Halloween is a ridiculous American nightmare suggests Matthew Steeples
Halloween is something that children might enjoy but in reality it’s just another excuse for greedy retailers like Waitrose to sell the great British public a load of old tat.
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It reads:
“This is England!!! Not America. Fuck off with your Halloween bullshit you little cunts.”
Spot on.
Readers have their say
2 comments
With so many people disliking Halloween or being disturbed it is a wonder why it is imposed on the community to such extend.
To be fair, I am told that in the US Halloween is much less gruesome. In Paris and in London however it did take a “medieval” form of ugly.
Adults and children alike, when in a normal state of mind, are generally perturbed by images of suffering and death. I do not think it a good thing to expose the community to this for the sake of shock value and profit.
We should boycott this vulgar holiday and just sit at home wearing tiaras and sipping tea, what, what.