Another recall...scary

Oh that's just brilliant.

Holy CRAP! What the hell were they thinking of, even to ME they look like little colorful candies... Sheesh.

Ok seriously, wtf. The toy is clearly labeled for 4+ kids. Thats FOUR YEARS OLD. Not 20 month old kids who shove everything in their mouths.

Should this toy include a chemical that induces a comatose state? No. But should parents allow their kids access to this toy if they are a) unsupervised and 2) under 4 years? NO. Gah, does society have to start changing diapers of these children as well just so we know that its being done properly?

I'm still saying...DON'T BUY CHINESE!!!

(unless its food, and its made in the US :P)

Matel is getting sued over the chinese incident with the lead paint. Even though they came out weeks later and said, 'oh yeah, our bad' - no one broadcasted it like they did when they thought the lead paint was the Chinese fault. I'm all for cheap labor - but I wouldn't look past the big corporations that feel the need to outsource to other countries that'll pay their people 2% of what someone in the US would make.

I can understand how something like that could happen. Big brother is making aqua dot sculptures at the table while baby sister plays with her Kermit the Frog puppet on the other side. Mom smiles, thinking that she has such well behaved children, then turns her back to answer the phone. Baby sister picks up aquadots that big brother dropped on the floor and crams them in her mouth. Big brother sees and hollers, mom swears, tells Big Brother to never say what she just said, and picks up baby sister to whap her on the back, never knowing that in addition to choking, her baby's been freakin poisoned. That kind of thing's gotta happen all the time with toys like that.

Fucking hilarious and they wonder why it was so popular. I have done that shit 1 time in my life and its like drinking a six pack in one swallow glues your feet to the floor and you are hammered for about 30 minutes. It was extremely popular back in the early to mid 90s in Atlanta. It is a killer too if its mixed with Alcohol. I have seen 20-30 collapse mixing that shit in night clubs and no its nothing like Ecstasy, not even remotely.

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Uh, no thank you. I prefer to remain sober and laughing at the drunk idiots, or smacking 'em upside the head for thinking about going for a drive.

My daughter thought this was a really neat thing, even at almost-12 years old. Too bad they screwed it up.

It's more akin to a date rape drug than ecstasy, right? Never occurred to me that people would do that on purpose *shakes head*

It is a hard beta blocker more akin to special K in effect. It fucks you up. Its like getting really drunk for about 1 hour. If it is mixed with a depressant like alcohol it drop a rhino. We had a club in Atlanta that I called the den of iniquity that it was very popular at. Dumb fucks would drink on top of it and face plant. The ambulance was there every night.


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Exstacy just wires you up for 3-4 hours (depending on the dosage... and the mix. and from what i understand there is NO consistancy there.) what cracks me up is that I have a "friend" who chain smokes pot - and takes X at the same time. How that girl can put a sentence together is beyond me. Her body doesn't ever seem to know wether she should be relaxing (the pot) or moving non-stop (the X). it's rather humourous to watch. One of the side effects of X though, is the inability to shut up. which just adds to the head-shaking when she gets going.

Now this aquadots thing just scares me. Billi's right - that scenario is completely plausible and something I could see having happened when my older two were in that age range. With him being 3 years older, there were quite a few toys she had access to that she shouldn;t have and it took awhile to sort it all out. thankfully, none of my rugrats were ever really into the sticking things in their mouth thing. my youngest is just starting it (he's about 2 1/2), but is finding that his matchbox cars just don't taste all that great, so i doubt this will last long. Well, that and I take away anything he won't voluntarily remove from his mouth!

Ive known lots of people who liked to smoke pot while on X to take the edge off. Those years are way behind me and I'm glad to say that. I don't regret trying/doing anything I did. I never really got too far in to that scene. It was around us all the time since we were club kids but I could never bring myself to do anything regularly other than drinking. Clubbing on the X of the early 90's was an incredible time.

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