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CBD:
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Buck:
buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com
joe mannix:
mannix2024 at proton.me
MisHum:
petmorons at gee mail.com
J.J. Sefton:
sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com
Things That Signal The End Of Civilization...
Who Would Spend $17 on Toothpaste? Ooh! Ooh! Pick me! I know the answer!
The pricey toothpaste I stumbled on showed just how far brands like Aesop can go to blur the lines between health-care and beauty products. In doing that, some of them have traded in the finer points of scientific advancement (like fluoride) that have long characterized oral hygiene. In return, luxury toothpastes offer fun flavors, such as jasmine and ginger, and beautiful packaging. While some do tout their "natural" ingredients, they generally don't make any super-scientific claims about their superiority. They're just another option that'll get the job done, if you want to spend 10 or 15 extra bucks. Based on how soothing it is to go into an Aesop store, they might be worth it for a certain kind of consumer, but the reason why doesn't have much to do with shiny teeth.I can wax rhapsodic with the best of them about a particularly good grilled steak, and I can certainly out-pompous most when it comes to wine...well, nowadays I usually just say, "Fvck, that tastes great! Pour me another glass." This is toothpaste. Pace Nevergiveup and the other dentists who read this blog, but...this is nuts. It's not just the price, which is absolutely insane; it is the obsessive focus on something that simply isn't that important. This isn't a perfectly understandable desire for quality. This is virtue signalling more than anything else, and it also smacks of elitism. And stupidity, because fluoride is sort of a big thing amongst people in the know...meaning people who don't burn science on the altar of their post-modern, new-age god. What's next? Merino wool Q-Tips? Floss woven from the finest alpaca? Natural statins made from Brazilian Rain Forest mud and ground seashells from a remote island in the South Pacific? Have at it...what's the most ridiculous consumer product you can conjure up?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Burger Chef at February 17, 2019 02:32 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: RI Red at February 17, 2019 02:33 PM (jbWXM)
Posted by: Burger Chef at February 17, 2019 02:33 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: lurking grandma at February 17, 2019 02:33 PM (sujqA)
Posted by: Caliban at February 17, 2019 02:34 PM (QE8X6)
Posted by: RI Red at February 17, 2019 02:34 PM (jbWXM)
Posted by: Burger Chef at February 17, 2019 02:35 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: RI Red at February 17, 2019 02:35 PM (jbWXM)
Posted by: lurking grandma at February 17, 2019 02:36 PM (sujqA)
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at February 17, 2019 02:36 PM (lD3vL)
Mixed message marketing.
Posted by: Burger Chef at February 17, 2019 02:36 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Francois at February 17, 2019 02:37 PM (n6bs1)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 17, 2019 02:37 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: RI Red at February 17, 2019 02:38 PM (jbWXM)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at February 17, 2019 02:38 PM (N3JsI)
Choose some mundane, utterly undifferentiable product, charge an outrageous sum for it, and then market the living hell out of it.
"Attention, fashionista dumb shits! You've GOT to have this, or you're just not cool! Think of what others will say about you!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (pg90N)
Even better, something like Arrowhead (iirc) with pictures of mountains on it. It's bottled city tap water.
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (oTMWb)
Posted by: Deep Burnt State at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (uloIh)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (/tuJf)
highly recommended. wish i's bought one ea
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: Deplorable JC at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (UeU18)
There's not much to a pair of shoes. So the majority of the price is name brand. Even the best leather and sole and heel materials with well engineered heels and soles are not worth the price of a new car.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (9RkRx)
The cooler so elitist you advertise it with a sticker on your pickup truck.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (6a9Py)
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at February 17, 2019 02:40 PM (0bu2O)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 17, 2019 02:40 PM (r+sAi)
I mentioned electric cars in the previous thread.
Environmental menace dressed up as an environmental savior are to me, a classic virtue signal.
Posted by: mikeyG at February 17, 2019 02:40 PM (LL1Be)
Winter auctions, tomorrow night.
They have one lot that consists of several tubes of Darkie toothpaste.
Along with a huge asst of more political incorrect items.
Take a look and gasp
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 02:40 PM (RZ6R1)
You and Hugo Chavez. I'd have thought it a bit cold up there for that.
But then as the old line goes "Reno is so close to hell you can see Sparks".
Posted by: JEM at February 17, 2019 02:40 PM (8erNz)
Designer water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFKT4jvN4OE
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:41 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Burger Chef at February 17, 2019 02:41 PM (RuIsu)
or as an institution: Starbucks.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at February 17, 2019 02:41 PM (lD3vL)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 17, 2019 02:40 PM (r+sAi)
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I have one on the wall next to my banana hammock.
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at February 17, 2019 02:41 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: SteveOReno, I proudly self-identify as a Moron at February 17, 2019 02:41 PM (2sCft)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (//K3c)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (NWiLs)
Just brush gently and you have clean chompers for life.
As far as overpriced crapola, Starbucks comes to mind.
Americans like getting suckered into buying things to impress people they don't even know or like.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: turambar at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (s2J6c)
The other day I saw a thing about a shopping bag, that looks almost exactly like a blue sack that Ikea sells in its store for 99 cents. Some designer slapped a label on one, and sells it, literally, for over a thousand bucks.
But then, you have idiots who spend millions of dollars on somebody's scribbled paint project. Or you have a guy who shreds his shitty painting, and afterwards, the thing shoots up in value, because it's now been trashed!
Fools and their money... some disassembly required.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (cY3LT)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 17, 2019 02:40 PM (r+sAi)
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I have one on the wall next to my banana hammock.
