• Obinice
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    33 hours ago

    What is it with people trying to make the entirety of October into Halloween?

    It’s one single night, it’s not a season. Is this the Americans trying to push it on us to increase our capitalist consumption or something? I see it a LOT these past few years.

    What’s next, turning Easter into a month long extravaganza?

    • @hydroxycotton
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      13 hours ago

      And what’s next after that? People having traditions and celebrating things the way they want to for their enjoyment? -___-

    • @EmpathicVagrant
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      912 hours ago

      October 5 ours went up at work. July 24 was when Halloween showed up. I’m convinced dropping sales has pressured them to chase the holiday high of old, and their layoffs and cut hours simply don’t save enough to recover normally.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        In fact, their sales are probably dropping because they’re firing all of the people doing the selling and other work that facilitates selling.

        Corporations reacting to a subpar quarter with mass layoffs is like a marathon runner reacting to a bad third mile by intentionally spraining their ankle.

  • @[email protected]
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    59 hours ago

    Here’s the issue I have. The Winter solstice (Dec 22nd) marks the start of Winter. Christmas is 3 days later, yet people expect it to be in the middle of winter, so people keep trying to move the season up. Realistically they should be trying to celebrate it in late January rather than pushing it back into Autumn. But they had to go and steal Yule and then keep wanting more time.

    • Dragon "Rider"(drag)
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      The Winter solstice (Dec 22nd) marks the start of Winter.

      Only true in some places. It’s not a universal fact. Lots of places don’t even have winter. Yet, Christmas is still celebrated. You’re making arguments about Christmas everywhere based on your own location’s individual climate.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 hours ago

        wtf are you on about? The Winter Solstice is very much a verifiable fact (it’s actually the 21st so I was a day off) and marks the start of Winter in the northern hemisphere. Christmas is usually (I say usually so you can’t be pedantic about the minority outliers) celebrated on December 25th. That’s still only a few days after the solstice like I was saying.

        This comic is talking about the Christmas season, creeping into Halloween and fall festivities, which is very much true in the northern hemisphere. I see your on an NZ instance which, yes the seasons are flipped there, but don’t go getting butt hurt if you can’t read context clues from the comic just because it doesn’t line up with you.

        • Dragon "Rider"(drag)
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          It sounds like you and drag agree that the winter solstice is only in December in the Northern hemisphere. You’ve taken on drag’s correction and understood drag’s point. Thank you for being so reasonable and open minded.

          Drag would also like to clarify that the winter solstice does not mark the start of winter in climates that don’t have winter. For example, in places that have a six season calendar.

  • @Godnroc
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    712 hours ago

    I was shopping for parts for a Halloween costume at the beginning of the month. Christmas music was playing in the store.

    • @ceenote
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      1111 hours ago

      The Defense Against Christmas.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 hours ago

        Depends on your position on that. Special military operation to give Christmas back its rightful place in the year.

  • @Draghetta
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    312 hours ago

    LAST CHRISTMAS I GAVE YOU MY HEART

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      312 hours ago

      This October to save me from Wham I’m opening a can of whoop ass.

  • @Floodedwomb
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    You people are getting as bad as the “war on Christmas” people.