Hate halloween

evapilotaz said:
i hate Halloween. Who is with me on this? What does the holiday mean anyway?
People are dressed up at work acting stupid. Tomorrow I will take my child house to house to get his surgar high. I could do without this holiday.
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I hate Halloween, but mostly because at 52, I'm on the fast track to grumpy old man. I love giving candy to the little children, but not the teens. Teenage girls' voices are like dog whistles and teenage boys are a nervous bundle of hormonal energy and I can no longer bear it. I leave fast food restaurants when too many teens show up.

I buy a tub of candy. set it in the driveway and retrieve the tub when it's empty.

My neighbor uses creative ways to announce that he's out of candy. A couple of his yard signs from past Halloweens:

"I GAVE OUT $100 DOLLAR BILLS BUT WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT, I'M OUT."

"NO CANDY LEFT, BUT FREE STOCK TIPS."
 
Since when is Halloween a "Holiday"?

hol·i·day
[ˈhäliˌdā]


NOUN
a day of festivity or recreation when no work is done:
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BTW: kids don't come "begging" you for candy, they come threatening you for candy. "Trick or treat" means they get the treat or you get the trick.
 
I love it, mainly because as a kid I always looked forward to running around the neighborhood and getting lots of candy! It's also my birthday so I may be biased. Because of that I call it HalloWayne! I've got a 10 month old daughter now and I look forward to when she can have fun on Halloween. I'm guessing that will be in another 2 years.
 
I don't mind answering the doorbell and giving out candy. I don't get that many kids because the houses are pretty far apart. My problem usually is that I buy too much candy. One year the leftovers sat in my cabinet all year and were like rocks the next year. I threw that batch out. Now I know to take the leftovers in to work where they disappear in less than a day.
 
Silvaire said:
Since when is Halloween a "Holiday"?



BTW: kids don't come "begging" you for candy, they come threatening you for candy. "Trick or treat" means they get the treat or you get the trick.
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Not sure where you get your definitions but holiday means "holy day"from hāligdæg, you get the day off because you're supposed to be spending it in thanks of the Lord, and most people can't muster that at work.
 
I conveniently found a mission of mercy that needs to be carried out, and set it up for today.

Unfortunately, it will also cost me money. But such is life.

Rich
 
Slutty-dressed women are the ONLY thing I like about this holiday. If I had kids it would probably be different. But I have zero creativity when it comes to coming up with a costume. I volunteered to work this weekend mainly so I wouldn't have to figure out a costume. Oktoberfest...now that's a holiday! Well, not really, but it should be! Even with a girlfriend I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day either. I'd rather just pick a random day out of the year to surprise her and spoil her. Since I only get to see my family a couple times a year, Thanksgiving and Christmas are the most meaningful holidays for me. Oh and St. Patricks Day in Boston...talk about a struggle the next day.
 
No costume creativity but I'm pretty good at computer stuff! Other than that, I didn't trick or treat much as a kid. The last time I remember going I was dressed as an M&M with the big fake gloves and I had baby powder in them and it got caked on with the sweat. I was tiny.

First time carving a pumpkin in years, I think I've only ever done it once or twice tops. Next year I'm gonna need a smaller knife! (Tiny walmart plastic pumpkin kit - 6-7 bucks. 4 pack of cheap steak knives, 2 heavy duty scoops, 4 wooden spoons, 800ct box of toothpicks = 5 bucks).

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Phoenix said:
Adults participating for themselves are pathetic.
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I really hope, for the sake of mankind, that there are far more adults who feel that if you have so lost contact with your inner childhood that Halloween is no longer a "hoot", then that's what is truly pathetic.

I hope I never get to a point in my life where I enjoy sitting on my front porch on Halloween night yelling at kids to get off of my lawn instead of inviting them in and having something to scare the hell out of 'em!

...and their parents!

:goofy:
 
Gucci Pilot said:
Slutty-dressed women are the ONLY thing I like about this holiday. If I had kids it would probably be different. But I have zero creativity when it comes to coming up with a costume. I volunteered to work this weekend mainly so I wouldn't have to figure out a costume. Oktoberfest...now that's a holiday! Well, not really, but it should be! Even with a girlfriend I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day either. I'd rather just pick a random day out of the year to surprise her and spoil her. Since I only get to see my family a couple times a year, Thanksgiving and Christmas are the most meaningful holidays for me. Oh and St. Patricks Day in Boston...talk about a struggle the next day.
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Oktoberfest most certainly is a holiday!:lol: Hell, most of Germany takes the month off.
 
