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

[Enzeru92]

Halloween is a holiday and a weird one at best

 

[Lucane]

Whilst I agree whole heartesly with the above statement, I do love dressing up. In fact I am dressed as Pyramis Head whilst typing this.

We gave Trick or Treaters bourbon biscuits... they weren't best pleased...

No offense but I was gonna ask if you "D key" was broken and you just used "S key" instead but your 2nd line is fine.

Anyways. I'd say Thanksgiving is probally worse gather members of your famliy from all over to eat large amounts of food celbrating the (depends on your point of view) finding/stealing of the middle section of the North American continent.

 

[JWAN]

Dude
Halloween kicks ass, I have a gillie suit and I decorate the yard and I scare people, THEN I go inside and start the party up and have girls come over in skimpy cloths, and drink my favorite beer.


what could be better?

 

[Nurb]

yea, valentine's day is a bigger money maker I believe because companies have women convinced their significant other doesn't love them if they don't drop a huge chunk of change on them with jewelry or an expensive night out

and all us guys get in return is a card or tie

 

[JWAN]

No, I don't think so. It's an interesting concept, since it is a holiday when the age-related social structure in society is reversed. Children go out and demand obedience from adults with threats of retribution if the adults don't obey. It's interesting.

? I dont follow.

 

[IxionIndustries]

It is a holiday in my opinion, It's just become bastardized and extremely shitty... At least from my point of view.

 

[S-Unleashed]

Free Candy. Why whinne about it?

 

[Icehearted]

It's my birthday; as a kid it was way better than Christmas (Gifts, costume, candy, cake, party), as an adult it's an excuse to get free drinks, and it makes for an easy icebreaker when I meet people at parties on Halloween. Seriously, some women dig it... a lot.

 

[Piotr621]

Certainly not as bad as the Melbourne Cup in Victoria, Australia. Everyone gets a public holiday... for a horse-racing event that few people care about.

 

[p3t3r]

i love dressing up for Halloween or making excuses for why i am dresses normal.

so ya it is pointless but it is a good pointless free candy and you get to play dress up.

 

[chaos13]

Well as far as holidays go halloween is a third for me(after christmas and easter) because you get to see kids come to the door and give candey based on how well thought out the costume is and how old they are. But all holidays have been mass consumer days. on a side note what is up with Valentines day i was curious on how it was started and all i found out was that some person named St. Valentine was hung for some unknown reason.

 

[blankedboy]

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

Then kids screwed it up. made it awesome. fucked it up so bad that even tapeworms are afraid of it.

Fixed it for you!

Fixed it for YOU.

 

[LeonLethality]

If scaring children to tears isn't a holiday I don't want to know what is.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Yes. I think we should all stop celebrating Halloween and start celebrating Ghostmas!

 

[bluepilot]

I just spent Halloween dressed as Harlequin (from the 90s Batman cartoons), going round bars, drinking, dancing. It was all pretty sweet.

As far as a reason goes to act like an idiot, Halloween works perfectly for me. Why spoil people`s fun.

If Scrooge is the bane of Christmas, then which (blank) is the bane of Halloween?

 

[blank0000]

GOOD SIR! I LOVE HALLOWEEN! I LOVE CANDY! I LOVE COSTUMES AND I LOVE THE THEMES!

So chill out, put some chocolate in your mouth, and let the shops make some capital at the expense of a united celebration of several awesome things.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Ummm, no. I've seen holidays far more pointless.

 

[manaman]

Right about now, when my yearly allotment of "happiness" runs out, I'm left realizing that as a 22 year old who neither drinks nor smokes nor fornicates, Halloween has ended, and I now have to look forward to a week of listening to other people tell me about how they did those three things.

Yay.

Ahh Freaky it's not so bad. I had a wonderful time. I drank, I smoked, I fornicated... oh wait I might have passed out drunk before the fornicating happened, but thats okay.

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. It is an excuse to let go. To dress up, to be creative and have fun. What isn't to like? You don't have to give out candy, you don't have to go door to door. You don''t have to do anything you don't want to. So all the people looking for a reason to hate, this is going to sound very hippy of me - your time would be better spent trying to find something to like, and leave everyone else to the things they like to do. After all it ain't like it is hurting you.

I wonder if it is sour pusses like some of the lot here that eventually snap and stick razor blades in candy.

 

[HawtCakez]

Aren't all holidays mostly pointless? Sure, most have a deeper meaning than others but the vast majority of holidays are just another excuse for people to give into their vices for a day or more. The only reason why I love halloween out of all the holidays is because I love horror movies, dressing up, and eating candy. All of them are taboos in some ways but at this time of year it is accepted as a means of celebration. Also, I think that what makes holidays look so trivial and often immature are the customs that are developed for, and only for, the children. Being an adult in todays holidays is pretty much a bum deal. Besides, there are other holidays and celebrations that are completely valid, with much deeper meaning, but are overlooked for not having an individual way to "celebrate". For example there is veterans day or Martin Luther King day. Overall, all holidays have deeper meanings in terms of how they began but in todays world they are simply marketable fodder for families who get a day off.