Post a pic of your favorite adult toy

[taterguy]

I just love my SR71 spy plane. It comes in handy when I need to pick up something from Paris and I only have a couple hours to spare.

[Robb]

1. Great shot!

Is that at the museum in Seattle?

[taterguy]

3. That's my personal hanger

Or the Museum of Flight in Seattle if you want to burst my fantasy bubble

[crim son]

2. My piano!

[Pierre.Suave]

39. You have no idea

how badly I want to learn to play the piano so I can play jazz. I am envious.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

60. Hell yeah! Ivories!

(Not really, 'cause of them elephants, but still. :P)

:hi:

[crim son]

64. My piano is over a hundred years old and it has real ivories.

I feel so bad fondling them. :hi:

[itsmesgd]

4. it's not very PC but it's a fun toy and it has pratical applications as well

bushmaster 16 inch XM-15 .223

[taterguy]

5. Nice try

I am not going to sully my fun thread by
a) Making some juvenile remark about guns and compensation issues
or
b) Ask what practical applications there are for a pseudo-assault rifle

No matter how tempting it would be to do those two things

[itsmesgd]

6. practical applications...

in the event of a police state or a second revolution.

plus, I work executive protection jobs from time to time, so it is a business tool (and tax write off) for me

[derby378]

7. Gun enthusiast that I am, I have a hard time calling guns "toys"

I support your right to own that rifle, but I do worry about the label. Yes, it can be a lot of fun to shoot off one of those guns for recreation - I'm guilty of it, too. Feels great perforating that paper target with an MAK-90, though. But we must never forget, even for a moment, that guns, high-powered model rockets, etc. are serious business.

[itsmesgd]

9. thus the term "adult toy"

Fast cars, and spy planes are dangerous as well, but they can be fun for responsible adults who are safe and professional.
I also like whitewater kayaking, but I would not rec that you try it if you cant swim. That could be just as dangerous as an untrained novice "playing" with a gun.

I remember being a kid and looking at things that adults did for fun and looking forward to being an adult myself. Unfortunately now everything has been "childproofed". Vegas is now family friendly! Isn't there anything that only adults, responsible ones at that, can do for fun?

[derby378]

32. I think Vegas is slowly trying to reverse that trend

And yes, I agree that someone is trying very hard to "childproof" America. Can't stand that notion. :hi:

[jobycom]

13. Would make wood chopping easier, but more expensive than a manual ax.

[yurbud]

31. I'm going to have to report you to the Secret Service for the name

it implies a threat to our god-given Tard King.

[itsmesgd]

36. bushmaster is the company name, but there is a certain political irony

I'm not dumb enough to make any threats here or elsewhere.

[yurbud]

51. yeah, I knew, I just had to underline the irony. Like having a Cheney adult diaper

[Pierre.Suave]

8. The orange one:

[taterguy]

10. But but but, that contributes to global warming and oil dependence

Kidding. Looks like it's a lot of fun.

[Pierre.Suave]

21. That car...

...has a Toyota 1.8 litre 4 cylinder and gets 40mpg on the highway...

[idgiehkt]

18. what kind of car is that?

is it really yours?

[Pierre.Suave]

22. that one?

no, mine is on its way, and will look exactly like that.

it is a Lotus Exige S. Hand built in Hethel England, one of the best handling cars on the planet, and a blast to drive. It gets it's performance through light weight, not a huge motor. The car weighs 1900lbs, contrast that with most cars that weigh over 3000lbs, most significantly over 3000lbs.

I cant wait for it to get here, and for spring to come. :headbang:

[idgiehkt]

35. very nice

are they expensive?

[Pierre.Suave]

37. No

not in relation to other cars that perform similarly.

This one is $64,000, to get comparable performance you would have to spend almost double that just to start, up to almost 1 million bucks just to get the same performance. All while paying more for gas, insurance, maintenance, etc...

this one, with its 1.8 litre toyota motor is as eco-friendly as sports cars get.

