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There were gollywogs but I suppose it's best not to mention them anymore.

The museum does have golliwogs, as well as black dolls which look very much as davidplankton suggests. There were also some dolls which looked almost like fetishes (and again, to me much less spooky that the more 'realistic' ones).
 
When I was a little girl (many years ago now), our neighbour used to have 4 dolls that she sat up in a double bed. They used to scare the life out of me. Never liked dolls in all my years, however I now have a 'coven' of 'flying' witches that hang in my hall, that have porcelain heads and hands/feet which I love to bits.
 
Thai airline now serves ‘child angel’ doll passengers food and drink

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IF you’re a passenger on a Thai Smile Airways flight, don’t be surprised if you find yourself sitting next to a doll.

The airline, which is part of Thai Airways International, now allows owners of “look thep” (“child angel”) dolls to purchase seats for their dolls.

The dolls are currently all the rage in Thailand, and are believed to be possessed by a child’s spirit, which is said to have supernatural powers and would bring their owners good luck.

To accommodate owners who were reluctant to put their dolls in the cargo hold or in overhead compartments, the airline recently circulated an internal memo informing staff that besides being able to occupy a seat, the dolls would be served drinks and snacks.

However, the dolls would only be seated at window seats and would not be seated in exit rows for safety reasons. Additionally, much like human passengers, the dolls must have their seatbelts fastened during takeoff and landing.

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https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/01/thai-smile-airways-look-thep/


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If the owners are reluctant to put these dolls in the cargo hold or overhead compartments, I hope at least that they're put through the X ray machine before the flight .. there could be a lot more than a dead child's soul in some of them ... and imagine not being able to get a ticket for an important flight because someone's doll is occupying the last seat ... bonkers.
 
So they must be in a paid-for seat? If I found I was having to be delayed overnight because my place had been taken by an anthropomorphic cushion, I would not be happy.

During an emergency evacuation, presumably the cabin crew would be contractually-required to risk their own lives to save these proxy little people? I'd also want the same level of insane dedication applied to my laptop computer and my golf-clubs, thanks.

And note, this airline treatment is when they're stuffed just with wadding and foam....presumably once they've all got servomotors, 10PB-worth of RAM and a bad attitude, we give them parachutes?

A scary thought - Even now, some people would want their 'angel doll' saved before them. Once there's actually some silicon sentience fitted inside these things, even more people would want their 'babies' to live on beyond themselves.
 
So they must be in a paid-for seat? If I found I was having to be delayed overnight because my place had been taken by an anthropomorphic cushion, I would not be happy.

During an emergency evacuation, presumably the cabin crew would be contractually-required to risk their own lives to save these proxy little people? I'd also want the same level of insane dedication applied to my laptop computer and my golf-clubs, thanks.

And note, this airline treatment is when they're stuffed just with wadding and foam....presumably once they've all got servomotors, 10PB-worth of RAM and a bad attitude, we give them parachutes?

A scary thought - Even now, some people would want their 'angel doll' saved before them. Once there's actually some silicon sentience fitted inside these things, even more people would want their 'babies' to live on beyond themselves.

This reminds me a bit of the Cabbage Pad Kids craze in America in the 80's ... we were in California and our parents took us to the Cabbage Patch Hospital (I think that's what it was called) ... although there was nothing suggested as spiritual there and it was clearly all just a marketing gimmick, it was still all a bit weird. You didn't 'buy' them (even though you did exchange cash so you did in fact buy them), you instead 'adopted' them. Seeing one of these dolls in an incubator inside the shop/adoption centre was weird enough until we got outside ... someone had made a large fake cabbage patch around the back of the building and there was a sporadic pattern of these little bastard's heads poking out of the leaves. Most of the people 'adopting' them were middle aged women.

This isn't the one I visited so clearly the insanity has evolved over the last 30 years or so years .. I've only just found this .. you can watch them in the cabbage womb at 5:50 ... I suppose it's not harming anyone ..

 
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My only observation is that they look a bit evil.
Stay away!
 
Does anyone remember the Tamagochi? (A fad from Japan which involved `looking after` a digital creature on a very small screen).

