I traded a packet of Skips for a Blastoise. True story.
Your mum sounds sadistic Elliot. 
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If only I'd thought of that, Rachel! My brother has the Blastoise I need, and I have the card he needs to complete his. But us? Compromise? Never!
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 8 2008, 7:46 PM BSTI have a Charizard! Was the highest evolution of a Squirtle...a Blastoise? What did you do to deserve such a punishment, Elliot!?
I may have hit my brother with a baseball bat. Or that might have been another time. That's the only thing from my youth that I can remember which would have deserved such a punishment.
That's probably not the case though. Chances are I did something more minor with relation to the card and was absolutely destroyed for the baseball bat thing...
And it was Blastoise, duh 
I knew it was a Blastoise...I was just trying to hide that I did so instantly. 
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 8 2008, 7:54 PM BSTI knew it was a Blastoise...I was just trying to hide that I did so instantly.
This is the internet there is no need to hide a liking for Pokemon here.
I don't think it's *that* acceptable, even here!
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 8 2008, 7:56 PM BSTI don't think it's *that* acceptable, even here!
I think you'll find Pokemon is acceptable everywhere. Everyone played Pokemon, anyone who says otherwise is old or a liar.
Quote: Rachel @ June 8 2008, 7:48 PM BSTYour mum sounds sadistic Elliot.
Sadistic would've been tearing it in half. This was firm but fair. I think...
Quote: PhQnix @ June 8 2008, 7:59 PM BSTI think you'll find Pokemon is acceptable everywhere. Everyone played Pokemon, anyone who says otherwise is old or a liar.
Or both.
Quote: PhQnix @ June 8 2008, 7:44 PM BSTI have a Charizard. From when Charizard was way cool and the most powerful card in the game.
However my Mum put a little rip in it as a punishment.
That's vandalism! I hope that you cut her favourite dress/top?
Maybe that's what he did to be punished!
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 8 2008, 7:56 PM BSTI don't think it's *that* acceptable, even here!
Correct.
See-only Laura verification is slightly higher than that.
Quote: Aaron @ June 8 2008, 8:04 PM BST
I didn't think retribution would've been a good idea at the time...
Quote: Aaron @ June 8 2008, 8:06 PM BSTCorrect.
Too old.
Aaron's not old, though!
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 8 2008, 8:10 PM BSTAaron's not old, though!
He's Tory, angry at the French, photographed only in sepia and has been heard to claim "all modern music is rubbish!"
He's practically a pensioner.