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To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this

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welliments · 01/02/2018 17:57

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...

To think 6 year olds should not be wearing this
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packofbaloobas · 01/02/2018 18:05

Don't see the problem either. My ds is a competitive dancer and is always being told to dance with attitude

Haffdonga · 01/02/2018 18:05

Clearly the 'it' can be taken mean sex.

As in all the other slogans 'divers do it under water' etc. Old tired joke and for that reason it's in bad taste and YANBU

StinkPickle · 01/02/2018 18:05

ballethub.com/ballet-term/attitude/

DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 01/02/2018 18:06

I thought it was a ballet pun? Is the dance event Move It?

welliments · 01/02/2018 18:06

Bloody hell stinkpickle. Be nice.

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imjusthereforasec · 01/02/2018 18:06

Do you have an issue with Nike and the slogan “just do it”?

treaclesoda · 01/02/2018 18:06

Oh, it refers to sex?

Like that Monty Python nudge nudge wink wink sketch?

TickledOnion · 01/02/2018 18:06

Of course it can be a double entrendre but it doesn’t have to be. Do you get offended by Nike’s “just do it”?

welliments · 01/02/2018 18:06

Thanks Haff, glad to know I’m not totally nuts!

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BroccoliOnTheFloor · 01/02/2018 18:07

Agree, it's an old joke about sex. Comes in 1000 versions. Not appropriate. A 6y old wouldn't get it, but it IS a joke about sex.

Soubriquet · 01/02/2018 18:07

Dancers; dance with attitude

Simple

If you're looking at it rudely, that's your dirty mind

EggsonHeads · 01/02/2018 18:07

I wouldn't have made the sex connection (or the ballet pun-very uncultured me).

welliments · 01/02/2018 18:08

Never really thought about the Nike slogan before as I don’t wear it.

Now you mention it Smile

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OhMyGoddd · 01/02/2018 18:08

To be fair to the OP there is actually a saying she's referring to, of which I cannot think of any other examples, and which is proving impossible to google, which alludes to the style in which you have sex. Weak but maybe "builders do it up a ladder" or "mechanics do it with lots of grease". It IS a sex thing but I'd probably still let my DD have the hoody.

Aeroflotgirl · 01/02/2018 18:08

Wow nothing wrong with it. I am reading it to be, 'dancers, dance with attitude'.

Iloveanimals · 01/02/2018 18:08

Do you hate the McDonald's slogan too??

TheCowWentMoo · 01/02/2018 18:08

I think your reading too much into it op....
Also if you don't want your 6 yr old to have it just say it's too expensive or something? You don't have to say "its about shagging

MorrisZapp · 01/02/2018 18:09

Does nobody remember the eighties? Endless t-shirts and car stickers: surfers do it standing up, bakers do it in the kitchen, farmers do it in the mud etc etc etc.

Fairly tame and often indeed lame, but clearly a gentle double entendre.

treaclesoda · 01/02/2018 18:09

I get it now.

Funny, if I saw 'divers do it underwater' or something I would immediately have taken it to be a double entendre but in the case of this slogan my mind didn't jump there at all.

I can't explain why that is though.

Beansonapost · 01/02/2018 18:09

Need to take your mind out the gutter here OP...

welliments · 01/02/2018 18:09

She’s 10, she’s not daft!

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Popfan · 01/02/2018 18:09

Totally get you OP. I wouldn't buy it either

iBiscuit · 01/02/2018 18:09

I get where you're coming from, but as imjusthereforasec points out "do it" in a slogan doesn't have to mean sex.

Confusedbeetle · 01/02/2018 18:10

Of course it has a double entendre meaning. It is inappropriate. just as the recent "Coolest Monkey " T shirt. The implied meaning is the intended one. Object

Tipsntoes · 01/02/2018 18:10

OP is right, those kind of slogans are intended to be about sex:

Rugby players do it with balls
Windsurfers do it standing up

etc

That said, it's in the eye of the beholder so I can't really see the harm for a 6yo

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