as you get older do Halloween and Christmas kind of lose there magic?

Cedrus · 31-10-2012 10:37PM

The Six Ages of Santa
You are Frightened of Santa
You Believe in Santa
You don't Believe in Santa
You are Santa
You look like Santa

Lucas Castroman · 31-10-2012 10:38PM

There are few things more depressing than awaking Christmas morning and realizing you're not a child anymore

TheUsual · 31-10-2012 10:40PM

Cedrus wrote: »

The Six Ages of Santa
You are Frightened of Santa
You Believe in Santa
You don't Believe in Santa
You are Santa
You look like Santa
You get so damn old you forget what the sixth age was.

FYP

storker · 31-10-2012 10:44PM

I've always enjoyed both festivals. Christmas is extra magical since we've had kids old enough to look forward to Santa. I hate the long lead-in though. I love Christmas, but only when it is Christmas...not before bloody Halloween for crissake. Not even in November. When I am emperor, all mention of Christmas will be banned until...hmmm... let's say 1st of December.

My eight-year old daughter doesn't like it either. Her logic: seeing lots of Christmas stuff makes you think Christmas is really close when it actually isn't and that's not nice.

So there.

Stork

31-10-2012 10:55PM

flutterflye · 31-10-2012 11:01PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

But erm yea, the magic of both is dead for me now. It's my birthday today and I could care less.

Is it actually your birthday?
If so - Happy Birthday

Well I was a kid, so they were both great.
Then I was a teenager, so Halloween was great in a drunken haze type sense, not so much xmas.
Then I had kids, so both great again

I'd imagine though, if I didn't have kids so young, there'd be a few years in there where they'd be a bit crap alright.

Larianne · 31-10-2012 11:05PM

Madam_X wrote: »

Yeh Christmas must be damn hard for people who have bad family stuff going on, when there is so much emphasis on family.

Yeah, I'd quite like to hibernate this year. From now till end of January.

benwavner wrote: »

I love Halloween, always have.

Tonight I made some kids cry by jumping off my garage with a petrol chainsaw while they knocked on the door, it's all part of the fun though....I did give them extra sweet though.

Christmas, I used to love it but the feeling fizzled out. I would love to get it back again but I doubt I will.

I was gonna put on a scary clown costume but the feckers called too early. :mad:

entropi · 31-10-2012 11:08PM

Hallowe'en is an amazing time. I'll never grow tired of it

Agricola · 31-10-2012 11:10PM

Xmas and Halloween are magical when you're a kid. They then lose their lustre when you grow up and just become an excuse to get pissed. Then if you have children you have the best of both worlds because you get to re-live the magic all over again through your kids, while being pissed.

Hackysack · 31-10-2012 11:13PM

I dunno, I still really like Halloween because everyone dresses up still (i'm in my mid twenties) which is good to see. It's not as sweet-filled but it's still a lot of fun to see people making the effort.

Christmas is also great but one of the main reasons I like it so much is that EVERYONE comes home and spends time back where you're from. It's a great big session and you catch up with all of your old friends and family.

It's not the same kind of magic as when you were a child - it's definitely different, but that's not a bad thing imo.

RobbingBandit · 31-10-2012 11:21PM

It definitely depends on where you live, me a north dublin suburb with lots of kids having fun knocking on doors while their 16-25 year old scanger parents gets drunk/stoned and make some more free loading kids or throw fireworks at each other.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 31-10-2012 11:27PM

Larianne wrote: »

I was gonna put on a scary clown costume but the feckers called too early. :mad:

Little fuppers! How scary is the costume?

Larianne · 31-10-2012 11:30PM

benwavner wrote: »

Little fuppers! How scary is the costume?

Oh was gonna be the make-up moreso than anything else...

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 31-10-2012 11:32PM

Larianne wrote: »

Oh was gonna be the make-up moreso than anything else...

Ugh, I don't want to know, clowns freak me the fup out!

Cill94 · 31-10-2012 11:34PM

Christmas has definitely lost a lot of its magic for me. Still a very nostalgic and generally cheery time of year though

Halloween is as epic as ever. Don't think I'll ever get sick of dressing up like a bloodsucking satanic freak.

TeddyTedson · 31-10-2012 11:34PM

flutterflye wrote: »

Is it actually your birthday?
If so - Happy Birthday

Well I was a kid, so they were both great.
Then I was a teenager, so Halloween was great in a drunken haze type sense, not so much xmas.
Then I had kids, so both great again
I'd imagine though, if I didn't have kids so young, there'd be a few years in there where they'd be a bit crap alright.

31/10/1986
Thank you

Well needed early night now.

PizzamanIRL · 31-10-2012 11:37PM

For Halloween yes. I'm 21 and it was only 5 or 6 years ago when I used to love the fireworks, now i hate the sound of them.

Christmas is still good though, family time etc.

