Been tasked with getting a present for a mates kid. About £20.

What's the 'in thing' for youths these days?

drugs and knives – read it in the daily mail!!

Lego

Better not post that 😉

one (or two if the money stretches) of those balloon things that seem to be the rage.

But a really big one – to be set off from a high point on a still, frosty, clear night…..Like a Slow motion firework.

Cheers

EDIT – sorry probably not the "in thing" – but something that's different sticks in the memory

do you mean a chinese lantern? if so the smaller ones work better than the larger one's.

20 quid?

30 minutes with half a hooker should be something that he remembers for the rest of his life.

Swiss Army Knife!

£20 cash to do what HE wants with it.

or a voucher from a sports/clothing shop

personnaly have a thing about pc/xbox et al games tho

Mini remote control chopper – or better still a pair of battling choppers from firebox.com

>30 minutes with half a hooker should be something that he remembers for the rest of his life.

Nah, that'll blow his…err…mind.
Bumper bag of p*rn (not of the bicycle variety)..you won't see him for the next few years 😉

Second the mini RC helicopter!
Best darn £20 I ever spent (until it broke – Oh the painful memories…)

DrP

iTunes voucher (if he has an iPod obviously).

stylophone beatbox!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stylophone-Beatbox-Portable-Electronic-Machine/dp/B00233VCBS/ref=sr_1_2/278-3408357-3684617?ie=UTF8&s=toys&qid=1256115806&sr=8-2

30 minutes with half a hooker should be something that he remembers for the rest of his life.

lol from the offers I had on Crown street in Liverpool, that'd get you an evening in with 2 of them!

Pair of boxing gloves.

It'll save a fortune on Kleenex for the next few *difficult* years…

Skateboard or a football.