Reply #16: give up? Like you? ain't gonna happen. [View All]

[Tansy_Gold]

You've already given up. Your negativity doesn't belong here on DU.

Yes, I get cynical, and yes, I criticize things, but give up? Not, not on your (worthless) life.

what you've said is that you personally value the cheap, poisoned plastic toy crap -- and lots of it -- over a single well made "yuppie intellectual" toy, the kind that may last for years or even be passed down to another child, another generation. You've said American ingenuity is dead, American inventiveness vanished, American skill completely and totally lost. Boy, it must really suck to be you, mired in all that misery.

Can the average working parent (a phrase that's fast becoming an oxymoron in this economy) afford to go out and buy a backseat full of "yuppie intellectual" toys? No, I'm sure they can't. But is that the only measure by which you determine the fitness of parents? The quantity of junk they give their kids? Apparently it is.

Your comeback was pretty lame, and I'm probably gonna be sorry I rose to your bait, but I generally do. I'm one of those people who sincerely thinks she's got a halfway decent head on her shoulders and more than the average intelligence --- and maybe even a tiny bit of wisdom garnered over the past 60 years through raising two successful kids to adulthood and parenthood themselves.

I don't know what your life situation is and I really don't give a flying fuck, but for the lurkers who will read this, I'm not going to shut up. Oh, someone may report me for a "personal attack" - and goodness knows I've done my share of reporting other personal attacks -- but my attack is more on the stupid, ignorant, insulting and ultimately destructive thinking put forth in your puerile posts.

Grow up, little boy. Nobody worth impressing is impressed by you.


The totally unimpressed



Tansy Gold