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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To think all noisy toys, by law, should have an off switch?!!

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Molehillmountain · 12/02/2012 19:16

All efforts at creeping out of dd2s room were ruined by stepping on pointless, annoying caterpillar which then sang 'que sera sera' of all things. Loudly and slowly.

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BeaMinor · 12/02/2012 20:21

Totally agree! Ive just kindly donated my DD's non-switch-off-able elephant to the local hospital. Am I evil?!

countessbabycham · 12/02/2012 20:27

Kveta in my book a good revenge present is a really complicated craft kit of some sort,preferably involving plaster of paris and paint.Then keep asking if they've done it yet and ask to see the results......

countessbabycham · 12/02/2012 20:29

Has anyone ever had that ducks game,where they endlessly go round the circular pond quacking?I think it has an on off switch but really needs a self destruct button..........

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Molehillmountain · 12/02/2012 20:31

Oh yes! So many lovely ways to enact revenge!

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Kveta · 12/02/2012 20:34

ha ha, so many options :o I think I will investigate a noisy book, with lots of buttons. Something really obnoxious. then a plaster of paris kit for his second birthday, moonsand for his 3rd, and a jigsaw book for his 4th :o

startail · 12/02/2012 20:35

YANBU
To be fair DDs stupid cat does, but you have to rummage the battery box out of it's innards to get to it. By then it's woken every one up.

Only my DSIL should be allowed to play the recorder, her nieces should not!

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Molehillmountain · 12/02/2012 20:37

Moonsand and when they're a bit older-sylvanian families. Figures tiny-knives and forks....

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countessbabycham · 12/02/2012 20:43

Definately Sylvanian Families and Polly Pockets ("Mummy,will you put this , this ,and this on her....)

WorraLiberty · 12/02/2012 20:49

Kids by law should also have an off switch!

Panzee I can't stop laughing at "I'LL GRAB THE HOSE"

Tonksforthememories · 12/02/2012 20:49

Those fisher price pull along ducks, quackquackfuckingquack ours found themselves in a local skip after they went off at 4am once too often!

DS's Scout puppy is currently batteryless after it kept going off when he rolled on in his sleep.

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Molehillmountain · 12/02/2012 20:52

There's just no need to even be as obviously annoying as to buy a drum kit. Subtle is the way!! I am about my naive mistakes as a childless present giver. Jigsaw books, hate them as I do now, we're a fave "it's a book and jigsaws-two gifts in one"! And craft kits a plenty too. Mind you, I did do them with the godchild when I visited (senses a cunning plan by god child's mum)

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Molehillmountain · 12/02/2012 20:53

Is scout violet puppy's brother? We can't seem to find the right batteries to replace hers...

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Tonksforthememories · 12/02/2012 20:57

Yes, and i'm not trying too hard to find batteries either! :o

DesperatelySeekingSedatives · 12/02/2012 21:33

I rue the day I Santa bought DD the ZingZillas' guitar.

I usually get the fun job of scaling the piles of crap in DD's room to switch off her CD player after she's fallen asleep and seem to always step on something, often the fucking guitar which bellows "Zingzillas!Yeah!" really fucking loudly. That's bad enough, but then it'll randomly keep SHOUTING stuff for the next 10 minutes or so. Luckily DD is a heavy sleeper

Tryingtostaycalm · 22/08/2012 23:36

The Zingzillas guitar should be banned! Often hear my partner tidying toys late at night and then swearing loudly after it goes off. Again.

Busyoldfool · 22/08/2012 23:46

One Christmas my DS got three five engines: a little one, a middle- sized one and a great big daddy one and they ALL made horrible loud siren-y noises.

olibeansmummy · 23/08/2012 08:03

Zhuzhu pets have to be the most annoying toy surely?!

Psammead · 23/08/2012 08:09

I had to take Dd's light and sound Thomas away from her yesterday. She kept throwing the flipping thing into the cellar. I put it in the bottom of a box in the office and said she could have it back when she'd remembered how to treat her toys.

A couple of hs later she was howling for it. It was still in the office, alone and untouched. She did a massive scream 'Thoooooomaaaaaaas' at the top of her voice, and the fucking thing chugged. All. By. Itself.

Theae things are not normal.

Enfyshedd · 23/08/2012 08:55

DP bought his DN a little tin drum for his birthday as his DB (the dad) was a drummer and DP thought it would be cute (can you tell he didn't have any DC's then?).

2 days later, DP had a phonecall from his DB saying that if he ever got anything like that for DN again, then the drumstick would be inserted sideways. Considering his DB had a reputation for stabbing the lead singer of their band with his drumsticks when the singer messed with his kit during gigs, I think DP didn't want to take his chances!

ProPerformer · 23/08/2012 09:16

Ha ha am LOVING this thread!

If you think recorders are bad for a 3 year old.... Try an oboe!! (hastens to add that said oboe does not belong to 3 yr old DS but rather to me. He does have his own recorder but I am teaching him to play it properly now and the sound, while still not pleasant yet is bearable. I used to be semi-pro recorder player so when I saw one cheap in a charity shop just HAD to get it!)

I agree on Zingzillas microphone... So cute and entertaining when he plays with it, bloody irritating when set off by accident! We have loads of noisy toys but the 'worst' was a toy police car I bought DS in a charity shop. He saw it and loved it and so I got it for him - at the time I had no idea it made as noise as couldnt get it to work in the shop..... Well b*er me if as we were on the train going home if the blasted thing didn't suddenly really loudly start blaring a siren and shouting some nonsense!
DS of course loved it and had a bit of a tantrum when I immediately had to confiscate it.... After a week of him playing it the batteries were taken out ran out and could not be replaced!

EnglishGirlApproximately · 23/08/2012 09:24

Oh god I'm in for it aren't I?

I've always been the Aunt that buys drum kits, recorders, keyboards etc.

Ds is 5 months old - my family are going to love this Christmas aren't they?!

Scholes34 · 23/08/2012 09:26

My friend's DH just unscrewed the toy, cut the wires and screwed it back together again.

honeytea · 23/08/2012 09:27

Best revenge present is that disgusting slime you can buy in a put, you can push it and it makes a farting sound, you can trow it at the wall and it sticks leaving a big stain it allways ends up in the child's hair/school uniform/cat's tail/sofa and it only costs a pound!

Bosgrove · 23/08/2012 10:22

We were given a present one Christmas which kept making noises under the tree. It turned out to be a toy kettle which made a boiling noise every time it wasn't upright. It doesn't have a volume control nor an off switch, and my 3DC seem to be unable to put it away upright. I hated it, my Dsis when clearing out her toy cupboard tried to give my DC another one and seemed supprised when I tried to say NO.

A visiting child seemed to like the kettle, so I said that he could take it to play with at home. I am generous that way.

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