Thread for Over 18's

Pighead

Do you think that there should be a class set aside for the final day of Primary School to tell kids once and for all that there is no Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy or Easter Bunny.

Christmas should be a time of fun, presents and bells that jingle but for Pighead its a time of humiliation and painful memories.

All through my teenage years the lads tried to tell me that the big fat red man didn't exist, everytime I responded by claiming I'd seen him when I was 9 and that they were all wrong. Imagine my embarrasment when my mother sat me down to give me the "talk".

Finding out that neither God nor the tooth fairy exists is tough enough but to finish off her story by saying "Oh yeah and that whole Santa thing is poppycock too" was a crushing blow.

It seems that a lot of people are beginning to reject the whole Santa notion and tell their kids at an extremely early age that he's a myth, probably to save themselves from years of lying and deciet.

What age will you tell you're kids that there is no Santa?

petes

They should be told before secondary school to prevent bullying

You actually got the talk?

Pighead wrote:

probably to save themselves from years of lying and deciet

Nothing to do with the cash then?

aidan_walsh

Wait, what?

Cabaal

I won't, I'll leave them find out themselfs in their own way

As a child, christmas losses its special feeling when you find out there's no Santa

Pighead

The whole Santa charade should be scrapped. Lyings not cool.

petes wrote:

You actually got the talk?

They felt they had to give it to me in the end. They were sick of being known as "The parents of the 17 year old spanner who still believed in Santa"

Oh and thanks for highlighting Pigheads mistake in spelling "deceit". Hope you feel proud when they all laugh at me petes. Thanks for nothing pal.

Next you'll be telling me there's no Allah

6th

The whole Santa charade should be scrapped. Lyings not cool.

I expected porn in this thread but I'll get over it.

I will keep up the pretence with my kid(s) until they are 10.

I will wait til they are 16 before I tell them that everyone on the internet is actually a guy though.

Siogfinsceal

Theres no santa?????!!!:eek:

Archeron

I stopped believing in big fat red men many moons ago, but my two week holiday in an Irish resort in Malta last year renewed my faith.

petes

They should be told before secondary school to prevent bullying

Pighead wrote:

Oh and thanks for highlighting Pigheads mistake in spelling "deceit". Hope you feel proud when they all laugh at me petes. Thanks for nothing pal.

All part of the service.

Dingatron

Atari Reindeer

Well my kids are 5 and 7. I won't be telling them as this usually happens in primary school when some smart kid stumbles upon all the presents due to a careless hiding place chosen by a parent, who in turn found all the presents themselves when they were young'uns. I believe its a genetic thing. If all this is true my 7 year old has already found out and is now telling all her friends.:eek:

coffee_cake

What do you mean theres no Santa?

I think I'd prefer not lying to them in the first place

Dyr

never mind this, the real issue is those oh-so-clever parents who infrom their 7 year old there is no santa and now lets go into town and buy your presents together. Of course this 7 year old (who's probably as a big a di*khead as its parents) then informs all of its class mates of the glad news that santa is a crock of sh***e.

Right thinking parents should be allowed to form into posses and burn such di*kheads in their houses as they sleep, thus insuring the magic of chritsmas survives :mad:

petes

They should be told before secondary school to prevent bullying

bluewolf wrote:

I think I'd prefer not lying to them in the first place

And deny them something which we all enjoyed. All in all the excitement I felt on a Christmas Eve completely outweighed the truth.

Dyr

Dingatron wrote:

I believe its a genetic thing. If all this is true my 7 year old has already found out and is now telling all her friends.:eek:

just out of curiosity like, what's your address??

coffee_cake

What do you mean theres no Santa?

petes wrote:

And deny them something which we all enjoyed. All in all the excitement I felt on a Christmas Eve completely outweighed the truth.

I don't need a madeup character to enjoy xmas
I don't think I ever did
I was as happy after as before

User45701

They should be told before secondary school to prevent bullying

i cant even remember when/how i found out its something i have ever reley thought about TBH. i dont reley think too much about x-mass i try not too 1/2 of it is a chour (spending time with family) and the other 1/2 is drinking in the pub with friends is fun but can be areck the buzz....

It costs allot aswell

netwhizkid

Atari Reindeer

Santa Claus FTW, I discovered my letter to him in my fathers car sometime in February when I was about 9 or 10 and that confirmed to me that he was made up. However I continued to play ignorant and milk the system until they told me and then of course I was very upset.

