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To not shop somewhere because of the shop name?

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Allabouts · 29/05/2018 09:49

Picture attached.

I was passing on my way to an event with my DS this morning and saw this.

I wouldn't step foot in there with a name like that!

Do people not think these things through?

Grin
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SheGotBetteDavisEyes · 29/05/2018 14:49

One of our local fish delivery companies is called The Codfather Grin

millimat · 29/05/2018 15:01

I'm another who refuses to buy anything from FCUK. Why is it cool to be called that?
I don't get the sophies choice making someone sad?

millimat · 29/05/2018 15:02

And as for sofa's beds etc - grrrrr Shock

Elphame · 29/05/2018 15:04

@iklboo - the one on the corner in Frome? Used to give me palpitations every time I drove past!

iklboo · 29/05/2018 15:10

@Elphame - no this was in a Manchester suburb. The horror that there's more than one Shock

Vitalogy · 29/05/2018 15:14

I don't get the sophies choice making someone sad? There's a film with Meryl Streep called Sophie's Choice Sad subject matter.

Angie169 · 29/05/2018 15:15

AnnaBay I loved spud -u-like and pestered my DM to take me there on a regular basis , the amount of times she would tell me be careful it is hot but I would dive in anyway and ALWAYS burnt my tongue. ( I was only about 9/10 )

lidoshuffle I agree with the FCUK logo bad language and terrible spelling does not make a good fashion statement .
and as for dirty food WTF just why would you call food that !

alligatorsmile · 29/05/2018 15:17

Another vote here for Swetty Betty. URGH.

One that makes me feel a bit queasy is the website selling sexy maternity bras, called Hot Milk.

YourVagesty · 29/05/2018 15:19

There's a clothes shop in China called 'You Look Fucking Lovely'.

There is a picture floating around on the internet of the store front but I can't search for it because i'm on my work computer.

dontticklethetoad · 29/05/2018 15:26

I won't buy 'Little Mistress' clothing. I'm not sure why.

tethersend · 29/05/2018 15:29

ive Always wondered who shopped in Happy Nightmares too Grin

Pizza GoGo on Holloway Road is/was a popular takeaway. The rival pizza place opposite took note and named its brand new restaurant Pizza Come Come. It changed to Holloway Pizza pretty quickly Grin

YetAnotherUser · 29/05/2018 15:30

Here one from my holiday last year.

I waited on the beach for ages but nothing happened. Maybe I needed to ask inside first?

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Allabouts · 29/05/2018 15:40

There's a clothes shop in China called 'You Look Fucking Lovely'

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Vitalogy · 29/05/2018 15:44

I waited on the beach for ages but nothing happened. Maybe I needed to ask inside first? Grin

OutsideContextProblem · 29/05/2018 15:46

French Connection lost the FCUK branding a while ago but I still refuse to shop there. Not so much because I’m offended but because the nudge nudge “do you see what we did there? It’s almost a rude word? Aren’t we NAUGHTY?!” marketing made me want to punch someone.

I used to read a science fiction and fantasy magazine called SFX. Fine, except that when you cover the bottom of the middle letter with your coverstar’s forehead it looks like this. They went through a phase of always having scantily clad young women on the front as well, and I honestly didn’t want to read it in public. Fortunately they’ve grown up a bit now and also realised that they’re catering to a generally quite “woke” demographic so it’s less of a problem (they still have women on the front cover but they’re normally part of a team and/or fully clothed).

AngeloMysterioso · 29/05/2018 15:48

Is FCUK still a thing? I just remember the t-shirts from the early noughties.

I think my all time most inappropriate was a shop I saw in France called...

Baby Seduction

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mynameyourname · 29/05/2018 15:50

I see your baby seduction and raise you....

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Eliza9917 · 29/05/2018 15:51

Nakedavenger74 Tue 29-May-18 11:40:19
This is why I've never ordered a fillet-o-fish. I hate the name. What the fuck is the 'o' doing?! Is It a big 'oh' or a little 'o' as in time o' day? Do we pronounce the T in fillet or are we being French?

Is it:
Filleh OH fish
Filleh o' fish
Fillitohfish
Fillit o' fish

Forget it. Fucking Big Mac thanks.

Fillay o' fish

cecinestpasunepipe · 29/05/2018 15:54

I saw a curry restaurant in Taiwan called The Modern Toilet. Curries served in little miniature porcelain toilets! WTF!

RenterNomad · 29/05/2018 15:59

I'm grimly pleased that the "CrossEyes" optician appears to have gone out of business. That name would be bloody horrible even if my DD didn't have a squint... Angry Why insult your customers?!

More cheerfully, I'm LOLing at the Chinese restaurant names! Grin

Wanttomakemincepies · 29/05/2018 16:18

Near us we have a block of retirement flats called the burdens.

alligatorsmile · 29/05/2018 16:40

@mincepies, "The so-called 'home' where everyone is a Burden"

RenterNomad · 29/05/2018 16:44

Near us we have a block of retirement flats called the burdens.

Shock Sad

distantstars · 29/05/2018 16:59

Anyone remember NAFF from the 90s.... al the rage to have a NaFF jacket or jumper back then..... till a rude rhyme was made up about it lols 😂

Wanttomakemincepies · 29/05/2018 17:47

No it is a new build. Been up just under a year. Was ShockHmmwhen I saw the sign. Husband had to pull over one day as he didn't believe it.

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