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Dismayed by comsumerism

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goneveryquiet · 03/08/2024 23:08

To think that this is mockery of the highest level.

In a country of food banks and poverty a well know department store has opened a shop selling fake food as toys. It's sold out and people are paying £50 for a chip with a cute smile.

AIBU that we have lost touch with reality l? Consumerism gone mad?!

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Runnerinthenight · 06/08/2024 21:06

XenoBitch · 06/08/2024 20:00

This thread is mad.

People who buy Jellycat stuff can afford it, and get a lot of pleasure from it.

My friend's daughter is ND has has loads of Jellycat toys. They help regulate her, and make her happy.

I just bought a plushie xenomorph. It makes me happy, and has cheered me up through a shite time. Judge away.

I agree with you! I really want to buy a smiling potato chip now - because it makes me smile!

God there are some misery guts out there!

XenoBitch · 06/08/2024 20:00

This thread is mad.

People who buy Jellycat stuff can afford it, and get a lot of pleasure from it.

My friend's daughter is ND has has loads of Jellycat toys. They help regulate her, and make her happy.

I just bought a plushie xenomorph. It makes me happy, and has cheered me up through a shite time. Judge away.

Gallowayan · 05/08/2024 19:45

A smiling potatoe chip toy @ £50 is a bat shit idea to me and probably to lots of people.

But the arguments you have built up around this are simplistic nonsense.

Most consumption in developed countries is unecessary. But it has brought about economic growth which has lifted millions of people out of poverty. Even the most mindless consumption creates wealth and jobs for someone.

DistressedDamson · 05/08/2024 19:22

Legoandloldolls · 04/08/2024 00:24

My dd brought a massive jellycat bunny for close to £100. She also wears £2.50 Nike Airs from Vinted and I worked for minium wage as a teen in a factory lifting 25kg bags of veg. Just because we are / was relatively poor doesn't mean we can't ever have some nicer end random shit. That bunny will be treasured forever.

This is another race to the bottom posts.

Don't buy toy food as someone can't buy real food.
Don't moan about the food bank economy beans as some countries don't have food banks.
Don't moan that you don't have a food bank as people are living in famine.
Don't moan about your famine as you could be dead
Don't moan about being dead as some spetm and eggs never get fertilised
Dont moan about being a unfertilised sex cell as you could be a iron atom would has been a rock for the age of universe
Don't moan about that as you could just be a neutron

Won't someone think of the neutrons!!

I hope everyone who is outraged about this doesn't have more than one pair of footwear. That rubs in the face of shoeless people. By not buying any more shoes, it directly helps the shoeless. Fact. Like boycotting Jelltcat directly feeds the poor. That's how it works don't ya know.

🤣🤣🤣fucking classic🤣🤣🤣

Runnerinthenight · 05/08/2024 19:15

selfesteemfan · 05/08/2024 18:56

I've never heard of jelly cat but it sounds bloody facile.

I'm not googling it.

You don't know what you're missing. Bloody cute is what they are. Been around since my kids were babies and they're mid-20s.

Whaleandsnail6 · 05/08/2024 19:10

I dont think these two things are particularly related. Unless you have an issue with anyone buying anything none essential whilst we have fooodbanks and homelessness in this country?

Do you have the same issue with kids playhouses? After all, there is homeless people when people are buying pretend houses. Or kids doctors and nurses kits? After all people cant get doctors appointments. Or spending money on anything that a luxury or a treat? Dont buy the expensive wine or ice-cream, after all there are people who cant afford essential food?

I just dont understand your thinking and why you are particularly offended by these soft toys.

selfesteemfan · 05/08/2024 18:56

I've never heard of jelly cat but it sounds bloody facile.

I'm not googling it.

selfesteemfan · 05/08/2024 18:53

@shuggles
The point is these morons with more money than sense buy stupid shit that nobody would or should ever need which I feel is the demand for the absurd supply at that level.

