Comments on: Sunday Fun: Vintage Cockroach Racing Game http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/05/05/sunday-fun-vintage-cockroach-racing-game/ Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:32:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: [links] Link salad gets ready to jet home | jlake.com http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/05/05/sunday-fun-vintage-cockroach-racing-game/comment-page-1/#comment-573035 Mon, 06 May 2013 14:16:47 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=55168#comment-573035 […] Sunday Fun: Vintage Cockroach Racing Game — Uh… […]

]]> By: Elena http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/05/05/sunday-fun-vintage-cockroach-racing-game/comment-page-1/#comment-573011 Sun, 05 May 2013 19:55:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=55168#comment-573011 Most Americans today would grimace at the idea of playing with
cockroaches, as the insect is held up as an icon of filth and disease.

The Japanese *love* their beetles, for example. Beetle fights are so popular with kids that they’ve done videogames of beetle-fighting.

]]> By: Squazz Muntbacker http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/05/05/sunday-fun-vintage-cockroach-racing-game/comment-page-1/#comment-573006 Sun, 05 May 2013 18:05:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=55168#comment-573006 This needs to be part of a quiz, to the effect of “Which old ads are real and which did we photoshop?”

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