To think this window display is inappropriate?

[SamineShaw]

I'm not a prude but really?

Meh I'm not an ice cream or paperchase fan so I'd most likely walk past without so much as a second glance.

Anyone who starts a sentence with "I'm not a prude but..." is a fucking prude! Non-prudish people don't have to try to convince others & themselves that they are not!

I was so disgusted I put my foot through the window, and sent Paperchase the bill.

It's a pretty easy one to explain to a 7yo I would have thought. It's an ice cream and you lick ice creams so just a silly poster.

I've had to try and explain much worse than that!!

How is it inappropriate? It's an ice cream cone... that way it keeps the children and adults happy without all the special snowflakes whinging!

But fair play to Paperchase, they had to remove the 'inappropriate' valentines card (even though they were on the top shelf and clearly labelled they were rude).

Doesn't bother me in the slightest
Kids won't get it or care (I have an inquisitive 8yo so I know the pain of the many many questions that get asked all the time, but I don't think this is a problem)

It's cheeky, made me smile.

If a younger child asked...well it's about licking ice creams obviously.

Life's too short to get worked up about things like this fgs

I don't mind it at all. It's a cheesy joke that children won't get, there's nothing offensive visually.

I'm not a prude

...yes dear

YANBU.

Unnecessary. It wouldn't go over the head of my dc (7) who would say that it doesn't make grammatical sense and ask why it says Lick me until ice-cream. It's krass, I can't stand ads drawing unnecessarily on sexual innuendo. Somebody licking somebody else until they scream is really not what I like to be reminded of when doing my buying pens and birthday cards or just walking past a PC shop window.

Anyway PC is overpriced and probably desperately trying to appeal to their various customer segments.

Not sure how well they are doing currently but they failed to be bought last year.

"Paperchase, the upmarket greetings card chain, has taken itself off the market after failing to fetch the right price from bidders.
The retailer, which has 130 UK stores and outlets overseas including in the United Arab Emirates, France and Germany, had been put up for sale by its private equity owners last year for around £150m.
Rival retailer Card Factory, which listed last year, was understood to have considered making a bid for Paperchase. US private equity firm Paladin was also reported to be interested in the business as well as Quilvest, the owner of Yo!Sushi, which manages the wealth of Switzerland's Bemberg family."

www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/11755084/Paperchase-wraps-up-sale-process.html

as i said yanbu.

I don't have too much of an issue with the window display as the pun will go over kids heads and none of the words are rude or crude.
However, the other link to the cards I do have massive issue with as my 5 yr old can read all the words and I don't want to have to try and explain some of that to her yet.
Equally YANBU for not liking it necessarily as that is personal preference.

CockacidalManiac

i find such things rather pathetic, it's hardly funny so why bother ?

pipsqueak because people have a different sense of humour to you? I giggled (out loud) when I saw this at my local Paperchase earlier...

It doesn't offend me, but I find this kind of weak grubby innuendo marketing really tacky. For some reason it's particularly bad when it's greetings cards. It sort of falls into the category of Simpsons Porn for me - it just isn't funny enough, and I think it's the kind of thing my Uncle Ken would like, and I somehow can't unsee it.

To be fair though, I'd probably not especially register this: it's not in the same league as those I LOVE ANAL cards they pulled.

Doesn't bother me in the least.

I'm not a prude...
We may have to disagree on that.

I file this under 'things that make me eye roll and say 'Ew'.

Tacky, boring, innuendo describes it pretty well too.

Saw it the other day
My 6 year old would see an Ice Cream saying 'lick me'
Nowt to explain

Yeah so perhaps I am a bit of a prude but I've nothing against innuendo in the right company and context (my office is rife with it!!). I do still think it's a bit much for a high street window 🙂

Kids won't get it! ( took me a bit too get it )

If it had said, "smear me over a body, then lick me", you might have had a point but its an ice cream cone. You lick ice cream cones. YABU and Pruddish.

"For some reason it's particularly bad when it's greetings cards. It sort of falls into the category of Simpsons Porn for me - it just isn't funny enough, and I think it's the kind of thing my Uncle Ken would like, and I somehow can't unsee it."
^YY cringe, yuck. I agree this sort of 'joke' appeals to some who find it witty and appealing. Everyone is different, however. It's just the times we live in sexting, porn all omnipresent. In my opinion this sort of ever present sexual innuendo can put a lot of pressure on young people and, in the end of the day, it is just an ad to sell stuff, not a poster for a Tantra workshop so it's drawing on sex for a commercial purpose. It really is a cheap shot fwiw. I accept that others find it cool and funny.

I think it's gross.

sherlock, yes many people will have a different sense of humour to me, that's okay but i find this sort of so called humour up there with little kids giggling over words like 'wee wee' and 'bum', hey, i might be considered a prude i'm cool with that.

I think it's disgusting. Subliminally focusing on attracting children to this vulgarity. I've made an official complaint to Paperchase.

I was beginning to think I was the only one! Let me know how you get on Shammz, I got no reply 😡