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u/porsj911 4h ago
Good thing it was the night before the night before Christmas
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u/TheBanishedBard 4h ago
When all through the house, not a creature was stirring...
Except for...
The Mouse.
In theaters October 31st.
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u/iplaydrumsonmyguitar 2h ago
Starring Kevin Hart
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u/PolarBailey_ 1h ago
And Dwayne Johnson
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u/ImpossiblePotatoes 1h ago
… and Rob Schneider as The Mouse
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u/Personal_Carry_7029 3h ago
Depending where u live. Many contry celebrate on 24.12.
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u/porsj911 3h ago
The day before Christmas? Thats a new one to me, but cool. Earlier presents i guess.
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u/Personal_Carry_7029 3h ago
Murica is not the "messurement" for other contries
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u/porsj911 3h ago
Im not from murica, im European
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u/Rays_Baguette 3h ago
Germany is an example for celebrating the 24th
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u/porsj911 3h ago
Cooll, and actually during the day? Not like Christmas eve? Never too late to learn a neighbors customs during the weihnachten.
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u/CirdanSkeppsbyggare 3h ago
In Sweden we celebrate holidays on the eve of that holiday. That’s because a new day was considered to start at sunset, not midnight, so Christmas Day would begin when the sun set on the 24th. Which in Sweden is around 15:00.
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u/Rays_Baguette 3h ago
It actually is celebrated -usually- in the evening of the 24th.
The 24th isn't even a holiday, usually people work until midday/late afternoon and everything closes up earlier.
Then we have 2 holidays on the 25th and 26th for family etc.
So 24th evening - presents, dinner etc and then 2 days of free time
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u/porsj911 3h ago
Sweet, very cool. Its sorta the same, but without the presents in the evening. Its more traditional to wait until the first day of Christmas. Sometimes after, sometimes before Christmas brunch.
Ive heard that the brits used to give presents they didnt like or things they didnt need anymore on the second day of Christmas to charities and people in need and call it boxing day. Funny how we al celebrate the same thing but go about differently.
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u/ta294813 2h ago
In Denmark, the traditional Christmas celebrations are done on the evening of the 24th. The grand meal, gift exchange, singing, dancing around the tree, playing games
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u/Worldly-Pay7342 3h ago
Is this... is this finally an example of someone not from america doing an r/usdefaultism, by assuming someone is american when they're not?
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u/Dense_Practice5865 1h ago
What’s a Contry?
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u/ElReptil 1h ago
How Americans should spell "country" if they were at all consistent.
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u/Dense_Practice5865 1h ago
Wait, hold on, I can’t comprehend that. Are you saying that as an American I AM spelling it right or NOT?
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u/ElReptil 33m ago
I'm saying that for consistency, Americans should have dropped the u in country like they did in colour and neighbour.
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u/Purgii 1h ago
Growing up, my best friend was from an Orthodox family - and while they didn't celebrate Christmas as such on the 24th, they did select that day to open their presents.
Because they didn't want their kids thinking the presents came from Santa. I think their celebration day was near the end of the first week of January. I guess they also didn't want the hassle of all their friends having received and broken their presents before they even got to see theirs.
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u/senorfresco 35m ago
Why are you sitting at -64 for this comment 😂
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u/trowawufei 30m ago
People got triggered by him not knowing deep lore about other countries, I guess.
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u/Necessary_Panda_3154 3h ago
Also it’s Roblox… Isn’t all that shit digital currency that you could just buy the code for instantly and gift them that?
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u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 3h ago
Yes but they already spent $6000 to buy 2 small sets of legos.
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u/ohtrueyeahnah 1h ago
"Oh you got you Robux cool! Santa only got me a $4999 Millennium Falcon Collectors Edition Lego set (the one with special edition limited time only Chewbacca and BB-8 minifigs released in December 2015)"
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u/Illumini24 2h ago
Roblox is also a pedo central, so perfect for irresponsible parents to let their 4 year old loose there
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u/zoogenhiemer 2h ago
They’ve had physical Roblox toys for at least 5 years now, probably much longer
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u/ScienceIsSexy420 3h ago
....yes that was the joke. What is with the top comment just repeating the punchline?
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u/oh-hes-a-tryin 4h ago
Santa said he doesn't want to support companies that facilitate child predators. Enjoy your legos.
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u/Vendidurt 4h ago
Yeah, no 4 year old of mine will be getting roblox, thank you very much.
