To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this

[welliments]

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...

"I think we're done with the sofa. I think we're done with the hall. I think we're done with the kitchen table, baby....."

Can't get George out of my head on this thread. "Baby, I'm youuuur man...." 😂

Bowlers do it in the gutter.

Or should that be, Mumsnetters?

Some Mumsnetters?

Am with you OP - no way my child would wear that hoodie.

My dgm whose English was not great once bought my cousin (who luckily didn't speak English at all, but can't have been more than about 12) a T-shirt that said 'If you think you feel good, you should feel me!'

My poor dm was mortified when she saw it. I think she had a word in my aunt's ear about getting rid of it.

Also if a child gets this jumper I can only assume they are dancers therefore would be familiar with the ballet term attitude with a French accent

Well, yes, but it's a relative minority that will know that, whereas (if the split on this thread is representative) around half the rest of the people that see it will think that's it's slightly inappropriate for a child, given the connotations.

It's not just posters on this thread that will see that innuendo. The rest of the world (or half of it!!) will know the reference as well. Just because some people don't get it, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist for others.

Knowing that other people will inevitably see a smutty link, is it a great thing to dress your child in?

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

You acknowledged that "I'm back", but completely bypassed the fact that I answered your question. Are you actually RTFT?!

hmm so would u think a Facebook status that said
"I like it on the coffee table"
to mean I like sex on the coffee table??

In the absence of any further context, then yes, that's exactly what I'd take it to mean. (I'd probably also assume the person's facebook had been hacked.) It's a bit like someone saying "I like a full bush"; you wouldn't assume they were talking horticulture. Because certain phrases are loaded; they have a well known double meaning, so are therefore generally avoided in their "single" form

This thread has made me giggle

I'll suffer through every 80s earworm in the book, so long as my FB friends don't start pretending to raise breast-cancer awareness with smutty statuses about the stairs again.

It was a cross post dreamy

Relax...

(Don’t do it)

My dgm whose English was not great once bought my cousin (who luckily didn't speak English at all, but can't have been more than about 12) a T-shirt that said 'If you think you feel good, you should feel me!

This thread just gets better

When you wanna go to it....

I think I conflate double entendre with homophones or something.

So, said to someone holding a large rooster, "that's a big cock you've got there" would be a double entendre.

"You've got a right biggun" would be innuendo.

I've either overthunk this, or not thunk it through at all

I honestly can’t believe you would let a six year old wear what you know others will see as sexualised clothing. But then you couldn’t let that get in the way of your professional unoffendedness.

This puts it better than my attempt!

You've thunked it perfectly biscuit

As an aside, DH wore his duffer of st George jumper all round India.

We didn’t know why people kept laughing at him.

Until a friendly local asked us why he would wear a jumper which said duffer written on the front. We looked him blankly until he told us it meant idiot.

In our own language.

So, said to someone holding a large rooster, "that's a big cock you've got there" would be a double entendre.

You've got a right biggun" would be innuendo.

How can you have written those two sentences without a single 'oooer missus'.

One must maintain Carry On standards!

Anyway, it's a lovely sweatshirt and I'm going to buy one for my niece Fanny, oh and my nephews Randy and BJ.

What? No really, what? Entirely in your own head I tell you. Your. own. head.

Being taken up the Oxo Tower. Double entendre or innuendo?

OR IS THERE EVEN A DIFFERENCE?

'Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers won't drown'.

IBiscuit

I can’t believe you would take a perfectly innocent trip up the back alley, through the back door, up the stairway of heaven to the top of the throbbing tower of love and turn it into an innuendo.

Your mind is in the gutter/you’re a perv (delete as appropriate)

I'm actually crying now....😂😂

I used to know a lovely American chap called Randy. He was rather perturbed when he walked into a branch of Johnsons the Dry Cleaners and introduced himself in true US style ("Hi, I'm Randy), only to be greeted with the response "Great, I'm horny too. Let's go round the back....". Took him some weeks to recover!

Surely the line originated with someone (or someones) who were 100% familiar with attitudé as a dance term? The fact it is a dance term for sticking one leg up in the air makes it less innocent, not more.

It's a more specific, more obscure variant of ballerinas do it in all positions. A child dancer won't get it, but an adult dancer would certainly get it. I bet the sweatshirt is very popular amongst the older set!

How about this one iBiscuit?

A women walked into bar, and asked the barman for a double entendre.

So he gave her one.

so would u think a Facebook status that said
"I like it on the coffee table"
to mean I like sex on the coffee table??

Possibly. But the hoodie doesn't just say 'it' or 'do it', it uses a very specific form of words which are very commonly used to make a deliberate sexual reference: 'Group of people' do it with 'something with double meaning'.

This is really not ambiguous, folks.

Fuck, Deafening that's spot on.

Double entendre and innuendo are the same thing

I'll get my coat...