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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Thursday, December 14, 2017

M is for Mine's Better Than Yours!

Like all travelling Toy Men, the Santa's like to get together at the annual corporate shindig and works 'Do' in Honolulu and compare wheels (or runners), our roving reporter was lucky enough to catch the action in the car-park and report back to Small Scale World.

The Festival Santa is explaining patiently to the bus-boy that the colour this season is red; the bus-boy is not impressed and points out to Mr. Clause that not only is his very similar re. spec's, but coming from Hong Kong - as it does - was considerably cheaper, and everyone in the motor sledge-trade knows blue is easier to clean!

Indeed: one of the Santa's has a red one from Hong Kong himself! Other's; having lived life slightly further 'out there', have purchased their machines from a dodgy-dealer 'Mick the Minty Motor Man' in Macau for the softer ride afforded by the PVC undercarriage.

Festival Santa insisted his has the better build quality and utilising the very best in ICI Alkathene technology - as it does - has the softest, smoothest ride!

Sadly, as everyone was going home a cross-wind squall swept the resort car-park, catching the annual delivery-target, winners-parade, broadside, leaving them all looking like the tin-ducks in a shooting-arcade, so - good or bad - your presents might be delayed this year!

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