Kids deserve lots of fun! We had plenty when we were kids. It is our duty to guide them this holiday and always to have lots of good, safe, healthy fun! May the curmudgeons among us remember that and join in, having fun too.
 
I am to the point where I dread/hate most holidays. My wife and I work a lot, so they're really a lot of obligatory preparation wasting time we don't really have, just to have a quick event, then you have to clean up the mess (another waste of time), and move on to the next one.

Sure, I give out candy, I'm sitting here right now manning the post.

If it were up to me, I wouldn't do an Xmas tree or anything. Lots of work for no purpose. I have never decorated the house. Total waste of time.

The only two important holidays for me are 4th of July because it's family/friends togetherness time (I don't do fireworks, either), and Thanksgiving (again, family/friends togetherness time). Neither holiday takes much preparation and both are food-centric.
 
Trick or treating sure starts early when the home team plays in a World Series game at 7:10pm.
 
RJM62 said:
I conveniently found a mission of mercy that needs to be carried out, and set it up for today.

Unfortunately, it will also cost me money. But such is life.

Rich
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My mission has been successfully, if somewhat expensively, accomplished. However, as much as it irks my libertarian sensitivities, I've been persuaded that we need -- gasp -- a new law: All Halloween costumes should be required to have a certain amount of reflective material.

The pint-sized extortionists-in-training in their dark-colored costumes, running along unlit streets and rural roads, and darting out without warning from behind their parents' motorized convoys, are an even bigger menace than the suicidal deer who leap in front of cars. At least if you hit a deer, you can eat it.

Rich
 
eman1200 said:
I love slutty-dressed women, therefore I love halloween.
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Oh ... Crud. I told myself I wouldn't post this to PoA because of the amount of butthurt it would probably cause, but I can't resist.

But your setup is too much.

You should go trick or treating with the Coz.

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(And before anyone gets all huffy, there's a long tradition of Halloween costumes ridiculing totally awful people and behavior. I've seen Jeffrey Dahmer, OJ, terrorists of all sorts (including politicians), the Unabomber and some guy who leveraged his aviation epaulets and shirts into a pretty funny and wrong "Florida Flight School Trainee" by adding a logbook, a fake beard, and a box cutter...)
 
denverpilot said:
Oh ... Crud. I told myself I wouldn't post this to PoA because of the amount of butthurt it would probably cause, but I can't resist.

But your setup is too much.

You should go trick or treating with the Coz.

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(And before anyone gets all huffy, there's a long tradition of Halloween costumes ridiculing totally awful people and behavior. I've seen Jeffrey Dahmer, OJ, terrorists of all sorts (including politicians), the Unabomber and some guy who leveraged his aviation epaulets and shirts into a pretty funny and wrong "Florida Flight School Trainee" by adding a logbook, a fake beard, and a box cutter...)
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For the record, I'm usually all about the shock value. In college I had long hair and was thin as a rail. One Halloween I dressed as Jesus and my girlfriend dressed as a pregnant nun. We actually went to a concert at giants stadium like this. You'd be surprised at the comments I got, especially from the ladies...."I'd do anything for JC" was typical. Ah the good ol' days....
 
You missed the 'for themselves' part. Just spent a couple of hours walking around with three 11 year olds. It was fun, cause they had fun. No need for me to play dress up and drink. I'm for kids having a fun halloween and everyone that makes that possible. But it is a kids holiday. If you are an adult and want to dress up join a theater group.:lol:
timwinters said:
I really hope, for the sake of mankind, that there are far more adults who feel that if you have so lost contact with your inner childhood that Halloween is no longer a "hoot", then that's what is truly pathetic.

I hope I never get to a point in my life where I enjoy sitting on my front porch on Halloween night yelling at kids to get off of my lawn instead of inviting them in and having something to scare the hell out of 'em!

...and their parents!

