Tired of all this pumpkin and plastic skeleton crap everywhere. Thanks, marketing ghouls rage-cry

What, are we going to start celebrating the 4th of July next? Might as well with the NATO membership I guess

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      I've always thought Halloween was a cool holiday but it's a completely hollow marketing exercise here, no actual tradition behind it all.

      Might as well pretend it's the Day of the Dead or Obon

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          I just remember being a kid and my parents being baffled and borderline offended when I told them my school was holding a Halloween party

          • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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            1 year ago

            That sounds like your parents were in tune with halloween just fine, america also has plenty of prudes complaining about people having fun in october too

            • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              Yeah I remember trick or treating one year and a neighbor answered the door and just said "we don't celebrate Halloween" leaving me baffled and without any candy

              • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                yeah that happened a lot with me and it happens more as you get older people really hate pre teens and teenagers trick or treating

                there was a strong feeling that the holiday is an americanism people only reluctantly get involved in

            • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              I should stress that it wasn't some religious thing, they just thought celebrating American holidays was stupid nonsense