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29 Dec 2010, 11:08 am

`why is it that mushrooms depicted in many children's programs/animations/pictures are aminitas (the red or orange ones with white spots)?

Do they realize that aminitas are among the most potent hallucinogenic mushrooms out there?

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29 Dec 2010, 11:17 am

Could be because of their striking and distinctive look. Either that or they want to encourage children to open their minds with reality bending entheogens.

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29 Dec 2010, 1:10 pm

They're the most cartoonish looking one's and colorful too, so yeah...

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29 Dec 2010, 1:20 pm

The appearance of them catches the eyes of children.

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29 Dec 2010, 2:15 pm

bah. If visual appeal was the concern, they'd pick a bio-luminescent species.

kids love stuff that glows in the dark.

I think deep down, everyone does.

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29 Dec 2010, 2:20 pm

MasterJedi wrote:

Some aminitas are also extremely deadly. I wonder how many deaths Mario has caused.

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29 Dec 2010, 3:32 pm

ShenLong wrote:

MasterJedi wrote:

Some aminitas are also extremely deadly. I wonder how many deaths Mario has caused.

I wonder about that, as well.

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29 Dec 2010, 3:39 pm

Tensu wrote:

bah. If visual appeal was the concern, they'd pick a bio-luminescent species.

kids love stuff that glows in the dark.

I think deep down, everyone does.

Or even better, the glow in the dark nuclear mushrooms in the DMZ around Chernobyl and Pripyat.

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30 Dec 2010, 12:17 am

Tensu wrote:

bah. If visual appeal was the concern, they'd pick a bio-luminescent species.

kids love stuff that glows in the dark.

I think deep down, everyone does.

Technically harder to do on a cartoon, or at least was before the advent of CGI.

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30 Dec 2010, 5:41 am

haha and I thought that you were going to lead a discussion on how so many kids shows these days remind you of a mushroom trip. aka teletubbies

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30 Dec 2010, 6:32 am

It's some kind of sinister conspiracy, yo.

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31 Dec 2010, 3:55 pm

I think the people who create/write those kids shows are on mushrooms :drunken:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWL4Jmy-IY4[/youtube]

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