So dad destroys their hopes & dreams by selling their toys, including the offending Beyblades...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Selling-8-Beybla...item4156900d21
Honestly, I think this is fantastic. Teach the little fuckers a lesson. Don't destroy stuff.
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So dad destroys their hopes & dreams by selling their toys, including the offending Beyblades...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Selling-8-Beybla...item4156900d21
Honestly, I think this is fantastic. Teach the little fuckers a lesson. Don't destroy stuff.
I disagree, I don't think that kind of punishment is productive at all.
what an asshole.
kids breaking shit is part of growing up.
This is how you would parent a teenager, not a fucking child.
bad parent is bad.
What he said - they're fucking kids.
And even if a teen did it i'd have them work it off, rather than sell off their shit.
It could be worse though, the parent could have destroyed the toys which would really fuck with the kids.
Yeah dad seems to take joy in being a dick.
Its not like they ruins the bathtub in a weekend.
Does Dad shower so infrequently he just didnt notice for months?
People who aren't parents shouldn't comment.
fake
How about if you work with kids?Quote:
Originally Posted by Soilwork
Honestly, one of the last people I expected to come in and drop that comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
There's no way they have a master bathroom and another that is for the kids/guest and he just doesn't see it often. Crazy talk!Quote:
Originally Posted by Popcorn Sutton
I know when I lived in a house with multiple full baths (we would clean our own areas) I would go a LONG TIME before seeing the other ones. Not that difficult to see happening.
Different kettle of fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
Are you bathing them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
I am in full agreement with this punishment. Would you rather he teach them by beating them? This kind of punishment will make them think twice about doing stupid shit. If they had stopped and one scrape or something, then I could understand this is a bit far, but by the sound of the damage, this went on for a while with complete disregard for what they were doing. I think this is a great punishment.
Yup.Quote:
Originally Posted by norton9478
intense
Totally Agreed !! :p :p I'm still single, but I personally think it's normal when we were a kid, everything could be done through their innocent way of thinking :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Soilwork
that's actually really genius
edit: in response to the beyblade video.
I don't see anything wrong with making the kids pay.
Hilarious auction.
I wanna make fun of this beyblade stuff as it does look pretty lame, but when I was a kid we were into pogs... this looks at least better than that stupid shit.
The toys are lame, the show is one of the best cartoons ever.
LET IT RIPPPPPPPPP!!
I need to see if somebody put the episode of the cartoon when the gang goes to New York City. It's fucking hilarious. They chase this thief down that tries to steal an artifact out of a museum and to cut the guy off the one kid spins his top into the wheel of a tuck carrying lumber logs, in the middle of the city and cuts the thief off. Then they cap the show off by having a huge tournament at Yankee Stadium.
Only the Japanese could turn spinning tops into an epic quest story. I get it with Pokemon and Digimon because the 'mon's are living creatures so the kids don't want to see them get hurt. But watching Bayblade they yell at the tops like it's a life and death struggle and when they win they say "You did a great job!" meaning, the top.
But I'd be lying if I didn't say I would have loved this as a kid. My aunt got me "Battle Tops" when I was 9 years old for Christmas and I loved it. I would have eaten this shit up to be able to buy different types of blades for the tops then just generic dreidel looking things.
Pogs were a total waste, that fad died in a hurry. Seemed like no one even played with them, they would just fill up those Pog binders.Quote:
Originally Posted by XcomplexzX
i don't see it as a problem putting them up for sale. if my kids had done that i would have taken them off them and they would have been in trouble.
kids will be kids but they need to know boundaries.
I did the pog thing, but I was honestly more interested in X-men Ultra Fleer collecting (1995-1997) and Chatter Rings (1994).
Still got my full set of 96, it's amazignthat I actually managed to get all of them on no income at all.
Thanks for this, I needed a laugh. If I were the father, I would have done the same. I mean, it's not like the kid could pay for the damage.
Fake i think, but if not shits disgusting. kids are kids. they dont give a shit about breaking things. what were the parents doing while the kids destroyed the enamel of the bath. probably sat on there fat arses watching TV. and who the fuck makes there child stand in front of a camera with there toys which there going to sell. parents sound like the kids. fuckers ought to grow up.
This is a great way to make your kids into the same gigantic yam bags as yourself.
Kids are kids and yes, they need discipline, but I highly doubt they did this "one day". Something this severe in terms of punishment smacks of some deep seated mental issues with the dad. Either he's humiliating them because he thinks it's funny or he's really f'd up and wants to make an example of those kids. Taking their pic? Yeah, that won't fuck with them.
If you truly love your kids because they're YOUR KIDS and not YOUR POSSESSIONS, then you wouldn't do this.
Your kids mental health is less important to you than a fucking tub? Really?
I don't care what anyone says, this isn't something those kids will get over... and not in a good way.
When some of you have kids and the impact you can make on them with the littlest things becomes very obvious, you'll understand.
Aside from abusive parents, I can't see where taking a photo of your kids crying beneficial to the situation while selling something of theirs. I'm all for disciplining children. But if this is real, there's no reason to humiliate the kids online other than to stroke some internet ego.
