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What are your thoughts on Halloween? (1 Viewer)

Halloween is like snow.

When I was a kid, I loved both. Cruising around with your friends, getting free candy. Days off from school unexpectedly, sledding, snowball fights.

When I was a young man, I liked both. Going to halloween parties, hooking up with drunk chicks in skimpy outfits. Getting the occasional day off of class/work.

As a grown man/homeowner, they both suck. Getting up every 14 seconds to answer the door to hand out candy. Worrying about the house getting egged or your tires deflated. Shoveling the driveway, navigating dangerous streets in order to get to work.

I moved to Florida in large part to get away from snow permanently. Since I'd have to move to another country to get away from Halloween, I tolerate it. Has no real redeeming value unless you're a kid, single, enjoy wearing a costume to work, or are some kind of occult fanatic.

 
Hated it even as a kid.

I think I mentioned this in another anti-Halloween thread last year (maybe EG's?), but I unknowingly moved onto a street that is apparently "the" street for Halloween. We gave away 500 pieces of candy last year (just one per kid) and still had kids coming up after we ran out. The day after, I found an empty beer bottle in my front lawn. Don't mind me, I will both give your kids free candy, and clean up your trash. You're welcome.
I could have sworn I'd started a thread on this a while ago, but couldn't remember.

 
Ehhhh. My wife absolutely loves it, we have a big ol tupperware box full of decorations and a trip to Party City is pretty much a given every October 1st for more crap to put up.

Back in the day, sure, it was awesome to see chicks dressed up as slutty-whatevers. And of course it was just another reason to get drunk and high, so there was that.

Now, with 2 kids under 4, it's all about them. My daughter loves to dress up even if it's not Halloween, so just another day for her.... except she gets candy in a plastic pumpkin.

I'll say, though, that I agree with the curmudgeon here a bit... the teenager WHO ISN'T EVEN IN A COSTUME coming up to my door to get free candy? Yeah screw you kid. I purposely buy a bag of crappy candy to give those bastards. :)
I got screwed a little bit when I was younger because I was fairly tall. By the time I was about 11 or 12, I was already roughly 5'7" or so, and frequently as tall as the adults whose houses I visited for candy. I remember one year, some d-bag literally growling at me : "What'd you DRIVE here?" as he threw a handful of candy corn into my bag. I didn't know which was worse, the fact that I was being castigated for trick or treating or the fact that he grabbed a handful of God-forsaken candy corn with his bare mitts and dropped it in my bag like I was actually going to eat it.

After that, I stopped trick or treating. Many of my friends kept going until 13 or 14.

 
Ehhhh. My wife absolutely loves it, we have a big ol tupperware box full of decorations and a trip to Party City is pretty much a given every October 1st for more crap to put up.

Back in the day, sure, it was awesome to see chicks dressed up as slutty-whatevers. And of course it was just another reason to get drunk and high, so there was that.

Now, with 2 kids under 4, it's all about them. My daughter loves to dress up even if it's not Halloween, so just another day for her.... except she gets candy in a plastic pumpkin.

I'll say, though, that I agree with the curmudgeon here a bit... the teenager WHO ISN'T EVEN IN A COSTUME coming up to my door to get free candy? Yeah screw you kid. I purposely buy a bag of crappy candy to give those bastards. :)
I got screwed a little bit when I was younger because I was fairly tall. By the time I was about 11 or 12, I was already roughly 5'7" or so, and frequently as tall as the adults whose houses I visited for candy. I remember one year, some d-bag literally growling at me : "What'd you DRIVE here?" as he threw a handful of candy corn into my bag. I didn't know which was worse, the fact that I was being castigated for trick or treating or the fact that he grabbed a handful of God-forsaken candy corn with his bare mitts and dropped it in my bag like I was actually going to eat it.

After that, I stopped trick or treating. Many of my friends kept going until 13 or 14.
:lol: I would have given you a Twix... unless your costume was "bored teenager who'd rather be playing Xbox but want free candy". I'm fine with giving anyone in a costume some of the good stuff. It's the tools in jeans and a hoody that get the Bit-o-Honey.

