Do you think this bear on a cake looks like its got a vagina?!

[GeorgianaDevonshire]

parents refuse to pay for Christening cake because they think the ornamental bear looks like it has, in MN parlance, a fango.

Daily Mail link.

"for 'it is'

Yep another one on the side of the apostrophe. It has = it's. It's (that's it is) one of the phrases less frequently contracted though tbf

Totally agree about the pastel colours. Does everyone really want pale pink for a girl and pale blue for a boy?

Sunny why not "it has"? It's less common but no less valid. Google it...

No. It might look like a vulva, but it doesn't look like a vagina!

Trying to work out how an apostrophe could look like a vagina. Think I've missed the point of the thread...

you google it if you want to fastdaytears. I do not need to as I know I am right

For real?

surely though, if you were sitting bolt upright with your legs in front of you - you'd be sitting on your genitals?

The only way to see them if you're seated, would be to throw your legs out to the side and lean backwards.

I'm sitting on a chair right now and I'm sitting on mine. They aren't on the front. That would be my belly.

The parents could have
a) smoothed it over
b) taken it off, re-attached the head and limbs backwards, turned it round and called it its arse.

Would the OED do for you? www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/it%27s

Definitely would have just extended it up, but I don't see why they would put a tiny seam there in the first place, very odd! I don't think the flowers look great either as they look like they have been added afterwards to hide a mistake (which they have!)

If she was concerned, about showing lady parts, maybe she should've asked for bears in clothes. I didn't immediately think it looking like vagina at all.

that is not the OED, and anyway I disagree

Oxford dictionaries is the online site of the OED if you actually look. If you're more of a hard copy girl or worship at a different dictionary then I can find you another source...

Out of interest, how would you contract "it has" as in it has been a busy day for the grammar police on MN?

It's a growler

'its'

Oh my life. Ok that's fine. You don't teach kids though right? You're allowed to be that wrong in your bubble.

This cake shop is fantastic. Such a shame they are getting such negative publicity. We've had many cakes from them including wedding, christening and birthday cakes. They have all been gorgeous and are really reasonably priced.

I don't think they are though. I think most people are laughing at the parents rather than thinking the shop does pornographic teddy bear cakes

To be fair 30ish I think the shop has come out of it looking pretty good. Their response (that I saw) was polite and rational, and the cakes do look good. A bit less pink/blue would be good but I guess people go trad for Christenings. I hope they will do ok out of all this. Or branch into a new area of cake based bear porn. There might be money in that...

I dont think the shop will suffer much some loony customer seeing something that isnt there will only give the shop more publicity really

It would have taken her 3 minutes to make a new bear, less if she just needed to make a torso. Even less to extend the seem
It does look like lady bits, I expected it to be a dropped belly button, but it's a line so really does look bits like.
I'd have attempted to extend the seem if that didn't work, if take it back. Papers wouldn't have occurred to me

Sunny you are completely, utterly and totally wrong. There is without a scintilla of doubt an apostrophe missing from the thread title.

I'm right; it's is a contraction of it has.

www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_13.htm

Georgiana don't doubt yourself! Using the English language can be tricky for people though head tilt