AIBU - funny or not?

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My DDs enjoy a game they were given called Pass the Bomb Junior. It’s a kids word game that has a comedy bomb as a timing device - it ticks and you pass it on when you’ve given a correct answer until someone is holding it when it ‘explodes’ it’s just a means to an end for each round of the game. My friend I had over at the weekend thought I was in danger of raising mini terrorists! Who is BU???

Good friends are hard to replace.

Idiots aren't though. I just couldn't be friends with someone so utterly ridiculous.

On a more sober note, we were playing Dobble at the airport until one of the kids shouted 'bomb' at which point we let them have their Hudls instead.

Is your friend that same mumsnetter who was worried about her kids singing ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang?

Catostrophe I can see that FIRE might also be an issue in a public place with Dobble...

Your poor friend is a little light on thinking.

But is it funny to anyone who has had a friend or relative die from a bomb?

My dd loves happy families. She always goes for the kids option and wants several children irl. She’s 9. I’ll come back in 25 years time and tell you if there is a connection. In the meantime, as you were.....

I love pass the bomb btw.

We have that game, it's fun! I'm toying with getting the Christmas version, Pass the Pudding.

I don't understand how Pass the bomb can be funny when people, children are being maimed or killed from landmines.

Brabenot

Are your children allowed to watch cartoons with violence? Don’t you know how many people die each year in violent attacks?

Seriously, where does it end? Not watching television or reading books, going to the theatre etc because all fo these at times make light of terrible things?

How pathetic, what an overreaction.

One of my absolute favourite childhood toys was my cap gun. My favourite board game was ‘Operation’. To date I have neither shot anybody nor tried to remove anybody’s Adam’s Apple.

Hide the Cluedo!

I had a t-shirt that said 'I am a bomb technician. If you see me running, try to keep up!!'.
I absolutely love that

I hope not, I use this game as part of speech and language groups at work!

But is it funny to anyone who has had a friend or relative die from a bomb?

Is Buckaroo funny to anyone who has had a friend or relative die or be paralysed while horse riding?

Is Operation funny to anyone who has had a friend or relative die during surgery?

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I bought pass the bomb when I was teaching English in Germany in companies. No one ever felt offended imo. E

That is so ridiculous! Pass the bomb has a silly cartoon type bomb, that you could imagine Wile E Coyote using. It's a word game with a timer, FGS!

Thanks everyone I feel like I’m good company here. Had a good chuckle at some of the replies

• in good company!!!

I don't understand how Pass the bomb can be funny when people, children are being maimed or killed from landmines.
I know what you mean. How can Mousetrap be funny - they're trying to trap a mouse! And Snakes & Ladders could be really stressful to someone who's lost a loved one to a giant anaconda - do people just not think?! And what about Monopoly - a double stresser because some people do go straight to jail in real life and might not be able to afford to keep their home, let alone buy multiple properties. I was going to stick to Happy Families but then I remembered all the families who are really miserable. Now I just sit in a darkened room and wait to die, hoping that I'm not offending someone by refusing to play games with them.....

She's more likely to raise terrorists I think. People become terrorists because they are stupid, not because they played trivia games featuring a fake 'bomb'.