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AIBU to think that a 13 yr old is too old to belive in santa?

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gothicangel · 14/12/2011 15:07

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073907/Christmas-list-Spoilt-girl-13-demands-presents-says-Santa-Claus-die.html

13 really! your going to "kill" santa?

and her mum lets her talk this way!

what do you all think? x

OP posts:
G1nger · 14/12/2011 16:06

Do you all realise the Daily Mail is bollocks (you know, like Santa Claus)?

mathanxiety · 14/12/2011 16:07

That girl is one sandwich short of a picnic.

LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 14/12/2011 16:11

I've just read the article which reproduces the actual letter. She doesn't say she believes in Santa, and this whole debacle is quite clearly staged, (how does a letter get from a girl's bag into the Daily Mail without a little help from Mum?) and the girl's been made to look shit by the Fail aided and abetted by her own parent.

She wanted 'two' things on the list. Not all of them. She says that twice.

I think her Santa letter was just the product of a young teenage mind. And it was stuffed in her bag. Which is where her mother should have left it.

spiderpig8 · 14/12/2011 16:12

oh come on folfs they are taking the piss! don't you know some people will do anything for their 15 minutes of fame!

LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 14/12/2011 16:12

I also don't think parents should be allowed to stick their kids in the national newspapers to make them look bad.

cory · 14/12/2011 16:16

It is precisely the kind of tongue in cheek thing a 13yo would say as a joke without actually expecting anything at all. But thankfully most of them don't have the kind of mum who is so desperate for fame she will stick this in a national newspaper. What kind of parent roots through a 13yos school bag and reads her letters anyway? I am not convinced that the girl is a scowling madam who deserves a kick- but I can think of a few things that her mum deserves...

LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 14/12/2011 16:23

Exactly, cory.

I bet that mum will have her diary in the Mail on Sunday next.

BaublesandCuntingCarolSingers · 14/12/2011 16:30

That first picture of her in the article... I've never felt compelled to want to smack a teenager in the trap before, but I would make an exception here.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 14/12/2011 16:34

That's why it's horrible for her to have been staged like that for the photos.

exoticfruits · 14/12/2011 16:34

The mother is a nutcase-it is a teenage joke.

  1. mother shouldn't have read it.
  2. mother should have seen it for what it was.
3 going to the newspaper was the actions of a strange, attention seeker. 4.only the Daily Mail would have bothered with it-perhaps even they were short of news that day.
working9while5 · 14/12/2011 16:34

Do you reckon she did this alone for her mum to find and call the papers about, or that it is more likely that it is something that she and a mate had a giggle about it... I remember being 12 and a friend coming round at Christmas while we wrote up the most crazy End of Year lists, including such nonsense as which of my sister's My Little Ponies was the coolest (!!!) and grading our teachers, writing crazy wish lists and gossipy bits about others at school ("And the Flower of Hope Award goes to Mary Lacey for Wanting What She Cannot Get - Good Hair" Blush).

13 year olds are, well, pretty immature and often quite mean and silly too. I reckon she's done it in a free period at school or round at a mates having a laugh about it, her mother found it, they had a chat about it and a little lightbulb went on over Mum's head to say "ah, this is the sort of stuff they LOVE in the Daily Mail, maybe can make a few quid out of it". Photographer gets sent round to take pics and urges girl to scowl when really she's just chuffed she's going to be in the paper....

Most plausible scenario to me.

Gonzo33 · 14/12/2011 16:39

G1nger what do you mean Santa isn't real Xmas Shock

Disclaimer I don't read the daily fail

VickityBoo · 14/12/2011 16:53

I know a lad who was probably that age or maybe 14 when he really stopped believing. Perfectly happy and most definitely not spoiled boy. He just wanted a bit of magic to carry on. He wanted to believe it.

AnnieLobeseder · 14/12/2011 17:58

Sad that no-one is interested in my jolly festive song link.... (who? me? needy?)

JamieComeHome · 14/12/2011 18:11

What kind of mother exposes her child to the Daily Mail?

Silly cow

WilsonFrickett · 14/12/2011 18:19

I feel really sorry for her to be honest, it looks like teenage mucking around to me (fond memories of a naughty and nice list I wrote in second year Blush) and even if it is real, wtf is the mother doing putting her child in the paper?

GoingForGoalWeight · 14/12/2011 18:19

Annie, Xmas Grin @ video

LynetteScavo · 14/12/2011 18:20

The letter is obviously a joke.

So is the mother.

exoticfruits · 14/12/2011 19:29

Actually I found it in the Times too (they must all be short of news).

VFVF · 14/12/2011 19:48

Why has nobody laughed at life and sole of the party yet?

4c4good · 14/12/2011 19:58

A three year old should not be encouraged to believe in Father Christmas, let alone a 13 yo.

andaPontyinaPearTreeeeee · 14/12/2011 20:17

I like what the comment said about taking her to a soup kitchen.

JackMatthias · 14/12/2011 21:27

I'm more concerned about the child's rabid sense of entitlement than I am about whether or not she believes in St Nick

tigerdriverII · 14/12/2011 21:31

pair of attention seekers

Ihavewelliesbutitssunny · 14/12/2011 21:46

If I knew that girl I would be tempted to refer to her as Meerkat Xmas Grin