#5 Life imitating art.
Back in January of this year I went to a b3ta meet up where I saw a variety of the usual suspects. It was a rather frightening experience because the amount of witty and intelligent banter flying around the house was enough to spontaneously ignite even the dampest of wet blankets.

I was feeling very pleased with myself because I had experienced a hugely entertaining discussion with my sons only that week and I knew it would provide me with a great anecdote with which I would impress them all.

Unfortunately my sons have obviously got ahead of themselves on the DVD front and watched some Aardman animations that had (until last week) passed me by.

Okay, enough preamble - all will become clear later, but what I recount below is 100% truth.

We're on our way to school. I'm driving (obviously) and both sons are in the back. Often they will bring up subjects which have been troubling them at times like this - it's a good time to discuss things as we can't have eye contact and therefore no embarrassment on their part. So, the conversation goes roughly as follows…

Son #1 Mum, some kids at school have been using a swearword and I don't know what it means. Can you tell us?

Me Well, you know I don't like you using swearwords.

Son #1 Yes, I know. But we still want to know what it means.

Me I don't like you using bad language.

Son #1 We're not going to use it. We just want to know what it means!

Me Hmm. Okay, so long as you don't use the word. Now what is it?

Son #1 Wanker.

Me Oh. That's a really nasty word. I don't want you saying that.

Son #1 We won't! But other kids do. What does it mean?

Me Erm…It's a very unpleasant word used for someone who keeps playing with their willy.


Both boys fall about laughing.

Son #2 Hahahaha!

*Points at Son #1*

Son #2 You're a wanker!


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So I had this little gem of a story all lined up and ready to recount to the assembled b3tans…. I began with telling them the tale and one of them said, "Yeah, heard it."

Oh bugger, I thought. I must have posted this and forgotten. Oh well, such is life and the evening continued with much laughter and the airing of the famous song, Bernard.

Now, skip forward in time to last Wednesday…I'm chatting to a mate, I start telling him the story and he says, "Oh, you mean this" and he puts his mobile under my nose and on it is playing the Angry Kid cartoon.

The Wanker one.

The one I'd never seen before.

The one my ten year old twin boys had obviously seen.

Little buggers.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 14:14, 1 reply)

i think theres a camera in your car
lol
(Stiff Richard, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 17:08, closed)