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ITT we are really irate about non-seasonal store decorations

Obā-sanObā-san
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grr I am so mad

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  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    this actually does legitimately bother me
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    it's not even thanksgiving yet!
  • HexartesHexartes
    ONE FOURTH OF THE YEAR IS CHRISTMAS
  • HexartesHexartes
    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-sanObā-san

    only 4 more to go
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    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"
  • HexartesHexartes
    Halloween isn't as nakedly commercialized as Christmas, and is secular.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    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
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    don't forget costumes and pumpkins!
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    https://itself.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/halloween-everything-thats-wrong-with-america/
  • HexartesHexartes
    :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 AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    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 VashtarSredni Vashtar
    edited 2015-10-12 00:58:22
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    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.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Thanksgiving

  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    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 GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    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 AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    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 VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I like all of them for entirely different reasons, although overeating is a unifying theme.
  • HexartesHexartes
    I enjoy all of them really but commercialization gets my goat

    It's just especially irritating with Christmas, yknow?
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    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-sanObā-san

    man i love christmas you get to buy people shit + you get socks
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    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 VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    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-sanObā-san

    the fact that we celebrate christmas when nobody in the family is christian is some weird cultural inertia
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    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 BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    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 VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    :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.
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2015-10-12 15:52:11
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    -overdramatic villain monologue removed-
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    0vvvv0 said:

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

    agreed
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