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maybe they woul prefer the flight had flown and those little lovelies got killed trying to land in terrible conditions.

probably a bit harsh that, reporter misled me.

I understand why the kids were upset, they're supposed to believe santa flys round the world in a wooden box pulled by reindeer but they cant get to manchester!

they said on the news other flights were landing and taking off from that airport all day no probs.

They should just have been honest with the kids and tell them that "They couldn't fly as Santa to the northpole as Santa didn't want to see them as they were all little bastards"

All these parents are idiots..FFS, flying your kid to the bloody northpole to "meet Santa". Spoilt little shits every single one of them and all of these parents should get done by social services, have their kids taken away from them as they obviously have no idea how to raise their kids. These parents symbolise everything that is wrong with todays society, line them all up and shoot them all...please, these morons have no business contaminating the human genepool.

Possibly a slight over-reaction by the voice of reason. Possibly.

possibly....maybe a tad..but this sort of thing really gets my goat. :)

If Gerermy Clarkson smoked crack

FFS, I thought we lived in a democracy where people could spend their money how the hell they liked!

I have not yet taken my kids to lapland as I felt it was too expensive, however I would rather spend my cash on a once in a lifetime experience (with memories you can treasure forever) than buy the latest tv/settee/car etc.

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And pc poster of the year goes to...........................

yeah i realised so i changed it

The bad weather was at Enontekio not Manchester.

[ ] they were talking about manchester

in PM "you must be a utter moron to make that post. sad bastard"

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I love people.

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Boldie has a new Nemesis

LOL boldie, did you not explain that you were blondes "Mr Angry" ?


FWIW, I would have taken my kids to Lapland if i had the dosh when they were little enough to appreciate it.

I am quite proud actually..I've never had PM insults from anyone other than Kin ;)

14k+ posts and only insulting 1 pm

software must be rigged..

WHERE'S OUR MAGAZINES U BASTARD MORON?!!

See? Now that's what I'm talking about!

Cia, I am surprised as you are :)

did it get through?

yep...Kev has taking the filter off, I think.

There you go happiness at last..

do holidays to disneyland fall under the same banner?

No, no problem at all with people taking kids to Disneyland or on any other holiday.

Flying them to the Northpole to "meet Santa" baffles me completely though as you can "meet Santa" at your local shitty mall without spending thousands of pounds and then later moaning about the credit crunch and how life has become too expensive.

but you dont get the same sort of look of pleasure on the kids faces when they eventually find them.

Just imagine you had a kid/kids and took them and you went on a big hunt to find 'santa' and at the end they do find them how can you describe the look on their faces it would be a moment that would last a lifetime,

but yes it is  a load of money but imo it would be worth it..

what did parents used to do to make kids feel all happy about Christmas before they thought about spending 1000's of pounds flying them to the northpole?

times change though m8


ps3's wii's laptops etc etc

I remember 1 year all i got was a football but was well happy..

heh well said boldie :)

I was thinking this, and I do actually think that a lot of times taking young kids to Disneyland is excessive.  There are other 'memorable' things that they can do that aren't as costly and the children would enjoy just as much (if not more).  I often think it's the case that Disneyland is the adult's choice rather than the kids - or the children are 'told' that it's what they want to do.

Oh and boldie, you have a PM ;)

True, but I reckon atleast half of it is lazy parenting and keeping up with the Jones'.

I know of a 9YO that gets a laptop for Christmas. 9YO getting a £600 laptop for Christmas even though she already has a PC and her parents "are skint"? No wonder Brittain is going bust..both literally and morally.

I blame the immigrants.

Its funny how people without kids are always the ones that cant see how a trip to Lapland or a Disney holiday are a trip of a lifetime for both parents AND children.

haha funny?

kind of, but more a "sad" funny.

It's funny that people without children aren't allow to have opinions about children or anything to do with parenting, because we've never met any kids in our lives, don't have friends and family with children, and weren't children ourselves once upon a time.

Its different mate, it just is.

OK, let me put it another way.

What holidays and trips with your parents do you remember fondly? Bet ya it's not the ones that cost them and arm and a leg.

  disneyworld its amazing

We never had money .... we used to go camping at bream downs, Butlins occasionally ... all great holidays.

But I have taken my kids to Disneyland, and their excitement and reactions were something that i will never forget and I know they wont either.

I can say remember going around the western states of the USA with my parents and 2 sisters, for 6 weeks one year (I was about 11 iirc) best 'holiday' ever IMO. Would dearly love to do the same with my kids now, but I know there's no chance, it would cost an absolute fortune.