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at February 17, 2019 02:41 PM (WEBkv)
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Is your real name Lorena Bobbitt?
Posted by: SteveOReno, I proudly self-identify as a Moron at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (2sCft)
the washing machine is to the washboard
the air conditioner is to the fan
the refrigerator is to the ice box.
it really is that much of an advance.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: Deplorable JC at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (UeU1
You must see this: V Reporters from CBS, CNN and NBC Help Kamala Harris Pick Out 'Amazing' Coat
https://tinyurl.com/yybn3ov4
Ghetto fabulous!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (pg90N)
Lunchables.A product par with one of my favorites from The Onion, microwaveable toast.
But what do I know? They've been around forever, so someone in Marketing had the right idea.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (13CQC)
Virtue signalling your stuff.
Great googly moogly.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 17, 2019 02:43 PM (9RkRx)
Posted by: RI Red at February 17, 2019 02:43 PM (jbWXM)
.....
Guilty of that one.
In my defense, I get only one bag a year and the proceeds go to fund our national church there in Papua.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2019 02:43 PM (6a9Py)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at February 17, 2019 02:40 PM
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What have you got against steamed clams?
Posted by: SteveOReno, I proudly self-identify as a Moron at February 17, 2019 02:43 PM (2sCft)
In California, the new rage is expensive unfiltered, unsterilized, untreated water sold as "Raw Water".
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at February 17, 2019 02:43 PM (lD3vL)
No, sorry, Launchables were pretty freakin' awesome when they first appeared in stores.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 17, 2019 02:44 PM (I/iGu)
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at February 17, 2019 02:44 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 17, 2019 02:44 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: turambar at February 17, 2019 02:44 PM (s2J6c)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 17, 2019 02:44 PM (I/iGu)
In California, the new rage is expensive unfiltered, unsterilized, untreated water sold as "Raw Water".
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at February 17, 2019 02:43 PM (lD3vL)
Avant Giardia
Posted by: Insomniac at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (NWiLs)
I always thought the pet rock was the stupidest thing ever hawked for suckers to buy. Even if it was a new and expensive way to hawk a tiny book of jokes.
Posted by: Vic at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (NWiLs)
I do love how all these soi boi skin care products are being sold to douchebag millennials. Back in my day, we warshed our hair and faces with soap!
These kids today... but I really do gotta hand it to the marketers. They knew what they were doing, and they know what the douchebag soi bois will buy.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (cY3LT)
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (I/iGu)
Posted by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Witch at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (xZjSg)
Posted by: turambar at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (s2J6c)
Once, in a tony restaurant in Marin County, everyone around us (flaming liberals, signaling their erudition) was outdoing each other in their exotic water selections (think people ordering a Starbucks latte with half of this, half of that, etc.).
When the waiter came to me, I ordered a Perrier and soda.
And nobody laughed.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (/rm4P)
Posted by: Jack Bogle at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (MAstk)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 17, 2019 02:46 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: turambar at February 17, 2019 02:46 PM (s2J6c)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2019 02:46 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Deplorable JC at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (UeU1
Our women's clothing is designed for the discriminating woman. They are woven with a gossamer thread woven from elven unicorns' manes. So magical, in fact, that you don't even feel it. And to validate what superior taste you have, only the most intelligent people can see them. No, seriously.--Aesop's Fables Clothing Company and Nude Women's Pictures.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at February 17, 2019 02:46 PM (3sjI6)
I'm particularly fond of standard issue low brow items, like t-shirts
and tennis shoes, that get dolled up and sold for thousands of dollars.
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I won't get anything denim unless it's meant to do a job, not host rhinestones, whalebone, ruffles, etc.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 02:46 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Vic at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (mpXpK)
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The Pet Rock was actually quite clever. The little booklet it came with was quite funny.
I don't know of anyone that didn't take it for what it was: a novelty gag.
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at February 17, 2019 02:46 PM (WEBkv)
Our political parties vie with each other for most ridiculous product daily. Some days they're beaten by our news.
Posted by: DaveA at February 17, 2019 02:46 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 02:46 PM (//K3c)
Hey Chimp
yes i did buy the painting from Stair. They had it upstairs, behind the phones, unlit.
It was a real steal.
Over the yrs, I've got some real bargains there
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 02:47 PM (RZ6R1)
15 Burger Chef. Cannot agree. We have terrible water at our lake cottage. A lot of MI has horrible water. In some areas the water out of the tap has such a bad odor of sulfur that it's off putting. Our cottage has well water from an area that is over a buried primordial forest. Very, very tannic. Before we drilled the new well the water came out looking like urine. Even with the new well I will not drink it. We buy gallon or two gallon bottles of spring water.
Posted by: never enough caffeine at February 17, 2019 02:38 PM (N3JsI)
Not just a matter of well water. A lot of muni water is rendered potable by basically mixing in bleach. It's cheaper than many other methods, and quite effective from a public health standpoint. Problem is, you can often taste the chemicals, and it absolutely ruins coffee and lots of cooking.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 17, 2019 02:47 PM (juqNl)
Mixed message marketing.
Posted by: Burger Chef at February 17, 2019 02:36 PM (RuIsu)
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But I will always be grateful to the Sears catalogs of my yute, and the ladies bra and underwear section. Prime fapping material in a age when pron was hard to come by.
