Annihilating Boy Toys

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Hmm, from the title, I thought this thread would be about a pogrom against male models.

Anyways, add me to the list of those who played with toy guns and turned out OK.

More important to the peaceful develolpment of little boys is a strong-but-kind male role model. That lack is our problem, not toy guns.
 
Re: Golf Courses

<CaddyShack Theme Song>

Well...

While there is something to said about a Golf Course being wasted, and better used for a rifle range, clay target range, or similar...

I get a bit older and "learnt" something.

-They took out one old golf course, got a bunch of Whiny Butt Folks type Condos , Apartments, and businesses. Not to mention on the "way back" nine one could ride dirt bikes, cut across to some great fishing, and hunting. Now it is a "safe gated community" that the whiny butts keep getting robbed.

-Another Golf course when the River floods it...see ya getcha a jonboat and some waders. Go get the fish and not have to deal with rods, reels, hooks , bait....take a gun or three...LOTs of snakes!

"Officer, I am doing my Ethical Critter Duties and not wasting game".
"And them shotguns and sidearms are for..."
"Better for me to have these fish , <sniff, moist eyes, sniff> and share with the unfortunate elderly. <aw, gee whiz> than snakes and critters"

"Why yes of course, what a charitable thing to do - ya'll be careful ya hear?"

Hey, we had girls in on this dealie, and nobody said the elderly couldn't be kinfolks that knew how to do hushpuppies up right.

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I may or may not be aware of how silent an electric golf cart can be at night. Or have any knowledge of lights after dark being that of "groundskeeper" , 'cause State Reg's "say" one ain't supposed to be shining lights after dark unless frog gigging, or coon hunting in certain seasons.

Tip: Ya know them guns that shoot ping pong balls? Wind catches them real easy, but once on the green, a pool cue works great for a putter.

All in the name of research of course, I mean a ping pong ball "looks" like it'll fit in a hole for a golf ball - but one must be thorough in research - right?

Them inexpensive , lightweight canvas golf bags ...err...always liked them best anyway.

:D
 
I must be a terrible GM. I bought all of mine some wooden rubberband guns for Christmas :D I am sure their fathers approve. Not sure about their mothers. Probably just because of the rubberbands all over the house :neener:
 
yeah

cuchulainn said:
Hmm, from the title, I thought this thread would be about a pogrom against male models.

Anyways, add me to the list of those who played with toy guns and turned out OK.

More important to the peaceful develolpment of little boys is a strong-but-kind male role model. That lack is our problem, not toy guns.
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Y'know, i thought the same thing! i always thought a 'Boy Toy' was something you became in prison if you weren't the meanest guy around.

i remember my mother saying that when we were kids, she contemplated not allowing us to have toy guns. But she reasoned that a boy without toy guns made them with sticks, or used their fingers; and since that was the point, she let us have them. She was a damn good mom, and so were all the other moms and dads of all the friends i played with. We answered to ALL of them!

We grew up doing all sorts of unspeakable things: we were Boy Scouts;
we went to Catholic Church; we played with toy guns; we played Dungeons and Dragons (remember that!?!?!); we played hard and got dirt everywhere; we wrestled ON PURPOSE just to see who would win (and showed no mercy to our little brothers, who didn't expect any); we built forts out of whatever materials were available and then tried to 'destroy' them with artillery fire (thrown rocks); we rode our bikes EVERYWHERE and crashed them into things, each other, and the forts; we had to go home for dinner when called and we got spanked when we didn't; we paid in hard earned allowance money for EVERY window we ever broke and we had to suck it up and apologize to the owner for breaking it; we got grades like A and B when we earned them and D and F if we didn't; we addressed each others parents as "Mister' and 'Mrs" so-and-so... the list goes on and on.

By todays standards, we were evil kids participating in all of the world's most evil institutions. The HORROR!! How could we possibly have developed any self-esteem when pitted against such a competitive situation where we might actually LOSE, or get graded, or get hurt, or address and adult by their respectful title???

