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Old 03-21-2009, 02:57 AM   #1
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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?
Aye, spoiled rotten they are. The combination of, a growth of the middle class with their disposable income, easy credit, cheap imports, and advertising, have combined to make kids (and their parents) more materialistic.

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.
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Old 03-21-2009, 08:56 AM   #2
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I don't even see any rubber baby buggy bumpers.
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Old 03-21-2009, 09:27 AM   #3
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good one, Shawnee.


Ah, spoiled little bitches - they've been with us always.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.

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Old 03-21-2009, 09:56 AM   #4
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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.
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Old 03-21-2009, 11:01 AM   #5
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Rubby baber bummy--wait...
Rumby babber bumger--dammit...
Rubbey barby bangy--aw fukkit...
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Old 03-21-2009, 11:14 AM   #6
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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!
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Old 03-21-2009, 11:50 AM   #7
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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.
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Old 03-21-2009, 01:42 PM   #8
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You should have put those stories to good use.
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Old 03-21-2009, 01:46 PM   #9
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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.
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Old 03-21-2009, 02:22 PM   #10
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Ken was supremely superfluous.
So you see, it wouldn't have helped...

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...
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Old 03-21-2009, 02:27 PM   #11
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...and a kidney jouncer, and skin rasher, and...
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Old 03-21-2009, 05:25 PM   #12
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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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Old 03-21-2009, 05:30 PM   #13
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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.
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Old 03-21-2009, 06:48 PM   #14
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Is it just me, or does the last one look like an uncovered hearse?
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Old 03-21-2009, 06:51 PM   #15
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That's the Transylvanian model.
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