Kids are byproducts of proper parenting and moral decisions. There is nothing to be gained from this incident that would teach them a lesson about their mistakes. Stating to the public that you're also taking their savings isn't going to help attract prospective buyers of the toys (most likely parents or grandparents).
This has got to be fake.
i don't agree with the way hes gone about it, but they should be told its wrong what they did, and have them took off them for a couple of days at least.
i would certainly never take they're pocket money to pay for a new bath or take away other toys that were nothing to do with what happened.
they would have got a good telling off though.
This is my problem with the whole thing. Why have the kids friends' laughing at them for something that's a normal part of child development?
This is basically the mordern-day equivalent of punishing your son by making him sit out on the front porch in a dress.
Fucked up in the head, this dad needs to grow up himself.
But of course, it's probably just another one of 10 billion quadrillion gazillion internet scams to try and squeeze a few more pennies from an auction.
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Originally Posted by OMFG
I doubt at that age those kids friends are going to happen to be surfing around ebay.Quote:
Originally Posted by galfordo
The whole thing smacks of fakery.
LOL the look on the children faces! :lol:
Fucking priceless!
I still think its funny that the Westapo thinks we should all shut up and have kids, then come back with the same opinion.
Fake or not, that's pretty funny. The crying kids in the auction picture is priceless!
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Originally Posted by DemiAngel
This kind of thinking isn't much better than:Quote:
Originally Posted by Popcorn Sutton
"If you can't build a car/write a novel/direct a movie/program a game, your critiques of any of the aforementioned things are completely invalid."
That said, the goal of punishment is to teach the offender that their crummy actions will have equally crummy consequences. I still think the whole auction thing is contrived, though: someone's lame attempt at up-selling a bunch of garbage using narrative appeal.
This is a message board that is geared towards people that like video games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolphin
I think it's funny when anybody tries to speak on something they have no experience in. Until you've spent years with kids controlling your life, eating your dreams, and ruining almost everything they touch of yours, then, yeah, I'll question whether or not you'd have the same opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Popcorn Sutton
Revenge is the best parenting technique apparently.
I wonder how much he could make putting them up for adoption. They're a little old now, so some of their potential-value is gone, but still. Probably worth more than those Beyblades. It's a one-and-done solution as well.
The pic is priceless, and I'm glad I never did anything THIS dumb in my life. :lol:
This thread is almost a funhouse mirror of the kind of responses I WOULD HAVE thought something like this would have generated.
I think this is pretty fucked up. And honestly, I don't think you have to be a parent to say so. Were you a kid once? If you were, you know what your 'rents did right and whatever they may have done that was fucked up.
I once took apart our family's Atari clone system (believe it was a Gemini), and my Mom freaked when she saw it in pieces, upon which I told her I could easily put it back together. I did, it still worked, and then she told me she thought it was cool that I was so curious about how it worked. I mean, for Christ's sake, these were kids playing with toys, which is really about the most innocent of possible circumstances for something like this to happen.
Again, yeah, I'm not a parent...but I still think that kind of discipline is a bad idea. Make them mow the lawn until they earn enough to repair/replace the tub...but this kind of humiliation doesn't teach them a lesson...I think it will make them vengeful.
I still vote a brilliant fake. There's no way he'd get $300+ out of 8 beyblades any other way. Hell, by the time the auction's over in 7 days, he can probably do a small remodel of the entire bathroom.
Im gonna stay out of the parenting aspect of it I'd just like to point out that tubs start out at about $100, $500 msrp will just about get you a top of the line designer "Kohler" or such. For a little bit more chances are you can get new a jacuzzi tub if you go bargain shopping. The kids need to make sure dad gets three bids and isnt upgrading the tub. Id be willing to guess that $100 tub is nicer than the stock ones most home builders just throw in a bathroom. The little bit I see of the house it could be custom built but still...
Totally different. A better comparison would be if someone had never spent any time watching movies, their critiques of movies would be completely invalid. Which would be true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolphin
I have enough friends with kids to know that life changes so drastically and so fundamentally once someone has kids that it is ignorant and hubristic to imagine that I or anyone without kids would have the first clue what actual day to day life as a parent would be like. People like to remember childhood from their own perspective then project themselves into the parents' place and think that's it, and it's a lot more than that.
I find it more amazing that the auction is up to 200 dollars
Holy shit! The current bid is over $4000. The tears of children is one hell of a seller
It is at 2,200 now. You can't leave feedback anymore if you dont pay correct?
Edit: 14,000 now, can't keep up anymore.
Always happens on these type of auctions, it'll get upbid with a bunch of fakes. It'll either end up getting yanked or the price will get cleared back down. Either way, it's still entertaining.
So, which one of you made the million-dollar-bid? And doesn't ebay check your bank account if you bid above a certain amount?
Ok, this shit is getting retarded.
Ahaha, it got taken down. Not much of a surprise really I guess. The picture of those kids was classic though.