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to think adults who wear disney character clothing are odd

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nailpolish · 17/04/2007 08:43

honestly, why would a grown adult wear a jumper with Eeyore on it

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fishie · 17/04/2007 12:12

i find the nightwear most upsetting of all - how does anybody expect to have sex with children's characters on their nighties?

nailpolish · 17/04/2007 12:13

exactly

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colditz · 17/04/2007 12:18

I love the original books. I really do. they were written to keep the adults awake while they read to the children, I think. But poor old Winnie-Ther-Pooh is dead, and his corpse has been reanimated by Disney like a parody of Frankenstein's monster, renamed Pooh-Bear, and paraded around various calculatedly schmaltzy scenarios, with his American Voice, and his American friends and his All-American Boy owner, until he is just a parody of who Winnie-Ther-Pooh used to be.

There is no satire left in Eeyore - he is now merely a miserable donkey. Rabbit is just a rabbit, and owl's pompous blundering was mistaken by the mundane for genuine wisdom and has been paraded as such.

expatinscotland · 17/04/2007 12:20

Sex with clothes on?

Oh no!

Not unless you're in public .

moondog · 17/04/2007 12:20

V. good deconstruction Colditz.

colditz · 17/04/2007 12:22

I should read more challenging books, I think.

moondog · 17/04/2007 12:22

Yes.
You're wasted girl.

colditz · 17/04/2007 12:23
Grin
nailpolish · 17/04/2007 12:23

i dont like the original books, although i can see the appeal

i also dislike cat in the hat

makes me

dd1 got the boxset for xmas and i felt a chill up my spine

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suzywong · 17/04/2007 12:26

manly punch on the arm for coldtiz for the post modern deconstructionism

very impressed indeed

colditz · 17/04/2007 12:31
colditz · 17/04/2007 12:32
nailpolish · 17/04/2007 12:37

good question colditz

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moondog · 17/04/2007 12:40

post modern can be flung around with gay abandon
I urge you.

It is as meaningless a phrase as 'thinking outside the box'.

NotQuiteCockney · 17/04/2007 12:40

Post modern is a new postal service, offered in the more interesting areas of Britain.

You can post ideas, goals, thoughts, beliefs, or even tangible objects. You don't need a stamp, or even an address, the service just delivers them appropriately.

NotQuiteCockney · 17/04/2007 12:41

As I suspected, it doesn't have a real definition , but it's a reaction against modernism, essentially. It's mostly goofy stuff, imo.

jellyhead · 17/04/2007 12:41

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AlienEars · 17/04/2007 12:47

I have seen a car with fecking great Winnie the Pooh transfers all over it. And the driver wears matching clothing. Why????

kslatts · 17/04/2007 12:54

I have a minnie mouse nightshirt and really like it, I also quite like the disney fitted t-shirts, but am too fat to wear fitted t-shirts.

Botbot · 17/04/2007 13:32

Was just perusing this thread again when a woman from our accounts department walked in wearing a diamanté Mickey Mouse T-shirt. Quite like the girl so I feel guilty now.

Fimbo · 17/04/2007 13:36

You can get Disney Crocs.

lovelymoo · 17/04/2007 13:41

MY DC's have disney crocs and they look great but not on an adult

Fimbo · 17/04/2007 13:42

Oh yes Lovelymoo-ok on kids definately!

Chocolattegirl · 17/04/2007 13:43

I wore a WTP sweatshirt to do charity collecting in at Toys R Us once - it's great for attracting the attention of toddlers being handed money to drop in charity boxes .

I didn't buy it myself though - my cousin gave it to me for Christmas . Went in the charity clothing bank soon after that as there's no way I'd wear it as proper clothing.

TeeCee · 17/04/2007 13:43

I think vintage Mickey Mouse tees are allowed but a jumper wit a big fat eeyore on it frankly scares me! I loathe Winnie the pooh on clothing for any age, newborn and esp middle aged folk, very odd imo.