A Hallowe'en Brexit

[Apoiads]

You couldn't make this shit up.

Has to be the most pointless activity ever 🤣🤣🤣

Do you not do this yourself?

Oldest pack of ham/yogurt used first for the childrens lunchboxes

Dh does, very hot on the newest dated stuff at the back of the fridge/cupboard and the oldest eaten first

Yes but I'm not sure I'd consider my weekly shop a stock pile...🤣

Completely off topic but someone up thread seems to think Samhain and Halloween are the same thing... they're not.

Really?

If they ruin Halloween for me im gonna be pissed

bluntness

To be incredibly fair ive got friends whose cupboards are virtually empty

I can guarantee that my 20 packs of rice and 5 bottles of mr muscle sink cleaner look like a stockpile to them

And dh got them cos they were on offer...

Only one pack of butter! Whats wrong with the man???

@Apoiads yes, really 😊

Care to explain @yiskasha?
Because as far as I know, it is exactly the same thing.

www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/origin-of-Halloween.html

From that link:

But it was also, as the last day of the year, the time when the souls of the departed would return to their former homes and when potentially malevolent spirits were released from the Otherworld and were visible to mankind.

The month of November is Samhain in Irish.
Halloween translates as Oiche Shamhna
The 1st of November is adopted by Catholicism as the Feast of All Saints and All souls.
In pagan times, 31st October was where the veil between the living and the dead was at its weakest, so the evil souls could come out to play and get up to all sorts of mischief.

It's an appropriate date for Brexit really.

Love how they keep pushing back. This will go in for years until we forget about it and just move on as if it never happened! Hopefully...

Well the UK parliament couldn't come to a conclusive decision between Magnolia or Pale Magnolia.
Not sure why there is so much antipathy between both sides of this argument. There seems to be nobody on the fence at all. You're either vociferously on one side or passionately on the other side. And ne'er the twain shall meet!
6 months, 6 years, I'm sick of it now. It's going round in circles.

Yes, I'm Irish and the traditional Samhain and the traditional Halloween are different. They start on the same day, however the cultural differences are significant.

Anyway, apologies for derailing. But it's important to note that often the two are bundled together but they're different. I do find it to be rather an appropriate date for the new extension however! 😊

They're not different.

You're talking I think about the hill of Uisneach where the light festival is held.
What is undoubtedly also part of Samhain is the notion of malevolent spirits. You're misinformed.

And Samhain is where Halloween comes from.

One is a Christian festival of All Hallows’ Eve. The other is a Celtic pagan festival of Samhain. How can they not be two different festivals with different foci?

A Nightmare on Brexit Street.

Because one is derived from the other.

Instead of Scream this year, it will be Brexit showing.

A fitting day after we have had negotiations conducted by a zombie PM.

I'm not misinformed. I've grown up in an Irish pagan family. Celebrated Samhain my entire life, and it's not the same as Halloween.

Oh for fuck sake. I deliberately booked my only foreign holiday this year for October thinking it would all be sorted one way or another well before then. First world problem, I know.

@NeutralJanet , I forgot that our little Irish holiday falls on 31 October too!!