Easter Sucks

[Johnny Hammersticks]

Obviously if you’re super Christian people I guess it’s a big deal, but everything about Easter makes it the crappiest holiday ever.

 

Nothing but work for the parents having to buy candy and hide eggs in the back yard the night before.  Then you gotta wake up early so the kids can find their Easter baskets at 7am on a Sunday.  Then out to freeze your nuts off watching the kids look for eggs.  Except one is 15 so he hates everything and ***** the whole time.  Then the kids argue because one found more eggs than the other.

 

I get the Easter brunch people, but brunch sucks and you gotta go through all the effort of putting on dress clothes.  And I don’t know about you all, but my wife insists on making ham for dinner every year bc that’s just what we eat on Easter.  But the only one in my house who likes ham is my 11 year old daughter, and she only eats 2-3 tiny pieces and the rest gets put in the refrigerator only to get thrown out after a few days.

 

I hate Easter.  Can the Supreme Court vote to get rid of it?  Stupid, dumb holiday.  Please discuss.

[Process]

Christmas i'd agree with you. It's the gifting with adults that stresses me the **** out.

 

I really can't find any reason to hate on Easter. 

[Johnny Hammersticks]

6 minutes ago, Process said:

Christmas i'd agree with you. It's the gifting with adults that stresses me the **** out.

 

I really can't find any reason to hate on Easter. 

Do you have children?  I wouldn’t mind Easter either if I could just skip it.  Maybe just exchange a small amount of candy with the wife and be happy.

 

Christmas is fun.  Usually good food…especially on Xmas eve.  Christmas parties with tasty drinks.  Presents.  What’s not to like?

[muppy]

it is not a secular occasion so no hoopla is not that hard to understand if you don't believe in the gospel message.

 

I live in a part of the country where Easter can be some of the most beautiful perfect weather conditions of 70's bright sunny skies and flowers are blooming everywhere

 

so that and the smell of Easter lilies are divine . For me. But I do believe in Jesus too. Hard core Christian here. AND Bills fan.

[US Egg]

Sitting here home counting the seconds until the arrival. Then six hours of insanity. My wife wouldn’t have it any other way.

 

I on the other hand…..

[Augie]

When our son was young I came into the room to hear him screaming at my wife “I NEED A DOCTOR! WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU???” 

 

He then proceeded to vomit every jelly bean from his basket all over her nightie. Some appeared to be un-chewed. Every day should be Mother’s Day. We love those warm Easter memories. 😂 

 

Easter was THE Holiday of the year for my wife’s family. Bigger than Christmas. It was strange for me at first, but everybody is a little different and that’s ok.  

[Johnny Hammersticks]

22 minutes ago, muppy said:

it is not a secular occasion so no hoopla is not that hard to understand if you don't believe in the gospel message.

 

I live in a part of the country where Easter can be some of the most beautiful perfect weather conditions of 70's bright sunny skies and flowers are blooming everywhere

 

so that and the smell of Easter lilies are divine . For me. But I do believe in Jesus too. Hard core Christian here. AND Bills fan.

I get it.  If Jesus is the reason for the season for you, then get your gospel on.  It’s probably much more meaningful and enjoyable for you.  

[ExiledInIllinois]

This really should be a public poll Mr.Hammerstix.😏

 

Easter should be low key... NOT sure where, when it went off the rails.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

Just now, ExiledInIllinois said:

This really should be a public poll Mr.Hammerstix.😏

Your snide comment is not really in the spirit of Easter.  That’s 10 Our Fathers and 5 Hail Marys for you, old man. 😘 

[Augie]

5 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

This really should be a public poll Mr.Hammerstix.😏

 

I’d like to see that, but we’d need to look closer at the options. To be clear, my wife loves Easter, and she also loves the best sleep on earth that comes with the anesthesia for a colonoscopy. That does NOT make her a (complete) weirdo. 

 

 

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Edited Sunday at 06:02 PM by Augie

[Logic]

I think your post is generally right on the money.

Except for where you said that brunch sucks. That's simply a wrong opinion. Usually, opinions can't be wrong, but you found an exception to the rule. Congratulations.

Otherwise, Easter is weird. Amalgamation of Christian ghost story and pagan springtime celebration. Zombie carpenter on the one hand, bunny laying pink eggs full of pennies all over the yard on the other. And what's up with the bare jellybeans in synthetic easter grass? Who likes that? Ditto Peeps, ditto Cadbury Eggs with the bizarre candy yolk. Yuck.

Third rate weirdness masquerading as a premiere holiday. Load it into a cannon and fire it into the sun.

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

2 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

I’d like to see that, but we’d need to look closer at the options. To be clear, my wife loves Easter, and she also loves the best sleep on earth that comes with the anesthesia for a colonoscopy. That does NOT make her a (complete) weirdo. 

 

 

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I do too. 😆 "Milk of Amnesia" is the bomb!

[ExiledInIllinois]

1 minute ago, Logic said:

I think your post is generally right on the money.

