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Stick that goes "AAAAEEEEEEEUUUU"
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Groan Tube!!
Groan tube
Not seen one of those in years
Probably banned for kids now because someone determined it would damage their ego or something. I always say the era of good toys ended when Tonka started making plastic vehicles. Somehow LEGO still got through the purging, barely. How a destroyer of feet still exists in today's fragile world is perplexing.
Ok grandpa.
Yeah, I'm old. I also had better toys than kids these days, and they don't even realize it.
Do you honestly think that’s because all the older toys got banned and not largely because toy companies sell whatever makes them the most money?
You played with toys as a kid? Back in my day kids worked. You little pansy
You had better toys because y’all’s generations sacrificed your children at the altar of capitalism.
Nah, Gen-X here. That's our parents and grandparents, brainwashed into the cult of Edward Bernays. The place was already doomed long before we got here.
The people currently fucking up everything right now in ways that boomers could only dream of are very much gen-x. The main exception being Zuckerberg who's already a millennial.
Well it's a good thing you're here to make sure they know then. Otherwise they might enjoy themselves without ever realizing.
a youth of mumblety peg and lawn darts no doubt
Do the one about participation trophies!
[not that commenter] I can't beleive how damaging those participation trophies were to my childhood. There I was, 6 years old, standing at the counter of the plastic trophy store, waiting for my order, baseball cap bill resting on the counter because I was 3ft 2in at the time. My team wasn't great, but they worked hard by showing up sometimes. Today was the last game of the playoffs, as we were getting ready to spar against the worst team in the league to see who would rank 16th out of the 17 town teams. "Springfield Farm League 1997" the trophy plaque read, as the clerk placed one as a sample on the counter next to the box, wondering if there was anyone else in the store anymore. I thought, "I will cherish this trinket for life, I will remember it forever, a little piece of memorabilia to sit on my parent's CD shelf for a few years before being "packed away" one last time. And years later, I will cry, because that trophy gave me so much promise, so much hope; if only I worked a little harder, and been placed on a better team, and actually cared in high school, and had been born to richer parents, and been able to attend baseball training camps, and had the right timing to be noticed by recruiters, I could have made it - I could have been on the farm league of the Houston Astros. But that plastic trophy ruined it for me, it made me think I could just coast. I never should have placed that order for my team, I never would have gotten hooked on casual involvement in hobbies, I never would have been always trying to scratch that itch of fleeting excitement for trivial matters. I got my whole team addicted to believing everything should just be fun and OK, that not everything should be a demoralizing struggle.
Wait a minute, the players didn't buy their trophies. Whose idea was that? Oh right, the people complaining did it.
You seem frustrated.
Choking hazard for kids under 3, but otherwise it's fine
https://www.amazon.ca/Novelty-Place-Groan-Noise-Makers/dp/B09J228ZH7
Who hurt you?
A groan tube with a poor upbringing who turned to a life of crime
Legos did, apparently.
This is Humor. It's supposed to be dark here.
Anyone who brings up legislation to ban Lego withdraws once they realize that they may find a brick in their shoe one day.
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Awww dat Onomatopoeia
I heard it. I heard the sound. And i haven't seen one of those in a decade.
AAAAEEEEEEEUUUU
.....don't say it, don't say it, don't say, don't say it .....
......
...........
.................KILLER TOFUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!
You rang? Or rather, groaned?
......I need more allowance......
Why?
….because I do……
Bangin' on a trash can!
Drummin' on a street light!
Is that you Doug? Meep Meep!
I like how the post in the screenshot is the first result if you search for "noisy stick"
More Lemmy publicity!
The original Reddit thread in the screenshot, not this thread
Doh :-/
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It would giggle when you shook it!
Satan's giggle perhaps
KILLER TOFUUUUUUUUUU
And don't eat
Too too too much fried fooooood
EEAAEEOU
EEAAEE
this is ignoring the correct name for this toy which is the "NEEAAAWWG WOOOYYYG stick"
There's some kind of bird in the Faroe Islands that sounds exactly like this toy. I couldn't figure out what it was but I could hear it above me while hiking, it was delightfully bizarre
Love that guy's skits but I do feel like the sound was under-utilized/over-processed in this one. Reminds me I'm overdue for the annual/bi-annual rave I allow myself now that I'm old though, gonna have to find myself a sick one for after the vacations :p
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We called them "Giggle Sticks".
John Madden. Football.
A snow branch? A sleet twig? A tornado trunk? I just can't
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