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AIBU?

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Original poster

to think this card is just...well...bleurgh!

29 replies

perplexedpirate · 12/06/2011 20:19

Father's Day card in Asda reads "One day I'll find my prince but you'll always be my king".

Seriously, what sort of message does that send a child?! You are merely one man's daughter and another man's wife?

Also, the king thing sort of reminds me of Andrew Lloyd Webber in Over The Rainbow, which is creepy to the max.

AIBU? Is it actually cute? Am I too cynical?

OP posts:
SuePurblybilt · 12/06/2011 20:20

To be fair, even Lord Toady himself looked awkward at that throne business in Over the Rainbow.

Yes, deeply creepy. Yuck.

RevoltingPeasant · 12/06/2011 20:30

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW.

HTH.

Seriously, it's like those Purity Balls or whatever they're called, where the dads take their wickle pwincesses on their arm because No Other Man can touch them until they've been Given Away By Daddy on the speciallest day of their life.

BluddyMoFo · 12/06/2011 20:31

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catgirl1976 · 12/06/2011 20:51

A little bit of sick just came up into my mouth

WhoAteMySnickers · 12/06/2011 20:53

Creepy and weird.

youmeatsix · 12/06/2011 20:53

"what sort of message does that send a child?! You are merely one man's daughter and another man's wife"

really? you got THAT from a mass produced piece of tat for a child to give their dad??

wow

Grabaspoon · 12/06/2011 20:55

Agree youmeatsix - I wouldn't have thought that Hmm

NorthernGobshite · 12/06/2011 20:59

YANBU
yuk yuk yuk

Salmotrutta · 12/06/2011 21:04

Surely you shouldn't be worrying your pretty little head about this OP?!

mistressploppy · 12/06/2011 21:08
PosiePerkinPootle · 12/06/2011 21:09

What youmeatsix said! Overthinking perhaps.

Original poster
perplexedpirate · 12/06/2011 21:15

You are right salmotrutta. I'll get nasty wrinkles and who'll want me then? Grin

I did youmeatsix, it jumped out at me from among the other mass-produced tat. Do you think I'm overreacting?

OP posts:
redexpat · 12/06/2011 21:58

Anyone else get creeped out/annoyed by ALL adult women in american films and tv calling their fathers Daddy and having some weird overprotective relationship? Does ANYONE have one of those relationships with their father?

RevoltingPeasant · 12/06/2011 22:02

red Do you mean you're not Daddy's Special Girl then, even now you're grown up?? Shock

winnybella · 12/06/2011 22:07

YANBU. Creepy.

coocoocachoo · 12/06/2011 22:14

My Dad would think it was creepy, let alone anyone else!

Trinaluce · 12/06/2011 22:17

And THIS is why I've bought plain card, stickers and glue and will be helping telling DD to make her daddy's FD card

TeddyMcardle · 12/06/2011 22:20

that is awful, can't visualise a 'one day I'll find my princess but you'll always be my queen' card hitting the shops at mothers day Hmm

Salmotrutta · 12/06/2011 22:21

Calling your father "Daddy" when you are a grown-up is only trumped by calling your mother "Mummy" as a grown-up. Both are ridiculous (in my opinion) twee and childish.
This is purely my opinion obviously - I just think it sounds awful.

CurrySpice · 12/06/2011 22:21

While I think it is totally barf-inducing, I think you might be over-analysing it a teeeeeeny bit! :o

Salmotrutta · 12/06/2011 22:24

Loving TeddyMcArdle's take on it!! You are spot on there!! Grin

Fisharefriendsnotfood · 12/06/2011 22:24

I'm with you, very very annoying

PhishFoodAddiction · 12/06/2011 22:25

Today in a card shop I saw a little plaque thing which said 'A girl's first love is her Daddy.'

Salmotrutta · 12/06/2011 22:26

Oh lord............ and I thought we'd moved on and progressed!

Trinaluce · 12/06/2011 22:28

Phish Fair comment, the first person a little girl loves might well be her daddy. Still though...