Easter - Lamest holiday or Egg Bound Glory?

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I think Easter is shit. These days its just a double bank holiday, a long weekend just before the weather gets nice enough to enjoy it and they always put the worst TV Specials on. Don't even start me on the religious hokum (which mathematically makes little sense to me) but you also get the worst "treats". Hot Corss Buns and Easter Eggs are nice - don't get me wrong - but not particularly special.

And what's that shit about the Easter Bunny. And Charlie Brown?

― Pete, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Easter is rubbish apart from the guaranteed four days off in a row, which is GRATE.

Bunnies and eggs and so forth: just co-option of pagan spring fertility festivities into otherwise rather solemn Christian festival.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Solemn!? People being killed with nails, then getting up again? There's a rockabilly party, roll away the stone?

― tarden, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The last couple of years Easter has fallen within the university term here, and we haven't even had Easter Monday off. I pretty much feel no-one takes any notice of it anymore.

Eggs are rubbish, and I'm not a big chocolate fan, so I'm pretty much with Pete on this one.

― alex thomson, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Cadbury chocolate eggs! That alone justifies the existence of easter.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Charlie Brown didn't believe in the easter bunny, he had Easter Beagle to deliver his choccy eggs.

Easter is fantastic, it's been the crux of many a footy season run-in.

― cabbage, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I don't get Easter Eggs any more as I am too old (though oddly not too old for a Christmas stocking). Or maybe too Jewish.

And re the question, Pete, it is a fallacy that eggs bind you up, so there.

(Please can we not now have countless 'I once ate an egg and couldn't shit for days' posts)

― Emma, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Easter is crap. I think it should be shot, honestly.

― Ally, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Easter is classic for choccy eggs. Yum yum yum.

― DG, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Easter is a classic because of ultra-pageanty church services, particularly if you're singing with a good choir. You get all of the awesome ultra-dark and creepy songs surrounding the crucifixion, then on Sunday you get to scream your brains out on hyper-exultant anthems that make the church shake. How could you NOT love that?

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

What type of answer is that, Dan? CHOCOLATE BUNNIES is the solution. Forget the damn religion, it just gets in the way! We've taken care of Christmas that way here in America, so Easter IS GOING DOWN.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

seek - bill hick's explanation of easter destory - organised christianity's explanation

― Geoff, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ned, Easter is all about the music. Chocolate is overrated, anyway.

Actually, another plus for Easter is the terror of modern manufacturing known as Marshmallow Peeps. What other time of the year can you convince people that stale marshmallow ducks covered with yellow, bitter-tasting sugar are the perfect thing to treat yourself with? They are so vile and horrible that they all the way through "bad" and come back out on the "good" side.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Is this the place to admit i am a fairly orthodox christan.

― anthony, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Anthony: I think so.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

White chocolate, though, at least. Actually, a great CD I have is of Russian choral music for the Easter holidays. Wonderful stuff, I think I'll get you a copy through The Secret Ways. As for Peeps, somebody's got to eat them. Like circus peanuts.

Don't fret about admitting that, Anthony. For one thing, you have a sense of humor and don't remind of me of televangelists. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Anthony,what do you consider is a fairly othodox chrisitian.

I am interested as I am areligious but not atheist or agnostic. But technically a confirmed anglican.

― Ed, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Nah, Easter is great, because my birthday is in mid April, so I always got my birthday off school as it coincided with the Easter holiday! And there's hot cross buns and stuff like that, and the weather ain't necessarily gonna be nicer later in the summer.

― james e l, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

A go to mass 3 times a week, follow the holidays , bit of a liberation catholic.

― anthony, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It's the middle of July!! You fuckers have no patience. Let's do Christmas and Hallowe'en while we're at it eh?

― Tom, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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