Posted by: SteveOReno, I proudly self-identify as a Moron at February 17, 2019 02:47 PM (2sCft)
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at February 17, 2019 02:36 PM (lD3vL)
I heard an ad for "wave therapy" for impotency the other day. What do they do, wave at your dick to get it going?
Posted by: josephistan at February 17, 2019 02:47 PM (Izzlo)
Almost anything by Apple.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:47 PM (pg90N)
And nobody laughed.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:45 PM (pg90N)
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Wrong sort of crowd. Morons would have laughed.
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at February 17, 2019 02:47 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Deplorable JC at February 17, 2019 02:39 PM (UeU1
Women's shoes. Hundreds or thousands of dollars for shoes made from $3.00 of materials and a half-bowl-of-rice-worth of child labor in some Malaysian sweatshop. You'd think they were made out of gold-plated heroin.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 17, 2019 02:47 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: turambar at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (s2J6c)
The advertising for dna testing sux, though.
Posted by: RI Red at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (jbWXM)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: 11B40 at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (evgyj)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (6a9Py)
Shooosh. The Hutzler Banana Slicer has some of the greatest reviews on Amazon.
5700+ and counting...
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: NJ water at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (RZ6R1)
https://tinyurl.com/y3gn246b
Read the reviews - I almost wet myself laughing.
Wait a minute, I did.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (Y4EXg)
I didn't conjure this up, I merely report it, but a friend of mine paid $1200 to put magnets on his water supply to "filter out the ions."
I didn't have the heart ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (Pg+x7)
Ah yes - the now infamous stolen 300 buck watch caps...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 02:49 PM (//K3c)
Hey now, wait one minute, Frank Thomas would not lie to me, and his five dozen "still strong after forty" commercials seem totally legit to me.
I, for one, trust baseball players to tell me what's legit when it comes time to dope myself up to crush the long ball that chicks dig so much, or something.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 17, 2019 02:49 PM (I/iGu)
the washing machine is to the washboard
the air conditioner is to the fan
the refrigerator is to the ice box.
it really is that much of an advance.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 17, 2019 02:42 PM (Pg+x7)
Yes, you'll take my Oral B when you pry it from my cold, dead and vibrating fingers.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2019 02:49 PM (cY3LT)
Coffee that's dug out of cat shit. People pay through the nose for that.
This high priced toothpaste is still better than what some people used to use to whiten their teeth ... urine.
BTW, the best toothpaste is just mixing baking soda and hydrogen peroxide.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 17, 2019 02:49 PM (vP+yw)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 17, 2019 02:44 PM (r+sAi)
High tech horoscopes.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:49 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: creeper at February 17, 2019 02:50 PM (RnzeK)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 17, 2019 02:50 PM (r+sAi)
You can still buy refills for literally hundreds of dollars on Amazon.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 17, 2019 02:51 PM (I/iGu)
it's a terrific painting!
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (Pg+x7)
Yeah, I love it
I used to buy from them when they where in the old building out back. Now they're big time lol
Posted by: NJ water at February 17, 2019 02:51 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: kallisto at February 17, 2019 02:51 PM (ZO3yc)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 17, 2019 02:51 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 17, 2019 02:52 PM (dUJdY)
Pro tip: You can pick up curtains and couch covers for a song!
Posted by: A Former White House Fashion Designer at February 17, 2019 02:52 PM (oTMWb)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 02:52 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: jsg at February 17, 2019 02:52 PM (tY0hq)
Me? I went home with a handle of old crow and a case of the champagne of beers.
Posted by: eastofsuez at February 17, 2019 02:53 PM (U2zca)
Posted by: NJ water at February 17, 2019 02:53 PM (RZ6R1)
But we do have Smart Phones so there's that.
Posted by: LGoPs at February 17, 2019 02:53 PM (vFUiw)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 02:54 PM (RZ6R1)
....
I used to get it for $5.49 a twelve pack and it was anything but pretentious.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2019 02:54 PM (6a9Py)
Posted by: LGoPs at February 17, 2019 02:54 PM (vFUiw)
Posted by: RI Red at February 17, 2019 02:54 PM (jbWXM)
Posted by: SteveOReno
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ISWYDT
Posted by: Tonypete at February 17, 2019 02:51 PM (Y4EXg)
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Yup, phrasing....
Posted by: SteveOReno, I proudly self-identify as a Moron at February 17, 2019 02:55 PM (2sCft)
An "all natural" energy drink made with organic dragonfruit and pumelo, and an unquantified amount of juice from other proprietary tropical fruits bred on site, but rumored to be relatives of the mango, papaya, and pineapple . Using, in addition to the usual B12 and taurine pony show, a mixture of caffeine, ephedra flower extract, concentrated ginseng, and essential oils that promote alertness. In a gold plated can. Opened with a lever on the side that makes a satisfying "ka-CHUNK" while ringing a small bell concealed inside the lid, and then extrudes a built-in straw.
I would call it "Dragon Energy".
Posted by: FlamethrowerInTheDark at February 17, 2019 02:55 PM (zlzYb)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at February 17, 2019 02:40 PM (0bu2O)
Great! Wonder if I can get a deal on one, slightly used and never cleaned.
Let me check on EBay......
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2019 02:55 PM (Z+IKu)
what's the most ridiculous consumer product you can conjure up?
Our political parties...
No need to go any further...
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 17, 2019 02:55 PM (aKsyK)
An eight-pound bag of beer would really hit the spot right about now...
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2019 02:55 PM (oTMWb)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at February 17, 2019 02:56 PM (IIV8c)
Posted by: Jack Bogle at February 17, 2019 02:56 PM (MAstk)
In grad school a housemate bought some fancy running shoes because the tread was designed to prevent hydroplaning in wet conditions.
