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Mar 21, 2009: Prams
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Kids! I don't know what's wrong with these kids today! Kids! Who can understand anything they say? Kids! They are so ridiculous and immature! I don't see why anybody wants 'em! Just you wait and see Kids! Kids! They are just impossible to control! (Soon you'll be old enough to be) Kids! With their awful clothes and their rock an' roll! (Another teenage delinquent) Why can't they be like you were, Perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids to-- Kids! What the devil's wrong with these kids today? Kids! Who could guess the they would turn out that way! Why can't they be like we were, Perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids? What's the matter with kids? What's the matter with kids today? |
But spoiling kids isn't a new idea, by a long shot.
Take a gander at these antique prams (carriages), not for children, but for the children's dolls.
They are each meticulously handcrafted, but of course back then everything was. Some may have been made by craftsmen for their own children but probably most were made for rich men to spoil their children. And they didn't even have a sexy Barbie doll to put in them.
Here's about 40 of them.
Shawnee123 Saturday Mar 21 09:56 AM
I don't even see any rubber baby buggy bumpers.
Trilby Saturday Mar 21 10:27 AM
good one, Shawnee.
Ah, spoiled little bitches - they've been with us always.
DanaC Saturday Mar 21 10:56 AM
That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is to consider how much those parents were willing to spend in their quest to raise their daughters properly. By properly I of course mean properly feminine and maternal. The big (i.e expensive to craft) toys were generally heavily gender defining: train sets and bicycles for the boys, dollshouses and prams for the girls.
Gravdigr Saturday Mar 21 12:01 PM
Rubby baber bummy--wait...
Rumby babber bumger--dammit...
Rubbey barby bangy--aw fukkit...
Trilby Saturday Mar 21 12:14 PM
Dana - you know very well you don't have to spend a lot of money to raise your daughter properly.
It's spoiled little bitches get those prams.
eta: *sniff* I never got a pram! I had to make do with a wheel-barrow!
Sundae Saturday Mar 21 12:50 PM
I had prams.
And baby dollies.
I remember loving them.
But my two best things EVAH - Monkey (formal name Anne, but she was a stuffed toy in the shape of a monkey after all) who was my best friend and alter-ego. Did I tell you the story about Mum cutting Monkey's head off? I'm sure I did.
And my bro's Fisher Price garage. Something I had wanted for myself for years. Poor old Stevo, he had to put up with my stories as "we" played with it. He isn't an avid reader. I think my stories were so good they spoiled other writers for him.
Ahem.
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Mar 21 02:42 PM
You should have put those stories to good use. 
Trilby Saturday Mar 21 02:46 PM
my favorite toy was Malibu barbie and her Suntan Friends, with their glasses and their towels the fun never ends!
I liked Skipper and my Malibu Barbie Van. I think there was a Francie doll, too.
Ken was supremely superfluous.
Sundae Saturday Mar 21 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
You should have put those stories to good use
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Originally Posted by Brianna
Ken was supremely superfluous.
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Except that I love to love.
Damn, what I wouldn't give to be head over heels
Well, except wit you Bruce, you heart-breaker...
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Mar 21 03:27 PM
...and a kidney jouncer, and skin rasher, and...
SteveDallas Saturday Mar 21 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Brianna
spoiled little bitches
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Originally Posted by Brianna
spoiled little bitches
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xoxoxoBruce Saturday Mar 21 06:30 PM
It's not always a personal choice causing one to be visited upon by spoiled little bitches, sometimes it's the sins of the father.
Sheldonrs Saturday Mar 21 07:48 PM
Is it just me, or does the last one look like an uncovered hearse?
DanaC Saturday Mar 21 07:51 PM
That's the Transylvanian model.
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Mar 21 07:54 PM
Yes, there are several that look like mini rickshaws or wheelchairs, too.
beauregaardhooligan Saturday Mar 21 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
I don't even see any rubber baby buggy bumpers.
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Shawnee123 Saturday Mar 21 09:09 PM
Once upon a barren moor
There dwelt a bear, also a boar.
The bear could not bear the boar.
The boar thought the bear a bore.
At last the bear could bear no more
Of that boar that bored him on the moor,
And so one morn he bored the boar--
That boar will bore the bear no more.
edit: I found this online, no author given
Trilby Saturday Mar 21 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by SteveDallas
Hmm I'm sensing a pattern here.... I wonder what kind of career choice would let Brianna come in contact with a lot of spoiled little bitches... and visit upon them the retribution they deserve??
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Or...teacher. Eh, SD? Teacher?
TheMercenary Sunday Mar 22 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
I had prams.
And baby dollies. I remember loving them. But my two best things EVAH - Monkey (formal name Anne, but she was a stuffed toy in the shape of a monkey after all) who was my best friend and alter-ego. Did I tell you the story about Mum cutting Monkey's head off? I'm sure I did. |
monster Monday Mar 23 09:10 PM
No cup holders/cocktail glass holders....
Elspode Monday Mar 23 09:44 PM
Om nom nom nom...
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