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u/leyla00 4h ago
My only thoughts on this too. Roblox is full to the neck of pedos. Honestly, a 4 year old on any video game with internet strangers is a hard no anyway.
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u/ZeppelinSF 4h ago
A 4 year old on anything connected to the Internet is a hard no...
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u/movielass 1h ago
I'm not that familiar with it, but is there no way to play Roblox offline? Set it up so strangers can't talk to your child?
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u/hypnogoad 1h ago
Roblox is online only, however if you want your child to play without direct stranger interaction, playing on a console without a headset is the best method. It's the only way I'll let mine play it.
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u/movielass 59m ago
Oh wow I did not know it was online only. I haven't played video games since before that was even an option haha so I had no idea
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u/Chocolate2121 44m ago
Roblox is effectively a launcher, the main thing is all the games made in roblox. You need to be online to access those games, so no offline mode
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u/The_Fox_Fellow 3h ago
and somehow the pedos are only one of the extremely concerning things on the platform. there is also an actual stock market where kids regularly buy and sell cosmetic items with quantities of robux that equate to upwards of five to six figures in real dollars
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u/Zeired_Scoffa 2h ago
How badly do you have to fuck up that "the pedos are just one issue, there's actually a lot" can be uttered with total sincerity and truthfulness.
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u/DeniedAppeal1 2h ago
The kids aren't the ones buying and selling 5-figure plus items.
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u/xombae 1h ago
They do though, occasionally. Plenty of stories of parents being charged hundreds, if not thousands of dollars when their kid buys something on Roblox. Obviously the parents are partially at fault for allowing their kid to play in the first place, and on a device that's hooked up to automatic payments. But the platform itself is absolutely pushing these monetary purchases to kids.
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u/The_Fox_Fellow 46m ago
I've also seen a couple anecdotal stories from kids who got their hands on some really expensive items for free (either directly from the roblox corporation giving it to them or some other thing), but traded them away for a bunch of cheaper items (that absolutely did not add up to the same net worth), and then had to live with the absolute despair and regret of not just outright selling an item that could have literally paid their future college tuition (or at the very least put a hefty dent into it)
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u/jakehood47 2h ago
I gotta be honest, imma worry about the pedos first and then cross the whole “kid is trading on the stock exchange” bridge when we get to it
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u/The_Fox_Fellow 20m ago
oh I absolutely agree (especially with their ceo insisting that roblox needs to have a dating app and consistently not being able to justify why he thinks that), but they're both completely unacceptable in a gaming platform geared towards minors
and that's still somehow only the tip of the iceberg from what I know
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u/PaisleyLeopard 2h ago
I’m in my 40’s and I still refuse to play with internet strangers. Don’t need that brand of depravity in my life, thanks.
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u/The45Longslide 1h ago
I did for decades and lost the desire for it over time. The novelty wore off finally.
It’s a lot more negative experiences than uplifting ones.
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u/LongJohnSelenium 34m ago
The vast majority of interactions are fine.
Like this interaction we're having right now.
The internet is an outrage machine. Its the whole world scouring every moment for something to be mad about so that everything always seems like its getting worse, and, when that can't happen, its just making stuff up.
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u/Fuzzy-Comedian-2697 2h ago
A 4 year old can play with toys and real people. They shouldn‘t even be behind a screen.
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u/99timewasting 17m ago
Damn I remember when I had to lie about being 13 to get on Neopets. Feels like we're so casual now about giving free reign to little kids on the internet
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u/lemonhaj 4h ago
Roblox now requiring face ID for a lot of things gives the idea that this 4yo has put in either a picture of their face or their parent's
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u/oh-hes-a-tryin 4h ago
Right.
And all that still does nothing to prevent the predator problem that the Roblox CEO sees as an "opportunity"
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u/lemonhaj 2h ago
It actually made it worse, as actual game moderators weren't able to access servers in which players outside their age bracket were in. And if course the predators found it super easy to bypass the ID thing and get into servers with young kids. Not sure if Roblox ever did anything about that
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u/etihw_retsim 2h ago
My 7 and 8 year old aren't allowed to play ANY online game with people my wife and I don't know in real life. I know better than to trust the Internet.
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u/Vendidurt 1h ago
Theres like, no reason for a kid to be in that environment.
I let my kid play Pokemon Champions, you cant actually interact with any of the people (and hes so terrible hes almost always playing vs bots anyway).
