Who hates bloody halloween???

I couldn't give less of a shít about this 'holiday'. Tonight we drove around in my friends car and egged a few young 'uns, but that was about it and I was home by 12. Couldn't care less, I'm completely indifferent about this holiday, it's just another night out but with nowhere to go

Funkstard wrote:

I couldn't give less of a shít about this 'holiday'. Tonight we drove around in my friends car and egged a few young 'uns, but that was about it and I was home by 12. Couldn't care less, I'm completely indifferent about this holiday, it's just another night out but with nowhere to go

would you throw stuff at passers by on a normal day. the fact that you only do it on halloween means that you are not as indifferent to the occasion as you say.

I would actually have good reason to hate Halloween as my grandfather died on Halloween when I was 11. And I detest the crap with the fireworks and eggs, I don't see the attraction of ruining the night (6 week period from oct1 to half way through nov) for everyone else. But other than that it is one of my favourite holidays.

Up to 700 years ago Halloween was the biggest festival in the country. Samhain was the Celtic new year, commorating the death of the sun. The day was considered to not actually be part of the rest of the year and because of this the dead were believed to have the power to visit earth. People would give offerings to the "ghosts and spirits" who might visit in the hope that the visit would be benevolent. In some areas the poor would dress as demons and take the offerings. That is where trick or treating comes from, it is not an American thing. It is Irish and British. It was brought to America by Irish immigrants.