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to think the slogan on this girls top from H&M is creepy

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bornwithaplasticspoon · 29/01/2016 14:58

I am probably over thinking it! Just seems an odd phrase for a kids tshirt.

to think the slogan on this girls top from H&M is creepy
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goodnightdarthvader1 · 29/01/2016 14:59

Agree, actually Shock

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Floggingmolly · 29/01/2016 15:00

I agree. Awful Hmm

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MaisyMooMoo · 29/01/2016 15:01

YANBU, totally inappropriate imo.

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Ohfourfoxache · 29/01/2016 15:02

Urgh that's horrible Shock

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MouldyPeach · 29/01/2016 15:03

H&m is a French(?) company so could be something lost in translation.

But still can't really see how it's creepy but happy to be enlightened. Just seems free spirit/wild hippy child kinda thing to me. Children's clothes slogans are not to be taken so literally.

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Pannn · 29/01/2016 15:08

I can imagine what people object to but I think it's okay.

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MaisyMooMoo · 29/01/2016 15:10

Children's clothes slogans are not to be taken so literally

Let's hope the children reading them don't.

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ollieplimsoles · 29/01/2016 15:11

H&M is a Swedish company,

But they are not the only ones guilty of this, loads of high street shops put pointless slogans of their tops, this one is a bottom of the barrel

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Pannn · 29/01/2016 15:11

no I think children in this regard are a bit more aware than that. not everything is to be read literally. they know this.

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Pannn · 29/01/2016 15:13

objecting to this just adds to the 'fearful environment' we seem keen to be creating for our little ones. IF a child was reading this I'm pretty sure they'd be saying "don't be daft".

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Maplessglobe · 29/01/2016 15:13

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bornwithaplasticspoon · 29/01/2016 15:16

There's also one that says 'I don't need you. I have wifi'

Confused

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Adeleslostbeehive · 29/01/2016 15:17

I agree with mouldy peach, I don't think it's inappropriate, it just doesn't make sense so I wonder if something has been lost in translation

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MouldyPeach · 29/01/2016 15:18

I'd be really worried if my child read a slogan on a t-shirt and took it as something to be acted on. I think most kids barely register what is written on their clothes and just wear them, my dd has a sweater with a rabbit on and 'nature centre' written on it next to it (from h&m as it happens!) I just covered it and asked her what it says, she had no idea and is 6 and obsessed with reading everything aloud. I personally wouldn't worry and def don't think it's worth getting hysterical about.

Asda's 'boys/girls are best' bubble bath, on the other hand, grrrr.

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Adeleslostbeehive · 29/01/2016 15:22

I don't like slogan/ character stuff anyway but I always wonder why people buy these tops. The writing makes no sense- you can pay for normal tops instead. Seems so weird

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Snozberry · 29/01/2016 15:23

It's a bit weird but I've seen worse. I don't know why there needs to be slogans at all, they're almost always odd or horrible. Is there ever a slogan on a boy's shirt that doesn't say little monster or tearaway or the like.

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ZiggyFartdust · 29/01/2016 15:26

I don't think its creepy. In what sense?

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pictish · 29/01/2016 15:30

Creepy how?

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hedgehogsdontbite · 29/01/2016 15:33

I've seen much worse in Sweden. They do seem to have a strange relationship with the English language. On the one hand they are all very good at it, better than some English people I know. But at the same time they fail to grasp the impact of some of the words they use.

I saw a girl of about 8 walking down the street with her parents once. She was wearing a pink sparkly t-shirt with 'fucking slag' printed on the front. I looked like this >> Shock

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fresta · 29/01/2016 15:34

If I had seen that in H&M it wouldn't have occurred to me to find anything creepy about it.

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whois · 29/01/2016 15:34

It's not 'creepy'.

It doesn't say 'hey older man lets run away and have sex in a seedy hotel'. That would be creepy.

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hedgehogsdontbite · 29/01/2016 15:35

There's also one that says 'I don't need you. I have wifi'

My DD would get that tattooed on her forehead if she could.

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bornwithaplasticspoon · 29/01/2016 15:36

Because a child running away is a parents worst nightmare. Not something to be made light of on a childs tshirt.

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Sallystyle · 29/01/2016 15:36

Not creepy at all.

Stupid but not creepy.

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fresta · 29/01/2016 15:37

"I don't need you, I have WIFI"
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Well to me, this is a witty slogan, when kids are on the internet they are lost in their own online world, this is pointing this out in a somewhat humorous way, what's shocking about it?

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