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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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Andylion · 01/02/2018 18:28

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

Agreed.

Monoblock67 · 01/02/2018 18:30

Peppa has a stinking attitude; everything she does is with attitude!

The nurses one is a double entendre because patience/patients. Still not seeing the problem with the original jumper tho!

Wellthen · 01/02/2018 18:30

I would say it’s didferent because ‘do it with attitude’ is a phrase in itself unrelated to sex. Plus it’s a logical one to come next to dancers as it’s something a teacher might say ‘that’s good but now do it with attitude’

But I’m not old enough to remember ‘divers do it under water’ etc Hmm

Andylion · 01/02/2018 18:31

What else does "do it" mean?

Lovemusic33 · 01/02/2018 18:31

would you buy kids Jim jams with Peppa pig does it with attitude?

Umm......yes I would, why would a child think of anything different than Peppa having attitude? ‘It’ does not mean sex. Anyway the fact the jumper reads ‘dancers do it with attitude’ surely implies that they ‘dance with attitude’.

OP I think you just have a perverted mind because I can’t see a problem with it.

Inthedeepdarkwinter · 01/02/2018 18:31

I read it like you OP, not a child's jumper.

sirfredfredgeorge · 01/02/2018 18:32

The peppa pig thing is a red-herring though, this is a sweatshirt with sizes from 6 to adult, the audience is all of those, some of who will be enjoying the joke, including probably mostly the younger ones who don't "do it" at all, but do know what "it" is.

Some of the younger kids will like the slogan not-understanding there is a double-entendre but just taking the it to mean dancing. If you don't like your child wearing it, don't buy it for them, there's nothing inherently wrong with it.

TheAntiBoop · 01/02/2018 18:33

The it in the sentence refers to the first part

So the it is dance

Or the it is farming, or baking

I'm just a touch too young to see it as an innuendo I think. All my friends in their early to mid forties seem to have been taught that doing it always refers to sex.

MoonlightKissed · 01/02/2018 18:33

Another here who remembers when you saw these 'do it with' stickers/other items everywhere, and it was definitely meant to be a double entendre, and have an up your sleeve snigger about sex. So on that basis the OP is definitely NBU.

I do get that a kid wouldn't understand it, and it would go over their heads - as indeed it has for a number of posters on this thread. But the fact that I and a number of other people remember that this is clearly a sex joke, and it's obviously meant to have a double meaning - so is still a sex joke - would be enough to mean I'd feel uncomfortable putting my child in it. So I'm with the OP on this. I might even go a step further, and question the sellers/manufacturers on their selling/production of it, aimed at kids.

VienneseFingers · 01/02/2018 18:34

Economists do it with models
Surveyors do it with precision
Mechanical engineers do it efficiency
Audio sound engineers do it with frequency
Magicians do it with their fingers
Wine drinkers do it with taste
Photographers do it with the lights out

Etc
Etc
Etc...

DakotaWest · 01/02/2018 18:34

Peppa Pig does it with an attitude is not quite the same as
dancers/ boxers/runners do it with an attitude (dancing, boxing, running). I wouldn't think about sex when it's the tshirt of a 6 year old, sorry

If I hear the movie "It", I don't think about sex either. Was I supposed to?

Lashalicious · 01/02/2018 18:35

It’s from a joke that’s been around for ages and ages about how people “do it” (sex); surfers do it underwater, cooks do it in the kitchen, etc. and apparently now,

Ballerinas do it with one leg up and curved round, the attitude position.

Totally inappropriate.

Somebody thought it was funny to do a double meaning of attitude and put it with an old sex joke. It’s tacky.

It’s on the cringe side anyway, look at it. I wouldn’t buy it for my 6 year old. Or my 16 year old, it looks dumb to begin with.

FancyNewBeesly · 01/02/2018 18:35

This must be a generational thing because variations of this joke were everywhere when I was growing up, and it's absolutely double entendre.

They are all sentences in their own right, they can all be taken both ways - that's the point!

KalaLaka · 01/02/2018 18:35

Agree with you op
How to explain it your daughter: I've found a really nice one online that I've already ordered for you!

whiskyowl · 01/02/2018 18:35

Quick, someone tell Nike!

Afternoon · 01/02/2018 18:35

The "do it" slogans are most often used as double entendres, so for many people it would be the first interpretation to spring to mind, along with it being unsuitable for children's wear.

Tipsntoes · 01/02/2018 18:36

Haha Whisky, that's exactly why Nike use the slogan. Sex sells.

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welliments · 01/02/2018 18:37

Ahhh, KalaLaka

Read that as you’d just bought her one!

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SoupDragon · 01/02/2018 18:37

Would you buy your kids Jim jams which say

Peppa Pig does it with attitude?

Pippa pig looks like a cartoon penis so the slogan is the least of your worries.

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welliments · 01/02/2018 18:38

Can’t believe that there are people on here that don’t realise that’s why Nike have that slogan.

Maybe I am an old perv with my mind in the gutter. Or maybe I’m just pretty observant...

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VienneseFingers · 01/02/2018 18:38

If it was innocent, it would say "dance with attitude" or "I dance with attitude" or "dancers dance with attitude".

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welliments · 01/02/2018 18:40

Good point Viennese

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dodobookends · 01/02/2018 18:41

What a storm in a teacup. The double meaning is in the word 'attitude' here - it's also a term for a specific ballet position, like an arabesque, but the knee of the raised leg is bent, and can be to the front, side or back.

KalaLaka · 01/02/2018 18:41

welliments

Ha, no Smile I'd get her a totally different one as a distraction! I usually prefer to be honest, but my daughters would then tell all their friends what 'do it' meant Confused

Lashalicious · 01/02/2018 18:41

I have a picture my then boyfriend (now husband) took of me wearing a sweatshirt that had a logo, B.U.M. Equipment (apparently a short lived clothing company back in the day), across the front in giant letters. It looks so stupid now, and I bet it looked every bit as stupid then but I was oblivious and very young. It is one of the few really good pictures of me but the shirt ruins it. My advice is to think for two seconds about any lettering that you have on your clothing. Maybe that’s coloring my perception of this hoodie haha.