to think that only a pretentious arse would dress his toddler dd in a Ramones t shirt?

[bibbitybobbityhat]

I looked at the Dad.

I looked at his little chubby toddler daughter in her pink Ramones t shirt.

I thought "God you are a twat"

AIBU?

"Though am a bit sad it was already out there"

Um.. it wasn't..

Teeny hi-jack *

You know, what with the miners, the (possible) Greek default, the boundary changes + end to compulsory voter registration, NHS changes, et al, it has been a grim old news week. I needed a picture of a really cute hamster in a pink Ramones shirt. You are now, officially, one of my very favourite people, Empjusa.

small hi-jack

I am impressed.

And the glowing love I feel towards you can probably be felt as far away as Hully's love thread.

Hahah glad to have helped

Oh LeQueen, I knoooooow.... Some bitter auld divvy on another forum accused me of trying to be "urbane" by "casually littering my posts with French" after I said the little-known phrase "tete a tete" in a post. That doesn't even count as French any more since it's crept it's way into our vernacular so successfully.

So yeah. Suck on that tu petit merde.

Hully has a love thread? I demand to know where! I have a bong! And kaftans for all. And I'll bring me Jethro Tull LPs to stick on the music box.

But kerry not all of them, which was undoubtedly misrepresenting themselves to impressionable youngsters.

I don't believe The Righteous Brothers were actually related either which is even worse, because lying to your fans is anything but righteous in my book.

I bet he was the kind of man to say "I love my music", or "he loves his music", as opposed to "I love music". All smacks of "I'm alternative, me!"

I am a twat. DS was regularly seen out and about in <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=inspiral+carpets+cool+tshirt&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1245&bih=628&tbm=isch&tbnid=Jn-XhrB_kG6Q6M:&imgrefurl=www.stolliclothing.co.uk/productinfo.php%3Fpid%3D1329&docid=zWypS7dkaB-6XM&w=300&h=300&ei=UD1zTvXqIIOu8gOttq3sDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=174&vpy=172&dur=3972&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=121&ty=102&page=1&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this beauty as a toddler.

LeQueen Okay, so what if the toddler has grown up listening to the Ramones and Peppa Pig music. Would the parent dressing their toddler in the Ramones t-shirt, but equally happy to let them wear a Peppa Pig t-shirt

Yep absolutely. I would buy my dcs Beatles t-shirts if I saw them (have bought similar) and they also wear the Peppa Pig variety. i'm not sure why you think that wouldn't happen.

ExpensivePants Unless you hand over a £50 note to your 3yo and sit outside the shop while s/he goes in and chooses clothes, then everything you dress your children in, however neutral, practical, logo'd, unlogo'd is making a statement about you and how you want them to look, nothing to do with what they want. So this thread is a bit silly really.

Exactly! Some people think you are making a statement in the way you dress your kids if you don't chose to dress them the same way they dress theirs.

LEMONAIDE at 8 we still have to actively dissade DS from going shopping in a spiderman outfit or skeleton pyjamas but we just let him get on with it when he was small - we are now not sure if he's passed from the age where its "cute" to the point where its "odd" -

Mine are exactly the same. My oldest is 5 so still gets away with it. Not sure what the cut off is, although a big part of me thinks let them express themselves through their clothes if they wish (within reason, not naked etc). They will do it when they are teenagers where we like it or not.

Forgive me if this has already been said but famously, the Ramones are known for having sold more t-shirts than albums.

Therefore, MOST people who wear a Ramones t-shirt are pretentious twats.

YADNBU

but famously, the Ramones are known for having sold more t-shirts than albums.
Therefore, MOST people who wear a Ramones t-shirt are pretentious twats.

Haaaaa! Told you he was probably humming Chesney Hawkes' tune.

DD has skinny jeans, but it's mainly because she has skinny legs and they're the style that fits best and I hate bootcut. I wish I could get straight legged bog standard jeans or trousers at an affordable price, but things I can afford (Primark etc) tend to follow fashions and I have to pick the best from that The DCs wear what I can pay for, not what I necessarily want and I can't imagine I'm alone in that.

Regardless of this issue of parents in general making statements through their children's clothes, what statement are people who put their child in a Ramones tshirt trying to make?

Clearly it is different to the statement most other people are making.

blinkineck Why does it make you a pretentious twat to wear a t-shirt by someone who has sold loads of t-shirts? Are you assuming that because they have sold more t-shirts then albums then no one actually likes the music? Huge assumption that everyone you see wearing one will not actually like the music.

Also, is there an album to t-shirt sales ratio, that makes it acceptable in your eye for someone to wear the t-shirt?

milly - I think they are probably making the statement that 'I like the Ramones'. Just a thought

Well yes, but most people's statement in their children's clothes is along the lines of 'this is what I think childhood is about, this is what I think my child is about.

That is a bit different to just this is what I think that I am about.

I think this must be one of the silliest MN threads I've ever seen...

Really Milly?! Do people say that?!

My son genuinely does like The Ramones. He chose his t-shirt as he recognised the Ramones graphic from the cd we keep in the car. He said "mummy a Bermones t-shirt! Can I have a Bermones t-shirt?!" and I said "you most certainly can when you remember your manners"

I won't pretend I wasn't pleased that he asked for a t-shirt that also reflects our musical tastes but then he also loves those lurid busy Pixar Cars t-shirts that make my teeth itch. He gets bought those too. See? Not an extension of me at all as evidenced by the fact that he point blank refused to wear a Muppets t-shirt that I chose for him

He refused a muppets t-shirt?

Now that would worry me........

They make my teeth itch too!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a child not a lifestyle accessory.