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What the absolute?

148 replies

OrangeSunsets · 05/01/2019 19:26

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

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Aridane · 05/01/2019 22:37

Would have liked to be Aridane but name was taken - hence Aridane ...

RLOU30 · 05/01/2019 22:37

Like Aridane, I thought it funny

How awkward

Justanotherlurker · 05/01/2019 22:37

Like Aridane

Namecheck yourself, nice.

If you read the thread, it may be that you didn't need to do that.

Although it could be 6d chess and the op name changed, thread deletion upcoming?

Travisandthemonkey · 05/01/2019 22:39

@MrsAriadneOliver
I don’t think they would bother to name change for this thread!!

CanaryFish · 05/01/2019 22:41

When I was a teen I had a t shirt that said “I WILL take sweets from strangers”
It’s not quite the same joke but similar , I think really think much of it at the time , looking back I suppose it was quite stupid

Justanotherlurker · 05/01/2019 22:43

I don’t think they would bother to name change for this thread!!

Not sure, the plead of call to action on spurious outrage has gained little traction, get thread deleted is beneficial in those circumstances.

LuggsaysNotaWomen · 05/01/2019 22:43

It's saying children/women don't mind if they get abused as long as there's definitely "payment" for the use of their body's. Gross.

Travisandthemonkey · 05/01/2019 22:52

@LuggsaysNotaWomen
When’s the last time a woman got offered sweets to get in a car with a stranger!!??

A passport maybe, life in the west, possibly. Jobs in America, very possibly.

Sweets...not so much

Justanotherlurker · 05/01/2019 23:06

Sweets...not so much

Depends, white chocolate, they can do one as its fake chocolate, it gets murky when 'real fruit' jellies come into the mix though..

Original poster

OrangeSunsets · 06/01/2019 02:50

I’m hardly outraged
I asked if it was sending the wrong message. Nowhere have I said I was outraged. It also wasn’t me that said the company should be boycotted.

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pigsDOfly · 06/01/2019 12:57

I don't like it, don't find it funny and think it's in extremely bad taste.

Couldn't be bother to try to get it banned though as I don't think it's that important.

To the poster who responded to my pp and said that my dislike of it doesn't make me morally superior? I never thought it did.

However, I wouldn't want to spend much time in the company of someone wearing it, in the same way I never watch Jimmy Carr after hearing him make jokes about rape; didn't like him much beforehand but it just confirmed my opinion that his 'humour' is not for me as I don't find rape vaguely funny.

val3ntina · 06/01/2019 13:05

Not exactly hilarious but mildly funny- it’s a joke and I think everyone needs to lighten up these days

Justanotherlurker · 06/01/2019 17:27

I asked if it was sending the wrong message.

And when you start going down those lines on what is an old joke that has been used by many main stream comedians of either sex you are on the slippery slope of thought policing as to what other people find funny.

The concern trolling of "sending out the wrong message for fear of normalising" is being used far too liberally, especially when it just boils down to people not finding some dark humour (which the goes further back than the greeks) funny.

It also wasn’t me that said the company should be boycotted.

I didn't see you come out and correct that poster, I do suspect you wanted this thread to go differently however, and you would have some warm glow of self satisfaction if everyone had piled on the t-shirt seller.

Justanotherlurker · 06/01/2019 17:41

To the poster who responded to my pp and said that my dislike of it doesn't make me morally superior? I never thought it did.

That was me, and you you did try and make a moral grandstand with this comment.

I've been in the world too long, but how is that funny on any level, let alone hilarious, or 'halarious'?

You tried to call out someone for finding something funny, without taking into consideration that humour, along with music, books and clothing is subjective and personal to each individual.

This joke is not some 70's racist/MIL joke built on ill informed stereotypes, it's not normalising anything, its a shock/dark humour that is part of human civilization since the dawn of time.

You are free to not like it and de friend those who like it, but to pretend you wasn't trying to moralise it is backpedaling somewhat.

Confusedbeetle · 06/01/2019 17:44

It is trivialising child abduction. Not funny

RosemarysBabyDress · 06/01/2019 17:46

not everything should be taken at the first degree...
especially not this forum!

pigsDOfly · 06/01/2019 19:16

Justanotherlurker I wasn't making a moral grandstand, I think that t'shirt is distasteful and unfunny, what's morality got to do with that.

Of course ideas of humour are different. But anyone walking around wearing that t-shirt is inflicting their idea of humour on everyone else.

If you read what I've written and you should have done because you've quoted it I put: how is that funny on any level, let alone hilarious?

How do you infer from that question that I am judging anyone on a moral level? That's a hell of a jump to infer that. Did I say that anyone who finds it funny is morally lacking?

Why on earth would I feel the need to back peddle on what I said. I find the the t-shirt distasteful and extremely unfunny. hence my rhetorical question. That's my opinion, obviously other's have the right to have a different opinion, I don't need to back peddle from my opinion.

Justanotherlurker · 06/01/2019 19:53

I wasn't making a moral grandstand, I think that t'shirt is distasteful and unfunny, what's morality got to do with that.

Of course you was, I will repost your original comment again.

I've been in the world too long, but how is that funny on any level, let alone hilarious, or 'halarious'?

You are specifically asking how could someone find it funny, no doubt so you can come back with some appeal to emotion, whilst ignoring your apparent understanding the subjective nature of humour and tell them how wrong they are for find it amusing.

saum6624 · 17/03/2019 02:53

yes some

Whippetmummy · 17/03/2019 03:44

The person wearing it does not look like an adult to me, more like a twelve year old. In which case, it’s incredibly inappropriate.

BlackPrism · 17/03/2019 03:58

It's certainly brash, but at least it's a warning that someone is trash if you see them wearing it

MissionItsPossible · 17/03/2019 04:15

Jeez, the person who designed this shirt is still trying to drum up publicity for it 2 months later.

Stop trying to make the shirt happen, it’s not going to happen.

cantbebotheredtoday · 17/03/2019 17:22

Some people really need to chill out and lighten up around here. They'll find anything to be offended about.

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