Baby pole dancin'... tha' pocalypse
 

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Tesco condemned for selling pole dancing toy

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Mother of two Karen Gallimore was searching for Christmas gifts for her two daughters,
Laura 10, and Sarah, 11, when she came across the 'toy'


So mad I can't think straight.
It is so hard to offend me there are no words for it... this is the first time I can remember since the early 90's.

I can't believe you're pissed off by this. Where does it say its for kids? Who would think for one second that it is? Its an 8.5ft pole with a video. If your kid asks for one, say no.
The idiots in the story were so offended by seeing this pole they had to sit down and take a family portrait?

Ohhh, won't someone think of the children???!!!:vomitblu:

This happened last year when the Christmas toys came in and people were unhappy because they were sold in the toys and games section of the store.
Tesco says they are marketed to adults.

Yup, that is what they said.

:lol: Awesome.

That's what we're going to do from now on, anytime someone pisses us off we're going to take a really serious group photo. It would make an awesome slideshow!

"This is when the drive-thu lady cussed in front of Amy..."
Pretty sure the press made-em' do it... but it is still an AWESOME idea.
100 years from now your relatives will be the subjects of a genome project to see if they are all pissed-off all the time after your family album is discovered.

I guess the Christmas photo with the kids decked out in their lederhosen and candy cane hats didn't convey the anger they wanted to illustrate. Look at mom! She's vewy vewy mad!

I don't see anything to suggest that the product was marketed to kids... toys and games was probably the wrong section of the store to put it in, but that seems to me more like a careless error than an active attempt to sexualize children. It sounds more like a party game for the college/twentysomething set.

It was on the website - there just isn't a section for Adult Toys and Games, so perhaps it was in an inappropriate area, but it certainly wasn't aimed at children. After all - you have to have a credit card to shop at Tesco online - how many under 18s will be browsing? I'm not suggesting they should start including Rampant Rabbits in the Toy section, but I think the family in question were overdosing a little on righteous disgust by finding it necessary to contact the national press.

I expect it will become received wisdom that Tesco peddled pole-dancing kits to pre-pubescent girls, which makes me wonder exactly how realistic the description of Asda selling padded bras to nine year olds is...

Like the "common knowledge" that Al Gore "said he invented the internet" ...people will bring this up, and when I don't immediately jump on board with what they're saying, they start "explaining" to me that they've "heard the quote" etc. ...They seem puzzled when I tell them I've heard the quote, I have an MP3 of the quote on my computer, and he doesn't actually say that he invented the internet. They insist they "heard him say it" ...

...But what they are actually repeating to me is what other people said about the quote, IE the interpretation, the desire to humiliate a public figure, the attempt to be funny or have some cultural trivia, or the basic say anything bad about the guy from the other party. People aren't big on details.

At least it is not as bad as putting 'La Blue Girl' and other hentai in the kids' video section, as I have seen in several media outlets.

Wow.

Wow is right. Makes me feel almost guilty standing next to the boy looking for the latest 'Dragon Ball Z'.

hehehe... on cable TV they don't distinguish a lot between kids' anime and not-for-kids anime, either. So when my brother and I were teenagers and going through a big anime phase, my mom decided that it would be nice to record some for us from cable.

I think she was scarred for life by Wicked City. :D

they never are, are they? :lol:

So if people are depraved and want to corrupt their children, that's OK then?

This guy is off his trolley and clearly gets a woody for the sound of his own voice. Who would buy it for a 4 year old?

If they want to preserve the sexual innocence of children/stop sexualizing them, they should start with banning bikinis for little girls. When sold in size aged 3, they are clearly not aimed at adult, so that should be pretty easy to prove. But wait. There's no shock factor and some people might object on the grounds of...well... they wore a bikini when they were little and it didn't do them any harm and and and......

This is a pathetic publicity stunt. Yes, Tescos should perhaps have put a little more thought into their store layout.