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To not see the funny side of this?

42 replies

AwolFlower · 06/10/2018 22:31

Scrolling through my Facebook this evening, one of those advertising posts pops up, ( 7 friends like this etc), for a milestone cards company.
I think the baby ones are bad enough, but the one with the little girl who looks about 3/4 is just shocking!
Mine could have probably attempted to read that word at that age.
AIBU in not seeing the 'funny side'?

To not see the funny side of this?
To not see the funny side of this?
To not see the funny side of this?
OP posts:
Flyingpompom · 06/10/2018 22:33

The older girl is awful.
The baby with " I'm fucking fabulous" is brilliant!

InstagramPork · 06/10/2018 22:34

I swear worse than a sailor and I’m as liberal and laidback as you can get... and even I think that’s tasteless and vulgar

MrsGB2225 · 06/10/2018 22:35

Very grim

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AwolFlower · 06/10/2018 22:38

Do you think they get hung up on the wall amongst the school photos? Shock

OP posts:
Marriedwithchildren5 · 06/10/2018 22:42

Ah don't sweat it. They're only words. Not your children or your problem.

Marriedwithchildren5 · 06/10/2018 22:43

Plus sharing someone else's child on social media is low!

KC225 · 06/10/2018 22:44

No. That is not on. That language is still offensive to a lot of people ....... And possibly the innocents in the photographs but they don't have a choice do they?

AnoukSpirit · 06/10/2018 22:59

How is that funny? Hmm

Beeziekn33ze · 06/10/2018 23:09

Awful - come on DM, for once we need you to name and shame.
What were the child's parents thinking?

ShadyLady53 · 06/10/2018 23:09

Ugh. Some people. Bet they think they are hilarious. Its crass.

DianaPrincessOfThemyscira · 06/10/2018 23:09

It's an advert @Marriedwithchildren5

Marriedwithchildren5 · 06/10/2018 23:14

DianaPrincessOfThemyscira is it? Totally no clue!

Still stand by my point. Pictures of children shouldn't be shared.

Slimtimeagain · 06/10/2018 23:18

marriedwith the op is sharing an advert for a company, not a friend's children!
If you don't think they should share pictures like that then it's the company you need to take it up with and not the op!

ShadyLady53 · 06/10/2018 23:19

It's the kind of thing my brother would have done with his kids. They are older teenagers now and incredibly rude. Eg, when I was a student I gave then 9 year old nephew (and his other siblings) £15 each for a day out. My nephew stuck out his bottom lip and pouted and 12 year old niece sighed in a disappointed way. I apologised it wasn't more but explained I was studying and not earning much money...nephew really cheekily said, "Yeah, yeah yeah. You need a better JOB then don't you?"

My brother was in hysterics. I would have been beaten the crap out of by my parents for being so rude and ungrateful to an adult but my brother has always thought "cheekiness" was hilarious and encouraged it. As babies, he was always taking pictures of them with pints in their hands and teaching them to swear and be irreverant. I love them but they are almost adults now and its dawned on me recently that I don't like them very much. I dread to think how they will get on in the workplace when they've been consistently told how wonderful they are by my brother for swearing, farting and being deadpan rude since day dot.

WTFIsAGleepglorp · 06/10/2018 23:22

YADNBU.

That is horrible

Marriedwithchildren5 · 06/10/2018 23:22

Slimtimeagain Been informed. Makes no odds who shares. It all equates to using children to make a point!

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AwolFlower · 06/10/2018 23:24

@Marriedwithchildren5 why are you bothered about my sharing of the pictures?
"Not your children or your problem", your exact words!
These children and the obscenities places upon them are already well within the public domain unfortunately, I've hardly logged into a private account and stolen them Hmm

OP posts:
Marriedwithchildren5 · 06/10/2018 23:27

You've still shared some children who didn't ask to be in that position. They've been used for advertisement and now in your post. I'd personally feel a bit shit for doing that. Just my opinion. Poor kids.

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AwolFlower · 06/10/2018 23:36

Yes poor kids...but no I don't feel shit actually.
I'd feel shit if these were from a private album, but they are not.
You could argue your point about every child photo on Google, in every clothing catalogue, baby product advert etc.
You have completely missed the whole issue here.

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EilaLila · 06/10/2018 23:38

OP did nothing wrong in sharing an advert.
Agreed they are grim and I have a filthy mouth. Oh except the one saying I’m fucking fabulous which is quite funny.

BookMeOnTheSudExpress · 06/10/2018 23:39

An ad that presumably their pushy parents scattergun friends and relatives with. Any publicity is good for modelling parents.
Foul isn't it?

garethsouthgatesmrs · 06/10/2018 23:39

i actually think the "I wasn;t planned" one is worse. I would find that hurtful to see as an adult looking back onmy childhood.

agree that the cunt one for 4 year pls is entirely inappropriate too.

AnnieAnoniMouse · 06/10/2018 23:40

None of them are my taste (and I do laugh at lots that get others here riled up), but ‘meh’ to the baby ones. I’d even be ‘meh’ to the one with the older child, except for how they have her sitting. I have NO idea how that has passed advertising standards. It’s vile having her sit like that holding that card like that.

fuckwitseverywhere · 06/10/2018 23:41

Grim!

Singlenotsingle · 06/10/2018 23:45

Poor kids, all of them. Grim!

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