people feel bad for not celebrating. Why is it somehow socially acceptable to say "You're not leaving out candy? thats so messed up and selfish"

Imagine the outrage if someone said "you're not caroling? thats so messed up and selfish" or

"you're not hiding eggs?...."
"you're not giving out christmas gifts?..."
"you're not giving out Hanukkah gifts?..."

I don't like what Halloween stands for and I'll be damned if I sit by my door for 3 hours on a weeknight to give kids what is basically poison at high doses.

October is full of shitty holidays.

10/22/2013 9:45:38 PM

neat

10/22/2013 9:47:55 PM

Thanks for justifying your selfishness.

10/22/2013 9:49:09 PM

I prefer to aggressively celebrate Columbus Day. Really diggin' the old neighbors' place.

10/22/2013 9:53:15 PM

False, Christmas and St. Patrick's.

Where's your green/yuletide cheer?

10/22/2013 9:54:33 PM

Those are bad examples. Halloween is not a religious Holiday so it can't really be compared to Easter or Hannukah.

10/22/2013 9:55:35 PM

its religious to goth chicks and other assorted weirdos

10/22/2013 9:57:39 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UHL9AzPAyI
Washington teens celebrate Columbus day

Quote :

"alloween is not a religious Holiday"

are you FUCKING kidding me? its really so commercialized that people don't realize its a religious holiday anymore?

[Edited on October 22, 2013 at 9:59 PM. Reason : i guess valentines day is not religious either]

10/22/2013 9:58:21 PM

definitely. nobody believes in all hallow's eve. it's candy and costumes

10/22/2013 10:24:19 PM

you could say that about every holiday

10/22/2013 10:36:57 PM

I'm half way on board with you E man


people still asked me what I'm dressing up as. I'm old. I dont wear costumes unless there's a pay check at the end of the day.

hello no i'm not going to any party. what are you ? in high school?

but it's a harmless holiday. people pay too much thought into. you're giving out candy to kids. that's it. big whop. you're thinking too high of yourself.


goths and satanic people who wait tp do their shit on Halloween are morons on October 30th and a November 1st and that day doesn't change that fact either. They too think too high of themselves

10/22/2013 11:02:04 PM

don't put out decorations and keep your lights off and nobody expects you to give out candy.

10/23/2013 9:27:24 AM

Sounds like it's The E Man's time of the month....

10/23/2013 9:31:15 AM

I don't celebrate halloween because of what it stands for. I celebrate it because it's fun.

10/23/2013 9:35:04 AM

it's one of my favorite holidays. and i'm not even a practicing pagan.

10/23/2013 9:39:46 AM

I live in an old house on the main trick or treating road in town. everyone from the surrounding towns carpools vans of kids to trick or treat here. its disgusting. keeping my lights off makes people think i'm trying to create darkness to "add to the affect". I can only leave, ignore the doorbell for 3 hours or give out candy.

If i put out a basket people take that then ring the doorbell to tell me its empty.

[Edited on October 23, 2013 at 9:55 AM. Reason : k]

10/23/2013 9:54:58 AM

Yeah, I'm not actively weird, but it's the closest thing to a spiritual holiday there is for me. It's a celebration of general foolishness, which is kind of my thing.

10/23/2013 9:59:50 AM

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"are you FUCKING kidding me?"

No, I'm not fucking kidding you. I don't consider it a religious holiday when I get Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim kids ringing my doorbell dressed up like Spider-Man or a werewolf. It's about as religious a holiday as the 4th of July.

10/23/2013 10:10:26 AM

Quote :

"I live in an old house on the main trick or treating road in town. everyone from the surrounding towns carpools vans of kids to trick or treat here. its disgusting. keeping my lights off makes people think i'm trying to create darkness to "add to the affect". I can only leave, ignore the doorbell for 3 hours or give out candy. "

then post a passive-aggressive sign telling your neighbors how you don't want to be bothered and stop crying about it

10/23/2013 10:13:48 AM

I have read about older people on fixed incomes who literally couldn't afford to give out candy because they got so many trick-or-treaters. I think the neighborhoods ended up donating candy so they could participate.

10/23/2013 10:28:34 AM

10/23/2013 2:59:09 PM

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"basically poison at high doses"

Poison in high doses would result in lots of dead children. E man is a sick fuck.

