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to think that you shouldn't have 8 children if you are incapable of controlling them?

83 replies

froken · 06/09/2013 09:52

I have just watched an episode of in tge night garden where Mr and Mrs pontypine ( sp?) take their 8 children fora walk. Mr and Mrs pontypine were kissing snogging behind a rock. Their children climbed a tree and wouldn't come down.

Mr and Mrs pontypine had to go home without tge children ( again)

Aibu to think that maybe they should have stopped at 2 as they seem to have trouble controlling 8 children and have had to abandon them on multiple occasions? ;)

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ballinacup · 06/09/2013 13:57

I don't trust that Oopsy Daisy. My nan always told me to never trust a girl who flashes her knickers and spends her time with sailors.

AFishWithoutABicycle · 06/09/2013 14:07

MNHubbie I can't believe I didn't get it. I've seen ashes to ashes and lost you'd think I'd have seen it. God it's clever.

JoinYourPlayfellows · 06/09/2013 14:10

"My nan always told me to never trust a girl who flashes her knickers and spends her time with sailors."

:o

MNHubbie · 06/09/2013 14:20

Exactly Afish, same vein and genre. One form of drama posing as another (although Ashes to Ashes ended up being one form of drama posing as another whilst posing as yet another...).

nancerama · 06/09/2013 14:24

Given they sleep head to head I suspect they are doing everything they can to prevent any more joining their number.

MrsDeVere · 06/09/2013 16:22

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northernlurker · 06/09/2013 16:29

Beat thing about ITNG is the music. All else is madness.

JoinYourPlayfellows · 06/09/2013 16:29

The slutshaming of Upsy Daisy on this thread is outrageous!

QueenArseClangers · 06/09/2013 16:41

My lovely mother was convinced the Wottingers were named the 'Wankifers'.

JoinYourPlayfellows · 06/09/2013 16:46

They should be called the Wankifers.

There's something not quite right about that lot.

furfoxsake · 06/09/2013 16:48

I'm impressed they still FEEL like snogging behind a rock with 8 toddlers (am assuming toddlers due to language skills). The horny little imps.

CHJR · 06/09/2013 16:48

I wanna know how Mr and Mrs Pontypine apparently managed to keep up a kissing relationship with 8 DC around!!!! Mine won't even let me talk to DH sometimes!

CHJR · 06/09/2013 16:49

X post furfoxsake!

SamHamwidge · 06/09/2013 17:20

MakkaPakka has a serious case of ocd doesn't he? All that vigorous face washing and putting stones into nice little piles. He even sleeps with a stone!

MiaowTheCat · 06/09/2013 18:08

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Pobblewhohasnotoes · 06/09/2013 18:11

What about the Pontipines making their children carry their heavy table so they can have tea in the ninkynonk! Surely that needs reporting to SS.

LadyRainicorn · 06/09/2013 18:23

Mnhubbie please don't be my dh.

He has exactly the same theory.

DollyTwat · 06/09/2013 18:24

Totally agree op. I've also wondered about Ben 10's parents letting Grandpa Max take their young son out to be nearly killed on a daily basis by aliens. He's worn the same clothes for the whole if the trip and would be in need of some counselling due to his daily traumas

LadyRainicorn · 06/09/2013 18:29

Oh thank fuck for that. Mnhubbie is not my dh (unless the profile is a complete subterfuge). I was having s serious wibble on the tr a in home then.

Back on topic - why does dereck jacobi sound so horrified when he goes oh no it's the ninky nonk? He sounds like someone is shitting on his favourite chair.

Pachacuti · 06/09/2013 18:36

DollyTwat -- if you watch the live action Ben 10 movie Ben 10: Race Against Time it tackles both those questions. Ben's parents are ineffectual hippie types who are faintly appalled that Ben is spending so much time hanging around with Grandpa Max but believe that he has to be allowed to self-actualize, or something along those lines. And Ben tells Gwen that that's his lucky shirt so he insists on wearing it whenever possible, with scant regard paid to laundry.

spg1983 · 06/09/2013 18:50

Well I would like to know exactly Mr and Mrs Pontipine have been feeding their children - they all have chronic wind problems...

SPBisResisting · 06/09/2013 19:00

Ben 10 rarely wears his clothes for long though. 2 minutes in and they are neatly folded, in an M&S carrier bag, while he becomes....HEATBLAST

froken · 06/09/2013 19:03

I hadn't thought that maybe the children were octuplets, good point, obviously couldn't have stopped at 2 in that case.

Dsis and ds watched an episode of in the night garden at bedtime, the story was about kissing things so they grow, upsy daisy kissed a flower and it grew, then she kissed a tree and it grew, then she kissed iggle piggle..

As a side note my ds is called elf, he does also have a proper name which means elf but we call him elf, I'm glad the world is in need of elves :)

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SPBisResisting · 06/09/2013 19:08

ah the days of innocence

MNHubbie · 08/09/2013 20:17

Not guilty of being yours... I think.

The live action Ben 10 also shows the reason Ben is so badass is because his granddad was the 6 Million Dollar Man.

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