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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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Bozza · 05/02/2006 21:45

I am shocked at how many of you are confessing to having a bit of Pooh (just the odd pair of pjs or whatever). I am totally with www and wouldn't entertain wearing pjs with Pooh/Tigger/any other cute type thing on. I am a 32yo mother of two - I am not cute. My 20 month old DD is cute - and while I wouldn't buy her Tigger/Pooh clothing myself I dressed her in things with it on as a baby that she had been bought by other people, not sure I would now.

I just don't get the soft toy thing at all. both my children have tons plus a coupl of bin bags full in the loft. Everytime there is a fair at school there is a stall full of them at 5 pence a time that they can't shift.

WestCountryLass · 05/02/2006 21:47

It is odd the whole WTP thing but I must confess I am a fan of Mickey Mouse

NotQuiteCockney · 05/02/2006 21:49

Oh, Hello Kitty make vibrators. Or someone makes clone ones. Look here .

Pixel · 05/02/2006 21:50

Time to confess to having a WTP purse and umbrella, but that's because they were chosen by my children as christmas presents for me and they are only 5 and 9. Am I forgiven? Or can I expect you all to cross the road if you see me?

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WideWebWitch · 05/02/2006 21:53

Yeah Pixel, you are excused IF it was a gift from your children. Otherwise, in www land, you're sad!

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Crackle · 05/02/2006 21:56

I feel so sorry for my Dad.

My step-mum, who he married under the pretext that she was top teenaged totty, has matured into a Winnie the Pooh freak. She has even dedicated the spare bedroom to all things pooh thus precluding me from ever staying with them.

She wears piglet adorned sweatshirts and seems to have developed a childish lisp. The crap that she has tried to foist on my kids is unbelievable - vile, garish disney clothes, washcloths, cups, cutlery, nightlights, furniture and plastic crud - all second hand but such good quality because it's WTfrickinP.

Spew.

IMO, it is a very odd addiction. Especially as in nine years she hasn't seen my kids in any of the vile stuff.

I'm going to stop now as I'm scaring myself.

expatinscotland · 05/02/2006 21:58

Crackle,
This sounds extreme but I'd consider a WTP addiction that intense as grounds for divorce on the basis of unreasonable behaviour. I mean, a spare room, ffs!

Crackle · 05/02/2006 22:04

Did I mention that she has 9 cats?

My dad is as allergic as you can get.

(Has nothing to do with WTP but goes towards madness quotient.)

My step-mums mum has a Snoopy room which should ahve been a huge clue to my Dad.

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WideWebWitch · 05/02/2006 22:21

ha ha sobernow. There's a bit in Men in Black where the Tommy Lee Jones character says 'they're everywhere, more than you think' - there's always at least one woman in whatever office I work in who seems to have a glassy expression and glide rather than walk, I'm convinced they're always aliens. IYSWIM?

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longwaytogo · 05/02/2006 22:33

I'm laughing my head off didn't know that it was such an issue to so many people. I'm sat here with my wtp dressing gown over me, and admit that i have a small grund wtp and tiggger (bought as a pressie) and have bought a friend eyore ornaments in the past and she has loads of piglets in her house. Never ever thought of it in the way that you lot have mind you. Oh aye and I also have a mickey mouse fleece in a draw upstairs bought in a mad moment at disneyland, hardly ever worn.

So do I take it then that you lot would never visit disneyland.

Now your all going to hate me for ever and ever. I don't have a fettish honest, honest, honest. Just don't mind the stuff.

can't

tillykins · 05/02/2006 22:35

I have WTP and Tigger things...

A nighty with Winnie on, my dressing gown too actually, but its a very discreet winnie, and my new slippers (Which I wouldn't have chosen actually)
I also have a purse - this is the only thing I bought myself - but its not my main purse, its the one I keep a bit of change in, in DS's changing bag, for playgroup coffee etc
And I have quite a few pairs of socks
oh, and a small tigger in the car which DS got me for C'mas
DH bought me most of it and I do think those fleeces and so on are a bit odd

Most stuff doesn't bother me though - ooh, just thought, have a mug too somewhere. So what? It just brightens things up, if someone has a Winnie folder or whatever

Stuffed toys though - PITA! Told everyone not to buy DS stuffed toys ever!

sobernow · 05/02/2006 22:36

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WestCountryLass · 05/02/2006 22:40

Bwahahahaha

tillykins · 05/02/2006 22:46

you'd be surprised how a grown man can get giddy at the sight of Winnie...

okay, have made myself heave now

I must admit, its a damn fine contraceptive...

sobernow · 05/02/2006 22:47

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harpsichordcarrier · 05/02/2006 22:49

tillykins I just read that as "I have WTP and Tigger thongs..."

welshboris · 06/02/2006 21:23

bump for spursmum

mummymojo · 06/02/2006 21:42

I know a woman who has thousands of pooh bears all over her house and car - even painted on her car. But the worst part of her obsession she set up an office cleaning business called "Pooh Cleaning". And on her business cards she had an Oak tree, the relevance of that got me for ages until a mutual friend said he was just as puzzled and asked - it was to represent hundred acre wood. Where some people's minds are at.

spursmum · 06/02/2006 21:46

Thanks WB...I'm proud to say that I grew out of my 'obsession', ds now has my teddies, I have a couple of figurines for sentimental reasons and I love the films in the childish way that I love most Disney/kids films.

BethAndHerBrood · 06/02/2006 21:50

So no-one will be bidding on this then?

anyone?

mogwai · 06/02/2006 21:52

one of my friends used to collect those troll things, well into her late twenties. She would bring men home and these trolls were all lined up in her bedroom.

She is an Eeyore freak. When she doesn't have a man, she has been known to cut pictures of WTP out of colouring books, shade them in and frame them.

10/10 for freaky

expatinscotland · 06/02/2006 21:55

you mean she actually had a man at one point?

cuz i'd leave a dust storm if i walked into a place and saw that shit.

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