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posted April 06, 2011 06:08 PM |
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she doesn't even want to see some body parts because she thinks it's disgusting.
I don't wanna know, yet I find myself asking!
I also played with barbies when I was a child. Two times. Both times was because I was visiting some girls and somehow, something inside me told me that I should try to humour them.
I even invented naked day! The seventh day in the week! (Yes I counted wrong and never saw her again..."
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posted April 06, 2011 06:14 PM |
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Your honor, I'd like to submit exhibit A of why little boys should not be allowed to play with Barbies:
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I also played with barbies when I was a child. Two times. ... I even invented naked day! The seventh day in the week!
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posted April 06, 2011 06:26 PM |
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I'd put him rather as an exhibit for why children shouldn't sleep in their parents's bed.
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posted April 07, 2011 12:11 AM |
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*twitches*
Well.
*cough*
Chances are you're not going to believe me but what the hell. I actually did want a Barbie for my birthday and I think it was exactly the 8th; this appears to be God's way of laughing in my face for making fun of Corribus' psychological insight.
Anyhow, I can't quite remember the reasons why I wanted one, it simply seemed fun at the time. Let's assume I liked the idea of customization. So they got me an Action-Man instead, and that was alright too. Legos still remained the coolest of all the toys on the planet, though, so I ditched him pretty quick.
Now I've got a completely penisless girlfriend and am as straight and awesome as can be, and I don't really think I'd turn out any different had they bought me that Barbie instead.
So I suppose I'd simply be disappointed he's not into Legos and get him what he asks for. But that's just me personally. The matter of whether you want your son to be undressing young blond women or sweaty muscular Action-men is entirely up to you. JJ certainly appears to have made his choice.
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I also happened to sleep in my parents' bed.
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posted April 07, 2011 12:19 AM |
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Played with barbie dolls with mah cousin when I was like 9. Had to be Ken though, that suck-up b****.
Always tried to bring in a little drama by cheating with black barbie. Cousin got ****ing mad at me for trying to destroy the perfect world though.
LEGO was my passion though. Still remember the day when I started to think it was lame, I was maybe... 13/14 I think. Was ****ing horrible to find out you don't think it's funny to play with toys anymore.
Guess it comes back though. I have a real urge to take out my box of LEGO now...
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posted April 07, 2011 12:26 AM |
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haven't bought legos for a while, but didn't they become really expensive? I was looking some models on internet not long ago, and I could swear than 10 years ago, you could buy models as big for half their current price.
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posted April 07, 2011 12:41 AM |
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I don't think any non-sucky male ever truly loses their interest in Legos. They're rotting somewhere in my parent's attic, but if I had them at my side, I'm sure I would still enjoy flipping open that instruction book and building something.
The reason it holds a special seat of awesome in my life is because my brother and I invented a pen & paper game to go with the Pirate Legos set, where you would roll dice to move your ships and pirates/soldiers, and we had combat dice for making attacks, and different abilities for having a sword/pistol/rifle and such. Parrots could be used as spies. Monkeys were used as "extra hands" for holding readily available weapons (though far cheaper than buying a solider or pirate). We even had an inventory of the different hats and bodies, and each had special bonuses in combat, which could all be purchased at the special island shop. We used my brother's bedroom floor as the battleground. It was awesome.
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posted April 07, 2011 12:44 AM |
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I've never played with barbies, I feel so left out now.
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I don't think any non-sucky male ever truly loses their interest in Legos. They're rotting somewhere in my parent's over-sized attic, but if I had them at my side, I'm sure I would still enjoy flipping open that instruction book and building something.
HERESY!
You never use instructions with legos, NEVER!
It's all about your own imagination and your own world, not some lame 50 year old designer's world!
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posted April 07, 2011 12:46 AM |
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Oh yeah, I wouldn't buy him a barbie nor a play kitchen.
He could learn to cook real.
If he wants a doll bad enough, he can make one himself.
BTW. My brother wanted a "baby-born" doll when he was around that age, caused lots of laughs with us. 
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posted April 07, 2011 01:20 AM |
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I was obsessed with Legos when I was a kid and I still could be. I recently went into a Lego store (a whole store!) and I nearly wet myself with excitement.
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posted April 07, 2011 07:35 AM |
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I had quite an early doll phase when I was 3 or something. Wanted to put on dresses as well. I suppose I was extremely impressed by my cousin at the time. She was 4 years older than me and so cool...
They were soon replaced with model cars. Man, did I love my little cars.
With me, Lego started out as Plasticant http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasticant which was cool, but not THAT cool. It was soon replaced by Lego, and THAT was indeed the best.
However, when I got a bit older, 9, 10, I started to lose interest for a certain reason. I was content with the basic stuff plus a couple of extras like the canted blocks for roofs and the thin ones (three made a regular one), transparent blocks plus an engine, but the basic stuff would become always more expensive, while the little boxes with the extras would contain only a few pieces, and more and more of those boxes came out which contained parts that were only like dressing. Things, you couldn't properly use with other stuff.
I hated that.
