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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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whimsy · 05/02/2006 15:40

Well I like winnie the pooh, I must admit I did collect the beanies for a couple of years in my early twenties, grown out of it now.
I don't consider myself a weirdo, Freak or sad. I am not single and at the time not overweight (although I am a little now, after two ds's)

I Don't collect them now, no they are not displayed in a glass case, just in a bin bag in the loft. Don't have anything else, although I must admit to a couple of pairs of PJ's which were Christmas presents from ds

expatinscotland · 05/02/2006 15:48

I knew this FREAK once, gawd she was out there. She was 40, and when she came down w/a cold, she said her boyfriend 'Read her Winnie the Poo'. I left skidmarks. WTF? That's just friggin' weird.

sobernow · 05/02/2006 15:49

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expatinscotland · 05/02/2006 15:55

What man would walk in to a Pooh shrine and think 'Hmm, she's the one for me'? I'd run a mile without looking back.

PMSL! I once met a man on the fly like that, back in the day just after my divorce. Handsome devil he was. When he came round my place, he got all jumpy on the way. I was like, 'What's wrong, Lucas?' and he told me of his last, erm, potential partner. When she'd asked him back to her place and it was full of cuddlies and her bed had a pink canopy. She was 30 years old and a banker!

He bailed when she went to get him a cup of herbal tea.

Well, let's just say, he liked my place! Dithyque candles and jazz music, baby.

blueteddy · 05/02/2006 16:20

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JoolsToo · 05/02/2006 16:24

it's the difference between girly girls and me

I am definitely NOT a girly girl

(although I still have my first teddy in a deep drawer somewhere - can't bring myself to kill him)

tabitha · 05/02/2006 16:35

sobernow, agree with you totally.
I think any right-minded man going in a 'Pooh (or cuddly toy_ shrine' would run a mile
There's a woman at my work who has a large collection of cuddly beanie-type toys on her desk and she is seriously scary.

Miaou · 05/02/2006 16:36

Ah but Jools, I am a very girly girl (I like pink and flowers ) but I don't like WTP!

nitfreecod · 05/02/2006 16:37

lol at expats skid marks

NO first teddy s hoduld ever be binned imo

charliecat · 05/02/2006 16:39

I have always wondered who wears all the pooh bear adult clothing they sell in the disney store. It appear you lot know those sorts. Im pleased to say I dont

LadySherlockofLGJ · 05/02/2006 16:40

Budababe

In fact her first cat was called Tigger till it got run over.

On the Tonlagee Road or the Malahide Road ??

nitfreecod · 05/02/2006 16:41

any man who fidns tinkerbelle pjs allurign needs to go to a hrink imfo

LadySherlockofLGJ · 05/02/2006 16:42

Tonlegee even, been away too long.

expatinscotland · 05/02/2006 16:46

I ain't a girl, I'm all woman! That's probably why the cuddlies all stay in my daughters' room.

The only thing I like cuddly is a man's smooth chest to snuggle into.

Besides, why waste money on Pooh stuff when there's so much Chanel in the world? I mean, that's a crime against womanhood right there!

alliep30 · 05/02/2006 16:51

my mum bought me the before mentioned winnie the pooh pyjamas for christmas... she's the guilty one... and she bought my sister some too, so that's 2 pairs of the offensive items... needless to say, on the first days of the sales, our first port of call was the returns department in BHS..not only were they ugly, but all scratchy

whimsy · 05/02/2006 16:53

I wouldn't wear the clothing but can't see anything wrong with pj's

whimsy · 05/02/2006 16:54

Obviously not thermal or scratchy ones

alliep30 · 05/02/2006 16:59

they were furry and scratchy..believe me there were millions of them in the sale...

morningpaper · 05/02/2006 17:00

Expat: "What man would walk in to a Pooh shrine and think 'Hmm, she's the one for me'?"

SO true!

expatinscotland · 05/02/2006 17:05

She'd be the type of gal who'd want to get married the morning after the night before .

alliep30 · 05/02/2006 17:07

no, she'd want to get married b4 they did it... with wtp in her vows

colditz · 05/02/2006 17:08

Acceptable

WTP Pj's
WTP Clothes for small children
WTP Toys for small children
WTP Accessories for babies
WTP socks for a woman (not man) if they were a present from someone you mustn't offend.

Not Acceptable

Entire child's bedroom kitted out with WTP
Adults wearing WTP clothes
Parents refusing to buy non-WTP items
Adults buying WTP toys and ornaments for other adults
WTP anything in a childless house.

expatinscotland · 05/02/2006 17:08

True!

Hey, before I buy the shoes, I try 'em on first to make sure they fit.

alliep30 · 05/02/2006 17:12

too right, cos you can't tak em back once you've worn them

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