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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

F is for Follow-up - Poundland Wild Animals

Quick follow-up as I turn a third into a half, sample-wise!

Popped over to Farnborough last week for a few essentials (and another handful of face-masks . . . now in Sainsbury's 10 for £8) and dropped into Poundland to see if they'd a new selection of the Play2Discover Wild Animals - they hadn't had on the previous visit, and they had; six of these!

A water-buffalo, more Asian than African? And an embarassed brown bear who's going to hide his embarassment by biting yer' heeed-orff! Who thought that was a good idea, who came to a production meeting and said "Well, now we've got this half-decent sculpt of a brown bear, I think what would really enhance it would be some blasts of airbrush in International Orange on both cheeks"?

And to be honest his dentistry is more Shrek's donkey than Ursus! They are what they are and as I said last time: 50p each; you can't complain!

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