Halloween - Classic or Dud?

was in the supermarket last year around this time and wondered why all the young kids were buying boxes and boxes of eggs. they couldn't all be having omlettes for tea could they?

andy
(who calls it 'tea', not 'dinner' 8)

And yes, it can be commercial bullshit, but it doesn't have to be.

Mind you - young children knocking on your door is the closest a lot of us get to pure, unadulterated evil these days.

(Evil > being a bit annoyed).

http://www.kuci.uci.edu/~brianm/lancelockarm/acsdog.jpg

Is it an urban myth that 'E.T.' popularised the idea of Trick or Treating in the UK?

i am sure they're all law-abiding up the wazoo, but it def looks as if the motto is "yes yes yes we DO sell bomb-clusters banned in all civilised nations to kids as young as five, hurry hurry while stocks last"

Then again I am just a grumpy old curmudgeon, I get pissed off at carolsingers too. [shouts, out of tune] "uh WEWISHYERAMERRYCHRISTMAS fa la la gissafiverthenarright... charity? what, um, nah... I mean yerr, it's for a great charity, oh, ok, no, just for me, innit? know any proper carols, what, like jingle bells? c'mon, only fifty p? tchuh, well, fuck you then..." Oh no! I AM SO OLD AND GRUMPY ALREADY! Aaarghhhh...

western massachussets, october 2001

insert deems-style quizzical post here

this ones easy

For kids: classic
If you're a childless adult: duddddddd

north americans really like this "holiday" hey?

i carve a pumpkin most years and that's about the extent of it

actually actively hate fancy dress

yes i enjoy drawing pumpkins and witches and such with my niece, so i guess i'm not quite childless in this regard

also i find the notion of a parentally chaperoned mischief night amusing

Anyone who lets society restrict them to a single day when it's acceptable to dress up like a poop emoji is a damn coward.

this ones easy

For kids: classic
If you're a childless adult: duddddddd

― brimstead, Monday, October 31, 2016 2:34 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agree

i hate fun, btw

Yeah, y'all might actually be into Halloween if you give it a shot. I'm sure it's real easy to dress up like A SQUARE.

http://www.dreadcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/the-thing-costume.jpg

many shots given, no more shots needed

carving pumpkins is classic, actually. pumpkin carving parties are fun.

i carved the judas priest logo into a pumpkin once, it was awesome

lol mark s, is that you? Who is The Thing?

i am indeed the ultimate in alien terror

I don't remember snow on Halloween being a thing until recently. But in the last several years I can recall multiple instances (including today) wherein Halloween marked the first snowfall of the year. That's for sure a big fat DUD afaic. JUST WAIT LIKE ONE FRICKIN' DAY, STUPID WINTER.

My first Halloween in Chicago, 1993, it snowed several inches.

Fucking Classic for having an excuse to watch umpteen horror movies.

I watched Rob Zom's Halloween for the first time last night, thought it was pretty good.

The last time it snowed here on Halloween, 2019, there was enough that the ground was covered by the time trick or treaters came around.

feeling old because i'm exhausted by this? everyone stop saying 'spooky season'. every store stop putting up halloween displays the day after labor day (i.e. the first monday in september, for non-yanks). liking shitty horror movies is not a personality. LEAVE AUTUMN ALONE

Halloween rules and is the best consolation prize for summer ending

Ah, sorry, forgot who I was talking to

There was a pumpkin sitting on the bar, competing for space with the stacked empty glasses. The bartender moved it and said she would replace it. After her shift.

halloween is a thing i just don't care about

I mean autumn is the best season but halloween is like a celebration of everything that rules about autumn including the sad parts
you've got to strike the right balance between Irish halloween traditions and some Samhain stuff and sophomoric yank lunacy

i'm fine with giving halloween like, a week!

i resent having the entirety of october and much of september given over to it

(and tbf i appreciate that 15 years ago all the little girls could basically only be leia and now they have a lot more options)

this is the meteorological calendar I would ideally want:

summer - 10 mos/yr
halloween - 3 mos/yr
sledding - 2 weeks/yr

retail is crazy (plz stop putting out xmas stuff the day after halloween) - September is too early for halloween I agree!
b/c September is for pretending it's still august imo (sorry mookie)

I'm half with mookie and I fuckin LOVE Halloween. but Halloween is not the Spirit store opening, or Halloween candy for eating when it's still ninety-plus outside. Halloween deserves the turn of the season, that's part of it. people in shorts & tanks are inherently unspooky except in a very non Halloween way. 10/1 should be the kickoff by law and I'd be cool with pushing that to 10/7. we don't need two months for halloween, it spoils the fun of it

15 months?

Halloween deserves the turn of the season, that's part of it.

that's the most important part

10/1 should be the kickoff by law and I'd be cool with pushing that to 10/7

yeah that's exactly right

we don't need two months for halloween, it spoils the fun of it

idk I think I need more time for halloween tho

math class - 0 mos/yr

having spent almost a decade working in bookstores i at least appreciate that halloween, unlike christmas, doesn't involve six weeks of specialty music

i used to love christmas music and then i got broken

nightmares about lena horne whispering 'sweet . . . jesus . . . christ'

doesn't involve six weeks of specialty music

speak for yourself! I do the mash

yeah I wanted to do a horror soundtracks ballot poll for October tbh but I'm gonna be way too busy with the coven etc

you liken the transition between seasons to the lifting of a veil - that time is halloween
& that is the thing in the world I most want to celebrate
it's transitory - it has to be - but I wish I could stay there a while longer

oh i have a killer halloween playlist -- you're even on it for 'damn these vampires' and 'werewolf gimmick'

but it doesn't involve me having to listen to any vaguely christmassy shit at work for weeks on end. this is a union issue!

i mean there is *so much* bad xmas music

this halloween mix just does it for me every year

https://soundcloud.com/user-982273127/damyen-tha-wikkid-murdda-chylde-x-veggietales-halloween-mix-2019-safe-spooky-fun

(it's former ilx user and what's work)

AI : turn all Paul Stanley live enthusiasm into Christmas joy

liking shitty horror movies is not a personality

girl i beg to differ

otm

Overheard someone in the pub talking about attending a Halloween party, though at least its not that visible till October in the UK.

_ liking shitty horror movies is not a personality_

girl i beg to differ

I am finally liking Halloween as an adult (I loved it as a kid). I bought a huge amount of candy and sat out on my stoop to observe it all. I had 40 or more trick-or-treaters come to my door, since there is now a block party a couple of blocks away from me. They were almost all about 5 years old or under, some just toddlers, in amazing costumes - princesses, policemen, panda bears, astronauts, k-pop demon hunters etc., and they seemed dazed. It was great. I gave candy to the parents and tourists also.

The themes were fairy lights, tote bags, peanut allergies, and kids who were too young to say trick or treat