I am aware that some of you on her have small children so i can understand they would want to celebrate it i will of course be in Carlise for Halloween anyway but is this not the most pointless holiday ever meaningless americanised moneymaker what a waste of time.
Also i am affraid Christmas is going the same way for most people who actually celebrates either holiday for the actual reason they are holidays i know we dont in my family would be interesting to know if any on here do. I am affraid im not a religious man so Christmas for me is getting less and less important every year until i have kids of course.
Just be interesting to get some views on this.
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Both are originally pagan festivals as was Easter (solstice and equinoxes, spring, harvest etc)
I also hate the commercialisation and loss of the real meaning of Christmas, although as a parent it is wonderful to watch the children when young enough to believe in Father Christmas.
What I was going to say.
Old English tradition reintroduced via the US.
Kids like it and as long as older kids don't take it too far I don't see a problem.
Bonfire night is great as well. Let's have both. The big shows or the local fund raiser for the Cricket Club we go to packs them in so it doesn't seem to be dying around here.
Every year you can guarentee that as Christmas approaches you will hear/read
It's too commercial
The true religious meaning has been lost
I think that has been the case for all of my 48 years and most likely a lot longer before that.
As for Christmas think i would be more open minded about it if i had kids i think.
Halloween is a time to dress up so no one recognises us and to go out egging chavs and by doing so protecting the oldies ;o)
In a strange twist,i go from consuming meat and wine to bread and water after the Christmas credit card bill arrives on the mat!
Trick or treating got out of hand round my way a long time ago, never been one for doing that anyway. My housemate is going to shit himself inside out if he stays in this Saturday!
Christmas is one time of year I feel massively down and bad for people on their own for whatever reason and until/if I have kids my opinion there won't change. Besides that I hate with a burning passion people that spend money on absolute shit for the sake of it, and the time of year it begins. And for the fact that it is the only time of year police seem to show a visible presence on the roads to catch as many shandy drinkers as they can to bump numbers up, but that's for another time.
As for the adage 'it's nice to spend time with the family' then whoever comes out with such utter flannel as that needs lobotomising. If it takes an occasion that rolls around once every 12 months to see your family then have a look in the mirror and think why they don't want to see you!
I also cannot understand why people break up for like 2 weeks at Christmas either (not one for working round the clock etc but what the funk gets done the rest of the time if that is going on!)
And someone famous always dies on Christmas day
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christmas too commercial? what you gonna do?
Halloween, can take it or leave it personally, like to see the kids enjoy it though and the costumes etc, so why not?
Yeah, summarises it well for me as well.
After the Xmas I had last year (spent in Whitechapel Hospital with a child with pnuemonia) I'm looking forward to a good day opening presents, reading new books, eating a big roast and seeing family.
All these events are what you make them, stop moaning because someone else is having more fun that you and start living.
Agree with DA9, Xmas eve is the best night of the year, having a good booze in a packed local. Good times.
I've two observations about Haloween:-
1. In Scotland they go "guising" which involves the kids dressing up and doing some kind of a turn. Much better idea as it gets them into the idea of earning the treats rather than vaguely threatening folk as they do here with the Trick or Treat thing.
2. I went to an American Haloween party and it's a weird thing, but Haloween seems to be a licence for American women to dress up like S&M call-girls. If this was brought in over here, along with pumkin pie, more people would be keener on Haloween as it doesn't involve going to church, the queen banging on or loads of repeats and terrible TV "specials" (the Simpsons excepted).
Spot on mate.