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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: Winters on November 29, 2012, 09:56:40 AM
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Any of you do this with your kids?
A few years ago when they first came out I did this with little dictator, however one day I set the damn thing on the fire place mantle thing which is on the floor in my house and the dog chewed him up. My kid came to me with the pieces of Henry, crying about Santa not getting him anything... What a disaster... So fair warning to avoid this keep the creepy elf away from the dogs!
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Is this like where Trim takes a GPC post and posts it here like it's his?
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Winters has a kid? :horrorsurprise:
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Is this like where Trim takes a GPC post and posts it here like it's his?
Yes
Winters has a kid? :horrorsurprise:
Komo
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:barf: :lol: :barf:
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I had never heard of this before.
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I had never heard of this before.
Seems like a pretty great way to traumatize your kid by telling it some creepy doll is watching its every move. For eff's sake that's a recurring theme in horror flicks.
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Bread: "Hey Bread Jr, stop being such a dick."
Bread Jr: "What do you mean Bread?"
Bread: "Well you see this unsettling little doll here?"
Bread Jr: "I've noticed it."
Bread: "It's been watching you constantly for the past week even when you can't see it and telling me all of the bad person things you do."
Bread Jr: :bawl: :runaway: :bawl:
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My bro uses this to scare his kids. He moves it every other day or so to really scar them for life. Works like a charm though.
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Bread Jr: "I've noticed it."
:lol:
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it's very fun for the kids and it's a very effective parenting tool for the entire month of december
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it's very fun for the kids and it's a very effective parenting tool for the entire month of december
Boom. Endorsed.
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you should put one in every room all year long
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Winters has a kid? :horrorsurprise:
yeah
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JFC yes.
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I had never heard of this before.
Seems like a pretty great way to traumatize your kid by telling it some creepy doll is watching its every move. For eff's sake that's a recurring theme in horror flicks Catholicism.
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I'm going to make my kids read R.L. Stine's "Night of the Living Dummy" series a couple weeks before I do this.
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The Elf on the Shelf is a great parenting tool. You want toys? Let's see how rough ridin' bad you want them, and my little friend here is going to keep you honest.
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I have a real problem with the non pointed ears and lack of distinguishable feet.
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The Elf on the Shelf is a great parenting tool. You want toys? Let's see how rough ridin' bad you want them, and my little friend here is going to keep you honest.
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If you'd like to train your kid to join a cult, this is one way to go about it.
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This is the third year that we have done this with our kids. First couple of years we just moved him around the house. This year he is getting into crap, writing on picture frames with dry erase markers, and stuff like that. So far, my wife has been the elf arranger. I told her that I thought it would be hilarious to have him laying on the counter surrounded by empty beer bottles one night. I'm pretty sure that after that comment I won't get assigned the task of setting up his next adventure. :thumbs:
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well you could kind of stick with that theme but put him in the candy bowl with a bunch of empty wrappers around him and smear chocolate on his face.
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I hate all of you people that make your elf get into mischief. We have been doing this elf deal for about 6 years, and now my kids want to know why our elf just moves every night and doesn't MAKE A MESS WHILE BAKING COOKIES (yes, seriously, that crap happened) like other people's elves do.
Just move the elf every night and be done with it!
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Had never heard of it until two yrs ago. Wife brought it home. Freaks me out. stares out at me all the time. I stay out of it. The kids love it though.
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This is our second or third year having one. what really sucks is when you forget to move him, and have to convince the kids "that he must just really like sitting on top of the tv, it's a good tactical lookout point".
the 7 year old buys it, I think.
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sounds like you dumbasses suck as parents
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sounds like you dumbasses suck as parents
That's what i'm thinking. Since I don't have kids i'm pretty good at judging how good a parent is.
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Is this more effective than the "invisible god is watching you" strategy? Crutches gonna crutch.
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Is this more effective than the "invisible god is watching you" strategy? Crutches gonna crutch.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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sounds like you dumbasses suck as parents
That's what i'm thinking. Since I don't have kids i'm pretty good at judging how good a parent is.
yeah, because you're unbiased.
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sounds like you dumbasses suck as parents
That's what i'm thinking. Since I don't have kids i'm pretty good at judging how good a parent is.
yeah, because you're unbiased.
This all sounds accurate to me. Also seems like a lot of folks outing their kids as pretty big dumbasses in this thread as well. Oh, and themselves as liars and manipulators. Of kids no less.