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u/JoinAThang 3h ago
I absolutely love gaming myself and have since i was about 9 or 10. My daughter turn 4 a week from now and I would even consider giving her anything screen related yet. She doesn't need to get into that yet in my opinion.
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u/thepkboy 1h ago
wish other parents would do the same, overhearing kids talk at the playground makes me wonder wtf some parents are letting their kids do/watch at home
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u/Rosti_LFC 1h ago edited 1h ago
When my kids were 4 they couldn't reasonably play video games even when we let them occasionally try. My daughter was happy to watch me play Breath of the Wild, Mario 64 or Mario Odyssey, but if I let her have the controller she couldn't do anything anyway and I don't think that's an exceptional lack of talent on her part.
She's now a couple of years older and can play Animal Crossing, Mario Wonder and just about play Mario Kart with assists turned on, but anything that's 3D and doesn't have a fixed camera she's a bit lost. She loves Minecraft but still really struggles with the controls.
I'm sure that 4 year olds could generally grasp basic and crappy touch-screen games but anything with a gamepad or mouse and keyboard controls is likely beyond most of them anyway.
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u/Fiercat99 3h ago
I'm telling g my kids there is a cut off date for this lol. That said as someone who hasn't got a chimney, i would genuinely tell them he comes up thorough the toilet.
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u/mamafish21 3h ago
We also don't have a chimney and I told my dude that santa has a special key. My 7yo (developmentally 3-4) told me "mummy, I hate santa seeking in, you are santa now". Well, that makes the rest of time easy.
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u/DiegesisThesis 1h ago
When I was a kid, we had a fireplace (well, technically a wood-burning stove) but the chimney was just a pipe, a few inches in diameter. Certainly not enough for a fat man to fit through.
Luckily, The Santa Clause movie explained that plot hole for me that he can just morph his body like Plastic Man. In retrospect, it's kind of a disconcerting explanation that makes him seem like a cryptid more than he already was.
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u/bolanrox 3h ago
mine had to get their lists in black Friday because the elf would be picking them up that night.
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u/fraseybaby81 4h ago
When the kid said “legos” he was wrong so, technically, deserved nothing for Christmas.
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u/AbeRego 2h ago
You expect a 4 year old child to understand the nuances of collective plurals? Lol
In all seriousness, though, "Lego" as a plural just doesn't sound right in English. "I'm playing with Lego"... Wtf even is that? It just sounds dumb.
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u/etihw_retsim 2h ago
It's not Lego vs. Legos. The issue is that Lego is an adjective and not a noun so it can't be pluralized. (The Lego company is pedantic about this because they don't want their name genericized.)
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u/Lazy-Nothing-3357 1h ago
Sucks for them, it's already well on its way there! Companies can try funnel as much money as they want into marketing, but you can't stop good old fashioned linguistics.
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u/Tiatol2 1h ago edited 1h ago
"I want to buy some lego"... yeah that's definitely an adjective (/s if that isn't obvious somehow). The Lego Group is a proper (compound) noun referring to a company, not an adjective describing a type of group. Lego, used as a noun, is a noncount noun. The same way you say "I had some bread this morning" and not "I had some breads"; the latter is describing categories of bread (white, brown, sourdough, etc), not denoting a plural. The plural of bread is bread. The plural of Lego is Lego. Yes there are contexts where Lego is used as an adjective. This is not one of them.
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u/PaperExpert1375 2h ago
sounds just fine
legos just feels like you slaped a extra letter on the end for no resion
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u/reddit_sells_you 1h ago
To be fair . . . .the English Language rules for importing foreign words is to treat them like English words
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u/Gold-Eye-2623 1h ago
This might be a r/whoosh from me but the English language treats English words like a choose your own adventure book
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u/Alluminn 4h ago
"Yeah well Santa isn't real so good luck with that" lmao
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u/Dheer2004 2h ago
Wait what are you talking about??? Santa is real though????
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u/Dull_Bid6002 1h ago
Santa Claus is very real. We play pickleball once a month. Shame about his wife, though. And then he has to lose the reindeer too because of it.
He's doing better, but he feels so much older than everyone on Raya.
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u/2Guns1Cuck 4h ago
The fact theres no closed quotation on this is bugging the hell out of me
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u/No_Individual501 3h ago
The fact there’s no closed quotation and it was addressed with a comment also missing punctuation is also bugging me.
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u/WowIfOnly 2h ago
The total fantasy dialogue from the "4 year old" didn't bother you more?
