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Children sitting on Santa's knee....yay or nay?

  • 17-12-2014 1:35pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭


    I posted this in the Christmas forum....just curious as to people's opinions here!
    I came across a post on Facebook today about a mother who took her child to visit Santa and was shocked to be told that he could only stand beside or sit next to Santa not on his knee because 'You can never be too careful'.

    There are calls in Australia at the moment for the practice to be banned altogether.

    What are my fellow boardsie's opinions on the matter?

    Personally I see no problem with it whatsoever. It's a lovely tradition for children imo and I can't see the good in teaching them it's not safe to sit on Santa's knee.

    I can't understand why it's so hard for people to accept that their children are statistically more likely tone abused by some-one known to them than this mythical dangerous stranger on the prowl.

    Would you/Will let your children sit on Santa's knee? 290 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    91% 264 votes
    Don't Know
    8% 26 votes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Last week I let my 7 month old sit on a Santa-impersonator's knee, he had a great time.

    so did my son.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Rabbo


    Jesus Christ. It's getting to a stage now that a man won't be allowed to look at a child without being branded a paedophile.

    Women lock up your children, there are men around!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Jesus nothing is safe anymore is it!!

    Over sensitive crap really has taken a huge hold on society in general.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    F.uck sake.

    The only benefit from not allowing it that I can see is to protect innocent men from false allegations by hysterical parents. We've actually got to a stage now where a man is afraid to go to the aid of a lost child in a shopping centre for fear of being accused of doing something he shouldn't, and I remember reading a post here a number of years back by a man who spotted a child in the swimming pool unattended who had gone out of his depth. He had to help him but was terrified he'd be accused of trying to steal/molest him so basically held him out at arms length, shouting "does anyone own this kid!?" - quite funny really but a sign of how ridiculous our society has become. And, as all too many know, it's not usually the stranger, is it? :(


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    **** sake, hey Santa! Leave those kids alone!


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  • Posts: 24,714 [Deleted User]


    Anyone who has a problem with their child sitting on santa's knee is an idiot, simple as that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,558 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    They'll be bemoaning the tradition of leaving out a mince pie and glass of milk for Santa, and a carrot for Rudolph, next as it encourages unhealthy eating or something.

    PC gone mad Joe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Glass of milk?

    My kid will be leaving a bottle of premium craft beer for Santy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Glass of milk?

    My kid will be leaving a bottle of premium craft beer for Santy!
    We always left a glass of whiskey. Co-incidentally Santa was a big fan of the same one as my dad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    They'll be bemoaning the tradition of leaving out a mince pie and glass of milk for Santa, and a carrot for Rudolph, next as it encourages unhealthy eating or something.

    PC gone mad Joe.

    Once the milk is lactose free, the mince pie is gluten free and the carrot is organic then I don't see anything wrong.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭Corvo


    "Kids, we aren't leaving out a carrot for Rudolph this year, he used it as a sex toy last Christmas"

    Christ. Lock this thread, what a load of rubbish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭Staplor


    Rabbo wrote: »
    Jesus Christ. It's getting to a stage now that a man won't be allowed to look at a child without being branded a paedophile.

    Women lock up your children, there are men around!

    Hide yo wives, hide yo kids, and hide yo husbands they raping everybody up here


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    If Bad Santa has taught us anything, keep small children at arms length and never on your knee...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Sad reflection of the direction we have allowed our society to go. Professional handwringers, take a bow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    They'll be bemoaning the tradition of leaving out a mince pie and glass of milk for Santa, and a carrot for Rudolph, next as it encourages unhealthy eating or something.

    PC gone mad Joe.

    Glass of milk? Jaysus the PC brigade have already gotten rid of Santa's drop of whiskey then?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,558 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    c_man wrote: »
    Glass of milk? Jaysus the PC brigade have already gotten rid of Santa's drop of whiskey then?!

    Can't be drink driving sleighing like


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    I don't they're going far enough. The only way to ensure children are safe is to lock them up in a cage until they're 18. Give them an iPad (internet restricted obviously) and they'll be grand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    I saw Santa empty his sack.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭fran17


    The same woman who is lobbying this has been a finalist in the "Australian of the year" award numerous times.Scary.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    PC gone mad.

    I reckon most of the people who say this have no clue what it means.

    This Santa's knee thing would be more of a child protection issue.

    Discouraging the use the word 'retarded' in favour of the term 'intellectually disabled' or 'Police Officer' in place of 'Policeman' in respect of gender would be a PC thing.

    Edit: I think it's ridiculously OTT to ban something like this. Let parents decide.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I'm not gone on that Santy fella at all, at all at all. I'm told he sneaks into children's bedrooms in the middle of the night and empties his sack.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    If Bad Santa has taught us anything, keep small children at arms length and never on your knee...

    Exactly. I don't want my child sitting on no hobo rent a santa's knee.

    God knows what kind of filthy peado this hobo is! :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    I love how a situation which is the direct result of tabloid indignation and curtain-twitcher paranoia is being labelled as political correctness. Next up, how immigration is to blame.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    As a helper of Mr Claus and a wearer of his suit down through the years, I have come to the conclusion that a lot of the time children are brought to visit Santa, it is for the parents sake not the kids. I would probably be talking about kids 5 years and under who are foisted upon the knee of a stranger by the parents that they trust. Tears and tantrums ensue. It irks me when a kid is obviously scared, that Mammy or Daddy force the kid to sit on Santas knee. Luckily I am armed with distraction tactics for all the family to get the kid their present, the parents their photo and all out the door before the grotto is wrecked.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Look- Santa is an foreigner and probably a muslim who is drawing the dole in ireland too. Would you really want.....

    Oh wait, wrong thread.


