I hate Halloween

[GirlinContempt]

That's all.

[Haole Girl]

1. You really do?

Why?

[GirlinContempt]

2. oooooh don't get me started.

It's ONE day of the year, people get totally insane about looking a certain way, everything has to be PERFECT, they expect to find everything they're looking for in their size no matter how hard they are to fit, they expect to get it the day before all the parties within 15 minutes, and they expect constant staff attention, but they don't want to pay for anything, they're rude, they're impossible to please, and they have little to no understanding of what goes into the things that they want.
They think it's fun to play around and fuck around and are completely oblivious to anything going on outside of their little circle of shit, they don't read and yell at people because they don't... but most of all... because it's ONE day of the year. ONE. And the weeks leading up to it bring more crazies and assholes across my path than I normally see in a year.

[Jokerman]

27. I felt that way about every holiday when I worked retail. n/t

[tigereye]

40. we just look in the closet or a variety store

and we aren't picky. But based on some guests we had for a party here, I guess you are right about people obsessing abour their costumes.

[Reciprocity]

3. So how do you feel about Christmas?

[GirlinContempt]

4. It's ok I guess

I don't feel too much about it. I sometimes get to see my sisters who live far away, so that's pretty sweet.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. Fuckin' liar.

That's all.

[GirlinContempt]

6. No way

You are the one who is lying.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. No way

You are the one who is lying.

[GirlinContempt]

8. I never lie about Halloween

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. That's a lie right there.

[GirlinContempt]

13. Why do you hate America?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. I love America, dirty Canadian.

[GirlinContempt]

18. you made me sad

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. Good.

[GirlinContempt]

21. ouch

[driver8]

22. I really wish haruka3 would just say what she really means...instead of

beating around the, uhm...the...you know...the bush!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. She knows I mean it with love.

[driver8]

26. Oh, I know...it's obvious you are friends.

It just cracked me up that your response was "fuckin' liar".

It sounds like something I would say to my friends!

[philosophie_en_rose]

9. I don't hate it, but it's extremely annoying.

*ring ring*

hello?

* I'M A STRANGER DRESSED LIKE A FOOL! GIMME STUFF! *

are you out alone?

* GIMME STUFF! OR I'LL TP YOUR HOUSE!*

sprinklers on

[RetroLounge]

11. Everyday Is Halloween

well I live with snakes and lizards
and other things that go bump in the night
cos to me everyday is halloween
I have given up hiding and started to fight
I have started to fight

well any time, any place, anywhere that I go
all the people seem to stop and stare
they say 'why are you dressed like it's halloween?
you look so absurd, you look so obscene'

o, why can't I live a life for me?
why should I take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world

well I let their teeny minds think
that they're dealing with someone who is over the brink
and I dress this way just to keep them at bay
cos halloween is everyday
it's everyday

o, why can't I live a life for me?
why should I take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world

o, why can't I live a life for me?
why should I take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
i'm not the one that's so absurd

why hide it?
why fight it?
hurt feelings
best to stop feeling hurt
from denials, reprisals
it's the same it's the same in the whole wide world

Ministry

RL

[tigereye]

41. I used to joke that to me every day was Halloween

I hate boring clothes.... ;)

[Omphaloskepsis]

12. I love it... I think it is holiday #1

Christmas can get teabagged...

[Arugula Latte]

16. Me too! Halloween is great! No religion and lots of drunken revelry.

aaaaaand ... Candy! :9

Christmas sucks moose dick!

[Omphaloskepsis]

17. Eugene went off last night...

The entire town was a big drunk party. The Ducks won and that helped fuel the mayhem. I think I had fun, I don't remember much.

[Arugula Latte]

25. If you can't remember, then you must have had fun.

Go Ducks! :toast:

And Go Cal Bears! :toast:

[Neoma]

14. You don't like candy and dressing up like a borg?

Shame on you!

[Robb]

19. This year I'm with ya

I've already been to two freakin' Halloween parties, I'm about done and am trying to figure out how to lay low Tuesday night.

[astral]

24. I don't care for Halloween, except . . . .

-- I like seeing other grown up people dressed up all freaky
-- I like seeing really little kids dressed up all freaky with their trick-or-treat bags
-- I like eating too much chocolate at work for a few days knowing it's The Thing To Do
-- I don't mind having candy to hand out to kids at the door, but here I never know if there will be any or not, but I try to remember to have some candy in case they come.

As for the rest of it? Halloween's for kids, and adults can be big kids if they want to but if you don't mind I'll just eat too much chocolate and ignore the whole thing.

Peer pressure to dress up at work too. I pass every year but was pushed into it last year. I PASS this year, but if I'm not too broke I'll pass some candy out at the office.

