'Spooky Season'. I just can't.

[Fordian]

Why is even the BBC calling Halloween 'Spooky Season'? What is wrong with 'Halloween'?

Will we be celebrating 'Thanksgiving' next? Wishing each other 'Happy Holidays'?

And what with all the adults dressing up on US media? I mean, getting into Halloween, considering it's about spirituality, the idea that the 'veil' between the living and the dead is thinned on the evening before All Hallows. It hardly fits with a Christian fundamentalism belief system!

Am I an old curmudgeon?

Don't answer that, it's rhetorical! 🤣

@Fordian @RedFronds - it's not true that the Archers couldn't call it Halloween. There was a storyline where Adam and Ian are organising the PTA Halloween disco and Adam buys decorations with Halloween on and members of the PTA/school say shouldn't be called Halloween, Adam (rightly) thought this was bananas. In essence the Archers was having this exact conversation within their storyline.

I know. But they won’t have it at all.

@Fordian @RedFronds It wasn’t The Archers as the programme refusing to use Halloween - it was a very very minor storyline that the local school disco was a Spooky Disco and not, as one of the characters had thought, a Halloween disco. For the reasons a few other posters mentioned - schools
often don’t use the term Halloween as due to some religions. I remember decades ago a friend of mine not being allowed to come to my birthday Halloween party due to her conservative Christian parents not allowing it.

cross posted with @Notmydaughteryoubitch

Fgs I suppose spooky season will merge into the holidays and then we hopefully won’t unintentionally offend anyone. Looking forward to ‘nice feelings about each other day’, ‘flat batter day’, ‘primary caregiver day’ and ‘eat chocolate and have time to do your diy weekend’ coming up in the spring.

I guess 'Spooky Season' incorporates Halloween, Samhain, Day of the Dead, All Souls' Day (today). Not sure if Diwali has a spooky element, though.

Makes a change from "You can't say Happy Christmas any more because of the Muslims"🤣

Why not?

I blame social media. People are so stupid now everything has to have a theme.

Christian's are a strange bunch though. Picking and choosing which bits of their religion to follow and lambasting others for doing the very same 😂

I suspect that the answer is “to make it feel fun and exciting and to try and get us to watch more telly”.

Because they don’t like the whole witches and devil shiz. They get a bit sniffy about having Harry Potter books in the library.