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AIBU?

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AIBU to want my DS to be a pirate rather than a king or a telly tubby?

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Iggity · 18/09/2013 23:39

DS has just started reception and has been invited to an all class party. It is fancy dress with a pirate theme. He point blank refuses to dress up as a pirate so will be returning pirate costume to shop tomorrow.

He wants to be a king or will settle for being a telly tubby. Someone has loaned me a king outfit and we already own a telly tubby outfit but suspect it might be on the small side.

He is one of the few who didn't attend school nursery and I know at 4.5 yrs, he won't care what people think (and I am proud of him for this) but I don't want other children etc laughing at him.

I was considering just sending him in ordinary clothes. AIBU?

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WorraLiberty · 18/09/2013 23:41

Send him as a king

I really don't think anyone's going to be that bothered

The kids will of course point out that he's not a pirate, but I'm sure they'll probably forget all about it after that.

thedreadpirateroberts · 18/09/2013 23:42

Yanbu. Tis international talk like a pirate day tomorrow. Aaaar.

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Iggity · 18/09/2013 23:46

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3birthdaybunnies · 18/09/2013 23:51

Agree kings can be kind of justified as they were sending ships to fight pirates. Don't remember the telly tubby scene in Pirates of the Caribbean.

shushmonster · 19/09/2013 01:10

You could do a combination of the two and he could be the King of the pirates !!!!

Thanks for the reminder Pirateroberts, I love Talk like a Pirate day aargh !!!!!

ZingWantsCake · 19/09/2013 01:36

King's better.

I don't get the fascination with pirates - after all they are just reckless criminals who are not afraid to torture and kill people.

international talk like a pirate day? seriously? wtf?

next there will be a cookery course titled "learn to slice with Jack the Ripper"

TiggyD · 19/09/2013 08:41

How about a pirate king?

It is, it is a wonderful thing to be a pirate king.

mikulkin · 19/09/2013 11:36

King is fine! close enough to pirate theme :)

mrsfuzzy · 19/09/2013 11:44

mum! don't send me in normal clothes because i will really stand out, i would like to be a king and most of all have a fab time at the party! hope your ds has lots of fun!

SavoyCabbage · 19/09/2013 11:47

He could be the Pirate King from the pirates of Penzance.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7SVMVrick

mrsfuzzy · 19/09/2013 11:47

zing, we know what you mean, but it's a bit of fun at the end of the day, i bet there are a few mn's that fancied johnny depp as captain jack sparrow!

NeoMaxiZoomDweebie · 19/09/2013 12:25

Send him as a Pirate King

froken · 19/09/2013 12:32

I think you should send him ad a teletubby king!

noblegiraffe · 19/09/2013 12:36

King, yes, telly tubby = social suicide.
I bet there'll be at least one princess. My niece wouldn't dress as a pirate and wanted to be a princess for a pirate party she went to.

Lweji · 19/09/2013 12:38

Yes, send him in normal clothes a striped t-shirt and some cropped trousers

Lweji · 19/09/2013 12:38

Arr

RedPencils · 19/09/2013 12:41

Let him go as a king. No one will laugh.
Ime all the costume prop like hats, bandanas, swords and stuff get lost give minutes after you arrive and they all end up running around in shirts and tees.

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Iggity · 19/09/2013 12:43

Thank you for your comments. It is actually a pirates and princess party. I suspect he wants to go as a princess as he only mentioned going as a king after seeing the invitation. I'm still undecided.

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stubbornstains · 19/09/2013 12:45

Pirates were often badly treated seamen (most 17th-18thC seamen would have been badly treated from a modern POV!) or escaped slaves, who had little option but to set up on their own and earn their livings through hijack and violence. On board a pirate ship, life would have been considerably more egalitarian than on board a naval frigate. Also, pirates only took willing volunteers, as opposed to Our Glorious Navy.

An ex-boyfriend who was a sea captain used to get similarly twitchy at the joky representation of pirates though, having encountered the modern ones once or twice he claimed to have killed one.

stubbornstains · 19/09/2013 12:48

Ha, DS's birthday party was shared with a little female friend, and the theme was pirates and princesses. All hail to the ONE little girl who came as a pirate!

WilsonFrickett · 19/09/2013 12:57

Then let him go as a Princess!

Really CBA with gendered parties age 4.

Therealamandaclarke · 19/09/2013 13:24

Let him choose. King would be way better than telly tubby
You can tell the others he s a pirate king if that helps.

zing pirates are great. Sea shanties, ham night, climbing the riggin' yo- HO HO and a bottle o' rum me hearties. Go on, you know you want to.

Aargh! Shiver me timberrrrs capt'n

Therealamandaclarke · 19/09/2013 13:30

Not real ones mind. Just the literary ones.

JacqueslePeacock · 19/09/2013 13:32

If he wants to go as a princess, then let him go as a princess.

BinarySolo · 19/09/2013 13:33

Oh. From the title I was hoping this was going to be the oddest nativity ever.

Yarr!

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