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I was just reading a Sharper Image Catalog and now they sell so many things that we didn't have when I was a kid. Did you ever look through one of those catalogs?

We used to play this game where you got a ball and you threw it at the other person to see if you could hit him. Now I see they got this thing where each of you get this stick looking thing and you can shoot real lightning bolts at each other.

They also have this little drone helocopter thing that you can fly right into your neighbors window and see what they are having for dinner. I would imagine the thing can also steal a drumstick right off their table. How much fun would that be! I am sure your neighbors would really like that.

Then you can walk around with this virtual reality thing on your head so you never have to visit the real world. You can have a virtual reality girlfriend, go to a virtual movie, drive a virtual car and I would imagine you could eat all your meals virtually. I amnot sure if it comes with a virtual doctor for when you starve to death. There is even a program where you can watch yourself watching a virtually reality show of yourself doing nothing.

There is virtual ping pong where you hit a ball of light. That seems really good for your muscle tone and overall fitness. I mean you probably have to change the batteries every so often and if you lift a lot of those AA batteries it can get exhausting.
Of course they have a few radios that you can listen to in your shower. Like, how long do you stand in the shower, are you really that filthy that you can't miss one version of Lady GaGa's Papparazi.

There is this Hover board thing that costs $300.00 and it goes 3 1/2mph. Isn't that walking speed? Why would anybody spend $300.00 to go as fast as you can walk? Maybe it's me!

I don't know how many nose hair clippers there are but apparently this is very important. Just last night I woke up from a dream where I was on a tropical Island sipping a Pina Colada with all 12 apostles, Leonardo DiVinci and 2 of the Radio City Rockettes and I realized I didn't clip my nose hairs. Today these things are so powerful that you can put it up your nose and it will clip your ear hairs at the same time. You can't make this stuff up.

Oh this is something I can't live without, right here on page 25. For just $100.00 you can order your own personalized bobble head doll, with your head on it. Wow, how great would that be. You stop at a light and your head nods up and down like you are some sort of an alien nerd weirdo. I can't wait to order that. I wonder if I can get one with hair on it.

This can save you some time, There is this Lady's hair drier that is so powerful that if you open your window while you are using it, it will melt up to 6" of snow on your sidewalk. I am not kidding.

Some of the things seem to stretch the truth just a little like this car vacuum that is so powerful you need to wear earplugs, not because of the noise, but because it may pull the wax right out of your ears and God Forbid if you are wearing earings, or worse, a nose ring.

I really can't see much value in this one. You hang this thing over your toilet bowl, and it lights up the water. I won't comment on that as I don't want to go there and if I saw that in someone's house, I would go to the bathroom in their neighbors house. Wierd.
But my absolute favorite if this refrigerator for a lonely bachelor who wants to feel he is married. Every time you pass it, it says,
"HEY LAZY, THROW OUT THE GARBAGE. TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES. DON'T DRINK OUT OF THE MILK CONTAINER. TAKE OUT THE DOG. FILL MY CAR WITH GAS. RUB MY FEET. GET ME A BEER".
These are all things you can buy now. We didn't have toys and stuff like this when I was a Kid. I remember asking my Dad once to get me a toy and he came out with a piece of wood, a couple of nails and a hammer. I played with that until I got married. Now I can get rid of that talking refrigerator.
 
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My son asks for a drone every year. Every year, he fails to get one lol! Now, when they have a reasonably priced one that will follow him around outside and record it so I can actually have evidence that he didn't play video games all weekend, I might consider it.

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Then again, I might just get video of the drone following him around on his "hover board".
 
Lol, I looked at the same mag last night. Funny thing is I bought most of my gifts from Sharper Image last year. A lot of the items I received where disappointing to say the least.
 
It's great isn't? If I asked my dad for a nickel he would make me shine his shoes. And he owned a fish market so his shoes were covered in fish scales. One fish we sold was live carp and those things had scales as big as nickels which I had to pry off with a screwdriver. But I really appreciated that nickel after all the hard work I had to do to get it. Kids today ask for a Porsch, and some of them get it.
I think it should be illegal to give your kid a car. Whats wrong with working! And I don't mean silly, Sissy work, I mean, real work where you work up a sweat. Mow the lawn, shovel the snow, put a new roof on the house.
I never received a dime without working for it and to this day,I have never needed money. It is simple. Let kids work for things and they will never need anything. Just my Old Man opinion of course. :cool:
 
Lol, I looked at the same mag last night. Funny thing is I bought most of my gifts from Sharper Image last year. A lot of the items I received where disappointing to say the least.

Yeah, but I bet you don't have nose hairs! :rolleyes:
 
Hah this was a good read. I may be what is considered a millennial but my parents made me work without pay because they said that's what you have a kid for, to do all the work around the house you don't want to do. I'm looking forward to getting me one to do this ;)
 
Hey, a lot of those virtual reality games will wear your but out! Had a blast playing one that a buddy brought over about six months ago.
 
Hey, a lot of those virtual reality games will wear your but out! Had a blast playing one that a buddy brought over about six months ago.

Mix some concrete, dig a ditch, chop down a tree. Mans work. Virtual reality will give you virtual muscles. :rolleyes:
 
Mix some concrete, dig a ditch, chop down a tree. Mans work. Virtual reality will give you virtual muscles. :rolleyes:

I was sweating like I was doing mans work! I had to chop down and split a tree two weeks ago, the game was considerably more enjoyable LOL.
 
Hah this was a good read. I may be what is considered a millennial but my parents made me work without pay because they said that's what you have a kid for, to do all the work around the house you don't want to do. I'm looking forward to getting me one to do this ;)

Your parents didn't make you work for no pay. They fed you didn't they and let you live in their house and ride in their car. :rolleyes:

I got one of those, just buy some tape so they can connect the phone to their head so it doesn't fall on the ground and get dirty. :cool:
 
The funny part about this thread is that in 50 years, the kids living now will complain about the kids of the present. How they don't drive cars, know how to fill up a car with gas, write with a pen or pencil, sit in a classroom for a couple hours a day, play video games with a controller, use a keyboard or remote, deal with cable/satellite TV, etc. As long as I've known, Sharper Image has always sold junk. The junk today isn't any worse than the stuff they sold in the past. It's just got more electronics in it.
 
I remember hearing stories about my grandpa who was born in the late 1800's and lived in rural Missouri talking about how silly tractors were and how lazy everyone was when he just needed his two mules to farm. Of course you couldn't bring up cars with him, those were completely ridiculous! He also refused to use the indoor plumbing when they got it (who poops in the house? Disgusting - just to keep you sissy feet warm in winter). All these things were ruining being a man!
 
Your Grand Pa would have gotten along great with mine who was also born in the 1800s in Sicily. :D
 
Mix some concrete, dig a ditch, chop down a tree. Mans work. Virtual reality will give you virtual muscles. :rolleyes:
If the women (or in your case, supermodels) are also in virtual reality, do you really need anything other than virtual muscles ;)?
 

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