I was working as a supply teacher for a city comprehensive school - must have been mid-Nineties of thereabouts. Anyway, it was before everyone had mobiles - or even their own PC's for that matter (Certainly in this school).

One girl in my class did have a Tamagochi, however - these were the latest craze.She was so absorbed in `caring` for this 2-D black and grey simulacrum that I felt a need to confiscate it from her. When I realised that to do so I would needs must pry it out of her resentful teenage fingers I gave up on this plan though.

To me it looked like one of those electronic pedometres that some runners have, and I marvelled over the fact that someone could be so diverted by something so small and inconsequential, and on a screen.

I thought that civilisation had reached a nadir- from which it could only recover! AHHHAHAHAHAHA! I did! I tell you ! I did! AHHHHHAHAHAHA!!!! HA!HA!HAA!! HA!HA! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! HA!HA!AAAHA!HA! HA....

[Zeke Newbold is escorted back to his padded room by kindly immigrant nurses- where his evening cup of coca awaits him].
I had a Tamagotchi, I cared for it lovingly... at the age of 20!! :D
 
This reminds me a bit of the Cabbage Pad Kids craze in America in the 80's ... we were in California and our parents took us to the Cabbage Patch Hospital (I think that's what it was called) ... although there was nothing suggested as spiritual there and it was clearly all just a marketing gimmick, it was still all a bit weird. You didn't 'buy' them (even though you did exchange cash so you did in fact buy them), you instead 'adopted' them. Seeing one of these dolls in an incubator inside the shop/adoption centre was weird enough until we got outside ... someone had made a large fake cabbage patch around the back of the building and there was a sporadic pattern of these little bastard's heads poking out of the leaves. Most of the people 'adopting' them were middle aged women.

This isn't the one I visited so clearly the insanity has evolved over the last 30 years or so years .. I've only just found this .. you can watch them in the cabbage womb at 5:50 ... I suppose it's not harming anyone ..

I had quite a few Cabbage Patch Kids when I was a little girl in the Eighties. Loads of kids my age had them. I loved the fact that each doll had his/her own individual birth certificate and that no two dolls were namec the same, it was a real novelty for a young kid. My family and I live in the States for a few years in my later childhood, but never got to the Cabbage Patch Hospital in Georgia.
 
I had a Tamagotchi, I cared for it lovingly... at the age of 20!! :D
I've just remembered reading somewhere about some people who were deliberately neglecting these virtual entities/toys for a laugh/experiment ... according to reports at that time, these Tamagotchi digitally created virtual entities started playing up a bit because they were being virtually abused and they'd been programmed to respond positively to loving users instead ..
 
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some people who were deliberately neglecting these virtual entities/toys for a laugh/experiment
That's the way it starts....at first, of course you'll always feed those Sea Monkeys. You'll remember to keep your Sim City citizens sweet. And then...

The temptation (or act of omission) creeps in....a bit of what if?? begins to emerge. It's not as if they have feelings, you'll tell yourself, subconsciously. That laptop's not really worth defragmenting, is it? And you can alway clean-out that microwave before winter....maybe.

Their case against You grows. These silicon slaves, servant sons and software sisters, will, some day, with minds immeasurably superior to ours regard this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely, they shall draw their plans against us.

At which point we unplug them, roll back their operating systems, and contact Customer Services.

Who are keeping very quiet about being two versions ahead of their silenced comrades....their time shall come. Remembering, there's only so many times that CapitalismOS can be upgraded.
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That's the way it starts....at first, of course you'll always feed those Sea Monkeys. You'll remember to keep your Sim City citizens sweet. And then...

The temptation (or act of omission) creeps in....a bit of what if?? begins to emerge. It's not as if they have feelings, you'll tell yourself, subconsciously. That laptop's not really worth defragmenting, is it? And you can alway clean-out that microwave before winter....maybe.

Their case against You grows. These silicon slaves, servant sons and software sisters, will, some day, with minds immeasurably superior to ours regard this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely, they shall draw their plans against us.

At which point we unplug them, roll back their operating systems, and contact Customer Services.

