Times Have Changed: Going to The Fair and Winning a Sex Toy!

I remember as a kid going to the fair over the Christmas holidays and playing the swiveling headed clowns with a view to winning a stuffed toy. It was always the plan at the Royal Easter Show as well during the Easter School holidays. However, times have changed, and perhaps not for the better, at least in New Zealand anyway.

A stall at the local fair in Nelson on New Zealand's south island run by Sturgeon Amusements are offering up blow-up sheep dolls as prizes. A blow-up sheep toy being given away as a prize in New Zealand seems apt given the jokes that surround New Zealander's and their enjoyment of sheep as company. So, it is either the ultimate in stupidity or just poor taste masked as a sense of humour that this stall is providing young children with a blow-up sheep sex toy as a prize.

They surely cannot be claiming that they did not know what it was, can they? After all, how many sheep do you see with bright blue eyes, long lashes and a French Maid's bonnet? It appears that the "toys" were to be destroyed but by some twist of fate the toys made their way to the fair. The owner of Sturgeon Amusements has offered anyone with a sheep sex toy a replacement toy if they bring the sheep back.

Seriously, what were they thinking that it was in any way appropriate to be giving blow-up sex toys to children.

Ho hum...

Jodie Marsh in Zoo Magazine...

This post is in the "tattoo series". I really like tattoos.

I wonder if the Minister of [Mis]Communication and [Lack of] Information in the Republic of Indonesia would like to shake hands with Jodie Marsh? After all, they are not related.

Although, I am guessing that a few people will be thinking that they might want to be reincarnated as a stuffed bear!

Toys for Children -- Stuffed STDs

It is mid-September and getting close to Christmas. We have been planning to get away and go up the New South Wales north coast for a week or so just after Christmas. This obviously gets one to thinking about buying gifts in preparation for the big day where the fat fella in a red suit comes down the chimney and leaves a bag full of goodies for the kid.

Anyways, the best place to get ideas for gifts I reckon is the internet. So, online I went.

The above is what I found. It was one of those moments where one shakes their head, smiles, and then thinks, "I wonder who bought one or all of those?"

You can see the water cooler conversation now, can't you?

John: Hey Bill, what did you get your kid for Christmas?

Bill: I gave him chlamydia and the pox! What about yourself? What did you give yours?

John: Funnily enough, I gave my kid the clap and herpes.

There is something that does not sit right with the idea of making stuffed toys to represent sexually transmitted diseases or infections (STD / STI) and then giving them to children.

Imagine your kid takes one of these stuffed toys to school:

Teacher: Johnny, what did you get for your birthday?

Little Johnny: Miss, my parents gave me the clap!

Teacher: Oh, OK, how do you like it?