching at the weekend.

lawred2

A few horror movies and a stream of Simpsons Halloween specials with the kids... Love it.

I like this time of year in general.

Rubberchikken

Don't mind it but then I work every Halloween night so don't have to deal with kids or fireworks or any door bell ringing.

Went with our kids plus the few neighbourhood kids, very small road of houses, every Halloween years ago.

They loved the dressing up, black bags, plastic masks from local SuperValu and eating loads of sweets.

I'd usually have the apples and oranges pawned off on me and of course all the stories from each house. Compliments on costumes, who gave the best treats etc.

Good fun.

taxAHcruel

We do not do Santa with the kids at Christmas so the fantasy and imagination aspect of Halloween is quite a good outlet.

Tend to go all out on it with my kids as it has them quite creative on a lot of things. We go all in on costumes and things at the house.

We are doing XMen related this year - daughter is doing Storm so a hell of a lot of make up and mad hair stuff going on. My baldy head seems to have automatically made me the professor but at least I get a chair to move around in so I can sit back and glide along. My son is making for a seriously cool looking Gambit though with the coat the hair the stick and a deck of cards he can do some good tricks with, and working on his accent. Then we have my next daughter as rogue and a toddler Wolverine.

iniscealtra

Love Halloween, growing up - games, bonfire at neighbours house (rural area) and dressing up. Pumpkin carving competition is fun. 🎃 Still dress up. Games. Decorations. Have a Halloween get together-autumnal feast. What’s not to like. Was at a neighbour’s bonfire 🔥 last year. Again rural area.

Kids are at the get together so no trick or treating really.

whisky_galore

Dislike it. Pretending to be Americans with all the pumpkin nonsense and plastic decorations which did not exist when I was a kid.

Just like Paddys night and NYE, it's morphed into another excuse for little pricks to act the bollix. Would be no harm for a few of them to lose a limb or an eye with their dodgy fireworks. Would serve them right.

Mister Vain

I suppose it depends on where you live. There used to be some carnage in my area but it seems to have quietened down in the last few years. It's more Americanised now. Some people really go all out with the decorations.

Lewis_Benson

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Do you live in Tallagh?

Cluedo Monopoly

Halloween is class. I am convinced that the kids love it more than Xmas now. Heading out with your friends on a spooky wild night trick-or-treating and gorging on sweets is better than turkey and ham with the family.

Sgt Hartman

Thankfully it’s fairly calm in my area on Halloween but my poor Jack Russell gets terribly spooked by the bangers. We got him a noise cancelling doggy hood that we put on him in the evenings which seems to be doing the trick. I always have a good stock of sweets and treats in, and I have a little witches cauldron on a chain which I fill with the sweets and bring to the door when the kids call. I used to love calling around to the houses myself when I was a kid with my pound shop mask, black bag suit and Crazy Prices bag for the sweets.

Cluedo Monopoly

We used to call trick or treating "mumming" back in the early 80s. We were "mummers" out looking for money, sweets, fruit, monkey nuts. You might only get a few sweets (unlike today) and I remember being happy to get a mandarin orange! Kept away the scurvy don't you know.

El_Duderino 09

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You can focus only on the americanised version or you can celebrate the Irish historical version. But you can't really complain about how other people celebrate.

I often think about how some people worry a about multiculturalism and Ireland losing its cultural identity. I think the greatest threat to Irish culture is Irish people not practicing it, not foreigners having other cultures. Samhain has loads of culture, folktales, traditions and fun. You don't have to learn about the culture and practice it, but at least know that you can either use it or lose. They are the options

Photobox

Yes and pumpkins were originally turnips in Ireland. Looking forward to carving the pumpkins too!

Photobox

The best guilty pleasure horror film for me is Halloween 3, season of the witch. It got planned by critics but has become a cult classic, and we have our own great Dan O Herlihy in it.

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Can you still buy fireworks on Henry Street and Moore Street? Used to be tonnes of them when I was young. Thought it was all gone.

breezy1985

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Yep the good old days.

https://youtu.be/QA0zu5gDhkw?feature=shared

That site also has some great clips of kids from "Kyavan" talking about "Hallow weeeen" in good old fashioned black bag costumes.

coogy

From a commercial perspective, Halloween is the one time of year that frustrates me the most. Does the actual event of Halloween (let's face it, apart from the mind-boggling scum-baggery, you could whittle the experience down to a maximum of two hours of mostly kids in fancy dress having their goody-bags filled) justify the insane lead-in time with every retailer milking it for all its worth?

Stop it. Please.