Monday 11 April 2011
Beating Life
When I was a wee tacker, all I wanted was all the LEGO ever created, in the here and now and just the other day a colleague of mine shows off his new shoes, a brand new pair of Nikes and says to me “my parents never allowed me to have these when I were a kid, even though it was my ambition to have a pair”. This a moment similar to that movie American Beauty, when Lester goes out and buys that car… but, responsibilities aside, this had me thinking, because I still do want every LEGO ever created! Maybe that will be the reason I finally get a real job, to collect LEGO, fulfil my childhood dream and win Life, and the Meaning etc of…
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You will never collect every Lego kit ever produced. Why? Because they constantly create more! It's a clever marketing conspiracy - Thomas the tank engine style. (I never knew so many engines could fit on the tiny island of Sodor.)
ReplyDeleteI had a boyfriend once who, following an intense session with his psychotherapist went out and bought a leggo kit (that he'd never been permitted to have as a child); and rather than go out with me that night he stated that he was going to stay home and play with his leggo. Gazing at me all the time with self righteous indignation as if he'd finally realized that WOMEN HAD BEEN BLOCKING HIS LEGGO GAMES FOR YEARS. Strangely, the relationship staggered along for at least another 6 monnths. What was I thinking.
ReplyDeleteps. I wish I'd just made that up. But it's true...
ReplyDeletethat was a corker of a story, wilms!
ReplyDeleteespecially this ... "women had been blocking his lego games for years"
one thing or t'other, innit. I DON'T want to have sex with you because I need to keep my lego chakra free, or, I DO want to have sex with you and that's why I've been standing in this medicare line since last tuesday.
hi smokey :D
ReplyDeleteI need a job too. if you find one, and they have a spare, will you let me know?
but back to the Lego for a mo, if I may. The lego SETS actaully quite shite me. You need to keep the box, the instructions, and every miniscule accessory in the same pack if the "player" has any hope of recontructing the pictured battleship ever again. The whole point of Lego is to build stuff that the kid invents. Not to follow the direction of some uptight Dane. I like to buy the random brick packs & a few novelties, and store them all haphazardly in a giant bucket (or 3), which can then be shovelled by bulldozer from the lounge room back to the play area.
ReplyDeleteProst!
actually.
ReplyDeletespelling correction 37 of the morning.
Yeah but you are forgetting Daisy, that LEGO really is awesome! Why I would wager that you are thinking of playing with LEGO right this minute aren't you? :))
ReplyDeleteI would seriously consider buying some LEGO, but I looked in the shop the other day and there are these replica building LEGO sets that are a rip off. For instance they have Sears Tower, you can imagine it is just 25 blocks stacked on top of each other to make a tower, but it is priced at $50 or something equally as ridiculous. It was not as if fashioning Sears Tower from LEGO blocks required any genius.
...and if you want to buy a fire station or something big the LEGO costs like $200. I would be only able to get one of those crappy little ones with a person standing beside a vehicle with a shovel in their hand and a dorky smile on their face (or otherwise)... another post coming up... stay tuned...
I am not considering buying more Lego. Ever. Somehow, we've managed to be the recipient of multiple Lego hand-me-downs. Enough to last my children and my children's children.
ReplyDeletedon't ever buy the 'kits', smokey! let others gift those to you at b'days and xmas. just buy the traditional blocks and bulldoze them into a bucket, betty style.
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