To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this

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Merchandise from a major dance show at the excel centre in London next month. They sell these, and tshirts from age 6 up.

I’m going to have to explain to a 10 year old why she can’t have a jumper...

Don’t be so silly OP...

Not every double entendre is unsuitable for a young audience.

Ones in which the sexual reference is directly linked to a child could be deemed so.

As I've said, I don't feel 'offended' by the jumper. But I totally see where OP is coming from. And those who still don't are being a bit dim.

You would have to be really looking for the rude interpretation

But, as you can see from this thread, you really don’t have to look that hard for the rude interpretation. It’s a well know interpretation. And, like it or not, plenty of people will see it. I wouldn’t buy it for my child.

But then, I still remember the sweatshirt my very naive parents bought me on a skiiing holiday when I was 12. I spent a weeks holiday swanning around in a top with a cartoon picture of a skier with the slogan ‘I’m A Piste Artiste’ I can remember adults laughing at it , but having no idea why!

I've never taken my kids to see a panto...

Must say I goggled at it too, though doubt a six year old would get the double entendre, and it seems many MNetters are too young to remember the tired old series of gags which appeared on T shirts and car window stickers. A friend of mine had "Archaeologists do it in the dirt." In fact, if you google a trade or profession followed by the words "do it" Google will probably suggest the rest of the job-specific double entendre. Good lord, I've just googled "lawyers do it".

If I saw a child in that hoodie I wouldn’t be offended, I’d be a bit that her parent allowed her to wear it.

Mumsnetters do it in their judgypants

Dreamymcdreamy you are actually now making things up to be outraged about. No one’s after the panto FFS

Oh for goodness sake,sorry - I forgot to put a grin face after my angry one. I wasn't being entirely serious!
although nothing would surprise me nowadays with all the offence being taken at stuff

I mean,it even made the news over some parent being outraged at the panto over Christmas
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/oh-no-didnt-mum-launches-14028194

bluemirror
dreamymcdreamy

So, knowing what other people will think this jumper means. You would still let your 6 year old wear it, yes?

Mumsnetters do it in their judgypants

It wasn’t entirely serious

But here’s a link to it anyway...

For the doubters, imagine that you've been given a sweatshirt with some pretty Japanese writing. You don't understand Japanese, but someone who does tells you that in Japanese, it says, "I like shagging". You may decide to keep wearing it, you may not. Fluent Japanese speakers are pretty rare in the UK, so most people will just see pretty foreign lettering. But if anyone who speaks fluent Japanese does walk past you, they will understand it. They won't have to think hard about what it means, they'll just, y'know read it.

If you're with me still, this sweatshirt is written in 1980s. Unlike Japanese, a great deal of Brits today speak fluent '80s. You can wear it or not, and interpret it how you wish, but everyone who speaks '80s who goes past you is going to read it and see a mild sex joke.

P.S. I barely predate the fall of the Berlin Wall, and I get these jokes.

All the faux innocence displayed here is astonishing.

Well they're not dancers so no but I'm pretty sure ds has had a Nike 'Just Do It' t-shirt at some point. If people were getting in a state over that they must have kept it to themselves!

Faux innocence and professionally unoffended.

So unPC it hurts...

Ye gods. If I read "People are offended by everything these days" one more time, I may scream. Aren't people ashamed to be spouting Daily Mail sound bites??

It's not 'being offended' to be moderately observant. It's not 'being offended' to think about things beyond the surface meaning.

Seriously, people walk round with their eyes closed.

I've now got Wham earworms if you're gonna do it do it right right do it with me

That was the first thing I thought of too! Love a bit of George!

I probably wouldn't worry over much about my daughter wearing it if it was a costume/uniform (and I hate things with writing on as a general rule). I'd think it was in questionable taste, but that's probably as far as I'd go. Yes "do it" has a double meaning, but it's of the "ooo-errr missus" variety rather than anything deeply offensive.

blue mirror

Regardless of whether they are dancers or not. Would you allow them to wear it?

Gamers do it with acontroller
Footballers do it with a dribble

Whatever they do - you would allow them to wear it, aged 6 - yes or no?

Trombonists do it in seven positions

And no way would my kid be allowed to wear that, regardless of whether they got the double entendre or not.

It's awful when as an adult you finally twig that the large stickers you had all over your school science folders were actually sex double entendres. Not me of course, a friend...

Mumsnetters do it up the arse at Centre Parcs

Still can't believe Maybeline getting away with it all these years...

It wasn’t entirely serious

But here’s a link to it anyway...

My post wasn't entirely serious, FFS. Are you always so literal?!
It seems so,especially with the outrage.
Your reply "no one's after the panto FFS" - I put the link to show that actually if you think it is such a ridiculous idea,that there are some out there who do get offended by it.
There seems to be a lot of getting offended going on nowadays!

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Mumsnetters do it up the arse at Centre Parcs

Where do we get that hoodie from?

dreamy

You just keep totally contradicting yourself...

Maybelline's slogan is completely different.

It's "with it' not 'do it" there are no sexual connotations there.