  • Registered Users Posts: 535 ✭✭✭ALiasEX


    Kids, don't talk to strangers, I'll just force you on this stranger's knee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Anyone who has a problem with their child sitting on santa's knee is an idiot, simple as that.

    I'm sure that's true but you just cant be too careful these days


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 194 ✭✭GalwayGuitar


    Isn't Australia the same country that bans men from sitting next to children on airplanes in case they accidentally molest them?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    but you just cant be too careful these days

    Or hysterical, by the sounds of things.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Look- Santa is an foreigner and probably a muslim who is drawing the dole in ireland too. Would you really want....

    I heard he got radicalised while fighting in Syria.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    So they won't allow them sit on his knee, but tell the tale of how Santa breaks into you're house and comes into your room without waking you to give you presents.

    Surprised they haven't banned Santa


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I feel sorry for kids who are brought up by such paranoid fcukwits... can't be good for developing their character.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    I visited Santa in a midlands town in the 1950s and it was super-exciting. About 40 years later my Da told me he was the town drunk. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Sitting on Santa's knee is grand as long as they stay away from the Easter Bunny's hole


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Zonda999


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    F.uck sake.

    The only benefit from not allowing it that I can see is to protect innocent men from false allegations by hysterical parents:(

    Nail on the head tight here. If this where we're at, then it really is a sad stage for our "society".

    I don't mean to go OT here but I was thinking about lately the idea that you can go out looking for the best or worst in people you encounter in life. I think this kind of hysteria feeds into that somehow..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭mohawk


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    This Santa's knee thing would be more of a child protection issue

    Protecting the child from what though? The parents/responsible adult is present for the Santa visit.

    What kind of world is my son facing as he grows up? At what age does a male become an automatic threat to children? 16?...18?...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,131 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    I'm increasingly of the view that political correctness is in fact a damaging cult or ideology. You can't do anything, can't say anything about anyone or group (no matter how true it is) or make simple observations without some busy body pressing the intolerant button or screaming blue murder about something. This Santa thing seems an extension of that.

    What really annoys me about it though is the people that propagate this stuff most are those least affected by the consequences - i.e the middle class telling the working class how to think about immigration for example when they are the ones most affected. Now we have the great paedophile panic of 2014. Everyone must be watched, every man (in particular) is potentially a dodgy so and so and children must be protected by the most over the top and ludicrous way imaginable - by having their child hood basically more and more restricted. Sure why not lock them in the house all day if this is the way it's all going?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    Seriously close this ****ing thread. What a thing to ask.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    I recently was working on a building site of a new school, the kids of the Junior school next door where playing in the yard they would come over to the fence and ask questions we were told to ignore the child and walk away.

    It's getting ridiculous. I'm a father of 2 and feels like your guilty of being a pedo just because your a man.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Rosy Posy


    ALiasEX wrote: »
    Kids, don't talk to strangers, I'll just force you on this stranger's knee.

    IMO the not talking to strangers rule is bs. I try to teach my children to be polite and answer people when they're spoken to, in the park, the shops, wherever. Also, statistically, they're more likely to be harmed by someone they know. Our rule is that they never go anywhere with anyone, or accept anything from anyone, without checking with the adult in charge. I feel sorry for kids who grow up to fear strangers, and sorry for men particularly who have to live under the shadow of suspicion.

    Anyway I've never taken my kids to see Santa- they really believe and I don't think that they'd buy that a Santa in a grotto was the real deal.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    I'm sick to my teeth of the continuous PC horseshít that seems to prevail these days.

    What a load of fcuking crap.

    Fcuks sake.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    Jesus nothing is safe anymore is it!

    Not jesus, Santa.. Sssaaaaannnnntttttaaaaaa


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    My kid will be leaving a bottle of premium craft beer for Santy!

    Anyone who drinks that hipster craft beer nonsense, really doesn't deserve a visit from Santa.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭AndonHandon


    This isn't PC bull****, people need to calm down. It is merely some headbanger spouting some nonsense and being given a disproportionate amount of attention.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭AndonHandon


    Anyone who drinks that hipster craft beer nonsense, really doesn't deserve a visit from Santa.

    *pulls down trousers and poops on Corvus' shoes*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    *pulls down trousers and poops on Corvus' shoes*

    *Adds Andon's ingredients to new craft beer range*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    mohawk wrote: »
    Protecting the child from what though?

    I guess this woman considers the sitting of children on a disguised strange man's knee, in lieu of gifts, somewhat strange.. (it is a bit if you think about it)
    The parents/responsible adult is present for the Santa visit.

    I agree.
    At what age does a male become an automatic threat to children? 16?...18?...

    Who has suggested this? Do we really have to go down the gender war direction?

    crosstownk wrote: »
    I'm sick to my teeth of the continuous PC horseshít that seems to prevail these days.

    What a load of fcuking crap.

    Fcuks sake.

    Please stop getting emotional and read my previous post in this thread.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Glass of milk?

    My kid will be leaving a bottle of premium craft beer for Santy!

    Quite the artisan snob your child.

    Not whiskey, not beer, but craft beer......:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭cassid


    My lot were with santa last week and he asked was it ok for the gang to sit on his lap. Before I could answer they have scrambled all over him, I would have no issue with it at all. My 5 year old ask me afterwards if he reckoned Santa knew he farted when he sat on his lap, naturally I told him no, but I know this childs fart could blow a hole in a pair of trousers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭blatantrereg


    No. Don't sit on strangers' knees. Kinda like "don't talk to strangers" but more important.

    ...Actually scratch that. If someone wants you to sit on their knee, keep yelling "don't touch me" and immediately tell parents.

    Nothing to do with suspecting anyone in particular of being a fiddler. Just about giving kids attitudes that make them less vulnerable.


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