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To think this is vile

336 replies

Ispywith · 15/11/2012 18:18

To get a child of 7 for Christmas their own Xbox, tv & DVD player bla bla bla. Saw it on thread about what people are getting their kids got Christmas. Is it me or is this madness?

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RudolphUcker · 16/11/2012 19:55

What nastiness? Did I miss some?

RudolphUcker · 16/11/2012 19:59
Wink
BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 20:00

Rudolph, I said that surreymummy was the new xenia.

But I didn't say cunt.

Or frog.

PickledFanjoCat · 16/11/2012 20:01

It's the most magical time of the yeeeeeear. SmileSmile

PickledFanjoCat · 16/11/2012 20:01

I'm too new for Xenia I think but she sounds a treat.

RudolphUcker · 16/11/2012 20:03

Does that count as repulsive now then?

VILE. ALL OF YOU. VILE.

The whole thread is as mad as a box of frogs

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 20:03

She's around. Just start a thread saying that you want to give up a high powered job to be a sahm. Its like a siren call to her.

RudolphUcker · 16/11/2012 20:06

Or AIBU to think that poor people can't be hungry cos they're quite fat really. That should do it.

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 20:06

Shock I'm tellin' on you. You... Sexist... No, that's not right... Ageist.... Nooooo.... Racialist. That's it!

PoppyAmex · 16/11/2012 20:06

Or that you are in the market for an island

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 20:07

Or, I don't care whether my dc go to university, and I think you're daft if you do.

RudolphUcker · 16/11/2012 20:07

I am a racialamalist monster. And offensive to boxes.

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 20:10

OMG I can't believe that post is still there! Why doesn't mnhq CARE

PickledFanjoCat · 16/11/2012 20:10

Wait.. What about living with someone without being married and wanting child support? Would that do it? I think I have a memory.

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 20:12

Yes, that should alert her.

BOFingSanta · 16/11/2012 20:15

I think quirrelquarrel made a very sensible point actually. But I may be biased, as I love dolls' houses.

RudolphUcker · 16/11/2012 20:15

I could start something about private schools all being bollocks

LizzieVereker · 16/11/2012 20:17

I think you should all take a leaf out of my book. I have whittled an x Box out of locally sourced, fair trade, sustainable wood approved by the Soil Soceity. Using my various PHDs in everything, I have programmed it to play only one game in which the player has to decline Latin verbs. When my DCs have broadened their knowledge sufficiently we will donate it to the Workhouse.

BOFingSanta · 16/11/2012 20:18

No no no, you are all missing the point. If Xenia is around, she can make anything about how we need more high-powered working women. The challenge is to get her to say it on your mooncup thread.

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 16/11/2012 20:18

Bof, if I bought ds a dolls house he would not be impressed.

PickledFanjoCat · 16/11/2012 20:19

Couldn't you have a cellar full of zombies?

RudolphUcker · 16/11/2012 20:20

We will welcome her to the XF fred, to talk WOHM power politics.

We have Sylvanian houses. They're more plastic than I'd like, but they are sweet. I covet a three-floor Sindy townhouse for my own self.

PoppyAmex · 16/11/2012 20:21

Just this question will do:
How much do you earn?

BOFingSanta · 16/11/2012 20:23

DP bought a dolls' house in a charity shop. He intends to make metal shutters for the windows and rig it out as a crack den.

BegoniaBampot · 16/11/2012 20:23

but quirrel - i assume a 7 yr old won't have any idea the price of an x box and tv. how is that different from you spending a fortune on a dolls house which your child has no idea to the cost, mumble, mumble- feeling a bit thick, mumble, mumble...

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