 
Meh. It's a holiday based in devil worship. Mix that with kids wanting candy from strangers who are in costumes so that their identity is hard to figure out and girls with daddy issues who decide that being a slut this one day is ok but the rest of the days its sexist to treat them like that and the whole thing is just a mess of sin and sadness.

:ph34r:

 
Ehhhh. My wife absolutely loves it, we have a big ol tupperware box full of decorations and a trip to Party City is pretty much a given every October 1st for more crap to put up.

Back in the day, sure, it was awesome to see chicks dressed up as slutty-whatevers. And of course it was just another reason to get drunk and high, so there was that.

Now, with 2 kids under 4, it's all about them. My daughter loves to dress up even if it's not Halloween, so just another day for her.... except she gets candy in a plastic pumpkin.

I'll say, though, that I agree with the curmudgeon here a bit... the teenager WHO ISN'T EVEN IN A COSTUME coming up to my door to get free candy? Yeah screw you kid. I purposely buy a bag of crappy candy to give those bastards. :)
I got screwed a little bit when I was younger because I was fairly tall. By the time I was about 11 or 12, I was already roughly 5'7" or so, and frequently as tall as the adults whose houses I visited for candy. I remember one year, some d-bag literally growling at me : "What'd you DRIVE here?" as he threw a handful of candy corn into my bag. I didn't know which was worse, the fact that I was being castigated for trick or treating or the fact that he grabbed a handful of God-forsaken candy corn with his bare mitts and dropped it in my bag like I was actually going to eat it.

After that, I stopped trick or treating. Many of my friends kept going until 13 or 14.
:lol: I would have given you a Twix... unless your costume was "bored teenager who'd rather be playing Xbox but want free candy". I'm fine with giving anyone in a costume some of the good stuff. It's the tools in jeans and a hoody that get the Bit-o-Honey.
Part of the problem that year is that I was sporting my favorite costume, a full blown Gene Simmons get-up. With the shoes adding a few inches and the hair one or two more, I probably topped out at about 6' 1". With the makeup obscuring my face as well, I probably looked like I was about 19 in that guy's defense.

No excuse for bare-handing from a bowl of candy corn, though. If you're going to pass out that garbage, at least have the common courtesy to get individually-wrapped packets for Christ's sake.

 
Ehhhh. My wife absolutely loves it, we have a big ol tupperware box full of decorations and a trip to Party City is pretty much a given every October 1st for more crap to put up.

Back in the day, sure, it was awesome to see chicks dressed up as slutty-whatevers. And of course it was just another reason to get drunk and high, so there was that.

Now, with 2 kids under 4, it's all about them. My daughter loves to dress up even if it's not Halloween, so just another day for her.... except she gets candy in a plastic pumpkin.

I'll say, though, that I agree with the curmudgeon here a bit... the teenager WHO ISN'T EVEN IN A COSTUME coming up to my door to get free candy? Yeah screw you kid. I purposely buy a bag of crappy candy to give those bastards. :)
I got screwed a little bit when I was younger because I was fairly tall. By the time I was about 11 or 12, I was already roughly 5'7" or so, and frequently as tall as the adults whose houses I visited for candy. I remember one year, some d-bag literally growling at me : "What'd you DRIVE here?" as he threw a handful of candy corn into my bag. I didn't know which was worse, the fact that I was being castigated for trick or treating or the fact that he grabbed a handful of God-forsaken candy corn with his bare mitts and dropped it in my bag like I was actually going to eat it.

After that, I stopped trick or treating. Many of my friends kept going until 13 or 14.
:lol: I would have given you a Twix... unless your costume was "bored teenager who'd rather be playing Xbox but want free candy". I'm fine with giving anyone in a costume some of the good stuff. It's the tools in jeans and a hoody that get the Bit-o-Honey.
I actually really like/liked Bit O' Honeys, but I would throw it on the floor for a Twix. :lol:

 
Also, if the crowd at Halloween Horror Nights on Sunday is any indication, a LOT of people REALLY like Halloween. I never saw so many people dressed in all black with orange or pink hair and sporting pentagrams in my life. And bear in mind, I've seen King Diamond live on multiple occasions and Slayer about 30 times.

 
Also, if the crowd at Halloween Horror Nights on Sunday is any indication, a LOT of people REALLY like Halloween. I never saw so many people dressed in all black with orange or pink hair and sporting pentagrams in my life. And bear in mind, I've seen King Diamond live on multiple occasions and Slayer about 30 times.
I took the family to Great Adventure two weeks ago and the place is already decked out for spooky nights or whatever they call it and I'd say a good 30-40% of the people there had some kind of halloween garb on.

 
Also, my favorite Halloween ever (I think it was 1990) was spent tripping balls at the J. Fenimore Cooper rest area on the NJ Turnpike waiting for the cops to arrive because my buddy had asked for "four of regular" and the guy working the pump* thought he said "full of regular" and we didn't have enough money to pay for the gas after partying in/around Glassboro (now Rowan) from 4 PM-2 AM. I was there for four hours tripping on 3 hits of blotter acid dressed as Sam Kinison, walking up to cars that pulled in for gas and doing my (spot-on) Kinison impression : "Check the OILLLL ??!! Top off YOUR FLUIDS ?!??! HUH ?!!! OH OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !" while the guy that overfilled our tank ran around trying to stop me and threatening me with further legal action. Cop showed up at sunrise, listened to our story and told us to give them $4 and leave. My buddy threw the $4 at the attendant and dropped a "Pleasure doing business with you, f###face !" at him. The guy started bellyaching and my friend was shouting him down all the way back to the car : "What a bargain !! $20 worth of gas for $4 ! I'm coming here for gas all the time now ! I'm telling everyone !!!!!" Cop was not happy and threatened to arrest him if we didn't shut up and drive off. Got home at 8:30 AM and slept for 19 hours.

* For those who don't know, it's illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey.

 
Also, if the crowd at Halloween Horror Nights on Sunday is any indication, a LOT of people REALLY like Halloween. I never saw so many people dressed in all black with orange or pink hair and sporting pentagrams in my life. And bear in mind, I've seen King Diamond live on multiple occasions and Slayer about 30 times.
I took the family to Great Adventure two weeks ago and the place is already decked out for spooky nights or whatever they call it and I'd say a good 30-40% of the people there had some kind of halloween garb on.
That's the thing, though - you're not allowed to wear costumes/makeup to HHN. This was just the standard goth uniform these people were wearing; their everyday look. HHN draws in the cream of the freak crop from all over the country.

 
Meh. It's a holiday based in devil worship. Mix that with kids wanting candy from strangers who are in costumes so that their identity is hard to figure out and girls with daddy issues who decide that being a slut this one day is ok but the rest of the days its sexist to treat them like that and the whole thing is just a mess of sin and sadness.

:ph34r:
I have no idea if this is exactly true, but even if it is, why should this matter? Of Americans that celebrate Halloween in one form or another, I would guess that 99.99999% of them don't worship the devil.

 
Meh. It's a holiday based in devil worship. Mix that with kids wanting candy from strangers who are in costumes so that their identity is hard to figure out and girls with daddy issues who decide that being a slut this one day is ok but the rest of the days its sexist to treat them like that and the whole thing is just a mess of sin and sadness.

:ph34r:
I have no idea if this is exactly true, but even if it is, why should this matter? Of Americans that celebrate Halloween in one form or another, I would guess that 99.99999% of them don't worship the devil.
The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist.

:ph34r:

 
Ehhhh. My wife absolutely loves it, we have a big ol tupperware box full of decorations and a trip to Party City is pretty much a given every October 1st for more crap to put up.

Back in the day, sure, it was awesome to see chicks dressed up as slutty-whatevers. And of course it was just another reason to get drunk and high, so there was that.

Now, with 2 kids under 4, it's all about them. My daughter loves to dress up even if it's not Halloween, so just another day for her.... except she gets candy in a plastic pumpkin.

I'll say, though, that I agree with the curmudgeon here a bit... the teenager WHO ISN'T EVEN IN A COSTUME coming up to my door to get free candy? Yeah screw you kid. I purposely buy a bag of crappy candy to give those bastards. :)
I got screwed a little bit when I was younger because I was fairly tall. By the time I was about 11 or 12, I was already roughly 5'7" or so, and frequently as tall as the adults whose houses I visited for candy. I remember one year, some d-bag literally growling at me : "What'd you DRIVE here?" as he threw a handful of candy corn into my bag. I didn't know which was worse, the fact that I was being castigated for trick or treating or the fact that he grabbed a handful of God-forsaken candy corn with his bare mitts and dropped it in my bag like I was actually going to eat it.

