Getting To Know Each Other - November 2016

[Morihalda]

Gooooood morning, folks!

 

The Frequently Ignored "Rules"
1. Every day, or so (unless I am out or ill or something) I will post a question.
2. In theory there is a 24 hour span to answer that question before the next question is posted.
2.5. (Rule 2 is the most frequently ignored rule.)
3. Questions are going to be posted between 12:01AM and 5AM GMT. 
4. Everyone is encouraged to submit questions to be posted by me via PM.
5. You do not have to answer every question...
6. If a question is TMI or N/A simply wait for the next question or post that you decline to answer (why would be nice).
7. Questions usually run 2, perhaps 3 days on weekends.

 

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Question for November 1st, 2016

If you were the emperor or empress of all the things where would you set the boundary dates for the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Superbowl seasons?

[Doug's Workshop]

Yes, and punishment would include being forced to sit in a small room listening to nothing but "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer."

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

 

Question for November 1st, 2016

If you were the emperor or empress of all the things where would you set the boundary dates for the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Superbowl seasons?

A 2 month window for Halloween is good, but I'm going to have to do something about Christmas being rolled out at the same time.

[Dilvish the Deliverer]

Yes. Except maybe the Superbowl season as it doesn't seem to encroach on anything else. No Thianksgiving stuff before November, no Christmas until after Thanksgiving. The only exception is crafting supplies.

[Morihalda]

Awesome first question donated by TGP!

 

My Halloween/fall decorations go up on the autumnal equinox. Christmas goes up on the winter solstice.

 

I don't follow American football, I dunno about that.

[Crowley]

Halloween stuff can start going up in late September, Thanksgiving after Halloween, and Christmas after Thanksgiving. Christmas can stay up through the end of January, but probably should be down by Valentines day at the latest. And I agree with Dilvish, craft stuff gets an exemption. 

[Werkrobotwerk]

halloween october 15-31. thanksgiving week of. Christmas two weeks before through 25th. 

 

Superbowl has a season? that's usually a doesn't even get thought about until lunch time day of unless the giants are playing or they've made the mistake of having another superbowl in NJ. If they're having the superbowl here, then superbowl season starts from the day they announce it and ends when all parties involved cant stand each other anymore.

[etherial]

Question for November 1st, 2016

If you were the emperor or empress of all the things where would you set the boundary dates for the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Superbowl seasons?

Halloween: September 22-October 31 [or the next Saturday afterward]

Thanksgiving: The last Saturday before or including Oct 31 (yes, this means there's a week of overlap) until the day after Thanksgiving.

Christmas: When Santa Clause appears at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade until the Saturday after or including December 25.

Superbowl: The first Sunday on or after Valentine's Day until the Night of the Big Game.

[Loim]

Halloween is year round. There are no other holidays, only Halloween...

 

Seriously though I like my Halloween in October, Thanksgiving the week before, and my Christmas shouldn't start any earlier than the day after Thanksgiving. I'm fine with Christmas running until the New Year, though we always take all our stuff down Christmas day evening, or the day after. The exception to the Christmas rule is that I start making cards and ornaments in November because I'm stupidly slow. 

 

I don't really follow The NFL, except in a offhand haphazard manner where I enjoy seeing certain teams get steamrolled by basically anyone else. 

[Argentee]

 

Question for November 1st, 2016

If you were the emperor or empress of all the things where would you set the boundary dates for the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Superbowl seasons?

 

Ok... Crafting supplies for all would be available year round. As would specialty Christmas and Halloween stores. Sometimes you need a zombie costume and a couple dozen tombstones in March....

 

Private homes can decorate for any holiday any time.

 

But normal stores and restaurants... Halloween starts Oct 1st, Thanksgiving Nov 1st, Christmas the Friday after Thanksgiving, and Superbowl gets 1 week.

[NomadZeke]

I'm with argentee on this one.

 

Though can I impose limits on political decorations/signs too?

[seej]

Halloween: Oct. 15-31

Thanksgiving: Nov. 1 - Thanksgiving

Christmas: Day after Thanksgiving - Jan. 1

Super Bowl: Last Sunday in January

[canuckotter]

All hail the new Quisitor!  

