If There’s One Festival You Could Get Rid Of, What Would It Be?

[Bobbisox1]

Easter ?
Christmas?
Halloween?
Birthday?

For me it would be Halloween, never liked it !

[Gromit]

Ramadan.
The Indian restaurant staff are too weak to work properly and you can’t get a taxi home.

[Ken4155]

Christmas - i have 4 children and 9 grandkids and, come December, almost empty pockets:-(

[Bobbisox1]

I should of added that Gromit :0)

[Bobbisox1]

Bet you love seeing their faces Ken ?

[10ClarionSt]

The commercialisation of Halloween is a relatively modern thing. I remember back in the 80's, when I worked for Mars Confectionery, they brought out lots of novelty chocolates in fancy packaging. It was a disaster. All the shops and wholesalers sent them back. Halloween has only took off since the birth of the internet.

As for Ramadan, when this came round every year I was swamped with requests for night shift working from all the Asian workers. Happy days!

[Ken4155]

Of course i do Bobs. The pockets may almost be empty, but the bank account is always healthy enough:-))

[Canary42]

Sundays

[hellywelly4]

Halloween without question

[naomi24]

Halloween is becoming more popular with the children but Easter is probably the one that few bother to make special now. It's become just a longer Bank Holiday weekend.

[Redhelen72]

Mothering Sunday - It was totally ruined for me
Christmas - doesn't really mean that much

[naomi24]

RH, I'm surprised. I got the impression you don't have children. Sorry 'bout that.

[Hazlinny]

New Year.

[jno]

Ramadan shouldn't affect Indian staff so much as Pakistani ones.

I could manage without Guy Fawkes, but I suppose it's useful to remember capturing and torturing terrorists.

[Gromit]

Halloween is too near to bonfire night.
It became commercialised in the US in the 1960/70s and has spread here though television and globalised food brands. I would happily see it gone.

[Gromit]

Indian restaurant and Indian food is the catch all name for food from the Indian sub continent. Where I live they are all run by Bangladeshis and are Muslim and observe Ramadan.

[Redhelen72]

I don't have children that lived Naomi and my mother is dead.
But I have a stepmother - but none of that matters - the OP is what festival and I answered.

[jno]

ah, good point, maybe they could hire some Indian staff on one-month contracts.

[naomi24]

OK RH.

[Bobbisox1]

Haz, I don’t care for NY either,have done the queuing to get in my local etc, now we happily stay at home with a takeaway

[Buenchico]

The festival that many drivers, who're stuck in traffic jams here in Suffolk this weekend, would probably like to see abolished is Latitude ;-)

I'm not particularly keen on the idea of abolishing any festival but, if I had to choose one, I think that I'd probably opt for Guy Fawkes Night. (Too many injured kids, too many terrified pets and too much disturbance to wildlife).