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01-16-2009, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by plangentmusic  I hope you have an ugly wife, otherwise you may have to die. | |
01-16-2009, 09:07 AM
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01-16-2009, 09:16 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Awesome. I have to wonder if whoever at Playmobil who designed it did so as a prank, to see if it would get through the system, or if they sincerely thought kids would enjoy it. |
01-16-2009, 09:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, ON | | | Looks like a good idea to me. The sooner we teach our young about the general inconvenience, incompetence and overwhelming sense of agonizing boredom one experiences while traveling by air, the better prepared they'll be when that experience comes about.
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Originally Posted by blendermassacre Dar-WIN! | |
01-16-2009, 10:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | I want one. I loved playmobil as a kid.
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01-16-2009, 10:35 AM
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I want one. I loved playmobil as a kid.
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| Meh...lame over sized legos...chocking hazard shmocking shmazard, I call that natural selection 
Seriously though...security checkpoint toys, rofl! |
01-16-2009, 10:49 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | I can see the funny side of this. On the other hand, I do have a serious question.
Would we have laughed at this toy in late 2001? I suspect not. Reactions to it would probably have been very different, but one can only speculate.
So why do we react differently now? Have things actually changed out there in the world? Or do we just have short memories?
Just interested is all. Keep any anwers non-political, non-religious and civil please people.
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01-16-2009, 10:57 AM
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01-16-2009, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by bassybill I can see the funny side of this. On the other hand, I do have a serious question.
Would we have laughed at this toy in late 2001? I suspect not. Reactions to it would probably have been very different, but one can only speculate.
So why do we react differently now? Have things actually changed out there in the world? Or do we just have short memories?
Just interested is all. Keep any anwers non-political, non-religious and civil please people. | Personally, I can laugh now as I'm a tad more jaded.
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01-16-2009, 11:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: PR of Greenbelt, MD | | I think any laughing we do is kind of a reflexive thing- sort of whistling past the graveyeard, if you will. Me, I thought it was ironic and a little bit amusing, and that's why I put up the OP. And it gives a way to vent about the unavoidable inconveniences we face every day. On an altogether different level I'm kind of sad that my daughter and other kids her age have to accept the real security checkpoints they'll need to face.
And the fact is some of us might have laughed at such a toy in late 2001. Might have cried, too. Then at some point we'd get back to doing what we had to keep our kids as safe as possible in this only world we got. What else can you do?
(Recommended reading: See the September 26, 2001 issue of The Onion to see how laughing and crying works. http://www.theonion.com/content/index/3734 ).
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01-16-2009, 11:57 AM
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01-16-2009, 04:29 PM
| | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by unbasslichkeit I think any laughing we do is kind of a reflexive thing- sort of whistling past the graveyeard, if you will. Me, I thought it was ironic and a little bit amusing, and that's why I put up the OP. And it gives a way to vent about the unavoidable inconveniences we face every day. On an altogether different level I'm kind of sad that my daughter and other kids her age have to accept the real security checkpoints they'll need to face.
And the fact is some of us might have laughed at such a toy in late 2001. Might have cried, too. Then at some point we'd get back to doing what we had to keep our kids as safe as possible in this only world we got. What else can you do?
(Recommended reading: See the September 26, 2001 issue of The Onion to see how laughing and crying works. http://www.theonion.com/content/index/3734 ). | Good post.
Or even excellent. Mucho respect.
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