Is a homeless person halloween costume offensive?

[Insomniator]

I want to be a hobo... cut up some old jeans, look all dirty etc...

I dunno is this crossing a line?

 

[zerocool84]

You're really worried? wow

 

[moshquerade]

Nope. A hobo is a costume everyone wears when they just want to cheap out

 

[olds]

I know this, if you're over 12 and you wear a costume I find you offensive.

 

[SSSnail]

Not if you're in San Francisco.

 

[Riceninja]

you'd just look like the average college student

 

[El Guaraguao]

Nope. A hobo is a costume everyone wears when they just want to cheap out

This.

 

[Minjin]

Aren't costumes supposed to be offensive? Isn't Halloween the one time of the year where we're are allowed, nay, encouraged to cross those lines?

 

[mmntech]

That's the stupidest question I've heard all day. Of course I wasn't at work today so don't worry about that too much.

 

[coreyb]

if anyone is offended, that's there problem, not yours.

 

[Insomniator]

I guess i just meant offensive to homeless people, I'll just hope I dont run into one!

 

[fantolay]

I guess it depends where you wear it and who you wear it around. If you have to ask that question though, you might as well scrap the idea.

The hobo idea also wouldn't be that great of a costume...

 

[her209]

I remember someone posting on here where they or someone they knew went dressed as a Mexican street vendor with a bag of oranges and a sign that said "naranjas".

 

[her209]

Found the thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=906121

 

[PhoKingGuy]

Some indian guy at my high school dressed up as a Mexican selling oranges. He wore a brown leather jacket (looked like a cowboy jacket cuz it had frilly stuff hanging of the front of it) and a sombrero. Oh yeah he also brough a bag of oranges with the word "NARANJAS" on it.




Wow......I'm changing my costume idea now.

 

[Ika]

Found the thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=906121

I think you spend too much time on ATOT... remembering an 8-year-old non-epic thread? :biggrin:

 

[her209]

I think you spend too much time on ATOT... remembering an 8-year-old non-epic thread? :biggrin:

It stuck out in my mind because of that post.



I remember other non-epic threads... for example, the one where a poster's mom thought he was gay because she found out he bought some "male-to-male" adapter.

 

[zinfamous]

ummmm, no.

anything, and anyone, is fair game on Halloween. don't be a pus.

 

[Ika]

It stuck out in my mind because of that post.



I remember other non-epic threads... for example, the one where a poster's mom thought he was gay because she found out he bought some "male-to-male" adapter.

hmm... actually, I think I remember that one too. Although I might have read it in AT-Wiki or something, indirectly.

 

[thepd7]

I think you spend too much time on ATOT... remembering an 8-year-old non-epic thread? :biggrin:

don't hate, I remember all sorts of unimportant stuff I read years ago.

 

[tcsenter]

Hobo was considered a lifestyle 50 years ago, different from being homeless in that the hobo often preferred it (or at least that was what they told everyone), sorta like gypsies.

 

[Renob]

its funny!

 

[Zedtom]

I was partying in downtown Boulder a few years ago when I saw a young college student dressed up as a hobo with a stick and bandanna. He looked really stupid and gave off a vibe of no imagination or preparation in his costume.

It wasn't more than a minute later that I saw two homeless people in an alley digging in a dumpster. They were not dressed for Halloween.

 

[gimmewhitecastles]

you might be pushing some buttons if you dress up as a KKK member or hitler.

 

[Homerboy]

There is a difference between a Hobo and a homeless person.