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it's often amazing to me that any of us survived to adulthood. remember all those toys we had as kids that they banned or changed because someone might hurt themselves? we had lawn darts. can't find those anymore. playskool little people are not little anymore so kids can't swallow them. and now the latest abomination is the comeback of weebles. weebles were great back in the day. now they are, again, much larger than their former counterparts, and it's so unnecessary. i mean, they were egg shaped before. how the hell could a kid have swallowed one of those? if they did, they deserved whatever outcome they got for being so stupid. darwinism at its finest.
incidentally, john didn't know what weebles were. i know new hampshire was not in touch with the rest of the world (still isn't), but how sad to have not had weebles when they were cool.
incidentally, john didn't know what weebles were. i know new hampshire was not in touch with the rest of the world (still isn't), but how sad to have not had weebles when they were cool.
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Date: 2004-10-19 08:57 am (UTC)From:none of us got hit
yes, I think we've somehow turned off Darwinism...
and that's sad
no more evolution for you
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Date: 2004-10-19 09:23 am (UTC)From:you both are not speaking of the darwinism that darwin intended... you are in fact speaking of herbert spencer's ideology of social darwinism which surfaced somewhere around 1856/1857... this type of darwinism is often referred to as a pseudoscience.... the construction of ideas surrounding social darwinism is key to why things such as classism, racism, and all those isms exist... social darwinism adapts a certain "sink or swim" mentality to the idea of "natural selection"... and since there is nothing "natural" at all about a weeble wobble, i would argue that kids who choke on them do not in fact deserve to choke.... and it does not mean that they are unadaptable the the "natural environment"...
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Date: 2004-10-19 10:02 am (UTC)From:oh, wait, that's Survivor
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Date: 2004-10-19 07:16 pm (UTC)From:you're both missing the important part here, though: john didn't know what weebles were.
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Date: 2004-10-19 07:45 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-20 05:57 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-20 07:04 am (UTC)From:its fun...
spencer is an idiot...
i wanted to seperate spencer from darwin b/c darwin's ideas make sense and spencer's ideas do not...