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I was LEGO obsessed in the 90s and early 00s, so I have a ton of great sets plus my brothers’ sets from the 80s. I re-assembled a bunch and then took Em apart, bagged them, and now have years of birthdays and Xmas covered! Except for my 2 faves! I’m keeping those! Oh, part of what got me out of LEGOs was that most everything became a licensed property and that sucked! I don’t give a poo poo about some dumb vehicle from Star Wars, give me a random themed space set!
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i'm don't know where to start with this one but i'm pretty sure removing the heads of marketing execs is a safe bet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-9uUe4PjU8
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Boywhiz88 posted:I was LEGO obsessed in the 90s and early 00s, so I have a ton of great sets plus my brothers’ sets from the 80s. I re-assembled a bunch and then took Em apart, bagged them, and now have years of birthdays and Xmas covered! Wow thanks for the grimy 40 year old used toys in a ziplock bag uncle Boywhiz! Nah for real kids aren't gonna care and it's better that they get to play with em' instead of just sitting on a shelf somewhere forever 
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Mar 8, 2021 23:51
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> capitalism.png - This all could've been avoided if you'd just not had kids.
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Boywhiz88 posted:I was LEGO obsessed in the 90s and early 00s, so I have a ton of great sets plus my brothers’ sets from the 80s. I re-assembled a bunch and then took Em apart, bagged them, and now have years of birthdays and Xmas covered! Licensed sets are why we still have Lego - they were going under fast a while back. So they had to start marketing to adult nerds instead of children because nerds have money and kids don't.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Licensed sets are why we still have Lego - they were going under fast a while back. So they had to start marketing to adult nerds instead of children because nerds have money and kids don't. there is a Friends Lego set
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Hodgepodge posted:there is a Friends Lego set yeah its one of my 13 year olds' favorites
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Licensed sets are why we still have Lego - they were going under fast a while back. So they had to start marketing to adult nerds instead of children because nerds have money and kids don't. According to The Toys That Made Us what saved Lego was a new, smart ceo who told them to stop making so many weird one off pieces and outsourced a bunch of manufacturing.
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boar guy posted:yeah its one of my 13 year olds' favorites too expensive; but if you can afford it it's probably better than a lot of the equally overpriced star wars stuff
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Hodgepodge posted:too expensive; but if you can afford it it's probably better than a lot of the equally overpriced star wars stuff all lego is expensive
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Hodgepodge posted:there is a Friends Lego set he did say adult nerds lol
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Shame Boy posted:Wow thanks for the grimy 40 year old used toys in a ziplock bag uncle Boywhiz! When I moved out of state almost 10 years ago, a friend of a friend came to get some of my furniture. She had a couple of kids with her in the 6-10 year old range, and I had a 60 gallon tub of Legos that had been in my closet for years at that point, that I let them have. I don't think I had ever seen kids that happy.
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Iron Crowned posted:When I moved out of state almost 10 years ago, a friend of a friend came to get some of my furniture. She had a couple of kids with her in the 6-10 year old range, and I had a 60 gallon tub of Legos that had been in my closet for years at that point, that I let them have. I don't think I had ever seen kids that happy. Wow, I have almost the exact same story. My mother was moving out of her house and gave me the giant chest of Lego. One of those big Tupperware things you buy from Target to put in your garage filled to the brim. My mother was a queen of garage sale Lego buying all through my childhood. Just a ton of Lego. I turned around and gave it to a family with four boys in the 4-8 range. They were totally ecstatic. My brothers and I had so much fun with those things growing up, it was a real treat to pass it on. Thanks for reminding me of that great memory!
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this is like, the one reason I want to have kids. my mom has a similar tub of lego she’s saving for grandchildren, and a gigantic tub of irl Minecraft seems like it would be exciting for my hypothetical kids.