ScumLord · 31-10-2012 11:56PM

They're both now consumerist holidays where consumers can be parted from their money with pointless tat. There's no such thing as magic, humbug on all of it.

Shryke · 01-11-2012 12:35AM

Every new day is as unmagical as the last.

chickendinner · 01-11-2012 12:41AM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Christmas is still good though, family time etc.

This

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q

Irish Guitarist · 01-11-2012 12:52AM

Christmas started to lose its magic when my aunt died on Christmas Eve when I was about thirteen. It totally lost its magic when my father became terribly sick at Christmas time in 1999. On New Years Eve that year the doctor told my family that my father wouldn't last much longer. He died four days later.

I always thought Halloween was a load of crap.

who_me · 01-11-2012 12:55AM

If "Christmas" lasted just a week or two I'd probably love it to bits. But the 3 month season of marketing & shopping can go to hell in a handbasket. Just seeing the decorations go up this week is making me grumpy.

petersburg2002 · 01-11-2012 01:46AM

Enough of the fireworks already. The dog is hiding under the kitchen table.

Washington Irving · 01-11-2012 01:47AM

They're not what they used to be, still love both of them though

They kinda lost some of their magic when I became old enough to realise Santa only comes to children and the monsters on Hallowe'en only hide under kids' bed

Sorcha16 · 01-11-2012 01:48AM

Shryke wrote: »

Every new day is as unmagical as the last.

That's the spirit!

Munstermissy · 01-11-2012 01:49AM

I tolerate Halloween but absolutely hate Christmas!! I don't even bother putting up a tree anymore, don't send cards either.

King Of Wishful Thinking · 01-11-2012 01:57AM

Well, growing up, Halloween for me meant cans of Beer and walking around my home town from fire to fire and then getting up to some filth with girls who had bad parents. So yeah, I do kinda miss the magic of that.

Tonight, seen a firework display, attended a pretty cool bonfire and then seen Halloween in the cinema. Seemed magical enough, I love Halloween.

Someone mentioned girls dressing like sluts, and yeah, few people I was with commented on that also. Girls as young as 12, 13 were wearing what looked like playbunny outfits and french maids with horns. Wow, from what I recall, when I was there age, the costumes were all Witches and the like, does seem to have been some what sexualized for whatever reason.

In Temple Bar around midnight also and lets just say Catwoman has been represented girls, maybe a different choice next year.

PrettyBoy · 01-11-2012 02:39AM

opinion guy wrote: »

Halloween is way better than it used to be if you ask me

Have to strongly disagree with you on that one, was driving around for about half an hour earlier tonight and saw 2 bonfires, one was ok, the other was dire. When I was 15-16 we used to collect wood for weeks leading up to Halloween, go to other estates to rob their wood, me and 2 mates actually camped out all night on Halloween eve one year to make sure all the wood we collected wouldn't get robbed. The night itself would be brilliant, everyone in the estate would be around the bonfire, there'd be loads of kids running around trick or treating, bangers and fireworks would be going off constantly through the night.

When it got late we'd wander off to bonfires in other estates, end up cracking on with huge groups of people, getting chased, running a muck for the night. Halloween today isn't a patch on what it was 10 years ago. I blame kids today and the internet, glued to their phones, they're more interested in updating their Facebook status than they are in having a mad night with their mates.

Plus, and this is something I've always hated, Irish channels never show decent scary movies on Halloween night. Looked at the listings today and all that was on was 'Date Night' - RTE can't show Michael Myers one night of the year?

girl2 · 01-11-2012 02:44AM

PrettyBoy wrote: »

Have to strongly disagree with you on that one, was driving around for about half an hour earlier tonight and saw 2 bonfires, one was ok, the other was dire. When I was 15-16 we used to collect wood for weeks leading up to Halloween, go to other estates to rob their wood, me and 2 mates actually camped out all night on Halloween eve one year to make sure all the wood we collected wouldn't get robbed. The night itself would be brilliant, everyone in the estate would be around the bonfire, there'd be loads of kids running around trick or treating, bangers and fireworks would be going off constantly through the night.

When it got late we'd wander off to bonfires in other estates, end up cracking on with huge groups of people, getting chased, running a muck for the night. Halloween today isn't a patch on what it was 10 years ago. I blame kids today and the internet :pac:

Plus, and this is something I've always hated, Irish channels never show decent scary movies on Halloween night. Looked at the listings today and all that was on was 'Date Night' - RTE can't show Michael Myers one night of the year?

Well hi - it's been like that for weeks here - was just thinking you described my area to perfection……are we neighbours?

You wanted to have seen the size of the bonfire here (a disgrace for the environment, but that's another story)……tyres and pallets stacked maybe 40-50ft high.

(Still - I hate Halloween).

Washington Irving · 01-11-2012 02:44AM

Surprised so many people lit bonfires on Hallowe'en. We used to have one on Bonfire Night on the 23rd June, but no one I know had one at this time of year

as you get older do Halloween and Christmas kind of lose there magic?

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