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JohnN 02-26-2021 06:04 PM

Adios, Mr. Potato Head
 
Alas, poor Mr. Potato Head! I knew him, Horatio (that's Shakespeare, mutilated)

and you too, Mrs. Potato Head.


Mr. Rogers is likely in the on-deck circle. Some things I don't quite understand anymore.

Mr. Potato Head brand goes gender-neutral, dropping "Mr." title

Edjkoz 02-26-2021 06:09 PM

Ridiculous, who does that benefit?

oldtimes 02-26-2021 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Edjkoz (Post 1908697)
Ridiculous, who does that benefit?

There is no such thing as majority rules or common good any more, it is simply who screams the loudest or has the most viral posts.

DeanFL 02-26-2021 06:54 PM

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Ridiculous, who does that benefit?

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yep, that certainly applies to almost all of this "cancel culture'", "identity politics", "politicizing everything", and so much more.

It's a troubling time in the good old US of A. IMO.

this is yet another example>
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billethkid 02-26-2021 06:58 PM

Totally absurd, ridiculous and uncalled for....accomplishing what?
Nothing.
Special interest groups at their finest.....

Stu from NYC 02-26-2021 07:31 PM

I am still in mourning for my favorite aunt, Aunt Jemima

Jayhawk 02-26-2021 08:12 PM

Woke.

dewilson58 02-26-2021 08:31 PM

Jeep Cherokee.

davem4616 02-26-2021 10:08 PM

take cover Mr. Goodbar, Mr. Peanut, Mr. Clean and Mr. Magoo...they're coming for ya

I wonder is Miss Manners is at risk

Chi-Town 02-26-2021 10:18 PM

A plastic potato?! The potatoes were real back in the day with plastic parts attached to a push pin. It was just plain fun for us kids. Now I've read that due to complaints about rotting vegetables and government safety regulations the plastic potato came into effect in 1964. Where was the outrage then? Time to refocus your angst on happier times when potatoes were cheap and we didn't confuse a potato's eye with one of our own

Fredman 02-26-2021 11:17 PM

Too much PC

George Page 02-27-2021 05:50 AM

It has been reported that.........
“GLAAD, an LGBTQ advocacy group, applauded the more inclusive Potato playset.”

What else matters? Surely not common sense.

Joanne19335 02-27-2021 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnN (Post 1908695)
Alas, poor Mr. Potato Head! I knew him, Horatio (that's Shakespeare, mutilated)

and you too, Mrs. Potato Head.


Mr. Rogers is likely in the on-deck circle. Some things I don't quite understand anymore.

Mr. Potato Head brand goes gender-neutral, dropping "Mr." title

Just keep my Law & Order, Blue Bloods and Chicago PD running to infinity and I’ll be just fine.

Cobullymom 02-27-2021 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnN (Post 1908695)
Alas, poor Mr. Potato Head! I knew him, Horatio (that's Shakespeare, mutilated)

and you too, Mrs. Potato Head.


Mr. Rogers is likely in the on-deck circle. Some things I don't quite understand anymore.

Mr. Potato Head brand goes gender-neutral, dropping "Mr." title

Our country is going to a giant wasteland commanded by those who have nothing better to think about. Logic no longer works...It should be laughable, but it’s not...really we need to be terrified...

GregP 02-27-2021 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Cobullymom (Post 1908805)
Our country is going to a giant wasteland commanded by those who have nothing better to think about. Logic no longer works...It should be laughable, but it’s not...really we need to be terrified...

For those of you that wondered what was next.

Virginia school system cancels Dr. Seuss, citing racial 'undertones' in writings: report
Loudoun County Public Schools claims Dr. Seuss' books contain racial 'undertones'

Petersweeney 02-27-2021 06:18 AM

The “fathers” of the country wrote the constitution so that the minority would be protected from the majority. They never thought it should have been the other way around!!!

Travelingal702 02-27-2021 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnN (Post 1908695)
Alas, poor Mr. Potato Head! I knew him, Horatio (that's Shakespeare, mutilated)

and you too, Mrs. Potato Head.


Mr. Rogers is likely in the on-deck circle. Some things I don't quite understand anymore.

Mr. Potato Head brand goes gender-neutral, dropping "Mr." title

From the sublime to the ridiculous! Where does it stop?

J1ceasar 02-27-2021 06:51 AM

You're so right with your reply. If you don't want to be a mister or Mrs potato Head just play with the damn thing. What's going to happen? girls are going to decide to be men and men are going to be side to be girls? so no one will know how to get pregnant anymore? If I can only be 200 years old just to be in the future when we all decide to wear potato bags like I Love Lucy and no one can tell anyone from male or female anymore. I don't like bringing up God but he made us two sexes for a good reason and no it's not for one of us to clean the house and the other to go out in the hunt for food

maggie1 02-27-2021 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Petersweeney (Post 1908815)
The “fathers” of the country wrote the constitution so that the minority would be protected from the majority. They never thought it should have been the other way around!!!

