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The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Whisky Started conversation Feb 1, 2002
Ok, most parents have run across the problem of their children becoming selectively deaf when they don't want to hear something (Like "Go to bed!") My three year old has developped an extension of this...
When I tell him off for doing something naughty he immediately comes back with the answer "Mais, moi, je suis Français!"
The trouble is, when he's with his mother, he does exactly the opposite "It's not my fault, I'm English!"
(His mother is French)
Added to that, he's driving his mother to distraction by trying to teach her "twinkle twinkle little star" in English, unfortunately, as he only ever remembers "Twinkle twinkle star", which he can quite happily sing away to himself for hours on end, mum's becoming a little miffed 
Also, his nursery school teacher tells me that whenever he wants to tell one of the other kids at school to do something, ie. give an order, he automatically switches to English... I guess that either means that I'm a bossy father or alternatively, that I'm doing my job right 
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Feb 7, 2002
As I remember, the Dormouse just said "Twinkle twinkle twinkle" until they were forced to pinch him to make him be quiet...
Maybe not an ideal solution, but worth considering, maybe? 
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Whisky Posted Feb 8, 2002
Naw, as long as he's winding his mother up, he's doing fine by me 
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Feb 8, 2002
I presume his mother doesn't read h2g2?
Or I could see somebody else being stuffed in a tea pot...
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Feb 8, 2002
Mind you, need a big ol' teapot...
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Whisky Posted Feb 8, 2002
Are you saying I'm fat 
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Feb 8, 2002
As someone who has to buy clothes in Mr F* B*****d myself, that would hardly be fair.
Just tall, that's all.
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Whisky Posted Feb 8, 2002
Hmm, in that case I'll forgive you
*puts away spear gun and fishing rod*
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Feb 9, 2002
Hunting Shooting Fishing Lobby ahoy,
I'd like to think of myself as The Great White Whale really, so you'll need a BIG harpoon and a monomaniacal glint in your eye...
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
I'm not really here Posted Feb 9, 2002
Why does *blubber* suddenly spring to mind.
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Whisky Posted Feb 11, 2002
Hmm, that would make you an endangered species...
* Picks up the phone to call the RCPCA....*
Heaven knows what Mina's been up to... But it probably comes under the heading of cruelty to dumb animals
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
I'm not really here Posted Feb 11, 2002
A girl needs her lipstick you know.
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Whisky Posted Feb 11, 2002
Hey, I just called your other/better half a dumb animal, aren't you supposed to come running to his defense?
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
I'm not really here Posted Feb 11, 2002
Probably.
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Feb 11, 2002
No chance.
She'll just agree with you...
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Whisky Posted Feb 11, 2002
Hmm, not sure if I should be showing sympathy here or just laughing...
* Pictures a masochistic *
Would that be a wearing a walkman listening to Kylie Minogue?
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
I'm not really here Posted Feb 11, 2002
I'm the one with KM in my walkman. Dirty little minx.
Her, not me.
Actually, me as well.
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
Whisky Posted Feb 12, 2002
OMG 
YOU ACTUALLY LIKE KYLIE
and whats worse - you admit to it 
Please tell me you just play it to prisoners in your dungeon in order to torture them... You don't actually like that squeeking aussi do you?
The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
I'm not really here Posted Feb 12, 2002
A couple of her tracks have good music. And she makes ...interesting videos.
I play anything by SAW in the dungeon - which includes Kylie's early work, along with any number of irritating bubbly teenagers.
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The trials and tribulations of having a bi-lingual child
- 1: Whisky (Feb 1, 2002)
- 2: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Feb 7, 2002)
- 3: Whisky (Feb 8, 2002)
- 4: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Feb 8, 2002)
- 5: Whisky (Feb 8, 2002)
- 6: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Feb 8, 2002)
- 7: Whisky (Feb 8, 2002)
- 8: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Feb 8, 2002)
- 9: Whisky (Feb 8, 2002)
- 10: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Feb 9, 2002)
- 11: I'm not really here (Feb 9, 2002)
- 12: Whisky (Feb 11, 2002)
- 13: I'm not really here (Feb 11, 2002)
- 14: Whisky (Feb 11, 2002)
- 15: I'm not really here (Feb 11, 2002)
- 16: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Feb 11, 2002)
- 17: Whisky (Feb 11, 2002)
- 18: I'm not really here (Feb 11, 2002)
- 19: Whisky (Feb 12, 2002)
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