Is Halloween a dumb, stupid, useless excuse of a 'Holiday'?

[Bored Tomatoe]

It may be a pointless holiday, but it's the Best pointless holiday.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Yup i Love it. Its MY only real Holiday. Horrors Blood and Party yeah! screw christmas

 

[Bagaloo]

I don't like fancy dress, so I never take part. It wouldn't bother me so much if people didn't use it as an excuse to commit property damage. ("That guy didn't give me any candy, lets go egg his house!!!!1111")

Last year I was living on campus at my university, and we ended up with the front of our house covered in silly string. That was fun to clean off.

This year I went home to visit my parents for the weekend, and since they live in a quiet little village, we didn't get any callers, which I was glad for as I got to take the chocolate away with me.

 

[Amnestic]

It may be a pointless holiday, but it's the Best pointless holiday.

Debatable. Guy Fawkes Night (also: Bonfire Night) for Britain is in close proximity to Halloween which means you still have dressing up, but this time we have huge fires and multi-coloured surface-to-air explosives being launched in synchronised patterns (aka fireworks >_>)

You're effectively trading the sweets and house egging for fire and fireworks.

 

[Nihilism_Is_Bliss]

i have nothing against getting the day off to dress up and eat junk all day (sounds like anime con time of the year, the best time of year) but saying it has meaning as a modern-day take on all hallows eve or all saints day gets on my goat to know end, especially when these events have no relevance to america anyway.
The worst part is having kids wander round the suburbs here in australia 'celebrating halloween', they dont even know what halloween is! they've been watching too many american cartoons and just want an excuse to rob their neighbors of foodstuffs they're to cheap to buy for themselves!
grrrrrrr

 

[Monocle Man]

It was originally founded on the basis of you going to your dead loved ones and praying.

Then kids screwed it up.

That would be the day after Halloween.

Could you mean All Hallows Day?
Or is it All Saints Day? I can never remember...
But All Hallows Eve was originally a chance for the spirits etc to come out before something or other (My memory of my schooling is fuzzy)

All Saints is the day after Halloween if I recall correctly. On that day you praise the saints. And the day after that one is All Souls on which you remember your normal dead relatives.
But people tend to remember their dead relatives on All Saints too and All Souls became just another day the stores won't open.

Also after a quick wiki: All Saints = All Hallows

 

[Random Argument Man]

It's a nice holiday for a scary book/movie/video game. You could also give many pranks all over town. (No Egging though).

 

[Mr.Squishy]

Let's look at the different major holidays.
St. Valentine's day: Guys go out of their way in retarded scope to do something arbitrary, silly and/or cliche for the sake of their sex life, while girls get either depressed or bitchy if they don't. Tremendous guilt if you don't

Christmas: Huddling together with people you usually don't hang around just because you have some of the same ancestors and celebrating the birth of a cosmic jewish zombie carpenter that lived 2000 years ago by eating fat foods and giving presents. Tremendous guilt if you don't

Halloween: Costumes, Candy and horror movies.

Easter: A combination of eating choclate eggs to celebrate pagan fertility and blah blah, as well as celebrating the aforementioned carpenter's death and zombiefication. Slight guilt if you don't.

St. Patrick's day: Tremendous amounts of green, beer and and fun parades.

I think I'll root for halloween and St. Patrick's day, thank you very much.

 

[ZeroMachine]

Um... yeah. In fact, that's pretty much what all holidays are now. But does that make it any less fun? Nope.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

well, being Australian and looking at american halloween (that's right american) from an external perspective as we don't celebrate halloween here (and i'm trying to keep it that way). I'd say halloween is the biggest commercial excuse for a holiday ever, ripping off poor all saints day and turning into a "go buy as many ridiculously expensive clothes and lollies (or candy if you prefer) as your wallet can't possibly allow, and then go piss the hell out of your neighbors" day.

Why am I not surprised about this post...? Oh, I forgot, you have to be a nihilist to be cool nowadays.
/sarcasm

Yes, I can be petty
/yahtzee channeling

 

[historybuff]

It's got religious roots.

But it's an excuse to party. So it's awesome.

 

[IrishBerserker]

Personally, i think that halloween isn't much of a 'holiday' as it is really just an excuse for shops to sell lots of sweets and for the buyers of said sweet items to have them taken away from them by a bunch of beggers (or 'trick-or-treaters')

Its Religious for some people. Includeing Me.

Its a time to remember and honour the dead.

But the "dress up for candy" Halloween is more of a tradition based on the old religions. People have just forgotten why we celebrate halloween.

 

[VeX1le]

Personally, i think that halloween isn't much of a 'holiday' as it is really just an excuse for shops to sell lots of sweets

*Sigh*

Christmas...
St Valentines Day...
Easter...

This not familiar ground to you?

Oh and at least I get to see my friend in yet another wonderful costume of hers

Spoiler: Click to see. Viewer Discretion adviced. ;)

ummm wow...... uh not even a bra? how did she move without the shirt slipping and accidently flashing someone or was it just you 2.

 

[damselgaming]

ummm wow...... uh not even a bra? how did she move without the shirt slipping and accidently flashing someone or was it just you 2.

You know- us girls do have a few tricks up our... tops...
Double sided body tape, I have reams of the stuff myself. It's a kind of magic.

 

[CaptainCrunch]

Little bastard kids didn't even say "trick or treat" this year. They just held out bags and stared like deer in headlights. Halloween seems to fail more every year.

I am in favor of conversion to "dress like a whore / moron day" instead of modeling it around dead people / scary movies.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

FREE CANDY

This guy gets it,

Its a dumb, stupid excuse for FREE CANDY!!!!

 

[Mordwyl]

What about Valentine's Day? Not only does it do just that, it makes singles, widowers and those that can't be with anyone feel miserable as well as give the bollocks idea for lazy couples to only spend time together or get gifts on that day. I don't know, I thought being in a relationship meant spending a good time with your partner.

 

[Amnestic]

Personally, i think that halloween isn't much of a 'holiday' as it is really just an excuse for shops to sell lots of sweets

*Sigh*

Christmas...
St Valentines Day...
Easter...

This not familiar ground to you?

Oh and at least I get to see my friend in yet another wonderful costume of hers

Spoiler: Click to see. Viewer Discretion adviced. ;)

*cough*

How's she doin'?

Little bastard kids didn't even say "trick or treat" this year. They just held out bags and stared like deer in headlights. Halloween seems to fail more every year.

I am in favor of conversion to "dress like a whore / moron day" instead of modeling it around dead people / scary movies.

Trick or Treat is...the whole point of what we know Halloween as. You either give the kids a treat or they play a 'trick' on you.

They're not really tricks though, mostly just annoying vandalism.