Careful what brand you wear to a theme park

[wayneg]

i'm old so take this for what it is (something from an old person ) but I just don't get the fcuk thing. there was a man about 40 on our last dcl sailing and he was wearing it in cabanas. dh and I just could not stop scratching our head. regardless of what it might mean, and I didn't know till I read this thread, it definitely brings to mind that other word and you can not tell me that there weren't a bunch of ten year olds snickering at it. I saw some doing it. its just not necessary. seems very juvenal to me. there are sixteen million other shirts out there but you chose that one. why? shock factor?
i'm still scratching my head......I just don't get it.

Not sure where you are from but French Connection UK (FCUK) is a regular brand in the UK, been around for years and on every item you can buy from body spray to arms of spectacles. Personally I don't buy brands but it is a regular brand. I doubt very much the majority of people buy it for the shock factor, only at Xmas my Mother In Law aged 89 bought myself and our Son some FCUK body spray & body wash. I guess in the UK it has been normalised, US maybe not?

 

[tinkerone]

Not sure where you are from but French Connection UK (FCUK) is a regular brand in the UK, been around for years and on every item you can buy from body spray to arms of spectacles. Personally I don't buy brands but it is a regular brand. I doubt very much the majority of people buy it for the shock factor, only at Xmas my Mother In Law aged 89 bought myself and our Son some FCUK body spray & body wash. I guess in the UK it has been normalised, US maybe not?

from canada so you are correct in the fact that its not seen much. i have seen one or two shirts over the past but they were worn by young teens. i'm not trying to start an argument and i know few will agree but what company in their right mind would use that as their logo. i'm sure somewhere in the background someone said, hey, this looks like it will sell through controversy.
at least i now know what it all means, thank you for explaining. i appreciate that.

 

[wayneg]

I think it is a good topic, I love to see how things are seen differently on one side of the Atlantic to the other.

 

[DISWolves]

How confusing, I always thought you were called Wayne

No...lt's David...............isn't it Wayne

 

[wayneg]

No...lt's David...............isn't it Wayne

That's what my passport says

 

[Mrs Doubtfire]

That's what my passport says

The secrets out

 

[married2mm]

Before our first trip (2005) a family friend told dd 1 she couldn't wear French connection tops or similar in the U.S. As they were offensive and she would not be allowed entry to parks.
I remember thinking at the time the kappa style clothes were worse!

As the op said-the F C U K tops were very popular at the time-I think the big slogans dropped off for a while-however there are some very amusing ones at the moment in the menswear section (ds is 19 -however wouldn't want dh to be wearing !!!) and ds certainly couldn't wear in front of my parents..........

In the last few years though-I've noticed some very dodgy slogan tshirts in parks which I find much more offensive than a play on words.
There are also some which are fantastic & ive actually asked folks where they've purchased their shirts.

 

[Whatsthegoodword]

C'mon, really?? Why do you think a company named itself FCUK? (...or Fudpuckers for that matter?) It's obvious what's going on and security isn't naive. I'm glad they're filtering out veiled vulgarity as well as blatant vulgarity. Honestly, I wish the courts would limit the blatant vulgarity we see on bumper stickers, t-shirts, etc...

 

[DekrRini]

I have to admit that when I read the original post, I first thought it used the actual vulgar word. My brain automatically transposed the letters to read what I was most used to seeing. As someone mentioned earlier, it is common for the brain to make this automatic shift.

 

[cijay]

Why do you think that brand uses that name/acronym? It's like 12 year old boys blowing wind by cupping thier hand and pumping their arms. "What? I didn't do anything wrong, leave me alone!" One of the parents at my niebe's school has to hide his "Eat --- And Die" tattoo. You want attention? You got attention.

 

[RedAngie]

Oooooh, a suggested thread from the bottom that's not a zombie!!!

I didn't realize some Europeans were still trying to shock prudish 'Muricans and say "Look at ME!" by wearing those T-shirts. Haven't they been passe for at least 15 years?

Many parks won't let you turn questionable T-shirts inside out as a solution because they know damn well the wearer will turn it right back within a minute of entering the park.

 

[BudgieMama]

I didn't realize some Europeans were still trying to shock prudish 'Muricans and say "Look at ME!" by wearing those T-shirts. Haven't they been passe for at least 15 years?

I don't like the gimmick (never have) but I seriously don't think there's any sense of them feeling shocking anymore here in the UK. If you have one in your wardrobe, I can understand not thinking about it enough to remember it's a bad choice in an international venue, because they stopped being shocking at least a decade ago.

 

[Jon84]

Haven't they been passe for at least 15 years?

I had one or two of them when I was about 16, so yeah 15 years ago!

