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What Da F to get son for xmas?

  • 19-10-2020 8:56pm
    #1
    Blowheads
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 429 ✭✭Blowheads


    11 years old, has Xbox, sports mad..
    What's cool this year?
    Daughter getting an electric scooter


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  • #2
    Jaysus Christ.
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Jaysus Christ.


    Blowheads wrote: »
    11 years old, has Xbox, sports mad..
    What's cool this year?
    Daughter getting an electric scooter

    A book so he can learn Chinese.
    So when they take over the country in 2025 he’ll have a useful advantage.


  • #3
    Charlie19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,787 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    Blowheads wrote: »
    11 years old, has Xbox, sports mad..
    What's cool this year?
    Daughter getting an electric scooter

    Maybe you could ask him.


  • #4
    Blowheads
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 429 ✭✭Blowheads


    Charlie19 wrote: »
    Maybe you could ask him.

    Never thought a that


  • #5
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Blowheads wrote: »
    11 years old, has Xbox, sports mad..
    What's cool this year?
    Daughter getting an electric scooter

    E scooter still illegal to use in public, dangerous yokes too unless fitted with the big chunky tyres, she will getting feck all exercise too....


  • #6
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    A tent seems the latest craze in my estate, out front too in few houses


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  • #7
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,580 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    A really decent pair of binoculars and a tripod.

    A good pair of binoculars are handy even for star gazing and are much more practical than a telescope.


  • #8
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    humberklog wrote: »
    A really decent pair of binoculars and a tripod.

    A good pair of binoculars are handy even for star gazing and are much more practical than a telescope.

    Very useful if living in an apartment complex


  • #9
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,698 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Jaysus Christ. wrote: »
    A book so he can learn Chinese.
    So when they take over the country in 2025 he’ll have a useful advantage.

    Nah, surely it will be the Russians or possibly a new caliphate.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #10
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,698 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Technic

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #11
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,061 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    humberklog wrote: »
    A really decent pair of binoculars and a tripod.

    A good pair of binoculars are handy even for star gazing and are much more practical than a telescope.

    Any suggestions? I did think about that idea for my 12 year old.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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  • #12
    Vestiapx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Vestiapx


    He wants an Xbox 5


  • #13
    Bradley Hissing Dachshund
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Bradley Hissing Dachshund


    a switch


  • #14
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,580 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »
    Any suggestions? I did think about that idea for my 12 year old.

    No, but if you popped over to the Astronomy forum I'm sure you'd get good advice.


  • #15
    Xtrail14
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 253 ✭✭Xtrail14


    Should this be in the snow flake forum?


  • #16
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    If you're getting your daughter an e scooter, then logic dictates you get your son a scrambler bike or a piebald , or make him drink 6 pints of Guinness.


  • #17
    SineadSpears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭SineadSpears


    Blowheads wrote: »
    11 years old, has Xbox, sports mad..
    What's cool this year?
    Daughter getting an electric scooter

    Gaming seems to be the big deal. Round here anyway.
    Gaming chairs(office chairs), headsets with microphone, gamers stickers for the wall or bedroom door. Led strip lights for around the tv. Can get them on Wish.

    Can't help with the sports, no interest in sports round here.


  • #18
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,275 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Xbox Series S. If you can get one. Or a Series X if you can afford it/get one. An Xbox Digital Gift Card is always welcome to a Xbox gamer. As mentioned above, a gaming chair of some sort if needed. Gamers are the easiest people to buy presents for, and unlike a lot of people we wholeheartedly welcome gift cards for gaming purchases.


  • #19
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    A puppy and a scrambler


  • #20
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,623 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    No one mentioned coke and/or hookers yet?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #21
    salamiii
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 146 ✭✭salamiii


    buy him electric scooter.as well


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  • #22
    rtron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 640 ✭✭✭rtron


    Hover bike


  • #23
    smellyoldboot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭smellyoldboot


    Blowheads wrote: »
    11 years old, has Xbox, sports mad..
    What's cool this year?
    Daughter getting an electric scooter

    FIFA, PES, Madden etc.


  • #24
    Man with broke phone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Man with broke phone


    What kind of son do you want. What kind of frie ds do you want him to have.

    Get him a telescope and he can sell it for crack at 15 or you could just get him a Playstation 5 and he can have normal friends.

    Try hard parents have drug addicts. Dont forget that. Teach him to be cool not a smackhead loser.


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Montage of Feck wrote: »
    Nah, surely it will be the Russians or possibly a new caliphate.

    I was given a Teach Yourself Russian book when I was twelve. Had the Cyrillic alphabet learned off by evening time and have never forgotten it since. Can read signs with ease etc in Bulgaria, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, etc. Had the numerals mastered by Stevens' Day, and built myself enough vocabulary and verbs to shout for help when stuck in a broken lift in Ukraine 6 years later in 1979. :D


  • #26
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Robovac

    Sweeping brush and pan


  • #27
    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    A bottle of 'Redbreast', aged 12 years, Irish whiskey.
    A pipe and some good quality tobacco.
    A Donegal tweed sportscoat.

    Make a man out of him!


  • #28
    NSAman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭NSAman


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    No one mentioned coke and/or hookers yet?

    Been there done that!

    11 year olds are far more mature nowadays


  • #29
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    A guitar (or other musical instrument).... If it's electric, skip the speakers and include a proper set of headphones for your sanity.


  • #30
    yoke
    Registered Users Posts: 529 ✭✭✭yoke


    1956 Buick Centurion, or a butler.


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  • #31
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Jaysus Christ. wrote: »
    A book so he can learn Chinese.
    So when they take over the country in 2025 he’ll have a useful advantage.

    No chance the chinese or russians or yanks will take over this country. It will be the Eskimos with their polar bear lackeys that will overun this country. Thats why we need to stop them at the pass. Oh the pass is the gap, but gap doesn't sound exciting unless your filling it. Remember folks the eskimos


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