3 hours ago, Xin Loi said:

 A lot of brash clothes worn here, the owners have no clue as to what is printed on them.

Agree. Same with the music played in stores. I was at the mall, sitting outside of the store waiting on the wife.  The song playing was "eff this <deleted> MF'ers"....TIT.  

1 hour ago, Guderian said:

At least they recognised that he was dressed as Dahmer, if he'd gone as a REAL baddie like Mohamed Atta nobody would have had a clue who he was, lol.

I didn't know who Dahmer was until I came on here about an hour ago.

32 minutes ago, LittleBear57 said:

The Swiztika was a sign of "good fortune" and "well being" in many Asian religions

it still is. I even stayed in the Swastika Hotel in Sanur Bali.

 

Swastika ≠ Nazi Swastika.

Humour is often based on adversities. Nothing wrong with that; it does not condone those adversities but helps us to overcome them. 

If Jeffery Dahmer was taboo as a pop cultural reference, perhaps the woke should be demonizing Netflix for exposing the world to him instead of laying into foreign teenager.

4 hours ago, rwill said:

The age of the easily offended...

The age of the far too easily offended...

4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

13 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

They'll be dressing up as Prince Andrew soon. 

Or Jerry Lee Lewis.....>

...or, even worse, some Thaivisa poster ( not you two, obviously)!

3 hours ago, Dustdevil said:

There's no humor in any aspect of that loathsome creature, who, I'm glad to say, was beaten and choked to death by fellow prison inmates.

Some thought that was quite humourous.

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

..or, even worse, some Thaivisa poster ( not you two, obviously)!

certainly wouldn't have to seach long round here to come up with something unsavoury.

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Jeffrey Dahmer

Hmmm. ????

 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAXBVsSXsAAX-Wd.jpg

 

 

13 hours ago, gomangosteen said:

Popular in some circles

 

Back in the days before he met Megan the manipulator when he still knew how to have fun and the people loved him for it ????

1 hour ago, toofarnorth said:

I didn't know who Dahmer was until I came on here about an hour ago.

Interesting, and do you know who Mohamed Atta is? Just curious.

7 hours ago, bendejo said:

My scariest Halloween incident was when living in a US suburb, shovelling out candy to the kids who rang the doorbell.  At one point I opened the door and there were two girls, about ten years old.  One of them was wearing some very shear, non-opaque cloth.  All I could think of was "get this nearly naked kid away from my house!"  I was so shaken I dropped the candy bucket.  After they were gone and I calmed down I realized that was her self-made costume of the princess from the cartoon-movie Aladdin, very popular at the time.  The girl was olive-skinned, so I guessed she was seeking a character who she resembled.

To avoid unwelcome Trick or treaters callers I simply stuck  a life size head shot photo of Jimmy Savile leering in his creepy way on the front window next to the front door… ???? 

1 hour ago, Lemsta69 said:

it still is. I even stayed in the Swastika Hotel in Sanur Bali.

 

Swastika ≠ Nazi Swastika.

I hope you didn’t use the shower. ???? 

11 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Interesting, and do you know who Mohamed Atta is? Just curious.

Nope.

Jesus <deleted> Christ....

 

Those folks who are hating on a  Halloween costume need to get a life!

 

 

We seem to forget the o ne  important thing about this country.  People only learn about outside history online.  Therefore depending on where  you look Hitler was a genius or a mass murder or Psychopath.  

 

The same with Dahmer.  

Many Thais have no understanding of why Kanchaburi is so important to Dutch Aussie and other commonwealth people.  

 

There knowledge of WW2 is simply dates not actually what happened or who was involved.

 

 

Who cares its about Halloween  where people are out to scare and shock you this guy certainly did and it worked from comments received ????

Hmmm…. Stupid is what stupid does?

Thai teenager dressed up as “Jeffrey Dahmer” for Halloween harshly criticized on social media

Why?  Dahmer has been injected into the public consciousness and normalized through movies and TV show.  Blame the media.

1 hour ago, n00dle said:

perhaps the woke should be demonizing Netflix

I woke up at 6.00am.

44 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Interesting, and do you know who Mohamed Atta is? Just curious.

The Saudi Arabian that caused the USA to attack Afganistan!

Its halloween and you dress up as a monster, but not real monsters.

 

Closeness to time and trauma play significant factors but its usually the media at fault and not the individual by changing the context by exposing it to an audience it was not intended.

 

Lets say there was a school shooting perhaps 18 months ago and the shooter had some iconic features that would make for a highly recognisable costume. For anyone who lost anyone in that made up scenario most can see how it would be traumatic to see someone dressing up as that shooter and for sure doing it in that city or state, the horror. Perhaps you can think of things closer to home that you'd go yep too soon for that costume.

 

Media here has taken something from a country far away and shown it in the places where Dahmer brutally killed a lot of people, those families will never forget and the media has now caused them trauma again as they did at the time, for them the idea of dressing up as this monster remains horrific and rightly so, at the time someone was publishing comics <deleted>.

 

For others its distant, not within their world, in the past and perhaps even glorified by media and recent shows and there is no connection to the actual horror so in a far away place perhaps there's no harm to be seen, its "just" an iconic look of a monster for halloween and nothing more. Nothing to see here until the media and the stirrers come in.  

 

 

 

"Make sure your costume isn't culturally appropriating a culture that isn't your own, while we all celebrate an ancient Celtic cultural tradition while not being descendants of the Celts.".

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The age of the far too easily offended...

I am offended that you label the age I'm living in as easily offended.  All this offense stuff is not coming easily to me, but I'm working on it. 

 

16 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

They'll be dressing up as Prince Andrew soon. 

What about his big brother Old King Charlie?? He makes the "sleeping partner" that's the unelected Thai deputy PM, look like Elvis.

15 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Dahmer is as Halloweeny as it gets.

What about Tony Blair?? He was responsible for many more killings than this Dahmer guy.

I'm amazed any Thai would even know Jeffrey Dahmer.  I'm pretty sure a lot of Americans don't even know who this sicko is.

6 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Or Jerry Lee Lewis.....>

Or Peltin Elton. Now there's one to put on the mantelpiece to keep the kids away from the fire. ????

2 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

I'm amazed any Thai would even know Jeffrey Dahmer.  I'm pretty sure a lot of Americans don't even know who this sicko is.

A lot of Americans don't know what state they live in.