Guzzumped - sons Christmas present

[Willow]

My eldest is 12 on thursday. I have bought him a Garmin 50 watch for christmas which is essentially for running and he can download the data to the computer but can also be used for cycling. I collected him from his dad's to take him to play football and was proudly shown a pedometer watch which my ex's partner has bought him for his birthday. I am majorly hacked off, mine is a much better specimen and I'm going to have to return it. I know he would love the ability to transfer info. to the computer (he likes league tables/charts and things) and I thought I was onto a winner. Now I need to re-think, was trying desperately to move away from console games, football kit, trainers - ie the usual. bah humbug

 

[papercorn2000]

You could have her "dealt with"?

How about a year's subscription to Penthouse?

 

[Aperitif]

Willow - your son

 

[Mr Pig]

I don't know, if yours is better you could just give him it anyway? Maybe accident the one he has first?

How about a year's subscription to Penthouse?

Don't you have to be thirteen for that? Younger boys don't buy porn mags, they find them in polly bags under bushes.

 

[Arch]

Would it be possible to talk it all through with the lad and the partner and see if he can return her gift? I realise it might all be awkward, of course.

Otherwise, give him the better one anyway, and he can learn diplomacy by wearing the one she gave him when he's there, and yours when he's with you....

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Don't you have to be thirteen for that? Younger boys don't buy porn mags, they find them in polly bags under bushes.

I think you'll find that these days they just type in 'free porn' into google (after they've got round the 'security' you carefully installed)...

 

[postman]

I want to thank Aperitif for the link.The Beatles, now going to have a load of fun listening to that lot.Many thanks.

 

[papercorn2000]

I don't know, if yours is better you could just give him it anyway? Maybe accident the one he has first?



Don't you have to be thirteen for that? Younger boys don't buy porn mags, they find them in polly bags under bushes.

That's why it would be very special. Imagine being a teenager and owning first hand porn!

 

[Mr Pig]

I never looked at porn, even as a kid. One of those things I just do not get, and no, I'm not gay ;0)

 

[Fnaar]

That's why it would be very special. Imagine being a teenager and owning first hand porn!

a ha ha. A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Eee, the kids these days don't know they're born... we had to trawl the undergrowth for our rain-sodden creased up piccies...

 

[col]

a ha ha. A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Eee, the kids these days don't know they're born... we had to trawl the undergrowth for our rain-sodden creased up piccies...

Ah so it was the rain that caused the pages to stick together?

 

[mr Mag00]

'lose' or render 'irreparable' the one he has been given and then 'ta da' present yours!

 

[Willow]

Would it be possible to talk it all through with the lad and the partner and see if he can return her gift? I realise it might all be awkward, of course.

Otherwise, give him the better one anyway, and he can learn diplomacy by wearing the one she gave him when he's there, and yours when he's with you....

I did mention it to my ex and he offered to take it back but I was too polite and said I'd change mine. I really am my own worse enemy. Think what I will do is have a closer look at it when it arrives (currently at post office) and provided I think it is simple enough for him to download will give him that as well.

Joke or no joke I certainly won't be buying him porn that's one his dad can deal with it won't be in my house, I find it utterly distasteful and degrading I'm afraid.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Joke or no joke I certainly won't be buying him porn that's one his dad can deal with it won't be in my house, I find it utterly distasteful and degrading I'm afraid.

What? Even soft-core stuff like C+? Admitedly Cycling Weekly is a bit hard-core and the CTC mag is for deviants but surely....

 

[wafflycat]

Worry if he's bought 'Velovision' that's where the really deviant stuff is published... like recumbents....