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Originally Posted by dancontrino

Hoarding at least has the potential to lead to playing with the damn things. What I have noticed is that whether it's a collector or scalper in the toy aisle...they pretend NOT to be looking at Joe or Star Wars toys. I love that because I'm married, chubby and have nothing to prove, so I just stand there making my slow ass choice while the shy-ass nerd burger sweats it out in the Barbie aisle, waiting for me to leave :D

Wish I can say the same but I find myself to be very sexy at the least :D . What I do is strike up a conversation with these guys. Ask them if they are members of any boards, show them some of my work, you know let them know its ok to like toys. Must look at me like Im crazy, but who cares they are the ones hiding something they enjoy.

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Originally Posted by SIC DETH

Wish I can say the same but I find myself to be very sexy at the least.

I also am extremely attractive. I make shopping for toys look GOOD. Especially when I go through the pegs in slow motion.

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Originally Posted by dancontrino

LOL, right on Dan! Why even "collect" toys if you're going to leave them in the package and turn them into wall ornaments. Go collect stamps or coins or whatever the hell "mature" adults do. I was a closet collector at one time too. Even went as far as buying Birthday cards to make it look like a present for a kid. But now I'm born again hard and will buy my dollies whenever and where ever I want. I had some old Lady go off on me at Big Lot's saying I should be ashamed being a grown man playing with dolls. I really pissed her off when I told her I posed them and took pictures of them too. :cool: I have no shame in being a fat old man who buys GI Joes and puts pictures of them on the internet! :D

ahhhhh, I remember fondly the days when I would make sure to ask for a gift receipt every time a cashier scanned a joe.

now i just smile at their looks of shame.

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Originally Posted by Da Talent

I also am extremely attractive. I make shopping for toys look GOOD. Especially when I go through the pegs in slow motion.

LMAO!!!

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Originally Posted by Reverend Blood

ahhhhh, I remember fondly the days when I would make sure to ask for a gift receipt every time a cashier scanned a joe.

now i just smile at their looks of shame.

Isn't it great just to be able to just laugh at the boring and unimaginative slugs who give you dirty looks for having a little fun. My local club puts on a yearly diorama at one of the local parks. We bust out all of our 1/6th WW II stuff and declare war on the park for the day. We've even had the local TV news out at one of them. Hours and hours of old dudes playing with their GI Joes. The only one person who said anything bad about it was some old hag power walking and was pissed we took up part of the trail. Everyone else couldn't get enough of it. :p

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Originally Posted by Dreadnok Dread

Im alot calmer now tycondrius but it did happen. I was scheduled to take anger management classes and asked for my own sake to not listen to metal or hardcore anymore! because of another situation! Lol only reggae and jazz for me now an the occasional hardcore thrash show! lol ive grown up alot dude. But imagine a scary dreaded gold teeth thug that was me years back! lol the kinda dude people crossed the street not to deal with. but then we grow up and learn to not act out! lesson learned anger management class sucks its like a new age Buddhist class that's crappy! and I dont mean the Buddhist part i minored in religious studies in college its the way they explained it and tried to actualize it! :)now a days i just alert the manager unless my wife had pissed me off moments before then watch out! lol

I've had one incident of some D-Bag scalper taking stuff away from me. I used to collect the Simpsons figures that came out a few years ago. I was looking at the stock with my six month old daughter in one hand and a couple of figures cradled in the other. The dirt bag reached over a snagged one out of my arm and took off. I wasn't in position to do much at the time, since I was holding my kid. But I was so pissed off I could have stomped his fat greasy ass into the ground. But it pays to be nice, I told the store manager about the guy and incident. They broke out a unopened case of figures. Not only did I get the one the slime ball took, plus three other "chase" figures. It's hard to believe how far some of these scalpers will go.

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Originally Posted by San Pickles

damn! some people eh!

Cobra Freak, it's hard to believe how bad people act over something like toys. I never remember anything like this going on when I was a kid. The funny part is, the guy probably still lives in his parents basement and has never had a girlfriend. ;)

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Originally Posted by Da Talent

I also am extremely attractive. I make shopping for toys look GOOD. Especially when I go through the pegs in slow motion.

LOL, Maybe GQ can do an article on the men of GI Joe, and have you guys do a photo spread in the action figure aisle. :D