Holiday Hate

[Sabre]

After the recent christmas and valentine threads, what is it about holidays that really annoiy you?

Me, I hate the fact that you can't do anything. All the shops and places to hang out are shut, but on the subject of valentines day, that's the worst.

Couples ram there over idealized lust down our throats 24-7, they don't need a holiday dedicated to it. A better holiday would be a "Kick anyone being romantic in public in the face" day.

[Sableye]

are you copying my opposite?

[Guest Julius Quasar]

I hate every damn holiday out there...'cept for Halloween.

[Kursed]

I dislike every holiday I enjoy the christmas and birthday cards ,but everything is just ugg....

Christmas:Travling in cold weather when we could just stay home

Valatines day:I have no admireres

Easter:I really don't enjoy choclate

halloween:mask candy ugg I'd rather be a real furry and go out trick or treating to be honest.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

(I forgot Easter, thanks Kursed)

St. Valentines Day: What a great way for big, amoral capitalist corporations to profit off of consumer guilt.  They know if a guy don't wanna sleep on the couch that night, he'd better come through for his girl...BUT...having no date is the WORST part of it.

St Patrick's Day: lacing alcoholic beverages with potentially poisonous green dye, drunkenness, brawling, buying and wearing green crap, or risk being "pinched".  It was originally "punched", the British "John Bull" wore Red, and the Irish Patriots wore Green, and on this day, they beat up the English...but t'was all in good fun!

Easter:  All about the eggs, and the bunny, pagan fertility symbols, from a perverted pagan spring holiday.  The religious meaning behind Easter is lost in the commercialism.  Sorry big guy.

Memorial Day: I got nothing against this.  A day off from work/school is okay, but the blasted traffic..ugh.

Veteran's Day: Good holiday, our vets Deserve major recognition, on this day, Memorial, Day, and Independence Day.  I wish I could've served our country, but the Army says I got "Private Wilson's Disorder"

4th of July: Not bad....fireworks are awesome!  "Celebrate your nation's independence by blowing up a small part of it!" 

Labor Day: Cooked up by fatcat union gangsters.  Hot damn, a day off!  This holiday ain't so bad.

Halloween: Best holiday of all, IMO.  You don't have to visit or have over to host your @$$hole relatives, and their loser friends, you get to dress up in a costume, play pranks on people and misbehave, eat candy, you don't have to behave, or give gifts...

Thanksgiving: Hate it! Why are we celebrating gluttony, the massacre and desecration of a native people?

Christmas: Yuck!  Awful!  A materialistic, severely over-commercialized,  crass capitalist exploitation of consumer guilt and ignorance. It has all the horrors of Thanksgiving (visiting/having over to host @$$hole relatives, and their loser friends), people pestering you to give to charity...being...ugh...NICE!!  *VOMITS*

Christmas isn't even a certain someone's real birthday.  There's a reason a certain organization banned the celebration of the Christmas holiday, until the 19th century.  12/25 is actually a Persian pagan winter holiday, later taken up by the Romans, who celebrated it in a very...degrading way...and.... *The Peanuts cartoon horn is heard honking, like whenever an adult is talking*....and that's why I don't care for Xmas.  :wink:

[ThePointingMan]

I see no problems with the holidays... A lot of the factors brought up about why people hate the holidays, is kind of unrelated to the person stating it... I understand valentines day, having no gf/bf, but things like its, "gotten to commercial", who cares. You look at people thinking oh they are dumb by falling into those commercial traps... but they are happy whilst falling into these traps, we seem to be the ones complaining. Anything else, if you don't like it, why participate, it does not bother you, everyone else is happy, and it's all O.K.

I guess I'm not a real, community thinker ey. :}

If you got family events, you don't necessarily have to go to em... (I would though, My grandpa's neat :})

Now then seeing as this IS a what you don't like about the holidays, I should probably post something related to the actual topic... aaaa... mmm... can't actually think of anything... so nevermind 

Saber holds some points though, things being closed... but this one although not unrelated to everyone, is still unrelated to me, I wouldn't want to go anywhere anyway :} other then maybe a friends house, I'd be playing video games, and no new video games would be released the date that the shops are closed, so i wouldn't need to go out and buy it.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

I see no problems with the holidays... A lot of the factors brought up about why people hate the holidays, is kind of unrelated to the person stating it... I understand valentines day, having no gf/bf, but things like its, "gotten to commercial", who cares. You look at people thinking oh they are dumb by falling into those commercial traps... but they are happy whilst falling into these traps, we seem to be the ones complaining. Anything else, if you don't like it, why participate, it does not bother you, everyone else is happy, and it's all O.K.

I guess I'm not a real, community thinker ey. :}

If you got family events, you don't necessarily have to go to em... (I would though, My grandpa's neat :})

My family always came over to my house, so I couldn't get away from them.

As for the Valentine's day, yeah, I forgot to mention that, having no date sucks!

screw the commercialism of it, having no date is worse than that.

[Guest FoXXX]

I don't really like any holidays...

[Vindr]

...And you really don't like anything at all.

Me?  I don't like the insincerity that most other families have at Christmas.  Don't like your relatives?  Well don't freaking invite them.  It all stems from this 'All about Me,' narcissistic society we live in now days that makes you 'Keep up with the Johnsons.'  Really others shouldn't care about what others say.  I hate to be that inspirational old grandfather in the corner that everyone now days in our society hates

"Mooom my $100 bill is old and prickly like grandpa."

"Oh don't worry honey, we'll get a new one, like we did with grandpa."

(Yes, I don't need an Indian parable about a buffalo, a coyote, and a rabbit to tell you to respect your elders, your grandparents, etc.  You should, and hopefully you are...)

But even if you aren't religious, Christmas is either about being together and happy, not resentful.  If you are religious, then it's about Christs birth.  Not about the presents.

BUUUT to keep topic relevancy, the one holiday I hate most is Christmas to summarize.  Not the holiday in general.  But the amount of heat it gets from people who protect it from 'Church and State separation' and the commercialism.  Especially the dumb f**ks who go out and make sure it's spelled X-mas instead of Christmas (FYI, X-mas still stands for a religious holiday, the X stands for the cross that Christ died on in some large, symbolical way.)  My opinion, we don't need politics, it's just a freaking holiday!

WHATS THAT?  YOUR SAVIOR IS BORN?  THATS GREAT TO KNOW, NOW COME AND SPEND AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE.

Yeah, it doesn't seem right to me either.  Yes, commercialism.  Last I checked, Christ was born in a stable with poor parents.  Not to rich parents who don't look after their own chlidren.

(Yes, actual product: the book reads to the kid, instead of the grueling hours of actually interacting with your child to grow and nurture them, that's what the maid and the computer is for, obviously...)

Yes you could say I'm anti-human contact social everything.  But I consider myself to be part of the group that doesn't have enough money to buy more cars than people in the house.  No biggie.

[Kursed]

...And you really don't like anything at all.

Me?  I don't like the insincerity that most other families have at Christmas.  Don't like your relatives?  Well don't freaking invite them.  It all stems from this 'All about Me,' narcissistic society we live in now days that makes you 'Keep up with the Johnsons.'  Really others shouldn't care about what others say.  I hate to be that inspirational old grandfather in the corner that everyone now days in our society hates

(Yes, I don't need an Indian parable about a buffalo, a coyote, and a rabbit to tell you to respect your elders, your grandparents, etc.  You should, and hopefully you are...)

But even if you aren't religious, Christmas is either about being together and happy, not resentful.  If you are religious, then it's about Christs birth.  Not about the presents.

BUUUT to keep topic relevancy, the one holiday I hate most is Christmas to summarize.  Not the holiday in general.  But the amount of heat it gets from people who protect it from 'Church and State separation' and the commercialism.  Especially the dumb f**ks who go out and make sure it's spelled X-mas instead of Christmas (FYI, X-mas still stands for a religious holiday, the X stands for the cross that Christ died on in some large, symbolical way.)  My opinion, we don't need politics, it's just a freaking holiday!

WHATS THAT?  YOUR SAVIOR IS BORN?  THATS GREAT TO KNOW, NOW COME AND SPEND AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE.

Yeah, it doesn't seem right to me either.  Yes, commercialism.  Last I checked, Christ was born in a stable with poor parents.  Not to rich parents who don't look after their own chlidren.

(Yes, actual product: the book reads to the kid, instead of the grueling hours of actually interacting with your child to grow and nurture them, that's what the maid and the computer is for, obviously...)

Yes you could say I'm anti-human contact social everything.  But I consider myself to be part of the group that doesn't have enough money to buy more cars than people in the house.  No biggie.

Umm I reallly hate to burst your bubble ,but can we please refrain from any religous discussions?

[Vindr]

Half the western worlds' holidays are derived from some sort of (EDIT: CHRISTIAN) religious significance.  St. Patties day, St. Valentines day included.

Your call...we can do Yom Kippur if you'd like...

EDIT 2 (The sequel):  Ok, for those of you non-religious, Christmas is for family togetherness.  Not family resentment.

[Guest FoXXX]

Half the western worlds' holidays are derived from some sort of (EDIT: CHRISTIAN) religious significance.  St. Patties day, St. Valentines day included.

Your call...we can do Yom Kippur if you'd like...

EDIT 2 (The sequel):  Ok, for those of you non-religious, Christmas is for family togetherness.  Not family resentment.

Christmas = Catholics we must not talk about this lol

[Guest Julius Quasar]

...And you really don't like anything at all.

Me?  I don't like the insincerity that most other families have at Christmas.  Don't like your relatives?  Well don't freaking invite them. 

I don't invite my relatives over for holidays, they invite themselves over, we can't keep them out.  My aunt literally kicked in the front door one year, when we went out of town for Thanksgiving.  She paid for the damage, but still...

[Kursed]

Christmas = Catholics we must not talk about this lol

look guys I'm serious  Relgious discussions are not allowed.

Rule 10

http://forums.starfox-online.net/index.php?topic=3481.0

[ThePointingMan]

I don't invite my relatives over for holidays, they invite themselves over, we can't keep them out.  My aunt literally kicked in the front door one year, when we went out of town for Thanksgiving.  She paid for the damage, but still...

Well, I was gonna say just lock your door... Get one of em locks they used back in time, only made of mettle, you know where there's the two hooks, and yeah put the wood beam across.

I hate Holiday tree a lot more then x-mas tree, but i hate em both.

[Mr. Krystal]

Religious discussion is not allowed at all, even correct and civilly stated. Sorry.