Kids are stupid

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

What this boils down to is the selfish and uncaring nature people can have. I doubt very much you would ever do such a disgusting trick on a child of your own.

Oh i most definatly would, i would also feed it a slice of lemon when it was eating a satsuma, i'm afraid i just like a laugh and i don't like sissy's.

What can i say i'm a fan of you've been framed, i've seen far worse on there.

Originally Posted by e.d.

Looks like it is.
What a sissy of a kid, I'd understand if it was a real person jump out on him but it's on the tv

I'm not too proud to say I reacted in the same way as that kid when I was sent something similar. It took me half an hour and a good coffee to calm down.

It depends what you are expecting and what your personal history is. When I was sent it, the original e-mail asked me to look for differences between the 2 pictures. When the final picture popped up with the sound effects it echoed around the small room I was in and enveloped me with screaming and awful sounds. I've had some awful things happen in the past and the memories came flooding back. Who's to say this kid didn't feel the same thing.

Some would, some wouldn't see it as a joke. Whoever filmed the kid should have stopped filming as soon as it was clear he didn't see it as a joke.

Daphne

e.d...Judging by your retort,it would be difficult to determine in your mentioned scenario which individual was the biggest child. Grow up.

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

e.d...Judging by your retort,it would be difficult to determine in your mentioned scenario which individual was the biggest child. Grow up.

There's been a real sense of humour failure round here today. And I don't think i wanna grow up thanks all the same.

Been watching this thread closely.. i watched the film and i laughed too. Then held back from posting as i knew what the reaction would be towards those who said that they found it funny.

People are saying "should be ashamed, would never do that to your own kid" etc.

The fact of the matter is... my folks did that and much worse to me as a little kid, some of the things really scared the bejesus out of me. Some of the tricks they played, still to this day, leave me with deep routed fears when that situation shows its head again.... which is a good thing.

Cos its some of the situations where if i was too confident, i may end up getting hurt. Like i found my house door forced open one night. Years ago my dad played a trick on me where he hid in the house, and id walked everywhere looking for him, before he jumped out of a cupboard at me. I think i cried for about 10 days following that. But now, im very cautious when in that similar position.

The kid will bounce back from it. And when hes older, he'll pull some practical joke on his old man too.

The world is NOT a nice place, its nasty, unfair, and at times just down right cruel... the sooner kids learn this, the more prepared they are for the real world.

Well said GYKD, i had far worse done to me by my parents and my brothers and sisters as a kid.

Apart from the limp, the stutter and the constant nightmares i'm no worse for it.

Joe and e.d if you both suffered as children then I empathise with you. I too had a brutish father who meted out discipline with a 3'' leather belt not funny I can tell you.

However to cite that as any kind of justification to toughen up our own kids is utter and complete nonsense. Neither of you are parents,(to my knowledge) and this is blissfully clear. No caring parent would ever subject their own child to the experiences and pain that they themselves suffered. It just doesn't work that way.

Stating that the world is a nasty place and there are lots of cruel things out there serves no value at all. The point regarding that video clip is the boy should not have been subjetced to such mental distress in his own home.

Far from being a sissy father, I have through explanation and fairness managed to bring up a well balanced son, rather than what would be it seems your preferred method of shock treatment. perhaps you should gain some knowledge of a subject prior to spouting such inane crap.

As far as growing up is concerned it is a concept that would appear to have by passed you Liz.

Originally Posted by getyerkneedown

The fact of the matter is... my folks did that and much worse to me as a little kid, some of the things really scared the bejesus out of me. Some of the tricks they played, still to this day, leave me with deep routed fears when that situation shows its head again

And look how you turned out......

You obviously have no idea what being a parent is all about.


I have played tricks on my son and still do (better watch it though he'sas big as me now) but nothing ever that nasty. OK, it may have been funny at the time, but for Gods sake don't keep the video running, he's needed somebody to help him to calm down and tell him everything was OK.

The guy with the camera is a complete **** IMHO.

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Originally Posted by Peter Henry

Joe and e.d if you both suffered as children then I empathise with you. I too had a brutish father who meted out discipline with a 3'' leather belt not funny I can tell you.

However to cite that as any kind of justification to toughen up our own kids is utter and complete nonsense. Neither of you are parents,(to my knowledge) and this is blissfully clear. No caring parent would ever subject their own child to the experiences and pain that they themselves suffered. It just doesn't work that way.

Stating that the world is a nasty place and there are lots of cruel things out there serves no value at all. The point regarding that video clip is the boy should not have been subjetced to such mental distress in his own home.

Far from being a sissy father, I have through explanation and fairness managed to bring up a well balanced son, rather than what would be it seems your preferred method of shock treatment. perhaps you should gain some knowledge of a subject prior to spouting such inane crap.

As far as growing up is concerned it is a concept that would appear to have by passed you Liz.

Woah There Peter.

I never suffered any abuse from EITHER of my parents. I TOO was subject to discipline from a leather hide belt, the back of my fathers hand, AND a slipper - all of which were struck across the back of my legs, or my backside.

I got it when id done something terribly wrong, and i soon got to learn the difference between right and wrong - it has done me no harm what so ever.

Are you, out of interest, one of these parents who beleives that smacking should be outlawed totally!?

To be scared, IMHO, makes you a tougher person in the long run. If we wrap our children up, never let them watch the horriffic images on the news, or scary images, or scary movies etc - what can be expected to come of them? People who look at the world in an idoligical fashion?

There is a VERY FINE LINE between disciplining/educating children, and abusing them. My parents have done a fantastic job of raising me and my 20yo brother - however, i was subject to more scares, i was a more "curious" child, and as a result a received more "whippings" if you like from my father - the result of this is now, that i have a higher sense of the real world, i know how to read people, AND more importantly, i know how to fend for myself - where as my brother never got the same treatment as i did - i used to hate it - but now, he cant look after him self, doesnt understand about morals, and certainly doesnt have any sense of responsibility in him.

Therefore, in conclusion, i have to streniously disagree with your logic on this one Peter.

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

As far as growing up is concerned it is a concept that would appear to have by passed you Liz.

As i said earlier when you tried to tell me to grow up, no thanks i'd rather not.

As you have said i'm not a parent but at the end of the day i fid that clip funny and i'm not aplogising for that.