The Brand has lost favour on the High Streets, only a few people still wear the 'shocking' slogan T-Shirts.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

Why do you think that brand uses that name/acronym? It's like 12 year old boys blowing wind by cupping thier hand and pumping their arms. "What? I didn't do anything wrong, leave me alone!" One of the parents at my niece's school has to hide his "Eat --- And Die" tattoo. You want attention? You got attention.

Yep.

The look on their face is normally pretty priceless.

 

[Spacedog1975]

I was taunted for having a WB backpack at DHS once. The logo was super small (and the backpack was a giveaway from a media trade show), but the cast members gave it to me for bringing the wrong company into the park. I've never brought that backpack back to WDW. Of course, I've also stopped carrying a bag in the parks.

 

[kamik86]

I'm almost surprised there aren't more issues like this. Especially with the number of people from other countries where an acronym spelling many "naughty" english words wouldn't mean anything. Given the number of acronyms we use at work I would be very surprised if a few don't spell swears in other languages. As it is we get funny looks sometimes from just out of school hires that don't think of a System Test Description when they see the acronym STD.

For tshirts my favorite getting away with it shirt was someone in high school that used to wear a shirt that said "I hate people that use drugs" but always with a vest or other overshirt covering the back. The reason is the back said "and don't share"

 

[tarheelmjfan]

I was taunted for having a WB backpack at DHS once. The logo was super small (and the backpack was a giveaway from a media trade show), but the cast members gave it to me for bringing the wrong company into the park. I've never brought that backpack back to WDW. Of course, I've also stopped carrying a bag in the parks.

This has happened to me a few times at both WDW & UO. When DS was young, we spent a lot of time at the parks, so most of my casual wardrobe was from what was then DTD. Some was from Universal. I never paid any attention to what I was wearing to either park. This led to a lot of good-natured ribbing from the CMs. The funniest was when DH & I went into GS at Universal Studios. I was next in line. No one was behind me. The lady says, "next". I step up, then hear, "next". She repeats this a couple more times pretending she doesn't even see me. Eventually, she says, "oh sorry, but we don't help people who wear Disney shirts." I then looked down to see I did indeed have on a Disney outfit. She eventually helped us, but not until everyone there, including us, had a good laugh at my shirts expense. If you want CM attention with good-natured ribbing, wearing the competitions merchandise is a likely way to get it. I'm not really one who wants to draw attention to myself, so I eventually got a clue & started paying attention to what I was wearing to the parks.

 

[Jon84]

This has happened to me a few times at both WDW & UO. When DS was young, we spent a lot of time at the parks, so most of my casual wardrobe was from what was then DTD. Some was from Universal. I never paid any attention to what I was wearing to either park. This led to a lot of good-natured ribbing from the CMs. The funniest was when DH & I went into GS at Universal Studios. I was next in line. No one was behind me. The lady says, "next". I step up, then hear, "next". She repeats this a couple more times pretending she doesn't even see me. Eventually, she says, "oh sorry, but we don't help people who wear Disney shirts." I then looked down to see I did indeed have on a Disney outfit. She eventually helped us, but not until everyone there, including us, had a good laugh at my shirts expense. If you want CM attention with good-natured ribbing, wearing the competitions merchandise is a likely way to get it. I'm not really one who wants to draw attention to myself, so I eventually got a clue & started paying attention to what I was wearing to the parks.

If you wear your magic band into Universal by mistake you seem to attract the action of all their pushy timeshare people!!

 

[bex7583]

i think there are lots of tshirts nowadays in younger shops like usc that may be unsuitable in the disney parks then , lots of tops have sneaky slogans on and images that may be borderline offensive to others

Off to marks and spencers to buy dh a selection of sensible plain tshirts now !!

 

[grammakelly]

This has happened to me a few times at both WDW & UO. When DS was young, we spent a lot of time at the parks, so most of my casual wardrobe was from what was then DTD. Some was from Universal. I never paid any attention to what I was wearing to either park. This led to a lot of good-natured ribbing from the CMs. The funniest was when DH & I went into GS at Universal Studios. I was next in line. No one was behind me. The lady says, "next". I step up, then hear, "next". She repeats this a couple more times pretending she doesn't even see me. Eventually, she says, "oh sorry, but we don't help people who wear Disney shirts." I then looked down to see I did indeed have on a Disney outfit. She eventually helped us, but not until everyone there, including us, had a good laugh at my shirts expense. If you want CM attention with good-natured ribbing, wearing the competitions merchandise is a likely way to get it. I'm not really one who wants to draw attention to myself, so I eventually got a clue & started paying attention to what I was wearing to the parks.

Yep, that happened to us at Knotts last year. My granddaughter wanted Linus to sign her autograph book. Oops, she brought her Disneyland autograph book in!
He made a big show about being hurt and offended...all in good fun of course! It was hilarious! I was really impressed with the theatrics.
He did end up signing it.