Easter egg hunt at 6.30am

[AliceAbsolum]

Both the parents outside with the kids, several kids running around screaming at 6.30am. Do people have no shame?

Clearly Jesus isn’t the only one rising early on this glorious Sunday morning.

I am not bothered by it or anything, I just genuinely don’t really get the humour. It’s unrelated so to me it’s like saying something like ‘let’s go out in the sun, it’s what Tony Blair would have wanted.’ I know it’s not quite the same but my brain can’t cope with much else!

He wasn't making a raucous though

Totally agree. How sad that people moan about kids having an Easter Egg Hunt on Easter Sunday. What have we become?

Isn't that what humour is? Something taking you off guard and tickling you?

Yeah but it’s not that deep is it. These people are obviously in their own garden, probably for about 10 minutes, letting their kids be kids and have some fun. In the same way we let loose as adults and might have a party once in a blue moon. With the amount of pure pain and misery in the world it always surprises me what hills people will die on.

Care about something important, show your kids you caring about those important and meaningful things (and show them you giving others grace) and they’ll grow up just fine

Brilliant 😂

We’ve become inconsiderate arseholes judging by the idiots who let their kids have an Easter egg hunt at 6:30. They can have just as much fun a bit later in the morning or have it indoors without ruining their neighbours’ sleep. And judging by OP’s other post they’re inconsiderate generally and this isn’t exactly a one off.

I woke at 4.30am worrying about some stuff. By the time my kids woke up at 7am I forgot how early it was and they were doing their hunt at 7.45! That is a little early and if I had realised I'd have made them stay in until later 8, which seems reasonable. It did only last 5 minutes. We have a teeny tiny garden.

Then again, the motor bike that sounded like a rocket at 6.30am was more intrusive I feel!

I loved that joke, it was a perfect example of the genre as "it's what they would have wanted" is always shorthand for "I'm going to do something I want to do that's wrong but I am justifying it with reference to something you can't gainsay". Usually in relation to a dead relative and some kind of selfish behaviour. So because it's so incongruous that Jesus would like people to eat chocolate eggs, it works. (Though the person who wrote suffer the little children is even cleverer).

I apologise as I have now killed the joke by over explaining, unlike Jesus it won't rise again.

That makes a bit more sense @Shithotlawyer . I haven’t really seen much of ‘it’s what X would have wanted.’

I really really really hate it when people have to explain a joke. It ruins the thread and the joke

I wish people would just ignore the person who doesnt get it.

That is also what Jesus would have wanted, he had no time for idiots.

I didn’t ask anyone to to be fair. Just a bit baffled at all the posters howling!

ah man I'm sorry!

Jesus didn't like idiots, I'm sure.
I just like working out why things are funny - it was a selfish pleasure, sorry!

You think "its what jesus would have wanted" is unrelated to Easter Sunday?

"That is also what Jesus would have wanted, he had no time for idiots"
Jesus had time for everyone and he explained things really simply (parables).
Traditionally there'd be a outdoor church service at 6sm and the egg hunt is a reenactment of finding the tomb empty, so sadly that deeply religious family next door, has it right. It's just us pagans who expect to sleep.

I've always wondered why an Easter bunny leaves eggs.

What Tony Blair would have wanted!!!!!!!!!!

If that is not on every thread from now on I will delete my account and go off in a huff. Im going to shoe horn that into every answer from now.

@StMarie4me people aren’t complaining that children had an Easter Egg hunt, they are saying it shouldn’t be at 6.30am.

If parents didn’t hype it up so much children wouldn’t be clamouring to be up and screaming at that time.

Honestly? I can see why someone wouldn’t be thrilled but it is a few minutes once a year.

I’m quite weirded out by the differences between Christmas and Easter. People start flapping about getting ready for Christmas in mid November, who is going where for Christmas Day becomes a lot of drama, people spend a fortune and eat and drink to excess. By Christmas Day loads of people are exhausted.

Easter is the bigger religious festival but, unless you go to church, it gets treated as a long weekend with some chocolate. It doesn’t get the all bets are off treatment that Christmas does.

Or maybe it’s once a year and really not that a big deal. If you’re that exhausted don’t go straight on your phone and chill out a bit.

If your kids are out making a noise at 6.30 am on a Sunday that is selfish and antisocial behaviour and you are a selfish and anti social parent teaching your kids to be selfish and antisocial.

Why would any parent not be capable of saying " let's leave the outside fun for a little while kids, the neighbours may still be sleeping, let's do something fun inside for a bit and then we'll go out"
Why exactly would that be so hard?

Dh woke me up when he got in from the sunrise service this morning (7:15ish). He apologised and then had the decency to bring me a coffee and a Danish. If your neighbours had done that @AliceAbsolum would that have been better?

“Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

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