We also use to go to Cornwall a couple of times a year, it was nice....

i have been on some amazing hols with my parents all over the world. They both worked hard to  give me and my brother what they didnt have when they grew up is that so bad.

exactly

have you got any kids boldie?

Does it matter?  I have an opinion on Strictly Come Dancing, but I can't foxtrot and don't own a spangly shirt.

Let's not let the debate descend into an argumentum ad hominem.  We all know boldie is the German Victor Meldrew, but he's allowed his opinion as much as anyone else.

dont lie

You borrowed it ages ago, and I'd like it back. Don't put it in the washing machine though remember - dry clean only.  Otherwise the sequins come off.

FWIW i have been on a similar holiday.

When me and my bro were very young we went on the then day trip to Lapland on Concorde.

Boldie i remember it and it was quality!

Even if the flight out was delayed for hours so we only got 1/2 the time there we were supposed too (there were no women screaming and crying over it though)

I fail to see the relevance, I really do.

I have no problem with parents working hard to give the kids something they never had themselves. I won't even argue that something like this won't be cool for the kids who still believe in Santa (I take it they are all younger than 7?). I don't believe that you need to spend thousands of pounds on taking your kids on holiday, or buyign them laptops, PS£s and all that for christmas.

 What I have a problem with is that people spend 2k on Christmas (while at the same time moaning about the cost of living, fuel prices and their house being worthless) and that when the airline says "Listen we can't fly as it's unsafe to be in a big metal box 30k feet in the air in these weather conditions and we don't want you or your kids to die" that parents complain about it.

If you can afford to take your kids on holidays like this, by no means do. I am just surprised that everyone seems to have a mountain of debt but is able to spend thousands of pounds on Christmas every year.

Having children changes your entire outlook on life!

Until you have kids you will never understand.

Before I had kids my mates would tell me about there children and i was not really that bothered. As soon as I had my first, I was like WOW I GET IT!.

It just so happens that someone closely connected with a well-known blonde organises these Lapland Holidays, as a business. Very successful it is, too.

So you can't have an opinion on something unless you've done it/have it/are it?

not at all,

It's a different level thing when you're talking about children, you cant equate it to other things that you have an opinion on but havent directly experienced.

But I was a child, I have nieces, I have friends with children.  Does that not give me any insight at all on a subject related to children?  I'm not saying I'm an expert, but there are a lot of parents who aren't experts either.

It gives you an insight but it's still so much different from having nieces etc, things you think are correct in theory go out out the window when you're a parent.

I think when you are solely responsible for the life of another person who you love immeasurably you may not be an expert parent but you do see things differently.

Absolutely. But, maybe, possibly, just perhaps, those rose-coloured glasses mean they don't always make objective - & correct - deisions.......

I should add I have no view either way on those sending their kids to Lapland at Xmas. Well, I have, but I'm keeping schtum. ;)

I think you have this the wrong way round Tony. It's when you have children, that the rose tinted glasses come off.

Arguably, yes. I shall never know.

By the way, I have 7 God-Children, & until they grew up, I visited every single one of them, every Christmas morning. I would dress up in a full Santa outfit, & I had a sack of Pressies for each child. I would leave home at 0530, drive to Sheffield, then Leicester, then Burton-on-Trent, then Derby, & be back home by 3pm.

I gave up when they got older, & several asked "hey, why does Santa drive a Mercedes?".

It has to be said, one does look (& feel) rather daft, & attract all sorts of weird looks, driving a Merc when dressed up in the full Santa gear.

You're probably right...I don't care about kids really...and if I have my own I will probably think they are the bees knees...

Having said that; The day when I spend a few grand on Christmas for my kids is the day they can lock me up.

This is not about "you haven't had kids, so you don't know" This is about "WTF are you thinking spending thousands of pounds on a 7 YO for Christmas?!?!" ( and then moaning a few years later when you have to pay £3k for their education as "the government should pay that"..GTFO)

I am also with Kin on the whole "But you don't have kids, so you don't understand"...that argument really doesn't make an awful lot of sense. We all know people with kids, I am quite sure I used to be one myself at some stage.
If I see someone buy a 9YO a laptop (when the kid quite clearly isn't Dougie Howser M.D. and doesn't have a job), or a 6YO a PS3 for £300, or drag a 4YO half way across the world to take them to an overhyped amusement park at a cost of a few k (especially when you're up to your eyes in mortgages, car loans etc)...I believe you've quite possibly lost the plot.

boldie where is this argument coming from that EVERYONE is skint, pleading poverty and moaning about the economy?

what about if you are a two income familly that are doing well  through a time of financial instability, is it not o.k to spend thousands at christmas then for the kids?

