The 70's & 80's were a better time to grow up

What do you have against Legos?

I'd say Legos are just as big now if not bigger. They still suck ass.

I just assumed it was a canadian thing. All I know it the fucking 3 foot space craft came with multiple staged boxes and a nice glossy instruction book. It was fucking insane, and there was nothing like that when I was a kid.

Have you seen the shit you can build with legos? I loved building shit when I was a kid. I played the fuck out of the legos I had so I know how awesome these are.

Oh, I have no real issue with them. What can be built is really incredible. I think getting outdoors for kids is really important so that's why I'm not as much of a fan.

you know you can do both those things, right?

Like, LEGO was invented in the 1970s back when kids lived outdoors and obvious they made money back then.

I have nothing against LEGO.

People who say "Legos", however, can

OK, so it is a canadian thing.

Anyway, He-Man Transformers, Go-Bots, Thundercats, and Smurfs sure were worth all the nuke fear, queer-bashing, misogyny, trickle down, and Reagan/Bush funded South American murder/rape squads, weren't they?
Yes indeedy.
Who's with me?

*Awkwardness fills the air*

Again, Red Room, bitches.
Red. Room.

lego, legeis, legei, legomen, legete, legousi(n)...

No, it's the name of the actual toy.

LEGO.

No "s".

Yes, a canadian thing. I hear you.

Born in 1980 here. Let's see ...

Music: The great stuff from the '60s and '70s is still around ... there are still plenty of young Beatles fans. Frankly, '80s rock all sounds the same to me. Pop in the '80s was more inventive, so that was good. I can listen to stuff from the '90s all day -- the Cranberries, Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Boyz II Men, Ini Kamoze -- and I'm not all that into what's coming out now, but I'm not going to pretend the music I listened to as a teenager is objectively better music. Everybody tends to like the stuff they grew up with. When I was a teenager there were adults insisting that everything we liked was crap compared to the music of the '60s; Elvis was declared to be crap compared to Sinatra and Perry Como.

Social media: It's a double-edged sword. Sure, I've been thankful plenty of times that social media didn't exist when I was young and stupid. And there are lots of problematic things -- the ability for bullying to infiltrate every part of a kid's life, and for girls, the pressure to look attractive all the time spilling into arenas where it didn't used to be. But it can also foster and strengthen friendships. For instance -- I have friends from elementary school who I interact with more now than I did 25 years ago when we were going to different high schools. It also makes it easier for kids who don't fit the popular mold at their school to find supportive peer groups.

Autonomy: In my neighborhood, kids run around, ride their bikes, and do things unaccompanied all the time.

Media: Another double-edged sword. The news we heard was more vetted, which did give it a level of reliability, but also tended to squeeze out anything that the majority didn't want to hear.

Television: What did we have then -- three networks plus PBS? Maybe an independent UHF station playing classic Trek reruns if you were near a major city? We're really in a new golden age of television now -- the sheer variety of what's being produced means there are well-written shows for just about any taste.

Sports: Never really gave a crap about them growing up, and still don't. But there seems to be more of an emphasis in schools now of encouraging student-athletes to be good people. Hard to find anything wrong with that.

Neighborhoods: Growing up, I had a neighbor the same age as me and played with her a lot, but I really didn't know anyone else in the neighborhood. I think I went inside the house on the other side of us all of one time.

High school parties: I'm pretty sure high school kids did drugs in the '70s and '80s too.

And of course, as @Diacanu already mentioned, things could get a lot shittier for you if you weren't white, or gender-conforming, or straight.

95.75% of the world call them LEGO, the official trademarked name of the toy.

Guess which idiots comprise the other 4.75% that improperly put an "s" at the end of it?

(Hint: they elected a failed reality star as their leader.)

Yes, the name of the toy is Lego. However, that toy never comes in boxes with only one toy in it. There least amount is like ... 5. So, unless you're referring specifically to the name of the toy company, Lego, then they are are legos.

Is it possible for the sensible among you to refer to them as "Lego," whether it's the one block your kid leaves in the hall that you step on when you get up in the middle of the night to pee or one of these guys: https://thecollector.io/features/2017/09/the-25-biggest-lego-sets-ever/

Dollars to donuts, few of you know how to pronounce IKEA, either.

Damn Scandinavians.

Listen, you stupid Yank:

It's LEGO.

One fish = fish.
Two or more fish = fish

One aircraft = aircraft
Two or more aircraft = aircraft

One piece of baggage = baggage
Two or more pieces of baggage = baggage

One LEGO brick = LEGO
Two or more LEGO bricks = LEGO

And IKEA is not pronounce "eye-keya," but AH-ke-ah. Or so my friends in Iceland tell me.

Saying "lego bricks" makes me feel like I'm one step away from "Kleenex-brand facial tissue" and "Dumpster-brand outdoor trash receptacles."

(I refuse to write it LEGO, because it's not an acronym for anything.)

Which makes us right. Deal with it. #Legos

Murican - right or wrong - especially when we're wrong.

1930s actually.

Literally no one cares. Not even you.

Jesus. Get a life.

My actual point was this is a Green Room thread, but okay.

Probably not. In my 75% French head, I pronounce it "ee-kay-ah", with no accent on any of the syllables.

How's it supposed to be pronounced?

Edited to add: I see you answered my question a little further on. Which shows that the French don't know how to pronounce it any more than Americans do.

But at least I know how to say "Sweden" in Swedish, and even pronounce it right. Doesn't that count for something?

If I heard someone say "AH-kee-uh," I'd assume they were from Alabama.

But then, I'm Norwegian, so every time I go into an Ikea I hear my aunt's voice in my head saying "Damned marauding Swedes!"