Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Old toys from way back
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I used to have most of these Street Sharks action figures. I kind of wish I still had them, they're very cool looking


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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I’ve never seen or heard of most of the stuff you guys have been talking about.
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our best friends' kid has this exact same dinosaur right now. he was playing with it last weekend at our house. they found it at a thrift store.Kaius wrote:
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Probably, that kid is always dirtytragabigzanda wrote:did he bring the coronavirus to the US via this second-hand dinosaur maybe?bodysnatcher wrote:our best friends' kid has this exact same dinosaur right now. he was playing with it last weekend at our house. they found it at a thrift store.Kaius wrote:
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Are those medieval... ninjas?LoathedVermin72 wrote:I had this one:
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They are knights
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If I offended you, I am sorry.
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LOVING the photos in this thread.
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lol you were poorE.H. Ruddock wrote:Gobots
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I'm, what, 5 years younger than you? That makes sensetragabigzanda wrote:i've seen these but i'm pretty sure this is the first post in this thread that makes me feel my age. my friends' little brothers or nephews would play with these.theplatypus wrote:I used to have most of these Street Sharks action figures. I kind of wish I still had them, they're very cool looking
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Finally. Thank you Anders.
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