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I immediately noticed something else about that peeper.
Did anyone else?
Oh, boy... if it had been any color other than white the lawyers would be signing people up.
Halloween used to be for little children -- a time for them to dress up and get free candy. It should be taken away from the adults and returned to the kids.
Halloween, in its various forms in various cultures, has been for adults too, for centuries. It is not, and never has been, strictly for children.
(You are probably right about people getting butthurt if the 'peeper' was not 'white'.)
According to my mother, way back in the day, on Hallowe'en in Ireland (grandmother's country of origin) the poor adults would black their faces so as not to be recognized and go from house to house asking for "any old cold pieces".
I sincerely hope that there's a nice place in hell for those who think that it would be humorous to put something like this on some unsuspecting person's window.
Halloween, in its various forms in various cultures, has been for adults too, for centuries. It is not, and never has been, strictly for children.
(You are probably right about people getting butthurt if the 'peeper' was not 'white'.)
I didn't say "strictly" for children. I'm sure you're intelligence enough to understand what I'm talking about. Maybe you're not old enough to remember, and you're relying on Google to give you your opinion about what things were like back when.
There's been a progression of Halloween over the past 60 years. In the fifties it was for children... unless the parents were very, very weird. Parents stayed home. The holiday was tailored for their children. Costumes were handmade by mom and dad, and prepared weeks in advance. Only few parents could afford store-bought costumes. Kids wore their parents clothing and went Trick-or-Treating dressed as hobos or princess. No kid doused himself in fake blood. Decorations weren't meant to sicken or scare people half to death. It was all about the free candy, which we collected in brown paper grocery bags.
Look at the bloody, gory costumes of today... the accessories... the wickedly ghastly costumes for adults. America's sick obsession with Halloween and the occult have given rise to what we have today... including Peepers intended to stop someone's heart. Not funny, but certainly not unusual in today's society.
I sincerely hope that there's a nice place in hell for those who think that it would be humorous to put something like this on some unsuspecting person's window.
prank
[praNGk]
NOUN
a practical joke or mischievous act.
synonyms: (practical) joke · trick · piece of mischief · escapade · [more]
VERB
informal
play a trick or practical joke on (someone):
"the individuals who were pranked thought they were auditioning to be a TV show host" · [more]
I saw that thing at my local HD and thought it was pretty creepy all right but to ban it is weak.
If you don't like it then don't buy it.
I'm surprised that PETA hasn't stepped up to have them ban the skeleton cats and dogs yet that HD also sells.
It is so wrong to use a dead animal or the likeness of a dead animal as a Halloween decoration.....
Does anybody else remember taking a large wooden spool (sewing thread type), cutting notches around the rims, making a handle out of a wire coat hanger, wrapping string around the middle of it? Then, you would sneak up to a house on Halloween, put the spool on a window, and pull the string. The notches on the glass would make a terrible racket, scaring everybody in the house.
It was considered great fun in my younger days.
How about the witch face first on the tree, with the broom handle apparently sticking through the tree? I know somebody who has one of those, but now that she is 80 she might not put it out.
Yes, the world is changing. Don Rickles could not make a living today.
I saw that thing at my local HD and thought it was pretty creepy all right but to ban it is weak.
If you don't like it then don't buy it.
I'm surprised that PETA hasn't stepped up to have them ban the skeleton cats and dogs yet that HD also sells.
It is so wrong to use a dead animal or the likeness of a dead animal as a Halloween decoration.....
When will the madness end?
Not to mention to thousands of masks and costumes depicting injury, blood, dis-figuration, death, gaping open wounds etc... omg we should ban those because it makes light of injury/death.
NOUN
a practical joke or mischievous act.
synonyms: (practical) joke · trick · piece of mischief · escapade · [more]
VERB
informal
play a trick or practical joke on (someone):
"the individuals who were pranked thought they were auditioning to be a TV show host" · [more]
Aren't jokes, as part of their fundamental definition, supposed to be funny?
I guess I don't see the humor in scaring the crap out of an unconsenting person.
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