Favorite building toy when you were a kid:

@Ignorant
Boo. I know what they want to be called. But I’ve been calling them Legos for decades.

@Ignorant
LEGO® brand products
LEGO bricks
LEGO toys
etc

(it would be funny to say “woodens” for wooden blocks or “erectors” for Erector sets)

@Ignorant And for that, I refuse to vote for it.

@narfcake

Well yeah, you voted for something else, because when you were a kid, you used catshirts to build.

(“Kid” here being a reference to you as the ShirtGoat.)

@Ignorant - LEGOs - and still is. We are a family of devout AFOLS, & probably have enough of the little plastic bricks to make any normal collector drool. Seriously - we have amassed enough of the things to where we could probably at least build an extra closet out of them if we tried.

@Ignorant I know there’s a vocal, and for some reason, almost angry crowd devoted to scorning people who call them Legos. But, I mean, if you get a pair of Nike shoes (or sub in whatever your favorite brand is) and let’s be clear, the brand is called Nike, not Nikes, you’re going to look super weird if someone says “Hey, nice Nikes,” and you say “Please, they’re just called Nike. Nike athletic shoes if you must pluralize it.”

@costar I agree that there are plenty of countable nouns but there are also a handful of uncountable (or mass) nouns.

I’d also look pretty weird if I said, “look at all those deers and sheeps”

@costar @Ignorant actually i wonder if deer and sheep are like fish: you say “fish” when referring to a large group of individual fish, but if you are trying to indicate groups of types of fish, then “fishes” is correct.
I also say “all y’all” in certain situations.
/image all y’all

@costar @Ignorant It stems at least in part from companies not wanting their trademarks becoming generic. Using the word as an adjective in front of a generic noun “X” makes it clear it’s just one type of “X” and not a term for all “X”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Ignorant That’s an interesting take!

@awk @Ignorant This is interesting! I would never have guessed heroin or dry ice were trademarked terms. But they don’t pay me, so I will continue to dilute their trademark by yelling at my kids to pick up their Legos off the floor.

@Ignorant If your kids leave their Legos on the floor and you ask them to pick up their “Lego”, they’re going to ask you - Which one?

@benj good point.

“Pick up all of your toys please”

@mollama I disagree with “all y’all”. It’s not about how many people but about scope.

If I’m in a group with five or six people and say “Why don’t y’all stop by after the game?”, I’m including five six people. If I say, “all y’all”, I’m including the families and other people not present.

OK, if I’m talking to a group, and I say “fuck you!”, I’m addressing one person, “fuck y’all!” is for the group, and “fuck all y’all!” includes parents and extended families.

@awk I use the adjective forms of some trademarked products just because it amuses me to. The two that come immediately to mind are from 3M. I actually do say “Scotch Brand Magic Transparent Tape” and “Post-It Brand Sticky Notes”. You can ask anyone I’ve annoyed doing this if it’s true.

@Ignorant Why not “Pick up all your Lego please.”

@benj even better.

@craigthom i agree to disagree with that image. as i said, i use it in certain situations. the 5+ is not a good rule.

@cenots Depends if you mean Lincoln logs made from plastic or wood.

@cenots Gotta be wood. You can’t get splinters from plastic.

@squishybrain wood… and let’s just say “Color Television” was a whole new world

@cenots My choice too- loved Lincoln Logs.

@cenots ditto, wood ones

@cenots They were my fav too. I just bought a big set for my son. He liked breaking everything I was building once he saw me putting on the roof. His fun was just making sure I couldn’t complete anything.

@cenots that was my choice too and I was appalled they weren’t listed, sad!

@cenots @squishybrain wait, they made/make plastic Lincoln Logs?

@cenots Lincoln Logs were the best, and you were patriotic too!

@cenots I can’t believe Lincoln logs not a choice

@cenots Absolutely! My grandparents kept a few sets at their house for us. I think it was to keep us out of their for a while.

@moonhat They weren’t listed because of the age of the person writing the survey.

The logs themselves were unbreakable, but those thin green roof strips sometimes didn’t survive being stepped on.

I think ours were in a big cardboard cylinder with a metal lid.

@cenots Wooden Lincoln Logs that fit loosely together, not those newer wooden ones that fit together too tightly, and had splinters.

@cenots I came on here to post this. How can that not be choice?!!

@craigthom mine too, were in a big cardboard cylinder with the lid. Fun stuff.

@cenots I loved my Lincoln Logs! (I don’t remember Legos when I was a kid… were they a thing?)
I liked Tinker Toys too!

@lseeber LEGO as we know it was patented in 1958, according to Wikipedia. It probably took a while to get market penetration in the U.S.

@craigthom Well that explains that then.

@sadalex 100% yes. I still have some old sets buried in the basement.

@afullbeard luckily my parents kept my 10,000+ pieces! I really can’t wait until my boys are is enough to build!

@afullbeard me too! I loved them!!

@awk capsella was amazing, even though my boat cars never worked quite the way I hoped they would.

@awk CAPSELLA YES

@eVil hmm… oooooookay…

/giphy erector set

@eVil 0 for 2.

Third times a charm?

/giphy erector set

@eVil lol. I give up.

@eVil I’m confused, you nailed it on the second one…

@MagnaVis Is that the band’s name? Not familiar.

@eVil LOL, no… nope…

@moondrake We knocked the ends out so we could play Tanks.

@benj Haven’t thought of these in years! Don’t think I ever managed to build much more than windmills.

@benj They existed in the 70’s, I had a set too.

@Zebra I liked playing with me chemistry set also, back when they included the extra-toxic stuff.
I didn’t consider it a building toy though…
Surprised I didn’t blow the house up…

@MooseWizard we visited Legoland when my oldest was about 4. I am convinced there were as many visitors without kids (mostly 20-30 yr old guys but also older and some couples or just girls) as with. I thought it was fantastic.
And we still buy my 20-something nephews Lego sets because that is what they ask for so i don’t get the “collected sets of four “too old for this” cousins” comment. Never too old.

@MooseWizard Yes, if you get to be older than 99 years.

@Liera21 Phew, I’m only going to make it to 60 so no worries!

@lainrose I was also a fan of Lincoln Logs. Still have them all these years later.

@rockblossom
/image cat poop sculpture

@medz @rockblossom umm, what.

@moonhat

@medz oh, man, disabled. I’ll go find it elsewhere

@meh lincoln logs have very limited configuration possibilities. You can make a log cabin…or a log cabin…or…a log fence?

@medz log cabins are fuckin cool tho bruh

@meh Get enough pieces and you can build a frontier fort, then set up your toy soldiers and spring-loaded cannons that could shoot small tinker-toy pieces and have awesome battles.

@meh Eh… Lincoln logs were fun for a while, but I liked building stuff what are more mechanical.

@meh427 Did you ever play the game, or did you just put it together and trap the mouse?

@craigthom - def played the game. My sis and I played a lot of board games.

@wishlish And whatever likely toxic dye they used to color the Lincoln Log roof slats and Tinker Toy connecting dowels.