Is this cheeky fuckery?

[ChocolateWhisperer]

I've name changed, she's on here

There's a baby/toddler of the year competition and the local newspaper has a token inside you use to vote for your favourite.

CF has tagged over 80 of us insisting we all buy multiple copies and fill out the tokens so her baby wins. If we don't want to buy copies ourselves we can send her a paypal payment and she will do it for us.

On a certain day there are double tokens so we have been warned that we WILL be pestered to buy several more copies each and fill them out.

Kindly though she's offered to collect filled out tokens though as she doesn't drive I have no idea who will be lumbered with that fabulous task.

No 'Hi I'm entering X into the baby/toddler of the year competition I'd love it if you voted for my baby' just told we must buy several copies each.

This is fine cheeky fuckery right?

Hate these things, beauty contests for babies. Beauty contests for adults have been pretty much confined to history, (in the UK at least) yet they still continue for babies. Maybe I'm odd but why would one enter their child in something like this?

I've only had someone try that once on me. I sent a message back along the lines of:
"Thanks for showing me that competition. Some lovely children. #34 was gorgeous, couldn't resist voting for them"

They didn't ask again:

Haven’t you guys in the UK all realised that voting for things isn’t your strong suit yet? (Sorry, couldn’t help myself).

If it means that much to her I'd agree to voting if she covered all costs. But I can't see the point of a win that's been rigged.

This is more cheaty fuckery than cheeky fuckery

Apparently the only row my in-laws had in their married life was when MiL insisted on entering DH in a Bonny baby competition in Blackpool in the 60s. FiL was very much against it.

Though apparently DH won so I am living with a former beauty competition winner.

Though apparently DH won so I am living with a former beauty competition winner.

Yeah but how many people did your MIL get to vote for him

MiL was terrifying so I dread to think.

DH was the epitome of 60s baby beauty though; extremely fat and rosy cheeked with massive blue eyes and very blonde hair. A sort of Aryan Michelin man.

It's apparently a known fact of local newspaper journalism that the more names of (otherwise unimportant) people you put in the paper, the more copies you shift, because if little Timmy gets his name and picture printed for being in the school play, every doting auntie and grandparent buys three copies, etc... This is just more of the same on behalf of the paper, but this woman is more bugfuck and shameless than usual.

Wait till her little angel is big enough to take part in school sponsored bogey-eating or whatever, OP - the attempts to rinse you all for money will quadruple.

A sort of Aryan Michelin man.

Surely I can't be alone in thinking beauty contests for babies are beyond revolting.

Yes CF of her 😮😆

Tagging 80 acquaintances ... to PayPal her the money so she can vote multiple times for her own baby to rig win a voting competition ... It's not in the spirit of Bonny Baby competition, is it?! Bet she plans to boast to y'all about how gorgeous her baby is, if she/he wins.

Well, No one is going to defriend someone like that on social media - you've got the motherload inside loop on batshit CF here
.... Most likely nearly everyone tagged reads and ignores her post,... tumbleweed whistles quietly by,... PayPal chinging doesn't occur,...... Yet maybe little Johnny doesn't win, maybe he does, if she's armtwisted large family IRL or voted 300 times herself picking used newspapers out of bins in the High Street.... How will the story end? Will she lose her shit at you all for costing Johnny his tiara? ... What will be her next CF escapade?

I wish she was my sm/FB friend. You are so lucky. Take notes OP for your script for Channel 4 series in a few years time. It'd write itself.

I pity her kid. She sounds fucking unhinged.

Tipping off the paper is zero use!! She is doing just what they wanted and giving a massive boost to their circulation figures. No doubt all the staff are rubbing their hands in glee and anticipating their Christmas bonus

Frankly as well as being a CF she must be very insecure to need validation on how her baby looks to other people.

This is common practice in competitions, same with win your wedding. I have a relative who asked us to buy numerous copies as they had to save tokens for a wedding competition. The newspaper needs to sell more copies and they do, as she will be one of many parents doing this.

There has to be a reason why the last baby competition in our local was won by a very un photogenic , not so cute child 🤷🏻‍♀️

She is making it an unfair competition and therefore against the rules - I would let the paper know because that will give her negative publicity.

Just block and move on. I am surprised these competitions still run: no one should have to feel their baby is validated by some sort of competition.

Has this particular mum ever uttered the words “I tell it like it is”? 🤔

I don't think she can feel very validated, only a few comments on her tagged page, her mum saying she's in and a few others promising to 'check their funds'

She's not an awful person her heart is in the right place generally, she's just a very entitled cheeky fucker! I think she thinks she's a social media influencer. Er, no.

Just ignore it. Every year these requests go out on my FB and I have never yet voted...

How would she know if you did it or not? Presumably they don't get told exact numbers of votes. Tell her you bought 100 copies and she might stop nagging you.

Wouldn't say CF just full blown weirdo

It's a rotten message to send out, even though it's probably true - your baby's worth is based on his/her appearance. I suppose the babies are too young to know anything about it, but older siblings will be receiving this unsubtle guide to how shallow society is, and more importantly, seeing their parents buy into it hook, line and sinker.

She is making it an unfair competition and therefore against the rules - I would let the paper know because that will give her negative publicity

@Jesaminecollins how charmingly naive you are!

People bulk-buying copies is exactly what the newspaper wants!