[flvegan]

44. Damn that's sweet.

Congrats! I was reading about these the other day. Power and handling to rival a 911, and mileage like a Civic. Powered by Toyota, but looks like Italian exotica.

[Pierre.Suave]

45. They are fun

the test drive sealed the deal for me, now all I have to do is wait for it to be built and delivered.

edit: these are literally hand built, and they only build 300 a year.

[Neoma]

11. Legos!

[itsmesgd]

12. I bet that you followed the directions, didn't you?

[Neoma]

17. Brother did.

I gave him all my legos.

[sakabatou]

19. Same

[Q3JR4]

85. Yay legos!

:woohoo:

:applause:

[cloudbase]

14. My dream toy

Guzzi Breva 1100


Much better looking than mine

[itsmesgd]

15. oooo nice. I want a Ducati (nice Magna ya got there)

[cloudbase]

16. Thanks.

Ducatis rule for style, but they're really maintenance pigs. I really like the Magna, but it's not exactly an all-day bike. It gets pretty "buzzy" around 75 mph, but the best thing about it is that it's paid for.

[itsmesgd]

24. my friend's dad swears by his BMW'r bike

but the posture looks too uncomfortable for a long ride

[Lex]

20. Carolina Skiff . . .

Here she is on the boat lift, scrubbed down, and waiting for the next adventure:

[itsmesgd]

26. this is my speed

a 14' Necky Zoar Sport

I cant wait till spring. Less time on DU more time on the water.

[Lex]

27. "Less time on DU more time on the water."

Indeed!

I'm more of a canoe fan myself, but if there is water around I want to be on it or in it!

[Pierre.Suave]

40. Cool

where and for what do you fish?

[Lex]

47. SE NC coast

Fish for speckled trout, spanish mackeral, king mackeral, mahi mahi, spots, croakers, blues. It depends on when I can get away and what's biting at the time. My Dad's my #1 fishing buddy.

[Pierre.Suave]

49. awesome

My alone time is usually spent in waders in a river fly fishing for trout and/or salmon.

[Lex]

52. I'd love to learn that style of fishing too.

Seems like an art form.

Sometimes when we are fishing for king mackeral we are 12 or so miles off the coast. No land can be seen at all. It's something. Almost spiritual.

[Road Scholar]

84. Your dad must be one fantastic guy! Smart? I bet he's a genius.

:toast: :hi:

[pokerfan]

23. Fun little toy

[ileus]

25. the baby

[Pierre.Suave]

42. that looks fun

Where was the pic taken?

[ileus]

46. My brothers farm in WV.

[Pierre.Suave]

48. very cool

looks like fun. I have always wanted to do that, but never had the opportunity.

[taterguy]

28. I give up: What the hell is that?

[pokerfan]

30. A 41" diameter telescope

Buddy of mine made it. Mine is only 10" and I feel so inadequate.

[Pierre.Suave]

41. What is that?

a home built telescope?

[pokerfan]

53. Yes

[Blue-Jay]

29. .

(I keed, I keed...)

[guitar man]

33. Here's mine

...wife got this for me for working hard and earning a big promotion and raise last year :)

I just wish all this cold icy snowy weather would break so I can get out and ride it :(

[Deja Q]

34. Not quite what I had anticipated, I must say...

[TheMightyFavog]

38. May I present the Canon XLH1.

One day it shall be mine...

[TheMightyFavog]

43. And the Mac which will edit the stuff shot with this camera...

Two 3.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processors
16 Gigs of RAM
4 750 gig hard drives (HD video takes up a lot of space.)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI)
2 Apple Cinema HD Displays (30" flat panel)
2 16x superdrives
Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple wireless Mighty Mouse
OS X 10.4, with an upgrade to Leopard when it comes out
Final Cut Studio


All for the low, low, price of $16,000.

[Pierre.Suave]

50. LOL

awesome, I want one too.

[Chan790]

58. You're going to hate me this...

but I had one at my personal disposal in one of my previous jobs...we were using it to webstream college D-III basketball and lectures on Jesus for a small DC university.