I know this is off-topic, but as long as the founding fathers are brought into this, do you think they would have gone along with "The Right to Bear Arms" amendment if they knew that one day we'd have weapons that were capable of firing hundreds of rounds of ammunition in seconds, and capable of mass killings of school children?

Now, back on the topic of Mr. Potatoe Head, at some point, we'll discover that we have become just too ridiculous on issues that address the feelings of a minority of people, but by then it will be too late to change back. The USA has just become too complicated, and I think back to a movie I saw titled " No Country for Old Men" and consider this an apt description for where we are headed.

MickeyStevens 02-27-2021 07:27 AM

Look out everyone "redskin" potatoes are next on the agenda.

Ele201 02-27-2021 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by oldtimes (Post 1908709)
There is no such thing as majority rules or common good any more, it is simply who screams the loudest or has the most viral posts.

Yes you are right. Certain groups want to change the American culture, our endeared products and brands that have been around a long time. They are doing no harm to anyone. Yet some want to “cancel” out anything they don’t like.

nick demis 02-27-2021 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by GregP (Post 1908812)
For those of you that wondered what was next.

Virginia school system cancels Dr. Seuss, citing racial 'undertones' in writings: report
Loudoun County Public Schools claims Dr. Seuss' books contain racial 'undertones'

Don't forget that episodes of the Muppets are now bad and poor Shakespeare wasn't woke enough and has to be erased.

Girlcopper 02-27-2021 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnN (Post 1908695)
Alas, poor Mr. Potato Head! I knew him, Horatio (that's Shakespeare, mutilated)

and you too, Mrs. Potato Head.


Mr. Rogers is likely in the on-deck circle. Some things I don't quite understand anymore.

Mr. Potato Head brand goes gender-neutral, dropping "Mr." title

Well, Im sure everyone has seen by now that Pepsi company is training their workers to act “less white”. Less white?.? Seriously?? The world is being taken over by morons who cowtow to the other pompous nitwits.

MandoMan 02-27-2021 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnN (Post 1908695)
Alas, poor Mr. Potato Head! I knew him, Horatio (that's Shakespeare, mutilated)

and you too, Mrs. Potato Head.


Mr. Rogers is likely in the on-deck circle. Some things I don't quite understand anymore.

Mr. Potato Head brand goes gender-neutral, dropping "Mr." title

To add to the insults, the Paramount Chief of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma wants Jeep to stop making vehicles called “Grand Cherokee.” I don’t know if he is serious or if this is a money grab, like charging money to people who want to put your name on a hotel or golf course. If it’s the latter, there is certainly precedent for a pay-out. The Department of the Interior has also decreed that Native Americans can now be officially called Tribals. And ICE has been told that “illegal aliens” is no longer acceptable language. They are now to be called “Noncitizens.” I don’t know how we are supposed to distinguish between Legal Noncitizens and Illegal Noncitizens if we call them both Noncitizens. Perhaps it just comes down to whether or not you have a green card. Meanwhile, the genuine Aliens among us now want to be called Extraterrestrials. They are hoping we have an Extra Terra. I live in Tierra del Sol, Land of the Sun, but I don’t think we have any extra houses for Extra Terrestrials, though I’d be happy to live next door to one. So long as it remembers to phone home if it’s going to be out late.

GeriS 02-27-2021 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by J1ceasar (Post 1908831)
You're so right with your reply. If you don't want to be a mister or Mrs potato Head just play with the damn thing. What's going to happen? girls are going to decide to be men and men are going to be side to be girls? so no one will know how to get pregnant anymore? If I can only be 200 years old just to be in the future when we all decide to wear potato bags like I Love Lucy and no one can tell anyone from male or female anymore. I don't like bringing up God but he made us two sexes for a good reason and no it's not for one of us to clean the house and the other to go out in the hunt for food

You've got it exactly right. They want a genderless population. It's so out of hand. The elites control everything. Everything we have been told/taught is a lie & it will all come out.

BlkBlt6 02-27-2021 07:56 AM

Mr Potato Head
 
How long before Manwich is deemed offensive and called gender neutral meat sauce?

SacDQ 02-27-2021 08:07 AM

I just have one question that perhaps one of you could answer for me.
Without a Mr & Mrs potato head where to baby potato heads come from.

Larchap49 02-27-2021 08:11 AM

Cancel culture
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnN (Post 1908695)
Alas, poor Mr. Potato Head! I knew him, Horatio (that's Shakespeare, mutilated)

and you too, Mrs. Potato Head.


Mr. Rogers is likely in the on-deck circle. Some things I don't quite understand anymore.

Mr. Potato Head brand goes gender-neutral, dropping "Mr." title

Next comes a former man in the Miss America pageant or Miss Universe pageant. Whats going on makes me glad to be near the end of my run and sorry for the youth. I fear the end of another great civilization is at hand. History shows they all self destruct and it appears this one will be no different.

Petersweeney 02-27-2021 08:17 AM

I like this site, comfort for old salts like me...

Jayhawk 02-27-2021 08:19 AM

Endangered species-

Mr. Pibb
Dr. Pepper
Separate bathrooms
Pink and Blue
Sports
Boys, girls, men, women
Miss America
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Chiquita Bananas
Big Chief Tablets
Mister Universe
Little Debbie
La-Z Boy
Manwich
Craftsman
Hungry Man Frozen Dinners

Bonnevie 02-27-2021 08:22 AM

obviously many only get their news from one source and fail to research better....

Hasbro clarified that while the brand is changing, the actual Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head characters will still live on and be sold in stores. In a picture posted on Twitter, the “Mr.” and “Mrs.” names are less prominently displayed at the bottom of the box, instead of the top

Stu from NYC 02-27-2021 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Joanne19335 (Post 1908804)
Just keep my Law & Order, Blue Bloods and Chicago PD running to infinity and I’ll be just fine.

Chicago PD not so much fun these days since they stopped putting bad guys in the cage and beat on them.

DeanFL 02-27-2021 08:34 AM

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The Good Old USA used to be vibrant, interesting, hard working and playing, colorful, and a great place to live and raise a family. It wasn't perfect by any means, but many times in the past we tried to work together to overcome problems or issues.

But now our country is rapidly becoming 360Million+ Shades of Grayness.
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BlkBlt6 02-27-2021 08:57 AM

Chicago PD
 
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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 1908895)
Chicago PD not so much fun these days since they stopped putting bad guys in the cage and beat on them.

I love Chicago PD. I want the cage back! Lol

tophcfa 02-27-2021 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by SacDQ (Post 1908879)
I just have one question that perhaps one of you could answer for me.
Without a Mr & Mrs potato head where to baby potato heads come from.

They adopt illegal potatoes

jbrown132 02-27-2021 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by oldtimes (Post 1908709)
There is no such thing as majority rules or common good any more, it is simply who screams the loudest or has the most viral posts.

That’s exactly right. The vast majority of people are totally against this type of idiocy. The problem is the silent majority stands by and does nothing about it. I just read where Loudoun Country, Virginia just removed Dr. Seuss from its schools because they feel it could have racial undertones. They are also considering the removal of Shakespeare. What needs to happen is we to need to start fighting back. I wonder what would happen if Hasbro found twenty five thousand people demonstrating outside its corporate headquarters in Rhode Island. If we stopped supporting these institutions of higher education by refusing to send our kids to them. If we stopped buying products from companies that bow down to these people. I think you would see a big difference. If we continue to do nothing I am afraid we will wake one morning living in a country like Russia or China. It may not happen in our lives but I think our kids are heading down a dark road. It’s time we started to speak out and cancel the cancelers.

Joe C. 02-27-2021 09:00 AM

Whatever happened to the times when men were men and women were women, when you could tell ethnic jokes, when certain words weren't "forbidden", and deviant behavior was just that, and not publicly accepted.
A by-product of that was that we grew "thick skin" and didn't let the little things bother us.
Today, this nation is full of wimpy, crybaby sissies who want their cake and eat it too.
So, so, sad.
Thank God I'm old and won't live to see the result of all this destruction.

tophcfa 02-27-2021 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe C. (Post 1908925)
Whatever happened to the times when men were men and women were women, when you could tell ethnic jokes, when certain words weren't "forbidden", and deviant behavior was just that, and not publicly accepted.
A by-product of that was that we grew "thick skin" and didn't let the little things bother us.
Today, this nation is full of wimpy, crybaby sissies who want their cake and eat it too.
So, so, sad.
Thank God I'm old and won't live to see the result of all this destruction.

It must be very difficult to be a comedian these days, the only thing you can make fun of is yourself, and even that would upset some wackjob.

Taltarzac725 02-27-2021 09:31 AM

Mr. Potato Head - Wikipedia

Much ado about NOTHING.

Mfrench 02-27-2021 09:53 AM

Their are too many weirdos in our country today who want to change everything that has made our country exceptional!! Has the educational system contributed to the brainwashing of the children who have grown up believing in non-genders, transexuality, a new world order and communist philosophy? If not the educators, then who? It’s up to parents to find out what their children are being taught!


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