wibu to buy nephew very noisy christmas presents

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My two daughters (7 and 10) spent the day with my mil and had a great time. MIL took them to see my sil and their baby cousin who is two. They came home with a humongous didgeridoo that sil apparently didn't have space for! DD1 is now playing it with great enthusiasm and gusto. Would it be bad of me to get sil's son some very noisy things? Maybe a drum kit, or something electronic where you can't turn off the sound or take out the batteries?

Tesco sell a small police car that has no off switch and the siren just keeps going on a loop if you hold the button down. It's ridiculously loud and gets incredibly annoying very quickly which is why I removed the batteries within two days of FIL buying one for my DS

I agree with those bastard toot toot drivers too.

The penguin race is the worst noisy toy I know. It is devious, it's almost ok to start with and drives you round the bend very quickly. I have never seen an under 10 who doesn't love the penguin race, so it's appeal will last for years!

Reni2 You mean the best noisy you!

*noisy toy DAMN BLOODY PHONE

Agree, penguin race is evil and the tune it plays is an ear worm that will follow you about for the rest of the day. And it had no volume control either, so it's louder than anything!

I think it's time for some christmas shopping! I might hold back a little, as sil is usually reasonably considerate in her christmas shopping. Actually, it's just turned 9am and dd1 has appeared in the front room with the didgeridoo. Revenge shall be mine!!

Are those toot toot drivers really that annoying?!!! I was gonna get them for my 1yo for Christmas! Will I be regretting that decision by the 26th of December

Yes, Andrew, best in these circumstances ! Do not let your dds see it, op, they will play with it too and buy one from their pocket money if you are unlucky.

DS has just received a soft toy monkey that when his hand is pressed he laughs manically and very loudly and farts.

Continuously.

Until his hand gets pressed again

m.youtube.com/watch?v=A6fc9vTTG0Y

Penguin race. I was hearing that bloody noise in my sleep. It suffered quite the accident.

Very U.
I have a toddler and we're overrun with crap that makes those extremely annoying electronic sounds. People think this is supposed to be 'educational'

That penguin race. Just thinking about it... I will never get that noise out of my head. Never.

I just wonder why it is so universally popular among children. It doesn't do anything interesting, you cannot do anything with it except go bonkers at the noise and it really just is an escalator and a slide. Plastic penguins go up meep meep meep meep meep meep, and then they slide down. Why is that fun ?

The only thing I can think of it mimics the bodies natural rhythm so can be quite mesmerising maybe for the young.

Other than that, not a clue

I bought penguin race for dh for Christmas a while ago. Apparently he never had one as a kid. loser I'd forgotten how bastardly noisy they are.

Buy a ride on toy fire engine. We got one for my godson a while ago. It neenaws so loudly. And has flashing lights. And a horn.

It's --annoying as fuck// amazing

Oh the bloody penguin race!!

It took me nearly a week to work out which song it was screeching.

Absolutely YANBU.

When DD was about 5 BIL bought her potters wheel. I was cleaning bloody clay off of door knobs, walls and surfaces for days.

His LO got a drum kit at the next available opportunity!

How about a proper descant recorder? There is no sound on earth worse than an over-blown descant recorder - and no child who is able to play one without overblowing it!

I actually think that primary school recorder choirs should be banned under the Geneva Convention. Even the Americans shunned them, at Guantanamo Bay, as being too cruel.

Remember when the Americans used rock music at full belt to get Noriega out of sanctuary? I thought then and think now that an endless loop of Kenneth McKellar singing the Skye Boat Song would have done the job more quickly.

Or 20 seven-year-olds playing Old MacDonald had a Farm, over and over again, all at different speeds and slightly different pitches, with the obligatory squawks as someone overblows.

I'm liking the penguin race idea and a record is evil genius. DD1 is showing great prowess at didgeridoo playing. She makes a very loud, deep and penetrating noise!

In the interests of this thread, I have just shown my Dd, 2.8years said penguin video! She was mesmerised. Accompanied by look mama, a penguin, there he goes, wheeee, we can watch together mama, look mama.
Do it. Do it now.