Halloween sucks lately

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skykiii

skykiii

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I'm NOT complaining about trick-or-treaters or candy or commercialism or any gay shit like that.

What sucks about modern Halloween is.... the weather.

Hear me out, THEN leave your stickers!

Okay... I can't be the only person who remembers that "Halloween" used to be a time when the leaves on trees were red, and in fact I even distinctly recall a thing where there'd be special trash bags with pumpkin faces on them that you would fill up for a makeshift decoration.

But I look out the window now and.... the leaves are still green. Some are yellowing, but it is nowhere near as far along as it should be.

And I've had to turn on the air conditioner. In October.

This.... this isn't even autumn anymore. It's either backwards spring or else summer overstaying its welcome. Either way, this ain't Halloween.

We should all pray to God to have a proper Halloween next year.
 
I have childhood memories of trick or treating while wearing my winter coat over my costume.
I don't live that far from where I grew up, and it's been a long while since kids have had that sort of situation.

The weather's been a bit sideways the past 10-15 years. Maybe it's permanent, maybe it'll swing back to how it used to be. Time will tell.

Happy Halloween, either way!🍁🍂🎃👻🍎
 
Cat tit bingo said:
The leaves are falling but it's been sunny and hot, I want those cold cloudy day that makes the time feel special.
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In my area its been raining, which has helped set that "this reminds me of playing Hexen as a kid" feel.

Patrick Bait-man said:
I just wish the Christmasfags would stop putting their shit up in the middle of October, smh.
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Same here. I love Christmas but for me I have a strong inability to enjoy a Holiday outside of its proper season... part of the reason the weather bothers me today.

If School drilled anything into me, its this: you go Halloween, then Thanksgiving, then Christmas. You do NOT do Christmas trees until you deal with that month where cartoon turkeys are plastered all over the wall, just saying.

And at this rate Cartoon Turkey is gonna feel more tonally appropriate than Halloween ever did.
 
Halloween is cool lately because spooky. And the spookiness is spreading as Halloween gains notoriety in its identity as the people's holiday. Even if everything suddenly turned into a desert Halloween would not suck. They shoot horror movies in deserts sometimes.

:woo:

I don't specifically remember how it was as a kid, Nostalgia (more like nigstalgia, am I right?) is for autists.

Patrick Bait-man said:
I just wish the Christmasfags would stop putting their shit up in the middle of October, smh.
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Halloweeners need to start reclaiming territory by keeping their Halloween decorations up into December.
 
Clearly global warming is bunk. I instead subscribe to the causal power of Holiday observation, in which neglecting Fall holidays and bum-rushing straight into Christmas consoomerism causes the region to jump seasons, thus plunging my locale from humid Summer conditions straight into below-freezing Winter temperatures with less than a consecutive week of Fall weather to show for it.
 
Beautiful Border said:
It'll turn out that OP moved from New England to Arizona and wonders why the end of October isn't the same now as it was when he was growing up
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Nope. Lived in one state for the past 30 years.

Ultrapenguin said:
Nostalgia (more like nigstalgia, am I right?) is for autists.
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Gonna call bullshit. I made a topic about this once but long story short, Nostalgia keeps you based and remembering who you are and thus how things ought to be. Ever notice that people like Lindsay Ellis, who went full steam ahead with wokeism and troonery, started out by trying to gaslight everyone that the only reason they hate things is because of that evil nostalgia clouding their brains and if they didn't have that they'd gladly drink New Coke or cut off their dicks? Exactly.
 
The past few falls have been weird by me too. Leaves can stay green on some trees well into November, even though we're famous for our brutal winters with several feet of snow. Some of the leaves are red, yellow, and orange now, but I've had the house open to stay cool most of this week. Haven't needed the air conditioner since September though, too far north for that. The climate is probably changing, though likely not in the way some Swedish doom goblin would have you believe.

It really doesn't do much for my perception of a particular Halloween though. I was a military kid, and had one Halloween in the dead center of Alaska, and the very next year was trick-or-treating in Hawaii, and just a couple years later, in the DC suburbs of Maryland. My last year in Alaska I wore a costume that barely kept me warm in the freezing, snowy weather, and because that costume was so cool and none of my new friends in Hawaii had seen it, decided to wear it again and sweated my ass off.
 
It has always either snowed or freezing rained on every Halloween I have ever lived through. Then it doesn't snow again til after Christmas. It's the way it's always been.
 
When I was a kid, Halloween trick or treating was always on the 31st. It didn't matter the weather, day of the week anything. It was just unregulated it began when it got dark and ended when people ran out of candy which was usually a little before midnight. Fucking awesome holiday for a kid in the 1980s.

I moved to a new state in the 90s and by then they were trying to say beggars night was on some random day before Halloween like the 26th from 4:00 to 6:00. I have a distinct memory of going out in broad daylight. It was just gay and unfun and I stopped trick or treating way earlier than I would have if it had still been the old fun Halloween that was unregulated.

I had a co-worker talk about taking her grandkids trick or treating last week which would have made it like the 25th. What the hell, bring back my old fun Halloween, not this gay sanitized version.
 
You can look up historical temperatures for an area, but it doesn't really tell you what the trees would have looked like.
 
BootlegPopeye said:
When I was a kid, Halloween trick or treating was always on the 31st. It didn't matter the weather, day of the week anything. It was just unregulated it began when it got dark and ended when people ran out of candy which was usually a little before midnight. Fucking awesome holiday for a kid in the 1980s.
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Hell yes. And the schools I went to gave out little coupons that you could take to the local 7/11 and get a free Slurpee on Halloween.

As far as weather, that’s always been a toss up where I’m from. It’s either hot as hell or chilly, and good luck picking out the correct costume based on that.
 
BootlegPopeye said:
When I was a kid, Halloween trick or treating was always on the 31st. It didn't matter the weather, day of the week anything. It was just unregulated it began when it got dark and ended when people ran out of candy which was usually a little before midnight. Fucking awesome holiday for a kid in the 1980s.

I moved to a new state in the 90s and by then they were trying to say beggars night was on some random day before Halloween like the 26th from 4:00 to 6:00. I have a distinct memory of going out in broad daylight. It was just gay and unfun and I stopped trick or treating way earlier than I would have if it had still been the old fun Halloween that was unregulated.

I had a co-worker talk about taking her grandkids trick or treating last week which would have made it like the 25th. What the hell, bring back my old fun Halloween, not this gay sanitized version.
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Oh, right. Halloween in some jurisdictions don't allow trick-or-treating on the 31st if it falls on a school night. They have to do it the weekend prior. I see where they're coming from, but it defeats the purpose of Halloween. Why not just have school off after Halloween?
 
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