Today we are 2 MD's, an Engineer, a cop, a neurophysiologist, a paralegal, a professor at a major university, and an actor (believe it or not). We are all still married to our first and only spouses, and have started families of our own. None of us are drug addicts, nor have ever been in jail.

i am very proud of us! (so please allow me the indulgence above) And I am absolutely certain that we are NOT unusual; lots of folks can say the same about their friends as well!

Do you think the world can handle more people like us?

C-
 
Whoa...what a coincidence! I just went to wal-mart today to buy one of those foot-tall G.I Joe guys. Of course there were none of them there. I thought maybe they were just out of them because of Christmas (x-mas...sorry)...but nope, there was not even an empty spot designated for them. I was pissed.
 
does this mean I was corrupted as a child since I hated Barbie and wanted the Star Wars action figures? I had my lil green army men set and the GI Joes too :evil:

It's parenting people...not the cartoons, comics, toys or movies....Be a parent to your kids and teach them right from wrong, reality from fiction....First the air bubbles thing and now campaigns against toys :rolleyes:

Oh the joys of todays world....The anti's and blissninnies would have a fit at some of the things I got to mess with as a kid :evil:


Mneme
 
Guns aren't toys.

My personal belief is that children ought to have real guns and be encouraged to develop good safety and accuracy skills at the earliest possible age. It's a responsibility thing.
 
Two or three Christmases ago, I was looking through the toy section in a nearby K Mart, and overheard some poor father down the aisle a ways asking a female employee of the store if they had a certain toy gun his son wanted. She was obviously an anti, and got her panties all in a wad as she looked very concerned and explained to him how no one wants toy guns anymore, and they just don't stock many, etc. etc, etc. The more I listened, the annoyder I got, and after awhile I announced from my end of the aisle, "Toy guns are the only thing I could figure out how to play with anymore."
Marty
 
carp killer said:
I remember when G.I.Joe kicked Ken's ass and married Barbie.:evil: Ken was such a wimp.:neener:
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And I remember when the Barbie who lived next door to my barracks of G.I. Joe's "borrowed" a 1911 from the Joes just in case the bad guys came to her house.

I had an arsenal of toy guns as I grew up. Which led to an interest in real guns. Which led to an interest ni the military and West Point. Which transitioned into an interest in law enforcement. Which transitioned into law school and my current occupation.

So, I guess you all would now agree. Toy guns made me a lawyer. Can you think of anything worse? :D ;)
 
Fell for the game hype again, though, they did.

GTA is CLEARLY marked as being only suitable for those over 17 years of age. Personally, if a parent bought it for their young kid, I'd be all for charging them with "contributing to the delinquincy of a minor".

ADULTS have a right to do what they wish in viewing entertainment, interactive or otherwise.
 
And parents have a right to decide what type of games are appropriate for their child. I won't by GTA for my son at this point, but if I feel he's mature enough for a game like it later on, I'll definately buy it for him.

Granted, a lot of parents don't care, but where do you draw the line? What's next? Telling me what shows I'm allowed to let my son watch?

Tom
 
I guess code pink would lynch me....Santa just brought my 12 y.o. a new .223 bench rifle and my 9 y.o. a new crickett .22 . Oh yea....my 12 y.o. sleeps with his red rider under his bed too!:)
 
Hasn't finding new ways to kill and new ways to keep from being killed been the impetus for most technological advances for the past 10,000 years?
 
R.H. Lee said:
The children of these blissninnys will rebel, overcome their 'issues', and become radical right wing warmongers. Take that, CodePink. :p
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more insightful than you know, but they'll still have some issues left. :uhoh:

jsalcedo said:
Hasn't finding new ways to kill and new ways to keep from being killed been the impetus for most technological advances for the past 10,000 years?
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"If necessity is the mother of invention, then hostility is its father." Paraphrased from the original Unreal manual.
 
Drizzt said:
The Code Pink website includes helpful samples that, they explain, are easily printed on sticky mailing labels. One sums up the heart of the campaign: "Violent Toys=Violent Boys."
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Awesome, sue 'em for sexual discrimination! I want a "Violent Toys=Violent Girls" stickers placed in equal numbers!

(Oh yeah and fines + criminal convictions for people vandalizing private property.)
 
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