Not the most relevant point I agree it just riles me.

betterangels · 05/08/2024 17:13

AlanBrendaCelia · 05/08/2024 11:33

I think I’m going to have to investigate them further, for my office!

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I can't afford to spend on them, but it's OK to put them on my Christmas list, right?😁

Zoflorabore · 05/08/2024 11:44

@MooseBeTimeForSnow they are bloody gorgeous! I want some too now.

my dd will be so proud of me 🤣

AlanBrendaCelia · 05/08/2024 11:33

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 05/08/2024 02:58

@Teamlilac meet Sid and Vera.

I think I’m going to have to investigate them further, for my office!

AngleClara · 05/08/2024 10:26

Sweetteaplease · 04/08/2024 01:40

I don't know why you're getting such a hard time OP. I agree with you. We are all guilty of it (buying crap that we don't need, it's quite shameful when you really think about it)

How can one even over-consume jellycats a given the price of them? They are the opposite of overconsumption: well made collectibles that people actually value and keep forever.

OP is ridiculously wrong and can't seem to get their point straight.

AngleClara · 05/08/2024 10:22

Are you talking about Jellycats?

One, it isn't fake foood, it's a cute teddy bear barely resembling an article of food.

Two, consumerism hasn't got much to do with poverty. I thought this would be about the environment. Poor people can be consumerist

And what does the price have to do with it? Why does this specific toy annoy you? Have you donated anything recently, or have you selfishly been on holiday, eaten nice food and done other things?

KimberleyClark · 05/08/2024 10:11

mondaytosunday · 04/08/2024 22:35

Fake food has been a play thing forever. Expensive toys have been a thing forever. Have you just realised?

Look on the pet aisle of a supermarket or a pet store and you’ll find loads of fake food. Fake burgers, fake fruit and veg, fake portions of McDonald’s chips, fake chicken drumsticks, fake strings of sausages, even fake Starbucks coffee cups…and they all squeak.

betterangels · 05/08/2024 10:04

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 05/08/2024 02:58

@Teamlilac meet Sid and Vera.

This is cute.

LostTheMarble · 05/08/2024 09:55

Fake food toys have been an absolute godsend to me. All three of my ASD children have a love to food stuff but I hate wastage. My house looks like a Squishmallow outlet shop but the kids are happy. They had the best Christmas morning coming down to a huge £50 one each!

Cheesecakelunch · 05/08/2024 09:45

Goodness. We don't live in a communist dictatorship.

Gameofmoans81 · 05/08/2024 09:41

I think the jellycat chips are distracting people but the general complete brainwashing of the entire population into buying stuff that they don’t really need and that quite quickly ultimately ends in landfill leading to complete climate meltdown is absolutely dismaying yes. And I’m just as guilty as everyone else, the problem is too huge

Teamlilac · 05/08/2024 09:28

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 05/08/2024 02:58

@Teamlilac meet Sid and Vera.

Incredible 😆 X

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 05/08/2024 02:58

@Teamlilac meet Sid and Vera.

Dismayed by comsumerism
Teamlilac · 05/08/2024 00:10

Allthatwegotisthispalebluedot · 03/08/2024 23:26

Are you talking about the jellycat fish and chip shop? Without any context this sounds mad.

It’s just a soft toy. They are over priced but I’m not sure why it matters if it’s a chip soft toy or a bunny soft toy.

🤣 I have a very expensive jellycat plant for my office, saved me thousands on replacing a real one everytime I forget to water it!

merrywidow · 04/08/2024 23:22

We are currently in Jellycat fever, this too shall pass like Ty Beenie Babies.

stayathomer · 04/08/2024 23:18

Just googled them and most searched seems to be ‘why are they so expensive’, ‘why do people like them’ and ‘what is the deal with them’😅 Not for me, seems like a horrendous waste of money but then toy fads usually are but cherished when bought for the right person (I was a my little pony and Care Bear girl myself 😉)