I dont think the amount of people you suggest are being so contradictory in their approach to financial managment of christmas.

Personally even if i was struggling and i had kids i'd absoloutly love to spend thousands on them for christmas, some of my best memories as a kid are some great familly christmas's we had, and yes at times there was a lot of money spent on them, the moneys gone now and i had no comprehension of what it meant to spend money like that as a kid but the memories of some fantastc family christamas's are lasting and that was probably the point.

so people without kids are saying "i don't get it"

and people with kids are saying "before i had kids i didn't get it"

what's the argument?

I dont get what you're saying?

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OK, not everyone is skint...in fact..let's assume all these people could easily afford it.

Spending 1000s on young kids for Christmas is still beyond belief in my humble opinion though. Again, why does a 9YO need a laptop? Why do you need to take your young kids halfway across the world to give them an "unforgettable" Christmas? Can't that be done from the home? Really?

Am I really missing something here, is that what parenting is all about? Is that honestly the best parents can come up with these days? Kid wants a PS3 for christmas and therefore he/she/it shall have it even though he/she/it isn't even into double digits age-wise yet?

I watch telly and hear parents moan about peer pressure, I look around the office and hear people moan about them being skint one month and then spending 1000s on Christmas the next because "the kids want it". I see people I know go completely nuts and throw all reason out of the window when it comes to this great overhyped holiday because they have kids.

Pillocks, every single one of them.

I understand I might be one of the few people that really doesn't like Christmas, I think it's overhyped and generally an awful, awful time of year...I also understand that most people do like it (but then a lot of people watch Big Brother and read The Sun so I don't think that that statistic really matters)...I do think that people completely lose the little bit of common sense that they have at Christmas though...and that's why it annoys me.

Just let it annoy me, I am happy that way...it makes me feel good.

I think people who spend 1000s of pounds on their kids at Christmas are idiots. You go spend 1000s of pounds on your kids at Christmas, what do you care about what I think? Honestly,....you probably don't...if you do care what I think though, that's probably because in the back of your head you are asking yourself;

"When did I become one of those assholes that spend 1000s of pounds on their kids at Christmas?"

Parents, think about it;
It is a completely natural process. I have no kids and therefore believe most parents are complete fannies when it comes to theirs. You were the same when you didn't have kids. Now you have kids and you've become an asshole about it. I can safely say you've become an asshole about it because that's what you thought about people like yourself before you had kids. This is fine, it's not a problem....you've even become one of those people that say "It's easy to say when you don't have kids yourself, your whole life changes when you have kids of your own" as if that is an excuse to become a twat and you always hated people telling you this.

Most parents are twats when it comes to their own kids. Again, this is completely understandable...and can even be commended in most circumstances. However, only very rarely is your kid as clever as you think it is. Very rarely is your kid as good looking as you think it is and very rarely is your kid as good in sports as you think it is.
You now probably need that SUV to go shopping...even though you always hated people like that.

You should drag your baby onto a plane and sit right behind me, even though you always hated it when people did that to you.

By all means, bore people with stories about what insignificant little thing your child did the other day..even though you hated it when people did that to you. (And I really LOVE to see pictures of your kids nativity play!)

Again, completely understandable and it's great..you SHOULD feel this way about your kids....but it still means you're a pillock...and almost everyone becomes one when they are a parent.

All I'm saying is that there are varying degrees of pillocks, and those that spend 1000s of pounds on a child at christmas..top the list of pillocks IMO.

/End incoherent rant...sit back and wait for PMs

Boldie

They have decided to take the Kids away because instead of losing £60 playing online poker each week.They saved there
money and wanted to take there Children to see Santa....

Great responsible parenting IMHO... Or they stopped Drinking/Smoking and saved to take there kids away at Christmas.

So do you save to take the Kids away? Or do you place several adds on the internet advertising you've got Fuck all alse to do with your life?

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AMC is already in...so 5 guys additional to AMC.

50-50 splitsies and all that sort of stuff.

I'll pick the first 5 posters...as only proper degens will be online at this time of night and can still be arsed to play a 5'er tourney in the early afternoon

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Seasons Greetings

Regards

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lol..yes I could indeed be saving my money up and spend it on my fictional children..or I could spend a bit of money playing poker and even stick a few stakes up.

p.s. Love the "Staking people = you have Fuck all of a life" equation..work of a genius, that...I couldn't have come up with that train of thought myself.

<<<gobsmacked>>

that is all.

