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(DIR) Post #AqwQJrlkkJBCg1iUls by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T11:59:00.543806Z
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Ridiculous, and then they complain they have no money.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g34x51en8oAmanda Hope dreads to think how much she has spent on her collection of Jellycat soft toys but reckons it's more than £3,000."They are just so cute and cuddly," the 36-year-old software specialist from Surrey says. "There is something so irresistible about their happy little faces!"Amanda is one of a rising number of adults buying toys for themselves.And it's not just Jellycats, it's also the likes of Lego plastic bricks and Sonny Angels dolls filling up TikTok feeds as people post videos of their latest purchases. These toys don't necessarily come cheap though. Jellycats range in price from £11 to over £700, while Lego gift sets for adults can cost as much as £730.
(DIR) Post #AqwRbJeIRW9s1O7636 by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T12:14:33.944188Z
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@HebrideanHecate As well as just selling the toys, Jellycats has started putting on pop-up "experiences". Currently at London's Selfridges you can buy exclusive fish and chips soft toys, sold to you by an assistant pretending to fry and put salt and vinegar on your selected teddies.
(DIR) Post #AqwRkCU4S2NCPEZD6m by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T12:16:09.787918Z
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@HebrideanHecate This is something Jessica experienced when she wanted to buy the peach Jellycat that went viral last year but couldn't find it in stock anywhere.She ended up paying double the price for it on Vinted, and thinks you shouldn't be allowed to resell toys online for sky-high prices.Does she realise that she could have just not bought the thing? Jesus. “Nanny! Nanny! The other child made me pay twice as much for my toy! Make her give it back!”
(DIR) Post #AqwTx9hSJVHdRb8IJk by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T12:34:24.809392Z
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@Flick I know, don't tell me this is normal behaviour or desirable either, not with grown ass adults.
(DIR) Post #AqwTxpw7HNxyREJb04 by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T12:33:52.022223Z
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@Flick It's entirely weird and not healthy at this level of nonsense.
(DIR) Post #AqwUsO2jesSsR2NO4W by KeepTakingTheSoma@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T12:50:06.400815Z
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@HebrideanHecate @Flick I'm all for people following their hobbies and pursuits. What's interesting is the number of adults who seem to be stuck in a form of childhood. I think we saw this with Disney when it started to abandon its core group of families with young children and started to appeal more to young adults who grew up with Disney and never left childhood. In teaching I met no end of young teachers who knew no songs unless they came from Disney films, who knew no folk tales except the Disney version. I think it's a manifestation of a fear of the adult world. It's why we have this culture of safetyism and emotional harm; we're having to pander to people who can't/won't take responsibility for decisions (like adults have to do) because they fear getting it wrong.
(DIR) Post #AqwUwauFm7lHUJPnaS by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T12:52:01.595476Z
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@KeepTakingTheSoma @HebrideanHecate Hobbies are great, but can buying stuffed toys really be described as a hobby?
(DIR) Post #AqwVoZWv6mpGrBEvOi by KeepTakingTheSoma@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T12:56:28.804289Z
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@Flick @HebrideanHecate Some people collect stuff as a hobby. I'd rather make things or do things as a hobby, but each to their own. What we all have to be aware of is when a hobby becomes an obsession.
(DIR) Post #AqwVsMCqaVP0gyeiEi by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T12:55:39.255602Z
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@KeepTakingTheSoma @Flick Yes, this, infantilising and wilfully so, see also the trans bull etc, this permanent childhood/adolescence and retarded development in general. No harm in liking something from childhood, a fondness for really nicely illustrated kids books or childhood favourite films or whatever, but there is a definite refusal to grow up around for so long now. Seeing it in the refusal to work or accept what work means and what it means to adult.
(DIR) Post #AqwWt7INbwnAguAZZA by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:06:00.820825Z
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@KeepTakingTheSoma @Flick I saw something a while back re this woman complaining that her daughter was always moaning about money and how could she ever buy a house or pay a rent but she was spending thousands of pounds on expensive clothing that she was getting hand made by someone on etsy, and some of it was costume derived, not just everyday clothing. She had tried remonstrating with her, this was a young woman of 25, but she would not listen, it was strops of are you trying to spoil my fun.Fuck sake, at 25 I had a child and was working and have never been in a position to splurge like that on just nonsense that I didn't need.
(DIR) Post #AqwWw0FOGxl9hT9DG4 by sim@shitposter.world
2025-02-09T13:14:18.559711Z
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@HebrideanHecate @Flick @KeepTakingTheSoma You aren't allowed to save your money up to buy a house now. The state requires that you go out and buy things to prop up the economy and we wonder why this happens. Not to mention that advertising has gotten a lot better now, it targets our addictions and feel-good hormones. A lot of people have grown up being exposed to this. On the one hand, I want to hold people responsible but on the other hand the incentives have changed now. The advertising is a lot better and our brains are more wired to that. We're a lot more disconnected from the community which would have given us purpose, support and that sense of moving into adulthood. We're more disillusioned. Technology has changed life so much, the job market has gotten harder to get into that it's just not the same world as each generation comes along.
(DIR) Post #AqwaRbibJ0F0kpZXJA by thatbrickster@shitposter.world
2025-02-09T13:53:39.347098Z
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@HebrideanHecate Adulting (actual term) is hard and having a family isn't in their interest, so they prefer to remain self-centred consumerists in their spending patterns. It's a symptom of a world that has left them behind and they can do nothing about it, or choose to. To be fair, I spent most of my twenties looking for hobbies. Despite still having most of what I tried, only a few remain. The only toys I own are earphones, radios and various computer bits that I can't balance any more and am cutting down on to make room for the next chapter in life.Some of what's mentioned in that article will apply to thirty-somethings who have no ambitions outside of doing the minimum expected from them to get by. I find them to be some of the least interesting people around, incapable of having conversations beyond surface-level about things that aren't their interests. They'll happily talk at length about things that don't matter, like sports or films, and have little impact on their own lives and none on my own.TL;DR - They should have children and have something that will love them back for years to come.
(DIR) Post #Aqwb3LL6eNpoxaZoYq by KeepTakingTheSoma@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:19:36.964540Z
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@HebrideanHecate @Flick Indeed. One thing I noticed more and more when I went into teaching was how resilience started to go out of the window. Children would cry at the thought of having to learn something new because they only wanted to do things they could already do and feel good about themselves. Parents would demand perfect scores in every test rather than see improvement over time. Adults in the school would value the constant success of *prizes for all* rather than reward effort to overcome obstacles. Learning is hard, but it's essential to becoming an adult. It means failing and getting up again. It means small steps rather than instant wins. Small wonder we have an infantilised population who cling to the comfort of childhood idylls. We see it in the *most marginalised* arguments, in the *government must keep us safe* covidians, in the hate speech laws. We have people crying out to be controlled and nannied. These people have always been there, but we're making more of them and calling it a virtue. And for every person demanding to be treated as fragile and needing help to exist, there will be a bad actor who would love subjects to control.
(DIR) Post #Aqwb4XwDILUEK6VUfo by Ladyfat@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:15:41.855696Z
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@Flick @HebrideanHecate Yeah I’d so do that! I’d post photos here too so everyone wins 😂
(DIR) Post #Aqwb7dRLIKsMFxXYDA by Ladyfat@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:15:11.480253Z
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@HebrideanHecate I recently found out my Jellycat cat bag I bought for about £20 during uni is selling on eBay for like £400 😹
(DIR) Post #Aqwb93SS2w3DEsjg9o by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:35:52.648380Z
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@Ladyfat Good God.
(DIR) Post #Aqwb94kZF48VFMDf28 by Ladyfat@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:36:46.047359Z
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@HebrideanHecate Gonna post a pic of him when I get home!
(DIR) Post #Aqwb95ZcBGy9ng6QbI by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:37:36.783070Z
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@Ladyfat Better watch it doesn't get stolen!
(DIR) Post #Aqwb967IA3uLU7rK5o by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:42:44.081067Z
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@Ladyfat @DollyCat will kidnap it and hold it to ransom for more potatoes.
(DIR) Post #Aqwb96bQM20izZxO3k by Ladyfat@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:44:15.132779Z
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@HebrideanHecate @DollyCat Like this one!https://www.smokonow.com/products/tayto-potato-mini-backpack?_pos=23&_sid=24890af30&_ss=r
(DIR) Post #Aqwb978ONSNkdpNiRk by DollyCat@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:50:50.774114Z
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@Ladyfat @HebrideanHecate Sometimes I really do sit back and wonder just how you're not a TRA activist.
(DIR) Post #Aqwb97spanWqxr6npY by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:44:17.737722Z
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@Ladyfat My jaw was on the floor over the cost of the bloody things, when saw that wee one I have on ebay, I was like you have to be shitting me! To me it is just a reminder of Maria and our mutual affection. Cancer is a total fucker of a thing.
