Screw you, Hasbro!

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:13 am

Dale Gribble wrote:You don't know who I am, but I know where you live. And if you teach that class, sex-ed teacher, I will make you pay!

BrownEyedCat · Post by **BrownEyedCat** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:59 am

Killbert-Robby wrote:
Nanda wrote:
Noise Monkey wrote:Yeah. Give him a walkie-talkie instead.

Or, you know, nothing. He would have been just as interesting to a toddler without the giant hand-cannon.
Are you kidding? I LOVED giant hand cannons when I was a kid.

You guys remember when toy pistols were all the rage? Everyone had cap guns and metal revolvers and stuff. Now if you ask a toy shop cashier if they have toy guns, they get all high and mighty and crap. Damn them!

I never had toy guns (being a girl and all . . . but I did get my hands on some water pistols and nerf shooters, so all's well), but my friend and her brother had some toy guns that were made of wood, but with metal hammers and triggers. You could actually pull back the hammer, and fire them for a nice, metallic snap. They were AWESOME. They had like, three different kinds too.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:18 am

I suddenly have the urge to do some paintball or laser tag...

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:35 pm

I played paintball once, and I was terrified. Then when we started playing I was all "OMG this is AWESOME!"

Shooting things is fun. I made a bow and arrow out of tinkertoys when I was a kid. I always wanted a slingshot like Dennis the Menace. And I'm a girl. I don't think it has anything to do with boys or girls, I think that if your kid likes that kind of thing, they will find a way. It's just better to give them squirt guns and noise things that don't actually fire projectiles.

But the whole cuddly baby toy gun? It reminds me of that cartoon gun on, I think, the Simpsons, where Homer gets a gun and there's that NRA safety video with the little boy hugging the cartoon gun who was all sad because congress wanted to pass more gun control laws, or something.

...if anyone could follow that, anyway.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:17 am

Tellurider wrote:I played paintball once, and I was terrified. Then when we started playing I was all "OMG this is AWESOME!"

I last time I played, I got shot just under the mask on the corner of my jaw from about three feet away. Then, the same person shot me again in the throat.

That was unpleasant.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:43 am

I got shot in every bare spot on my body. Then I shot some guy in the jugular, twice, in quick succession. That was awesome. He bled... Sorry, sadism is showing

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:49 am

I imagine the thing that kept him from strangling you, much as it kept me from strangling the kid that shot me, was that he couldn't breathe. Or, possibly a piece of paintball creating a blockage in his heart.

Montyandwoolley · Post by **Montyandwoolley** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:51 am

How comes you start off as a kid, and toys are cool. Then you hit middle school and they arn't cool anymore, and now as a university student im buying transformers to have on my desk...............? Transformers Student in disguise?

Maybe i should be doing work.

*Makes Optimus and Megatron have a fight*

Nervous Spy · Post by **Nervous Spy** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:35 am

montyandwoolley wrote:How comes you start off as a kid, and toys are cool. Then you hit middle school and they arn't cool anymore, and now as a university student im buying transformers to have on my desk...............?

Nature figures that at age 18, you've had more than enough time to successfully procreate, so it allows your mental capacities to slowly decline from then on...that's why people start to show more and more childish behaviour from their third decade onwards.

Montyandwoolley · Post by **Montyandwoolley** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:11 am

Bumblebee agrees with you, furthermore - he hates decepticons.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:18 am

montyandwoolley wrote:Bumblebee agrees with you, furthermore - he hates decepticons.

How much?

Dracomax · Post by **Dracomax** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:54 pm

I hear the decepticons aren't to fond of him, either...

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:56 pm

BAH!!! The Decepticons shall rise again!!!

Nervous Spy · Post by **Nervous Spy** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:51 am

ahaugen wrote:BAH!!! The Decepticons shall rise again!!!

If they believe that, they are just Self-Decepticons.

Montyandwoolley · Post by **Montyandwoolley** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:56 am

Nanda wrote:
montyandwoolley wrote:Bumblebee agrees with you, furthermore - he hates decepticons.
How much?

About yay much *gestures a size*

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:22 am

BrownEyedCat wrote:I never had toy guns (being a girl and all . . . but I did get my hands on some water pistols and nerf shooters, so all's well), but my friend and her brother had some toy guns that were made of wood, but with metal hammers and triggers. You could actually pull back the hammer, and fire them for a nice, metallic snap. They were AWESOME. They had like, three different kinds too.

My mother tried to raise me as a pacifist.

THAT worked out well.