Captain Sensible

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The other day my son told us he needed a new lunch box. And he wanted one without anything on it. Just a plain, easy to clean lunchbox.

My husband dubbed him "Captain Sensible" and we started a family riff about it. Captain Sensible will be on your lunchbox saying "you don't need stupid superhero characters on your lunchbox! It just needs to carry your lunch!"

Today we were at a birthday party. There was a cake decorated with Thomas the tank engine. My son took the opportunity to tell us that for his birthday, he wanted a simple cake that just says "Happy Birthday <name>" Because that's what Captain Sensible would do.

I remember someone on an Aspie board elsewhere once saying that many Aspies really don't like tee shirts with slogans on them. I wonder if this is sort of the same thing. He seems to feel very negatively about commercialism in general. When we were eating at Ihop and they had a movie tie-in going on, he complained to the waitress about it.

Who else is Captain Sensible?

Yeah, I can see that. My little guy likes to take on different characters though, and he loves family jokes, so he enjoyed it.

ah rats.

i thought this was about Captain Sensible, the guitarist for the Damned.

For some time, maybe a semester, I brought a packed lunch to school. I wanted the plain metal aluminum lunchbox with the rounded top, and that's what I got. I thought the colorful rectangular plastic ones with the cartoons were silly, and I thought the other kids would make fun of me if I had one of those. They made fun of me anyway for bringing a lunchbox that someone might take to work, in a mine, or construction site for example.

I won't wear or use anything with advertising on it.

There's a character in William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" (he writes great AS types) who is so reactive against advertising that she works for marketers who have her judge whether their logos and icons are effective--because if they are, they'll make her break out in hives.

I am, but I do wear tons of advertising, and though I hate to see brand labels everywhere, they are everywhere in my house.

Cause I'm too cheap to buy all sorts of label free containers, and all the t-shirts were FREE!

That's my "Captain Sensible!"

I must be the oppiosite because I would pitch fits if my backpack or lunchbox did not have a picture on it. After my Lisa Frank back pack broke on me as soon as I put it on, my mom refused to buy me backpacks with characters on them...same for lunchboxes. As an adult, it makes me extremely anxious if I don't have a picture of a special intrest on my shirt. My best friend came over and insisted she clean my room up for me. She organised my closet and annonced that all of my shirts had an animal on them I never noticed it before but she was right. Even today all of my shirts either have an animal, Zim or Gir on them. I think it's some kind of compulsion because even as a kid I would have fits, meltdowns or tantrums if my shirt didn't have an animal on it. The only exception was my Rugrats phase but then I was becoming deranged from the abuse at school around that time and I think my personailty was even starting to split. But as an adult, I can't wear a shirt unless it has an animal on it. The only exception is Gir when he is not in his dog costume. I think it's a compulsion of some kind or my way to confirm my idenity. If I ever had to wear a uniform, I would get a tatoo.

Oh yeah, when I was younger I was always angry when clothes shopping especially because I didn't understand why they couldn't make plain clothes for my age -- but I was okay with it if it had some kind of picture related to an interest.

As for lunch boxes I thought a brown paper bag would suffice but my parents never agreed.

Nowadays I just wear an assortment of things that appeal to me but might not make too much sense put together.

I wear a lot of plain black t-shirts if that's what you mean

I think I started wearing T-shirts without any pictures/slogans on them mostly to be plain and inconspicuous rather than to be sensible. I still don't like wearing brand-name clothes much, but I've been more opened to wearing clothes with pictures on them and that are in colors other than black, gray, and navy blue. This has its upsides. Among other things, it makes me look less depressed, and I no longer wonder if people think I only have three shirts that I'm wearing over and over again.