(DIR) Post #AqwcAyIuHOA3mtkVyy by Ladyfat@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T14:12:18.304001Z
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@DollyCat @HebrideanHecate you lot just got REALLY FUCKING LUCKY getting me all to yourselves ❤️
(DIR) Post #AqwcBXZ5BEtf9CaQYS by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:44:30.729837Z
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@Ladyfat @DollyCat 😆
(DIR) Post #AqwcBYen7V3cXCGV5k by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T13:45:14.287993Z
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@Ladyfat @DollyCat But do you have a mayo one?
(DIR) Post #AqwcBZ4fZHl1pSNAQa by Ladyfat@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T14:10:36.473565Z
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@HebrideanHecate @DollyCat No, but only cause I dont do beige:
(DIR) Post #AqwdJg6lOtLNulmihs by GrumpyOldNurse@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T14:24:59.039807Z
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@HebrideanHecate So...Just to recap the prevailing trends, we have adults buying themselves toys, toys actively being marketed to adults, we have people screaming about the vital, life saving need to give children puberty blockers, and thus arrest their physical and, apparently, psychological development, other people saying that pedophiles are actually Minor Attracted People and we should feel bad for them, we have people painting those concerned about safeguarding as hysterical right wing reactionaries, and ALL of this is going on with the background noise of a failing education system that continues to look more and more like an indoctrination system, together with the continuing eroding of traditional community and social systems which are replaced with conformity enforcing faux tribes that rely on social coercion, exclusion, and threats of violence.Well played, Satan. Well played.
(DIR) Post #Aqwdn5RiH2IQtebgxM by amerika@annihilation.social
2025-02-09T14:31:08.536895Z
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@Flick @HebrideanHecate Shades of "Cabbage Patch Kids"
(DIR) Post #Aqwf4bTGYgrH67FXpg by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T14:28:10.733883Z
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@GrumpyOldNurse That's about the size of it.
(DIR) Post #Aqwf4cboKPHscuFsn2 by GrumpyOldNurse@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T14:30:07.392197Z
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@HebrideanHecate Signs and wonders, Hebs. Signs and wonders.What was that line from 1984, about the future being a boot stomping on a human face over and over again?
(DIR) Post #Aqwf4dP5NChd5jJEau by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T14:35:04.350754Z
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@GrumpyOldNurse That's the one. 😒
(DIR) Post #Aqwf4e5cp2jLDfDCts by GrumpyOldNurse@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T14:39:19.402639Z
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@HebrideanHecate World's going to Hell and I don't know what to do about it.I could try to fight it, but that takes organisation and allies, and good ones are in short supply, and quislings are everywhere.I could run away to a cabin in the woods, but then I'll feel guilty about not fighting.I could do like George Carlin suggested and find humour in the collapse of civilization, but...Oh. Third one then.
(DIR) Post #Aqwf4eaSyNOslJdpyK by Kuenga@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T14:43:14.592718Z
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@GrumpyOldNurse @HebrideanHecate Allies can be found on the strangest of occasions. Watch out.
(DIR) Post #Aqwf4fHMOtiAuLi5pY by GrumpyOldNurse@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T14:43:58.269052Z
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@Kuenga @HebrideanHecate So can quislings...
(DIR) Post #Aqwmgtyau6lnAr721Y by KeepTakingTheSoma@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T16:05:42.201190Z
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@sim @HebrideanHecate @Flick That's a good point. We can't underestimate the power of propaganda and advertising. We also can't underestimate the number of people that are in thrall to it. I like to think I can't be swayed by adverts or propaganda, but perhaps I might not recognise it if it works on me. Eternal vigilance. I do object to paying for government propaganda. The lockdown years were appalling.
(DIR) Post #AqwpvFfzJwp0OLwZd2 by starsstorm@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T16:30:03.063441Z
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@GrumpyOldNurse @HebrideanHecate All of this is exhausting.
(DIR) Post #Aqx89UQJ5QcJMGY1XE by EatKnitSleepAgain@spinster.xyz
2025-02-09T19:43:21.065277Z
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@HebrideanHecate Bit disingenuous of the beeb to imply that being a kidult is a new and feminine phenomenon. Men who hoard comic books in little plastic bags (that they never open because that would affect their value) are just as ridiculous, and they've been around for years.These ladies with their jellycats are #WomenInMaleDominatedFields !