After that, I stopped trick or treating. Many of my friends kept going until 13 or 14.
:lol: I would have given you a Twix... unless your costume was "bored teenager who'd rather be playing Xbox but want free candy". I'm fine with giving anyone in a costume some of the good stuff. It's the tools in jeans and a hoody that get the Bit-o-Honey.
I actually really like/liked Bit O' Honeys, but I would throw it on the floor for a Twix. :lol:
I got a rock
 
Hated it even as a kid.

I think I mentioned this in another anti-Halloween thread last year (maybe EG's?), but I unknowingly moved onto a street that is apparently "the" street for Halloween. We gave away 500 pieces of candy last year (just one per kid) and still had kids coming up after we ran out. The day after, I found an empty beer bottle in my front lawn. Don't mind me, I will both give your kids free candy, and clean up your trash. You're welcome.
Wow. You had to pick up A beer bottle. The devastation. The tragedy. Hope you did not hurt your back doing all that work.

 
Also, my favorite Halloween ever (I think it was 1990) was spent tripping balls at the J. Fenimore Cooper rest area on the NJ Turnpike waiting for the cops to arrive because my buddy had asked for "four of regular" and the guy working the pump* thought he said "full of regular" and we didn't have enough money to pay for the gas after partying in/around Glassboro (now Rowan) from 4 PM-2 AM. I was there for four hours tripping on 3 hits of blotter acid dressed as Sam Kinison, walking up to cars that pulled in for gas and doing my (spot-on) Kinison impression : "Check the OILLLL ??!! Top off YOUR FLUIDS ?!??! HUH ?!!! OH OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !" while the guy that overfilled our tank ran around trying to stop me and threatening me with further legal action. Cop showed up at sunrise, listened to our story and told us to give them $4 and leave. My buddy threw the $4 at the attendant and dropped a "Pleasure doing business with you, f###face !" at him. The guy started bellyaching and my friend was shouting him down all the way back to the car : "What a bargain !! $20 worth of gas for $4 ! I'm coming here for gas all the time now ! I'm telling everyone !!!!!" Cop was not happy and threatened to arrest him if we didn't shut up and drive off. Got home at 8:30 AM and slept for 19 hours.

* For those who don't know, it's illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey.
What kind of car was it? Price of gas was under a dollar. What car holds more than 20 gallons of gas?!?!?

 
Hated it even as a kid.

I think I mentioned this in another anti-Halloween thread last year (maybe EG's?), but I unknowingly moved onto a street that is apparently "the" street for Halloween. We gave away 500 pieces of candy last year (just one per kid) and still had kids coming up after we ran out. The day after, I found an empty beer bottle in my front lawn. Don't mind me, I will both give your kids free candy, and clean up your trash. You're welcome.
Wow. You had to pick up A beer bottle. The devastation. The tragedy. Hope you did not hurt your back doing all that work.
I'm just complaining about a lack of decency. If I'm giving your kids that I don't know free candy, at least don't litter my lawn.

 
Loved hitting the state representative Jacobettis house up several times for full sized chocolate bars.

Hated the day some teacher asked "aren't you too old for this?". That moment marked the end of my childhood.

Halloween was basically fun work for me, gathering as many chocolate bars as I could for deer season a couple weeks later.

 
I could take it or leave it. As far as teenagers....if they aren't old enough to work, it doesnt bother me if they want candy. That being said, my oldest is 14 and there is no way he'd consider going trick or treating,

 
Meh. It's a holiday based in devil worship. Mix that with kids wanting candy from strangers who are in costumes so that their identity is hard to figure out and girls with daddy issues who decide that being a slut this one day is ok but the rest of the days its sexist to treat them like that and the whole thing is just a mess of sin and sadness.

:ph34r:
I have no idea if this is exactly true, but even if it is, why should this matter? Of Americans that celebrate Halloween in one form or another, I would guess that 99.99999% of them don't worship the devil.
Sort of like a reverse Christmas.