[RandomKoolzip]

28. But you love lollipops.

:hi:

[GirlinContempt]

30. YOU`

way to never reply to me meaniepants

[NewJeffCT]

29. I love Halloween

as an almost 40 year old married man, how often do I get to see live women in their 20s dressed up in sexy outfits?

[swag]

31. Any holiday where you're expected to do something is bullshit.

I am not getting costumed for a friend's party. Hell, right now I am not even going to a friend's party. Not unless I find some really good vitamins.

[GirlinContempt]

32. When is party?

[Richardo]

33. I'm with you, GiC

:thumbsup:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5788446&mesg_id=5788454

[Pacifist Patriot]

34. As a stay-at-home mom, it is the most hellish day of the year.

Followed closely by November 1. The only time I like it is when it falls on Sunday and I have to be in the pulpit. Then someone else gets to hold the beasts back until nightfall.

[magnetism]

35. I LOVE HALLOWEEN!

That's all.....

:evilgrin:

[GirlinContempt]

36. Work in a theatrical costume company

:P

[ElboRuum]

37. Yes, Halloween blows... or sucks... or something...

See, I don't get the paper, so in my town, I never know when the trick or treaters are coming, I ostensibly miss it, or get home from work late. If I do get in late, I douse every light in the house except for a room in the back just to keep from having to answer the door.

Inevitably, someone invites you to a Halloween party. Now, somehow, it is thought, by a non-trivial percentage of the population, that getting verschnickered while in your street clothes is good, but getting dressed up in some costume makes it ten times more fun. I can say from personal experience that it is not. The only good thing about the Halloween party versus other drunken evenings amongst friends is that the really hot women almost always go for the Sexy <vocational or fictional character here> Costume, which does make it somewhat better, but 10 times? Not quite.

In order to not seem like I am trying to make a personal statement about my utter contempt for and detestation of Halloween which might bring down the true-believers, I suck back the bile that thinking about the upcoming revelry produces, and try to be instantaneously creative with a costume. This never goes well. Since I really left my fantasizing about being someone else entirely back in my teens, this is a particularly arduous, and ultimately, failured task. I particularly detest having to go to those "open for about three weeks" costume shops that rent out disused stores in strip malls. I get the distinct impression that I'm at a garage sale while I'm there, making it absolutely clear that I am buying stuff that I absolutely WILL discard in short step, whether a plastic sword, a pimp hat, or whatever bric-a-brac I can cobble together into a lame excuse for a costume.

What my efforts will show is that I had no "vision" that year, and when I attend the party, I will feel precisely that much more annoyed as Johnny and Jane All-Hallows-Eve came as matching bookends, and their kids are out trick-or-treating in lovingly crafted-by-hand fully-functional-and-Transformable Megatron and Starscream outfits they spent 14 weeks in the garage with welding torches making. Shit, even the potato "fusion" cannon on Megatron's arm works, the Starscream outfit is capable of actual flight, and both employ hydraulics strong enough to enrubble your backyard fire pit. I assume these options are for "trick" purposes?

Sue Hotoutfit will be there too in her Sexy Longshorewoman's outfit (or was it Sexy Hairnetted Cafeteria Lady? Oh, the hat gives it away, nevermind), bending over coyly in front of Pirate #14 of 54 that came to the party. And that's nice. But the pirates, what a sordid lot of retreads these guys are. All of the pirates will, of course, let out a cliche'd little "Aaaarrrr!" every third sentence and occasionally call you a "scurvy dog" as they mock threaten you with one eye squinted closed. May all 54 pirates that attended that party impale each other on their genuine, imitation, prestige, premium plastic cutlasses with authentic vinyl trim.

The next afternoon, I wake up blearily on the couch with my costume still on and the plastic cutlass poking me in the face (I was Pirate #14... Aaarr...) . I peel myself up off the couch, pop a few vitamins, wash them down with about a bucket of ice water and proceed directly to the bathroom to remove this ridiculous outfit, place it in the trash, and shower three or four times in a row because I feel so utterly unclean. They don't make soap powerful enough to remove "self-loathing".

[tigereye]

42. I don't agree with the premise

but damn this is a funny, funny, screed, elboruum. Feel free to rant away anytime.

[PVnRT]

38. Bigot

Quit pursuing your agenda of destroying Halloween.

[GirlinContempt]

39. nevar

[PVnRT]

45. Why do you hate America?

Go take your anti-Halloween propaganda somewhere else. You can't stop me from expressing my faith.

[tigereye]

43. I love it

all of it.

It's my favorite.

[LaraMN]

44. Oh! Oh! Oh! Aly, I need a costume, like NOW!

Do you have an adult-size pink hermaphroditic mermaid costume in tall length? Why not?

[Fox Mulder]

46. It's my favorite holiday.

After all, I'm a godless liberal bastard. :eyes: