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AIBU?

Advert showing santa/fc isn't real

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Voteforpedr0 · 29/09/2016 22:30

I can't quite believe that an advert like this would have been allowed ? Park christmas ad on the television this morning showing one families christmas eve at home, kids hang their stockings before bed then showing the mum filling them and eating the food left out for santa/Fc. Then goes on to show the kids catching this happening, any one else think this will be too much of a give away if it's watched by believing children ? Just not nessecary whatsoever I don't think.

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corythatwas · 30/09/2016 15:19

What's wrong with the joy of suspended disbelief. I come from a country where Father Christmas actually turns up in person. This means that even a fairly unobservant child will eventually notice that Uncle Oscar always seems to need to go out for a walk just before Santa gets there. I have never known this to spoil anyone's joy or sense of magic: the sense of magic is there because you are complicit in it; it's like going to the theatre or taking part in a show. I am 52; I get just as excited at the first glimpse of FC's lantern in the dark.

HeCantBeSerious · 30/09/2016 15:22

What's wrong with the joy of suspended disbelief

Nothing. But it doesn't have to take one form, cost hundreds thousands of pounds or require the rest of society to collide with you.

squoosh · 30/09/2016 15:22

I knew you'd be on this thread!

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 30/09/2016 15:24

YABU OP.

Let's be honest - this problem is completely of your own making. If you allow your children to watch television they are going to see evil, filthy things like this.

This is why I will not have a television, or any screens, in my house until DD is doing GCSEs.

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 30/09/2016 15:25

...........

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 30/09/2016 15:26

require the rest of society to collide with you

On the evidence of this thread, the rest of society is very much colliding with OP.........

SukeyTakeItOffAgain · 30/09/2016 15:27

It's still September

The madness has already begun.

HeCantBeSerious · 30/09/2016 15:27

Yes. Utter madness.

Tigsteroonie · 30/09/2016 15:28

It's easily explained. Santa/FC cannot deliver gifts etc during September just to suit a television advertisement, he's not ready, he's still making all the toys in his workshop. So the lady had to put the toys into the stockings instead, because Santa/FC was too busy.

SukeyTakeItOffAgain · 30/09/2016 15:31

I've said it before - I can't EVER remember believing in Father Christmas, though I must have done when I was very little, and I can't remember the dreadful bombshell of someone telling me "He's not real, you know". Most kids surely work it out for themselves and then go along with it, in the spirit of things.

Mind you, when I was young, parents didn't go to the truly ludicrous lengths than parents do now.

Mrsemcgregor · 30/09/2016 15:35

Awww how sad. It would be lovely if putting children's belief in magic was put above making money. Unfortunately it never will be. Vote with your custom and don't ever use them.

redskytonight · 30/09/2016 15:38

Surely you tell your DC that this is what happens when you put up your stockings in September?

DiegeticMuch · 30/09/2016 15:50

Can't stand Park and their ilk, so I agree with the OP on that basis alone lol

Butteredparsn1ps · 30/09/2016 16:00

The magic is ruined by adverts in September.

OTOH I have never actually admitted that FC isn't real. Something my older DC, aged 18 & 21 try to exploit

I can't imagine many small children being glued to an advert for park.

Wordsaremything · 30/09/2016 16:04

Great! Anything that busts the myth is to be welcomed. I knew from about 4 at nursery it was all a farrago of nonsense - saw the elastic holding the beard in place - yet had to keep pretending. Never had any satisfying answers to why there were so many of them, either.

I suppose to a more credulous child, it might be rather a shock, but so what? All they care about is the mountains of plastic toys they get , surely?

Why is there so much hysteria about Christmas? I loathe it myself!

foursillybeans · 30/09/2016 16:05

YABU because it's just unnecessary really. Why make an advert like that if even one child stops enjoying the Father Christmas fun because of it. There are hundreds of other ways they could have gone with the advert.

roundtable · 30/09/2016 16:10

Father Christmas only brings stockings. Fact.

The good presents come from mum and dad I'm not letting him take the credit for the thought that's gone into present buying.

HeCantBeSerious · 30/09/2016 16:13

Father Christmas only brings stockings. Fact.

Playing fast and loose with the meaning of "fact" there!

BrollySmolly · 01/10/2016 07:21

I wish we'd established that 'fact' from the start roundtable - unfortunately, 12 years ago, we just followed my family tradition where everything comes from Father Christmas!!! Annoying!

roundtable · 02/10/2016 12:01

Sorry He Can't- should I have written lighthearted at the end my post?

Brolly - I'm selfish I think as that would really urk me! Especially as it's really only for a short time and then they soon realise.

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 02/10/2016 13:23

Waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh. Santa isn't real. .

PinkSwimGoggles · 02/10/2016 13:30

yabu
santa, as portayed to children isn't real.
christmas us much more than that.

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Branleuse · 02/10/2016 13:37

OH NO. Maybe your kids will now be required to be grateful to the appropriate people.

LikeDylanInTheMovies · 02/10/2016 15:59

op admittedly I haven't seen the advert, but if it is as you describe. Family put out a range of delicious treats for Father Christmas. Kiddywinks are packed off to bed, mum and dad can't resist the delicious food left for Father Christmas and start getting stuck into it, kids come down and catch the greedy parents wolfing down the food intended for Father Christmas.

All it suggests is that Park Foods is so delicious (yeah right) that you won't be able to help yourself and poor Father Christmas will go hungry. Not 'we are eating this because it is all a big fat lie'

Say there was a Pringles advert in which the host guzzled down all the Pringles before the guest arrived, it doesn't imply the guests aren't real, just that whatever they're trying to flog is so delicious that you won't be able to restrain yourself.

HeCantBeSerious · 02/10/2016 16:32

I've seen it now. It is pretty blatant (and no sign of dad). Stocking stuffing and mince pie eating implicated as not actually being done by Santa.

Won't somebody think of the poor misguided/obsessive parents and their children?!

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