iceberg
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mean or funny?
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Well...since I am known as a fence sitter I will continue the trend and say...BOTH mean and funny.
DallasCowpoke111
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No, actually I think the correct answer here is...
OLD!
OLD!
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First of all, it made me laugh. And it got me good when it happened to me.
BUT.....I don't think it's cool to do that to your child. That kid looked to be about 8 years old. That dad just lost a little bit of trust from his kid, and that's the truth.
I don't think that "he should be brought up on charges." But a swift kick in the testies is definitely in order.
BUT.....I don't think it's cool to do that to your child. That kid looked to be about 8 years old. That dad just lost a little bit of trust from his kid, and that's the truth.
I don't think that "he should be brought up on charges." But a swift kick in the testies is definitely in order.
iceberg
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most of me wants to agree, dan. but do you take your kids to scarey movies? albiet they should know it will be scarey, they're gonna cry just the same. then again are we just assuming parents vs. babysitter? i'd have to go back and look.
while it didn't scare me to *this* point, i'm pretty sure i had to make an effort to NOT soil myself just from the startle factor.
while i understand the concerns, i'd have to side with funny.
while it didn't scare me to *this* point, i'm pretty sure i had to make an effort to NOT soil myself just from the startle factor.
while i understand the concerns, i'd have to side with funny.
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Mean and very funny...oh and funny and very mean.
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iceberg said:
Of Course times have changed a great deal.
I remember when I was young and the family was having a family weekend together (aunts, uncls, grandparents, cousins and such) at the big farmhouse my grandparents owned.
So it came a time when a few of the adults decided to give into the kids wishes and play hide and go seek.
We are talking a large old fashioned farmhouse.
It was at night, I go into a room to look for one of my aunts, she put a few pillows under the bedsheets/blankets on the bed to make it look like she was under the sheets...so I go to grab them and say I got you, only to have her grab my ankle and make a scary noise.
She was hiding UNDER the bed not the sheets/blankets.
Now this was when I was a kid in kindegarten or 1st grade, plus for many kids that age they would run and jump onto the bed because of the boogey man stories.
Or how about this one.
When we would get together at the farm house as a family for holidays.
Some of the uncles would say there was no rudolph or easter bunny this year because they shot him.
Now it did not bother me too much for the majority of my uncles, but one uncle in particular was a nut, really a nut.
He was known to get a new outside hunting dog.
At night if the dog barked he would yell once for it to shut up, if it barked again he would literally go out and shoot the dog.
So when they said they shot rudolph or the easter bunny...man alive you really believed it from my one uncle.
So, as scared as that kid was over a silly picture...it seems weak to me and just funny now compared to some things I went through as a kid.
And let's be honest I probably had it VERY easy in terms of things compared to others.
So...I found it funny, even if it is a touch mean.
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I thought it was very funny. and in no way should this be considered child abuse. My kids and I are always trying to scare each other we get a big kick out of it.royhitshard said:
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iceberg said:
Back in our days I don't ever remember car seats for kids....if you had a car seat it was that little arm rest that moved up and down in the middle of bench seats in a car.
In our days it was completely normal to see a bunch of kids in the back of a pickup truck.
In our days you never seen a kid with a helmet, knee or elbow pads riding his bike around.
Now those things are for the best now days, but really some things have went too overboard as well.
Who remembers having their pops slap boxing or lightly punching you to toughen you up as a kid, and him saying hit me hit me. Of course he never really wanted a bloody nose but since he asked I obliged lol.
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Dad and I used to try and scare each other all the time when I was a kid.
Kid is soft. That really isnt that bad. Hell its a computer monitor. Does the kid thing that Barney is going to jump out of the TV screen when he is watching ? Not likely.
Startled yes, scared ? Not so much.
Kid is soft. That really isnt that bad. Hell its a computer monitor. Does the kid thing that Barney is going to jump out of the TV screen when he is watching ? Not likely.
Startled yes, scared ? Not so much.
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Qwickdraw said:
If that gives someone a heart attack....then they should stuck in a room somwhere with hardly any stimuli at all IMO.
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the kid will get over it, there's much worse in the movies.
I remember taking my daughter on a rollercoaster where she didnt meet the height requirement by bustin on the guy lettin people pass through and got the whole crowd to rile him up so he let us in. She wasnt even 4, i thought it looked a bit mild and would be fun (she was very tall for her age so even at 4 she looked more like she was 6). well the ride was mild until it went back over a hill where i couldnt see from the line and it went down a big hill and looped around and got really fast. I was like....uh oh...she got so scared her face truend completely white and she started screamed the entire ride, to make things worse after failing to come her down i went into a fit of laughter because the look on her face and everytime she screamed i laughed harder, the more i tried to stop laughing the worse it got.
she was so mad at the end of the ride, and so was her mom when she found out. But now she is fearless when it comes to rides and stunts, and loves roller coasters so i guess everything worked out.
I remember taking my daughter on a rollercoaster where she didnt meet the height requirement by bustin on the guy lettin people pass through and got the whole crowd to rile him up so he let us in. She wasnt even 4, i thought it looked a bit mild and would be fun (she was very tall for her age so even at 4 she looked more like she was 6). well the ride was mild until it went back over a hill where i couldnt see from the line and it went down a big hill and looped around and got really fast. I was like....uh oh...she got so scared her face truend completely white and she started screamed the entire ride, to make things worse after failing to come her down i went into a fit of laughter because the look on her face and everytime she screamed i laughed harder, the more i tried to stop laughing the worse it got.
she was so mad at the end of the ride, and so was her mom when she found out. But now she is fearless when it comes to rides and stunts, and loves roller coasters so i guess everything worked out.
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And if you did you made fun of him until he cried
Ahh the good ole days