It was such a simpler set back when I was a boy.
You might want to get the receipt so you can return this:
"Hasbro to replace penis-shaped Play-Doh toy" by Michelle R. Smith, Associated Press January 01, 2015
PROVIDENCE — It was an embarrassing Christmas for Nivea Cabrera after she was accused by her fiance’s mother of letting her 5-year-old granddaughter play with a sex toy. A mortified Cabrera asked the child where she got the penis-shaped plastic cylinder.
‘‘It’s from my Play-Doh,’’ the girl replied.
Hasbro, the Pawtucket toy company, is now doing damage control over the ‘‘extruder tool’’ in its Play-Doh Cake Mountain toy. The two-piece syringe-like tool — which includes a tube with corkscrew-type ridges around the outside and a dome-shaped top with a hole at the tip — can be used to squeeze Play-Doh to look like decorative cake frosting.
Complaints have been surfacing since at least November, when the Tulsa, Okla., TV station KTUL showed the tool to parents and asked them what they thought. The station blurred the image of the tool during the piece, saying it was due to parents’ reactions. One woman told the station it was ‘‘a pretty phallic cake-decorating piece.’’
After Christmas, comments started pouring in to Play-Doh’s Facebook page.
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Erin Rivers, a mother of two from Melbourne, Fla., thought it was hilarious when she helped her 6-year-old daughter open the box.
‘‘I pulled out this extruder tool and I just started cracking up at it, I couldn’t help it. Then I immediately put the Play-Doh in it and took a picture of it,’’ she said. Then, she posted it on Facebook. ‘‘My friends have just as dirty minds as I do. It was hysterical to me. And then I gave it to my daughter to play with.’’
Her daughter and 4-year-old son do not notice anything strange about the toy, she said.
Well, no, they wouldn't; however, this is far from hilarious.
Pawtucket-based Hasbro Inc. has received thousands of comments on the Play-Doh Facebook page about the toy.
‘‘We are in the process of updating all future Play-Doh products with a different tool,’’ it said in a statement posted on the page Tuesday. It also offered to replace the tool for anyone who has complaints.
I'm wondering how the "tool" got through -- not.
Rivers, 31, who works in a pediatric dental office, said she is not upset at all. But she is flabbergasted that the toy slipped past so many layers of people at Hasbro.
I used to be, but will show why I am no longer surprised later.
‘‘They have to have someone who creates it, someone who makes the plastic mold, someone who plays with it,’’ she said.
‘‘I can’t imagine that as many people that probably saw the toy, not one person said, ‘Does anyone else think this looks like a penis?’ ’’
I used to think that way, and this is one way it plays out: No one says not a good idea because they will be fired and the paycheck would stop coming.
The other way is no one raises concerns, which raises other questions. Like what sick s***ts are molding the minds of our kids when we are not watching?
How cute, huh?
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The problem with stuff like that is you see it way too often out there.
Just preparing the girls for their future employment, I suppose.
Do you remember what they got you last Christmas?
Related: Quite an Operation
They like little kids to play doctor.
Monopoly Money
Money junkies never get board with it, and you can see how minds are molded from an early age.
