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Fb tat spotted tonight. Good Lord, this is a corker!

56 replies

Notgotajarofglue · 05/01/2019 23:50

What the actual fuck?

OP posts:
SoleBizzz · 06/01/2019 00:17

Is the label or whatever inside the jar?

slashlover · 06/01/2019 00:30

@Doved It's like cupid dolls or something in the pickle jar. First pic is their back with little wings and bag. Second pic is them from the front, you can make out their hair, faces and the bows they are holding.

BeanTownNancy · 06/01/2019 00:35

That's actually impressive - they must have worked hard to perfect their craft.
I mean, they are utterly horrific, but it's still impressive.

ErrolTheDragon · 06/01/2019 00:40

Urgh. We once did a 'behind the scenes' tour at the Natural History Museum which had a lot of pickled animals in various stages of development...those are unpleasantly reminiscent, the wings etc just making them creepy.

Notmyrealname85 · 06/01/2019 01:17

Why would you want a pickled Cupid? Am
I missing some cultural reference/ widely
known joke?!

BrylcreamBeret · 06/01/2019 01:23

Yeah... Not really useful giving me a cute monster in a jar. I still want to cuddle it. The Christmas ones were an old man and woman weren't they?

Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 06/01/2019 01:30

They didn't make it themselves.

It's a real product called pickled people, there are or at least were loads of different ones.

They are in similar taste to the roadkill furry toys.or the bacteria toys.

jessstan2 · 06/01/2019 01:46

Don't get it.

mumof2andstillsurviving · 06/01/2019 01:47

OP 🤮 WTAF are they and what would you do with them?

Gingerkittykat · 06/01/2019 01:53

I seem to remember fabric bums in jars were quite popular in the 1980s and as a kid I was always fascinated by them.

As an adult I think they are total tat!

Kerantli · 06/01/2019 01:59

WTF are they?!

LetBartletBeBartlet · 06/01/2019 02:04

Roadkill toy - science based (zoology)
Big toy bacteria - science based

Pickle cupids - What The Fuck?

SuchAToDo · 06/01/2019 02:06

I can't believe people would actually buy this crap...or that people would make it believing anybody would want to buy it...it's hideous😂

LetBartletBeBartlet · 06/01/2019 02:10

This is one of those very very rare times when Googling more pictures and info has only served to increase my confusion.

Still, I know what to get my sister for her birthday now.

Yousignup · 06/01/2019 02:14

Is it from the last series of Luther?

Lisabel · 06/01/2019 02:16

I don't understand- what are they made of/for?

scrivette · 06/01/2019 02:24

We used to make 'pickled faces' or 'potato people' when were at Primary School in the late 80's.
If I remember rightly they were made out of cotton wool and old tights.

ElizabethMainwaring · 06/01/2019 02:30

They are supposed to be look like pickled people. They are supposed to be cute and funny. They are made from stuffed tights tied with string and sewn a certain way to give the shape.

ElizabethMainwaring · 06/01/2019 02:31

Sorry, cross posted.

CheekyNandosForMe · 06/01/2019 03:47

Is that... Cock, and balls? Middle pic the latter, right hand pic the former?

Mummyoflittledragon · 06/01/2019 04:37

Thanks for the enlightenment.
They are supposed to be cute and funny. Spectacular failure then.
We used to make ‘pickled faces’ Or ‘potato people’ when we were at Primary school... sounds about right.. not aimed at adults then.

dellacucina · 06/01/2019 04:46

CheekyNandosForMe that was also my first thought. But...what's on the other one? Creepy
enormous flaps?

Meangirls36 · 06/01/2019 16:27

Aww if it was homemade pickles I would get a few but that's just ugly. Gonna make some fried pickles at some point.

Cluelessbeetroot · 06/01/2019 16:37

No. That cannot exist.

PavlovianLunge · 06/01/2019 16:40

Yep, pickled people were a thing for a (short) while in the 80s.

But you have to remember, we only had four TV channels, and the trains stopped running before midnight.

The devil really does make work for idle hands.