So, am I a "Pillock & Twat" even though I don't spend ridiculous amounts on my kids at Christmas? Do I still qualify because I am one of those "pillock" parents that are really proud of their kids?

I dont have kids and i dont think anything like that, how come?

You really believe that theres a inextricable correlation between making a fuss at chritmas for your kids and general bad parenting? thats kinda rubbish, impossible for 364 days of disciplined parenting bringing your child up to be moral and conscientious can be rubbed out by a day of festive profligacy.

I'm sure if however in your impeccable insight you are correct that every half decent parent out there will be happy to be that pillock and give their kids a cracking christmas, i would.

A fair proportion of them probably just took out a loan or put it on their credit cards - Boldie might have more luck if he targeted his vitriol  a bit more specifically.

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Is that Richard Keys?

Ban boldie please.


















for making me laugh so much. Great post!!!

Why, thank you kind Sir.

I always said you have great taste :)

p.s. Jane..you realise I was just ranting, right? Please don't take anything I've said seriously...honest, you shouldn't.

boldie, she is currently attacking the freezer with a fkin great big knife and other sharp implements ... I cant see her, but I keep hearing shouts of "fkin pillock am I " ? etc etc then hear the sound of ice being stabbed violently.

[ ] i regret being a bit drunk and starting a thread because i jumped to the wrong conclusion

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Good news is the freezer now doesn't look like my own personal glacier, so all's well that ends well (cleared in record time, i think). 

Bad news is that Kev is now fuming at the amount of stuff I've also chucked out, with aforementioned glacier.

p.s. tis OK boldie, we all need a rant once in a while xx.

Damn, just realised I could have made a fortune.

I could of sold tickets to my freezer, the kids would never know they weren't in Lapland!

+1

indeed!..stick em in there for a few hours and have Kev dress up as Santa...They'd never know the difference!

I forgive you Boldie It's good to have a rant you know F*** all about.

Anyway forget bedtime stories I'm off to play the £75 at DTD Tonight..

seasons greetings

Regards

M
 

Dewi started this thread ::)

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10/10 for contradictory ambiguity!

This...it's a classic really.

This thread has just life tilted me.
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Quality thread

Wow i go and drop the boys off and i come back to this lol quality....

I actually can see where the bold 1 is coming from..but we all know he'll be as soppy as all of us parents when he does have 1 just imagine boldies little princess asking with her little eyes looking into his " daddy will you take me to see santa in lapland?"

but in my case would it be wrong to spend loads on my boys?

chin up boldie..dont worry that people can spend fortunes on there kids and  you cant even pay the mortgage trust me son it will get better

leave him alone, he spent all his money on stamps!

looooooooooool

And this is my point exactly.

Cia is of course completely right...I'll be a big soppy git and bore everyone with stories about my kids if the Mrs and I are ever lucky enough to have them.

It'd still make me a pillock though :)

Yeah, and with no magazines to send I'll be sending bleedin stamps only soon!

at least you had good education in being a pillock   ;)

save the money for your kids trip to lapland  :)up

too cold mate..me and the Mrs will take the kids to the Bahamas for a holiday when they're 2YO's :)

Dont forget to pack the psp's and ds lites

Get Kiv to get another of his bargain turkeys, now you have room for a spare.

His reply was... "you know what you can tell Robert, and there's 2 F's in off btw..."

How very rude!

dont tell me mrs boldie just told the great man she is preggers?

oh i am just annoyed cause i went to lapland and found out it wasnt full of dancers

I'd be dead and buried if she told me she was preggers and I'd posted my little rant....hehehehe

theres hope for us all yet someone get mrsboldie preggers like yesterday

Boldie your my hero.

Pure comedy.

I call.  KJo.

I loved his look of complete disbelief when i turned my cards over. Then proceeded to berate him for making such a bad call.

If he's taking his kids to lapland with his winnings then he is a pillock.

Oh yeah, your mums a JKoff

I've only read as far as page 3 of this thread.

It looks like the answer to the OP is.....

erm.....

Boldie?

lol..I answered in PM to him..

He doesn't have any children either, so what does he know?

good point, we should have a seperate forum for people without kids.

www.boldiepoker.com/forum ??

[ ]  I did not click the link in the hope that there was such a thing.

Just caught up with this - what a great thread!  Hope you feel better now you've got it off your chest.  Is it too late to add a 'Victor Meldrew of 2008' category to the blonde awards?

tilt?

oh boy..did you ask her to "sit with daddy's laptop and smile for Boldie"?

lol I got a Dell boldie

4 is about the right age for your first laptop? or do you think she should have got one last year? got to try and keep up with the germans imo :)

lol..mug. ;)