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Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 5:19 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 5:21 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 5:22 pm
by knee tunes
doug rr wrote:
Higgs wrote:Image

I had one of these. Loved it.
ha, i had that too

I had Jamie Sommers 8-) .

She came with some kind of lab with wires that you could plug into her ear and legs, I guess so she could re-charge :haha:

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 5:22 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 5:23 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 5:26 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 5:28 pm
by knee tunes
knee tunes wrote:
doug rr wrote:
Higgs wrote:Image

I had one of these. Loved it.
ha, i had that too

I had Jamie Sommers 8-) .

She came with some kind of lab with wires that you could plug into her ear and legs, I guess so she could re-charge :haha:
Image

Ha! I guess it was actually a beauty salon where she plugged in at. If you zoom you can see she had a picture of Steve Austin. :lol:

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 6:27 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Weeble Wobbles

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 6:35 pm
by LoathedVermin72
My life pretty much went from LEGOs and Star Wars toys to DVDs and CDs with very little transition time

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 6:59 pm
by Simple Torture
Where my Dino Riders at?

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Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sat March 14, 2020 7:27 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sun March 15, 2020 2:26 am
by Kaius
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Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sun March 15, 2020 2:30 am
by E.H. Ruddock
M.U.S.C.L.E.

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sun March 15, 2020 2:33 am
by Kaius
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Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sun March 15, 2020 2:36 am
by LoathedVermin72
Kaius wrote:Image
haha I almost posted this

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sun March 15, 2020 2:39 am
by Kaius
That t-Rex was badass. And kind of terrifying tbh.

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sun March 15, 2020 2:47 am
by LoathedVermin72
Kaius wrote:That t-Rex was badass. And kind of terrifying tbh.
I used to make it attack a toy truck to mimic the Jurassic Park scene

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sun March 15, 2020 3:37 am
by washing machine
E.H. Ruddock wrote:M.U.S.C.L.E.
I see your M.U.S.C.L.E. Men and I raise you
Spoiler: show
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Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sun March 15, 2020 3:43 am
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: Old toys from way back

Posted: Sun March 15, 2020 3:44 am
by tragabigzanda
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.