"Just how fast do you run, anyway?"
Crickets.
He also bought a fancy graphite composite tennis racket, because it would be useful for "playing in a high wind." Like who doesn't play tennis in a hurricane?
We played one time, he with his fancy racket, me with a wooden Spalding racket with several broken strings. I beat his balls off. Normally I would go easier under those conditions, but in his case, I bore down for the whole match.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:56 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Nigerian Brothers in Red Hats at February 17, 2019 02:56 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 17, 2019 02:52 PM (dUJdY)
Just about anything designed to be sold to women. Overpriced crap that doesn't make one bit of difference in their life or appearance.
There. FIFY.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at February 17, 2019 02:56 PM (3sjI6)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2019 02:56 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: FlamethrowerInTheDark at February 17, 2019 02:55 PM (zlzYb)
*waves fistful of cash*
Shut up and take my money!
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 17, 2019 02:56 PM (jo0+f)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 02:56 PM (DMUuz)
I used to get it for $5.49 a twelve pack and it was anything but pretentious.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2019 02:54 PM (6a9Py)
It was in its own cooler next to the 1.50 a bag ice.
Posted by: jsg at February 17, 2019 02:56 PM (tY0hq)
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (oTMWb)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: RI Red at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (jbWXM)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (I/iGu)
Posted by: turambar at February 17, 2019 02:48 PM (s2J6c)
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Saw a gal sporting a pair a few days ago. The fat bulging through the rips was especially appealing.
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (WEBkv)
An eight-pound bag of beer would really hit the spot right about now...
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2019 02:55 PM (oTMWb)
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Like those Boda Bags from the Seventies! Just pull out the spout and squirt it in your mouth.
Posted by: SteveOReno, I proudly self-identify as a Moron at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (2sCft)
It's simple class signaling.
No one buys a $3000 Louis Vuitton handbag to signal virtue. They do it to signal moolah.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (Rxduq)
An "all natural" energy drink made with organic dragonfruit and pumelo, and an unquantified amount of juice from other proprietary tropical fruits bred on site, but rumored to be relatives of the mango, papaya, and pineapple . Using, in addition to the usual B12 and taurine pony show, a mixture of caffeine, ephedra flower extract, concentrated ginseng, and essential oils that promote alertness. In a gold plated can. Opened with a lever on the side that makes a satisfying "ka-CHUNK" while ringing a small bell concealed inside the lid, and then extrudes a built-in straw.
I would call it "Dragon Energy".
Posted by: FlamethrowerInTheDark at February 17, 2019 02:55 PM (zlzYb)
I will pay you $6000 for a case!
Posted by: Millennials-R-Us at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (cY3LT)
Posted by: RI Red at February 17, 2019 02:54 PM (jbWXM)
No, it just means it was damaged and somewhat insect-eaten produce that was rejected.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 02:58 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (Rxduq)
At least, moolah that they used to have.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:58 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at February 17, 2019 02:58 PM (njXIr)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:56 PM
Did you get yellow fuzz all over you?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 02:58 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: lowandslow at February 17, 2019 02:58 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2019 02:59 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 17, 2019 02:52 PM (dUJdY)
That's only because you haven't found Holy Placenta Miracle. It's made entirely from rare European nun-placentas, harvested at their height of freshness. Rub it on your face and watch the years melt away!
www.HolyPlacentaMiracle.com
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 17, 2019 02:59 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 17, 2019 02:52 PM (dUJdY)
Depends on your skin. Mine is oily, and without the right face wash/moisturizer, I will be glistening by ten in the morning and will also have constant breakouts. Took me a decade to finally find something to control the oil appropriately.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at February 17, 2019 03:00 PM (rWZ8Y)
Posted by: LGoPs at February 17, 2019 03:00 PM (vFUiw)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2019 02:59 PM (LsBY9)
...for digital signal.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:00 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (Rxduq)
People are terrible show offs
Made a pretty good income for 45 yrs on that one foible of humans.
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:00 PM (RZ6R1)
$1500 bottles of basalmic vinegar.
Bars of bath soap that incorporate flakes of gold.
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at February 17, 2019 03:00 PM (t5m5e)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 17, 2019 02:59 PM
This doesn't redirect to thebulwark.com does it?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 03:00 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: jsg at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (tY0hq)
Posted by: Sooner at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (NcmeK)
It's basically a 90 minute documentary testimonial to this thread topic.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (6a9Py)
It's simple class signaling.
No one buys a $3000 Louis Vuitton handbag to signal virtue. They do it to signal moolah.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (Rxduq)
I had never heard of Kate Spade until she killed herself. Now I see her name everywhere.
I gotta think, while her brand was doing just fine before she died, afterwards, the people counting all the cash they're raking in are giddy as hell, and wish they could resurrect her, just so she would kill herself again.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (cY3LT)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (Rxduq)
I bought a Remington 700 SPS - but that was more about distance signalling than anything.
Posted by: Steve Borden at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (MbZQy)
Posted by: creeper at February 17, 2019 02:50 PM (RnzeK)
I've heard that said about climbing Everest.
Hell I can tell you I climbed Everest. It'd be a lie, but I could tell you that. It's a lot easier, safer, and cheaper than actually doing it, too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (LsBY9)
https://tinyurl.com/y3chxmjo
But it has Japanese wasabi!
