M&S - Could I? Should I?

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My son refused point blank to let me buy him this hoodie we spotted in Markies (M&S). It says "you can and you should". Little fun-sucker claimed he'd worry a creepy man would see him wearing it. I would have so enjoyed smooshing a Mr Whippy into his wee face. His big sister had similar thoughts.
Do you think the designers at Markies have a dark and twisted sense of humour or are we awful people?

I thought that they were joking about the boy holding an ice cream and what they could do with it. So they ‘should’ push it into his face, as per the message on the top. They Can and Should shove the ice cream in his face.

Exceptionally unamusing though.

When I was at uni it was a real thing on Tumblr for a while to photo zany slogans in places like Zara and H&M.
I saw a little girl with “Love Honey” on her tracksuit at a party the other day.

I have absolutely no idea what’s going on here

Me too. I don't understand the relevance of the ice cream.

This thread is turning out to be unintentionally funny (to me at least!).

So many posters with crap comprehension skills who can't see that OP was just trying to be funny.

So what if she (and a lot more people it would appear) call M&S Markies (which are indeed dog biscuits in my world)? How can it be so so baffling to you that different places have different nicknames for things? Have you all never left your village or something?!

The slogan says: "You can and you should"

The OP is saying that if her son were to be wearing the top with this slogan on, whilst eating a Mr Whippy (a type of ice cream for those who don't know), she would then be tempted to push the ice cream into his face as a joke.

She would then justify doing this by pointing out that his top says "you can and you should".

This type of joke is known as "slap-stick comedy".

"Whooshing a Mr. Whippy in his face" sounds like a euphemism. 🤢

Why would you waste a mr whippy?

Fife is not the Central Belt.
Fife is a Kingdom.

I’m a Markies person too

Then don’t say anything! People are allowed to question something if they don’t understand

I'm more concerned that you're all calling it Markies when it clearly should be Marksies.

My first thought too 🤢😬

What an odd thread

It's hideous.

They're right.

And that was weird.

This seems to be the norm when anyone posts anything remotely lighthearted nowadays. Lots of sneery responses. I miss the olden days on MN when everyone knew what a jokey post was and joined in.

OP your post made me smile this morning, which I fully understood even though I’m not from Scotland! Although I’m interested to know how old your DS is. I couldn’t even get mine to walk through the door after about age 9!

Isn’t this a variation of Nike’s ‘just do it’?
Anyway, a ‘creepy man’ would need bloody good eye sight!

She said he’s 11.

Exactly. It's Marksies people, Marksies 😁
I get that the OP is trying (and failing) to be funny but the ice cream and creepy man references just seem bizarre. Guess you had to be there...

Yeah I have no idea what, or where in some cases anyone is talking about- promise I’m not po faced I’m just lost! I feel a lot of wine may have been had along side the M&S picky bits tonight!

I mean if you like the hoody Op buy it for yourself.

I couldn’t make sense of the op but then I read it in a Rab C Nesbitt accent and it makes perfect sense. Almost.

I suppose it's a bit like Woolies, Harrodsies, and Forties and Masies?

Thank you.

Still a weird thing to say though!

And still not funny (IMHO).

It looks awful (with or without the slogan) and your post is very weird.

Fit like, OP quine?

Don’t get the Markies top. He’ll never wear it and it’ll be a waste of money.