Except for where you said that brunch sucks. That's simply a wrong opinion. Usually, opinions can't be wrong, but you found an exception to the rule. Congratulations.

Otherwise, Easter is weird. Amalgamation of Christian ghost story and pagan springtime celebration. Zombie carpenter on the one hand, bunny laying pink eggs full of pennies all over the yard on the other. And what's up with the bare jellybeans in synthetic easter grass? Who likes that? Ditto Peeps, ditto Cadbury Eggs with the bizarre candy yolk. Yuck.

Third rate weirdness masquerading as a premiere holiday. Load it into a cannon and fire it into the sun.

 

Then he goes on a 40 (to 50 by some accounts) day sojourn around the world till the Ascension.

 

...It started with Dyngus Day on the East Side I suppose.  What a long strange trip it is...

[Johnny Hammersticks]

54 minutes ago, Logic said:

I think your post is generally right on the money.

Except for where you said that brunch sucks. That's simply a wrong opinion. Usually, opinions can't be wrong, but you found an exception to the rule. Congratulations.

Otherwise, Easter is weird. Amalgamation of Christian ghost story and pagan springtime celebration. Zombie carpenter on the one hand, bunny laying pink eggs full of pennies all over the yard on the other. And what's up with the bare jellybeans in synthetic easter grass? Who likes that? Ditto Peeps, ditto Cadbury Eggs with the bizarre candy yolk. Yuck.

Third rate weirdness masquerading as a premiere holiday. Load it into a cannon and fire it into the sun.

 

Come on, man!  No one wants to binge eat at 10am on a Sunday unless you can take a long nap afterwards.  Most overrated meal ever.  👎 

[Logic]

19 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

Come on, man!  No one wants to binge eat at 10am on a Sunday unless you can take a long nap afterwards.  Most overrated meal ever.  👎 

Firm disagree.

If you're gonna binge eat at any point in the day, somewhere between 10am and 2pm makes the most sense. This whole "heavy breakfast with greasy meats and eggs, light lunch, heavy dinner" regimen that most Americans are on is ass-backwards. Heaviest meal should come midday -- so heavy you either don't need dinner or can eat something light -- and then you have time to digest.

And if the issue is "no time for a nap afterwards" then THAT sounds like the problem, not the meal! Eat big, nap big.

 

[BigDingus]

1 hour ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Then he goes on a 40 (to 50 by some accounts) day sojourn around the world till the Ascension.

 

...It started with Dyngus Day on the East Side I suppose.  What a long strange trip it is...

 

Dyngus Day sounds like my kinda holiday, only it should be spelled "Dingus" instead.

[Wacka]

Get out you pussywillows and water for sprinkling. Biggest day on the East side of Buffalo tomorrow! Take the shuttle bus to the bars. One less place to go next year. Happy Swallows on Sycamore in the Schiller Park neighborhood is closing after tomorrow. The owner is retiring.

 

Let the Irish have St. Paddy's day. Us Poles have Dyngus  Day! 

 

On a serious note, I am thankful for every holiday and in fact, every day  I am still walking on this earth. Could have been gone this time last year.

Edited Sunday at 09:00 PM by Wacka

[BillsPride12]

I don't mind Easter but it's also because we do it lowkey in my family.  We go over to my Brother and SIL's midday for an Easter lunch spend some time hanging out with the kids, get outside for some fresh air(big for us in WNY) and I am already back home and have some time to relax before the work week starts up again. 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

8 hours ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

Obviously if you’re super Christian people I guess it’s a big deal, but everything about Easter makes it the crappiest holiday ever.

 

Nothing but work for the parents having to buy candy and hide eggs in the back yard the night before.  Then you gotta wake up early so the kids can find their Easter baskets at 7am on a Sunday.  Then out to freeze your nuts off watching the kids look for eggs.  Except one is 15 so he hates everything and ***** the whole time.  Then the kids argue because one found more eggs than the other.

 

I get the Easter brunch people, but brunch sucks and you gotta go through all the effort of putting on dress clothes.  And I don’t know about you all, but my wife insists on making ham for dinner every year bc that’s just what we eat on Easter.  But the only one in my house who likes ham is my 11 year old daughter, and she only eats 2-3 tiny pieces and the rest gets put in the refrigerator only to get thrown out after a few days.

 

I hate Easter.  Can the Supreme Court vote to get rid of it?  Stupid, dumb holiday.  Please discuss.

I am a Christian and think Easter is great for that reason.

 

but I agree with you about the eggs and the baskets and the ham. When I was a kid, my parents just gave me a few candy bars and that seemed fine. I am not sure why I have to hide all these plastic eggs for my kids. I feel like they would be fine if I just handed them a bag of gummy nerds.
 

Re ham, my in-laws always say things like, “oh, this is a really good ham.” Is there really “good” or “bad” ham? I have pretty discriminating food tastes usually, but ham seems like ham, to me. It’s all pretty meh.
 

 

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