Always an avid reader, I really dug into books then, starting with the classic kids and youth stuff. Of course it didn't take long after watching my first Bond movie to discover, that my Mom has tons of interesting books including Ian Fleming's Bond novels, and I started pestering her persistently about how I wanted to read them, and when I finally was allowed to, there was no way back, since where they came from was a lot more, stuff like Mickey Spillane and James Hadley Chase, the really hard-boiled US crime writers, which I used to read basically everywhere.
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posted April 07, 2011 09:31 AM |
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I was obsessed with Legos when I was a kid and I still could be. I recently went into a Lego store (a whole store!) and I nearly wet myself with excitement.
I once sworn that once I have enough cash, I'll hunt down old lego sets @ ebay  I always was pissed how expensive they were (in my childhood at least - 1/10 of my dad's monthly pay for a big set, wtf.. and right now they want 200-300$ for an old set at ebay, even more wicked)
btw check out this page if you also find lego sets fun, they have all of them categorized and with links to ebay auctions... I always loved the aquazone theme
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posted April 07, 2011 11:00 AM |
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Legos were damn expensive indeed. But luckily I had a lot of friends to bring lots of birthday presents. The Lego sets around 20-30 Finmarks(3-5 euros) were the second most popular present. Right after candy and Donald Duck pocket book.
We also got a huge load of legos from my second cousin so that made a nice base to build upon, some more from some other relatives plus all the stuff me and my brother got and bought. In the end we had around one-and-a-half cubic meter of legos plus some dublos and techno-ones around 1/8 cubic meters both.
Awesome way to drive your mother mad when your whole floor is filled with a world of lego and it's cleaning day.
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posted April 07, 2011 11:13 AM |
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Oh well, I'm going to collect the aqua and space sets. Dead ****ing serious
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Legos still remained the coolest of all the toys on the planet
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Guess it comes back though. I have a real urge to take out my box of LEGO now...
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HERESY!
You never use instructions with legos, NEVER!
It's all about your own imagination and your own world, not some lame 50 year old designer's world!
I agree with you all, Legos are damn great. I actually don't even remember where my lego box can be... maybe the attic, or maybe the... can't even remember... was that so long ago?
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posted April 07, 2011 12:12 PM |
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HERESY!
You never use instructions with legos, NEVER!
It's all about your own imagination and your own world, not some lame 50 year old designer's world!
Well, that's not QUITE correct. In my time, that is, in the 60s, the big basic boxes came with a "manual" - a rather biggish full-color "build book" with easy-to-build stuff like cars, houses, planes, ships and so on.
Those were of course off-limits, at least after you got the hang of it.
HOWEVER: in these manuals there were also pictures of real people just having finished something rather amazing - the Empire State Building, a really BIG house, the Queen Mary, stuff like that which you'd watch wide-eyed, saying, WOW! I want to build that!
Of course there were never ever enough blocks to come close, but it served as a reminder for the grown-ups that you needed MORE LEGOS, and fast, because you couldn't build the amazing stuff you had started. 
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posted April 07, 2011 01:41 PM |
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I have a lego book with that kind of stuffs.
there are some damn crazy constructions, like the grand central terminal in new york, or the mount rushmore
I could do some neat stuffs myself, my friends used to say I was really good with legos lol. I think one of my favourite thing to build was castle. I still have a couple of models intacts, including some custom spaceships. a tie-fighter like one I think, and one with a kind of giant mouth on the front
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posted April 07, 2011 02:32 PM |
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LEGO!
My all time favourite! I had many of them and I liked to build things like castles, space-ships and such! And later I got lego technic with a small electro-magnetic engine. That was the Golden Age! I build battlemechs and omnimechs from Battletech! And sometimes I could made one that moved! That was amazing!
But the later times I do so many things else. Sometimes I think about to build something from those old bumped bricks of creational joy but time is just don't let me do so... Maybe my children will like it as much as I did (do)...
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posted April 07, 2011 06:02 PM |
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Here's what I think about Dilemma 5:
First of all I wouldn't say "no" to the kid because it will become a gay if we likes Barbies and ovens. Things like that scare the kids and make them haters from early age which is a horrible thing. Also I wouldn't like to buy the kid those things so I would try something in between - I'll show him some cool figures from his favorite games/movies and I'll ask the kid to choose not one but two toys in order for it to be happy. Then I'll look for some cooking games in the Internet which is a better opportunity than the oven and the kid will still be happy without being disappointed, scared etc. I think that this would be a great solution to the not so big problem - it's just tastes, not things that will show in the future to be homosexuality.
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posted April 07, 2011 06:07 PM |
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I kind of dislike how parents thinks they know their childrens wants, better than their chidren know their own wants!
I remember this much. I was really in to power rangers. But buy me just the wrong size of figure and I'd not want it, at all!
Not that I would not say thanks, etc., after all it's very friendly to give a gift. I just would not play with it, because it wasn't what I wanted.
Edit: Now if I wanted a jet-plane or a bazooka, or whatever, I can understand why parents won't give those stuff to their kids. After all, they might swallow it. But this is, to my understanding, not something harmful. Yeah maybe your kid will be some famous rock star scientist, if you don't give him what he wants, and heck maybe the probability is even higher if you kick him a little, but let him learn for himself and be a guidance for his thought, in stead of a censor thingy dude.
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