blioke wearing tee shirt with slogan "strangers have the best sweets" in bowling alley

[Greythorne]

A while back, I remember a thread on here about a tee shirt company flogging tee shirts which ridiculously offensive slogans.

Well, freedom of speech and each to their own and all that.

However, am I being unreasonable in still feeling unsettled by the following...a week ago at the bowling place in Milton Keynes, a bloke who looked -well- dodgey (aged 40-50), hanging around the arcade bit at the back with video games and gambling machines wearing a tee shirt with:
"Strangers have the best sweets"

I did not do anything at the time but now a week later I am still feeling uneasy.

Not sure if I am overreacting or if I should in fact have done something.

arf

Done something?
What, about a man wearing a t shirt?
O yes, clearly a paedo. Deffo. Alert the police immediately.
Sheesh

That sounds pretty sick to me

Not sure what you could have done about it though.

reality
pretty sure I did not suggest shooting him

Maybe the slogan refers to coach trips or cinema trips where, ime, strangers do always seem to have better sweets than me. And sandwiches.

I'd have found that quite offensive too, but not sure you can actually 'do' anything about it.

But done what exactly?

Would it have appealed to children, or was it aimed at adults as some kind of pick-up line?

Mind you, at least T-shirts like that carry an implicit warning: "wearer is a nob'.

I was totally at a loss as to what to do
hence my inaction

but it was vey odd

he did not look like a dad waiting for his kids to finish bowling

or a single bloke waiting for his friends come back from the bar

have you never had a very unsettling feeling about someone?

He probably thought you were weird for staring at him.

sorry, YABU

It's an adult joke for other adults. A child isn't going to run over to him and beg for his tasty sweets are they I wouldn't have given it another thought tbh.

"what to do" ??

Sorry, but what on earth do you mean? What exactly CAN one do about someone who is guilty of nothing more than a slightly dodgy T-shirt?

you are completely overreacting. it's a tshirt.

The man wore a t-shirt FGS. he wasn't carrying a 12 bore!

It may have been a crappy and tasteless item of clothing, yes, but then that's my opinion of Boden too. You can't "act" on someone's shite taste in clothing!

Agree you can't do anything much about him or his teeshirt, but if it's supposed to be an 'adult joke' it's in very poor taste and not remotely funny

I for one am sharpening my pitchfork. Does anyone have have anything flammable? And don't forget the bloody matches, it was so embarrassing last time having to borrow a lighter from the paedo.

"It's an adult joke for other adults."

Because strangers luring children with sweets is funny?

Of course paedos don't advertise their proclivities on T-shirts. But I'd have some serious misgivings about anyone who thought a T-shirt like that was remotely funny. Seeing as he was a stranger, I really don't know what you could have done. But if I were going out with a group of friends and someone was wearing a shirt like that I'd have to say something, even if it made me look ridiculous.

I agree it's in pretty bad taste, but I don't know what you could do about it, apart from confront him, which probably wouldn't achieve much

If only that man knew that his choice of t-shirt was being discussed on MN. Lol!

literally have no idea what the problem is here.

It's not an adult joke for adults. It's a thirteen year old's joke for offending parents. I would have been very to see a fifty year old man wearing one. Context counts, IMHO....

Do what exactly?

It was just a stupid joke t-shirt.

YANBU. It's well tasteless. If it makes you uneasy- you're uneasy. I perhaps would have said something to him along the lines of "I think your t-shirt is fecking hilarious, I really do, but a group of mums in the toilets were talking about how much you creep them out. How oversensitive are they?" etc.