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We had to remove your listing because it didn’t follow our Offensive material policy. Listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination aren’t allowed.

Obviously eBay thinks it goes against their guidelines. I had no clue and I'm rather embarrassed.

What would you assume I was selling? I want to know if it's obvious to everyone but me.

Thanks.

A dildo with a map of Scunthorpe on it!

I put Victorian Evacuee 🫣 not WW or anything

I'm surprised that brought anything up at all TBH.

DC primary had both Victorian days and second world war and the kids dresses slightly different for both.

Neither included berets either - more French/Spanish during WW2.

Boys did tend to war cloth flat caps for both - which not sure accurate bit no-one cared that much - but that was about it.

There are very different time periods.

Good point!

The cultural difference here is fascinating. Growing up in the UK, the concept of an evacuee is etched into the consciousness of every child - I guess it brings home the horrors of war (but the sacrifices and ultimate triumph too) in a way kids can relate to - being dressed up in weird clothes and being sent away from your family to live with strangers. But the Americans don't have the same frame of reference and many do seem to have concluded it's some sort of concentration camp outfit.

What have I missed about baby grows??

You're so right. People who give every impression of being intelligent and well-educated will wildly place the Crimean War in the 1960s, or the Battle of Waterloo in the 1500s.

I wondered that. And the fact that there’s a ‘label’. They could possibly have connected it with the holocaust.

Woman=adult human female

Oh FFS they are so self absorbed. Aparantly they only learn about American history and geography at school. They think the UK is just England.😂😂😂

Ah thanks for being police but I'm just thick. I don't think about things. Lots of other mental health / disability issues.

I can imagine that for someone with children at primary school now it might all merge into one long 'vaguely modern history' timeframe.

I don't know - my DC now teens did watch a lot of horrible histories - so even if they didn't know entire timelines or how it fitted together - they did get separate time periods blocks and the names.

I expect it's like US sensibilities - and lack of UK cultural/historical knowledge leading to think death camps not UK children being sent to countryside - expect berets - usually seen as French - wouldn't be helping with that view either. Though expect costumes were made in China with no idea of either period or much interest beyond it selling.

Polite*** not police!!!!!!

Well, no idea what you were trying to sell. But ebay is pathetic. I got kicked out of ebay last month "to keep our users safe" "no defense hearing allowed". I have only used it twice. One in 2018 when I got a poster with all historic stuff that happened on the day my daughter was born and the second was last year when I bought 4 sideplates with the Baltic pattern as said toddler daughter had broken 2. They had been my gran´s so had sentimental value. I have NO IDEA what was so dangerous and was treated like Bin Laden. My husband suggested that my being in Spain and my laptop belonging to my U.S. based company using a New Jersey server may have triggered some anti fraud whatevers.The stuff was bought and paid for so no idea what the issue was. Someone from India answered my email and basicall said tough, put up with it. Ebay as a company is shite.

I have children at primary and secondary school now. I'd be pretty horrified if they thought WW2 happened in 'Victorian' times, let alone any of the parents.

That outfit without the bag or dress is just a hat? And, yes, a Victorian evacuee doesn't exist! Was it Victorian day or WW2 day? So much of this makes no sense.

I think people often don't think about what else they know.

My DD1 was a bit like that. I had to 'teach' her to think about what clothing they were wearing, were there cars, if so what were they like, what were the houses like.

So approximately Crimean war = Florence Nightingale = start of nursing / understanding about infection control = before WW1 at least.

Or Pride & Prejudice = obviously more civilised than the Tudors, smart houses, but not motor vehicles, so between 1600-1900. Ah no trains either so 1600-1850, but actually quite a lot more civilised than Tudors so 1700-1850 somewhere.

I mean tbh I have no idea what actual date anything was before the victorians. Just a rough sort of order and the name in my head. I just couldn't learn the dates.

History in primary school jumps around a lot. Both mine really benefitted from KS3 in secondary where they sped through chronologically over 3 years from 1066-1960s.

Also, 6 million non British nationaility and 9.6 million born abroad means there will be a large chunk who haven't had UK primary schooling.

What's your best guess for when the Great Fire of London happened? Or the Spanish Armada? Or the Battle of Hastings? out of interest, off the top of your head. I suspect you know more than you think you do.

So were you selling it as a 'Victorian evacuee' [sic] costume (even though it was just a hat and Victorian evacuee is. It a thing)?

Or are you saying you bought it as a 'Victorian evacuee' costume, advertised as such on Amazon? It was actually listed as that? In which case the item you bought was ALSO incorrect?

This makes no sense 😐

World War 2 did involve quite a lot of countries that weren't the UK.

*isn't a thing

Ok hopefully it sunk in!

Great Fire of London happened? Oh I knew this one! It's when the plague ended... 1888?

Or the Spanish Armada? Um..1700?

Or the Battle of Hastings? - 1066 (like the phone number for the insurance company).

I date things around Elizabeth I who died 1603. So to me things are before or after her. Then I have a good idea of the order of kings (both the rhyme Willie Willie Harry Ste, Harry Dick John.... and Horrible Histories) and go from there.

I saw that House of Games too and it amazed me that no-one knew that Edward the Confessor was pre Hastings! A history teacher I worked with back in the 80s used to say that Adolf Hitler was named as the culprit for a lot of historical evil, ain the 90s it changed to Saddam Hussein.