to think staff in a high end hotel should not have facial injuries as part of their Halloween fancy dress?

[Iris65]

I understand people wanting to wear fancy dress for Halloween and to be sponsored for charity (although I don't know whether the staff here are actually being sponsored). However I am sitting in reception of a high end hotel waiting for a friend and the staff are in very realistic fancy dress. However, they are mostly zombie themed, horrific facial injuries, nurses in torn, bloody uniforms and open wounds. It is just so nasty.
I know some will call me out as a special snowflake, and talk about how its just a bit of fun, but this stuff is damaging and upsetting to many. Especially when there are so many other options for Halloween fancy dress.

"f you walk into a bank and see someone who appears to have blood dripping from their face, you may not realise it’s makeup. "

especially if you live in a rough area! I think the adult/child thing is irrelevant - if you're not at a private party or answering your own front door, don't do costumes that are gross. Many adults are grossed out by this stuff too.

When did MN suddenly get to be such a snobby place?

Ermmmm, how long have you been here?

Anyway, a pp mentioned the veil being thin between the spirit and real world. The way the spirit world is portrayed as scary and freaky is what upsets me. We all have close family members who have died haven't we? I don't like the the idea that the warm, real, funny people I knew are now being parodied as zombies or ghosts. It isn't personal, I know that - but death is something that will come to us all and I think it would be better celebrated in a tasteful way, and people to be left in peace.

Also sorry for my 'we'll all be dead one day' comment it wasn't meant to sound quite so threatening.

When did MN suddenly get to be such a snobby place?

Ermmmm, how long have you been here?

About six years

Ah - me too! I can't believe you've not noticed it before? There's snobbery and more importantly the much pointed out inverse snobbery. On each thread one must exist.