#4740

Probably more heavy handed satire than terrible.

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#4742

People posting daily updates on those fucking elf things are the worst people of all time and for some reason I was intrigued to see how an old friend of mine could have quite so many photos of them on 3rd December so now instagram keeps showing me more and more elf photos.

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#4743

Elf on the Shelf?

#4744

My sister got one for my niece and her dog ate it.

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#4745

Yes. There’s tons of articles about how you can escape the trouble of doing this “tradituon” every night by pretending it’s got a broken leg or whatever. Just don’t buy into it. I know Christmas is hugely commercial and I still buy into that but this is really recent and loads of people seem to have the elf hide gifts every few night too. What a massive expense. And this year there’s a girl one so of course you have to complete the set and but her now too. Aaaaahhhh. I hate it.

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#4746

What a good dog

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#4747

You could just have the elf naughtily brutally decapitate himself on 1 December.

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#4748

This is one of that genre that I love slash hate

Where they seem to have found a newspaper cartoon with an obvious joke and thought “I know I will take it upon myself to make it more accessible and thus funnier because the joke will be even more obvious very good yes”

The worst one I saw just added some really annoying internet-ish phrase like “you only had one job, Lionel” to make a passable comic strip just loathsome beyond belief

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#4749

my kids are absolutely loving it. yeah it’s commercial and annoying and people take it far too seriously, but they are well excited each morning to come downstairs and all their friends at school/nursery are chatting about it too. i’m not keen on using it as a way to discipline/control them though. like the whole ‘if you’re naughty then santa won’t come nonsense’

#4750

As long as you don’t post 3 photos a day of the elves then that’s fine with me.

THREE A DAY.

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#4751

yeah that’s not good. we don’t really social media the kids at all. not posted anything about the elf apart from on here. I guess if you’re going to talk about Santa and presents then it’s a nice way to extend that and make December quite fun. One thing to note though is that the storybook you get is really bad.

#4752

I’m sure by the time she gets to school and I can’t hide these things from her any more we’ll have an entire family of sodding elves

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#4753

Our kid’s teacher has one and the whole class were going mental this morning trying to find where it had moved to

#4754

Yeah my son’s class have one as well!

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#4755

It is one thing for it to be a source of private family enjoyment. It is another entirely to broadcast it smugly on social media. Like most things.

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#4756

Oh my god just checked Facebook and a family of samoyeds I follow have announced one of their puppies who they’ve been posting videos of since the summer has died :sob:

#4757

Just realised I posted this in the wrong thread, although I guess it is a terrible thing that’s happened. :broken_heart:

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#4758

My mum bought one for Jimbo and we told her that we didn’t want it. I don’t want him being paranoid about what he’s up to and to think he’s being spied on. He should be learning about doing right and wrong for the right reasons, not because he thinks he’ll do better at Christmas as a result.

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#4759

Elf on a shelf surely can’t be considered any kind of tradition! Anything that wasn’t a thing a few years ago surely can’t be a tradition

#4760

I was unaware of it until last year when there was all those ‘you’ve heard of elf on the shelf now here’s…’ memes and I had no idea what was going on.

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