# Resolved: People who are offended by Halloween are officially idiots. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 31, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849 "2009-10-31T15:00:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/101 "2009-11-02T20:57:51Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > In my old neighborhood, we Catholics had no problem with Halloween at all. We’d all be out trick or treating, throwing eggs at each other, having a good time. None of the parents, priests, nuns, or anyone else, had any issues with it. My niece’s Catholic nursery school had the kids making Halloween decorations. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/102 "2009-11-02T21:03:42Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > I wonder if the witches who prayed over my kids’ candy missed this stale Zagnut? The curse of the stale Zagnut lives! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/103 "2009-11-02T21:07:17Z")
> [@furt](#): > > I agree with the OP and everyone else, and I hope they will join me in being equally peeved at the idiots who insist on calling Christmas “the season” or “the holidays” or somesuch blather. Get bent. There’s nothing stupid or PC about “happy holidays.” People need to get the fuck over this. Christmas is one holiday, singular. There are several other holidays in that same period. This nonsense was irritating when religious conservatives started using it as part of their “U.S. Christians are oppressed!” jive, but apparently other people have fallen for it. Too bad. > [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > If you manage to ground one of the deer entirely unharmed, I offer to take the animal off your hands, by way of the nearest kosher butcher. > > Arctic venison, yum! Sarah Palin, is that you? You almost had me thrown off course with that “kosher” stuff! Oh, I forgot my inoffensive Halloween story: on Friday I spoke to a woman who, in saying goodbye, politely told me “Happy Halloween, if you celebrate it!” … I never thought of eating candy and wearing a costume as any kind of celebration, they’re just fun to do. Now, if I were a pagan, maybe I’d be celebrating, but I don’t think this woman dealt with many pagans on the phone. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/104 "2009-11-02T21:09:24Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > The Catholic church of my youth was notable for its several dozen statues (I kid you not, about fifty). One of my favorites was a lovely young woman with her hand on a giant spiked metal wheel–apparently what she had been martyred with. St. Catherine of the Wheel if my Sunday School lessons have not been forgotten. Catholics are no strangers to the macabre. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/105 "2009-11-02T21:33:55Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > …Catholics are no strangers to the macabre. I will forward this for nomination for the SDMB 2009 Thunderous Understatement of the Year Award. I am confident it will rank amongst the contenders. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/106 "2009-11-02T22:26:37Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > What could go wrong? On a side note, if the trunk is filled with ‘treats’ where do they keep the dead hookers? They’re stored in the crawlspace under the house. Most modern cars don’t have trunks big enough for body storage, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/107 "2009-11-02T22:41:55Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > How about Happy Winter? I usually go with Merry Cold-Weather Solstice. Confuses the hell out of my fundie in-laws, which is always a good thing! ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/108 "2009-11-02T22:53:55Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I will forward this for nomination for the SDMB 2009 Thunderous Understatement of the Year Award. I am confident it will rank amongst the contenders. It is an honor to be nominated and be in such august company. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/109 "2009-11-03T00:36:33Z")
These time release Demons the Witches put in Halloween Candy, do they all release on Halloween? I just bought a bunch of candy on the 75% off after holiday sale and need to know if it’s safe yet. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/110 "2009-11-03T02:25:56Z")
Check the sell-by date and count backwards two months to when they were produced and cursed. The demons have a half life of a month, but you will never be entirely safe, just mostly safe in a few more months. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/111 "2009-11-03T02:55:30Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > You have fundie Americans in Bangkok? What the fuck are they doing there? Someone needs to fuck their heads off. > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Missionaries. Some are extremely entertaining. They’ll stand in the middle of Khao San Road, our backpackers’ ghetto, and SCREAM the word of the Lord. They’ll stand at the entrance to Nana Plaza, a three-story bar center, SCREAMING what sinners the rest of us are. That last one may actually be somewhere on YouTube. I’ll try to look it up this week. I found a two-part YouTube video of American (judging by their accents) eveangelists haranguing the sinners on Khao San Road two years ago. See them [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVz9IgrD4Wk) and [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPdhsZjfsQU&NR=1). That’s out backpackers’ ghetto. I think I saw these exact same guys myself. Two years ago sounds about right. There’s a short one [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O97TKaacEMk&feature=related), also on Khao San Road. Didn’t find any videos from the thumpers in front of the Nana Plaza red-light bar area, but they do turn up there occasionally. We get all types of people here, which helps explain why Bangkok is never, _ever_ boring. It’s like a metropolis-sized South Park. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/112 "2009-11-03T03:52:14Z")
On not celebrating Halloween: We have neighbors who don’t celebrate Halloween. What do they do every year? They darken their house, then go out to eat. When asked about what they’re doing for Halloween, they simply say “we don’t celebrate it.” Simple, gets the message across, but doesn’t shove it down people’s throats. Why is that so hard? On “Happy Holidays”: I’ve actually preferred this saying anyway, if just because it also includes New Years. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849/113 "2009-11-03T05:05:18Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Hell, a little longer and just the idea of friendly neighbors you can go visit is going to blow their minds. Too late! I moved to the Chicago suburbs for a while after growing up in Vegas for 20 years. I was profoundly confused by the random strangers who would say “hello” to me for no reason and ask how I was enjoying the neighborhood whenever they saw me walking by: “You just moved in, right?” “Uh…yeah…” “Welcome! This is a nice part of town. You enjoying it here?” “Um…yeah…it’s nice.” “Heh heh. You’re from the city, aren’t you?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-people-who-are-offended-by-halloween-are-officially-idiots/515849.md?page=5)