In the same vein as my previous post
I'd like it to go on record that "Mr Frosty" is indeed a gadget. It is indeed a drinks maker dressed up as kids' toy. I know a surprising number of people, myself included who wanted one as a kid and never got it. When my own kids were about 7 or 8, they got one for Christmas.

I wish I had the same foresight that my parents had when they chose not to get me one all those years ago.

Here's the 1980s advert
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksr2z6qisr0

You pop in the ice, turn the handle, out comes slush. Hurrah. Except not. Look at the ice at 0:11. That is ice fresh from an ice cube tray. Fresh ice like that is incredibly tough. It's tough enough to rip a hole in the sides of Titanics and the like. There are boats called ice-breakers. It is no serendipitous design department that fits them with 75,000HP engines rather than several 8 year olds cranking plastic handles turning small blades.

That advert is a con. I experimented with it, and the ice needs to be at most 50% frozen to have any success with the damn thing.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 2 Oct 2011, 20:01, 3 replies)

so your story is
that your parents are smarter than you and saw through the advertising, the so neatly caught you in its magic tendrils and devoured you financial assets and left you like a new labor supporter after the smoke and mirrors have been removed.

so in summary having never met or known your parents i can confirm that they are
A) smarter than you
B) possibly the top of your particular gene pool
C) pissing them selfs laughing that you bought what they could plainly see to be complete and utter tat
i rest my case
;-}
( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Sun 2 Oct 2011, 20:33, closed)

And perhaps crying at how their boy turned out.
My childhood heartfelt pleas for a soda stream fell on deaf ears.

Why, well into my thirties, I felt my life needed a source of messy, labour intensive not great tasting fizzy pop I couldn't tell you. It now lives in the least accessible kitchen cupboard next to the pasta machine.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sun 2 Oct 2011, 21:06, closed)

Elf and safety
My kids brought back an ice-shaving drinks maker thing from holidays abroad. It was shaped like a fairy mushroom house; you opened the top, filled it with ice then turned the handle to produce ice slush.

So naturally I opened it up and had a look. Inside was a rotating thing with razor blades sticking up, which was meant to shave the ice into slush.

Yes, a child's toy with rotating razor blades in it.

Sometimes our over-protective nanny state DOES have a point, when compared to what goes on in Johnny Foreigner land...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 17:02, closed)