Tired of all this pumpkin and plastic skeleton crap everywhere. Thanks, marketing ghouls
What, are we going to start celebrating the 4th of July next? Might as well with the NATO membership I guess
I’ve always thought Halloween was a cool holiday but it’s a completely hollow marketing exercise here, no actual tradition behind it all.
Might as well pretend it’s the Day of the Dead or Obon
I just remember being a kid and my parents being baffled and borderline offended when I told them my school was holding a Halloween party
count your blessings - people around here already have christmas decorations up
Finnish supermarkets brought out their Christmas chocolates and advent calendars at the beginning of October
At least Halloween is fun
Fourth of July fucks with animals and the sound-sensitive
In Communist Europe fireworks are literally illegal except on New Year’s Eve
Americans buy fireworks for every conceivable holiday, but yes New Years is second to only 4th of July in random fireworks going off everywhere.
I legitimately hate the fourth and new year’s because people take what could be, you know, “fun” within bounds and do that thing that Americans are especially known for and go “no no no! 3 hours of fireworks and shooting my gun into the air wasn’t enough! I need the fourth also on the fifth and the sixth!..” it’s become somehow fucking acceptable to have week-long pre-celebrations and then another week OR TWO of post-holiday celebrations. I don’t feel like digging up my rant I posted on my community’s… posty thing (I don’t read the replies, they can suck me) but I’m pretty sure it was like July 12th and I still heard bottle rockets and shit.
Btw, there’s laws and regulations covering basically the entirety of the area I live that limit fireworks to certain types and whatever and the way the law is written makes it essentially illegal because you can’t do it within like 200ft of any residential area including one you own… blah blah. It’s illegal is the short story. The only people who can, and this was the case when I was a kid, shoot them legally is… the local fire department. They’d do a show every year. Like a massive show and it would be like the holiday and two days on the weekend. But hog-asses weren’t satisfied with that and it’s just become this horrible annoying as fuck month of just sitting there thinking “my town pays 50% of our taxes to the police and this is what we get…”
My most reactionary opinions all center around excessive noise production and especially outside of “normal” and “acceptable” times. Like if a concert is planned nearby a year in advance and vibrates the ground around me until 2am and then abruptly ends and people fuck off- I actually don’t give a shit. If it’s Wednesday at 3am and Cletus and Jebediah are driving their (illegally) modified-exhaust, ear-splitting, coal-rolling small-dicked diesel trucks around shooting bottlerockets at each other. I just start thinking about summary executions at that point… and I’m barely exaggerating there btw.
I’m not sure how to break this to you, but Halloween is European. Halloween was invented in Ireland, from the pagan celebration of Samhain. Even the practice of dressing up in costume and going from door to door asking for food is recorded as of the 16th century at the latest. Pranks, as well as “Mischief Night,” also dates from the 18th century at the latest. This is all pre-Americanisation. It’s not a continental European tradition but it’s certainly European, not American.
Sure, but this shit started not really being a thing in non-anglo European countries sometime in the 90s
And now its back, like many religious and non religious celebratory traditions before it.
I file Halloween with Valentine’s Day under “Fake American holidays imported to sell tacky plastic crap”
We’re going to make all of you celebrate 4th of July and Thanksgiving. UK gets Canadian Thanksgiving, EU gets American
amerika does ‘celebrate’ may day except it’s been called ‘labor day’ and is in september
Thanksgiving is easily the worst holiday
It’s just Kwaanzaa for white people but without any actual reasoning behind it. Basically “uhh we need another holiday because…reasons”
The fact that there’s a Canadian version of Thanksgiving is just blowing my sides into orbit HOLY FUCK
