To find Pop Up Pirate traumatising?!

[Confrontayshunme]

Lighthearted, but my DD is obsessed with Pop up Pirate, and I have had 11 minor heart attacks playing it today. I feel like I am in Squid Games and losing. What activities with your DCs do you need a G&T to get through?

Craft….. I always used to make an excuse to not do that. Glue stick in DD’s hair, glitter in carpets, having to try to stick pipe cleaners to card kill me now.

I cant stand pop up pirate the tension is awful. My DS11 loves to play Articulate but is rubbish at describing things honestly you need at least 5 G&Ts before you even start.

I love Pop Up Pirate 😆

What kills me is 'I can't find sea patrol Marshall, this crucial tiny lego piece, the ball from the Mousetrap game' and having to search for hours for the sodding thing'

Pop up Pirate (well pop up Olaf in this house) and crocodile dentist really set me on edge I hate the tension.

Also hate snakes and ladders but that is because of the non stop fighting. Holding off teaching them Monopoly because I don't think I will be able to take the squabbling that will bring.

Oh totally with you on pop up pirates! And there was a game DDs had when they were younger, something to do with Busters Bones where a horrendous looking dog would bite you randomly when you tried to take its bones. Youngest DD had nightmares from that!

Honestly, after I Vant to Bite Your Finger in the 80s I’m ok with pop up pirate 😂

Never go into speech and language therapy with kids then - I think it's a compulsory requirement if you're working with young kids to own Pop Up Pirate.
Mine is broken and it's always the same bloody one that pops it.

Never go into speech and language therapy with kids then - I think it's a compulsory requirement if you're working with young kids to own Pop Up Pirate.

This is so true, I went to a speech therapist as a child and that was the only place I ever played Pop Up Pirate as my DM wouldn't let us have non board game type games in the house.

I figured there was a about 4 holes together that are the ‘pop’ holes so purposely used to turn them closer to my son or further away depending on how long I wanted to play it 🤣🤣🤣

@herestoyoucolinrobinson

Honestly, after I Vant to Bite Your Finger in the 80s I’m ok with pop up pirate 😂

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We made the mistake of getting Don't take Buster's Bones for Christmas one year. Makes Pop up Pirate seem tame!

I love pop up pirate!

I played a game of Harry Potter top trumps with ds1 the other day that lasted, no word of a lie, about an hour. Just passing cards back and forth. Proper lost the will to live until I threw the game.

@CoffeeWithCheese

Never go into speech and language therapy with kids then - I think it's a compulsory requirement if you're working with young kids to own Pop Up Pirate. Mine is broken and it's always the same bloody one that pops it.

My 3 DD all had SALT… Pop Up Pirate featured heavily in their sessions

DS had a tantrum over the sheer unfairness of it all. He never got to play it…

When the. Pirate pops up I always scream like the daft screamy woman in The Catherine Tate Show. Every. Time.
Not sure gin would help 😂

Urgh it's on ds7's list.
He had it as a toddler but ddog ate the pirate!!

Fucking Travel version Crocodile Dentist traumatised me as a child. The regular one is fine because you use pliers but the travel version you have to use your fingers. If I ever had only one tooth left I used to use a teaspoon.

And THEN I had flashbacks all over again watching a YouTube video where some idiot had tampered with one and replaced the teeth with metal spikes