Also I am sure at some point in his boring ass childhood, E-troll went trick or treating. Buy some candy and enjoy the costumes. I particularly like seeing the one to three year old kids that are still learning how to walk well.

10/23/2013 4:12:07 PM

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"I particularly like seeing the one to three year old kids that are still learning how to walk well."

its mostly just half-naked 11-13 year olds.

10/23/2013 11:37:29 PM

So.....I have this friend....who I am TOTALLY NOT FRIENDS WITH.


But the poor sonofabitch doesn't seem to understand that. He lives in the apartment above me, and he talks non-goddamn-stop.

Honestly, it's like he's water-boarding me with his words. I can't take it anymore. I think he might actually get some satisfaction from raping me with small talk every fucking day. And what's worse, is that we both work near each other, which means I will randomly see him at the bus stop on my way home from work. I imagine the feeling I get when I see him at the bus stop before the half hour ride home is similar to the feeling the scrawny kid feels when the school bully is on the prowl for lunch money.

But the truly infuriating part about it all is that he's so fucking nice, that I can't just look at him and say, "hey, do you think you can you stop talking for the rest of time?" Instead, he just comes up to me, and says, "Soooooo, have you heard that Google had to add one million square feet of space to their campus?" No man, I haven't fucking heard that, and am not any better off knowing that useless bit of information that you threw at me completely unprovoked.

I mean, I don't get it. If he considers me his friend, then he's got some serious relationship issues. I can't possibly be fulfilling any need of his to feel appreciated. I don't even bother putting in the bare minimum of effort while pretending to be interested in what he's saying.

Fuck, I don't really even listen to his words. I just kind of time my responses. 10 seconds go by, and I'm like, "mmm..." 30 seconds goes by, and I respond with "oh..yeah?" 1 minute goes by? "Ahhhh..." That's it. I'm totally on auto-pilot with dude. I haven't even bothered to learn the name of this poor bastard. How is this not obvious to even the most tone-def of humans?

I could almost forgive the guy if he was at least somewhat interesting. But he's not. He always starts conversations with me that I don't want to fucking have....EVER. He's like being friends with a nerdy Snapple bottle cap. He's just full of banal facts that nobody should ever care to share with anyone. If he came up to me, and was like, "damn, dude, I just got another immigrant pregnant today," then I'd be like, "Okay, now we're having a conversation..." buuuuuut Nooooooooo, instead he decides to tell me all about how "the cloud works" in the I.T. world. Fuck, man, who wants to listen to that shit? I don't fucking care that your office had the internet go down for half an hour today, and how it TOTALLY damaged your productivity. I swear, being stuck on the bus with this guy is like being stuck in a prison cell on wheels with only a copy of "MS Dos for Dummies" on audiotape.

I'd honestly prefer it if he just killed my cat or something. At least then, I could be like, "hey man, you killed my pet...we're fucking done here," and then never speak to him again.

But he's too fucking nice. He would never do that. Instead, he just continues to assault me with chit-chat. If he didn't suck at reading body language, it would at least be tolerable. I've got my headphones in, man....I don't want you to talk to me.....seriously, did you just get out of your seat and move closer to me to force my hand into conversation? Fuck, that takes guts.

I mean, I can't just tell this guy to fuck off, because he hasn't done anything wrong. But telling people to shut up and die is generally frowned upon in polite society, so I don't do it. It's a real shame, too, because the lack of brutal sincerity amongst mere acquaintances has probably only just enabled Talky Talkerson III. If someone had told him at a young age, "hey man, you're boring as fuck. Stop talking," then maybe we wouldn't be in this mess. And I haven't either, so I suppose I'm partly to blame.

But really, the only thing that is keeping me from doing that isn't my desire to keep up friendly appearances. Oh, no, no. Really, at this point, the only thing keeping me from asking him to kindly fuck off is the off chance that I might need to borrow something from him at some point in time in the future. That's honestly it. He might have some petty material possession that I might possibly one day desire while promising to return it...only to never fucking return it. At least then he might be mad enough at me to stop talking....and then I'll have his stuff.


So I guess I'll tough it out for the time being.

10/23/2013 11:42:19 PM