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You might have actually hit on the natural evolution of this thread. Every now and again someone puts some sort of made up request or dilemma on one of these sites and then posts a selection of the gormless replies.

 

Not NHW related but am goin 2 derry wiv hubby n want 2 no wot 2 do their

 

Perfect.

 

The local harvester installed a claw machine next to the restaurant some time ago but it's only just kicking off with the Mums Mafia over here:

Jennifer opens with:
Is this really necessary! In a restaurant-pub .. Harvester .....
Just watched as mums trying to win a toy for there children, time and time again.. and no wins
Just very disappointed and upset children Obviously rigged so no one can win
(she also posted a picture of the claw machine)

Marie agrees:
Not only that, but the "prizes" are terrible. Awful soft toys that are unsuitable for little ones and bits of plastic that will be discarded 2 days later. What a waste on all levels.
I suspect it also normalize using innocuous looking machines that may give some a taste for gambling...

Natalie paints a target on her back:
Ah this bloody machine!! My son was desperate for this toy in there so we tried and tried.... Absolutely distraught lad because we had no luck.... Another parent said she had been trying for ages and spent over £30
It's such a shame ruins a nice meal

Elaine fires a shot:
I'm sorry ... but why has this other mother spent £30 !!!!!! I'm in shock !!!
Give child £1 coin explain that's his 1 go when the money runs out it's done !! I made sure this is how my son was taught as soon as he started spotting the machines !!

Claire hits a home run:
Maybe just say no to your kids!

Nicola with a petition idea:
On another note maybe start a petition to harvester and get people who eat their to sign saying remove and until you do we boycott the restaurant. I think this is how supermarkets' ended up removing sweets from tills people boycotting the worst chains , mums saying we will go else where they don't have sweets at the checkouts. Then the government stepped in and banned them which sorted the last few.

Donna obviously went to school in Harrow:
These machines should be band! It’s a gambling machine for kids! And we all know gambling ruins lives!

Sofia nearly gets it:
If your child is allergic stay clear they are just dust repositories. But they are a good life lesson for children "you cannot always win and you will probably lose most of the time and you should be ok with that" Unless you are breeding a very spoiled one you shouldn't be upset with a a child being upset himself - It's life!


Once again I need a troll FB account to point out that going in to a Harvester is much worse than giving your child money to play on these things.

 

Amazing, thank you so much for that mate! Assuming I don’t get too drunk and stand on a table singing Jerusalem I’ll let you know how it went. Cheers

*sorry to hijack the thread I’ll PM next time!

 

Top NHWing.

Now I’m just picturing a grabber claw over the salad bar.

 

The very machine:

 

When the fun stops. Stop.

 

With loads of enraged greedy fatties unable to fill their plates!

 

Somehow I got a furry minion toy out of one of these once in Great Yarmouth and on first go. After seeing numerous failed attempts by the masses my infant son was looking at me in awe as if I was some kind of Superhero. Literally one of the top 5 moments of my lifetime. If ever he gets annoyed with me these days I still remind him of this moment a decade ago.

“There are two great days in a man’s life. The day we are born. And they day we discover why”

Yarmouth 2008.

 

I had to leave the Hemel group because people were insane about dogs. One woman told me the sun achievements of my life were not on a level with a particular staff which plays in the fountain and makes her smile.

This was over a debate about dogs shitting in a sandpit for children "dogs have as much right to poo in the sand pit as children" was the consensus.

 

I once asked if anyone knew a recommended dog portrait painter (I don't have a dog and if I did, a photo would more than suffice). I got recommendations as far afield as the Lake District.

 

You ********. I came here to post this.

 

Yeah, exes can say the strangest things.

 

Presumably that will be no right then?

 

Right next to where you wait to be seated. The trolling bastards.

 

Yeah what is that all about? Don't mess with me? Let me investigate further...

Edit: Not going any further. It's amazing what iphone filters can do.

 

Bloody snowflake generation thinking you shouldn't be allowed to lose.

 

I get the distinct impression that Nicola is driving whilst posting this:

Police chase helipcopters?
Any body know what's going on around Ricky. Just saw a police car chase from Deneham through to maplecross , lost sight of it after that. But lots of poluce cars going in variouse sirections. Theni was back in ricky half hour later helicopter v low above town centre.

 

You do realise he made that up ? Every last word. He's actually from Brighton.

 

I'm having a really **** week. Wife in RNOH in Stanmore and still in intensive care after her op. Having to stay at my 80 year old mum's in Garston and she is driving me mad with her inane drivel. Having to juggle Mrs T as first priority, my mum and my two kids as well as its half term. Had to log on to respond to some urgent work needs (I'm not even working this week obviously) and needed a distraction so dropped into the forum for a minute or two*

So huge thanks to Diamond and the other contributors for this thread - 2o minutes later and it really has given me smile for the first time in days. Keep up the good work. Best thread in years.

(*the irony that this paragraph may sound like a facebook post is not lost on me - no need to point it out.)

 

Sorry I can't read this without access to the code she has used to encrypt her message.

 

Sounds like a case for Keithley.

She'll be comma perfect in a week.

 

I believe it is written in Anglo Saxon.

 

There can be only one facebox response to this:

Omg! That is so amazing.I can remember when it was still dark. Thanx.

 

Share if u remember spring x

 

Does that mean it's nearly *** Monday?

 

I think I sore a small bird carrying a very small brown twig today. Nest building time is here . Or maybee it was just a werm. And the frogs will soon be having rough group-sex in our pond

 

It was just light enough this morning for me to make out the outline of my dog at the far end of the garden taking her morning ****. It’s such a lovely time of year.

 

There’s always a phantom TM before the actual event.

It’s the most wonderful time, yes the most wonderful time of the yeeeear.

 

The last too posts rarely filed me wiv the joys off spring, not yet pancake day.