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and you though we were weird. My day at the doll convention
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NoMan

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Was getting coffee with The Redhead this morning and we noticed a doll convention at the local Elks Building. Sure, why not. Let's take a look. Dig my wife for that: she just likes to explore. So we go in and it's a doll convention. Not an action figure/robot thing but a doll convention. Old timey dolls. Did see one Evel Kenevel figure that I had never seen before. 6 inches tall. From the 70s. $150.00. Found a table with a box of comics. 90s drek. $3.00 a book. "There not new, they're old," lady tells me.

Anyways, I see these ladies pushing around in baby strollers and carrying some very, very sick looking babies. I go in for recon. They're dolls! But they look REAL! I mean really, really real. I hear these ladies talking to the dolls. "What do you think of this outfit, Bertha? I know you and I don't have much time left together so I want to buy you whatever clothes you want!"

Man it was weird so the investigative journalist in me goes into action and I start asking questions. Seems these people are called "Reborners" in the doll world. They make/buy/collect very, very real looking babies and some treat them as if they are real. You can get some in various stages of sickness to, I guess, nurse them on their deathbed.

Noman's on the job so you don't have to!

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My wife collects dolls, is part of all sorts of forums and what-not.

There’s an odd trend right now of customizing baby dolls to look like monsters.  Demons, Frankenstein, zombies, vampires... it’s freaky as all hell.

This is just one customizer

 

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18 minutes ago, BlowUpTheMoon said:

Pics? 

yeah, I should of. I was kinda in shock. It really was a toss up if they were real sick babies or not. 

it was exactly like the picture in the link below. Life like baby, older woman with a face etched with grave concern:

https://www.fastcodesign.com/3040525/meet-the-women-who-treat-their-reborn-dolls-like-real-children

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Don't know if you caught this but recently I spoke about the crazy girl that I know that treats her Cocker Spaniel like a real child.

I just read this thread. 

You win. 

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20 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

Don't know if you caught this but recently I spoke about the crazy girl that I know that treats her Cocker Spaniel like a real child.

I just read this thread. 

You win. 

I did read that thread and I asked you if the crazy girl was cute and you never responded.

is she cute?

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1 minute ago, NoMan said:

I did read that thread and I asked you if the crazy girl was cute and you never responded.

is she cute?

No - at least not to me. Pot for every lid though... 

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54 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

No - at least not to me. Pot for every lid though... 

So if I get stoned, she gets prettier? Tell me more about your ways... 

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2 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

Don't know if you caught this but recently I spoke about the crazy girl that I know that treats her Cocker Spaniel like a real child.

I just read this thread. 

You win. 

:roflmao:

I laugh now but I'm going to pay for this thread while I sleep tonight :fear:

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