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Offensive greetings card

178 replies

BluebelllsRosesDaffodills · 18/10/2021 15:41

If you received this card, would you find it funny, or think it was rude?
Would you feel it was very poor taste?
Not meaning to offend anyone btw, more curious as to who would buy this kind of thing.

Offensive greetings card
OP posts:
MonicaGellerBing · 18/10/2021 15:42

Yeah I'd find that offensive and I'm pretty laid back.

homeonthehill · 18/10/2021 15:44

I wouldn't be offended but it's nothing funny or clever or anything really... I'd think less of the person who thought it was appealing enough to buy

Pythonista · 18/10/2021 15:44

Just a different sense of humour. Presumably you would send it to someone who would find it funny

MargaretFaffter · 18/10/2021 15:44

I’m very laid back about “bantz” but I think that’s a bit much. I’d probably be a bit put out.

BeardieWeirdie · 18/10/2021 15:45

I don’t like the use of the word freak - “whopper” would be funny. I think it’s only suitable for giving to a very good friend. I wouldn’t like it from a pervy uncle!

Mantlemoose · 18/10/2021 15:45

I am the first to admit i find inappropriate things funny sometimes but not that, thats just cruel.

Pythonista · 18/10/2021 15:45

You do know you don't have to buy it though? I can't imagine knowing anyone I could send it to but plenty of people do

ShirleyPhallus · 18/10/2021 15:46

Yeah it’s gross, I wouldn’t find that funny

icedcoffees · 18/10/2021 15:46

Not offensive, it's just stupid.

Youdoyoutoday · 18/10/2021 15:46

That's a really shit card and I wouldn't be impressed with receiving it!

Cuddlyrottweiler · 18/10/2021 15:46

I'm partial to a good offensive card but thats too much even for me.

the80sweregreat · 18/10/2021 15:46

It's awful 😞

Piggy42 · 18/10/2021 15:46

I wouldn’t like it.

Pythonista · 18/10/2021 15:46

If it's not sent to you, I don't get why you would be offended. You may think it's not funny but offensive?

neededafart · 18/10/2021 15:47

I received an

'I'm so sorry for your ruined vagina' card when dc1 was born.

I found that funny. The card you have attached I don't think is funny.

Bluntness100 · 18/10/2021 15:48

I think it would have been funny if they hadn’t used the word freak. No mother ever wishes to be told their child is a freak. I’d not like it either.

Fluffymule · 18/10/2021 15:48

I think you’d have to know someone extremely well, really be sure of their sense of humour before giving that card to someone. And even then, new baby hormones might make it risky for even the usually most laid back recipients.

ArtfulScreamer · 18/10/2021 15:48

I've a pretty dark and inappropriate sense of humour at times but surely you never refer to a newborn as a freak Confused

dementedpixie · 18/10/2021 15:48

It's definitely not funny and i wouldn't buy it

Dixiechickonhols · 18/10/2021 15:48

Poor taste. Can’t imagine who would buy it. I can’t imagine any new parent being happy with card saying baby is a freak.

JumperandJacket · 18/10/2021 15:48

@neededafart

I received an

'I'm so sorry for your ruined vagina' card when dc1 was born.

I found that funny. The card you have attached I don't think is funny.

Crikey- whoever sent it must know you well to be confident you'd see the funny side.
Chloemol · 18/10/2021 15:49

It’s rude, and certainly not funny

Pythonista · 18/10/2021 15:50

I know someone who refers to children as 'semen demons' (and she has her own) so I guess there's a market out there

MissJeanBrodiesprime · 18/10/2021 15:51

Not offensive, not funny, not clever.
Just poor taste.

As per @BeardieWeirdie “whopper” would have been funnier.

DarlingFell · 18/10/2021 15:52

Very hard to offend me. I find 'offensive' stuff amusing, I love it when my friends take the piss out of me, but the thing is, they are funny.

But I am offended by that card, because it's so unfunny Confused not because it's offensive, simply because it's not amusing, in the slightest. Few greetings cards are funny nowadays, they try too hard, like this card.

Who would even buy a card like that?