Posted by: Bill the Cat at February 17, 2019 03:02 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:02 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at February 17, 2019 03:00 PM (t5m5e)
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Goldschlager.
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at February 17, 2019 03:02 PM (WEBkv)
Hot sauces blend into the ridiculous range.
Although I haven't been able to find a bottle of that ?Belinda's? habanero sauce that's just right for adding a few drops to Key Lime pie.
Posted by: DaveA at February 17, 2019 03:02 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:02 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 17, 2019 03:02 PM (I/iGu)
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2019 03:03 PM (/rm4P)
Posted by: Steve Borden at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (MbZQy)
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The original "reach out and touch someone."
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at February 17, 2019 03:03 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2019 02:59 PM (LsBY9)
...for digital signal.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:00 PM (t+qrx)
That is a good one.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:03 PM (pg90N)
Any homeopathic "remedy."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:03 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2019 03:03 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:04 PM (//K3c)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (r+sAi)
When I was in grad school, and holding down a full time job, they came in handy on those evenings when I was in 4+ hour classes.
They work.
I just figure it was line mainlining caffeine. I didn't do it too often, because I actually care about my body.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2019 03:04 PM (cY3LT)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 17, 2019 03:04 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: rickl at February 17, 2019 03:04 PM (sdi6R)
Glacier out of, yeah, CA. the machine looks like a soda vending machine.
It takes the already approved tap water and filters it seven different ways then dispenses it into your bottle.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2019 03:04 PM (ePWRo)
Oh come now, we're scrapping the bottom of the barrel here, nobody is going to be impressed with our virtue or class.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 17, 2019 03:04 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (Rxduq)
At least, moolah that they used to have.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:58 PM (pg90N)
And there are knockoffs sold on every street corner, so if I see someone with a LV bag, my first thought is they have a knockoff, so I'm not impressed.
Posted by: josephistan at February 17, 2019 03:05 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (W+vEI)
I bet they cut it with lower quality Oakland fog.
Posted by: Surfperch at February 17, 2019 03:05 PM (tVQUs)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 03:05 PM (0hLBF)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2019 02:59 PM (LsBY9)
...for digital signal.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:00 PM (t+qrx)
That is a good one.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:03 PM (pg90N)
Monster Cable Inc. is a manufacturer of high-grade premium "pro-sumer" patent infringement lawsuits that also has a small AV cable division like some kind of vestigial organ.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:05 PM (t+qrx)
Barack Hussein Obama.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:05 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at February 17, 2019 03:00 PM (t5m5e)
There's sake that has flakes of gold in it.
First time I had it was in late 70's
And NO, i didn't pay for it
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:05 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at February 17, 2019 03:06 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2019 03:03 PM (MxEKc)
How
Posted by: josephistan at February 17, 2019 03:06 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: Steve Borden at February 17, 2019 03:01 PM (MbZQy)
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The original "reach out and touch someone."
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at February 17, 2019 03:03 PM (WEBkv)
I'm no Weasel. But the aspiring Lon Horiuchi's in today's LEOs best sharpen their pencils. 150 yards ain't gonna' cut it.
Posted by: Steve Borden at February 17, 2019 03:06 PM (MbZQy)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:02 PM
Speaking of which
https://youtu.be/FFUdrAliJWY
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2019 03:06 PM (/rm4P)
It's like reusable diapers, but for menstruation. And the gal who created these was a weirdo sex freak who was kicked out of the company for groping her female employees and not having an HR department (and all the things that go with it, like employee benefits). Virtue: faked, signaled hard, then lost.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2019 03:06 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2019 03:06 PM (6a9Py)
Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2019 03:03 PM (MxEKc)
Just a pinch between your cheek and gum...
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 17, 2019 03:07 PM (jo0+f)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2019 03:07 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2019 03:04 PM
FIFY.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 03:07 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: CBD at 02:35 PM
Raw Water.
Posted by: Surfperch at February 17, 2019 03:07 PM (tVQUs)
Posted by: disgusting oration at February 17, 2019 03:07 PM (vtd+q)
Posted by: Hands at February 17, 2019 03:07 PM (786Ro)
Our virtues may be lacking but never ever question our class
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:07 PM (RZ6R1)
Barack Hussein Obama.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:05 PM (pg90N)
Don't forget the accessories.
Posted by: Miklos, Styrofoam Pillar Extruder at February 17, 2019 03:07 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2019 03:07 PM (/rm4P)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:08 PM (//K3c)
Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2019 03:03 PM (MxEKc)
I can see the marketing campaign, with Nathan Phillips, the Navajo Shit Talker, as the spokesmodel for it.
"You too can have dentition just like mine!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:08 PM (pg90N)
Someone was bitching about having to keycard through a door carrying a meal. They made sure, in the course of this complaint, that everyone knew the details of the organic/artisinal/hipster BS food they were trying to juggle.
It's pure class signalling.
All the lefties were busy jerking off to "Elysium" a few years back, but the bald truth none of them will admit is that they are trying to be - desperately want to be - the "obnoxiously rich space people" faction depicted in the film. This helps put into perspective how they see themselves in CA as eloi and the subsequent desire to import morlocks to clean the pool when they're not looking.
Posted by: lurker (the other one) at February 17, 2019 03:08 PM (67XdO)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 03:08 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: AytchMan at February 17, 2019 03:08 PM (AEtcC)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2019 03:08 PM (zBaqJ)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (Rxduq)
At least, moolah that they used to have.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:58 PM (pg90N)
And there are knockoffs sold on every street corner, so if I see someone with a LV bag, my first thought is they have a knockoff, so I'm not impressed.
