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FFS Matching family T-shirts for holiday. Kill me now.

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Extended family of in-laws are all heading off to a Disney "holiday" later this year. While I'm always impressed at Disney's ability to strip maximum profit out of any given situation, I'm less impressed with the suggestion put forward by S-I-I-L and M-I-L that we all get matching ****ing T-****ing-shirts.

For the entire family.

All I can think of is the Pussay Patrol from The Inbetweeners.
Yowser

Please STW - either provide me with horrid examples of just how bad I'm going to have to look on holibobs (yuck) or... send me ideas that subtly undermine the Disney ideals that hopefully I can interweave into the family subconsciousness so they might pick it as the design.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 10:54 am
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Just put your foot down and say NO.

Are you a man or a (Mickey) mouse?

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 10:57 am
mtbqwerty, hardtailonly, funkmasterp and 33 people reacted
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This is what's wrong with the world, what's wrong with these people? There's enough crap in the world without stupid t shirts nobody needs.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:01 am
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Yup, I've had a couple of pops at the environmental issues of cotton...

"BUt THiNk Ov dA MEmOriEs!!!!!!"

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:02 am
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If its good enough for Blackpool, then surely its good enough for Disneyland

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:03 am
davros, flannol, martinhutch and 13 people reacted
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Oh god, are they Yankies ? Nothing more cringe than matching clothing of any kind.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:04 am
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what’s wrong with these people

Insidious creeping infantilisation, it's everywhere. People just won't f___g grow up. See, also, fully grown adults with stickers on their cars saying "powered by fairy dust", and people in their late thirties wearing Hogwarts hoodies

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:04 am
blokeuptheroad, flannol, augustuswindsock and 5 people reacted
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I can't make out if you're going or not - if you are, I'd have put my foot down when going to Disney was first suggested! Agreeing to go was your first mistake. 🙂

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:07 am
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Where do you live? One of us can surely come round and break your legs. It'll be worth it in the long run.

You are going to Disneyland with people who want to wear team Tshirts - that, sir, is a low life point right there that even alcohol might not be able to erase.

I'll return when I'm feeling more mirth inspired. Are we talking Paris or Florida here?

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:07 am
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My problem with it would be when they first mentioned going to Disney Land!

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:07 am
hightensionline, dc1988, roger_mellie and 11 people reacted
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and people in their late thirties wearing Hogwarts hoodies

Yea, but kids that read Harry Potter at a contemporary age, are now 38.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:08 am
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You should encourage it. Will let you spot and evade the group more easily after you ditch them at the park entrance and head for the nearest bar with a change of clothes.

Anyhow, matching outfits are all the rage at Disney these days, so be careful with your design choices.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:09 am
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When you fill out the esta form, accidentally check the ‘are you a terrorist’ box. An old work colleague of mine did, it took him about two years to sort out and he now has to go to the US embassy in London every time he wants to get a visa to visit his daughter…

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:11 am
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You could always wear it in an ironic postmodernist way and subvert the genre. Or something like that.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:12 am
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When you fill out the esta form, accidentally check the ‘are you a terrorist’ box.

That's brilliant!

Anyway, what I haven't said is that we're not going to Disney. We're going on a Disney Cruise. That's right, stuck on a boat full of Disney ****ers.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:13 am
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@IHN why do folks need to grow up, we dick around on bikes ffs, so who are we  to judge others maturity?

We are here once, and of someone wants a fairy dust sticker, to be harry potter or still play with lego in their 50's, they should go for it, You miserable old bugger.

Matchy t shirts though can get in sea

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:13 am
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Couple of lads at work take their families every few years, the costs for a two week Disney 'experience' are truly eye watering.

If I was unfortunate enough to be going (at this point I'm assuming someone is covering all my costs, because I certainly wouldn't be paying for it myself) and I was also unfortunate enough to have in-laws that thought matching clothing was a good idea, I'd be finding the most unsavoury Disney memes/images I could and bombard them with them for t-shirt ideas, until they gave it up as a bad job or completely uninvited me 😁

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:15 am
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Anyway, what I haven’t said is that we’re not going to Disney. We’re going on a Disney Cruise. That’s right, stuck on a boat full of Disney ****.

Could be worse...actually, it couldn't be worse.

The norovirus spread around the buffet by fat-fingered guests will come as a glorious relief because it means you can't leave your cabin.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:16 am
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Matchy t shirts though can get in sea

Are you suggesting the OP push his family overboard?

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:16 am
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Are you suggesting the OP push his family overboard?

Trust me, it would not take me long to figure out the order in which to end them.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:17 am
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Anyway, what I haven’t said is that we’re not going to Disney. We’re going on a Disney Cruise. That’s right, stuck on a boat full of Disney ****.

OMFG!! 😱 😱

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:18 am
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Could be worse…actually, it couldn’t be worse.

Oh, it could. It really could. Just wait till I tell you where the cruise is physically going...

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:18 am
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Anyway, what I haven’t said is that we’re not going to Disney. We’re going on a Disney Cruise. That’s right, stuck on a boat full of Disney ****.

Come on man, let it go!

