What is your least favorite fall trope?
11So, there are things we look to forward in fall, for example: pies (fuck cake), running the crockpot 24/7, being reminded that Christmas/Winter is coming on Facebook every other post, raking exactly 173.4 million leaves etc. But, what are your least favorite tropes of fall?
Note: Actually, I enjoy cake well enough, I just think pie is a better vessel for sugar and regret intake given the choice of the two.
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Cinnamon everything. I don’t like cinnamon, and you can’t walk into a store or a home with smelling it.
@moondrake Yes, cinnamon and other smells persist into January and February often times as they sell discount stuff for things they couldn’t move 3 months earlier.
@Targaryen Sometimes I think my dislike of cinnamon is actually an associative link to all the things I hate about fall and winter. Scent is the strongest memory link, and when I smell cinnamon I think of short, grey days; being cold all time; spending too much time indoors; heavy restrictive clothing; noisy, overcrowded stores; the expectation of a cheerful demeanor. Maybe I like cinnamon just fine, it’s fall and winter I don’t like.
@moondrake @Targaryen
I suspect it’s just the cinnamon. If like me, you were up for cinnamon buns any time of year — I even use cinnamon toothpaste — it wouldn’t have that much of an association with fall/winter.
I can’t do anything about the weather, or the short days, or the trees getting naked. But I can normalize cinnamon consumption.
Christmas crap being sold before Halloween. Just stop it!
@pitamuffin To be fair, I have witnessed a conversation about Christmas gifts a few weeks ago. It was online shopping, but still, if people are going to Christmas shop early the stores will cater to this trend.
The decrease in daylight and the temperature dropping.
@Cythwulf Yeahbutt that means football season! Didn’t you used to be a bigwig in the football annals?
Artificial pumpkin flavoring in everything.
@rockblossom This. Pumpkin belongs in one place. A freakin’ pie.
Stop with the muffins, coffees, even pumpkin spice Hershey Kisses. Really? I’d rather kiss a pumpkin freakin’ pie for cripes sake.
Enough with the pumpkin everything already!
@ruouttaurmind Maybe two places - in a pie, or on your porch for Halloween.
@rockblossom Have you seen the work by Ray Villifane? This guy is like the pumpkin whisperer or something.
@rockblossom @ruouttaurmind That kind of stuff always amazes me. Even with my best work mine comes out looking more like Sloth from the Goonies movie.
@rockblossom the REAL problem with this trend is that all this crap is “Pumpkin SPICE” Flavored.
Pumpkin Spice - NO PUMPKIN, just the Spices used in Pumpkin pie along side the pumpkin.
now if the stuff was actually PUMPKIN flavored…YUM!
@ruouttaurmind His team lost Pumpkin Wars though.
It’s been a bummer this year because our maple trees decided not to turn pretty colors but to simply brown and fall off. I just dread bare trees for months. It isn’t so bad when there is snow to pretty things up but the majority of time it is just bare branches and gross looking.
@tnhillbillygal Like they just gave up.
@Targaryen @tnhillbillygal for some reason that makes me think of life today.
Don’t give up. VOTE
@tnhillbillygal You’re not that much farther north than me are ya? My maples are all still full of green leaves. There’s very little on the ground yet here (N. Ala)
Pumpkin Spice anything (and everything).
@shahnm
Not a trope but a horrible trend. More and more stores stealing Thanksgiving from their employees by opening on the afternoon of or even all day on Thanksgiving. Not enough to start Black Friday on Friday where it belongs, even early morning which puts a damper on Thanksgiving but doesn’t actually ruin it completely… no, now they have to f*ck over the actual holiday for their employees.
Might as well be working for foreign owners who have no care or respect for an American (or other) holiday, or Ebeneezer Scrooge (though he despised a different Holiday):
And the unbelievable boilerplate caca you get in response when you write the BoD or principal officers (don’t even try customer service) to express dissatisfaction with their Thanksgiving-destroying policy…
#SaveThanksgiving
@duodec I agree.
I would never shop on Thanksgiving.
“Fall is the best time of the year to re-seed your lawn”, says the grass seed salesman.
Don’t try to convince me that it’s true. It’s not. Just shut your horticulture mouth.
@G1 I don’t know why, but the notion of a “grass seed salesman” strikes me funny. “Great news, honey! I just closed the deal on the home at the corner of Maple and Springhill and cleared a commission of $4.27”
I guess its not really that weird. “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” is my favorite fall holiday movie, and John Candy’s character was a shower curtain ring salesman.
@G1 It might actually be the best time for grass seed to germinate - in the South, when soil temps finally drop to 60-75F, there’s actually some moisture available, etc
@DrWorm @compunaut Hey, everybody!
I found the grass seed salesman!
Pumpkin spice everything… no. Just no