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True, and paper cut across the eyelid beats stubbing toe and standing on a plug.Originally posted by norrahe View PostPapercut beats all. I'm tellin ya!
Although standing on a piece of Lego has equal value.
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Papercut beats all. I'm tellin ya!Originally posted by SimonMac View PostStanding on an upturned plug is still the most painful
But on the original point of Lego - it does annoy me that they sell kits to make a specific things and yet had a film entirely about the imagination of creativity!!


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Standing on an upturned plug is still the most painfulOriginally posted by Dactylion View PostWhere did this urban myth originate that treading on a lego brick or giving birth were the most painful experiences in life?
Everyone knows that:
a) Banging your head on the corner of a table after bending down to pick up a napkin
b) Stubbing your little toe
are far worse than treading on lego
plus any man will tell you that nipping your todger in your zipper far outweighs the trivia of childbirth!
But on the original point of Lego - it does annoy me that they sell kits to make a specific things!!!

Thats what Airfix is for!!
But on the original point of Lego - it does annoy me that they sell kits to make a specific things and yet had a film entirely about the imagination of creativity!!

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Some kids do, some don't. My nephew built all sorts, but my kids pretty much followed the instructions to build the model on the box.Originally posted by barrydidit View PostHas it buggery disappeared. They might sell the kits to make specific things, but they're marketed at grown ups. When the thing has been made, it gradually decomposes into the big lego bucket from which parts are scavenged for imaginative purposes. I was watching my two and their cousins doing exactly this on Sunday.
Think of it as training for Suity's post WW3 Mad Max world.
I'd also like to add that a lego brick on a stone flagged floor is every bit as painful as a misplaced foreskin in a zip.
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Has it buggery disappeared. They might sell the kits to make specific things, but they're marketed at grown ups. When the thing has been made, it gradually decomposes into the big lego bucket from which parts are scavenged for imaginative purposes. I was watching my two and their cousins doing exactly this on Sunday.
Think of it as training for Suity's post WW3 Mad Max world.
I'd also like to add that a lego brick on a stone flagged floor is every bit as painful as a misplaced foreskin in a zip.
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Where did this urban myth originate that treading on a lego brick or giving birth were the most painful experiences in life?Originally posted by mudskipper View PostBBC News - Has the imagination disappeared from Lego?
... but stepping on a traditional lego brick is still one of the most painful experiences known to mankind (apart from childbrith of course!
)
Everyone knows that:
a) Banging your head on the corner of a table after bending down to pick up a napkin
b) Stubbing your little toe
are far worse than treading on lego
plus any man will tell you that nipping your todger in your zipper far outweighs the trivia of childbirth!
But on the original point of Lego - it does annoy me that they sell kits to make a specific things!!!

Thats what Airfix is for!!
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Things ain't what they used to be...
BBC News - Has the imagination disappeared from Lego?
... but stepping on a traditional lego brick is still one of the most painful experiences known to mankind (apart from childbrith of course!
)
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