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Wtf is it with grown women and Tigger/Winnie the Pooh obsessions?

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WideWebWitch · 05/02/2006 13:32

I've meant to post this for ages. I've lost count of the number of seemingly perfectly normal, sane, professionally qualified in some cases, women who have a Tigger or WTP 'thing' - what's that all about? I just don't get it. Are you one? Explain it then please! These are grown women with large Tiggers/WTPs on their beds/dressing tables, it's weird.

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WideWebWitch · 05/02/2006 13:33

Oh god, I bet a load of mnetters I like and respect are now going to say they have several plush Tiggers and it's perfectly normal and I'll have to pretend I think it's all ok and not at all weird...

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nitfreecod · 05/02/2006 13:33

FREAKS

BudaBabe · 05/02/2006 13:33

Can't understand it either. My youngest sister is the same!!! And she's 25 and normal other than a love of cats and Tigger. In fact her first cat was called Tigger till it got run over.

I can't understand the cat thing either though! I'm allergic!

QE2 · 05/02/2006 13:34

I am very proud of my collection of Tiggers. The one with the sprung tail is my favourite.

colditz · 05/02/2006 13:34

It is weird and sad, I have no idea why otherwise perfectly normal women attach themselves to plush toys in the manner of a 16 month old baby. It's pathetic.

Nbg · 05/02/2006 13:35

Oh thank god!

I thought it was just me that thought like that.

I hate that WTP and Tigger are on every single baby item.
Sooo tacky.

colditz · 05/02/2006 13:36

Mind you I have never liked plush toys, even as a small child I used to make my mu take them all out of my bedroom because I thought they were 'looking' at me

fisil · 05/02/2006 13:36

As long as you totally ignore the whole Disney Pooh thing, Whinnie the Pooh is fantastic. If you read the original books (House at Pooh Corner etc.) they are just wonderful - as an adult I see so much more meaning in them. You can generally characterise everyone you meet as a character from the original Pooh books.

I met dp through his personal ad in which he described himself as "resembles Pooh Bear in figure and optimistic outlook." From that I had a perfect image of him, and it perfectly described his best characteristic - very thoughtfully and well-meaningly optimistic. The characterisation is just so fantastic!

fisil · 05/02/2006 13:37

ooops - spent a long time typing that, and now see I'm in a minority.

colditz · 05/02/2006 13:38

I like the original Winnie Ther Pooh books, I just don't get the adult obseesion with cuddley toys. I think it is sad.

Nbg · 05/02/2006 13:39

No no, agree with that Fisil.

Love the old original books.

We have dh's book from when he was little and kept it for dd when she's a bit older.

alliep30 · 05/02/2006 13:40

i had a friend who had WTP everywhere...even her kitchen was a shrine with those crap sticky things all over her kitchen tiles.. needless to say she was v lonely and still isn't married aged 37.. no room for a man in the world of pooh

Gingerbear · 05/02/2006 13:41

I am quite fond of DD's Pooh Bear. They are inseperable. If he ever got lost I think that I would be as distraught as she would be.
She once lost a first baby Annabel . I was secretly quite pleased.

fisil · 05/02/2006 13:41

well, we did have a cuddly pooh bear. DP bought him from Sweden and he lived with us for a number of years before he mysteriously disappeared a few months ago. He was called Man Twenty Sven. He was a four inch tall "original" Pooh, like the E Shepherd drawings. However, in our minds he was not actually Pooh Bear, he was a teddy who resembled pooh bear, and had a personality very different to the real thing. (well, as real as a literary character can get)

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WideWebWitch · 05/02/2006 13:44

Hmm fisil, interesting. alliep30, I keep meeting women like that. Or who I suspect have houses like that when I hear them talking about 'Oh, I just love Tigger'

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Nbg · 05/02/2006 13:45

My BIL'S ex is Pooh mad. When they lived together she collected the ornaments, mugs, teddys, you name it she had it.

She has them all up in her new place. Very odd.

DD has an original pooh toy. Doesn't get any attention though.

Caligula · 05/02/2006 13:46

Wierdies.

moondog · 05/02/2006 13:46

Oh,it has long perplexed me WWW.
It's not even the original version they love,rather the Disneyfied one.

i think there is a lot of weird shit going on with women and soft toys in general.
Once visited a crazy woman's house in South Carolina (friend of a friend) who had installed a huge glass shop counter thin in her living room to house her Ty Beanie things.
There were hundreds of them.

Woof woof!

welshboris · 05/02/2006 13:47

Oh WWW I love you with all my heart

This is my biggest pet hate ever. Drives me bonkers

suzywong · 05/02/2006 13:48

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welshboris · 05/02/2006 13:50

And theyre usually single woman, over 25. And overweight

Gingerbear · 05/02/2006 13:51

Catherine Tate type characters

FrannyandZooey · 05/02/2006 13:52

A friend of mine had herslf tattooed with the Disney Eeyore. I mean what's that about? If you like Eeyore, get a t-shirt or something.

alliep30 · 05/02/2006 13:53

have you met my friend??? you have described her.. not seen her in ages. she doesn't like to be around happy people with husbands... she has also re-mortagaged her house as she's in so much debt from buying so much crap from the disney store

alliep30 · 05/02/2006 13:54

why would a grown woman have WTP tattooed on her tit. that would be a treat for a man, if ever they bagged one? sorry, i've got pmt..