To think this is a very very odd logo for a child's hoodie

[Natsku]

This was given to the charity shop I work in today. Why 'stupid bear'???!!

Er i'm joining Gardengeek on missing something - what's wrong with eager beaver? I've heared plenty of people saying it in normal, everyday situations (with kids around etc).

So...?

I have used the phrase "eager beaver" all my life to mean someone very enthusiastic or keen to do something. Oh dear.

Me too GardenGeek, I've heard it lots and it's always just used to describe someone who is eager!

eager beaver
phrase of eager
1.
informal
a keen and enthusiastic person who works very hard.

Beaver is slang for female genitals more across the Atlantic. If people in the UK are sniggering at eager beaver then they are clearly unaware that it is a very common saying

I knew beaver could be slang for female genitals, but that doesn't mean that it means genitals in every context. Eager beaver is a perfectly normal expression!

I would think that the top is a (very bad) fake, possibly of something hello kitty (ish?)
Anyway the person who gave it to you prob didn't want to put their child in it.
In your position, I'd take it to the fabric recycling/give to rag man if your charity shop has one come.

Hilarious.

I'll buy it.

Eager beaver to me is someone being enthusiastic and eager

Nice beaver on the other hand ...

It had definitely been worn and washed lots of times. Rather tempted to buy it myself, just the right size for DD.

Sometimes things don't translate well between English and Chinese. Doesn't Big Ben translate directly as something like 'stupid big clock', making Chinese people wonder why we're so rude about a famous landmark!? Stupid Bear is probably along the same lines

Loving stupid big clock!

(Love Big Ben too).

This thread is very funny - on a similarish note this is the only sugar I could buy when living in Austria. I did miss my Tate & Lyle :-)

I love the sugar!

I'd have that on my wall..

Who can know the true meaning of these cushion covers?

sue
I need those cushions in my life

Deep .

That reminds me of being in a clothes shop in Spain a many years ago with DP.
DP tried on a lovely jacket, nice fit.
Then he turned around and I saw it had "I'm a motherfucking mountaineer!" on the back.
Reader, he didn't buy it.

Ah, this thread is bringing back all of the lost in translation incidents over the years. At a DVD street market in Nanjing, that very sexy Mickey Rourke film - Nine and a half whelks. The Nicholas Cage classic - Come in sixty seconds (no, it wasn't the porn remake). And in a karaoke restaurant we all sang along to that Neil Young classic - A whore with no name......ah the memories.

I brought a whole load of teeshirts back from China with wonderful meaningless writing on them. Loved wearing them! All worn out now. I'll have to go back.

I saw a toddler t-shirt for sale at the market the other day (am in SE Asia) that said 'Don't Fuck with Potato' on it. We tend to find a lot gets lost in translation here.

We bought this at the market too - it's a Frisk Paradise!

Favourite recently had to be the Mobile Erection Team I saw parked by the side of the road. No idea what they were doing.

I saw an elderly woman in China wearing a t-shirt that said: "I fuck on the first date."

But on the flipside, I had a friend in China who had a Mandarin symbol on her arm. She got it in the UK and thought it meant "peace". As soon as she got to China she discovered it meant "types of tea".

There are some very choice items in Japan and China...

Loving these lost in translation items!

I'm going to have to ask some flowers some questions as they know anything.

Don't Fuck with Potato is making me cry with laughter.

There's a franchise here and all their vans proudly display LUBE MOBILE on the side. Very childish of me but I snigger every time!