Would you let your children play with these "toys"?

[solarstorm]

These cute plush toys look like an invention by the makers of South Park, but they are real available retail.
When I try to see into the creators' brains I have to go into spasms of laughter. How insane can someone be to dream up such "dolls"and above all those "briefs"...
I could tell you which country these "toys" come from, but you wouldn't believe me...

[© tweed]

I wouldn't buy my child, God forbid I have one, any mass produced toys, except for the odd piece of sports equipment.  go pick up some sticks and stones and use your imagination -- in the end, it'll be the only thing that can save you.

[angus]

They're cute.  Then again, I like offbeat plush toys.

I have two virus plush toys in my office:  the rhinovirus (common cold) that I bought from the gift shop at the national institutes of health and a mad cow disease toy given to me by a vendor at a meeting.  They're both shaped roughly like the 3D shapes of the viruses they represent.  





A colleague of mine has this one:




Not sure whether I'd give Pee to my child.  I generally avoid yellow toys from China.  If it's yellow and from China, then it probably has both hexavalent chromium as well as lead in the pigment.  Both are pretty nasty.  I wouldn't give any small child a yellow toy from China, not because it represents a normal bodily function, but because small children put things in their mouths, and lead (II) chromate isn't the sort of thing I want to see children put into their mouths.  Poo is probably okay for children.

[Simfan34]

Ah, angus, you would have something like those.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I may, but if I had children, I'd rather have them play with this.

[Lambsbread]

Absolutely.

[angus]

I may, but if I had children, I'd rather have them play with this.

I remember this book well.  It came out when my son was about six months old.  There are a million things wrong with that book and all he can focus on is the fact that the poor audio recording makes "who wants to try?" sound like "who wants to die?"  What a moron.  How about the rolling toilet paper??!  Zing!  Anyone who has ever had to put up with a little boy, day after day, year after year, must experience a shudder upon hearing that sound.  If I had a nickel every time I had to roll the roll back up after my son spent the past five minutes joyfully unrolling it (Zing!) I'd have about a million nickles.  And that's just for starters.  What a douchebag.  The blitzkrieg of pop-up notices on his screen is enough to turn anyone into an epileptic.  Seriously, put him out of his misery.

[memphis]

I'm not a parent, but my experience with my brother's kids is that the potty humor gets them too wound up. It'd be like giving them king sized candy bars. It's not so much a moral objection as it's just too much effort to deal with the consequences.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

No way (R)