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Bum prints “bumpkins” unnecessary and a little creepy?
SNWannabe · 29/09/2022 20:31
This is a new thing apparently and being offered at ceramic painting places. I think it’s undignified for babies and the detail in the prints are pretty clear and I find it weird and a bit creepy anyone would want to display their child’s bottom in this way.
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bombombo · 29/09/2022 20:33
YANBU that's very strange 😂 can't we stick with cute little hand and foot prints?!
ShaneTwane · 29/09/2022 20:35
Yeah ive seen these advertised the last couple of years and they are weird af 🤣
Chloefairydust · 29/09/2022 20:36
I didn’t even know that was a thing … How odd and kind of creepy
RagzRebooted · 29/09/2022 20:37
Doesn't even look like a bum unless you know what it is. Not cute like hands and feet. Totally pointless and yeah, a bit weird.
jetadore · 29/09/2022 20:45
Late stage capitalism at its finest, depending on your viewpoint it’s ‘innovative’ in finding an untapped market, or yet more crap on the trashheap of pointless consumerism.
TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination · 29/09/2022 20:48
Let's hope they don't want to keep comparing 'to current' to see how much they've grown!
Boomboom22 · 29/09/2022 20:50
I can't decide if this is worse than the bread you can buy with the crusts already cut off, or not.
Blessedbethefruitz · 29/09/2022 20:50
My local pottery painting cafe place does this. I can't work out if this means they're stripping babies down in front of everyone?! I go there with my little ones occasionally for normal pottery painting. I've not seen bumpkins anywhere before this year though.
AbsoluteYawns · 29/09/2022 20:53
Oh goodness, that's just horrible and creepy. I cannot imagine why anyone would think it's a good idea to do that to their baby! 🙁
Whichwhatnow · 29/09/2022 20:54
Grim. Not helped by the fact I've recently seen diarrhoea nearly that exact colour all over my niece's bum during a nappy change 🤢
Primroseprimula · 29/09/2022 20:54
Just imagine being a grown adult, and your parents still have, pride of place on the wall, a ceramic plate with a print of your arse on it.
No. Just no.
Animallover87 · 29/09/2022 20:56
Yeah, it's a bit weird.
Nowhere near as bad as the psychopaths who pierce babies ears though...
SarahAndQuack · 29/09/2022 20:59
Very weird.
TBH I don't get the foot/handprint thing either. Until DD was born I'd only ever heard of this in the context of making a memento of a baby who'd been stillborn. I can absolutely see why you would do that, but I find it hard not to think of that association.
TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 29/09/2022 21:11
SavingsThreads · 29/09/2022 20:51
Too close to the word blumpkin for my taste!
Had to Google 'blumpkin',
- well, what a sheltered life I've led... 😵
Cowhen · 29/09/2022 21:15
TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 29/09/2022 21:11
Had to Google 'blumpkin',
- well, what a sheltered life I've led... 😵
SavingsThreads · 29/09/2022 20:51
Too close to the word blumpkin for my taste!
I guess I'm sheltered too! Can't unlearn that!
GoodVibesHere · 29/09/2022 21:17
Whatever next.... 'Little Dickies' maybe?!! It's gross!
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