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Slogans on kids t-shirts

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georgiemum · 04/09/2008 14:26

Am I being unreasonable to be shocked to see a girl of about 11/12 (beginning to show boobs) with a t-shirt that read... 'future porn star'. I can only hope that her parents can't read english (they were tourists).

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jesuswhatnext · 04/09/2008 16:48

i agree some are quite funny, i just hate overtly sexual ones on ANYONE and i loath t shirts with swear words on - a bit rich by some standards, if you heard me i could often make ozzy blush, i just think there is a time and a place.

btw hedge - my dh cut up said t shirt, put in safety pins so it fitted him, wore a kilt and dm's. one first prize at a fancy dress party it is now safely stowed on the dressing up box!

jesuswhatnext · 04/09/2008 16:49

won - doh!

Buda · 04/09/2008 16:53

Gorgeous child Egg - and my God you looked very neat in the Xmas photo considering you were so close to having them!

Egg · 04/09/2008 19:33

Thank you . I am less neat now .

narkymum · 04/09/2008 21:00

I have seen an awful one with "mother sucker" on it. yuk!

narkymum · 04/09/2008 21:00

I have seen an awful one with "mother sucker" on it. yuk!

fedupandisolated · 04/09/2008 21:05

The worst one I've ever seen was in my HV capacity - a new baby was wearing a T shirt which said "All Daddy wanted was a blow job"

callaird · 04/09/2008 21:09

I hate slogan t-shirts too but one of my baby charges had one which said "sleep thief" on it which I thought was cute (and very appropriate!)

callaird · 04/09/2008 21:10

Oh and egg, you children are gorgeous!! So cute.

Ronaldinhio · 04/09/2008 21:33

DD2 has "I got 99 problems but a bib ain't one" on her bib
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smartiejake · 04/09/2008 22:18

I am totally at the blow job baby grows- particularly foul on a baby.

dd has a few t-shirtsw with slogans on but nothing sexual.

One read "FBI-finds boys irritating" which sums up dd2 to a tee.

My favourite t-shirt as a teen read "I get my wucking mords fuddled."

floraspread · 05/09/2008 00:24

i feel same way about kids wearing playboy

Buda · 05/09/2008 06:09

Playboy merchandise has hit Budapest now. Yuck yuck yuck.

ninedragons · 05/09/2008 06:27

With any luck the people in the OP couldn't read English.

A friend of mine saw an 8-year-old girl with her mother on a train in Hong Kong. She was wearing a t-shirt that had one of those pictures of kittens in a jar that did the rounds a few years ago, with the slogan "Happiness is a tight pussy". My friend went over and explained to the mum in Cantonese what it meant, and she was horrified and said it would be going in the bin the second they got home.

She had just thought it was something about cats.

MummyPenguin · 05/09/2008 10:09

Some of them are vile.

have you seen the 'I facebooked your mum' one? What's that all about?

My DS's have a couple of jokey (definitely not rude) ones. DS2 has one that says 'if Momma ain't happy ain't nobody happy' DS1 has 'if you like homework so much you do it' (to be worn to school on mufti day )
DS1 has 'I don't look for trouble it finds me.' Just harmless ones.

My best mate has a Som who is a bright boy but she doesn't hold back in telling everyone so. We met up at the end of the hols and he was wearing one that said 'if I get any brighter I'll glow' she might be my best mate but I did think pass the bucket on that one.

GothamGirl · 05/09/2008 11:31

My son had the sleep thief one when he a tiny baby. My son has had a quite a few with slogans on Including:

When the going get's tough I go to Grandmas
Future England Captain
I heart Mummy (on the front) Mummy hearts me (on the back)
Elvis

We are going through a phase of Rock and Roll tee-shirts at the moment and his got one from the Who, ACDC, The Clash, Bob Dylan and a Bruce Sprignsteen one.

Some of the one's for girls make me wince as they do make little girls seem more adult than they need to be.

notsoteenagemum · 05/09/2008 11:56

Some are funny, some are gross.
I do have a bit of a 'labeling' thing as I work with children and sometimes think people can form opinions based on the slogan. We had a 'challenging' boy lst year who was always in the stroppy, naughty type ones and guess what he was stroppy and naughty perhaps his mum was warning us.

lotuseener · 05/09/2008 14:27

I have cousins in the US
that think the obscene slogan shirts are hilarious and totally acceptable for their little one's to wear in public. 2 come to mind-

"mommy drinks because I cry"

and the most appaling is (on a baby-gro)-

"I'm proof my mom likes to f*"

My brother sent my 19 month old a t-shirt that read -
"frickin' ray of sunshine"

and even that shirt has never seen the light of day!

But I even think the girl's t-shirts that say "flirt" when being worn by a 9 year old are not appropriate either.

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