"Oh dear Mother, did I make a critical error in my comprehensive list of gift items I'd appreciate most for a whimsical and merry Christmas Day? Allow me to correct my grave inaccuracy. You see, I would most cherish gifts centered around Roblox. While I can understand your intense confusion after I mistakenly jotted down 'Legos', fret not! Saint Nicholas will certainly make quick work of that miscommunication and arrive at the proper conclusion for what to get. Now we must make haste and get to our bed chambers! The Jolly Old Elf is on his way!""
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u/forestcridder 1h ago
The fact that you didn't say, "The fact that..." and the fact that you didn't punctuate is bugging the hell out of me too.
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u/Atomic12192 2h ago
When I was a kid I never made a wishlist because I just assumed that someone watching me 24/7 would have a general idea of my likes and preferences.
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u/BuffaloBuckbeak 4h ago
r/parentsarestupid for letting their 4 year old on roblox
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u/TheKnightOfTheNorth 38m ago
But what if that's why the kid is asking for Roblox, because they aren't allowed it?
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u/Ok-Street7504 2h ago
This exact thing happened to my sister with her grandson, in the end he didn't care he played with it anyway.
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u/RandomYT05 1h ago
I wouldnt let my kid play roblox. Not without adult supervision. And I'd mention that he shouldn't talk to people unless coordinating in game. And dont share personal information.
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u/MagnusNewtonBernouli 3h ago
Just a PSA that the plural of Lego is Lego.
You wouldn't say Robloxes.
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u/quantum_trogdor 2h ago
Don’t let your kids play Roblox… the unmoderated servers can be very creepy
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u/DeltyOverDreams 3h ago
Why would a 4 years old child know Roblox?
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u/Gravijah 2h ago
why not? 35 years ago at 2 I already knew what Mario was.
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u/Miserable-Scarcity25 2h ago
Eh, makes sense to me. They probably interact with other kids that have older siblings who play on it. I mean, the parents could just make crappy choices, but it's not implausible.
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u/Grub-lord 1h ago
"it's important to remember that Santa makes mistakes too, buddy. He's only human, after all."
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u/shuknjive 1h ago
"Oh, you asked Santa for that Power Ranger that is almost impossible to find anywhere on the planet?" I ended up finding it for 5X what it would've cost in the store, bought it anyway. That was the year we had a talk about Santa.
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u/TheLonleyJourneyman 59m ago
Then he's still getting lego along with an explanation that there are lots of different toys Santa has to learn about and that he needs to be more specific in the future
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u/auntiesamautism 3h ago
Roblox is free, though.
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u/RadicalVoxPopuli 3h ago
It's also full of child predators.
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u/Top_Part3784 2h ago
Supervision
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u/Murky-Relation481 48m ago
Apparently setting age restrictions and turning off communications is just too far for some parents.
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u/RadicalVoxPopuli 40m ago
Ah yes, because supervision is all you need to ensure that your child does not decide to join the strip club game when you aren't looking.
Also, supervision clearly makes sure that the company behind the game starts actually doing something about the child predators instead of encouraging the behavior, so it is totally OK to buy robux for your child.
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u/ExtinctReptile 1h ago
Nobody under the age of like 16 should really be on any social media platforms, let alone one where users can create their own games
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u/KiloWasTaken 1h ago
In the UK, we should hopefully be banning under 16 from all social media, and anything with messages that can't be kept.
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u/MrFatSackington 1h ago
The kid is just playing the parents, they know Santa isn't real and are just scamming for extra presents.
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u/Nooker 13m ago
I'll never forget the time I went to a family christmas party. I was in elementary school at the time and one of my friends was sitting against the wall extremely sad. His mom sat down next to him and to console him. When i overheard them talking He was sad cause he didnt get the present he wanted cause on his letter to santa he wrote "you know what i want"
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u/Schrojo18 13m ago
Now if 0nly parents weren't stupid and didn't lie t their children telling them that santa is real
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u/elnots 5m ago
My daughter told me she wanted Ninjago Lego for Christmas even though she's never been into the series, never been into ninjas, and never been heavily into Lego by 6. Got her the set because she was adamant.
Kid played with the Lego for all of ten minutes and then never touched them again. The sets were never built, they sit in a tub untouched.
I dunno man, wtf am I supposed to do? Tell her that what she asks Santa for Christmas is wrong?
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u/Artifex75 3h ago
"I get a wish list because I'm not a fucking mind reader, Timmy." -Santa, probably