To think this is vile

[Ispywith]

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?

do you? I dont.

I've been traumatised all night. I've been snorting apostrophes.

This thread is a load of bollocks.

I miss Lego. The kids won't let me take it out any more .

mayrz, you can have ds if you want? he comes with crates of the bloody stuff.

Ok, will you take ds1 [hopeful]?

A doll's house has to be the most random suggestion ever for a 7 year old boy. Odd very odd.

we used to build lego assault courses and force the hamster through it. best was the little closed in tunnel. see that's what comes from being creative and old fashioned and having no games consuls. that poor hamster would've been untraumatised if we'd only had an xbox to pass the time on. did have an old green screen, poing, poing tennis thing that we thought was the height of sophistication though. got it for Christmas, the neighbours were probably tut tutting at the frivolousness of it all.

boys can like dolls' houses.

I got a zx spectrum when I was about 10.

Amazing it was!

begonia was it an amstrad? we had one of those.

I had a dewberry you plugged in the telly with two rectangles and a square ball.

This is why I can't use an apostrophe now innit.

I had an old wooden doll's house that dd and ds2 used to play with. They used the old MacDonalds toys.

You are probably all too young to remember, but about 12 to 15 years ago MacDonalds did a great line in miniature action men and barbies. They were fantastic, they fit the doll's house, they were great for holidays. They and the old wooden bricks and the doll's house made all sorts of action games possible. In fact they looked a bit like the buildings they soldiers trudge through in CoD.

I loved those games [nostalgic]

But how many actually do booyoo? And at 7? Ds would be utterly dismayed if I presented gif with a doll's house! I didn't even want a doll's house as a child. It just seems an utterly weird suggestion and I can't grasp exactly what is so great about them anyway?

I have to say, none of ds's friends would play with a dollshouse.

Mary, how grubby is he? Does he pick his nose?

No, but you would have to turn your house into a drug den. And he collects mouldy teacups and cigarette butts.

And eats fridgeful's of food at 2 am.

I think I was 7 when I got a speak and spell. Did me no good, I still can't fucking spell

well i dont know all the 7 year old boys in the world so i cant say how many. (odd question)

Lucie
It was an example
jesus christ

Who mentioned the Chalet School doll's houses - I remember those. the Playmobile big Egyptian Pyramid is a fabby and sort of like a Dolly's house that boys might go for.

I always wanted a big fuck off Hornby train set in the loft with a station and people and trees and animals and...

Was me- but they always sounded SO impossible for any schoolkid to make- electricity etc. My mum made a dollshouse which is amazingly complicated and detailed and it took her ages, much more than a year, and took up loads of her time.

I do give up with the gender bending on MN but I say, kids love to make their own- give them kid sized tools and bits of wood and teach them how to use it all- they'll surprise you with what they make!

Or give them a secondhand cupboard and a £20 voucher for materials to start them off with making/buying their own furniture. I had lots of cupboard dolls houses aw nostalgia

Yes ye are olde vile.

not me - MY - I hate my daft auto correct.

Point is quirrel a lot of kids will have both.

My nephew has consoles and we could also play outside with wood and so forth.

As soon as someone mentions x box on here sometimes incorrect assumptions are made.