Cute Nice Things

Damn it Marks right this is a family forum and we should respect that! You bastards!

Now I can't think of a better way to spend a family type day than... shopping for something for an event and never using it EG a £100 BBQ that ends up rusting away in the back garden after one use.

Anyone else have an interesting yet pointless way of spending time with their families?

PS - Also playing monopoly and everyone changing the rules... read the rule book!

PSS - Aaron or Ellie change this title to cute family things, if ruby see's this she'll have a shit fit at me when there aren't pictures of bunny rabbits...

We used to play Monopoly but mum always bought everything and won, and then we switched to Upwords, which is like Scrabble but you can put tiles on top of each other. So, for instance, you could make "Cut" into "But" by putting a B on top of the C. Cue my brother, aged about 7 or 8, seeing "Duck" on the board, protesting profusely that he "didn't know what the word meant", having put an F down on the D...Yeah, then that game stopped too.

Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 9 2009, 12:51 PM BST

We used to play Monopoly but mum always bought everything and won, and then we switched to Upwords, which is like Scrabble but you can put tiles on top of each other. So, for instance, you could make "Cut" into "But" by putting a B on top of the C. Cue my brother, aged about 7 or 8, seeing "Duck" on the board, protesting profusely that he "didn't know what the word meant", having put an F down on the D...Yeah, then that game stopped too.

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It sounds like a recipe for mischief.

Not cute and not nice - whenever your entire family has to travel somewhere using an airport. Hated it as a kid, hate it even more as an adult.

Mum's have a major spaz attack over passports, tickets and luggage for at least a week before hand, then make you late for the flight.

Dad's usually end up f**ked off, yell at everyone and create fantasies of jumping on the next plane and leaving it all behind.

Kids go ape shit because they're in a new environment and there's a McDonalds.

Elderly people might as well as be on Mars for the first time as they wander aimlessly around the terminal constantly bemused and bewildered.

Just bloody awful.

Not as awful as something I just thought of.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ May 9 2009, 1:49 PM BST

Elderly people might as well as be on Mars for the first time as they wander aimlessly around the terminal constantly bemused and bewildered.

Just bloody awful.

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I'm 66 and I'm only 'bemused and bewildered' at your blinkered vision of 'elderly people'.

Quote: Morrace @ May 9 2009, 7:33 PM BST

I'm 66 and I'm only 'bemused and bewildered' at your blinkered vision of 'elderly people'.

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Air travel in your day was so much simpler though Morrace - a klaxxon would go off, someone would yell 'Scramble! Scramble!' and you'd all jump in your Spitfires to take out the Jerry Crates.