AIBU to find this halloe’en display’ offensive?

Arewethereyet precisely

Halloween has been celebrated here in Scotland and Ireland for centuries it’s certainly NOT an American import .We have a lot of children who come to our door every year sing a wee song or tell a joke do a dance or tell a story and be rewarded with a goody bag with nuts and apples and sweets and a 50p piece .Trick or treating may be American but this old fashioned guiding is how it’s still done here.I make up 30 bags in advance and often need more and we enjoy every minute of it ,some of the wee tinies are hilarious.

Guising

I used to give sweets out but since it’s got so gruesome and plain nasty I no longer answer the door

Tizliz

This was posted on our local FB page, not sure about it 🤫

PMSL 😂

I wouldnt be walking kids past either.

I know of a household[not in this country], who think it is great fun to scare their young[about 5 years old] grandchildren. They find it hilarious.

Thankyou Damask Rose
I am very disturbed at the level of violence on our society. Our country's children deserve so much more. Instead of Halloween why not celebrate light , love and nature?

Awful don’t like Halloween at all.

Hallowe’en was low key back when I was a child, chasing each other dressed in a sheet and pretending to be scared. Bobbing for apples, and I think I remember a cardboard witches hat and mask. The jack o’ lantern was in a swede, no pumpkins around then.
No trick or treating either.

It seems to be the thing round here now, that if you welcome trick or treaters, you put a lit pumpkin outside your door, or in your window. I don’t mind the kids coming round, but since I can’t be bothered doing a pumpkin, I don’t get any.

It’s the commercialisation of Hallowe’en that’s come from America, not the tradition itself.

It’s horrible that plastic wrapped figures seem to have become a ‘thing’.

Absolutely horrible the black bags thing!

Dreadful, what kind if twisted minds put objects like that in their front gardens ?
Some of the houses on our estate look like a horror film set and all made from plastic no doubt 🙄

If Halloween is to be come a celebration where bodies and skeletons are hanging everywhere it’s a big step backwards, it’s supposed to be fun not gruesom

For me, it has just become another commercialised enterprise to flog stuff and make money.

Sounds ghastly.

Commercial trash as far as I’m concerned.

MissInterpreted

It wouldn't bother me at all, to be honest - but I can see why some people would get offended by it.

It wouldn’t bother me either, however I can also see why parents wouldn’t have wanted their young children to see it.

Halloween should be fun and us adults who like blood and gore (in a movie type way) have lots of films to feast on over Halloween

Midnightblue

Actually I don’t think I am being.
I am pretty relaxed about Hallo’e’en generally, and I am not easily shocked, but I have noticed it’s become more and more focused on violence these past few years, not only by teenagers, but by some parents of young children.

I’ve just walked past a house where the owners have put a ‘scarecrow’, dressed in full hazmat suit, performing a ‘post mortem’ on another scarecrow lying on a table, which is covered by a blood stained sheet. The owners of the property have taken up some flags from their garden and dug a ‘grave’.

Hanging upside down either side of their front door are 2 full size human shaped objects, tightly wrapped in black plastic.

I know it’s on their property, but it is put up for public consumption, otherwise they’d have set it up in their own living room.

TBH, I feel a bit upset, (to my own surprise) that anyone would think it’s ok to think up, find it funny, and display this. If I had children to care for, I wouldn’t walk them past.

Just interested to see what other grans think

Utterly gross. I’m with you 100%. I thought it was actually supposed to be for children’s entertainment; this clearly isn’t and I’d be surprised if they don’t get complaints. Anyway, isn’t it supposed to be about ghosts and ghouls, not murder and destruction 🙄. It annoys me that yet again we are following the US customs. It was hardly a ‘thing’ when we were young and now it’s just a huge money spinner.

paddyann54

Halloween has been celebrated here in Scotland and Ireland for centuries it’s certainly NOT an American import .We have a lot of children who come to our door every year sing a wee song or tell a joke do a dance or tell a story and be rewarded with a goody bag with nuts and apples and sweets and a 50p piece .Trick or treating may be American but this old fashioned guiding is how it’s still done here.I make up 30 bags in advance and often need more and we enjoy every minute of it ,some of the wee tinies are hilarious.

Agreed it’s not an American import, but we have certainly copied their over the top costumes etc. We always had a bit of fun on Halloween, cutting holes in old sheets or towels to scare your friends etc, apple bobbing and other harmless and FREE things to entertain children. The over the top outfits for sale now is a custom imported from the US.

Back in the 80s, when Hallowe'en was just a few spooky stories, ducking for apples, cobwebs and witches round here, we were in Mauritius one October half term. As entertainment on Hallowe'en for the children, some of the hotel staff dressed up and acted out cutting up a couple of mutilated bodies on hospital trolleys. Blood, intestines, body parts, machetes and evil cackling galore. I have a photo somewhere of children as young as 5 gathered round watching it. I'm thinking they're probably either still in therapy now, or serving time for murder.

During a trip to California in September/ October and there were some amazing gardens decorated for Halloween some did include skeletons and imitation graves but they weren’t scary, just amusing. Some of the costumes on sale here are awful and inappropriate.

Witches are one thing this sounds to much .
I saw some children recoil at a shop window display in my local shopping mall .

DiamondLily

Halloween is an American9 thing. I can’t be bothered with any of it.🙄

It is actually an Irish thing to be accurate.

I seem to remember that for Halloween we did things like , peeling an apple in one go and throwing peel over your shoulder . See if it landed in shape of your future loves initial. And bobbing for apples . None of today's customs of decorating houses and each other.. we would be too busy building a guy ! And hoping we picked a good spot and a dry night .

The whole commercialisation of Halloween is distasteful. People who make fun of serious natters such as the trappings of death are stupid.

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