This looks like chintzy crap that my kids would get at the gas station, promptly lose once we get home, my wife will trip over one of them, get mad, and then throw them away. And I REALLY want them!
Something happened with the advent of digital music that was tragic for the word “cue.” Drives me nuts. You’re not queueing up a video. You’re not waiting for your queue on stage. And these toys don’t take directional queues.
Vaguely proper usage if you take the “computing” definition. but still a snotty stretch, when “cue” is a very direct explanation of how they work.
queue
noun: queue; plural noun: queues
1.
BRITISH
a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.
2.
COMPUTING
a list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.
3.
ARCHAIC
a braid of hair worn at the back.
verb
verb: queue; 3rd person present: queues; past tense: queued; past participle: queued; gerund or present participle: queuing; gerund or present participle: queueing
1.
BRITISH
take one’s place in a queue.
“in the war they had queued for food”
2.
COMPUTING
arrange in a queue.
“input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system”
cue
noun
noun: cue; plural noun: cues
a thing said or done that serves as a signal to an actor or other performer to enter or to begin their speech or performance.
If they were cheaper I would buy thousands and harness them as slave drones to move against the armies of my adversaries. Oh, wait, that’s what China is doing! Once distracted by the seemingly random movements, infants and small adolescent children will become programmed to behave as do these cheap toys. Unimaginative and lacking any real will to do anything for themselves, they will instead move about inefficiently and with no purpose. Oh, that, and they will sell us billions of cheap batteries laden with environmentally damaging ingredients just to keep these brainwashing robots activated. Hard pass for me!
@haigster Why stop with just a second one?
I think we have all realized that Mehness comes in many degrees, and thus so should the range of button clicks.
Maybe just a Meh slider bar instead, ala the Scoville scale? Then the main deal page could report the average of the adjudged Mehness for any given product, much as the number sold, etc.
At the end of the month, we’d have an idea of what would be showing up for Mehrathons or even IRK fillers.
Specs
What’s Included?
OR
Price Comparison
$29.99 at Odyssey Toys
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Tuesday, May 30
This is a monster deal!!
loving this mall kiosk stuff. can we get some bootleg video game consoles next? i will buy one of those.
Cute walking and noise making toys are just the first step in getting us to acquiesce to our new robot masters!
@hchavers They will be a step up from our current masters. At least I know I will be killed using logic with these guys.
@hchavers yay! luv our new robot masters!
How long does the batteries last?
@purwin Probably longer than a 3 year old’s attention span.
Which way do they walk if you decapitate them?
Cheaper than the Barkbox toys I use to distract my horrible puppy from my clothes/ electronics.
These tiny movers lived up to their name. They didn’t move me enough to purchase. Meh.
Oh cool, your kids can make them scurry backwards in apparent terror.
This looks like chintzy crap that my kids would get at the gas station, promptly lose once we get home, my wife will trip over one of them, get mad, and then throw them away. And I REALLY want them!
wow.
these’d really mess up a blender.
@alacrity Not a BlendTek!
@alacrity @Kyeh It is Blendtec you heathen!!
@alacrity @yakkoTDI Okay. I have one, I just don’t study the logo.
@alacrity @Kyeh Odyssey toy smoke. Don’t breathe this.
How much weight can they move? Can I just put four of them under each corner of my couch and point them in the right direction?
Sigh, does the package really say “queue”?
Something happened with the advent of digital music that was tragic for the word “cue.” Drives me nuts. You’re not queueing up a video. You’re not waiting for your queue on stage. And these toys don’t take directional queues.
@kostia
Vaguely proper usage if you take the “computing” definition. but still a snotty stretch, when “cue” is a very direct explanation of how they work.
queue
noun: queue; plural noun: queues
1.
BRITISH
a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.
2.
COMPUTING
a list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.
3.
ARCHAIC
a braid of hair worn at the back.
verb
verb: queue; 3rd person present: queues; past tense: queued; past participle: queued; gerund or present participle: queuing; gerund or present participle: queueing
1.
BRITISH
take one’s place in a queue.
“in the war they had queued for food”
2.
COMPUTING
arrange in a queue.
“input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system”
cue
noun
noun: cue; plural noun: cues
a thing said or done that serves as a signal to an actor or other performer to enter or to begin their speech or performance.
/giphy queue
/giphy cue
Seriously?
The Last (Chance to Sell This) Dinosaur.
My daughter is crazy about unicorns… so why not
Tiny ambulatory caltrop disguised as a toy unicorn. Hmmm.
If they were cheaper I would buy thousands and harness them as slave drones to move against the armies of my adversaries. Oh, wait, that’s what China is doing! Once distracted by the seemingly random movements, infants and small adolescent children will become programmed to behave as do these cheap toys. Unimaginative and lacking any real will to do anything for themselves, they will instead move about inefficiently and with no purpose. Oh, that, and they will sell us billions of cheap batteries laden with environmentally damaging ingredients just to keep these brainwashing robots activated. Hard pass for me!
Can we add a “Super Meh” button to your webpage?
@haigster Why stop with just a second one?
I think we have all realized that Mehness comes in many degrees, and thus so should the range of button clicks.
Maybe just a Meh slider bar instead, ala the Scoville scale? Then the main deal page could report the average of the adjudged Mehness for any given product, much as the number sold, etc.
At the end of the month, we’d have an idea of what would be showing up for Mehrathons or even IRK fillers.