To think my friend is going to hell

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My friend has his own shop where everything is hand made , he makes his own products and stocks hand made products for others as a collective,

He's just text me in a panic , a little old lady came in and bought these .....

He's now worrying in case it's the grandsons xmas present

I think xmas day could be interesting in one house in the north of England 😂🙈

I have a friend who makes beautifully embroidered items; pillows, display things, socks, whatever. But in the centre of the really lovely, some twee designs were some great words like Bawbag etc. They were very popular in the little studio I owned where I sold my jewellery but also other independent designer’s work.
I was being interviewed for the news in my studio, and they wanted the “shop” area as the backdrop and the Bawbag embroidered pillow was in the centre of the shot! They had to come back and film the segment again 😂😂

it's kind of ageist to think little old ladies (my mum is mid 80s. She was a flower child etc) can't understand purile smutty jokes?

if he feels that bad about the things he sells he ought to rethink his stock?

Good god..get a grip

Do you really think a woman has lived 80 years on the planet without hearing an anus joke or two? In her 80s and she’s out perusing cool little shops, remembering birthdays yet she’s forgotten how to read ? 🤔
Do you think the queen would have understood an anus joke in her later years?

Oh OP, she probably didn’t get it, they were likely a gift for a teenage grandchild who likes space and planets, but tell him not to worry, the rest of the family will have a scream on Christmas Day.

we would.

my MILs gifts have been the highlight of our Christmas Day for years.

Oh my lord! 😂😂

My grandmother would have understood that when she was in her eighties

She probably first heard it 70 years ago at least. So yeah.
We used to sit round the telly as kids watching Sky At Night waiting for Patrick Moore to say Uranus and we fell about laughing. Parents eyerolled and sighed.

Then he started pronouncing it Oo-ranus. Which was very disappointing.
Fortunately, this thread has proved it hasn't totally caught on.

Well it made me chuckle OP. A lot of the threads on here are pretty dark and heavy so this was a bit of light humour.
Yeh it probably was stereotyping the older generation a little which stems from the way we don’t necessarily expect the dirty sense of humour-it’s not a societal norm you usually see in that generation (in general) so there’s an assumption she didn’t notice the words and could be embarrassed when she realises she’s given this as a gift to family. You weren’t being nasty or derogatory OP I don’t think you deserve all the flack you’re getting!

My mum in her 80s to add, would not get it, if she did she wouldn’t buy them. She would be offended. She absolutely would buy them for a space loving kid in totally innocence. Maybe it’s her catholic upbringing.

Yes , well quite. that’s the kind of remorseful sensible attitude we need more of on MN.

I talking about a woman in her 80 s not a woman in her 50s !

I don't think anyone read "little old lady" and thought you were talking about a woman in her 50's.

Anyway, it's such an old overused joke, it's been around since I was a little kid, I'm sure it won't cause any heart attacks.

Nah I disagree with everyone else, I think she saw the picture of a planet, thought 'oh my grandson loves space' and didn't really think too much beyond that. If she gives it to an 8 year old they're probably just going to wonder why there's a line between the letters. The parents though will either be mortified or in stitches!

I class myself as old . I'm in my 50s . Old / young is just a description for me , I didn't realise you can't use the term old . Some of my clothes are old. My dogs old . So I didn't know it was an "ist" .

I think it was the implication that old = a bit dim that rankled.

She’s cutting off her fingers so she’s probably in a considerable amount of pain.

Ooh the sanctimonious are alive and well on MN this evening!

She’s cutting off her fingers so she’s probably in a considerable amount of pain

😁

@Chasingsquirrels I thought it was a hand towel, too.

@ItsSoStimulatingBeingYourHat I have an embarrassing Alex Bellfield U.N.T mug. But I bought that intentionally.

You get to your eighties and you become unable to get a joke or know what an anus is, you mean? So you see a picture of a planet only? Really?

Is that going to happen to you when you are eighty, do you think?

That’s brilliant @ItsSoStimulatingBeingYourHat

I was in hospital recently and a lady in her 70s next to me had some of the nurses squealing at her: "What was the war like for you, luvvie?" in an effort to make conversation.
She wasn't bloody born.

I thought you were going to say she was like Betty from Chewin' The Fat!

My DA once bought my cousin a souvenir t-shirt from abroad that said 'Hard Cock Cafe' on it - he loved it but she was mortified when she read it properly!

Anyway, we should enjoy these kind of childish giggles whilst they last - according to Futurama a documentary I saw, they change the name from Uranus, to put a stop to all the silly jokes, and rename it Urectum.

My 80 year old Nan brought back presents for everyone from her many trips to Spain. One was a plastic willy magnet. In return I bought her a 10" erect penis lolly from the seaside. 80 is not synonymous for pure as the driven snow 😁😁😁

God, your posts, op 😂
You're all but stamping your little feet that nobody finds your thread as amusing as you do.

You're all but stamping your little feet that nobody finds your thread as amusing as you do.

I thought the same.
And full of self-pity.