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To be really offended by this company name?

129 replies

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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SilverySurfer · 09/12/2019 12:46

If none of us had heard of Bigger Jugs before, we all have now, thanks to you OP. Great publicity for them.

When I lived in London there was a shoe shop called R. SOLES. No doubt you would have have a touch of the vapours about that as well. Don't forget your smelling salts.

Newkitchen123 · 09/12/2019 12:47

You do know there's important stuff going on in the world

Danni91 · 09/12/2019 12:48
Grin Poor husband. You want to have words with him over what someone else called their website...you are bonkers.

Also, should you be checking your bank statement this close to Christmas, you will see all your gifts! Doh!

pigsDOfly · 09/12/2019 12:48

I imagine Knobs and Knockers sell exactly what they say they're selling so don't know why people would think it's meant as some sort of pun, or trying to be 'saucy'.

Anyway, that apart, you're being ridiculous OP.

As puns go 'Bigger Jugs' is pretty lame.

Where I used to live there was a carpentry business call 'Wood, Nail and I'. Now that is a brilliant pun. And no, I have no connection to him/her/them, it just used to make me smile every time I saw their van.

MardiBras · 09/12/2019 12:49

Aycharow there's a roadside cafe/van in North Cornwall called Nice Baps. They do a great bacon roll Grin

MidnightCircus · 09/12/2019 12:52

That's so silly, I don't think it's offensive at all. Still, good of to advertise for them!

MidnightCircus · 09/12/2019 12:53

Good of you*

rwalker · 09/12/2019 12:55

Please don't come where I live we have a pub called The cock inn and big baps sandwich shop on industrial estate
Can't stop laughing at the though of you discovering this on your bank acc recoiling in horror and interrorgating him .
did you think he'd bought you a surprise boob job for Christmas

SissySpacekAteMyHamster · 09/12/2019 12:55

Who aeestour bank statement? In our house, we don't tend to frame them.

Rumnraisin · 09/12/2019 12:55

“As puns go 'Bigger Jugs' is pretty lame“

Above anything else this was my first thought...I would be more pissed off about the company’s desperate attempt to be amusing because the pun is so weak!

draughtycatflap · 09/12/2019 12:55

It is funny but would put off some customers. I still snigger at the hairdressers I saw called ‘Scissor Sisters’. I often wonder if they knew what it meant.

CloudsCanLookLikeSheep · 09/12/2019 12:58

There was a chip shop once called A Salt and Battered.. would that also offend you OP?

Rumnraisin · 09/12/2019 12:59

rwalker atleast big baps sandwich shop is a direct pun and makes it humorous. Bigger jugs for a home brew company is scraping the bottom of the barrel...maybe they could change it to that Xmas Grin

Ginandgingers92 · 09/12/2019 13:00

YABU

namechangetheworld · 09/12/2019 13:04

Oh give over OP.

Topseyt · 09/12/2019 13:06

What a daft thing to get offended about.

Lollygaggles · 09/12/2019 13:18

Never one to fear swimming against the tide haha. I think it's a really naff name and wouldn't buy from them. I think it is an example of casual sexism and I don't like it.

Hedgehogblues · 09/12/2019 13:25

Who else is reading your bank statements?

ShamefulBlanket · 09/12/2019 13:28

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midnightmisssuki · 09/12/2019 13:28

FFS, really?! REALLY?!! There is the professionally offended, and then there is you. LTB i say, who know what else he might say/do/buy/dream/think that offends you.

turkeyontheplate · 09/12/2019 13:30

I agree it's everyday sexism and tawdry. Depressing that so many women aren't bothered by it. They should be.

NotACleverName · 09/12/2019 13:33

@IfWishesWereFishes Grin

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

Why? Do you hang your bank statements on the wall, blown up x 100, @BuildBuildings?

Fantastic marketing attempt, OP!

hiphiphoorayback · 09/12/2019 13:35

I think I remember a Real Ale had to renamed because it was sexist can't remember which one so no YANBU.

Besidesthepoint · 09/12/2019 13:35

You need a different hobby.

hiphiphoorayback · 09/12/2019 13:36

Scissor Sisters’. I often wonder if they knew what it meant.

What does it mean? Too scared to google. Grin