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Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
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Date: 
Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:41:26 GMT
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(like an oversize SUV as a commuter vehicle).

Funny how with one sentence you say you should not worry about what other
people think about purchases, and then in the next sentence, you are worried
about other people's purchases. " st00pid purchases that adults make (like
an oversize SUV as a commuter vehicle).

I own a 1999 Chevrolet Suburban, I love it, and I would not trade it for the
world. It is my choice, just as it is my choice to buy LEGO products. If you
don't like it,  fine. Calling SUV purchases "stupid" is just as bad as
calling buying LEGO "stupid". It is called market forces.

FUT off.topic.debate, but I won't be there.

Scott S.

He did state using a SUV as a "commuter" was stupid.  I'd tend to agree.  Of
course I drive an hour to work,  so 15 MPG won't work for me 'cause I don't get
paid that much.  Also I want to blame those types of vehicles for why our gas
prices have gone up so much, hee-hee.  That's just me.
Travis



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  Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
 
(...) Travis, Many of us would agree with you. Driving in Los Angeles is complicated enough without adding cumbersome, useless SUVs onto our freeways and city streets. You can't see through them, or around them, and they tend to cut off anything (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
 
Folks, This is drifting off into a SUV debate, and not a lugnet general discussion. Please drop general if you have no LEGO issues to discuss. FUT off.topic.debate please Scott S. -- Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
  Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
 
Travis, (...) worried (...) (like (...) the (...) you (...) That's great. (...) don't get (...) There are always other jobs. It is a thriving economy, after all. (...) I blame the government, sir. No hee hee's needed. Scott S. -- (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
 
Kevin, (...) purchases, (...) theirs. (...) make (...) your (...) Funny how with one sentence you say you should not worry about what other people think about purchases, and then in the next sentence, you are worried about other people's purchases. (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)

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