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What’s FOD done now to cause offence?!

49 replies

Darlingsleepthief · 12/03/2020 15:06

Just seen he’s posted an apology and disabled comments on it, but I must have missed what he’s apologising for!

Anyone any idea?

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Darlingsleepthief · 12/03/2020 15:06

Oops sorry I meant to post this in chat Blush

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GoldenFlaps · 12/03/2020 15:08

Who is FOD?

ohwerehalfwaythere · 12/03/2020 15:12

It's re his Axa Insurance advert that was shamelessly tied to International Women's Day

mouldyoldonkey · 12/03/2020 15:13

Who?

NotJustAnyFucker · 12/03/2020 15:15

Father of Daughters

willowpatterns · 12/03/2020 16:09

None the wiser. Who??

DowntownAbby · 12/03/2020 16:12

FOD...

What’s FOD done now to cause offence?!
FallonSwift · 12/03/2020 16:46

Father of Daughters aka Simon Hooper. An Instagram person who seems to document his children's every move and posts them online.

He did a sponsored International Women's Day post for AXA to promote insurance. It fell very flat as the audience pointed out - quite rightly IMO - that AXA fucked up by picking a bloke to promote IWD, that Mr Hooper's approach to it was to encourage his followers to encourage their kids to 'feel' equal, and finally to click on a link to a special song by Nas - a man who has been accused of domestic violence by more than one former partner.

Overall pretty poor judgement, but what do you expect from someone that insists on putting their kids' every move online and refers to women and girls as 'vaginas'.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 12/03/2020 16:46

Oh! I live in FoD... did wonder what we'd done this time? Boars? Mink? Beavers? Polecats? Who knows?

Winterwoollies · 12/03/2020 19:28

The pair of them are cocking up left, right and centre, aren’t they? Maybe this will herald the end of parenting influencers. Well, I can dream...

BeBraveAndBeKind · 12/03/2020 19:35

@CuriousaboutSamphire That was my first thought too. Grin

Lockheart · 12/03/2020 19:37

What do you think you are being unreasonable about?

WotchaTalkinBoutWillis · 12/03/2020 20:04

Oh yay, another Insta FOD MOD etc thread.
Hmm Biscuit
Fully expecting the thread to go from 0 to batshit in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 as the "I love you, I hate you, I love you I HATE you!" absolute Insta obsessives turn up lol
(grabs popcorn)

Darlingsleepthief · 12/03/2020 20:05

I said I meant to put it in chat Hmm

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rosybell · 12/03/2020 20:05

He has been loosing followers for a while

MrsTerryPratchett · 12/03/2020 20:07

I avoid Instagram. Can't it avoid MN?

Noveltyfunsy · 12/03/2020 20:16

I worked for a company where a director picked a man for his choice for IWD

fucking joke

WotchaTalkinBoutWillis · 12/03/2020 21:25

@Noveltyfunsy
Que?!

Confused
Noveltyfunsy · 12/03/2020 21:33

Because someone mentioned international womens day above, and it reminded me

WotchaTalkinBoutWillis · 12/03/2020 21:38

Ah right, didn't see that at first, makes more sense now lol

Patroclus · 12/03/2020 22:08

Soz but this is really starting to do my nut in with acronyms. How in the name of tittery are people expected to know what/who/where FOD is?

WotchaTalkinBoutWillis · 13/03/2020 00:15

@Patroclus
FOD is short for Father of Daughters.
He's a parenting Instagram account.
People on MN will pretend not to give a shit but sit and watch his stories obsessively lol.
Same with other parenting IG accounts on here.

lborgia · 13/03/2020 01:03

I've just read an article in the evening standard and it's told me everything I need to know, or don't.

What a colossal twat. I'm sure it was difficult to think through to the end game with a cheque full of £0000s in your face Hmm

Runkle · 13/03/2020 01:14

It took him days to remove the post as well. Major cock up.

MrsTerryPratchett · 13/03/2020 01:47

People on MN will pretend not to give a shit but sit and watch his stories obsessively lol. Same with other parenting IG accounts on here.

Except a lot of us really don't.