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AIBU?

To be really offended by this company name?

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Jugoffence · 09/12/2019 11:34

NC'd in case DH identifies me but long time poster.
I've been checking off this month's joint account bank statement and came across a payment to a company called 'Bigger Jugs' - turns out it sells home brew stuff so no surprise who its target demographic probably is.
I am feeling surprisingly annoyed that such a name is indelibly listed on our bank statement and that someone I thought was a feminist, and has 2 daughters, actually ordered from this website.

Am I being oversensitive? Would you bring it up with your DH?

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Bluntness100 · 09/12/2019 12:13

Well op. There is the professionally offended and then there is you...

Illberidingshotgun · 09/12/2019 12:14

Oh come on, this has to be blatant advertising for the company, surely?? (TBH it's worked, I've just googled them...)

On the off chance that this is actually a serious post, then who is going to be looking at your bank statements judging you??

ExhaustedGrinch · 09/12/2019 12:18

This is why so many people hate feminists.

FestiveFavourites · 09/12/2019 12:18

Well done Bigger Jugs. You got free advertising on a massive website.

Lsquiggles · 09/12/2019 12:20

Your DH didn't name the company, ffs

IfWishesWereFishes · 09/12/2019 12:20

Well, I let DH choose our landscaping company once and we ended up with a van sitting outside our house for a week with The Tidy Bush written on it.

Which I presumed was a hint about the au natural state of my own ladygarden.

So I shot him.

KaptenKrusty · 09/12/2019 12:21

LOlz - shop in Dublin called knobs & knockers (sells door kobs & door knockers!!) Love a good pun tbh- hilarious

JacquesHammer · 09/12/2019 12:23

Wouldn’t be offended, I like a good pun for a shop name.

Unfortunately this is nowhere near a good pun

OrangeZog · 09/12/2019 12:23

I think you are incredibly lucky that your life is going so well that something this minor And ridiculous is able to take up so much headspace!

stupidtabloidheadlines · 09/12/2019 12:24

Matron!

To be really offended by this company name?

ConstanceL · 09/12/2019 12:25

Agree with the pp - if this is all you have to be 'really offended' by then your life must be pretty stress-free. I imagine your DH bought supplies from them as they stock what he needs/are the best value - not to offend you specifically.

KitKat1985 · 09/12/2019 12:27

Finding the name a bit tacky - YANBU
Going as far as being offended by the company name - YABU
Being angry at your husband for ordering from this company - YABR (You Are Being Ridiculous)

JacquesHammer · 09/12/2019 12:28

I never really understand the “is this all you have to be stressed about” type replies.

Don’t people have the capacity for considering more than one issue of varying importance at a time?!

Illberidingshotgun · 09/12/2019 12:28

Interestingly, two of the 4 "key" people in the company are women, so they're clearly not offended by working for a company of this name. Would love to see their business cards

WhenDoesTheWashingEnd · 09/12/2019 12:29

You can be offended by anything you like...

PigletJohn · 09/12/2019 12:31

I have never bought brassware from Knobs and Knockers.

steff13 · 09/12/2019 12:35

I'd be embarrassed if this was on my bank statement.

Maybe the OP can call her bank and have them put a note on her account that she does not condone the name of the company, lest anyone there see it and think badly of her.

Aycharow · 09/12/2019 12:36

I hear tell of at least one baker's shop called 'Nice Baps'

NoSauce · 09/12/2019 12:36

This is a joke I’m guessing?

MorganKitten · 09/12/2019 12:37

I rather like that name, almost as good as ‘the well hung meat company’. YABU

OrangeZog · 09/12/2019 12:38

Don’t people have the capacity for considering more than one issue of varying importance at a time?!

Yes, absolutely, but I think it’s bizarre that this can even register as remotely important. Surely in most people’s lives it’s a complete nonentity. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mypathtriedtokillme · 09/12/2019 12:41

It’s just a name OP, let it go.
Since they sell homebrew stuff the likely actually sell jugs.

I have a pair of sunnies from a company called “Happy to sit on your face” because I liked the sunnies and found the name funny. (Plus I’m glad they are happily sitting on my face)

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Jizzle · 09/12/2019 12:42

You need to give your head a wobble OP

percheron67 · 09/12/2019 12:44

If that was all I had to worry about during my marriage I would count myself as extremely lucky!

diddl · 09/12/2019 12:46

"no surprise who its target demographic probably is."

Schoolboys?

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