Are they talking about us?

**lzrdsgal** · 10-03-2010,12:37 AM

You have got to read this....

http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/f...0d3c&GT1=32001

**lzrdsgal** · 10-03-2010,12:42 AM

Lets crash their server for days.... grrrrr

**jdubbya** · 10-03-2010,12:58 AM

Sounds like it was meant to be tongue in cheek humor. The guy writes to get a rise out of people and I'm doubting he was (or should be taken) serious. Reading some of the follow up comments, seems like most of the folks are on "our side" anyway!

**Scarebear** · 10-03-2010,04:37 AM

I saw that, and was thinking of posting here too. I think that guy seriously needs to lighten up! I was so glad to see that most of the comments people wrote were in favor of the Halloween decorations.

**Kaiserxion** · 10-03-2010,05:09 AM

Originally Posted by jdubbya

Sounds like it was meant to be tongue in cheek humor. The guy writes to get a rise out of people and I'm doubting he was (or should be taken) serious. Reading some of the follow up comments, seems like most of the folks are on "our side" anyway!

I agree. A lot of the no talent reporters for the news sources or 'professional blogging' use "Trolling" as a way to get attention and get noticed. It's the "Shock jock" routine heard so much on radio shows now-a-days ever sence Howard Stern popularized it and proved its affectivness.

**Red** · 10-03-2010,05:22 AM

This guy needs to lighten up! People leave their decorations up for Christmas all year round, and put their trees up in November, I mean, come on! After September 30th, its fair game to put up your display anyway

**ssflipo13** · 10-03-2010,05:32 AM

I agree People start putting up there christmas decor in NovemberAnd no one says anything about that? Why does it always have to be Halloween that they want to do away with or lessen to just one day. Every holiday is one day but people celebrate them for a while before. That guy should talk about Christmas and how much energy people waste with all there lights.

**kentucky halloween fan** · 10-03-2010,06:03 AM

saw this article online and laughed my head off, it's so sad that some people take things so serious, he claims putting up TOO many decorations is an act of agression against the neighborhood
(gee, all my neighbors must not mind my AGRESSION, they've
never complained, just asked when I was going to put the stuff up if I didn't get it up by a certain time in october). Read this article
Your paper mache tarantula is an act of suburban aggression
Posted by Jeremy Greenberg Thursday, September 30, 2010 5:13:58 PM
I would like to call every parent’s attention to an important subject: neighbors who put out way too many Halloween decorations way too soon. Every neighborhood has a house that’s had its skeletons glued to the garage since August. In my neighborhood, the Halloween-ophile converted his front yard into a cemetery before Labor Day. And it’s not that I don’t appreciate the spirit. The coffin in his vegetable garden is delightful, as is mummy sitting on his front porch. I look forward to next year, when my kids are old enough for me to explain that his front yard is not littered with actual dead bodies. That will be a fun conversation, as will the explanation that if they don’t pee themselves when the spring-loaded Dracula launches itself out of the ground, they’ll be rewarded with some candy corn.

Halloween is great mostly because it’s a meet-n-greet with the neighbors. It’s kept fun because it’s just one day of the year. It’s basically a spiritual “Opposites Day.” And there’s nothing wrong with taking one day a year to celebrate all things macabre. But the neighbor who decides that Halloween should last as long as Ramadan is destroying the festivities. Plus, let’s not ignore what’s really going on here: putting too many Halloween decorations up way too soon is an act of aggression towards the neighborhood.

The suburbs are great places to raise kids because peer pressure keeps people in-line. If I wanted individuality, or unpredictable freedom of expression, I would raise my kids in a city. I choose the suburbs because they’re a controlled product. Halloween-guy violates this unwritten code.

So, if you happen to be one of those Halloween people. I know that you think you mean well, and you believe your fake-blood-drenched rubber heart is in the right place. But please, don’t put up your Halloween stuff any sooner than a week before, and take them down the next day. If I wanted to see the undead in November, I’d have my family over for Thanksgiving.

Jeremy Greenberg has written for Geek Monthly, Pregnancy Magazine and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jokes (Alpha/Penguin). He is the author of Relative Discomfort: The Family Survival Guide (Andrews McMeel). When Jeremy's not writing, he's managing the development of his twin, toddler sons, agreeing with his overworked and underappreciated wife, or dodging phone calls from his weird and obnoxious relatives. Learn more at www.relativediscomfort.com
"a halloween-ophile" good grief, give me a break, this guy
SHOULD love halloween, he's dead from the neck up, he must have got the brain from young frankenstein(the one from
abi normal), get aload of this comment"The suburbs are great places to raise kids because peer pressure keeps people in-line. If I wanted individuality, or unpredictable freedom of expression, I would raise my kids in a city. I choose the suburbs because they’re a controlled product. Halloween-guy violates this unwritten code. " maybe this guy should buy him a piece of land out in the middle of nowhere with no neighbors within miles so he can control and rule with an iron hand. People like this I don't know
whether to pity them or laugh at them, I've been putting up halloween decorations since I can remember and I have had
NO parents say they didn't like anything I've done, I've had several
say they would start driving by my place about the middle of october to see if I had anything up yet and their kids would say
they wanted to see "the house", I'm so glad I'm NOT his poor kids. I don't have kids myself but I've seen WAY too many little
smiling faces on halloween night to NOT know kids love what I
do and have had too many kids AND parents say they look
forward to seeing what I do next year. People like this need to pull
their heads out of the sand and stop taking themselves so serious,
if I'm being agressive putting smiles on kids faces and making
them happy, then call me agesssive, I'd rather be agressive than
a stick in the mud fuddy duddy.

**Frankie's Girl** · 10-03-2010,06:04 AM

Fact is, I really don't mind if anyone thinks I'm silly or crazy for decorating "excessively"

since i'm REALLY doing if for myself anyway.

I agree that the writer was probably just trying to stir up hits and commentary from the extreme religious and the Halloweenies. You can't discuss Halloween out on the general interwebz without the religious nuts jumping on the "evil" nature of celebrating the holiday so it's a guaranteed hot topic if you put it out there.