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What toys did your parents, say "NO WAy"

AskMyChocolate

Okay,

I'm an elderly man. (Show some respect you young whippersnappers.)

They didn't want to spend their free time in A&E.

So, Bows+Arrows were out. Likewise Spud guns.

Chemistry sets seemed educational, until you saw what iron filings could do to a baby's skin.

And no parent wants to spend Christmas day, hunting for batteries for a potter's wheel while also trying to save the youngest child from burns that could only have come from an Air-Strike on Gaza.

So, younger AHers, what's off-limits in this day and age?

Edit: Scaelectrix will always be cool. (stop trying to get a buzz by putting your tongue on the connection.:pac:)

Choco

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[Deleted User]

playstation or game boys... absolutely not...
I got a bit hooked on street fighter back when we rented (when you could rent them!) some kind of PS, and that was that :pac:

mackg

wild_cat wrote: »

My friends and I wanted him so badly but sadly my mother said "its a gimmick" and got me a soap making set. None of my friends were allowed it either what was so bad about an ice crusher?

I wanted to buy a trampoline with my own money when I was 17. I was barred as they thought and still think that they are complete death traps. This from a family that would let you walk through fields full of bulls.

We had trampolines in our school gym that were never used, one day they took them out for one class in kind of a might as well give them a go spirit...two students were promptly sent to casualty. These were leaving certs btw.

[Deleted User]

WindSock wrote: »

Mr. Frosty.

Or Fr. Frost should I say.

oh yes!!! this too!!

minidazzler

kfallon wrote: »

Anyone make their own peg gun???

Yeah had a whole arsenal of them, I was the king. Long, short, different elastics. I made some sweet peg guns, I always thought I would grow up to be a weapon designer I was so good. Alas, now I just shank people.

ScumLord

For the longest time I wanted a gun and a motorbike, so every Christmas I'd get a toy gun and or a toy bike. No! I'd scream, I want a real gun and a real bike I have crime to fight. The only way they could stop me on about the bike and gun was to tell me santa didn't exist.

this is arse

a rampant rabbit

adocholiday

Every year new super soaker came out OH MY GOD SUPER SOAKER 6000 WITH 20 NOZZELS AHHH

Then the mother would say no way you are gettin that you'll put someone's eye out. Every year the same argument and I've never owned one!

Monkey61

Mr. Frosty... I am sensing a pattern emerging here. Was it clearly the most advertised toy in Ireland for a certain age group? I always thought it terribly unfair that I couldn't have one, but thinking about it now I didn't actually know a single person that did have it.

Hungry hungry hippos as well. (Or is it called Hungry Hippos?...google has not cleared this up for me)

emeraldstar

^^^ Me too. I requested Hungry Hippos from Santa several years in succession but they never made an appearance. I still don't understand why.

pickarooney

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

I wasn't allowed boys toys. One christmas i wanted a fire engine lego set. What did i get? A girly box of lego to build my own home, (cause obviously girls should grow up to be in the home).

Anyone who had any understanding of basic construction would just have built a fire engine out of the house bricks, surely? The wheels might have been square but it would be a roomy motehr****er.

Orando Broom

Air Rifle and a catapult. slapped down with both requests.

What annoyed me about the air rifle is that the Oul Fella really wanted to buy it. Mam vetoed the purchase. I'd actually have ceded ownership to him in return for supervised usage, no bother. When I move to the US of A I fully intend to join a gun club for target shooting. Did it in college, loved it.

Orando Broom

pickarooney wrote: »

Anyone who had any understanding of basic construction would just have built a fire engine out of the house bricks, surely? The wheels might have been square but it would be a roomy motehr****er.

It would be pink, with drapes and a Laura Ashley floral dashboard.

emeraldstar

Orando Broom wrote: »

Air Rifle and a catapult. slapped down with both requests.

When my dad was ten, some kid shot a stone from a catapult, accidentally hit my dad and permanently blinded his right eye.

Needless to say we were NEVER allowed these!

pickarooney

Orando Broom wrote: »

It would be pink, with drapes and a Laura Ashley floral dashboard.

A most pleasant way to fight fires, I should think. It would do wonders for Dennis Leary's disposition.

Noodleworm

I had a mr. frosty,
It was pretty bad, the ice crusher as plastic and hand turned, a kid would never get it to break ice. I used to scrape ice out of the freezer to make slushies. apart from that it just little ice-lolly moulds.

Ash.J.Williams

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[Deleted User]

Noodleworm wrote: »

I had a mr. frosty,
It was pretty bad, the ice crusher as plastic and hand turned, a kid would never get it to break ice. I used to scrape ice out of the freezer to make slushies. apart from that it just little ice-lolly moulds.

you've just made us all feel better now

Orando Broom

emeraldstar wrote: »

When my dad was ten, some kid shot a stone from a catapult, accidentally hit my dad and permanently blinded his right eye.

Needless to say we were NEVER allowed these!

Even as a kid I understood why I couldn't have a catapult. I accepted the decision. I actually wanted the catapult for chumming lake water for fishing . I could get a great spread with a catapult.

The rifle did annoy me. I would happily have used it only under my father's supervision and at no other time.

Funkfield

I used to tell everyone that asked that I wanted an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!

But everyone just told me I'd shoot my eye out.

citizen_p

I got everything I asked for...if they could afford it and wanted to spend the money....

Had one aunt who used to take my slingshots off me though.

I'd spend 2 pound on my slingshot and she'd take it off me a month later, then I'd buy another one..

Orando Broom

Funkfield wrote: »

I used to tell everyone that asked that I wanted an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!

But everyone just told me I'd shoot my eye out.

Where's the sympathy button?

Seachmall

Mousey- wrote: »

Had one aunt who used to take my slingshots off me though.

I hate relatives and, most annoyingly, neighbours who felt it their duty to decide what was and wasn't suitable for you to have. I had one neighbour who took my Chillis tapes when I lent them to her son, if she didn't want her son listening to it then that's fine, but she had no right to take them off me. Crazy bitch.

JohnMarston

"1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule!"

Nailz

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for Christmas, they believe all the over sensitive anti-GTA propaganda in the media. Myself and my brother were litterally arguing our case from October to December, they didn't tell us we were going to get it and we did in true Christmas day fashion! They had to give in.

jme2010

I was about to bone my girlfriend but she was like, "NO WAY"

My parents only said no way to anything they couldnt afford. I did how ever receive the most rediculous amount of lego.

kfallon

this is arse wrote: »

a rampant rabbit

The first game you wanted to play with the toy you weren't allowed was your username, wasn't it?

Monkey61

emeraldstar wrote: »

^^^ Me too. I requested Hungry Hippos from Santa several years in succession but they never made an appearance. I still don't understand why.

Well my mother's reason was that it looked cheaply made and would fall apart, thus a waste of money. Hmm.

The Aussie

Orando Broom wrote: »

The rifle did annoy me. I would happily have used it only under my father's supervision and at no other time.

I actually did get a .22 when i was 10 and told after i could prove i was responsible (had a brain in my head) i could have the Bolt for it with one round at a time, i was 12+ by the time i saw it.

we'llallhavetea_old

i think they drew the line at skateboard. i had to bang on about the rollerblades for a good bit i think and then nearly killed myself a few times off them :P so you can understand their concern.

Micky Dolenz

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

Yeh but that's cause you're a girl. You's don't inflict physical pain like us boys, only emotional :pac:

phasers is a girl?? :eek:

Now those PM's make sense :P