To refuse to send my child to a pirate party

[Mashbocking1]

A nursery friend of my 4 yo DS is having a pirate themed birthday party. I’m planning to decline the invite as I don’t think it’s appropriate for little children, or anyone for that matter, to dress up as a pirate - it’s glorifying and sentimentalising criminal men who raped, robbed and murdered.

FFS, piracy used to carry the death penalty until recently! You wouldn’t let your child go to a Nazi themed party - I can’t see much difference!

[quote superduster]@AdobeWanKenobi who cares about the date of the thread. We need more ridiculous stuff like this at the moment.[/quote]
Because the thread is now in active, there will be people spending wasting their time giving genuine advice which is no longer needed.

It also illustrates how posters don't even bother to read the most recent few posts, otherwise they would notice the word zombie.

This thread is over 800 posts long, yet some responders didn't even look to see what anyone else has said.

OK this is an amusing thread, but it also happens with quite serious topics and then people are frantically googling and researching support options for the OP and clamouring for updates when the OP disappered YEARS ago.

I'm guessing if you're on mumsnet posting on a zombie thread, one's schedule ain't gonna get ruined

a 4yr old is going to enjoy the fun, its you that have those ridiculous thoughts,& you will live to regret those thoughts, you were a child once,what did you think about,at 4 yrs old, grow up,& let your child grow up as well