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I am such a poor parent that all this moving the elf around and setting up displays sounds like too damn much work.
I will just stick with screaming unrealistic threats at them.
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Is this more effective than the "invisible god is watching you" strategy? Crutches gonna crutch.
Go over to Italy. They have pictures. He is not invisible.
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Is this more effective than the "invisible god is watching you" strategy? Crutches gonna crutch.
Go over to Italy. They have pictures. He is not invisible.
You mean She?
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This elf on the shelf crap is child's play. When my dad was a kid they used to spend Christmas eve at grandpa and grandma's house. The boys all slept in one room and the girls in another. Shortly after everything was quiet Santa and Ruprecht would come to visit. That's when crap got real.
Ruprecht had a bullwhip and Santa had a switch for blistering bad little boys and girls backsides. Santa questioned the girls and Ruprecht terrorized the boys. Some how they always knew if you were lying and you got it double bad if you lied. :ohno:
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Knecht Ruprecht Santa Claus
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This elf on the shelf crap is child's play. When my dad was a kid they used to spend Christmas eve at grandpa and grandma's house. The boys all slept in one room and the girls in another. Shortly after everything was quiet Santa and Ruprecht would come to visit. That's when crap got real.
Ruprecht had a bullwhip and Santa had a switch for blistering bad little boys and girls backsides. Santa questioned the girls and Ruprecht terrorized the boys. Some how they always knew if you were lying and you got it double bad if you lied. :ohno:
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Knecht Ruprecht Santa Claus
jesus christ that's horrible :sdeek:
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Dad said Ruprecht had chains hanging around his neck and shoulders. He had a long black beard and his face was covered in coal dust. When Ruprecht entered the room he would slam one of his chains on the hard wood floor to get their attention. It worked very well, little boys scrambled to the corners of the room and under beds. They would each have to come forward one at a time to be questioned. One time one of the cousins tried to make a run for it and Ruprecht cut him down with one flip of the bull whip. He didn't actually whip him but it was close enough to make the kid dive back under the bed.
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I worked with a couple of chicks from the Netherlands years ago, and they said that when they were kids they were told that if you were bad, Santa Clause (they didn't call him that, can't remember what they called him) had some bad dude that would put you in a sack and take you to Spain and make you work in coal mines.
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I worked with a couple of chicks from the Netherlands years ago, and they said that when they were kids they were told that if you were bad, Santa Clause (they didn't call him that, can't remember what they called him) had some bad dude that would put you in a sack and take you to Spain and make you work in coal mines.
That's Ruprecht. My dad's family is originally from Germany.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus)
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Well grandma told us Ruprecht took bad boys and girls from their parents. So grandma you lied to little BF. :shakesfist:
Here are some of Santa's big bad helpers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companions_of_Saint_Nicholas
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sounds like you dumbasses suck as parents
That's what i'm thinking. Since I don't have kids i'm pretty good at judging how good a parent is.
yeah, because you're unbiased.
This all sounds accurate to me. Also seems like a lot of folks outing their kids as pretty big dumbasses in this thread as well. Oh, and themselves as liars and manipulators. Of kids no less.
Parents are huge liars. The elf on the shelf is just another lie on top of the already uncountable pile of lies spent. To be honest, lies shape our lives and make you who you are.
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sounds like you dumbasses suck as parents
That's what i'm thinking. Since I don't have kids i'm pretty good at judging how good a parent is.
yeah, because you're unbiased.
This all sounds accurate to me. Also seems like a lot of folks outing their kids as pretty big dumbasses in this thread as well. Oh, and themselves as liars and manipulators. Of kids no less.
Parents are huge liars. The elf on the shelf is just another lie on top of the already uncountable pile of lies spent. To be honest, lies shape our lives and make you who you are.
My mom once told my sister and I that she wasn't our real mother, but was actually an alien that had replaced our mother who had been taken. We were pretty young like in the 4-6 range. She kept it up until my sister started crying. Thinking back on that makes me a little :sdeek:. Pretty sure my sister still has some hard feelings and maybe even a little residual doubt. Like when my mom was doing the big reveal that it was just a joke, my sister just cried harder and screamed at her that she wasn't her real mom.
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I bet your mom lied to her and said everything would be ok, right?
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According to Wikipedia, Ruprecht rolls with a posse of fairies and men in blackface dressed as old women.
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