"I never see you at the club" ok but I never see you at the farm toys gallery in The Museum of English Rural Life - ThreadSky

themerl.bsky.social • 32 days ago

"I never see you at the club"

ok but I never see you at the farm toys gallery in The Museum of English Rural Life

Comments

Not me running like a crazy child to add this marvelous museum to the List of Cool Places I MUST Visit When I Finally Get to the UK
::Thud! Oops, who put that wall there?::

estrellathemustang.bsky.social•32 days ago

Subtly steering our household “where do we move to” debate towards the UK specifically so I can see the farm toys

verityplayer.bsky.social•32 days ago

Thank you for your gratuitously explicit picture of some models.

dendromecon.bsky.social•29 days ago

📌

rich-bryant.uk•32 days ago

the big manufacturers - Ford, John Deere, Massey-Ferguson - used to do 1/100th scale die-cast replicas for dealer showrooms and the dealers would cheerfully give them away to farmers for their kids in the hope of making a sale.

I had three.

madfishmonger.bsky.social•32 days ago

If I could get this damned teleporter to actually teleport me to where I want to go I'd be there! Never buy second-hand evil scientist machines, they never work.

michelecollins5411.bsky.social•32 days ago

my kids had both the red & green tractors displayed on the 2nd shelf. They played with them for years.

themerl.bsky.social•32 days ago

wonderful! we love hearing people's memories of the objects we collect :)

lizardky.bsky.social•32 days ago

Far more entertaining than a club.

sicburns2.bsky.social•32 days ago

That’s the bedroom for the remake of “40-year-old Virgin” set in 1950s Tulsa

janetherevelator.bsky.social•32 days ago

If I visit can I play with the toys

gabitried.bsky.social•32 days ago

Asking the important questions!

emiwikstik.bsky.social•32 days ago

This looks like my grandpa’s basement. The man literally lines the walls with display cabinets to show off his toy tractor collection.

themerl.bsky.social•32 days ago

Farm toys are many people's first introduction to the farming world.

This experience is explored in our Model Farming gallery, which opened in 2023 after we acquired an immense collection of pristine farm toys and scale models.

Here's more!

https://merl.reading.ac.uk/visit-us/galleries/model-farming/

philippa22.bsky.social•32 days ago

I can still sing along with more or less all of this song 50 years later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DVO1z3wKq4

themerl.bsky.social•32 days ago

this experience is always changing as farming takes form in new kinds of media. we're looking at you, Stardew Valley

almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day•32 days ago

no engagement farming toy display yet, i see

it'd be the same toys but the labels replaced with signs that say "only 70s kids remember this"

themerl.bsky.social•32 days ago

who do we have to speak with to speak with ConcernedApe

thierryemanuel.bsky.social•32 days ago

The museum is temporarily closed due to the farmers children protesting.

themerl.bsky.social•32 days ago

it's perfect

https://bsky.app/profile/richterscale.bsky.social/post/3lgdloiu5us27

themerl.bsky.social•32 days ago

you won't BELIEVE what's in this display case

https://bsky.app/profile/almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day/post/3lgdln4qf4k2o

themerl.bsky.social•32 days ago

there's a separate toy farm in the gallery!

https://bsky.app/profile/janetherevelator.bsky.social/post/3lgdlz7b2xs2x

kestrelgirl.bsky.social•32 days ago

Okay, but do you want to talk to him about making new toys or about putting him in the Museum?

uglesett.bsky.social•32 days ago

I thought @ericbarone.bsky.social was his account (I could've sworn he said so on the hellsite at some point and that's how I found the account, but I can't find the twitter post now).

But now bluesky moderation services have labeled it as impersonation, so I don't know. 🤨

odininthenorth.bsky.social•25 days ago

It's a fake account, unfortunately. The label is correct

themerl.bsky.social•32 days ago

oh hm! thank you for the heads up!

justhere4coffee.bsky.social•32 days ago

There's also a @concernedape.bsky.social but that account's even quieter. Could just be a placeholder for the name.

ellispratt.bsky.social•32 days ago

TIL https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-never-see-you-at-the-club

ellispratt.bsky.social•32 days ago

"In da Club" by 50 Cent's rural cousin (and definitely not ChatGPT):
Go, farmer, it's a crop day
We gon' work hard like it's a crop day
We gon' sip sweet tea when the work is done
And you know we don't stop till the crops are won

winter02.bsky.social•32 days ago

Ooh farm songs 🎶🎶

noizeebones.bsky.social•32 days ago

My biggest red flag is people who don’t go to museums

sorrykb.bsky.social•32 days ago

I will meet you at the farm toys gallery in The Museum of English Rural Life. Just name the date.

(not, like, to fight or anything. Just to say hi and maybe enjoy some farm toys.)