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:19 am
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I don't mind Disney (been 3 times) but a Disney Cruise. And at today's prices. Are you mad.   You do know the whole family will see you as a grumpy old b-stard if you don't wear one.  I'd make sure I got a broken leg and not go (easy done, fall off bike - a bad sprain should do it). Claim your costs on Insurance, and buy a nice new bike instead.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:19 am
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It is the one that goes to Zeebrugge? Just to Zeebrugge?

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:21 am
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The norovirus spread around the buffet by fat-fingered guests will come as a glorious relief because it means you can’t leave your cabin.

Technically it gets even better, if you're ill you can't be onboard so they have to put you ashore and leave you there in some Caribbean paradise with an all inclusive bar to recuperate in. It's like a modern treasure island, but the treasure is off-brand rum.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:21 am
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Come on man, let it go!

They told him he has to wear one or Elsa.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:24 am
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some Caribbean paradise

Er, he's sailing for a few days out of Southampton

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:25 am
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This one?

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:26 am
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They told him he has to wear one or Elsa.

Its quite serious really, they might look quite goofy but we shouldn't take the mickey.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:26 am
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Op, tell them the t-shirts are a rubbish idea. Full cosplay of your favourite Disney character for the duration. Who are you going as?

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:26 am
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Or this?

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:27 am
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If it's going from Southampton, he should be able to get enough psychedelics aboard to make the experience pleasant enough.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:27 am
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Oh, it could. It really could. Just wait till I tell you where the cruise is physically going…

Oh, man. Please don't tell us. My empathy hormones are running at max today and I just don't know if I can stand any more pain.

You know, there are shelters for people in your situation - please don't suffer in silence. You are with friends here.

edit. And I might come over a bit victim blaming here; but you chose the Tshirt moment to realise that this was not going to go well? That's like finding yourself in Jacob Reece Mogg's pleasure dungeon, strapped down and butt plug inserted and only objecting when his choice of pink fluffy handcuffs is not sartorially in keeping with your leather chaps. You were already well and truly ****ed.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:28 am
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Anyway, what I haven’t said is that we’re not going to Disney. We’re going on a Disney Cruise. That’s right, stuck on a boat full of Disney ****.

Oh dear lord! Doesn't that come under the UN's definition of 'cruel and unusual torture'?

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:29 am
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Apparently Suella Braverman ruled that a plan to send asylum seekers on a Disney Cruise rather than just lock them up on the Bibby Stockholm was too severe a deterrent even for her.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:33 am
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Er, he’s sailing for a few days out of Southampton

Ehhh? Isn't the whole point of a cruise so you can visit a few nice places in one holiday?

Are you basically going to be in a 24/7 kids birthday party, but seasick bobbing around in the English cannel?

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:33 am
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I'm sat here laughing at the predicament, but it is that ghoulish laughter where if you didn't laugh you would be just sat in horrified silence.
Is there any way to emancipate yourself from the family. Otherwise there is no hope

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:39 am
J-R and J-R reacted
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Just don't go 🤷‍♂️ that would be my answer

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:40 am
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I’m sat here laughing at the predicament

I'm not, as it's too close to home. Mrs a11y's bought us all matching Endura bike jerseys for our family hol to the Alps - not in the same leage as the OP but it's a slippery slope from there.

Go on, tell us, where's the cruise going?

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:42 am
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Years ago, my wife's grandparents gave up smoking and saved the money instead. One year later they'd saved enough to take the whole family to Disneyland (thankfully before my time 😁)

You should take up smoking.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:43 am
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It is the one that goes to Zeebrugge? Just to Zeebrugge?

****ing yes.

Er, he’s sailing for a few days out of Southampton

#stalker 😀

**** My Life.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:43 am
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Seriously, I was less embarrassed when I posted a thread about shaving my bollocks before a vasectomy.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:46 am
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All I can think of is the Pussay Patrol from The Inbetweeners.

Do it and insist that yours is printed with 'or can be personalised'

Actually this one gives me an idea for an STW Forumites tshirt

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:47 am
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I posted a thread about shaving my bollocks before a vasectomy

If you'd had that vasectomy sooner you wouldn't be in this mess 😀

I'm assuming this is a holiday for the kids

#stalker

Not dedicated enough to follow you onto that ****ing boat!

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:48 am
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Rich, I don't understand why you agreed to any of this.
Family holiday: Um, maybe ... but probably no
Disney: No
Disney Cruise: No
Southampton: No
They're taking the piss now, just seeing whatever else you'll agree to. After the t shirts it will be something else.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:49 am
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Don't forget your Dryrobes.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:49 am
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I'm actually quite a selfless individual. I tend to always think of others, especially my family before myself to my detriment sometimes. I'm a big fan of giving something a go even if you think it will be rubbish as 9 times out of 10 you get something out of it and making others happy can be a big win in itself.

There is absolutely NO WAY I would go on that cruise.....or any cruise, no matter how many people it upset!!!!

(I'd probably get new inlaws too)

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:51 am
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At least you've got the shore trip to look forward to.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:52 am
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There was one day on my last mountain biking holiday where myself and the 16 year old  lad who was out there with his day ended up in matching outfits. I felt that I had reached peak fleek. He was not so sure.

A Disney cruise wouldn't be my first choice, but I'm sure the kids will love it.

Matching T-shirts are just too twee.

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:52 am
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Don’t forget your Dryrobes

Dear God, as if the cruise wasn't enough .......

 
Posted : 14/02/2024 11:55 am
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