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.

It's a joke. I laughed.

OK it's in bad taste, but lots of jokes are - that doesn't mean the person wearing them is worse than average. What exactly would you have "done" about it, if you had done anything? Spoken directly to him "I find your tshirt offensive!"? Spoken to the staff "There's a man in an offensive tshirt on your premises"?

There's no reason for you to feel "uneasy" or "unsettled" a week later - its a bloke in a tshirt, he wasn't waving bags of sweets at children.

Do what? Alert The Daily Wail of course natch....

I think it's quite funny. Slogan t-shirts in general are a bit sad though.

I can see the headline now...Mumsnet revolt over sighting of a lesser spotted peedowfile in bowling alley- easily identified by his 'strangers have the best sweets' slogan t-shirt, nhs spectacles and gola trainers.

As has already been said, t-shirts like that are very un-funny, but do fulfil the service of warning us that the person wearing them is a total wanker without having to actually engage with them.

"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?"

I hope I don't live near you because I seem to have lost the 'how to look like a dad or someone who has drinking friends' instruction manual and I could never go out in public wearing my work clothes.

JB - Stranger Bothers Makers Of Fine Confectionary.

G83

This thread is so (unintentionally ) funny

:o @ AnnieL

Love "enables you to spot a wanker without actually having to engage with them"
True. Ok, in that context, he's doing a public service :o

What would have done? Called the fashion police?

YANBU and bonkers as conkers.

It a t-shirt ffs. Get over yourself.

If he was someone dodgy, he'd be unlikely to advertise it would he?! Ooooh, maybe he would actually...a sort of double bluff. Clever.

uneasy about what?ropy attire.do what exactly? report to fashion police.yes you are wildly over reacting

not keen on slogan t shirts myself but i dont think wee laddies wearing lock up your daughters are going to slip one to the other kids

look,extremly unlikley a predator will announce it on a t-shirt

I think you're reading far more in to a bad t-shirt slogan than was ever intended. And personally I'm much more bothered by the 'FCUK' slogans everywhere I go. Now that was fun when the DC's were learning to read

I actually have a t-shirt with that written on it.

runs off and hides

Leave the bastard!

don't over-think these slogans OP, obviously the wearer hasn't has he?

no it's not big, it's not clever but you don't live with him so it doesn't matter.

Oh ffs!

Thus fucking ridiculous assumption people have about lone men=paedo is getting ridiculous

It's very poor taste I think. Obviously a paedo isn't going to advertise himself but it's as though he's laughing at the warnings that we're trying to give t our children - JMO.

I think it was the Milton Keynes detail that did it for me - as if they arent bad enough with all those roundabouts now they have t-shirt wearing paedos as well.

Maybe there's a link?

I thought it would mean that he likes to get sweets from strangers, not that he has sweets that he would like to geive out to unknown people.

Abcinthia where is it from?

is my brothers humor

i think the op is worried it's a sign paedophilia is becoming acceptable in some vague t-shirt slogan way. and that worries me a bit too, but not sure what people can do about it. just let it go.

I think the tee is funny.

I was sexually abused as a kid and trust me, the guy didn't wear a fucking tee shirt advertising the fact!

this tshirt doesnt indicate paedophillia becoming acceptable.on the contrary it indicates a heightened fear and alarm.hence a tshirt slogan is taken to indicate all manner of sinister things