[Pierre.Suave]

54. Personally

I want one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-29

[taterguy]

55. You just want that so you can shoot down my spiffy spy plane

Right?

[Pierre.Suave]

56. NO

I would never be able to catch you, I just want to fly the thing around and have fun.

[taterguy]

59. I'm keeping my eye on my six anyway

I have no military background but I'm getting hip to the lingo

[Pierre.Suave]

67. HAHA

ok, you are off to a good start.

[Burma Jones]

57. Cirqus Voltaire Pinball....

[NewWaveChick1981]

61. Makeup with naughty names like this...

http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml?id=P172716&categoryId=703001

:hi:

[jus_the_facts]

62. This would be mine ...if I could afford one ....and it could be a hydrid...

[Redstone]

63. Yairi DY-53 handmade 6-string acoustic guitar.

(Abalone trim, Martin D-45 style, cedar top, rosewood sides and back.)

Wish I could still play it.

Redstone

[LanternWaste]

65. At the risk of getting labled DU's biggest dork...

Well... not the biggest dork 'cause I don't play D&D anymore and I've never been tempted to cruise around on MySpace.

But I think this qualifis me for at least runner up status. May I present to you the horn officailly kown in elitist music cirlces as "The Overgrown Bubble Pipe" & known to the ex-marching band weenies as a Bass Clarinet.

It's actually got a very deep, resonant and rich sound-- much like the cello to the clarinet's violin. I bought a used one some years back, got my chops back, picked up some sheet music and now jam in a band that covers all the AC/DC tunes (not really... I never picked up sheet music yet)

:spray:

[Aristus]

66. Also not PC and it's a hell of a gas-guzzler, but:

I crewed one of these in the Gulf. I hate war now, but back then ( I was 22) it was a helluva rush.

[benEzra]

68. Boy, did *I* misunderstand the title of this thread...

:blush:



As far as "toys" go, this would probably be mine:



That's my "new old" Sunfish. Everything but the hull is from a small wooden kit sailboat my sister and I built with our dad in the early 1980's, using marine plywood and Minifish (small Sunfish) sail and hardware; I was about 13 at the time. We raced that boat for a couple of years in a local class, then used it for pleasure day sailing for years. I kept the boat when I married and moved to Florida, and we sailed it some down there as well. Unfortunately, that hull became unseaworthy due to rot a few years ago, but the Minifish bits were still in good condition in our garage.

Then I noticed a couple months ago that one of our neighbors had an old 14' Sunfish hull (a late 1980's AMF/Alcort) buried under a bunch of junk in his back yard. The boom and rudder of that boat were broken, the daggerboard was lost, the sail was in bad shape, and the hull needed some minor repairs. BUT I just happened to have all those parts from our old wooden kit boat, so I bought the old hull for $200, and here we are.

The hull still needs some fiberglass repair, cleaning, and painting, the current rudder is a bit kludged (a little dry-rotted, some added bracing to compensate, needs a new one at some point), and I am in the process of installing a 6" port in front of the daggerboard trunk, but the boat sails beautifully.

(And no, that's not our neighborhood...)



Also have this (not a toy, but it's still lots of fun, though, and probably most-prized possession):



No, that's not an AK-47. It's a non-automatic civilian gun (2002-model Romanian SAR-1, purchased in 2003) built on a civilian receiver and civilian fire control parts, while making use of an AK barrel, gas system, and stock set. The sight is a Russian Kobra collimator sight (unmagnified heads-up display, yes, I'm a geek), and the magazine is a Hungarian 20-rounder.

It's fairly low-powered as rifles go (just barely powerful enough to hunt deer with, if I were a hunter), but low power = mild recoil, and ammo is pretty darn economical for a centerfire rifle. Also can't beat that style of gas system for reliability, and I like the eastern European aesthetics. Best accuracy so far is about 2.5 arcminutes with optics, which isn't bad for a 16" barreled carbine with a heavy gas piston. It's not a 1-MOA rifle like an AR, but my local range only goes to 200 yards, and 7.62x39mm is at most a 300-yard cartridge anyway.

