To want unauthorised children's leave spaces to go to the next place in the queue?

[angelos02]

If you value your children's education so lowly, I assume you don't mind their space being taken?

Is the OP a random word generator btw... once I was on a thread which looked from the title like a parking thread, but the short erratic posts seemed to be an OP testing reactions to the output of some kind of pseudo AI computer programme which produced grammatically correct but somehow odd sentences on a theme, and picked up frequently occurring words used on the thread to include in its own posts...

Although as the OP has no opinion on doughnuts and brought chav flying babies in utterly at random probably not.

OP non term time is school holiday - that's why there were so many school children as well as chav babies on your non term time flight :o

Yes money - real coffee made in a coffee machine. Would you like some?

Or are you trying to tell me I shouldn't view this as talking :o This is where I come to speak English to adults... :o

Communal thread reading would be a logistical nightmare.

Imagine all the people skipping ahead, and someone pipes up "Oi, I missed some of those posts while I was off getting a custard doughnut!"
"Well it serves you right for eating such a monstrosity! Why didn't you get jam?!"
"What's this about Christmas pudding?"

I had mince pies with custard for breakfast the other morning.

Here's my secret confession. I love Christmas things in the shops as early as possible, just so I can buy Christmas pudding to eat with custard. I had my first one of the year in August.

Its been on radio recently local government agree its simply not working and its penalising the poor who have little chance of a break anyway. Which of course it is. Hopefully it will be over turned soon.

FWIW I think the whimsical is important as much as hard facts and history and all the rest. Themeparks are as much part of the human landscape as anything else and its great to see places

I live in Germany and there is no angst about it for the opposite reason - it is just not something anyone I have met ever even considers doing

I suppose there is not so much need perhaps? Easy access to other EU countries, all cheaper than the UK, plenty to do in Germany too, all far cheaper than here and with better weather.

Last time I was on a plane with, naturally, impeccably mannered DCs conversing in non-chav BBC English, there was a tiff in the row ahead due to a passenger's ample derrière consuming half the neighbour's seat, cutting off the blood supply in the neighbour's leg and owner of derrière complaining to cabin crew that neighbour had dared to politely raise the issue of said leg with her.

So angelos, Chav label aside, I think I know which age of passenger I'd rather be sat next to.

And Xmas pud starts at Xmas, lasting through January (microwaved), not before.

Some things are cheaper yes Drastic - theme park and zoo type things being a notable "free time" one (PlaymobileLand is easily a full day's entertainment and is €9 a ticket, €3 in winter, Munich zoo is as good as any I've been to elsewhere and is €17 for a day ticket for one parent and as many children as they can prove live at the same address as you - which is something you never get in the UK!) but other things are more expensive - I live in the most expensive part of Germany and rents, for example, are higher than many parts of the UK - comparable to the S.E of England in Munich, though not quite London. Food bills actually are no longer cheaper than the UK - some things are cheaper and others more expensive so it evens out.

Close to other EU countries yes - that is a brilliant advantage. But the same incentive as in the UK to take non term time holidays price wise - when our kids were 5 (not yet school age here), 3 and a baby we had two weeks in Italy at a lovely site with multiple heated pools and all sorts on Lake Garda in term time for €300 - now we have to go in school holidays we are priced off that site, where a week is over €1000 in term time, and usually shop around and find 10 days for €900 at a cheaper, slightly less fancy Eurocamp style campsite. So we can still get a good, cheapish family holiday, but its not that there would be no reason to take the kids out of school - people just don't. Also there would be no other school age kids running ferral about for them to pal about with so nobody wants to go for that reason - Germans don't think letting your school age kids make friends on holiday is some kind of child neglect issue the way MN threads often indicate UK MNers do :o

*sorry a week is over €1000 in school holiday time - but 2 weeks is 1/3 of that amount in term time.

They sell brilliant home made ice cream but no doughnuts or Christmas pudding so of no interest to anyone here anyway I expect :o

I agree Rugby I've never been on a plane where children caused any real problem or inconvenience, and I've flown quite a lot esp pre kids. The worst people to be on planes with are adults who managed not to seem too drunk to be allowed to board, or got drunker on the flight... Actually a very well dressed and immaculately presented young woman in her 20s stands out in my mind - she actually climbed over her seat in the row in front into the empty middle seat next to me to try to chat up/ to a scared looking business man sitting pretending to be asleep in the window seat on a flight I was on, and made a pain of herself the whole flight - getting told off and sternly warned by flight attendants before getting up and wandering around the plane to pester other people, and standing and loudly telling the whole section of the plane how boring we all were... slurring slightly...

Iliked- yes, it is good for children to stop strangling each other make new friends on hol so obviously no point (euro)camping in term time for that!

Lovely part of the world you live in - I lived by the Chiemsee long time ago but obviously no year round doughnut supply there.