 
I know a few Jehovah's Witnesses at work who said they can't stand Halloween. Apparently they do not like a bunch of strangers coming up to their house and ringing the door bell.

 
McGarnicle said:
Sinn Fein said:
I think everyone gets it - it is a great holiday for several periods - your own youth, your college years to late-20's, your kid's youth.

other than that :shrug:
I didn't really like it even when I was a kid. The candy was great, but even that wasn't a big deal to me. The costumes and going door-to-door seemed weird and pointless. If I was craving a chocolate bar, I could walk to the corner store with some change I had saved up. I felt like I was doing the Halloween thing to appease the adults.
I HATED it as a kid, for much the same reason. I'd rather buy my own candy than have to beg for it from a neighbor. Plus, this was the 1970s with my huge Underdog mask and a suit that would've caught fire if a cigarette butt came within a zip code of it.

Now? I attempt to rid the house of candy when the neighborhood kids come by. If Mrs. Servo says let them have two pieces, they get 6.

 
Meh. It's a holiday based in devil worship. Mix that with kids wanting candy from strangers who are in costumes so that their identity is hard to figure out and girls with daddy issues who decide that being a slut this one day is ok but the rest of the days its sexist to treat them like that and the whole thing is just a mess of sin and sadness.

:ph34r:
I have no idea if this is exactly true, but even if it is, why should this matter? Of Americans that celebrate Halloween in one form or another, I would guess that 99.99999% of them don't worship the devil.
The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist.

:ph34r:
It was originally a Celtic holiday (Samhain) to honor the dead and send them to their eternal resting place. When the Catholics came, they decided that it was devil worship.

But hey, history is written by the victor.

 
I see more microbrews making pumpkin ales every year. I am assuming its only a hit in the states

 
Put me in the "Love it" camp. One of my favorite days to have some fun.

I love getting crazy creative on my costume and every year look to top the one before.

Going as a "Box of Manneqiuns" this year. Building the classic 'carry illusion' costume, but instead of me just sitting in the box, I got a white morph suit and ordered a bunch of spare Mannequin parts on ebay to put in the box with me...legs and arms and heads all sticking out. I'll be in the box as a "mannequin" in the morph suit holding still until someone comes up to me and then I'll move, or grab them or what ever.

this was last year...the rocket guy

THat said, I hate that it is on a weeknight most years. I would love to see it moved to the last Saturday in Oct.

People spend all this money on the kids costume and once they are done with school and parents home from work, they don't get much daylight time to TnT. If they moved it to a Sat, kids could roam all day long and the parents can party at night.

 
Put me in the "Love it" camp. One of my favorite days to have some fun.

I love getting crazy creative on my costume and every year look to top the one before.

Going as a "Box of Manneqiuns" this year. Building the classic 'carry illusion' costume, but instead of me just sitting in the box, I got a white morph suit and ordered a bunch of spare Mannequin parts on ebay to put in the box with me...legs and arms and heads all sticking out. I'll be in the box as a "mannequin" in the morph suit holding still until someone comes up to me and then I'll move, or grab them or what ever.

this was last year...the rocket guy

THat said, I hate that it is on a weeknight most years. I would love to see it moved to the last Saturday in Oct.

People spend all this money on the kids costume and once they are done with school and parents home from work, they don't get much daylight time to TnT. If they moved it to a Sat, kids could roam all day long and the parents can party at night.
great costume :thumbup:

post pics of this year's too.

 
Meh. It's a holiday based in devil worship. Mix that with kids wanting candy from strangers who are in costumes so that their identity is hard to figure out and girls with daddy issues who decide that being a slut this one day is ok but the rest of the days its sexist to treat them like that and the whole thing is just a mess of sin and sadness.

:ph34r:
I have no idea if this is exactly true, but even if it is, why should this matter? Of Americans that celebrate Halloween in one form or another, I would guess that 99.99999% of them don't worship the devil.
The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist.

:ph34r:
It was originally a Celtic holiday (Samhain) to honor the dead and send them to their eternal resting place. When the Catholics came, they decided that it was devil worship.

