To think this card is grim and not appropriate in a shop where children can see it?

[Glassisalwaysgreener]

Just that really.

Went into Scribbler to get a birthday card DS10 was with me and saw this. I thought it was grim and shouldn’t be on view in a high street shop where children can see it.

www.scribbler.com/Cards/Birthday-Bum-Sex-BC1331/

Those warning PG signs are not easy to spot at all, unless you are at mouse height.

@MrsGinnyM

Those warning PG signs are not easy to spot at all, unless you are at mouse height.

To be fair, I work in retail and can print out a sign on the brightest paper available and place it at eye level and people will still be oblivious.

...and who thinks to look for a PG sticker when they see a nice pastel coloured card shop frontage and decide to go in?

To be fair, who thinks to look for a PG sticker in ANY shop window?

I couldn't think of anyone who I would buy that for.

I disagree with the last part though

I remember going into the supermarket/gift shop place in Greece or France with my parents when I was about 9 or 10ish and being left to wander around and finding a huge array of wildly pornographic playing cards with so many completely previously unimaginable acts taking place. I was enthralled!
When I met my husband years later he mentioned once about how they went on a school trip to France and came home stocked up on these playing cards, pop guns and pocket knives.
So I don’t think we can blame modern times for this. Maybe we can blame France.

@Mumtumtastic

Granted I was pretty annoyed when I wrote this and it did come across a bit hand bag grabby, lol! 😂

Honestly though, does no one remember shopping and how it used to be? I didn’t have kids in the 90’s but it was a very neutral activity and family friendly. Is it just ok for kids to be exposed to sexually graphic stuff then?

Or for that matter, see scary stuff that frightens them?

Sorry I was under the impression that children should be protected and not have their innocence broken, obviously I’m on the wrong thread

I think you are looking at the past through rose tinted glasses dear. Because I’m a 90’s kid and I remember seeing tits on a daily basis on my step dads page three newspaper. There were such magazines as Zoo and Nuts on display.

The pearl clutching on this thread has me giggling massively

@Etinoxaurus, if you can't find the card, at least come back and describe it for us. Sometimes MN creates 'things', ripping up cards in Tesco should definitely become a thing.

@Mumtumtastic

Well in the 90s every newsagent sold pornos & every garage would have pictures of centrefolds with women spreadeagled… awful.

I don’t think either are okay though …

Definitely loads of tits around in the 90s.

@Ponoka7, sorry I can’t find it. It was in Tesco petrol station. Definitely not a bird pun or congratulations on your new boobs which is what I’ve found but a photograph.
Happy to become a Mumsnet thing!

I agree it is awful. And just because 'top shelf' magazines are sold, does not make it right.

Honestly though, does no one remember shopping and how it used to be? I didn’t have kids in the 90’s but it was a very neutral activity and family friendly. Is it just ok for kids to be exposed to sexually graphic stuff then?

More magazine was a staple at my school in the 90s, it had Position of the fortnight.

Loved more magazine

[quote saraclara]@melj1213 seriously, you think the average person walking up to that shop will see that sign? Really? You notice small black and white signs right at the bottom of a big storefront window when you're focusing on the heading towards and through the doorway?

If you didn’t see this then that’s your fault not the shop’s fault.

The shop has deliberately put it where customers are unlikely to see it. It's not the customers' fault if they miss it.[/quote]
You asked where the sign was, I pointed it out 🤷‍♀️

I work in a supermarket on the customer service desk - I once had a guy standing at a totally different desk who had a temper tantrum when I told him he was in the wrong place and he said "you should have a sign" .... when I pointed out the lit up 4ft high, unmissable "Customer Service Desk" sign that was literally behind my head he just huffed and said "I didn't read it". So it doesn't matter where you put signage, some people won't read it anyway.

The store is not legally obliged to provide a warning sign, they do so as a courtesy so they can put it wherever they like ... if you wander I to shops without knowing what they sell and looking at the signs in the window then that's on you.

@Mumtumtastic Expecting shops etc never to have anything which your toddler might deem scary so that she is protected and doesn’t have her innocence “broken” is… a bit much, surely? In my experience of toddlers, they’re capable of finding pretty much anything scary. My sister was scared of moustaches at that age.

This card will have me laughing all day! Thanks!

Down with that sort of thing.

I used to be angry at seeing page 3 at child eye level or on counter tops in newsagents as these are "family" shops. The place for them (if there was one) was top shelf. I wouldn't buy or appreciate a card like the one in the op, but equally I wouldn't be offended by it in a shop specifically for these types of cards.
Does anyone remember Vickerstaffs? We used to go in there for a giggle in our early teens.

The point I was making was that in this regular looking card shop there was some extreme gruesome stuff, I’m not talking cutesy spooky - it was proper grim, Freddy Krueger style graphic. It wasn’t even Halloween where you can expect to see stuff like that about. It was a week before Christmas. It was casually placed next to all the sparkly Christmas stuff. Does that not sit wrong with anyone else??

Are those who say they don’t care maybe not have kids, or have teens and older who wouldn’t be phased? I don’t care what the lot of you say 2-3 year olds should not be subjected to horror film rubbish like that. It’s plain wrong. And if Mary Whitehouse was here and petitioned against it I would happily sign!

And where is the acceptable line as far as sexualisation goes in public spaces? The card the OP wanted to discuss was vile. So describing sex acts on cards is fine as long as there is a tiny warning on the shop front. How about visual depictions? And if that’s fine, well why not go the whole hog and have porno cards, as long as there’s a ‘funny’ message along side them to make them humorous right?

There is no acceptable boundary of common decency anymore. This isn’t great for anyone but is especially toxic for children.

Oh Grow up some of you! What do you want, a huge security guard yelling not suitable for children and an alarm going off every time an under-18 goes near the doors?

There are signs. If you didn't read them, that's on you. Take some personal responsibility!

Lol!! People don't read signs!!

@Etinoxaurus

I ripped a rude card up in Tesco’s once 😬 Scribblers is different though.

Did you really? I hope you paid for it. How fucking ridiculous.

@Mumtumtastic Nobody was there to have seen what you’re talking about but you said the shopkeeper had seen sales increase through using the display so I’m doubtful that it was truly grotesque if I’m honest. Probably unpleasant for a toddler but no, I don’t want to live in a world where anything that a toddler might find scary isn’t permitted.

I agree that sexualisation is an issue (though I’m a child of the 90s and remember seeing FHM, Zoo and Nuts in the shops so it’s not a new thing). But I think there’s a wider balance to be struck and I do worry that we’re under pressure to sanitise everything all the time.

I don’t know why it matters whether or not we have children, either!

Vile but it’s adult humor in a shop that’s known for it, you can’t censor everything because it might be inappropriate for children. At least parents can choose not to bring their DC in the shop, I find the amount of vile adult stuff that is too easily accessible on the internet a much bigger concern then this tasteless example of adult humor.

It isn't really my type of humour but unlike
a lot of PPs I just move on. Who cares if you find it 'grim' that is their USP and if you don't read a sign on the door advising that is on you.

Since when did 'I don't like it' equal rip up a card in Tesco this must be removed and no one else must like it either