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Buck Turgidson posted:i'm don't know where to start with this one but i'm pretty sure removing the heads of marketing execs is a safe bet: I remember my first Old Spice commercial
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Slotducks posted:I remember my first Old Spice commercial I have vague memories of the ads in the late 80s / early 90s with Jack Palance actually i think those were for skin bracer
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Licensed sets are why we still have Lego - they were going under fast a while back. So they had to start marketing to adult nerds instead of children because nerds have money and kids don't. yeah the economic downturn after 9/11 deprived a lot of American children of their jobs
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:this is like, the one reason I want to have kids. my mom has a similar tub of lego she’s saving for grandchildren, and a gigantic tub of irl Minecraft seems like it would be exciting for my hypothetical kids. Had a giant tub of hand-me-down Legos as a child as well, pretty good. Would recommend. Kind of a strange reason to have kids, though. Hodgepodge posted:there is a Friends Lego set You can get the original Lepin version for cheap, if you want.
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https://twitter.com/LEBassett/status/1369349911620292610?s=20 Yikes.
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coincidentally, they had just voted to unionize
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You see the meeting theme is spring cleaning! Everyone remember to thank Cheryl, our company morale diva, for coming up with these fun ways to make meetings less boring!
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Shame Boy posted:You see the meeting theme is spring cleaning! Everyone remember to thank Cheryl, our company morale diva, for coming up with these fun ways to make meetings less boring! i regret to inform you, cheryl has been laid off
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The Nastier Nate posted:i regret to inform you, cheryl has been laid off Ironically this turns out to be good for morale.
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“Everyone who works at this company, take one step forward.” “Not so fast, Johnson.”
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Mao and Lenin: noted revolutionary failures Probably Ho and Castro too
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All communists before the last 20 years: "Wealth is good, actually".
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This terrorism thing isn't working out. Maybe we should try postmodernist academia instead?
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Tomatoe, tomato
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Funny how the standard for communism in discussions is always 'did it always work both immediately and forever in achieving all its goals perfectly?' I mean, I guess the same is true of capitalism, when you think about it, but when the only goal is 'are the rich still rich?' it's a pretty low bar to clear
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Shady Amish Terror posted:Funny how the standard for communism in discussions is always 'did it always work both immediately and forever in achieving all its goals perfectly?' I mean, I guess the same is true of capitalism, when you think about it, but when the only goal is 'are the rich still rich?' it's a pretty low bar to clear There’s a time stretch where capitalism can kinda work, like think after WW2 hit the big reset button and we had some wealth building in the middle class, but eventually the rich gain their footing and ramp up the process of gaming the system and it just gradually goes downhill from there. I’d say that tipping point was probably like 40 years ago
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The news media is going to start campaigning hard for Trump to make a comeback.
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Antonymous posted:lepin is actually a way better name too cause pin means to put things together, like assemble a puzzle but also like to share the fare for a cab by putting together our money now tell us about the newest basketball player nickname puns please Greg12 has issued a correction as of 14:32 on Mar 10, 2021 |
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KozmoNaut posted:Courtesy of Stephen Hicks: I can't wait for Cultural Marxism® to finish fully weaponizing words so I can be like FUS-RO-DAH and bowl over all the capitalists with my powerful voice
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The Nastier Nate posted:There’s a time stretch where capitalism can kinda work, like think after WW2 hit the big reset button and we had some wealth building in the middle class, but eventually the rich gain their footing and ramp up the process of gaming the system and it just gradually goes downhill from there. I’d say that tipping point was probably like 40 years ago It "worked" cause they were so terrified of communism they were willing to cut workers in their home countries some slack (while still ruthlessly exploiting workers in poor countries). The minute that was over we started going back to the natural order of things.
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Just imagine how loving terrified of communism these absolute monsters must've been though, given everything they allowed. Like lol, most western countries people got like free healthcare and poo poo, that's how terrified they were.
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Orange Devil posted:Just imagine how loving terrified of communism these absolute monsters must've been though, given everything they allowed. Like lol, most western countries people got like free healthcare and poo poo, that's how terrified they were. The City and Church Bougies didn't get cabinet seats for years even though they won elections. Then the Soviet Union fell and immediately they started to dismantle the welfare state with the Incest and Wolf-hate Bougies (who'd literally invented Finlandization). It's been awesome to watch.
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