Also seeing Santa visiting my neighbour at about 9.30pm and he wouldn't visit us until we were given a few spoons of Benylin and he would visit during the night also left me wondering. I also discovered Benylin makes you drowsey and it was a treat for me to be given it as I loved the taste of it along with Vivioptal and some other child-hood medicines.

I laugh back at it now and find no harm whatsoever in it. But would have been really mad if I had been told by another child or the school Teacher like my sister was aged 6 :mad: :mad: I think Santa made Christmas for us and I can remember waking at about 4 or 5 in the morning and sneaking up to see if he had visited yet.

Anyone who tells a Child is simply heartless and instantly takes away that little bit of childhood innocence.

scojones

The whole Santa charade should be scrapped. Lyings not cool.

With more and more kids using the Internet these days, this little myth will soon die out.

oRlyYaRly

If they don't know by 6th class, spill.

Hobbes

Just show them this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ50F_LLjAw

Will make it easier to come to terms with.

Pighead

The whole Santa charade should be scrapped. Lyings not cool.

Siogfinsceal wrote:

Theres no santa?????!!!:eek:

Sorry to be the one to break it to you Siogfinsceal.

http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Santa's Grave.jpg

Mr Magnolia

They should be told before secondary school to prevent bullying

netwhizkid wrote:

Santa Claus FTW, I discovered my letter to him in my fathers car sometime in February when I was about 9 or 10.

Same as that, but my father told me he didn't 'actually' need to get the letter because he knows all.

Mad Mike

Atari Reindeer

Pighead, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, pighead, whether they be human or porcine, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Pighead, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as alcohol and pornography, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Pigheads. There would be no childlike posting then, no grunting, no outbursts to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which pighead fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in men who fancy other men. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither pigs nor men can see. Did you ever see men who fancy other men dancing on the lawn? Probably not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Pighead, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Pighead, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

(With apologies to the memory of Francis P. Church.)

Chinafoot

Meh, I pretended I still believed for 2 years so I could ask for more stuff.

My evil older sister told me when I was about 7.

r3nu4l

The whole Santa charade should be scrapped. Lyings not cool.

Hmm, I'd leave it until the year before they enter second level schooling. That's roughly when little ol' me twigged that all my friends were asking me what I was getting 'for Christmas' and not 'from Santa'

I do remember a girl in my class telling a group of us when we were about 7 but I didn't believe her I was so innocent Carried on believing for a few more years.

I do think that kids should get a good few years out of it. It's a special magical time for them where the world is full of all sorts of possibilities, why spoil it?

Beruthiel

Atari Reindeer

Not only is there a santa, but he's a member of boards!
Further proof that Piggie knows fuk all....
Is all this cos he didn't come visit you in the last few years Piggie?
That's what happens when you're a bold boy.

petes

They should be told before secondary school to prevent bullying

Beruthiel wrote:

N
That's what happens when you're a bold boy.

He'll take that as talking dirty!

Mrs_Doyle

The whole Santa charade should be scrapped. Lyings not cool.

My lil sis is 11, and she is in 6th class. Last year she 80% beleived but this year she knows full well there is no such thing.
When she asked me, I was unsure what to say but my Mam reckoned she was old enough now to be told the truth.
So this will be the first year, in my whole life, that Santa wont be coming to my house.
*Sniff* That kinda makes me feel a bit teary!:(

petes

They should be told before secondary school to prevent bullying

Mrs_Doyle wrote:

So this will be the first year, in my whole life, that Santa wont be coming to my house.
*Sniff* That kinda makes me feel a bit teary!:(

Did you get any extra presents from Santa when she did believe? Know some people who did to keep up the pretense.

Glenbhoy

They should be told before secondary school to prevent bullying

Bambi wrote:

never mind this, the real issue is those oh-so-clever parents who infrom their 7 year old there is no santa and now lets go into town and buy your presents together. Of course this 7 year old (who's probably as a big a di*khead as its parents) then informs all of its class mates of the glad news that santa is a crock of sh***e.

Right thinking parents should be allowed to form into posses and burn such di*kheads in their houses as they sleep, thus insuring the magic of chritsmas survives :mad:

Herself is a teacher and yes tossers such as those described above exist!