Posted by: josephistan at February 17, 2019 03:05 PM (Izzlo)
I asked the question once, of someone who has that sort of thing, the real thing, in her possession. First I asked, why not buy it used? Then I asked why not buy the knock-off version?
I mean, who would know?
The answer, basically: "I would know."
Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2019 03:09 PM (cY3LT)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 17, 2019 03:09 PM (jUcoH)
Just gimme a cheap generic tube of lotion, ffs
**waits for Horde to pounce on that phrasing**
Posted by: Hands at February 17, 2019 03:09 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: ooga booga at February 17, 2019 03:09 PM (zH0Xv)
Posted by: disgusting oration at February 17, 2019 03:07 PM
Bowling balls and rugs.
Posted by: Jeffrey Lebowski at February 17, 2019 03:10 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Jollyroger at February 17, 2019 03:10 PM (sCPfQ)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 17, 2019 03:10 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2019 03:08 PM (zBaqJ)
I see your pet rock and raise you a chia pet
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:10 PM (RZ6R1)
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My mom was into the Red Hats. (something about old ladies and red and purple)
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 17, 2019 03:10 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: Gary Dahl at February 17, 2019 03:10 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: ooga booga at February 17, 2019 03:09 PM (zH0Xv)
Self-adhesive googly eyes don't count.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:11 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:11 PM (t+qrx)
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When the abyss stares back.
Posted by: Bill the Cat at February 17, 2019 03:11 PM (kQs4Y)
Spokesmodel candidates: Jussie Smollett, Shep!, Don Lemon, or Anderson Cooper?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:11 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: josephistan at February 17, 2019 03:11 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:03 PM (pg90N)
I got cholera from a homeopathic remedy, because the water "remembered" the Vibrio bacteria that used to be in it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (wYseH)
It was a great break from reality.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at February 17, 2019 03:06 PM (ffYR/
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Welcome back.
And I'm glad the day was happy and the event went well, especially after the stress you underwent prior.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2019 03:08 PM (zBaqJ)
I just checked. The pet rock sold for $3.95.
As a novelty item, that seems remarkably harmless. Much more harmless than, say, beanie babies or cabbage patch dolls, which were from the same era, and I'm guessing cost much more than that, in their original form.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (cY3LT)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:56 PM (pg90N)
Hahahah....love it. Served the bastard right.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (Z+IKu)
Try buying a used Kelly bag at auction
Be prepared to have your ears pinned back
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (pg90N)
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I have a good friend who grew up on a farm not far from Charlottesville, VA.
The family had a garden and used the produce mainly for themselves. The best stuff they would sell at a little stand on the route to Monticello or to a couple of local restaurants. The inferior stuff went for animal food or compost.
Now they sell the crap to "natural" food stores in C'ville and make a nice bundle off of it.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (Rxduq)
Posted by: Miklos, gong short on Cabbage Patch, too at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:08 PM (//K3c)
I would love to get a .338 Lapua.
But I don't know where I'd shoot it. How I'd feed it. Or if I could, honestly, hit any better with it than my 700.
I think it's more rifle than I need. I don't think I'm enough of a shooter to use it well.
Posted by: Steve Borden at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (MbZQy)
Posted by: Jollyroger at February 17, 2019 03:10 PM
See #126.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (DMUuz)
I recall reading an articke profiling of our new ruling class several years ago - wish I could find it. So far I can't locate it.
The article described among other things, an up-and-coming young DC power couple who had gone to the right schools, only socialized with others like them, and bought high priced exclusive brands of clothing, kitchen equipment, pretty
much everything, to signal and secure their place in the new aristocracy. Their bland assumptions about their role in society, and where the rest of us belong, caused a flash of anger, as was intended by the author.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (t5m5e)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2019 03:13 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2019 03:13 PM (5aX2M)
Lemme get this right: your great grandma and great grandpa came over here on steerage to get away from that and now you are PAYING the landowner to work like a donkey for him.
OK.
Posted by: Wedding Guest who doesn't know whether to sit on the bride's or groom's side at February 17, 2019 03:14 PM (9Ni3Z)
Posted by: ooga booga at February 17, 2019 03:09 PM (zH0Xv)
HELLO!!! HRU ???
Posted by: Shep at February 17, 2019 03:14 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: ... at February 17, 2019 03:14 PM (uEbPt)
Posted by: Jollyroger at February 17, 2019 03:10 PM (sCPfQ)
New or used?
Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2019 03:14 PM (cY3LT)
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2019 03:14 PM (/rm4P)
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at February 17, 2019 02:43 PM (lD3vL)
Avant Giardia
Posted by: Insomniac
Dysenteri Springs
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 17, 2019 03:14 PM (0OWcv)
Pet Rock, FTW.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2019 03:08 PM (zBaqJ)
I still have mine. It's been slumbering away in the attic in its original box for 40-some years.
Posted by: rickl at February 17, 2019 03:14 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (Z+IKu)
That's what I thought too. We never played again.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:14 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: torabora at February 17, 2019 03:14 PM (GBCiv)
Posted by: Steve Borden at February 17, 2019 03:12 PM (MbZQy)
THAT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!
GUNS ARE ESSENTIALS!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 03:14 PM (wYseH)
IRRC, most high end handbags, purses, and accessories are made in one region of china. Even the "Italian made" use materials from there... just final assembly and packaging in Italy.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:15 PM (//K3c)
Posted by: jsg at February 17, 2019 03:15 PM (tY0hq)
My daughter gave me a Phillips sonicare several years ago, and it has been my number one favorite thing ever. I recently upgraded to a newer model and now I use the old one to clean stuff.
