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AIBU?

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to think that an Ouija Board on a "family attraction" website is completely unsuitable?!

19 replies

LutonMum · 10/05/2011 18:17

My daughter is about to celebrate her 13th birthday and wants us to take her and a group of friends for a day out in London. She is looking online at all the different tourist attractions and calls me over and says she wants to visit the London dungeon, which I thought was fine until I see her watching a video about seancing on their site with a link to download an Ouija Board?! Maybe I'm being too prudish, but surely a place that is meant to be a "family attraction" should not have this kind of material on their website?

www.the-dungeons.co.uk/london/en/plan-your-visit/safe-seancing.htm

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beesimo · 10/05/2011 18:21

I think they are evil wicked things that can cause untold misery to people who become involved with them and they should be completely banned.

Hassled · 10/05/2011 18:21

I went there a few months ago - can't remember ouija but it scared the bejaysus out of the younger DSs - we had to leave rapidly.
The Great Fire bit - they put you in a dark room that smells of smoke and you listen to the sound of people screaming.

worraliberty · 10/05/2011 18:23

I think they're a load of old bollocks but that aside...I don't know if YABU are not. Kids see ads for lots of things on the internet.

LaurieFairyCake · 10/05/2011 18:24

I don't like Oiuja boards as I don't think it's funny for impressionable teenagers to play - I've never heard anything good about them - in fact I think they can be very frightening.

However, the London Dungeon is an attraction for much older children - think they don't recommend it to under 12's so I guess there (misguided) rational is that it's not aimed at young kids.

I'm also in the camp that think that showing 18 horrors to underagers is very stupid though.

strandedbear · 10/05/2011 18:30

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Snorbs · 10/05/2011 18:32

Sorry, I don't get what's so bad about a ouija board. Can someone explain?

diabolo · 10/05/2011 18:32

Ouija boards are bloody scary, real or not. I don't know if it was fake or not, but me and a group of friends were scared witless by one at age 13, on a YHA trip, so much so that half of the girls went screaming to the teachers in the middle of the night. Avoid at all costs!

That said, the London Dungeon is a top attraction at my school for the Year 8's - they loved the Sweeney Todd stuff.

bittersweetvictory · 10/05/2011 18:32

Oiuji boards are scary shit and not toys, i just got a horrible flash back from my childhood ( shiver ) when me and my sis used my grannys one.

AgentZigzag · 10/05/2011 18:32

hehe it's just a crappy board game, not real.

Or have you been watching too many films and remembering the 'oooo don't mess with the ouija boards, they're eeeevviiiilll' your friends said when you were 12?

LaurieFairyCake · 10/05/2011 18:33

There's nothing bad (imo) about the bit of cardboard Snorbs - its the daft teenagers who scare themselves shitless over them

I've heard of drunken, hysterical tales of teenagers harming themselves (running into traffic while drunk) as they had scared themselves.

Mumofaflump · 10/05/2011 18:42

At the risk of being ridiculed for my beliefs Ouiga Boards are NOT toys. They are dangerous.

squeakytoy · 10/05/2011 18:44

The Dungeons are a superb attraction, great fun and interesting too. I cant see the relevance of the ouija board though as it has nothing to do with Londons history.

Mumofaflump · 10/05/2011 18:46

Sorry, Ouija. Not Ouiga!

AgentZigzag · 10/05/2011 18:48

Dangerous how mumofaflump?

Snorbs · 10/05/2011 18:52

"I've heard of drunken, hysterical tales of teenagers harming themselves (running into traffic while drunk) as they had scared themselves."

Well, yes, but on the other hand there is a thread running on MN at the moment about similar apocryphal stories. Anyway, I have personally witnessed a drunk teenager harming himself by running into traffic with no need for a ouija board or anything else to spur him on other than booze.

If one of my DCs got drunk and then did something stupid because they'd scared themselves with a ouija board then my finger of blame would be pointing squarely at my child (and, depending on age, whoever had procured the booze) rather than a toy.

TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 10/05/2011 18:54

Oh FFS. They're just some cardboard and a glass.

southeastastra · 10/05/2011 18:55

morrissey wrote a particularly shite record about a ouija board as an aside

squeakytoy · 10/05/2011 18:57

I agree with Snorbs. It is no different to ghost hunting, tarot cards or any other sort of random spiritual thing, it just depends on if you believe in it or not. All a bit Harry Potter really as far as kids would be concerned.

diabolo · 10/05/2011 19:25

Well I've never had Tarot cards spell out "YOU WILL DIE TONIGHT", but I appreciate being 13, with a bunch of 13 year old girls and using one, has affected my thoughts on the matter.

Interestingly though, I DIDN'T die. Thank Goodness.

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