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To think that this is disgusting and offensive?

331 replies

WoeIsMee · 21/08/2015 11:22

I like little signs and words around the home. I have quite a few, made from nicely decorated wooden letters ('soak' in the living room, 'relax' in the guest bedroom, kids names on their windowsills etc).

I went to a friends house today. She has a new sign too.
It's wooden letters above her loo spelling out a vulgar term for urine. She thought it was hilarious. I not so.

Am I boring or is it offensive? What would you think?

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BalloonSlayer · 21/08/2015 16:55

Couldn't you buy an R and a Y in the same font and blu tack them up around her word, then you can change it to PRISSY, which is kind of appropriate all round in these circumstances.

spanky2 · 21/08/2015 16:58

I remember a thread with rude bunting. Really rude. The 'c' word!

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 21/08/2015 16:59

OP - please tell us that this is a windup!

And as for MN not always being like this, I think you may have mixed us up with the other place

This is one of the few sites where words like cunt are bandied about - did you really think that we would all be pearl clutching over the word piss??

And having sold the letters, you have fuck all control over what people choose to spell with them.

I think your friend sounds awesome and has found a way of taking the piss (no pun intended) out of the trend for hanging the letters up Grin

Summerisle1 · 21/08/2015 17:11

In cross stitch!??

Cross stitch seems entirely appropriate to me. I mean what other stitch could you possibly use to illustrate a message like this....?

To think that this is disgusting and offensive?
LovelyFriend · 21/08/2015 17:14

did you mean Cunt Bunting spanky?

To think that this is disgusting and offensive?
To think that this is disgusting and offensive?
clam · 21/08/2015 17:17

Just had an enjoyable 10 minutes reading the OP's 'Pardon/What' thread.
If I was ever in any doubt about her being a windup merchant, it's clear now. She gave herself away when she let slip the word 'crap.'

LovelyFriend · 21/08/2015 17:18

what?

AvaCrowder · 21/08/2015 17:21

BATHE or CLEANSE would be nicer than SOAK. Soak always makes me think of knickers.

LovelyFriend · 21/08/2015 17:25

yeah SOAK has got me thinking about white school socks ...

ghostyslovesheep · 21/08/2015 17:25

My friend has 'FUCK OFF' in pretty bunting

I brought it for her Grin

Hedgesinthewind · 21/08/2015 17:28

Just had an enjoyable 10 minutes reading the OP's 'Pardon/What' thread. If I was ever in any doubt about her being a windup merchant, it's clear now

Is it the same OP ? That was some thread. It was hilarious, but also painful, seeing how the OP kept beating her head against a brick wall. THe OP showed herself to be either a) a brilliant WUM; or b) rather stupid; or c) Hyacinth Bucket IRL.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 21/08/2015 17:28

SOAK = woman constantly drunk. As in "she's an old soak". I wouldn't have that anywhere in my house.

PISS = inoffensive. SHIT I might be a little taken aback by, if someone had that (and I wouldn't) but PISS really isn't "disgusting and offensive".

Your idea of giving her an alternative set in your own decorated letters = madness - what if she uses them for subversive practices? that would be the end of your friendship, surely.

ANd I do think you should state on your own website/selling area that your letters are only to be used for naice words, else they'll self-destruct.

Icouldbesogoodforyou · 21/08/2015 17:28

Sorry OP but you're part of the problem. If you didn't make your beautifully decorated letters, dirty feckers wouldn't be able to spell out obscenities.

I've recently sent several strongly worded letters to the manufacturers of alphabet magnets and alphabetti spaghetti due to the vile combinations they can be arranged into.

I've spoken to my MP after the makers of scrabble failed to respond to my complaint.

If I'm making a triple word score I do NOT want to see a word I have carefully placed be violated by someone using my letters to then play 'clunge' or 'clackerbag'.

EmpressKnowsWhereHerTowelIs · 21/08/2015 17:31

My guess is Hully.

MadrigalElectromotive · 21/08/2015 17:39

I think you need some new letters too OP. Might I suggest U.N.C.L.E.N.C.H?

(It may also work for your downstairs loo, given that you are this anally retentive)

TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 21/08/2015 17:56

WienerDiva
I would love to know more about your bums. It sounds fab. How did it come about? Do you accost visitors and demand an arse pic?

Fiderer · 21/08/2015 17:59

Empress Hully would have "Kill 'em all" above the front door.

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 21/08/2015 18:03

Oh this thread is way too funny... Totally convinced the OP has mixed us up with NM though Grin

OP - I was reading about a naice graffiti artist called Quinoa - have a Google, he might be your kind of person Grin

EmpressKnowsWhereHerTowelIs · 21/08/2015 18:04

I know, Fiderer. I was thinking Hully in disguise.

Fiderer · 21/08/2015 18:08

Would add a certain something to dinner parties Grin

EmpressKnowsWhereHerTowelIs · 21/08/2015 18:12

Stick a GET in front of the PISS and an ED after and it would definitely add something to dinner parties.

DextersMistress · 21/08/2015 18:17

Op make her this:

'Come hither and wet thy lettuce'

I'd buy it.

WoeIsMee · 21/08/2015 18:18

Ok, you got me Grin

But we all needed a smile after hackerfuckergate.

hope hq don't have a sense of humour failure and ban me Wink

Grin
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Plonkysaurus · 21/08/2015 18:20

But if you make lovely decoupage letters saying SOAK, she may well just put them up under PISS so now it reads PISS SOAK. Which is far more crass than simply PISS.

I really hope this isn't a joke thread. I like to believe folks like the op actually exist are you my auntie?

Plonkysaurus · 21/08/2015 18:21

Oh FFS.

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