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Parents upset over penis-shaped Play-Doh toy

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  • #32
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    IrlMonk wrote: »
    Major mistake from this company,
    i was walking through the aisles with my chislers and i intentionally by-passed their products because of this.
    Sad, but that's the way business is today, not much thought for the consumers.
    Bit of a joke all round for the way businesses threat consumers.

    Thats one way to describe your reaction alright.


  • #33
    IrlMonk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 429 ✭✭IrlMonk


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Thats one way to describe your reaction alright.
    Not sure whether your being sarcastic or not here.....!


  • #34
    Tearin It Up
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    Looks like the real thing alright.

    Its a piping syringe that can be got on Amazon.


  • #35
    bjork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,554 ✭✭✭bjork


    Tearin It Up wrote: »
    Looks like the real thing alright.

    Its a piping syringe that can be got on Amazon.

    :eek: That link needs some sort of warning:eek: - you've just ruined Christmas!!




    (If you send a few bob in an envelope to 1 main st. Ireland, all will be forgiven - we're saving for a trip to Amsterdam)


  • #36
    123balltv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭123balltv


    Kids cant be kids anymore :mad:


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  • #37
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    It will be worth a fortune on ebay in a few years
    360_F_102352090_ie3kLjDIvgrT1sxVDknWCUh8PxgMYzM7.jpg




  • #38
    Dont call me Shirley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭Dont call me Shirley


    Now that's just takin the mickey if ever i saw it


  • #39
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    123balltv wrote: »
    Kids cant be kids anymore :mad:

    I can see loads of uses for "playing doctors and nurses".


  • #40
    Venus In Furs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Venus In Furs


    Dil-Doh.
    123balltv wrote: »
    Kids cant be kids anymore :mad:
    They can't? (Sorry if you're taking the piss :)).

    It's only hilariously hysterical parents obsessed with finding offence, particularly sexual-related, that are the ones getting affected by this. The children themselves aren't going to have an iota.
    People threatening to boycott Play-Doh etc as if it's a bunch of paedos - social media really does bring out the stupid. There are great things about social media obviously, but the above is one huge drawback. Wish Bebo was never shut down, they might all have stayed there.


  • #41
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Do these Parents ban their children from the veg section in the supermarket ?


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  • #42
    DeadHand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,833 ✭✭✭DeadHand


    Christ's sake.

    The appetite on social media to be offended has become staggering.

    If you see something sexual in this perfectly innocent toy the fault lies with you.

    Kids are not going to be phased by this, much less sexually scarred.


  • #43
    whupdedo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭whupdedo


    It overreacting on a grand scale, if your 5 year old turns around and says this looks like a massive cock, then you start to worry, until then, these morons shoud try and find something else to get worked up about


  • #44
    Candy_Girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Candy_Girl


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Lol, must laugh at the outraged parent claiming the toy ruined their Christmas. Seriously!!

    That was just the Father, apparently the Mother had a great Christmas :D

    Seriously doh ..some parents have filthy minds and would complain about anything.


  • #45
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Be ware of American puritanical tendencies... They can go a bit whacko at times.

    You'd want a fairly wild imagination to think that looks like a ....

    If yours looks like that, you might want to consult a doctor.

    What's next?

    Back to the Victorian era of putting covers on table legs in case they remind someone of a rear end.

    Pens and pencils ... OMG they even have the same first 3 letters!

    It looks like a cake icing syringe.


  • #46
    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    If you're obsessed with sex & sexuality to the extent that puritans are then eventually you start seeing phallic shapes everywhere. Really getting sick of these "outrage" & "offensive" stories. Large sections of the internet are increasingly coming to resemble Salem in 1692 such is the level of mindless hysteria.


  • #47
    UCDVet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    God forbid children ever see anything resembling a cock. I won't let my son look at cupcakes cause I swear, they're shaped like breasts! I also don't let him bath in the nude, for fear of him seeing his penis.

    Thankfully children have responsible adults like me to teach them that their body is shameful and wrong. Anything shaped like a cock should be banished, cocks included, until after marriage, like God intended.

    The doctor's recommended my wife breast feed our daughter. Yeah right. Do you know what my wife's breasts look like? BREASTS. To think we would let children see breasts, much less suckle on them, is downright offensive. Doctor's will say it's natural and all that jazz, but we know the truth - we're just encouraging a life of bisexual experimentation and incest.


  • #48
    Venus In Furs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Venus In Furs


    "Won't someone please think of the children!" is usually just a zzzzzzz meme, but by god this particular story really is just a Helen Lovejoy fest.

    "It graphically portrays parts of the human body which, practical as they may be, are evil!" (On Michelangelo's David).


  • #49
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    You forgot : After marriage and only for procreational purposes and a good bath in Dettol and off to confession and an extra long mass afterwards!

    This is why you should never go out with a puritanical type!

    It must have been an incredibly slow Newsday..

    Now on Red Neck News : Satanic vegetables in the supermarket...

    I bet they'd be completely fine with a nice healthy toy like a machine gun though.


  • #50
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,052 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    There is nothing evil about the aul mushroom head.


  • #51
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Reminds me of Blackadder's puritanical aunt...
    The turnip episode...
    The Devil's Dumplings...


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I met with one of my fave posters of boards.ie this week :)

    And speaking of play doh I had the pleasure to watch his daugther fashion a Butterfly out of play doh.

    The comedy for ME came from being on the OTHER side of the table and I watched her fashion something else altogether :)


  • #53
    Tearin It Up
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I met with one of my fave posters of boards.ie this week :)

    And speaking of play doh I had the pleasure to watch his daugther fashion a Butterfly out of play doh.

    The comedy for ME came from being on the OTHER side of the table and I watched her fashion something else altogether :)

    And what do you think that is? A willy with wings???

    See its the adults with the filthy minds.


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tearin It Up wrote: »
    See its the adults with the filthy minds.

    Nail. Hammer.

    Is it not always this way when a thread like this pops up? :)


  • #55
    Tearin It Up
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Nail. Hammer.

    Is it not always this way when a thread like this pops up? :)

    Yes


  • #56
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,909 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    I have more of an issue with the idea of a play set that encourages kids to make their marla look like delicious cakes. That's fine for the kids making them, they're old enough to know not to eat them. But there will be younger siblings up and down the country regurgitating the sweet perfumed gunk all over the living room carpet.


  • #57
    Tearin It Up
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    What's the difference between marla and play doh?


  • #58
    bjork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,554 ✭✭✭bjork


    Tearin It Up wrote: »
    What's the difference between marla and play doh?

    Marla doesn't come with a plastic penis shaped dispenser


  • #59
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Dil D'oh!


  • #60
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    its called MALA


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  • #61
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Ok so I can buy my kids nerf guns, sexualised dolls, airfix battleships, toy soldiers, purple goop with fake maggots in it, books about vampires, games where you shoot everyone... yet this... a slightly phallic syringe. ..is what a toy company has to apologise for???


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