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erbie

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Mar 21, 2007 15:10

O.M.G.

Just, wow. Headphones if you're at work.

And this, my friends, is why I will never buy a Barbie for my kids.

wtf, video

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merina March 21 2007, 23:00:44 UTC

I never bought a Barbie either. They really had no interest either. :D

alunatic March 21 2007, 23:03:39 UTC

Dude, they made that up, right? That's not a real toy? Right?

llnaughty March 21 2007, 23:26:53 UTC

alas they are real:

http://www.amazon.com/Barbie-Forever-Doll-Tanner-Dog/dp/B000ELIXA4

http://www.amazon.com/Barbie-Forever-Theresa-Doll-Mika/dp/B000ELIXAO/

alunatic March 22 2007, 17:49:51 UTC

*eyes roll to the point of spasming*

My daughter has Barbies. They are hand-me-downs from her cousins and the ones my mom saved, except for her Kelly dolls.

I hope she enjoys the hand-me-downs, though. As I recall, they had a LOT of sex.

llnaughty March 22 2007, 18:26:44 UTC

As I recall, they had a LOT of sex.

lol!!

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llnaughty March 21 2007, 23:27:56 UTC

what's so bad about that? i mean the ad design and music make me want to gouge my eyes and ears out and scrub my brain, but hey at least they're showing that you have to look after pets.

specialknives March 21 2007, 23:33:38 UTC

The plethora of toys that wet and soil themselves - usually aimed at girls - are certainly intriguing, as it is difficult to imagine:
a) Why a child would want one - I certainly never did. Bodily functions are pretty normal and everyday; not sure what makes them interesting...
b) Why a parent would think a child might benefit from having one (regardless of whether the child wanted one)
c) What process leads to toy companies coming up with this stuff... do they sell? Presumably they must. Strange world.

erbie March 21 2007, 23:46:54 UTC

I can just see them sitting around a table.

"Let's give Barbie a dog!"
"Yeah, and let's make it eat and shit!"
"Oh, and a cat that you give a BOTTLE, because, you know, cats love to drink from bottles and then you squeeze its side to make it pee!"
"Huzzah! Great idea"

WTF?

merina March 21 2007, 23:51:29 UTC

It is sick.

lietya March 22 2007, 02:13:50 UTC

I really wanted a doll that wet because I wondered how they made it do that.

I was quite disappointed when I took her apart and it was basically just a straw running from one end to the other.... (and my mother was Not Amused at me destroying the toy, for that matter!)

lietya March 22 2007, 02:12:25 UTC

Is this the Barbie Cat Litterbox thing? (Sorry - dialup.) I get enough litterbox cleaning as it is. :)

I liked having Barbies as a child, though. They formed large matriarchal societies with complex customs signaled by hair and Kleenex clothing design - and they all carried weaponry. I took great delight in finding how many places you could conceal "daggers" and "swords" (sewing needles and hatpins) on them. Of course, this makes it somewhat risky when I find them in my closet these days....

wickedrad79 March 22 2007, 03:13:14 UTC

My barbies, many of which I inherited from my older sister (and there weren't many), went on adventures with my other action figures and figurines (thundercats, poseable cabbage patch kids, and care bears, etc. I don't think my transformers were involved, though). Often this involved mountain climbing or being stranded in the jungle or a deserted island. For example, I would get those little, fruit shaped candy "Runts" from the quarter vending machine at the bowling alley and those would be the fruits they'd find to survive! I would use sword toothpicks from bars for weapons, and once I was fixated on trying to make bows and arrows out of toothpicks and rubber bands for them!
Besides survival scenarios, they also went on archaeological expeditions a la Indiana Jones and spy missions. And sometimes they'd build lucrative ice cream kiosks out of legos.

lietya March 22 2007, 03:38:11 UTC

That's really cool! I especially love the fruit. Did you ever manage to get a bow and arrow design to work?

Oh, and I loved those sword toothpicks. I'd forgotten all about my collection of them for the Barbies!

wickedrad79 March 22 2007, 03:43:51 UTC

Well, for Barbies and Carebears to use, yes. More or less. Basically, I just bent one toothpick so it curved as much as I could get it to without snapping or splitting, sometimes a larger one if I could find one, like a sandwich pick. I would cut a rubber band and tie each end to an end of the pick. And I'd use regular toothpicks as arrows. It wasn't pretty, but it worked for my purposes!

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