Soft toy thread 🐻

nemrac · 13 February 2018 22:51

When I went to France aged around 7 I made a little passport for my yellow bunny (called Bunny) and the passport guy stamped it

anon89873996 · 13 February 2018 22:53

This made me think I had a sort of reverse situation: there was a teddy, who presumably I was given as a tiny baby, who my brother took from me. Now I can tell from my parents’ point of view that it was probably as simple as he took a shine to Miss Pinky, I was too young to have formed any attachment to her, so it was easier just to let him have her. However as a child when I found out she was meant to be mine I think I took it as a major rejection that she didn’t want to be my bear

BMS1 · 13 February 2018 22:56

My parents bought me a big teddy when I was six or seven. Didn’t like it. Too nice and shiny. Teddy Bears are nicer when all beat up and bruised. Don’t know what happened to the big teddy. I hope the motherfucker went through a woodchipper. Hated it.

anon89873996 · 13 February 2018 22:57

I am trying to encourage rotation, it seems the best for all concerned in the long term.

anon76851889 · 13 February 2018 23:02

It has a beautifully wonky face

shrewbie · 13 February 2018 23:03

no but i used to take register of mine with a little notepad and pencil before going to bed every night, would’ve worked better if they had surnames

anon89873996 · 13 February 2018 23:10

It is ok, I know she must have had her reasons. I grew to understand that. It is a big consolation that she was and is his no. 1 bear, so they were obviously meant to be best friends.

anon89873996 · 13 February 2018 23:14

I think I usually just gave them a last name based on their species. For example, Howard the polar bear had the full name of Howard James Bear*

*I got Howard when I was 17, not even embarrassed.

1101010 · 13 February 2018 23:27

I really hope your nephew is okay?

Scagden · 13 February 2018 23:28

This thread has been the first time on new-dis that I have genuinely worried about the dreaded “running out of likes”

1101010 · 13 February 2018 23:31

My cousin (who is about 15 years older than me) made me a Winnie the Pooh bear when I was in the womb. It’s looking pretty battered these days:

I should point out that this bear was originally made of towling. He also had ears.

anon89873996 · 13 February 2018 23:34

Nah, he is proper down to earth, a more likeable polar bear you are not likely to meet. He has one upside down paw, is very soft and for some reason loves mariachi music. GBOPB, I will take a picture of him tomorrow.

anon89873996 · 13 February 2018 23:36

Sean increased the like limit before Christmas, I think it is in the hundreds now so no need to ration those likes any time soon

Scagden · 13 February 2018 23:37

Cool. Thanks Sean. Just climate change, the international rise of fascism and the heat death of the universe left on my worries list. Can he help with any of those?

anon89873996 · 13 February 2018 23:39

No, but a nice soft toy might take the edge off?

Scagden · 13 February 2018 23:40

Was going to post pictures of Zammy but the TV will be rightly aggrieved if I start photographing my stuffed crocodile at twenty to twelve.

anon89873996 · 13 February 2018 23:42

Something to look forward to for tomorrow then.

ynot · 14 February 2018 08:19

He was a lot better yesterday.

escutcheon · 14 February 2018 08:27

I have four soft toys from my childhood that survived.

Little Ted, my all-time dog, who is battered but still a peach
Litte Bear, his younger brother, who was bought first but not the one I fell for
Little Ted 2, bought when I was six as a replacement for Little Ted but he couldn’t be supplanted.
Blue Dog, was for a while the GOAT but is now just chilling and max relaxing in retirement.

My daughter has literally hundreds of soft toys. She has a few favourites she calls her babies. Here is a photo of the squad from last year.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BO9KDQIgMS6x_OChy4O9vCQoa6FdI89m50DXQs0/

That’s Mr Ladyberg, Pepper the Cat, Mrs Buzzybee and her all-time favourite, Zooby. Add to that a few new ones - a fairy my Gran got my wife before she died that is now called Tink, two fluffy dogs called Baby Frank and Other Frank (our actual dog is called Frank), and a larger and newer version of Zooby called Mummy Zooby.

Zooby isn’t it’s real name - it’s a Beanie Boo called Ruby, but she couldn’t say the name so it became Zooby after months of my wife and I correcting it. I used to come up with all the names, but now she does and she’s got a real knack for it. Her most recent one is a new teddy bear called Donnard. Don’t ask where Donnard came from. I don’t know.

grievoustim · 14 February 2018 08:32

This is snoopy. My only remaining childhood stuffed toy (panda may be around somewhere, but he was losing stuffing at an alarming rate last time I saw him)

My parents bought Snoopy back for me from a holiday to Hawaii they went on (without me or my sister, was a work holiday thing I think). My sister got the same toy but in a Hawaiian skirt. Snoopy’s t shirt says “I Hawaii”