Posted by: April at February 17, 2019 03:15 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2019 03:13 PM
A great pairing with Prairie Crab Dip!
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at February 17, 2019 03:15 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Surfperch at February 17, 2019 03:15 PM (tVQUs)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 17, 2019 03:15 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: kallisto at February 17, 2019 03:15 PM (ZO3yc)
I can accept that a wagyu beef steak might be worth the price as once in a lifetime experience.
But outrageously priced coffee? Nope.
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at February 17, 2019 03:15 PM (eAMlh)
I have a joke. It's an old joke, but it's a propos.
Two nouveau riche Russians run into each other on the street. Igor says, "wow that's a nice tie. What did it cost?"
Ivan says, "$600".
Igor says, "idiot! I know where you could have got it for $1,000".
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 17, 2019 03:16 PM (fuK7c)
Uh, CBD, we are all sitting here and laughing at these yahoos, but instead, we should be producing these exact products! If people willingly pay to be fleeced, why not profit from it? We could sell the crap, finely packaged of course, on Ace's new mirror___-lefty-site.
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 17, 2019 03:16 PM (9Ni3Z)
Posted by: ooga booga at February 17, 2019 03:09 PM (zH0Xv)
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We got ya covered.
Posted by: Jussie's Bleach Friends at February 17, 2019 03:17 PM (5aX2M)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 02:57 PM (Rxduq)
The disheartening thing about luxury bags is that the quality is getting worse.
Now, you were always paying for the name; there is a point at which you do get better quality, but that stops at about, say, 800 to a thousand dollars.
But Chanel bags are slipping badly in quality. Yet the prices keep going up, because there is plenty of stupid money to pay for it.
Hermes quality is still there, but I am not a fan overall of their bags, and their prices and exclusivity are just insane.
Moynat is the only top luxury bag I think is still worth it, though lord knows there are still a few Chanels I'm after. Thankfully, my style is more Boy than classic flap.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 03:17 PM (0hLBF)
Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2019 03:14 PM
You have to know these things when you're a SCOTUS _J.
Posted by: RBG at February 17, 2019 03:17 PM (DMUuz)
https://www.lelo.com/anniversary-collection
Steampunk sex goggles or the Jarlsgatan Flogger? Pink or black?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at February 17, 2019 03:17 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2019 03:04 PM
FIFY.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 03:07 PM (DMUuz)
Au contraire, it has a digital read out of the last date serviced, which by company policy, is one month or less.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2019 03:18 PM (ePWRo)
Hmmm. Appears to be in English, but I don't understand it...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:18 PM (//K3c)
Posted by: Surfperch at February 17, 2019 03:15 PM (tVQUs)
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Beating swords into plowshares!
Make art, not war!
I can see it.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 03:19 PM (Rxduq)
I have a joke. It's an old joke, but it's a propos.
Two nouveau riche Russians run into each other on the street. Igor says, "wow that's a nice tie. What did it cost?"
Ivan says, "$600".
Igor says, "idiot! I know where you could have got it for $1,000".
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 17, 2019 03:16 PM (fuK7c)
Nice!
Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2019 03:19 PM (cY3LT)
YGTBFKM
Posted by: torabora at February 17, 2019 03:19 PM (GBCiv)
https://www.lelo.com/anniversary-collection
Steampunk sex goggles or the Jarlsgatan Flogger? Pink or black?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at February 17, 2019 03:17 PM
I'm sure she, and we, would appreciate even more your personal reviews.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 03:19 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: kallisto at February 17, 2019 03:19 PM (ZO3yc)
If I wanted old clothes, I wouldn't be out shopping.
Posted by: all doubt removed at February 17, 2019 03:20 PM (S2eH9)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:20 PM (//K3c)
I didn't have the heart to tell him that we use a $20 machine from Walmart.
The thing is, the water here is so hard that it quickly craps up the guts of equipment with lime scale. I periodically use dilute HCl solutions on it, shower heads, etc. to dissolve the lime scale, but I'm damned if I'm spending a lot of money on anything that uses the water here.
(I also replace the sacrificial Mg anode on the water heater every other year. You should see what it looks like after a couple of years. /shudder)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:20 PM (pg90N)
https://www.hoover.org/research/food-new-sex
Basic theme is that as moral codes regarding sex have waned, moral codes about food are arising. Contrasts a prototypical consumer woman of 1950s, "Betty", with consumer woman today, "Jennifer":
Betty thinks food is a matter of taste, whereas sex is governed by universal moral law; and Jennifer thinks exactly the reverse....
Betty does care about nutrition and food, but it doesn't occur to her to extend her opinions to a moral judgment - i.e., to believe that other people ought to do as she does in the matter of food, and that they are wrong if they don't. In fact, she thinks such an extension would be wrong in a different way; it would be impolite, needlessly judgmental, simply not done. Jennifer, similarly, does care to some limited degree about what other people do about sex; but it seldom occurs to her to extend her opinions to a moral judgment. In fact, she thinks such an extension would be wrong in a different way - because it would be impolite, needlessly judgmental, simply not done.
Posted by: Hands at February 17, 2019 03:20 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Marooned at February 17, 2019 03:20 PM (8hRlF)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2019 03:18 PM
Serviced, or simply reset when they opened it to take out the money?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 03:21 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at February 17, 2019 03:17 PM (kQs4Y)
Good name for a band, that right there.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:21 PM (t+qrx)
I asked the question once, of someone who has that
sort of thing, the real thing, in her possession. First I asked, why
not buy it used? Then I asked why not buy the knock-off version?
