Flarp Psychology

Kitsch is such an interesting word for explaining and or describing a person place or thing. It is a way to describe something that is so bad that it can be barley understood by anyone why someone would spend so much time making something that is so vulgar and hideous The definition of Kitsch according to Gilbert Highet is a “vulgar showoff, and it is applied to anything that took a lot of trouble to make and is quite hideous” (p.303). A perfect example of a kitschy item would be Flarp. Flarp is noise putty that makes a frat like noise when you push it in to its container. This is a vulgar and showoff way to draw attention. For example, a young student has some flap in class with him; as he plays with it and makes a fart sound with it while the teacher is giving a lesson it directs every ones attention to the noise while it vulgarly interrupts the teacher. Flarp makes a wide verity of fart like sound depending on the position it is in the container and where it is pressed on. Flarp is usually a revolting color, for example the green is a mucus like color. Most of the colors are just atrocious and unsightly it gives you a headache. Also the
smell of the flarp is just disgusting. The smell is like a piece of plastic that has be burnt, also it has a musty stench that can turn heads. Even the texture of flarp is awful; it’s moist and sticky. It’s slimy like a snail and squishy like play-doh. Flarp is just terrible sensation for all the senses. Flarp was a very difficult to come up with and make. First someone had to have the idea. The idea was most likely thought up in a think tank; just a bunch of people siting around trying to come up something to sell. There must have been months before they idea was even conceived. When it finally became and idea the process on how to make it begins. All kinds of scientist had to come up with this putty that made fart sounds. It took years to make this putty. Now before it can be sold they have to make sure it is safe for human use. It was discovered that flarp is toxic if swollen. Sense it is toxic it is advertised for 6 and up, because younger kids are always putting stuff in their mouths. The name flarp comes from the word fart, senses that’s the sound it makes. Next it needs to be mass produced so they can have plenty to sell and so its cheaper. Now it needs to be sold in stores so money can be made from selling the flarp. Therefore the making of flarp was a long and difficult process to make this small pointless putty. Flarp is a hideous object, every thing about is just screams it.
First, of the entire name flarp is terrible, what kind of name is that. Just hearing the word would make someone cringe in disgust. It sounds like a weird way to pronounce the word fart or another name for it. Second, the colors that flarp comes in are ugly and just make you want to vomit. Also the colors all have this weird tint to them that is just gross; mucus green, ear wax yellow vomit pink, sickly blue, etc. The colors just add even more to the hideousness of the flarp. Next, it makes such hideous sounds. There is no need to make putty that makes fart noises; its bad enough when someone does that himself or herself. Its so revolting to think that flarp is amusing in anyway. Flarp is a hideous display of bodily functions that are gross enough the way it
is. Therefore flarp is a great example of what kitsch really is. Gilbert Highet (p.303) a“vulgar showoff, and it is applied to anything that took a lot of trouble to make and is quite hideous”. Kitsch really an interesting and intriguing word.