 

 

 

Question for November 1st, 2016

If you were the emperor or empress of all the things where would you set the boundary dates for the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Superbowl seasons?

Thanksgiving doesn't really need limits, it's a pretty chill holiday all things considered. Eats up maybe a week in early October, and even then it's mostly just "hey, here are some sales on food". Anytime after that is fine for Hallowe'en. Superb Owl season is all year - who doesn't love owls? Especially superb ones? Seriously now!  And Christmas can start on December 1st. I'd prefer to hold off a little later but I know so many people who just derive so much pleasure from the season that I don't think it'd be very nice of me to harsh their fun too much.  

[CashWiley]

Question for November 1st, 2016

If you were the emperor or empress of all the things where would you set the boundary dates for the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Superbowl seasons?

Halloween = October

Thanksgiving = November

Super Bowl = the week or two between the playoffs and the game itself

 

CHRISTMAS ALL THE TIME FOREVER

[Guindyloo]

This question implies that I am not the empress of all the things and I find that very rude.

Realistically, I already celebrate Halloween year round but I wouldn't force anyone else to. I enjoy creepy things, other people don't and that's ok. Family-wise, Thanksgiving tends to be my favourite get-together so I wouldn't skip that and Christmas is special in its own way, although ideally I'd remove a lot of the pressure to put oneself into the poor house buying presents. I only watch the Superbowl if I actually care about one of the teams, which pretty much just means I only watch if the Saints or the Packers are playing. But it's not something that I'd want to take away from anyone. Point being, while my initial reaction is to enforce Halloween year-round, I realistically couldn't do it because I can see the merit and/or very much enjoy the other holidays and sports event.

Now if I were a dictator that wanted to make holidays great again, well then welcome to Halloweentown, witches.

But I digress...I do actually understand the meaning of the question.

I'm going to go with September 1st as the start of Halloween season to give people time to prep their costumes. I very much agree with the people above me suggesting that craft stores stock all season items year-round, I think that's an excellent suggestion and is democracy in action, so well done on that. To that point, I would mandate that the entire week before and the entire week following Halloween be declared a holiday so no work or school for anyone. That way we can all properly roll around in candy and/or recover from hangovers appropriately. This also puts a stop to any nonsense of Halloween falling on a school/work night.

To that point, November 2nd is when I would allow things to begin transitioning toward Thanksgiving, (the American rendition) so you can use your post-Halloween time off of work to take down the spookier decorations and move toward turkeys and oppressed indigenous people who were slaughtered for their land type decorations, you know, whatever strikes your fancy. Thanksgiving lasts through the weekend after, so no Christmas music played and no Christmas decorations are allowed to be put up before then. Eat your turkey leftovers and be happy. I'd also ban stores from opening for Black Friday sales on Thursday. Those employees deserve to have their time off to spend with family just as much as anyone else. I think the week leading up to Thanksgiving should be mandatory off of work and school and also the Monday coming back because everyone hates Mondays.

Christmas can then start on that Monday following Thanksgiving, so people have time to change out their decorations and then it can go on until the week after New Years at which point, for the love of all that's holy, throw out the dead tree - it's a fire hazard. (I once saw a tree thrown out in the dumpster hutch of my apartment building in JUNE - not okay.) I think I'll give everyone 3 weeks off of work/school for Christmas. 2 weeks leading up to it so that people have plenty of time to do their last minute shopping. (I know that at this point you're wondering how I'm giving everyone all of this time off and yet everyone's able to shop as well, and look, I don't want to cause the robot apocalypse any more than you do but maybe if we just introduced androids to work part time, then maybe they won't decide to kill us all. I'm perfectly willing to enter into equal rights negotiations ahead of time, in fact I've already had some very productive conversations with my computer mouse and it has me feeling very optimistic.) And then the week between Christmas and New Year's because why would anyone want to go back to work at that point? And actually, let's just go ahead and make it 4 weeks so everyone can bring in the New Year properly with hangover recovery and plenty of Netflix time.

I don't really have that much of an opinion on this Superbowl season business, probably because I haven't had television for years so I assume this part of the question has resulted from Superbowl commercial fatigue. So I'd put this one up for a vote. Maybe I'll let the androids decide if they turn out to be sports fans at all.