Popular but tacky

[ListObsessed]

Sorry, not really an AIBU and inspired by the Pandora thread so breaking a few MN 'rules'. I found it really interesting to see what people view as tacky. Agreed with some and was surprised by others.

My personal pet hates are those baby on board signs in the back window of many cars (wouldn't mention it in real life as one of my best friends has one), rings that say things like 'Mum' on them and streaky blonde highlights in dark hair.

Completely appreciate that we all have and are entitled to different tastes. Just fascinated by the strong but opposing responses that an innocuous item can cause. The things I've just listed are viewed as useful/beautiful by many other people.

LOL fuckit. does that mean I'm ok?

I want a SHITTER sign.

Just slightly tacky I guess

All these things people are see as tacky on Mn are normal in my RL

I do sometimes wonder why the fuck am I here as I'm nothing like anyone

drowned

Go up to the counter in John Lewis and ask for one.

I love Converse (low-tops not high) and I'm 40!

I also like fake flowers. They have to LOOK fake though; I do think ones that are trying to look real are naffola.

I hate big unsightly earrings, babies and toddlers with pierced ears. fake chanel bags. fake tan, fake ugg boots and people who use 'boy' as a middle name, yes where I am people actual call their offspring John - boy etc!

Oh Lois, no John Lewis here.

I will be visiting the UK for Easter, I shall visit JL 'speshully.

Bags with Louis Vuitton print, ankle bracelets, white washed jeans ( esp with with diamanté's ) babies with ears pierced, and that relatively new god awful thing of guys wearing their hair in a bun on top of their heads.

Actually, I really would love one for the ensuite (where the inlaws won't see it)

Should I get one made in individual wooden letters?

Overdone animal print on babies (a little can be cute, but when you see an entire pram decked out in leopard print and frills...)
Calling little girls princesses.
Character clothing on children too young to like said character/ask for item of clothing
Children over 3 with dummies in public.

Urgh and velour tracksuits

Kitty here kids at 45 month old still were baby grows. You are fine

Oh oh I remembered another.
Those god awful grey bears on birthday cards. (Me 2 You bears??) shudder

Whoever believes 'baby on board' signs are for emergency services are idiots!!!!
A child is not rescued 'first' at a RTC on the basis of a plastic sign,

Anyway mine:
Tattooed eyebrows - everyone I know has them at the moment
Those woollen headband things worn by adults
Anything in babies' hair

However I love fake nails, Uggs, Cath kidston and converse.
I admire women who can wear heels every day

Ooh I love babies in babygros

Fondling your true love's crotch on public transport.

What should babies wear then? Ridiculously uncomfortable "outfits" which have to be changed several times a day so every co ordinates?

Babygros are perfect for them, soft, comfortable, easy to get in and out of, and can be washed and washed and washed.

There is no lovelier thing in the world than a teeny baby in a bright white babygro!

So basically everything that the people in My Fat Gypsy Wedding type programmes wear/have in their homes. I actually admire them for this because they don't give a flying fuck about what people think.

Babygros aren't seen as tacky on MN. Quite the opposite in fact. Some people are quite competitive about how long they keep their kids in babygros for.

Baby on Board signs ARE NOT and never have been to alert emergency services. Nor have they ever been a legal requirement.

www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/babysign.asp

Keeping your child in white babygrows until they are 5 is an MN law