[Technology] Mr Potato Head

[crodonilson]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56200811

Another win for equality and inclusivity, I think kids will be going bonkers for the new gender neutral potato head. It's a potato why did it ever have to be a boy or a girl anyway?

 

[banjo]

Now you can have a potato head with lipstick and a moustache

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I heard Guess who is next

Is it a them?

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Mr. dropped like a sack of spuds

 

[Is it PotG?]

I think all of the Mr Men books should be reassigned neutral gender.

 

[AmexRuislip]

So Pink Fir Apple and the Duke of York will struggle I guess.......

 

[Gabbafella]

**** me, the world really is a pathetic place nowadays.

 

[Guinness Boy]

When I heard this on Radio 4 this morning I did wonder how long it would be before a thread appeared on NSC. My money was on an outraged Gammon but, instead, it's Crodo taking his trawling net far away from where it can get caught on the Greenpeace boulders.

 

[BN9 BHA]

When I heard this on Radio 4 this morning I did wonder how long it would be before a thread appeared on NSC. My money was on an outraged Gammon but, instead, it's Crodo taking his trawling net far away from where it can get caught on the Greenpeace boulders.

I’m surprised it took this long to appear

 

[BadFish]

 

[keaton]

**** me, the world really is a pathetic place nowadays.

I know, people getting angry about the existence of gender neutral toys, bloody snowflakes

 

[AmexRuislip]

When I heard this on Radio 4 this morning I did wonder how long it would be before a thread appeared on NSC. My money was on an outraged Gammon but, instead, it's Crodo taking his trawling net far away from where it can get caught on the Greenpeace boulders.

I wonder how long until Mr Ben gets re-branded

 

[Ding Dong !]

**** me, the world really is a pathetic place nowadays.

Yep, agree.


Snowflake society

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Is this a skirmish in the culture war ?

Exciting.

 

[lawros left foot]

Except they’re not.


It’s only the firm branding that has become gender neutral, not the actual toys themselves.

You will still be able to buy’Mr Potato head’ or ‘Mrs Potato head’ made under the brand name ‘Potato head’.

[MENTION=3385]crodonilson[/MENTION], you little tinker.

 

[1066familyman]

I hope this isn't next. Just won't sound the same without the Mr.

 

[Whitechapel]

**** me, the world really is a pathetic place nowadays.

Yep, agree.


Snowflake society

I mean of course if you’d actually looked in to what you’re getting upset about you’d realise they’re only changing the brand name and you can still buy a Mr/Mrs Potato Head which will be labelled as such.

Clever bit of marketing because Hasbro must have known what the outcome would be, and it opens them up to expand the range in the same way those shit “funko pop” figures have. Slap any popular intellectual property on to the product and sell them as collectible sets. Massive profit.

 

[A1X]

Imagine having so little going on in your life that you manage to find the time to be furious because a company has changed the branding of a toy it makes

 

[Knocky's Nose]

Why does it have to be a potato? Other vegetables are being excluded here, so I' like to launch 'Mung Bean Human' - which allows you to decorate said pulse with blank features so as not to offend.

I'm just messing. I don't think growing up in the 70's would have been ruined if Mr Potato Head wasn't a Mr.

 

[vegster]

Depends on the spud you use, Charlotte and King Edward for instance... Mind you, this will be another hammer blow for Lightly Baked ( Potato)! Everything he holds dear is slowly falling apart.