I saw in the Dear Santa part of local paper.:confused:
Nintendo DS, mainly.

I dont know, I wanted Duplo and a clockwork Thomas the Tank Engine at that age!

When I was three all my dad did was tell me to get a job.

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

:p

More importantly, what does God need with a starship?

Because three year olds want lots of stuff, wether or not they can actually use them.

More importantly, what does God need with a starship?

Because His beard wasn't cutting it anymore with the ladies?

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

:p

Tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you.

;)

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

:p
Luxury! We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

Anyway, i suppose its not that weird if toddlers want handheld gaming consoles. It has buttons and is perfectly chewable. What would be weird is if they actually get one from their parents.

Luxury! We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
:lol:
Isn't there a third one? I'd forgotton about these and they are hilarious!

The last time kids were kids was in 1996. After that, they become fat, short, greedy and uglier with every consequent batch.

The kids and parents are slave to the media, am I right? What they see is what they want! If hate it, control what your kid is exposed to. If he/she gets exposed to porn and bad media (which is unfortunately called "freedom" nowdays)...don't panic if your child starts asking about the "freedom" as well.

"What you sow, so shall you reap"

Thank you,

The kids and parents are slave to the media, am I right? What they see is what they want! If hate it, control what your kid is exposed to. If he/she gets exposed to porn and bad media (which is unfortunately called "freedom" nowdays)...don't panic if your child starts asking about the "freedom" as well.

"What you sow, so shall you reap"

Thank you,

Pffft, wimps. I saw plenty of movies and stuff on TV (or parts of) that wasn't aimed at children and it didn't harm me. The few fads I did get caught up in were, like, pokemon and pogs (I was 5 at the time for pogs). Although as a kid I was highly against anything sexual :p Until the hormones kicked in. It can be hard to udnerstand what happens to others when you have no experiance with their experiances (which can be a good thing not to have experianced).

:lol:
Isn't there a third one? I'd forgotton about these and they are hilarious!

The one where they live in a cardboard box in the middle of the road, go to bed at 4AM, get up at 3AM and work 26 hours a day ?
Can't remember the exact line, but yeah, good times ;)

Damn, where is that 'Live at the Hollywood bowl' tape ?
And where is my VCR ?

VCR? I vaguely remember that.

(Actually, I think I used one a month ago).

When I was around 5 I had a Sega Genesis and a load of games. That thing was great. I wonder what happened to it.

Pffft, wimps. I saw plenty of movies and stuff on TV (or parts of) that wasn't aimed at children and it didn't harm me. The few fads I did get caught up in were, like, pokemon and pogs (I was 5 at the time for pogs). Although as a kid I was highly against anything sexual :p Until the hormones kicked in. It can be hard to udnerstand what happens to others when you have no experiance with their experiances (which can be a good thing not to have experianced).

Pogs! I remember them in the school playground... also playing football with a tennis ball with 40 aside, ahhhhh Happy days :D

The one where they live in a cardboard box in the middle of the road, go to bed at 4AM, get up at 3AM and work 26 hours a day ?
Can't remember the exact line, but yeah, good times ;)

Damn, where is that 'Live at the Hollywood bowl' tape ?
And where is my VCR ?
If you can tolerate the not so great picture quality, you can see it here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1376666217029167167&ei=_7BBSaW5DJ3EiQLe_bVP&q=monty+python+live+at+the+hollywood+bowl&hl=en&dur=3

Search Four Yorkshire Men on Youtube :)

I think it's mostly a young kid thing. They want things that are too advanced for them because it looks cool. It happened to me when I said I wanted one of the early Lego Technic model kits when I was like 5. My folks told me that it was too hard for me but I said it wasn't. So they got it for me and it was too hard for me. It was only until I was 15 that I found the instructions and managed to build it from my bucket o Lego.

I think when they are 3 years old they don't know what a ds is. the parents wrote the letter. There is a thing here where the radio stations give families their christmas wish, and every single one of them is a mother crying because she can't give her 3 year old the wii they can't live without. I think it is more for the parents somehow than the kids.

Depends on the kid. I have a friend with a 3 year-old who plays the DS all the time. Have another friend with a 5 year-old daughter that is a Mario Kart fanatic. They may not play with a great degree of skill yet, but they aren't constantly driving into a wall either.

On the other hand I have a friend with a 4 or 5 year-old that can't really even talk, and I doubt he would have much luck with video games at this stage. All depends on the development level of the kids.

When I was five, somebody gave us a really old Nintendo with a few games. (We didn't have cable at the time -- just a really old TV that mom had before I was born). Then it either broke or we had to sell it for food. Or she packed it away. Can't remember which. We were pretty poor back then.
Then we got shipped a computer (for some college course mom was taking at home), and I got into that, rest is history.
That woulda been 1997-98. Born in '92.

We had no sugar with our tea, no milk...

You were lucky to have tea! Just a cracked cup...

Cups! We had to drink out of a rolled-up a newspaper...

Lucky! Once a week, if we were lucky, we would suck on a wet rag!

Tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you.

I remember getting a gamecube, a xbox, and a playstation for my 6th birthday party

It stinks if your born on February 29th

(Not really, I'm pulling your leg)

Pfft, I remember getting a NES when I was 6 :p. And that was back in 1989 :p.

:old:Lishten up you whippershappers!

I didn't get my first video game system until I was in middle school, and that was an Atari 2600 (in 1991, no less!), and I had to buy that my own damn self! Kids these days are nothing but a bunch of spoiled brats, if you ask me. :gripe: