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Walmart pulls children's toy that swears and sings in Polish about
doing cocaine
Author : miki123211
Score : 209 points
Date : 2021-11-25 11:56 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| aitchnyu wrote:
| I'm Indian and my 4 year old niece is very fond of Barbie Girl,
| which is a popular kids song for generations. Very few notice its
| about a woman's submission fantasy.
| __alias wrote:
| I'm not sure how the Indian part is relevant, but I do think
| the Barbie girl song is a little different. I was very young
| when this song came out and so it was popular when I was a kid.
| Barbie girl is just an innocent innuendo in a way, because any
| one young just interprets it completely differently to an
| adult.
| ffhhj wrote:
| Wonder if they will also pull all the cheap laser/UV safety
| goggles that actually offer no protection at all.
| Someone1234 wrote:
| Still available from Amazon.
|
| While there is a reference to the Polish language problem, most
| of the negative reviews are about the low quality, lack of volume
| control, and general failures.
| huitzitziltzin wrote:
| Do you have a link to the one that definitely sings the song in
| Polish? There are hundreds of dancing cactuses.
|
| I know a Polish language learner who would really "benefit"
| from this item but I'd like the right one.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Link? Would love to pick a handful up as gag gifts.
| tyingq wrote:
| The one listed as a "best seller":
| https://www.amazon.com/MIAODAM-Dancing-Electric-Speaking-
| Cre...
|
| Though searching for "dancing cactus toy" shows lots of other
| sellers.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Thank you!
| SyzygistSix wrote:
| From the ad: "Even if there is something in your heart you
| dare not say, I'll help you say it."
|
| I'm dying here. And to think I was worried that things like
| Google Translate would kill all the good Engrish.
| tyingq wrote:
| From my (pretty good quality, fwiw) LeeHoo Coffee Maker
| box:
|
| _" On a comfortable weekend afternoon, sinking into the
| red-and white check chair to watch others pass by, you
| can relish on the leisure time, relaxing with freshly
| brewed coffee by using the commercial coffee maker and
| the gentle humming of a girl singer."_
| [deleted]
| SyzygistSix wrote:
| _Ebay sells out of popular toy that swears and sings in Polish
| about doing cocaine_
|
| "This year's hit toy was late in coming, and the few remaining
| are going fast, some for incredible prices."
|
| I've never heard of Cypis, and now I absolutely want this toy.
| Learning to swear in Polish is a form of education. The happy
| accidents coming from Asian production can be really awesome.
| There are lots of negatives from this kind of production; we
| should be happy for the few positive ones. This is almost as
| great as getting a Barbie Liberation Army GI Joe or Barbie.
| randycupertino wrote:
| > Learning to swear in Polish is a form of education.
|
| Highly recommend Furious Pete's educational video about Kurwa!
| (nsfw): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdWlspF3B2M
|
| His entire Polish language lessons series is pretty fun and
| tongue-in-cheek yet educational.
| https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=furious+pete+po...
| thih9 wrote:
| Seems similar to "fuck", "fuck off", "fuck up", etc; but
| admittedly taken to a next level. This seems a general
| property of the Polish language, I recall an image with
| showing similar behaviour with another Polish swearword:
| https://i.redd.it/zw28vjrtkbc41.png
| wpietri wrote:
| If you search for these things on Amazon, you will find about a
| zillion sellers. Seems like somebody could use this to map out a
| whole set of dubious marketing companies.
|
| But my favorite bit is the product Q&A here:
| https://www.amazon.com/GOBOOMAN-Dancing-Childhood-Education-...
|
| It's full of would be scam accomplices who bought the product on
| the promise of getting the money refunded if they gave a 5-star
| review. E.g.:
|
| Q: Is this product easy to use?
|
| A: No, the seller is a liar and deceived me. Let me buy it and
| give it a five-star review and give me a refund. Then the fact is
| that I did not receive a refund from the seller.
|
| Delicious. More scamming of scammers, please!
| rvnx wrote:
| I don't know, I kinda like the product to be fair:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGW2eVmzaEc
|
| It has pretty good entertainment value.
| wpietri wrote:
| Oh, I'm definitely tempted to order one. I love dodgy
| electronic knick-knacks. But that's not going to keep me from
| some schadenfreuede around people getting upset that the
| fraudster they signed up to help also scammed them.
| AlbertoGP wrote:
| This was noticed by a Polish mother in Taiwan and reported last
| July: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhiZmWTwMZU&t=202s
|
| Here is the cactus playing the song in question:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54MxIrPvFME
| baybal2 wrote:
| This is hilarious
|
| Though, i think it all boils down to fee Chinese being
| proficient in Polish, or any foreign languages to begin with
| https://external-preview.redd.it/Axh-na6HlrKEKyLjRONPMrQZQNn...
| tyingq wrote:
| _" These items are sold by a third-party seller on our
| marketplace website"_
|
| That's really the essence of the story here. Walmart, Amazon, and
| others sell almost anything via their 3rd party seller
| functionality. With little oversight on product safety,
| counterfeits, issues like this one, etc. And not really enough
| visual cues and explanation to the buyer about what a 3rd party
| marketplace is. People seem to understand, for example, that
| their eBay purchase is something of a crapshoot. They don't
| always get that idea on Amazon and WalMart.
| ornornor wrote:
| I keep hearing people saying "yes there are third party sellers
| but if you buy 'shipped and sold by amazon' then you're good"
|
| These people don't realize that commingling is a thing and that
| shipped and sold by amazon just means that the same random
| third party seller simply paid amazon a bit more and sent their
| items to an amazon warehouse to use their logistics. It doesn't
| guarantee anything. And except amazon basics items, amazon
| doesn't sell or source any of the items directly. Nor do they
| feel like they're responsible for them in any way.
| Spooky23 wrote:
| I'm actually surprised that nobody has been caught using Amazon
| or Walmart to sell drugs. Package up some sort of expensive
| "soap flakes" or overpriced oregano.
| chefkoch wrote:
| Amazon takes a too big cut.
| yareally wrote:
| Actually, someone was caught a few days ago:
|
| https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59342011
| mysterydip wrote:
| "mark this item as a gift" plus "include a note for the
| recipient?" with the right passphrase would allow a shady
| seller to filter requests for their illicit goods vs packing
| up an actual bottle of oregano.
| rex_lupi wrote:
| thanks for the idea.
| dylan604 wrote:
| It would be really impressive if they were able to manage
| this while Fulfilled by Amazon.
| ravenstine wrote:
| With same-day delivery to boot!
| koolba wrote:
| I've never heard of any drug delivery, whether old school
| bike network in the 90s to now, that was not same
| delivery. That and free shipping are table stakes for
| selling drugs.
| dylan604 wrote:
| oh come on, you've never had your "guy" be unavailable
| where you have to call up that other person you only call
| up in a pinch? they know that too, so they aren't exactly
| excited to snap to either. it's really annoying, at least
| that's what a friend has told me.
| notahacker wrote:
| Could be interesting if Amazon mix up inventory...
| Closi wrote:
| Not the same SKU in the same pickface from different
| POs/ASNs.
| dylan604 wrote:
| wait, are you actually arguing in defense of amazon that
| this wouldn't happen? you're suggesting content would not
| be co-mingled?
| koolba wrote:
| "Man this organic flour is _the_ best! I 've never been
| so excited about baking!"
| jasonhansel wrote:
| You mean like the people using both Amazon and Walmart to
| sell a form of GHB? https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-
| out/dangerous-party-drug...
| User23 wrote:
| Check out the "frequently bought together" for iron oxide[1].
| It's entirely legal, but I wonder if it comes with a free ATF
| visit.
|
| [1] https://smile.amazon.com/Red-Iron-Oxide-Natural-
| Pounds/dp/B0...
| jerkstate wrote:
| It doesn't. There are plenty of legit uses for thermite,
| and manufacturing explosives for personal use is perfectly
| legal. It's a lot of fun to make too (as long as you are
| careful!)
| blueflow wrote:
| Legitimate use: welding
| gunapologist99 wrote:
| and anti-bacterial paint.
| hutzlibu wrote:
| "and manufacturing explosives for personal use is
| perfectly legal. "
|
| But you probably should check your local legislation, as
| there are a lot of (most?) places where messing with
| explosives is indeed very illegal.
| pixl97 wrote:
| Is thermite an explosive? It's more of an incendiary.
| jerkstate wrote:
| that's a good warning, thanks for including that - I was
| thinking narrowly about what laws the ATF enforces.
| jws wrote:
| Back when Amazon sold West Systems powdered aluminum (for
| making epoxy wear resistant) the "bought with" was always
| powdered iron oxide. I wonder if that's why they don't
| carry it any more?
| walrus01 wrote:
| One very common use for thermite is bonding grounding
| connectors together underground for telecom tower
| construction, before a foundation excavation is filled in.
| Most any serious tower erection crew will have a set of
| molds and thermite kit.
| jrootabega wrote:
| Not enough cues? Hell, more like actively pushing and
| misleading you to buy from third-party sellers even when you
| explicitly filter by first-party only. Why would they leave
| potential sales on the table?
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| Amazon was bad when they removed the option to filter shipped
| and sold by Amazon many years ago. I thought Walmart was
| better, and it is because they let you filter for retailer as
| Walmart only, but recently they made it so it resets the
| filter every time you search.
|
| I cannot blame them, since retail profit margins are so low.
| But as a buyer, I try to direct my purchases to the retailers
| that make it easy for me to not deal with resellers. So I try
| to use Home Depot/Lowes/staples/Best Buy more often. Target
| is decent, but they also have more and more third party
| sellers now and do the same thing as Walmart.
| headmelted wrote:
| I wonder about exactly this though. What if some
| counterfeit device/toy is so toxic/dangerous as to kill
| someone?
|
| Who's liable? I'm sure the store's lawyers have pretty
| strong opinions but how would a jury view that if the brand
| of the store is plastered all over the checkout page?
|
| (Has this ever happened/been tested in court?)
| pvaldes wrote:
| If China Export logo cloning the European Community logo
| go with it unscathed, the perspectives of doing somebody
| about that aren't bright. People buy at their own risk in
| such big companies.
| klondike_ wrote:
| There is no such thing as a "China Export" logo. The
| familiar CE logo is a voluntary mark and manufacturers
| determine whether the item qualifies to use it or not.
| There has never been an organization enforcing the use of
| this mark.
| nrp wrote:
| That is incorrect for most product categories:
| https://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/ce-
| marking/manufac...
|
| As of this year, there are even stricter requirements to
| have an in-region Authorized Representative to back up
| any claims of compliance:
| https://blog.clevercompliance.io/ce-
| marking/responsibilities...
| pvaldes wrote:
| https://siloscordoba.com/blog/corporate/china-export-is-
| not-...
| swader999 wrote:
| Yeah it's great to keep it local. /s
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| How this is related to my comment? The purpose of buying
| something sold by the big box stores is to have a higher
| probability of them having vetted it or their source and
| it not being counterfeit, since they have to deal with
| the costs of the returns.
| jrootabega wrote:
| It is sad sometimes that we have to choose between alien
| and predator
| tester34 wrote:
| Haha
|
| There are kinda popular video(s) called "Polish Cow" which's
| basically animated cow dancing with this "hard song" in the
| background that people are not familiar with.
|
| I bet it has something to do with this.
|
| Probably those chinese manufacturers weren't aware or didn't care
| what does this song actually mean, but they just wanted to use
| something popular (maybe at that time)
|
| https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=polish+cow
|
| even top comment on youtube says
|
| >guy: puts his heart into a song about addiction and depression
|
| >the internet: hehe funny cow go brrr
|
| edit:
|
| https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tylko-jedno-w-glowie-mam-poli...
| userbinator wrote:
| _Probably those chinese manufacturers weren 't aware or didn't
| care what does this song actually mean, but they just wanted to
| use something popular (maybe at that time)_
|
| Definitely. It's a catchy song for sure. That's how Gangnam
| Style ended up in quite a few toys too (e.g.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYSD9XWzfH4 ). Before that, it
| seems various EDM was popular.
| archibaldJ wrote:
| a search for cactus toy on taobao returns many sellers of the
| same product (for as cheap as 5USD). Looks like it's quite
| popular in China.
|
| One seller from beijing even uses the same Polish song in its
| ads:
|
| https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=637694403248&ali_refid=...
|
| And in the cactus playlist there goes a song titled "Dancing
| Polish Cow" =)
|
| https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i1/2207287191893/O1CN01ve29V...
| yorwba wrote:
| The first entry of the song list is Sheng Ri Kuai Le E Gao
| Ban (happy birthday prank version) and the fifth is Ni Ma
| Qing Ge (Nima love song, where Nima is a homophone of Ni Ma
| , your mother). I suspect whoever selected the songs for that
| cactus was well aware of what they were doing when including
| the Polish song, and they were having great fun.
| robjan wrote:
| If anyone really wants it, it's available on AliExpress for
| around 5-7 USD including shipping to pretty much anywhere in
| the world
|
| https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005002998790310.html
| hdjjhhvvhga wrote:
| Oh I remember it was popular during the lockdown, people were
| doing "remixes" with different celebrities, politicians etc.:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqYv9A170XE
|
| They used this platform:
|
| https://memy.ai/
|
| Edit: This one is my favorite:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYLSGbzF6CY
|
| - they got all popular (=hated) Polish politicians and even the
| late Polish pope.
| dylan604 wrote:
| Wow, the deep fake is so weird. It's like being on acid* with
| the weird distortion on the faces. Very trippy.
|
| *According to a "friend"
| st4lz wrote:
| DISCLAIMER: I'm living in Poland.
|
| That song went viral during lockdowns, as it was a part of the
| deepfake video with the Minister of Health of that time, who
| had eyes with dark rings around them at the tv conferences
| (probably makeup), indicating he is working day and night to
| fight the pandemic. The healthcare quality decreased and the
| successes were only visible in state-controlled media, while
| multiple accusations of corruption in buying the medical
| equipment. Before he resigned, he complained that he can't stop
| himself reading multiple jokes and memes about him appearing
| online every day.
|
| The lyrics translation: "It's the only thing in my mind, 5g of
| cocaine..."
|
| Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COzSF-7_6Dc
| randycupertino wrote:
| It is a pretty good song, and I like the juxtaposition of the
| lyrics being about fighting depression vs the upbeat catchy
| tune.
|
| Does Poland still have state-controlled media? I'm Polish
| (living in the US, though have visited 2x) but wasn't aware
| that still existed there.
| shameless_plug wrote:
| Pretty much every mainstream media in Poland are "North
| Korea style propaganda" (as another commenter named it),
| just depending on which political camp people are they will
| call the other part of mainstream propaganda. People who
| voted for this government would call TVN propaganda, people
| who hate this government call TVP propaganda. This extends
| to radio and press. And people who don't vote because there
| is no political option with sensible program in many cases
| don't watch TV or listen to the radio..
| hawski wrote:
| I don't believe, that TVN is an objective TV station, but
| they are on a different level, than TVP. Even if we would
| say for the sake of argument, that they are about similar
| level of propaganda the state run television is financed
| by taxes [1] and TVN is a private station, that lately
| had to put up with more obstacles. Also it is a well
| known fact how time allocation by party in the state TV
| got severely skewed under the current rule towards the
| ruling party.
|
| [1] and they increase the amount of money put there -
| https://www.nik.gov.pl/aktualnosci/gospodarka-majatkowa-
| i-fi...
| pixl97 wrote:
| I dont know anything about the stations, but it's always
| possible that both stations are propaganda.
| [deleted]
| garaetjjte wrote:
| There's no comparison between PiS and any other
| government that was before. They are on wholly different
| level. Trying to muddle things by saying the other side
| it also bad is just disingenuous.
|
| >And people who don't vote because there is no political
| option with sensible program
|
| You say that as if not voting was some virtue, it's not,
| and one of the reasons for the situation we are currently
| in.
| shameless_plug wrote:
| Both camps say exactly what you said, blaming politicians
| glorified by other camp. Not voting is not a virtue,
| especially when nobody comes up with sensible program.
| Easiest way to disconnect mentally from this hate race is
| not to watch TV :)
| garaetjjte wrote:
| Yeah, better to bury your head in the sand and wait until
| we're in autocratic country de facto outside the EU.
|
| This is not a contest for perfect politician where
| opposing sides have different loud opinions but
| ultimately all would do acceptable job governing the
| country. PiS is not playing by the democratic rules, they
| are consistently taking over all the institutions and
| filling them with own pawns, and it's of critical
| importance to stop them.
| shameless_plug wrote:
| I don't vote for "less evil" and I do remember what most
| of these politicians were saying and voting 20-25 years
| ago. Based on that experience I came to conclusion that
| life is too short to worry about any political party or
| agendas they proclaim. In the same time I respect your
| opinion. Peace.
| coolso wrote:
| > You say that as if not voting was some virtue, it's not
|
| It absolutely can be.
|
| Every politician desperately wants you to vote. It's,
| obviously, what gives them power and either an implicit
| or explicit endorsement of their policies and behaviors.
|
| If you hate politicians, don't do what they desperately
| want you to do.
| ajuc wrote:
| > Every politician desperately wants you to vote.
|
| Not true. Depending on the voters demographics
| politicians want you to vote or to stay at home. You can
| see this clearly in USA where one side wants immigrants
| to have voting rights and easy way to vote and the other
| side wants to make it as hard as possible for them to
| vote, preferably to ban it altogether.
|
| In Poland it's the same, but the divisions are different
| - mostly city vs countryside and old vs young. So for
| example PIS moved the presidential elections to holidays
| (when most young people from cities are away from home
| and have to deal with more bureaoucracy to vote) and
| sponsored special prizes for villages with the highest
| voting percentage.
|
| Other examples is voting abroad - when PIS had majority
| there - it made it easier to vote from abroad; now that
| most people abroad vote opposition - PIS made it very
| hard to vote from abroad and hundreds of thousands of
| votes from abroad weren't counted for formal reasons.
|
| Another thing is - in a very polarized society it's
| almost impossible to make person switch voting from one
| side to the other. But it's possible to persuade your
| opponent voters to stay at home. Hence targeted PR
| campaigns in social media.
|
| Politicians want to get and keep power, that's universal,
| but some politicians will break the rules to achieve that
| goal and others won't. It's counterproductive to treat
| them all the same just because you think being cynical is
| cool.
| [deleted]
| atraac wrote:
| TVP is practically owned by a leading party, it's a
| propaganda tube by now. And it's not even subtle, it's
| North Korea level now.
| KptMarchewa wrote:
| Yes, and they spew north korea-level propaganda.
| ajuc wrote:
| The problem isn't that they are state controlled. They were
| pretty good for a while (between 1989 and 2015). Maybe
| biased, but the rules about equal time for each party etc.
| were respected and journalists from both sides of the
| political spectrum had their programs there no matter who
| was in power at the time (for example very anti-PO
| Ziemkiewicz and Wildstein during PO terms).
|
| The problem is that the current government took over
| prosecutors, judges, media oversight institutions,
| constitutional court, basically all institutions that were
| supposed to protect media neutrality and rule of law - and
| openly ignores the rules. Since 2015 it goes worse and
| worse and by now it's basically North Korea level.
|
| I'm not joking, this was in the state media before
| presidential elections:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9O3tc21cU0
|
| Whenever they show Donald Tusk (one of leaders of
| opposition) in TVP they put his voice through distortion so
| he sounds like Darth Vader. And they cut to him saying
| stuff in German every few minutes as it has bad
| associations in Polish :)
| shameless_plug wrote:
| It would be good to hear somebody from the other side of
| the spectrum so the reader who does not live in Poland
| can develop unbiased opinion.
|
| From my observations supporters of current government was
| saying exactly the same thing before this government was
| elected.
| ajuc wrote:
| You'll have a hard time finding their supporters on
| English-speaking internet, especially now when they lost
| young people after the abortion scandal.
|
| At any rate I was stating falsifiable facts. For example
| the law says that all political parties should have time
| on state TV according to their percentage of votes from
| previous elections. Here is the charts of TV time when
| previous government (PO) were controlling media and when
| current government (PIS) does:
|
| https://www.wykop.pl/cdn/c3201142/comment_KV0oMf1z6dv7Ayw
| TSa...
|
| PIS had about 37% support in 2018, PO had about 30%
| support in 2014. This is not cherry-picked btw, the
| percentage gets worse with time, here's data from 2019: h
| ttps://twitter.com/szczesniak__a/status/12280767669982781
| 44...
|
| Regarding breaking the rule of law - EU courts ruled that
| the changes PIS made were breaking the rule of law. Even
| PIS lawyers agree with that (for example Krystyna
| Pawlowicz admited the changes were "obviously
| unconstitutional, but we agreed with President Duda that
| we will vote for them"). She got nominated by President
| Duda for the next judge at constutitional tribunal after
| that. You can find video of the quote, it's not
| manipulated.
|
| They basically changed the law shortening the retirement
| age for judges so that judges older than X were
| immediately fired so they can replace all of them at once
| - making the highest Polish court fully staffed with
| their people. Constitution says the judges cannot be
| replaced before term and PIS doesn't have 66% required to
| change the constitution, but they just introduce the law
| anyway and as they have their people in courts - whatever
| they say goes. And their people got to the courts by
| breaking the constitution in the first place. So now we
| have 2 legal systems in Poland - the government one and
| the legal one. And we pay fines to EU because of that.
|
| It's a mess.
| c1yd3i wrote:
| LOL
| cosmodisk wrote:
| I used to work in translation industry, so I think I've got a
| pretty good idea why this could have happened. The toy
| manufacturer or local distributor hired some audio company to do
| polish recording. They then outsourced to someone and probably
| screwed up with payments,so ended up getting 'alternative'
| recordings. The company was cheap,so no QA was done either. Boom,
| the cactus is now on the shelves. Our company picked up some
| major airlines in Asia to translate their inflight film
| catalog,as the last provider did it in a way that 'Titanic'
| became 'Drowning dicks' and etc.. The languages involved were
| quite exotic but still spoken by millions.
| delroth wrote:
| Maybe you should have read the article, which mentions that the
| Chinese company producing the toy just shipped a song from a
| Polish rapper without permission and is probably going to get
| sued for copyright infringement.
| cosmodisk wrote:
| My reasoning remains the same: someone in the whole chain got
| screwed and did it on purpose.
| lmilcin wrote:
| I am Polish.
|
| I have seen the toy many months ago, if not the previous year. It
| has been internet sensation for a long time.
|
| I fail to understand how this is any news.
|
| My younger son (4 1/2) has learned this by accident (yeah, a
| moment of unrestricted youtube access) and now I am trying to get
| him to unlearn the song.
| akudha wrote:
| A Chinese company stole a Polish song, put it into kids toys and
| is selling them in the U.S, without the marketplace realizing it
| (though the last part is hard to believe)
|
| All serious issues aside, that is true globalization, lol.
| Copyright issues, quality control issues, ignorance (willful?)
| ...
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| renewiltord wrote:
| Walmart and friends only advantage is that I can go to the store
| and buy things. But they make searching for items I have to go to
| the store for really hard.
|
| Many times I just want to know if this is in stock 30 mins from
| me. Any longer and I will just have it shipped on Amazon.
|
| But instead Walmart is a shitty Amazon and I never use it.
| 1cvmask wrote:
| This is the weirdest Easter egg I have come across in a toy ever.
| Something tells me that this will become a collectors item like
| the upside down stamp Inverted Jenny.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_Jenny
|
| From the article:
|
| The cactus was sold on Walmart's website as an educational toy
| for about $26 and sings songs in English, Spanish and Polish.
|
| But Tanner, who is Polish, said when she listened to the Polish
| lyrics, the cactus was singing about doing cocaine, drug abuse,
| suicide, depression and used profanities.
|
| "It just so happens that I am Polish and when I started to listen
| to the songs and I heard the words," she said. "I was in shock. I
| thought what is this some kind of joke?"
|
| The song is by Polish Rapper Cypis, who is reportedly unaware his
| song was used by the Chinese manufacturer of the children's toy.
| tyingq wrote:
| The "Troll" dolls with the under-the-skirt giggle button was
| somewhat memorable.
|
| https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/business/hasbro-removes-troll...
| ffhhj wrote:
| Actually seems like a good idea executed wrong. The placing
| of the button will make the doll giggle when it sits,
| probably that was the intention.
| Freak_NL wrote:
| Kind of silly how that article doesn't show the actual
| button.
| tyingq wrote:
| Ahh. One that does:
| https://www.ksat.com/news/national/2020/08/07/trolls-doll-
| pu...
|
| And it's definitely curious placement for a button that
| makes the doll giggle and gasp.
| DocTomoe wrote:
| Remember the Harry Potter vibrating Nimbus 2000 flying broom
| toys which became a tiny bit too popular with the girls for all
| the wrong reasons [1], thus ironically mimicking the _original_
| reason witches were depicted riding brooms[2]?
|
| BOTH LINKS NSFW!
|
| [1] https://themorningnews.org/article/behind-the-scenes-the-
| har...
|
| [2]
| https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/why-d...
| saagarjha wrote:
| All the right reasons, you mean. Girls want to enjoy their
| lives, too.
| [deleted]
| Freak_NL wrote:
| Which parts are NSFW? (As long as you don't play the text of
| the first one through some text-to-speech algorithm.)
| weystrom wrote:
| I wonder if somewhere there's one bored Polish electrical
| engineer who's laughing his ass off right now.
| gambiting wrote:
| Incredible.
|
| In fact, thinking about it - we have a signing toy for our kid,
| it has several songs in English, Polish and Chinese. The songs in
| Chinese definitely sound nice, they have a good rhythm to them,
| but they could be about literally anything. The Polish songs are
| good though(I speak Polish).
| ramtatatam wrote:
| I googled for this toy and listened to the song (around 1 minute
| long), there is not a single swear word sung by this toy. The
| song itself is definitely not for children, but the title is a
| bit misleading in my opinion..
| swader999 wrote:
| They should have waited a month or two. I would have actually
| bought one. Probably a hot item on the eBay.
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| This may be regarded as a low value comment so I apologize in
| advance.
|
| While reviewing the story ( and listening to the song ) my first
| thought was of Krusty from the Simpsons and how little he cared
| about the stuff he records on dolls bearing his likeness. In an
| odd way, it sounds exactly what happened here.
|
| 'This is how pros do it' - prolly Krusty
|
| edit: I know that the actual rapper may actually go legally after
| the company using his song.
| dls2016 wrote:
| "My spidey sense is tingling."
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROFIc0-enLc
| Overtonwindow wrote:
| No! As an adult I really want that! seriously though, doesn't
| belong in the kids section, can they move it to novelties?
| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| It's all over Tiktok and IG, a Polish person I follow posted an
| IG story saying "For once I'm proud of my country".
|
| I'm guessing the news story will make this toy the must-buy
| item for Polish (and others) meme followers this Christmas.
| Overtonwindow wrote:
| I'm already looking for it. Just the hilarity of it and the
| storytelling that can be done with it.
| beardyw wrote:
| I always feel weird listening to songs in a language I don't
| understand. I feel I should find out what it means so I know
| whether to approve of it or not!
| Kye wrote:
| Even people who understand the words of a song frequently miss
| the meaning of the song, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.
| sanqui wrote:
| "Which machine did you think they have been raging against?
| The washing machine?"
| dusted wrote:
| I prefer listening to songs in a language I don't understand,
| it makes me able to appreciate the sound of the voice, the
| rhythm and musical quality, without being biased by the content
| of the lyrics, which are often unimpressive to say the least.
| janto wrote:
| "Anything too stupid to be said is sung." - Voltaire
| (supposedly)
| Izkata wrote:
| For anyone who hasn't seen it before, here's a song by an
| Italian composer made to sound like American English, but
| since it only uses nonsense even English speakers can get a
| bit of a feel for what we sound like to others:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
| scns wrote:
| Well, i'd suggest listen to songs written by musicians with
| great lyrical talent ;) Listening to Nas (i call him the
| black shakespeare) at the moment, start with the first album
| Illmatic [0]. The other luminary would be Chuck Shuldiner for
| me, IMO the most complete musician after Bach. Damn,
| 4_412_591 views! [1]. Whole album [2]. Or Anthony Rother, who
| needs only one sentence [3]
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL01DA7137241FC16D
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8256VJ4hkJU [2] https://w
| ww.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwbDtBfx5bnPEgadOHQYE...
|
| [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjB3o6M6Jw
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| Words mean whatever meaning the person listening to them
| ascribes. If you do not ascribe anything, then they mean
| nothing.
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