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flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

RE: Tasteless Halloween Decorations or just good fun?

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

People think they live in a vacuum. Yes, you DO have the right to a lot of things. Even be an azzhole. You can hang up scary decorations, or frighten people, or make things graphic. Totally within your rights. But other people exist around you too. I just think consideration for others should come into play.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

We had a family in the nieghborhood that went all out, and the guy would really scare people. We saw him sitting there pretending to be a decoration the first time we took the kids around, we were like, "oooooh, this is really spooky to TWO YEAR OLDS". He heard us and made sure not to scare them. He was having fun being spooky and being nice at the time.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Discretion is the key.

I almost punched a guy out once cause he scared my kids. They were little and at the mall doing the trick or treat rounds.

I saw him scaring the older kids. They liked it. It was fun.

But when Caitlyn, 4 at the time, got closes enough, he reached out and grabbed at her and the boys, who were in the stroller.

If he hadn't grabbed at her, I probably would have laughed it off.

All three kids were screaming. We had to leave after that.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

People think they live in a vacuum. Yes, you DO have the right to a lot of things. Even be an azzhole. You can hang up scary decorations, or frighten people, or make things graphic. Totally within your rights. But other people exist around you too. I just think consideration for others should come into play.

Good points.

ladyloonatic · Regular

I agree that discretion is the key. And that it is important to be aware of your audience.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Last year a little tiny girl got scared by something I had up. I don't even remember what it was. I don't put up anything really scary. I felt bad for her.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

But that goes back to learning to deal with it.

I don't like robots.

Some don't like zombies.

Others don't like spiders.

Clowns, skeletons, mummies, bugs.

Everyone is scared of something.

Heck. I knew a girl afraid of balloons.

How do you consider everyone?

chef · Guru

Lawyerlady wrote:
We had a family in the nieghborhood that went all out, and the guy would really scare people. We saw him sitting there pretending to be a decoration the first time we took the kids around, we were like, "oooooh, this is really spooky to TWO YEAR OLDS". He heard us and made sure not to scare them. He was having fun being spooky and being nice at the time.

There were people in my Grandparents' neighborhood that did that. They'd do a living graveyard every year. Most of the family would pretend to be decorations then chase you when you came up the walk. Scared the crap out of me the first year I experienced it. I refused to give a reaction on subsequent years.

ed11563 · Guru

There are plenty of You Tube videos of people jumping up and frightening people.

The ones I like most are the ones where the victim automatically swings and knocks out the jerk who frightened him or her.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

lilyofcourse wrote:
But that goes back to learning to deal with it.

I don't like robots.

Some don't like zombies.

Others don't like spiders.

Clowns, skeletons, mummies, bugs.

Everyone is scared of something.

Heck. I knew a girl afraid of balloons.

How do you consider everyone?

You just do.

flan

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

No u dont. You cant spend your life worrying about who may be offended.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

flan327 wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:
But that goes back to learning to deal with it.

I don't like robots.

Some don't like zombies.

Others don't like spiders.

Clowns, skeletons, mummies, bugs.

Everyone is scared of something.

Heck. I knew a girl afraid of balloons.

How do you consider everyone?
You just do.
flan

Wow, really? That is impossible.

chef · Guru

Lawyerlady wrote:
flan327 wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:
But that goes back to learning to deal with it.

I don't like robots.

Some don't like zombies.

Others don't like spiders.

Clowns, skeletons, mummies, bugs.

Everyone is scared of something.

Heck. I knew a girl afraid of balloons.

How do you consider everyone?
You just do.
flan
Wow, really? That is impossible.

No kidding.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Sorry, but I am not going to waste my time who might be OFFENDED over everything I do. You simply cannot live your life worrying about The OFFENDED. Now, that doesn't mean people have to go out of their way to offend people. But, sometimes it's gonna happen. Deal with it!

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

flan327 wrote:

lilyofcourse wrote:
But that goes back to learning to deal with it.

I don't like robots.

Some don't like zombies.

Others don't like spiders.

Clowns, skeletons, mummies, bugs.

Everyone is scared of something.

Heck. I knew a girl afraid of balloons.

How do you consider everyone?
You just do.
flan

Well, I kind hate to be the one to break it ya, but I will since I am your friend. At times, you OFFEND people! smile

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

We decorate our house at Halloween but nothing extravagant. We put pumpkins out. We have some tombstones, crosses, spiderwebs with spiders, and some fake bats. DS put up a Danger: Zombie Zone sign. He also put up orange Danger tape. But that's it. Nothing really scary.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

It depends on my mood.

Our decorations are mostly natural.

We don't gather the leaves till after Halloween. The crunch under your feet can't be duplicated.

And we have some pretty large spiders that come down from the trees and leave webs. We leave those alone till after Halloween.

We do the Jacko lanterns.

One year, I stuffed an old pair of work pants and work shirt and sat it on the front porch with work boots and gloves. No head.

It wasn't gory at all.

But everyone in the neighborhood came to see it. Even the guys across the street at the county work barn brought their kids out to see it.

I have always wanted to hide pumpkin head in the bushes on this side of the fence by the walking trail. But that's not my property so I wont.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Oh, I'm sorry.

Am I too CHRISTIAN for you???????????????????

flan

huskerbb · Guru

lilyofcourse wrote:
Discretion is the key.

I almost punched a guy out once cause he scared my kids. They were little and at the mall doing the trick or treat rounds.

I saw him scaring the older kids. They liked it. It was fun.

But when Caitlyn, 4 at the time, got closes enough, he reached out and grabbed at her and the boys, who were in the stroller.

If he hadn't grabbed at her, I probably would have laughed it off.

All three kids were screaming. We had to leave after that.

But there is a HUGE difference between grabbing a person--and putting up some decorations on your own, private property.

I agree about the "vacuum" point, though. People think they are the only ones that matter and no one has a right to ever do something they don't like. It doesn't work that way. They are under no requirement to take your (general your) kids into consideration when they put up Halloween decorations.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

flan327 wrote:
Oh, I'm sorry.

Am I too CHRISTIAN for you???????????????????

flan

Yeah, right. But, sorry to say, if your goal is to consider everyone and not offend them, you fail miserably on this board all the time.

huskerbb · Guru

flan327 wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:
But that goes back to learning to deal with it.

I don't like robots.

Some don't like zombies.

Others don't like spiders.

Clowns, skeletons, mummies, bugs.

Everyone is scared of something.

Heck. I knew a girl afraid of balloons.

How do you consider everyone?
You just do.
flan

That is patently ridiculous. Your political beliefs offend many people--does that mean you should change them?

WYSIWYG · Guru

That was indeed tasteless. But I don't think it was a case of "it's too soon". There's never a good time to disrespect the image of a US soldier like was done there.

Tinydancer · Guru

flan327 wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:
But that goes back to learning to deal with it.

I don't like robots.

Some don't like zombies.

Others don't like spiders.

Clowns, skeletons, mummies, bugs.

Everyone is scared of something.

Heck. I knew a girl afraid of balloons.

How do you consider everyone?
You just do.
flan

Bwahahahaha... You offend more people in one day than any Halloween decoration does in a whole month. Nice one though!!!!

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
Sorry, but I am not going to waste my time who might be OFFENDED over everything I do. You simply cannot live your life worrying about The OFFENDED. Now, that doesn't mean people have to go out of their way to offend people. But, sometimes it's gonna happen. Deal with it!

I was talking about Halloween decorations.

flan

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Oh, ok. lol. But, again, you can't NOT offend everyone. There are people who are "offended" by the concept of Halloween period. Some schools have cancelled Halloween fun.