Quote: Pete @ December 8 2008, 6:32 PM GMTYou live close to people that get their kids ponies from santa...but can't get your kids a DS?
Do your neighbours have a petition running to have you moved on?
The child is too young to use the NintendoDS, so it would be a waste of money.
How do you know the neighbours with the ponies aren't travellers? 
Too young to use it but old enough to ask the question???? My 4 year old has a DS.....if the neighbours have ponies why do you let your kids mix with pikies?
Quote: Pete @ December 8 2008, 6:43 PM GMTToo young to use it but old enough to ask the question???? My 4 year old has a DS.....if the neighbours have ponies why do you let your kids mix with pikies?
The power of advertising.
Either the child wouldn't use the DS, so it would be a waste of money. If they did I don't think it's appropriate from a health or educational stand point.
My neighbours aren't 'pikies' that was a joke.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ December 8 2008, 6:51 PM GMTMy neighbours aren't 'pikies' that was a joke.
But theirs are.
Quote: Aaron @ December 8 2008, 6:54 PM GMTBut theirs are.
Yes. I'm an organic food eating, Victorian novel reading, Tuscan villa-holidaying pikey and proud of it.
Well I know which of the three I approve of. 
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ December 8 2008, 6:51 PM GMTI don't think it's appropriate from a health or educational stand point.
Parents wrap their kids in cotton wool IMO...you have to let them be exposed to some risks. Maybe start them out with an etch a sketch and if they stay out of casualty move onto kerplunk?
Quote: Pete @ December 8 2008, 7:11 PM GMTParents wrap their kids in cotton wool IMO...you have to let them be exposed to some risks. Maybe start them out with an etch a sketch and if they stay out of casualty move onto kerplunk?
Kerplunk? Are you crazy? What sort of paren't allows their child to even know about Kerplunk? Even Fuzzy Felt is a choking hazard. In our house we play with flash cards and practice the harp when we're not doing homework or sewing mosquito nets for third world children. Though why we do the third world children's homework is beyond me...
Quote: Griff @ December 8 2008, 6:31 PM GMT
Infairness Mr Ace never promises his kids very much, beyond braying and microchips.
Both of which he provides.
Talking about pikeys, what became of Michael Carroll?
*ponders*
Quote: Nigel Kelly @ December 8 2008, 7:27 PM GMTTalking about pikeys, what became of Michael Carroll?
*ponders*
Wasn't he mates with Jonny 'Mad Dog' Adair? They are probably on the run together spending all his money on drugs and rent boys.
Quote: Ned1984 @ December 8 2008, 7:29 PM GMTWasn't he mates with Jonny 'Mad Dog' Adair? They are probably on the run together spending all his money on drugs and rent boys.
Quite possibly.
Quote: zooo @ December 8 2008, 4:06 PM GMTIn my own case, if I were to have kids, I would tell them something like some people believe in Santa and some don't, nobody really knows... leave a bit of excitement and mystery.
That's a good idea.
We were 16.
I may have my eyes closed but I've formed a fist, maybe just in case that hand slips a little further north.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ December 8 2008, 6:20 PM GMTWell when they ask Father C for a pony and a Nintendo DS and a miniature kitchen and a new bike and you say they can't have it, you then have to explain why they can't and why so-snd-so who does have it, does.
Also I have very bright, but sometimes strange, offspring.
Put them into care. Then it's the social services job to get them presents.
