To think if you're selling sexy lingerie...

[TiggyD]

...down an alley and you want a person holding a sign on the main street directing people to you, you shouldn't pick a middle aged bald beardy vegetarian looking man to hold the sign. You read the sign, all pink and lacy with twiddly writing, you feel like sexy but impractical underwear, but then you see him looking all wholemeal pastry quiche and it puts you right off.

AIBU?

I mean there was a shop down an alley. Not just somebody selling lingerie in a secluded backstreet. Nothing weird.

Errrrrr god where was that!

'vegetarian looking man' what does that even mean?

It was in Winchester.

I want pictures of 'vegetarian looking men' just so I know one when I see one.

I'd also like to see someone doing a 'wholemeal pastry quiche' look. Is it like Blue Steel?

(I'd love to see the reaction to this thread if the person holding the sign was being judged by their looks and was female btw).

Actually I think it may be marketing genius. If you had a sexy buxom blonde babe, it would make women feel inadequate in comparison, and reluctant to go to the shop as they'd feel like they'd be laughed at if they weren't equally sexy and beautiful. If they had a drop-dead gorgeous young stud, ordinary women might feel intimidated, as if the young buck would be sniggering at them, wondering why someone so frumpy would buy pretty underwear. Having a normal looking person would enable normal looking people (the vast majority of us) to venture in without feeling uncomfortable.

I must dash to Winchester to see what a vegetarian looking man looks like... Fascinating

I agree with Jollyphonics
It would pique my interest more than seeing a hot, young male/female holding the sign.

I'm loving your description Tiggy. I was hoping this was going to be Brighton. We have an abundance of middle aged, beardy vegetarian types, male and female.

Winchester, ha! I know the shop
I was going to guess Chichester.

But YABU - I love beardy vegetarians with a career in holding signs up in the street. Especially if they're short, slightly overweight and have an unwashed look about them. Did you get a number Tiggy??

I was in Winchester this morning. I can't say I saw him

But lots of people are wholemeal vegetarian quiche in Winchester. They've probably got their marketing just about right I reckon.

I can't help feeling if you're selling sexy undies down an alleyway and advertising it with a person holding a sign, you may have more problems than the appearance of said person ...!

This is what I got when I Googled vegetarian looking man

I would NOT buy underwear from him!

Nor a meat-eating looking man.

LRD that's what I thought too!

I feel it may be what several of us thought!

You must all know what vegetarian looking men look like! You know, men who like like they could whittle their own chess set and know their way around an accordion. They wear a lot of mustard and brown clothes and copper bangles.

Actually I don't know what a 'vegetarian looking man' looks like. I find it a rather horrible stereotype tbh.

I used to get friends thinking I was vegetarian all the time because 'I looked like one'.

Frankly it made me want to punch their lights out, as when I challenged them it was because I was small, pale and thin, and that was about the extent of their reasoning.

What baffled me, was they weren't strangers and knew me fairly well, but still always made the assumption. Even when I professed my love for bacon butties and burgers.

I have been, and am currently veering back to being, a vegetarian and I know what you mean.

They wear a lot of mustard and brown clothes and copper bangles

In the interests of going against stereotypes you'll find a lot of people in mustard and brown on Scottish grouse moors on the 12th of August. 2 of them will be people I know who wear copper bracelets. They are not vegetarians.

as opposed to a meat eating man...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2F15daysdiet.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F12%2Fman-eating-meat-77906112963.jpeg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2F15daysdiet.com%2F%3Fp%3D236&h=595&w=900&tbnid=ke-Mnh4C3gHccM%3A&zoom=1&docid=kNGKw-yTzK87LM&ei=QPzTU5f-IYGr0QX0l4CACw&tbm=isch&ved=0CCMQMygFMAU&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=463&page=1&start=0&ndsp=13

There used to be adverts for Scotch beef featuring a meat eating man.

scotch beef ad: