Hilarious LEGO Window Licker

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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lego-sorry...8.html#6bpc75h

Essentially LEGO released a new toy with the description "Part frog, part chicken, part back-of-the-bus window-licker, this Mixel has the longest tongue of them all." - Now this is either a hilarious accidental bad wording or ridiculous insensitive joke

[Wilian]

The only thing I can see is that phallic long thick red thing coming out of his mouth

[Deleted]

The only thing I can see is that phallic long thick red thing coming out of his mouth

Do you know what a window licker means?

[Gheld]

Do you know what a window licker means?

Yeah it's those MRM guys in that bike shop thread.

[Deleted]

Do you know what a window licker means?

inefficient window cleaner?

[Rabblexthree]

Maybe the toy sits in the back of the bus and licks windows. Context is key when it comes to discrimination.

[Gheld]

Maybe the toy sits in the back of the bus and licks windows. Context is key when it comes to discrimination.

I believe the PC word for that is DERPY now.

[Deleted]

Do you know what a window licker means?

Pretty certain they are not claiming it to be a "part chicken, part from, part retard"..

Only those with delicate sensibilities and the professional victim complexers/SJW will create an issue over this

[Sellest]

People are overacting over some slang urban dictionary expression when it is obvious it weren't meant in that way

[freakyduck]

if they hadn't included "back-of-the-bus" this wouldn't be an issue.

[Wilian]

Do you know what a window licker means?

No idea and I was too mesmerized by that beastial penis coming out of it's mouth to go and find out.

[Jarob22]

inefficient window cleaner?

lmao /10char

[Deleted]

Pretty certain they are not claiming it to be a "part chicken, part from, part retard"..

Only those with delicate sensibilities and the professional victim complexers/SJW will create an issue over this

The fact it mentions a bus, where the term originates (children on the special bus licking windows). The intent is irrelevant, it's a moronic PR error that should've being spotted

[Jimson]

Pretty certain they are not claiming it to be a "part chicken, part from, part retard"..

Only those with delicate sensibilities and the professional victim complexers/SJW will create an issue over this

I'm not offended by the choice of words, but I AM pretty sure they meant derpy/retarded/mentally handicapped/whatever. I'm not sure why else you would specifically mention a bus and licking windows, given the very specific stereotype that exists about those two conditions.

People are overacting over some slang urban dictionary expression when it is obvious it weren't meant in that way

Oh, it's obvious? Can you explain what the intended meaning was, then?

[digiNuck]

They might have gotten away with it if they didn't include the "back of the bus" part. Can't really claim ignorance in that case. Without that it's pretty innocuous unless you got up and just REALLY needed to be offended by something that day.

[Hattai]

They might have gotten away with it if they didn't include the "back of the bus" part. Can't really claim ignorance in that case. Without that it's pretty innocuous unless you got up and just REALLY needed to be offended by something that day.

This is the internet. Getting offended and professional victimhood is a growth industry these days.

[klogaroth]

Given that this is a description of a Lego it can only be one of two things.

1 - The person who wrote it had heard the phrase, but didn't really understand what it was about. Possibly lost in translation?

2 - It was a single rogue employee trying to cause damage to the company


Lego are not in the business of debating mental health issues, or the use of language that surrounds them. They are in the business of selling toys. Anyone with a full knowledge of what the phrase means would have known that it would not further their goal of selling toys.

[Deleted]

Thats just mean.

[Mustardisbad]

I did not know what that meant, but now I can see why some people are offended. Wonder why someone would call it that.

[Independent voter]

Some designer probably heard the term "window licker" from their kids and decided to use it, not knowing that it was a derisive term used for the mentally handicapped.