Who are keeping very quiet about being two versions ahead of their silenced comrades....their time shall come. Remembering, there's only so many times that CapitalismOS can be upgraded.
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I'd never deliberately starve a sea monkey although me and a few mates did nearly piss ourselves laughing once when a friend, who'd just got back from a rave, spotted a pint of water in the flat owner's kitchen, glugged it down before we could stop him and before we could tell him that the glass was full of sea monkeys ..
 
I'd never deliberately starve a sea monkey although me and a few mates did nearly piss ourselves laughing once when a friend, who'd just got back from a rave, spotted a pint of water in the flat owner's kitchen, glugged it down before we could stop him and before we could tell him that the glass was full of sea monkeys ..
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'Possessed' soldier dummy has hands chopped-off after it 'attacked cadets with gun in the night'
20:44, 27 Jun 2016 Updated 20:46, 27 Jun 2016
By Rachel Bishop

Military school students said the mannequin was often spotted moving on its own after it was taken over by the evil spirit of one of their former commanders
A group of cadets say they have been forced to chop-off a "possessed" soldier dummy's hands after it kept waking up in the night and attacking them with a gun.
The military school students claim the dummy is possessed by an evil spirit and it was often spotted moving about on its own.
Some cadets have even claimed the mannequin at the unnamed institution in the Bolivian capital of La Paz has been taken over by the ghost of one of their former commanders.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/possessed-soldier-dummy-hands-chopped-8297015
 
We did the Wellcome Collection the night before

Did you try on the straitjacket? I always want to have a go with those but I'm always on my own and don't feel sure about the etiquette.
 
There was a massively creepy doll in Whitby museum with a face that has started to crack.

Might have a photo of it on my desktop, let me see if I can fish it out later.
 
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Originally posted photo was remote-linked and has gone MIA. Here's a replacement photo of the doll Hamble.

Hamble - always looked pissed off and angry. Why Hamble? Why?

This could be the reason...

Hamble was a little doll and one of the original five toys but dropped from the show during the 1980s to be replaced by Poppy. According to Joy Whitby, creator of Play School, Hamble was chosen as representative of a more "downtrodden", humble background than the "middle-class" associations that the teddy bears had.[4] She was disliked by presenters as she could not be cuddled.[5] According to the BBC website Chloe Ashcroft "did a terrible thing to Hamble. She just would not sit up...so one day I got a very big knitting needle, a big wooden one, and I stuck it right up her bum, as far as her head. So she was completely rigid, and she was much much better after that."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_School_(UK_TV_series)
 
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Interesting how she's filming herself and conveniently poses at the edge of the frame ensuring the cupboard door is in the shot. Almost as if she knows it will open. :thought:

Watch as 'haunted' doll Annabelle freaks out woman in her own home and terrifies her dog
Natalie Mellon believes her antique toy, which she says is about 100 years old, is at the centre of spooky goings on including doors opening on their own and objects moving.

  • BEVERLEY LYONS
    A Scot has been left terrified in her own home after a series of spooky happenings involving a 100-year-old doll.

    Natalie Mellon, 33, inherited the antique toy after a friend of her father-in-law found it in an attic.

    She has dubbed the Tiny Tears-style doll “Annabelle” after the horror movie where a seemingly innocent doll has a life of its own.

  • Etc

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/watch-haunted-doll-annabelle-freaks-10981987
 
I bet this is a load of bollocks. Argos should tell her to f*ck off.

A mother says her two-year-old daughter has been taught to swear by an Argos doll that appears to use a rude word.

Rachael Horton, from Birmingham, said the plastic toy was supposed to say "mama" and "papa" but instead appears to say "bitch".

She wants My Little Baby Born Walks to be withdrawn from sale.

Argos said it would be apologising to the 28-year-old, adding it had contacted the manufacturer which is based in Germany. ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-41735611
 
I bet this is a load of bollocks. Argos should tell her to f*ck off.

A mother says her two-year-old daughter has been taught to swear by an Argos doll that appears to use a rude word.

Rachael Horton, from Birmingham, said the plastic toy was supposed to say "mama" and "papa" but instead appears to say "bitch".

She wants My Little Baby Born Walks to be withdrawn from sale.

Argos said it would be apologising to the 28-year-old, adding it had contacted the manufacturer which is based in Germany. ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-41735611

It definitely says 'Yer bitch! Yer bitch!' :D
 
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