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Battle Over Blocks
RoscoHead writes: "S'pose you've already seen this over at Fast Company - a follow-up to their previous article by Charles Fishman. The follow-up includes comments from three different "users" of Lego - including Hemos, alias Jeff Bates, Slashdot's esteemed Lego guru..."
I hate the way they keep talking about how bob brently used to work for fox and now he is the manager. Like anybody would ever hire Tim Mccarver to manage shit.
You haven't played with legos until you've spent the afternoon building the Ice Planet Deep Freeze Defender
I'm guessing you didn't get laid till you were 24+. Am I right?
Why do most Americans insist on using 'Legos' as the plural form instead of the accepted 'Lego' ? I see most slashdotters get this one right (perhaps because the majority of the posters are European ?), the article got it wrong.
Do you say one sheep, many sheeps ? (It's sheep)
One cactus, many cactuses (It's cacti)
One mongoose many mongooses? (Actually this is correct. I bet many of you thought the plural form is mongeese)
This story brings back some fond memories for me. When I was a child I had hundreds if not thousands of blocks. I would spend an entire day building up majestic skyscrapers which reached into the sky, and then cute little model 747's which, in my little play fantasies, I would use to crash into the towers, sending them crumbling to the ground with thousands of imaginary occupants falling to their deaths. Who knew that other children had similar fantasies and would some day put them into practice in the real world?
I also have fond memories of detonating Lego-modelled 50 kg. nuclear devices inside of New York City. I wonder if other children have similar fantasies?
Every time one of you Geekizoid cunt rags flames adequacy.org, you give us free publicity.
Everybody keeps calling me anti-free-market because I'm a socialist, but you're the one wishing you could prevent me from offering a choice to people (the purpose of advertising).
I'm not spamming. I post here because it's fun! Like thousands of other slashdotters I put my site in my sig. I rarely link to the site in a post.
Adequacy is a good thing. It's well-read, controversial, funny, and infuriating. I am glad people have strong opinions about it. I'm damn lucky to be working with a brilliant group of people who
Re. using my talents for something else? I'm sending out 12-24 resumes a week. I'll let you know when I find something.
And, yes, go wank off to this post, you have trolled the troll. Because I will freely admit right now:
IHBT.
Goat sex free since 2001