But hey, history is written by the victor.
I was trying to get Tim going, as can be seen by the little guy in a mask. Didn't work. I've moved on.

 
I love it. When the kids were younger, taking them out trick or treating. As kids got older we would host a Halloween party for the High School kids and it has become a tradition now, and with a 6th. 9th and 12th grader it is a tradition sure to go on for at least the next 6 years. So what if some older kids come trick or treating, giving them a handful of candy isn't going to break the bank, McScrooge. Added benefit, all the really cool spooky movies and tv shows are on to fill the dead time between sporting events.

 
Put me in the "Love it" camp. One of my favorite days to have some fun.

I love getting crazy creative on my costume and every year look to top the one before.
Same. Did a sheep costume a few years ago (wife was Bo Peep), white sweats with about 2000 cotton balls glued to it. Looked good, lot of attention, but took WAY too much time.

Following year I simplified it a lot and went as a stick man. Black sweats with those straw glow sticks down the chest, legs, and arms. Looked good against a black background.

This year I'm working on an idea involving an umbrella with a sheet or screen draped over it. Haven't got past there yet.

 
:lmao: You gotta be ####### kidding.

Why Elementary Schools Have Canceled Halloween

WTIC - Hartford 1:42 mins

Parents in Newington, Connecticut are upset after two elementary schools canceled Halloween festivities over concerns children whose families do not celebrate the holiday would feel excluded.

We may need to split the country into 2 countries. The wusses and the normal humans.
 
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:lmao: You gotta be ####### kidding.

Why Elementary Schools Have Canceled Halloween

WTIC - Hartford 1:42 mins

Parents in Newington, Connecticut are upset after two elementary schools canceled Halloween festivities over concerns children whose families do not celebrate the holiday would feel excluded.

We may need to split the country into 2 countries. The wusses and the normal humans.
That is ridiculous. Was this proactive or did someone complain?
 
:lmao: You gotta be ####### kidding.

Why Elementary Schools Have Canceled Halloween

WTIC - Hartford 1:42 mins

Parents in Newington, Connecticut are upset after two elementary schools canceled Halloween festivities over concerns children whose families do not celebrate the holiday would feel excluded.

We may need to split the country into 2 countries. The wusses and the normal humans.
That is ridiculous. Was this proactive or did someone complain?
I believe the wusses are ramping up their wussification of America.

 
:lmao: You gotta be ####### kidding.

Why Elementary Schools Have Canceled Halloween

WTIC - Hartford 1:42 mins

Parents in Newington, Connecticut are upset after two elementary schools canceled Halloween festivities over concerns children whose families do not celebrate the holiday would feel excluded.

We may need to split the country into 2 countries. The wusses and the normal humans.
I'm betting there's a lot more to this story. Anyhow, they're not canceling Halloween; they're canceling school activities related to Halloween.

My school district hasn't had Halloween activities for years now, because some religious Christians protested that the costumes were offensive and anti-Christian. My daughters have never been allowed to wear costumes to school.

 
If Christians are all worked up about Halloween they really should take the time to google a little bit about the origins of Christmas. Because that holiday is even more sketchy if they are looking at pagan elements.

 
Although Halloween and Christmas have roots in religion, the current American versions only have to be about religion if you choose them to be.

 
Totally different holiday than any other. I'm not into gettting dressed up myself but I still like it. Horror movies, slutty girls, pumpkins, screams late Fall and if you are into music, there are usually good reasons to go out.

All around, I enjoy it even if I don't totally embrace the dressing up part.

 
Any good costume ideas for a party? The crowd will be mostly 24-30ish, couples and singles, lots of booze, probably green and white candy. I hate dressing up, usually wait until last minute and throw something crappy together. I'd like to dress up as something that makes the ladies tingle. Paging AZ Ron.

 
The best part about it is, if you wanna go out and have fun you can.

If you don't, you don't have to.

It's a ####### crazy dilemma.

 
Any good costume ideas for a party? The crowd will be mostly 24-30ish, couples and singles, lots of booze, probably green and white candy. I hate dressing up, usually wait until last minute and throw something crappy together. I'd like to dress up as something that makes the ladies tingle. Paging AZ Ron.
Ebola victim would seem to be the top draw right now.

 

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