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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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Memoriesmemories · 09/12/2019 13:39

Sorry but you do sound very sensitive! With all that's going on in the world and you're fretting over this?

Morgan12 · 09/12/2019 13:40

Jeezo hen theres children drowning in oceans when trying to flee their home country.

tillytrotter1 · 09/12/2019 13:42

It's not surprising that so many people on this site have varying degrees of anxiety if they get offended by this.

Sometimes instead of getting 'offended' a good put-down works far better Years ago a young teacher, quite a buxom lass in her words, was told by a 15 year old that he would report her for locking him in the stock room and having her way with him, to the amusement of his cronies. Her reply Ha, you should be so bloody lucky!, his friends laughed at him and he slunk away. She never had trouble again with any of them

MargotB7 · 09/12/2019 13:43

I love to read about what offends some people.

SooticaTheWitchesCat · 09/12/2019 13:44

YABU
You need to find a real issue to get offended about, like so many other people these days!

Teenagemaw · 09/12/2019 13:45

I just googled the scissor sisters thing... i never knew that! There is a hairdresser near me called that Blush

Morgan12 · 09/12/2019 13:47

Same @teenagemaw
Wonder if we are close.

hauntedvagina · 09/12/2019 13:49

You'd hate to be my friend OP, sometimes I transfer my friends 10p just so I can write offensive things on their bank statements.

Emeraldshamrock · 09/12/2019 13:49

What does it mean? Too scared to google
A pun? A band? Or the notorious sister killers from Dublin? Could be any.

JesusMaryAndJosepheen · 09/12/2019 13:56

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MinervaSaidThat · 09/12/2019 13:57

I agree OP. Women bear the brunt of body related puns. I remember being shocked when I was 15 that my friend was called big jugs by her 10 yo brother and her family thought it was normal. Women are fair game.

JesusMaryAndJosepheen · 09/12/2019 14:01

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JAPAB · 09/12/2019 14:04

I once discovered a company named "BJ Services", while it was a perfectly innocent company and that was just the owners initials, it might have looked odd on a statement.

WotchaTalkinBoutWillis · 09/12/2019 14:04

@IfWishesWereFishes
Grin

JesusMaryAndJosepheen · 09/12/2019 14:04

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SeeWhoRustsFirst · 09/12/2019 14:04

I don't need any homebrewing stuff, OP, but I'm almost tempted to order something from them out of sheer bloody-mindedness for the level of your ridiculousness. Were you intending to advertise them all along? Alternatively, assuming you're being serious, your poor husband if this is the level of what he has to put up with!

Pick your battles! Plenty are worth fighting but not this one.

bloodywhitecat · 09/12/2019 14:06

My toilet rolls come from Who Gives A Crap and the brand is emblazoned across the box they are delivered in and the packaging on the rolls.

MrsJBaptiste · 09/12/2019 14:06

😁 Love that name!

But I am the person who laughs when someone refills the water at work and has to carry both jugs at once #nicejugs

I know, I'm immature... 😉

PawPawNoodle · 09/12/2019 14:09

I'm interested to know how you think its sexist? I doubt there are scantily-clad women heaving the cider kits about in the warehouse. A cursory look on their website has no reference to tits whatsoever.

As it turns out, they sell big(ger) jugs so you can brew your own big(ger) jugs of moonshine. Nothing gendered or sexy about that.

Fleetheart · 09/12/2019 14:12

OP not been back? I guess Bigger Jugs are reaping the benefits of a few more visitors just before Xmas then. Nice present for the man in your life. Excellent use of social media advertising!

heartsonacake · 09/12/2019 14:12

YABVU and really ridiculous. Your own filthy mind has your knickers in a twist here.

Your poor husband.

UsedtobeFeckless · 09/12/2019 14:16

For god's sake avoid the Blenheim Society and their "l like big bristols" T-shirts ...

ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/12/2019 14:19

Wouldn't bother me about the bank statement, but I view some of these names as companies to avoid, simply because anyone who could find it funny the tenth time they heard it or said it within an hour, is not somebody I want to do business with.

NC4Now · 09/12/2019 14:20

There's a sandwich shop near me called Jo's Big Baps.

Barm cakes doesn't have the same ring to it...

geordiejock · 09/12/2019 14:23

We have a car wash that advertises its self as " the best hand job in town". Fnaaarrrr!