:goofy:
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Henning said:
Oktoberfest most certainly is a holiday!:lol: Hell, most of Germany takes the month off.
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News to me. We've had a steady stream of people going there to meet customers and do training this month.
 
I have had a grand total of six kids; one group of four and one group of two. And it's a beautiful night. I guess they heard a witch lives here...
 
Everskyward said:
I have had a grand total of six kids; one group of four and one group of two. And it's a beautiful night. I guess they heard a witch lives here...
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Our 'hood did their annual "hay ride" thing (tractors and flat bed trailers) and it finally wasn't cold enough that they made it to the back half of the neighborhood. Usually they have to turn around and bail out ling before they get back here. Lovely day today. I think they filled five trailers with bundled up rug rats.

But I'm still getting over a nasty cold and we knew Karen would be out doing stuff with family who are all here for her dad's memorial, so we didn't sign up this year. (You put a flashlight in a plastic pumpkin at the end of your driveway if you're participating in the stops along the hay ride route.)

I guess if any of them had come down the driveway I would have had to hand out the last pieces of Easter candy that are still sitting here. Hahaha. We aren't candy people too much I guess. Or what's left is just crappy candy perhaps. Or both. :)
 
denverpilot said:
Our 'hood did their annual "hay ride" thing (tractors and flat bed trailers) and it finally wasn't cold enough that they made it to the back half of the neighborhood. Usually they have to turn around and bail out ling before they get back here. Lovely day today. I think they filled five trailers with bundled up rug rats.

But I'm still getting over a nasty cold and we knew Karen would be out doing stuff with family who are all here for her dad's memorial, so we didn't sign up this year. (You put a flashlight in a plastic pumpkin at the end of your driveway if you're participating in the stops along the hay ride route.)

I guess if any of them had come down the driveway I would have had to hand out the last pieces of Easter candy that are still sitting here. Hahaha. We aren't candy people too much I guess. Or what's left is just crappy candy perhaps. Or both. :)
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I remember them doing the hay ride thing the first few years I lived here. Then the guy who organized it moved away.
 
Everskyward said:
I have had a grand total of six kids; one group of four and one group of two. And it's a beautiful night. I guess they heard a witch lives here...
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Ha...

There is the wicked witch of the East

The wicked witch of the West with Ruby Slippers.

And then there is the Wicked Witch of POA.....:yikes::hairraise:........

Run for your lives... She has her iggy stick....:D
 
I love children. With a nice bearnaise sauce and a good merlot.

Absolutely no one this year. Very few in the past few years, either. Around here the schools and shopping malls have parties and such.

Small company I used to work for had very serious HW party each year. Because the Christmas dinner/party was more marketing to out clients ( and very formal, tux and cocktail dresses) HW was ours! One group of six came dressed as a six pack of beer. They painted white sheets with the exact Budweiser can graphics, then made them into "cans" by attaching them to cardboard circles around their necks to hang as cloth cylinders. Absolutely perfect!
 
Some grumpy assed mo-fos on this board apparently.....
 
The neighbors set up a big screen and projector and table for crock pots of chili, and we sat around the fire pit with adult beverages and watched the ball game. Any kids that were still out walked away with pounds of candy.
 
I needed to go to work late tonight for a few hours so I thought I'd grab a short nap between 4 & 7. Just as I was dozing off around 4:30, there was a loud banging on my door and the door bell rang a few times. Freakin' trick or treaters!

4:30PM... seriously???

F' them all!!!
 
denverpilot said:
I think they filled five trailers with bundled up rug rats.
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I think you need to work on your "kid terminology," Nate.

0 to 1 = rug rats

1 to 3 = curtain climbers

3 to 12 = yard apes

12+ = vile vicious villainous demons

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+1 for the reflective belts or flashlights or chemlights thing. One stopped by last night that was wearing completely black everything. I asked him if he was a ninja - he said he was a shadow. :yikes:
 
overdrive148 said:
+1 for the reflective belts or flashlights or chemlights thing. One stopped by last night that was wearing completely black everything. I asked him if he was a ninja - he said he was a shadow. :yikes:
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And if he becomes roadkill, the parents will no doubt place all blame on the driver of the car.
 
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