What the absolute?

[OrangeSunsets]

Just saw this advert on my FB feed. What the absolute? I know it’s aimed at adults but even then is it trying to say the person wearing it is thick? Is it only me that that thinks it send out the wrong message? I’m happy to be told I am missing the point or I am too old to understand

It made me and the girls in my office laugh.
It is a joke, not a social commentary.

I'm not easily shocked and I'm not a snowflake, I've been in the world too long, but how is that funny on any level, let alone hilarious

Because humour is subjective, it doesn't make you morally superior to those that do find it funny.

Outright racist/sexist jokes have quite rightly been stripped off the comedy circuit, but dark humour will never disappear as its part of human nature.

I didn't find it hilarious, its an old joke, have heard variations by sarah mcmillan, jo brand and the painfully unfunny amy schumer, better versions have been done via Carlin etc

You are not wrong to find it not funny, but you are wrong in questioning why others would find it funny thinly disguised under a mask of being morally superior, which does fall under the 'snowflake' banner, but this thread has already turned into that.

It's not the funniest joke in the world. I don't see it as minimising paedophilia. It's not to everyone's taste, but I have no problem with it.

It's about as funny as Donald Trump.

Clearly there is a market just amongst mumsnetters... let’s hope none of your children get abducted as a result of being shown the sweets first... ❄️

let’s hope none of your children get abducted as a result of being shown the sweets first

It does seem like a stretch if your children get abducted and you blame a very poor taste joke on a T shirt for their abduction.

As a meme for adults I wouldn’t have a problem.
As a T-shirt I find it wrong on many levels. Who buys it? Who wears it? Who finds someone wearing it funny?
A meme ha ha ha but advertising? Not so much. Who thinks that message is funny? Clever? Illuminating? What cretin buys it or makes it?

What about those that take things literally?

Oh fuck off.

I actually am a child rape victim, and I think it's hilarious. How many of you clutching your pearls over the poor victims and how dare they actually are one?

I bet not to many.

let’s hope none of your children get abducted as a result of being shown the sweets first..

talking about stupid!

I do mean the comment.

Get it reported

Are you serious? Can other people not find the slogan amusing and want to buy the product? What makes you the moral guardian who decides what’s offensive or what should be printed on a shirt?

Humour is entirely subjective. Has nothing to do with what’s said and everything to do with you as a person.

Live and let live. It’s a shirt! Jesus.

@OrangeSunsets

Mine weren’t shown sweets. They were asked to look for a cute puppy.

Well Rusty I don’t find it hilarious. I was 17 so not so much a child but not quite an adult. Nothing to do with sweets or vans though so what would I know?

I like the fact that we can have these jokes.

I also like the fact that outraged people can report them.

I even more like the fact that they will be ignored, or told to fuck off.

Long live free speech.

I don’t find anything funny about this, making light of paedophilia is not funny

@lily2403

It’s not. You’ve missed the point spectacularly.

I'm always a little wary of people who want dark humour (as distinct from overtly racist/sexist etc humour) banned and who insist that anyone who finds that sort of thing funny is evil/mentally ill/dangerous.

The thing about dark humour is that it's often cathartic or reassuring, even more so for people who actually have to deal with awful things (a lot of medics and emergency services people find some very sick jokes a useful way of venting). People who are forever screaming for everything they don't like to be banned tend to be both tiresome and potentially dangerous.

What about those that take things literally?

I imagine anyone who takes that literally is unlikely to resist being enticed into a van in its absence.

MrsAriadneOliver I hope you don’t have kids. I sincerely hope your sick sense of humour doesn’t bite you in the ass.

On another note, I do like these offended threads about various products. When you know how many page click MN gets, it's fantastic publicity for all these items.

I remember when an Etsy store completely sold out within a few hours following one of these threads.

I still find the joke amusing.

I showed DD 11 and asked her what she'd think of the person wearing that. She said "You're stupid."

I'm always a little wary of people who want dark humour (as distinct from overtly racist/sexist etc humour) banned and who insist that anyone who finds that sort of thing funny is evil/mentally ill/dangerous.

Laughter is utterly poisonous to them because it's involuntary and, worst of all, completely honest. Complaining that what was said 'isn't funny' (contrast to 'I didn't find this funny') is thrust bare for the hollow lie it is by the reverberations of laughter still ringing in their ears. You can scold people but you can no more stop them from laughing than you can force them to laugh at watered down, 'safe' humour.

ReanimatedSGB but on a T-shirt? Would you wear it? As a meme maybe but a T-shirt in public? Is that not a little weird?
On the FB profile of a mother and housewife (which is what I am) not a little “bit quite the target market”...

*not quite