[itsmesgd]

70. did you get your SAR-1 from Century?

if so did you stain the furniture yourself? If so, good job. I just changed my furniture out to an a-6 tactical stock (like on my AR15) with a black poly Galil style handguard. I had stained the wood to a dark cherry and I didnt want to scratch it, but it looked a lot better with the wood furniture than the plastic tactical stuff. I might get another one so that I can keep it around for looks.

[benEzra]

73. Yes, it's a Century...

but believe it or not, that's the original finish, even though I'd love to take credit for it. They have done some runs of SAR's with decent furniture now and then, but I have also seen some with bad finishes or practically no finish at all on the wood.

I bought that in 2003 from a gun shop in northwest Florida that catered to collectors and milsurp aficionados--racks of Enfields, Mosin-Nagants, Mausers, K31's, Russian SKS's. Could have gotten one cheaper from a local gun show (I paid $379 for mine, going rate was probably $325 at a show), but this one had nice wood, the sights and gas block were on straight, and the shop threw in an RPK magazine. In retrospect, I'm glad I bought the one I did, as it's been a good one.

Did you have any trigger slap with yours? Mine has just a hint of slap if it gets hot, but normally the trigger is very good (better than my mini-14). I might someday put a Tapco G2 trigger assembly in it, but it's not high on my priority list. A slant brake would also be cool, but I'd have to have a gunsmith do it.

[itsmesgd]

74. no slap

When I first bought it, my cousin warned me of trigger slap. I ran a few hundred rounds through it and didnt understand what he was talking about. He claimed that I was ignorant and he ran 200 rounds through it and was pissed because it had no slap. The front sight had been bumped and cants to the left a tad bit, but the rest of the action is straight. I adjusted the front iron sight and I'm right handed, so the gun is accurate at the 100 yard range that I shoot at. I'm happy with the accuracy at 100 yards. I have scopes and a decent red dot on my bushmaster ar 15, and I use it for long distance shots..
The gun store nearest me just got in two cases of old Mosin-Nagants and has them for $125 each. It was so hard to not grab one, but the last thing I need is another caliber of ammo to stock.

[benEzra]

77. LOL about the Mosins...

my wife bought me this one (Finn M39, receiver date 1905) as a Christmas present a few years ago, from the same gun shop:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=271x1128

It kicks a heck of a lot worse than 7.62x39mm, that's for sure...

[kwassa]

79. I grew up sailing Sunfish as a kid ...

I've done everything possible one can do to a Sunfish, including sinking it, not easy to do.

One of our friends had the kit Sunfish, but everyone else in my parent's social group bought the fiberglass version. It is a very fun boat.

[taterguy]

69. Shameless kick

Because I enjoyed yesterday's replies so much

[Bonhomme Richard]

71. So hard to choose

[southpaw]

72. I'm really popular with the neighbors...

[taterguy]

75. Why wouldn't you be?

I just love it when my neighbors are kind enough to share their very loud hobbies

[BarenakedLady]

76. Nope...not.gonna.do.it.

:evilgrin:

Tricky trickster!

I can tell you it is hot pink though. LoL.

[racaulk]

81. ROFL

That was the first "adult toy" I thought of also! You're a dirty girl!

:evilgrin:

[leftofthedial]

78. my personal fave

[pdx_prog]

80. Guitars, Guitars, Guitars!

[chaska]

82. Amps, amps, amps!!!

My mid-Sixties Traynor (made in Canada, eh) Bassmaster, with a circuit nearly identical to a Marshall JTM 45 and/or a Fender tweed Bassman. Found it in a thrift store for $40. SUUUUUUWEET!!!

[Rob H.]

83. My lame favorite

An 80GB iPod like the one I got about a month ago. I held off forever on getting one and I have to admit that I love it.

If I had the money, though, I'd go for the Ariel Atom roadster even though for me it'd be completely impractical. Curb weight is about 1300 pounds and yes, it's street-legal. They start at $35K and go up to around $45K, depending on options.