ITT we are really irate about non-seasonal store decorations

Obā-san · 2015-10-12 00:19:28

grr I am so mad

Salix Babylonika · 2015-10-12 00:20:16

this actually does legitimately bother me

Calica · 2015-10-12 00:20:17

it's not even thanksgiving yet!

Hexartes · 2015-10-12 00:36:54

ONE FOURTH OF THE YEAR IS CHRISTMAS

Hexartes · 2015-10-12 00:43:34

Halloween: September-October
Christmas: Late September-December
Valentine's Day: January-Early February
Easter: February-April/May

That's eight fucking months of constant holiday advertising.

Obā-san · 2015-10-12 00:45:45

only 4 more to go

Princess Alice · 2015-10-12 00:46:13

One thing that always grated on me about Internet culture is that it's totally fine and awesome to start hyping Halloween in August-September but if you dare talk about Christmas before December 1st it's "too early"

Hexartes · 2015-10-12 00:47:53

Halloween isn't as nakedly commercialized as Christmas, and is secular.

Obā-san · 2015-10-12 00:50:22

Tucker said:
Halloween isn't as nakedly commercialized as Christmas, and is secular.

its literally entirely formed around buying fun-sized candy bars in bulk

Anonus · 2015-10-12 00:51:55

don't forget costumes and pumpkins!

Odradek · 2015-10-12 00:54:18

https://itself.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/halloween-everything-thats-wrong-with-america/

Hexartes · 2015-10-12 00:55:04

:3 said:

Tucker said:
Halloween isn't as nakedly commercialized as Christmas, and is secular.
its literally entirely formed around buying fun-sized candy bars in bulk

*as* nakedly

Christmas's pretensions of giving and family togetherness make it all the more irritating that it's been turned into what it is. Halloween doesn't pretend to be about anything more than partying, dressing up, and eating candy

Plus if nothing else candy is a lot cheaper so there's less of a class gap, and even then poor kids can go to rich neighborhoods

Princess Alice · 2015-10-12 00:57:39

At Christmastime I get to visit Anonus and I get to see my family who lives out of state and only comes to Columbus two or three times a year.

At Halloween...I get to eat some candy.

You can see which one wins out, for me.

Sredni Vashtar · 2015-10-12 00:57:48

To be fair, Thanksgiving and Christmas do form a kind of commercial bloc that dwarfs Hallowe'en in terms of both expenditure and volume, at least in North America. And Hallowe'en, despite being very commercialised, has a lot more appeal to disaffected people as a concept than more community-oriented holidays, particularly those with a more overt, conventionally religious or traditional aura.

Although in one way or another it is nearly as old as Christmas, and the roots of the latter are just as raucous and Dionysian as the former.

Odradek · 2015-10-12 00:59:15

Thanksgiving

Princess Alice · 2015-10-12 01:00:27

The other part of it, to me, is that Thanksgiving and Christmas both get me some time off from school. Halloween...not so much.

That said, Ohio State's implemented a Fall Break starting this year, so that's less relevant than it once was.

Imipolex G · 2015-10-12 01:00:40

At Christmastime I have to deal with obnoxious relatives.

At Halloween I have an excuse to act all morbid and use horrific avatars and stuff.

You can see which one wins out, for me.

Princess Alice · 2015-10-12 01:03:02

The moral of the story is that enjoyment of holidays is subjective and everybody appreciates holidays in their own special ways.

Just kidding! The real moral of the story is that Princesses are always right and cow girls are wrong.

Sredni Vashtar · 2015-10-12 01:05:35

I like all of them for entirely different reasons, although overeating is a unifying theme.

Hexartes · 2015-10-12 01:50:26

I enjoy all of them really but commercialization gets my goat

It's just especially irritating with Christmas, yknow?

Salix Babylonika · 2015-10-12 01:53:44

Halloween is actually fucking fun.

No one expects you to go to any relatives' house for Halloween, you don't have to fake gratitude for presents and food you don't like and didn't ask for, and you don't have to deal with being berated by relatives for not having your life together.

That is why Halloween is cool in my books whereas Christmas and Thanksgiving are a bit less so.

Obā-san · 2015-10-12 01:56:33

man i love christmas you get to buy people shit + you get socks

Salix Babylonika · 2015-10-12 01:58:21

the last few christmases have all come shortly after me losing a job, so I have not gotten to buy anyone anything recently.

Which I am of course scolded for.

Sredni Vashtar · 2015-10-12 02:00:35

I think you would like Christmas a lot better if you were spending it with people that you liked and who really liked you. Which I think is what Christmas is supposed to be about.

Obā-san · 2015-10-12 02:01:45

the fact that we celebrate christmas when nobody in the family is christian is some weird cultural inertia

Salix Babylonika · 2015-10-12 02:02:30

I spend about a quarter of Christmas with people who fit that bill, ie. my immediate family.

It's the extended family I can't stand.

Even when I actually get nice gifts (which is not unheard of) I kind of resent it because it feels like I'm expected to just forgive the five hours of bullshit and passive aggression that proceeded it.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-10-12 02:04:19

also some two people--usually my uncle and his father in law--get piss-drunk and get into

well we have a specific word for it but uh, a contest to see who can come up with the most colorful slur for any given group of people. Usually relating to something on the news or football, depending on what's on the TV.

Sredni Vashtar · 2015-10-12 03:01:19

:3 said:
the fact that we celebrate christmas when nobody in the family is christian is some weird cultural inertia

My dad is Jewish and my mom is... idiosyncratic. Christmas is basically just for the joy of it.

Witchy Jane said:
I spend about a quarter of Christmas with people who fit that bill, ie. my immediate family.

It's the extended family I can't stand.

Even when I actually get nice gifts (which is not unheard of) I kind of resent it because it feels like I'm expected to just forgive the five hours of bullshit and passive aggression that proceeded it.

Witchy Jane said:
also some two people--usually my uncle and his father in law--get piss-drunk and get into

well we have a specific word for it but uh, a contest to see who can come up with the most colorful slur for any given group of people. Usually relating to something on the news or football, depending on what's on the TV.

Your extended family sounds unpleasant.

Aliroz · 2015-10-12 15:31:19

-overdramatic villain monologue removed-

Calica · 2015-10-12 15:40:15

0vvvv0 said:
I like all of them for entirely different reasons, although overeating is a unifying theme.

agreed

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