The hoverboards are for kids as far as I can tell. Childhood just isn’t the same without some way to bust your face open. Parks got nerfed by a well-meaning child safety crusade that fixed nothing and ruined playgrounds; because the problem wasn’t that the playgrounds are dangerous - the problem was that kids are stupid and clumsy so sometimes shit happens and a kid will die tragically. It’s literally unavailable, that’s what makes it an accident.
Some of these kinds of things - especially “as seen in tv” stuff advertised by fumblebums - are actually intended for people who are partially or wholly physically disabled. But if they market it for disabled people then they’ll sell less of them and the price will go up, and because we live in
Americahell, the disabled didn’t make nearly enough to survive as is. So they market it to everybody with an over-the-top ad instead. Remember the Snuggy? Literally designed for people in wheelchairs and with mobility issues.The rest is just brand awareness bullshit and market expansion. Seriously, man-wipes exist because they’d hit market saturation and are trying to squeeze out a profit increase by targeting a different demographic. Because in capitalism, the line MUST go up. Brand awareness is just a way of saying “Hey! Pay attention to me, I’m Diet Coke! Don’t forget! Are you thirsty now? Pick me!” And the quest part? Both stupid trucks work because people are dumb.
Some of these kinds of things […] are actually intended for people who are partially or wholly physically disabled.
After I learned this, I immediately felt bad for poking fun at these kinds of products. Normalizing their use by the non-disabled, and depicting the products likewise on TV, makes it that much more acceptable to the intended audience. If this wasn’t the case, it might sting a bit as a gift for someone that really needs it. And then there’s the economy of scale effect you mention; nobody would get a Snuggy if they cost $100 each.
I read(yelled) this entirely in Lewis Black’s voice.
Hey. I like my smart watch. I enjoy tracking my biometrics and being able to leave my phone, but still be able to listen to music, calls, texting, etc.
That said, I was also the kid who rocked a calculator watch in the 90’s, and I always wanted Dick Tracy’s watch.
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I trust apple to actually keep that data private
I trust them a lot more than I trust an advertising company
Never trust any company ever.
I’ve got two choices if I want a smartphone I don’t want to fuck around with. I chose the better of the two, when it comes to privacy.
If you chose to share that that data, or store that in the cloud, it’s E2EE / AES-256. Apple can’t decrypt it.
If Apple didn’t do this for the Health app, they’d be running foul of a lot of new and decades old laws about biometric / health data.
Also, there is little fact that Apple literally has no marketing segmentation products that utilize medical cohorts like this. They’re trying to sell an overpriced watch, accessories, and subscription services, not targeted ads.
Yes exactly. Like yes it’s certainly possible they’re not doing what they say they are but it would be a high risk low reward situation to do so.
My biometric data is E2EE encrypted and only accessible by me.
Oi I’m not wiping my manly butthole with those pink girly wipes. That’d be GAY or probably something equally incoherent.
I’d never heard of Dude Wipes, and I don’t get the point of them at all. I’d probably buy Gendered Butthole Wipes, though, I love the name!
Lol at the idea of gendered buttholes… like a dude burning down a California town celebrating his butthole’s gender reveal.
I mentioned Dude Wipes to my wife, and she said that they were popular with the young teens she works with. Apparently they’re not for your butthole specifically, but just general cleanliness wherever.
I remember reading somewhere that men’s buttholes are tougher than women’s and therefore more resilient to anal sex. It was in a thread though where feminists were complaining about anal sex being degrading and potentially injurious for women, so take it with a grain of salt.
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Thanks now i want a beef and cheddar I reslly miss arby’s
Bio-Dome is pretty fun. And you get to see an early appearance of Tenacious D.
The only thing I know about Biodome is from Weird Al.
“Cause I had my tray table up, and my seatback in the full upright position!”
I love the D
you can quote me on that
Also jamming out to Voodoo Glow Skulls in a fuckin busted ass geo or whatever is a real mood. They certainly made trouble in that bubble.
tbh the extent of my Pauly Shore knowledge is that episode of Futurama where Fry thinks he and his former gf think they’ve been frozen again and it’s a post-apocalyptic year 4000, but it turns out that’s just what LA is like
Haven’t thought about voodoo glow skulls in a minute. BRB, gonna go see if band geek mafia holds up.
Album still slaps. Same few tracks worth skipping like love letter, but gonna keep it in summer rotation.
You listen to their 2021 album? I had no idea they were still active. It’s pretty good!
Woah! No, I had no idea either. Ima peep that.
After the nuclear apocalypse the only things left will be the roaches, Twinkies, and any band which has ever signed with Epitaph records.
You guys ever watch the old tenacious d show on home box office
I still get the rocket sauce song stuck in my head. Ice cream trucks just started up around me so I’m singing it every day.
I love the D - nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works
Hmm… It lost me at “Pauly Shore”, but got me back at “Tenacious D”… This is a puzzler 🤔
Noted, but I ain’t putting any money in that prick Stephen Baldwin’s pocket. Also, if you happen through Tucson, go check out Biosphere 2 in Oracle, AZ which inspired this film. Science, bitch!
Jumping on the “don’t use flushable wipes” bandwagon. Seriously, they can screw your home’s plumbing up.
For anyone doubting this is even possible for a product that is mass-marketed and available everywhere, look back a little over a decade. For a hot minute we had scrubs and soaps that had tiny little plastic beads in suspension to provide some grit. All those microbeads got flushed down the drain and wound up who knows where. That is until it was made illegal.
I laugh a little every time see a Dude Wipes billboard. What sucker is out there buying baby wipes for men?
It used to feel gay when my finger would punch through the butt wipe and enter my anus. Thankfully I don’t have to feel that way when I’m using Dude Wipes.
It’s not gay if it’s through the hole in the Dude Wipe
That’s because you aren’t fingering yourself hard enough
My former roommate had gastrointestinal issues and used wet wipes because they were less irritating to his skin. But he just bought regular wet wipes not this gendered nonsense.
I see you’re also from Germany, so I understand your roommate not knowing this is an option, but bidets are cheaper and do a better job cleaning.
Like, I bought a dumb travel bidet a while ago and even that’s a solid upgrade from scrubbing with toilet paper.
Yeah, he had one of those, but he used it in addition to. I don’t know the exacts of his condition, but he was using the bidet irregularly but the wet wipes all the time.
Theyre camping wipes, when you dont have access to a shower, theyll do in a pinch.
The veterans I know say wipes are a god-send on deployment. Dude Wipes are particularly big, which is great for a wipe-down when you don’t have access to a shower.
Ah, if they are bigger then that makes alot of sense. They should print that on the box, in bigger letters.
Someone else posted a comparison that shows that they are slightly bigger than a normal flushable wipe but a lot smaller than a normal baby wipe. If you need the size just buy the one with the baby on it.
They do
Ass seen on shark tank lmao 🤣
the big selling point i saw is that they are designed to be flushable. not sure if thats actually a good idea for your plumbing.
None of them are legit flushable.
None of the wet wipes are suitable for plumbing regardless of what they say.
I’m upvoting because he hyphenated wet-ass
wet ass-sandwiches
Wet ass sand-witches
wet-ass witches
I dunno, I fucking love Arby’s.
Me too!
Not my favorite, but their chicken sandwich is okay
Reading this on my Apple Watch, while riding my Hoverboard, watching Bio-Dome in the background, and eating a wet-ass Arby’s sandwich I smashed into a quesadilla in my Quesadilla Maker… I can’t wait until it rockets through my intestines so I can use my Dude Wipes! 😎
Eating wet asses and smashing Dillas and cleaning up with wipes after? That’s quite the sex party you got going on there.
Can anyone explain why people hate Arby’s?
I know they’re pricy… but never understood why there’s so much hate for the restaurant.
My favorite fast food restaurant TBH. I don’t get it either.
It’s gross? Let me restate that: It’s gross.
To be fair (in judgement on my part), last time I had a roast beef sandwich was in 2018, I’ve only bought their reubens since then.
Wet ass sandwiches, as written in the ad. I don’t like Arby’s because the bread on their sandwiches is typically stale and is always served cold. Something about roast beef being wet is generally off-putting and most of their sandwiches are roast beef. I think that Arby’s being the only mainstream fast food deli has something to do with my low opinion. Hamburgers have some idiosyncrasies as well: cold cheese, lettuce is gross and wilted, different condiment defaults, ground beef is cheap and garbage tier food in the grand scheme of things. But the thing is that every fast food chain is burgers so the specific bad experiences of one chain are contrasted against the other chains. Jack in the box has greaseball burgers that have the consistency of slop, but, because they can be contrasted against Burger King, which has gimmicky food, nasty defaults, and burgers that are assembled sloppily with accoutrement splattered everywhere and cohesiveness scoring firmly in trash tier, they get a pass. I would argue that all fast food is trash food, but the illusion of choice keeps the whole house of ass-flavored cards standing. You can pick a cohesive slop (JITB) or an non-cohesive slapped together proper burger (BK). The flaws of one are mistakenly compared to the defacto standard of the competition when they should be compared to the real standard of actual good food. Arby’s doesn’t have competition in its space so that defacto standard doesn’t exist, leading people to compare it to delis that aren’t garbage tier food. There is a competition mismatch and Arby’s ends up competing against food outside of its tier, revealing it to be garbage tier. Further discussion is encouraged.
I hate them because the last four times I ate there, I had diarrhea for days, all different locations. The last time I ate there, it all came out 12 minutes later. So yeah, four for four is enough to establish that their “food” is just toxic.
It’s pretty simple: Arby’s is gross.
As I replied to someone else. I’m Canadian, but have friends and family in the States. I’ve had Arby’s 5x, and it’s delish…which is why it took getting food poisoning from Arby’s all over the damn country 5 whole ass times to stop eating there.
Brah… Tim Horton’s is amazing. Thank you for giving us that restaurant.
Idk, it’s owned by Burger King now, which is why we’re starting to get them here in the UK. So it’s not a Canadian owned business anymore. And the coffee quality dropped basically over night after they bought it. The doughnuts are still that particular kinda trash that is exceptionally delicious. Surprisingly, the coffee at Tim’s in the UK is somehow even worse than back in Canada. Some of their food is really good, but it really depends on who makes it…which I guess is the same for any franchise.
The rumour I heard is that McDonalds snaked Tim’s coffee supplier so a massive shift in quality occurred that they haven’t seemed to recover from
Is that why McD’s suddenly got pretty good? Hmmmmmm
As far as I know, yes.
Tim Horton’s certainly can hit the spot but the quality has been on a steady decline for about 15 years now. Their menu used to be very simple; coffee and assorted café style drinks, bakery treats, and soup and sandwich. All very simple, yet effective as the ingredients were of reasonable quality and the coffee was consistently good.
Nowadays the diversification of the menu has gotten so extreme that they can barely do any single thing right. Coffee is often burnt as machines are calibrated too hot, machines not properly rinsed after cleaning resulting in an oil slick of soap and chemicals floating in your coffer (personal experience), donuts and breads are often stale or poorly made… For years their breakfast menu’s egg was not egg at all. “Cheese and onion egg-like product” was what was on the box. Only recently have they moved to using real egg which has had a massively positive effect on the breakfast menu’s quality.
Tim’s can be good. In Canada, its often that its not. I live in a town of ~50,000. This town has more Tim Horton’s than Ottawa with over 1M people. Tim’s has a cult-like following around here. Not sure why after the years of mediocrity.
Glad you like it though. I’d love to try your Tim’s to see if there is much of a difference.
Damn I was not aware. I discovered Tim Horton’s in 2018 and it was far better than Dunkin’ Donuts, still is. If it was better than what it is now… I’d probably be overly obese by now.
Yeah, it was quite good back in the day.
Might just be the insane amount of sodium in the meal. Arby’s is salty af. Too much salt can cause diarrhea cause your body wants to reach equilibrium and dumps water into your gut to make it isotonic.
The American physique is prepared for this salt assault by being chronically under hydrated.
Yeah, could be, for 2 or 3 of the instances. There was a few times I was ill for over a week though, which is definitely food poisoning.
Now these are my kind of ads 🤩
The quesadilla maker’s pretty useful. Skillets only cook food on one side at a time, you know.
Mine has been sitting in the back of my cupboard for at least a decade. This post just remindied me to donate the thing to Goodwill. There once was a time when I would eat a quesadilla on a regular basis. At this point in life I can’t justify having a whole appliance for making only one type of dish.
Yeah, it’s only useful if you have the room for it and actually use it.
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What a waste just to save a couple mins.
I know, why do people have ovens when they could just cook everything in a fire pit? Lazy assholes!
Nice false equivalence friend.
Awe… I like Arby’s. Their curly fries are easily on my top 10 best fastfood fries.
I’ve had Arby’s 5 times. In a wide variety of locations across the States while visiting friends or family. It’s delicious, which is why it took me 5 times getting food poisoning to stop eating at Arby’s.
The local Arby’s here has roaches and it’s well-known. People still go there all the time and the drivethru is always busy.
Sad fact: if one place in your neighbourhood has roaches you all got roaches.
Can confirm. The nearby Wendy’s also has them lmao
Extra protein, amirite?
Yum yum!
They sell them frozen in a bag now. So you don’t have to eat something that came out of an Arby’s kitchen.
The fries are fantastic but not enough to justify the wet ass sandwiches
