Death to Halloween

[Angelakillsluts]

I heard this women on the radio talking about how terrible Halloween is, and how it shouldn't be celebrated. :eek: How could someone think that? Her reason was that candy is bad for you, she kept refering to candy as "poison" and that Halloween is part of the reason kids are so out of shape. I listened as she berated every caller who called in defending Halloween, no pro- halloween answer was good enough for her.

How could you even put any of the blame on Halloween? One day of gluttony, against the other 364 of well... Gluttony. Did blaming television get boring? You have to attack Halloween now? Nobody could ever kill Halloween could they? Is it even possible to end such a celebration in say, north america? Trick or Treating becoming Illegal? :o (funny thought :p )

The point is, remember how fun trick or treating used to be? Whether you were with your parents or friends, it didn't matter. The nights seemed endless with sugary possibilities, the excitement of every house holding potential mars bars... Imagine never having that?

Not like you need to be trick or treating... I've already eaten a lot of Halloween candy, I think I ate less when I used to go out trick or treating. :p I call it halloween candy because it's candy that I don't feel bad about eating. It's like write-off candy under the guise of "halloween foods" I never eat candy but when Halloween comes around... I also love giving out candy, but not everybody is as lame as me.

How could anyone think Halloween is even expendable. I mean Christmas is the celebration of one dead person, shouldn't the all encompassing celebration of the dead (and candy, right?) be held in atleast the same regard?

I'm sure nobody is opposed to Halloween here, but is anybody maybe not so fond of Trick or Treating?

[The STE]

She was probably a fat woman with fat children or no children with no will power who didn't want to put the blame where it belongs for her fatness. It's HALLOWEEN's fault she can't put down the Sixlets. Want more butter on your ham? It's Halloween's fault.

[filmmaker2]

Well I LOVE HALLOWEEN

and they can BITE MY TOOTSIE ROLL

if they don't like that!!!!!!!!!!


I handed out many rubber spiders today and I'm tremendously happy to do it! How often in the year can a person hand out rubber spiders? Ahhhh, the joys of the rubber spiders!

[knife_fight]

down here people do that stuff. they complain about how evil and bad and naughty Halloween is, when mostly it's just people having completely innocent fun.

but then Fat Tuesday and Joe Cain Day roll around, and everyone in the city is wasted and driving around playing bumper cars on the interstate, and no one complains at all!!!!

it seems a bit askew, if you ask me.

[Tara]

When I was a kid, my family did a little special something for the trick or treating festivities that went on in our neighborhood. I remember the first year they did it, because even though I knew all about it, it scared the hell out of me, and added to the mix of my love of horror...and of Halloween. My Uncle is an artist, and he made this beautiful, incredibly horrifying devil's head mask out of papermache. It was about two feet in height, and wide enough so that when worn, it sat on the shoulders of a grown man. He had wired it with red light, with a cord that ran down to the hand with a switch at the end, so that the wearer could secretly operate the lights. My uncle, my dad, and a couple of other men from our neighborhood would take turns wearing the head, being "The Devil".
When trick or treaters rang our bell, they would be escorted into our house, with records (I'm dating myself: it was the 70's!) in the background playing monstrous music of chains dragging, screams, growls, etc, all the way downstairs to our darkened basement - to meet The Devil! You'd get down there, and it would be pitch black, and you were told to just wait, silently. All you could hear was the music, and then suddenly, slowly out of the blackness, The Devil would appear. I don't know how they did it but they amplified the voice, and the devil would talk to you and come toward you. We'd all stand there until we could take no more, and just run, screaming with terror up the stairs. That first year, I was so hysterical that, running up my own basement stairs (I mean I'm the kid who's house this is happening in, and I'm frantic!), I fell, and slipped through the stairs, cutting myself and once again back in the Devil's lair. My mother ran to help me up, and I was just scrambling, not caring about the cuts or the blood,o r anything else other than getting the hell out of that basement!! It is such a cool memory -But really, when you think of it, inviting children into the house to meet the Prince of Darkness?? Wonder how that would go over today.... those 70's were pretty innocent..!

I love Halloween. I actually live in a town where they love Halloween so much that the mainstreet is shut down for a big bash that people come from all over the world to attend. I will stop by of course, but have other plans as well. One thing I will be doing is going to a friend's house, where every year they add to, and set up their yard like a graveyard for trick and treats. They even have a real coffin, with someone dressed like a corpse laying in it.

I don't remeber which thread, but someone wrote about Gearge Romero's house this year in Pittsburg, and that sounds amazing!

[Elvis_Christ]

It's not really celebrated over here. But its slowly becoming popular the the kids. Some people are pretty anti it over here because they see it as a kind of Americanisation and then of course there's the religous fruitcakes that think its evil. I love it 'cause I can buy kooky monster/ghoul and vampire shit to have round the house. You don't really come across stuff like that much in NZ.

[Terrin_the_Vamp]

Candy is the dumbest reason I have heard so far. What about all of the other candy holidays? Easter, Christmas, and Valentine's Day. You know I read that every year over 2 billion candy canes are sold in America. So forget Halloween it needs to be death to Christmas and Candy Canes.

[Lorre]

I don't understand why there are so many retards in the world that want to blame all of their problems on things that only touch the surface of the real problem. You want to know why there are so many obese youths in this country? Because people like that idiot on the radio are too damn lazy to do anything. They wake up in the morning and head to starbucks. That's right fatty scarf down a few more doughnuts instead of taking the time to eat a bowl of cereal and then go to work and blame all of the pounds you have gained on the innocence of Halloween. What an awful jackass...

[Haunted]

Chalk the diet fanatics up with the holy rollers on how much Halloween sucks. Now our kids can count on organic granola treats with their religious tracs.

When, oh when, are the aliens coming?




By the way, Angelakillsluts, it's good to see you back around.

[ThePhantom]

She is just another one of those people who want her 15min of fame. I bet she doesnt even know what the real meaning of Halloween is . Hell to me Halloween is the best time of the year at least i dont have to go out and buy like hundreds of dollars worth of toys like you do on christmas which i think is a useless Holiday anyways .