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antoinebugleboy

Vintage toys that can never, ever make it to market today
« on: October 19, 2011, 03:15:23 PM »
If you think about it, the often blind hysteria that seems to permeate the anti-2nd amendment types isn't just about guns. It's a population that's grown up under nervous helicopter parents who see any risk of their precious ones suffering a boo-boo as an absolute nightmare:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19481_the-8-most-wildly-irresponsible-vintage-toys.html

Is it any wonder that when they grew up, the adults of today cannot fathom that a responsible neighbor could be trusted with a real gun?
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Cougar8045

Re: Vintage toys that can never, ever make it to market today
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2011, 03:43:24 PM »
I want all of those!
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antoinebugleboy

Re: Vintage toys that can never, ever make it to market today
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2011, 03:48:35 PM »
Heaven forbid that parents would actually spend time with their children supervising and teaching them. Why would we let a thing like that get in the way of "progress"?
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. - Heinlein

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. - Rand

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. - Hitchens

808shooter

Re: Vintage toys that can never, ever make it to market today
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2011, 05:47:15 PM »
yikes! 

Wonder what they'll say bout the easy bake oven in 20 yrs ;D
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Kingkeoni

Re: Vintage toys that can never, ever make it to market today
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2011, 06:39:31 PM »
"Made in the 1950s, the Austin Magic Pistol allowed you to shoot plastic balls at your friend's penis."


WTF, did you read the description for that one?
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Re: Vintage toys that can never, ever make it to market today
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2011, 10:40:55 PM »


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I do believe that the radical and crazy notion that the Founders meant what they said, is gradually soaking through the judicial system.

Cougar8045

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« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2011, 10:55:17 PM »
^^^Sad, but true.
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