HomeWhen do we say we have gone far enough? I get Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's and their racial overtones, but to be offended by a piece of plastic made to look like a potato that you can put a moustache, glasses, and ears on?
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No more Mr. Potato Head
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You make it sound like it's going away. I read that they're dropping the "Mr." from the name of the toy and will now just call it Potato Head. Seems like a non-issue to me, unless someone really needs or wants the Mr.
alohafri- Bova!
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SoxIlliniRob wrote:You make it sound like it's going away. I read that they're dropping the "Mr." from the name of the toy and will now just call it Potato Head. Seems like a non-issue to me, unless someone really needs or wants the Mr.
Heck, Mr. Potatohead used to have a moustache with his female lips back in our day. And both sides are nuts. You're right. It's a fucking potato. Who cares? I guess I wasn't clear in my rant.
And Ken has always been gender neutral.
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alohafri wrote:SoxIlliniRob wrote:You make it sound like it's going away. I read that they're dropping the "Mr." from the name of the toy and will now just call it Potato Head. Seems like a non-issue to me, unless someone really needs or wants the Mr.
Heck, Mr. Potatohead used to have a moustache with his female lips back in our day. And both sides are nuts. You're right. It's a fucking potato. Who cares? I guess I wasn't clear in my rant.
And Ken has always been gender neutral.
Yeah, who cares. I wouldn't have thought to drop "Mr." because I thought there was a Mr. Potatohead and a Mrs. Potatohead, but it appears that it was so kids can make their own Potato families, and some families have 2 moms and some have 2 dads. What I find ridiculous is that Trump voters are more upset about this than 500,000 dead people or Texas totally preventable federal disaster. I wonder if their heads would explode this much if back in the day they changed Mrs. Potatohead to Ms. Potatohead.
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alohafri wrote:When do we say we have gone far enough? I get Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's and their racial overtones, but to be offended by a piece of plastic made to look like a potato that you can put a moustache, glasses, and ears on?
I have an Uncle Ben. Well, at least as of this morning I do. He was admitted to the hospital on December 18, and was in the ICU with Covid. He was released to rehab on February 5.
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blondy28 wrote:alohafri wrote:SoxIlliniRob wrote:You make it sound like it's going away. I read that they're dropping the "Mr." from the name of the toy and will now just call it Potato Head. Seems like a non-issue to me, unless someone really needs or wants the Mr.
Heck, Mr. Potatohead used to have a moustache with his female lips back in our day. And both sides are nuts. You're right. It's a fucking potato. Who cares? I guess I wasn't clear in my rant.
And Ken has always been gender neutral.
Yeah, who cares. I wouldn't have thought to drop "Mr." because I thought there was a Mr. Potatohead and a Mrs. Potatohead, but it appears that it was so kids can make their own Potato families, and some families have 2 moms and some have 2 dads. What I find ridiculous is that Trump voters are more upset about this than 500,000 dead people or Texas totally preventable federal disaster. I wonder if their heads would explode this much if back in the day they changed Mrs. Potatohead to Ms. Potatohead.
Speaking of the federal disaster in TX, I saw data this week demonstrating that Texans paid a whole bunch of billions more in utility bills via their unregulated system than we on the nationally regulated grid paid. When they calculated the per capita premium they're paying and multiplied it by their state population, it was a ridiculously huge number of dollars additional they are paying just to exist inside of an unregulated system. What a bunch of dimwits. And then in exchange for that premium they get a system that sucks dogshit.
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