I mean, who would know?
The answer, basically: "I would know."
Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2019 03:09 PM (cY3LT
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Anything that's crafted well out of good materials that looks good and sells above a certain price, arbitrarily say $300, you're paying for nothing but the label.
Some people love a label and I've got no objection to that. What I don't get is having two of those purses. One serious designer alligator bag should work with every outfit and should last a lifetime.
I had a friend once who was using a big bucket-style Coach bag that looked great. Her mother had used it for 20 or so years, every day, as a teacher, carrying school stuff in it. That's how I would do it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 03:21 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2019 03:22 PM (ePWRo)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 03:22 PM (0hLBF)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 03:19 PM (DMUuz)
Lelo and Switch - Two thumbs way, way up!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at February 17, 2019 03:22 PM (kQs4Y)
Now, you were always paying for the name; there is a point at which you do get better quality, but that stops at about, say, 800 to a thousand dollars.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 03:17 PM (0hLBF)
Women, try to be honest. First of all, there is no bag in the world worth $800 or more. But, you're a woman. You're not going to keep it any longer than 5 years at the most, or until the next fad comes along. Sure, men waste a lot of money on shit (I'm not talking about soi bois), but what they waste their money on usually lasts until it falls apart or they die.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at February 17, 2019 03:23 PM (3sjI6)
Bottled water.
I did a little experiment a while back, took a bunch of Poland Water bottles and filled them with our well water (that is terrific), stuck them in the cooler and handed them out later on at a picnic.
Not one person had a complaint, in fact a few remarked on how good it tasted.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 17, 2019 03:23 PM (S/hVx)
Posted by: April at February 17, 2019 03:15 PM (OX9vb)
They are nice. My favorite things: my cordless impact driver, my sawzall, my angle grinder, and my electric toothbrush.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:23 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: ItsNotaTooma at February 17, 2019 03:24 PM (hAruP)
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2019 03:24 PM (/rm4P)
Posted by: lin-duh at February 17, 2019 03:24 PM (kufk0)
It just a funny millenial slash First World slash enviro-nazi indulgence.
Besides, poor oral health is the force of natural selection at work.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2019 03:25 PM (2zFt4)
Lefties'll eat it up. Call it "Nude Hogg Descending a Staircase," or somesuch.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2019 03:25 PM (5aX2M)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2019 03:22 PM (ePWRo)
Dilute HCl is more effective. Acetic acid will form calcium acetate, which is prone to gelling. It's how they make Sterno: calcium acetate plus methanol.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:25 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at February 17, 2019 03:23 PM (3sjI6)
If both happen at the same time, it means you win.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:25 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2019 03:25 PM (Y+V3r)
Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2019 03:26 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2019 03:25 PM (Y+V3r)
You do bridgework?
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:26 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at February 17, 2019 03:27 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Tesla Owner at February 17, 2019 03:28 PM (Zo1XC)
Eye drops made from the tears of liberals.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:28 PM (LDbTO)
You're not going to keep it any longer than 5 years
at the most, or until the next fad comes along.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at February 17, 2019 03:23 PM (3sjI6
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No way, dude. See my 268. Classics are forever. My sister wears stuff that my late, fashionable grandma left behind.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 03:29 PM (13CQC)
I did a little experiment a while back, took a bunch of Poland Water bottles and filled them with our well water (that is terrific), stuck them in the cooler and handed them out later on at a picnic.
Not one person had a complaint, in fact a few remarked on how good it tasted.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 17, 2019 03:23 PM (S/hVx)
Many years ago in a country far, far away, I worked in a plant bottling water for Dipshit Mountain Water.
Their plant was right next to the city water, which they used, ran thru an ultraviolet light gizmo, bottled it and presto! $1.00 a gallon to the supermarket it went.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2019 03:29 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2019 03:25 PM (Y+V3r)
You do bridgework?
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:26 PM (t+qrx)
Sure. A lot. But not for 17 bucks lol
But you can get a second mortgage right?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2019 03:29 PM (Y+V3r)
Damn, you are serious about your teeth!
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2019 03:30 PM (x/2Z8)
Posted by: jsg at February 17, 2019 03:30 PM (tY0hq)
It's more rifle I really need
----------
Yeah, until the zombie apocalypse hits, then see if you need it.
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2019 03:24 PM (/rm4P)
I'm thinkin' I'll just head shot 'em within 500 yards. I can hit the pie plate all day at 500 yards now.
Not saying nobody else can use a .338 Lapua well. But it's out of my skill set, as far as pure shooting.
Posted by: Steve Borden at February 17, 2019 03:30 PM (MbZQy)
Posted by: April at February 17, 2019 03:15 PM (OX9vb)
They are nice. My favorite things: my cordless impact driver, my sawzall, my angle grinder, and my electric toothbrush.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Bonus points if they are all interchangeable.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:30 PM (LDbTO)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2019 03:25 PM
You endorse it, we'll sell it to the Air Force as in-flight crew oral-refreshment replenishment to go with their $600 toilet seats, and split the money with Ace.
Profit!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 03:31 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at February 17, 2019 03:23 PM (3sjI6)
The thing is, I've come to realize that tools are a good investment. Instead of paying someone to do something, or trying to wing it with the wrong tool, if you just spring for the right tool for the job, you can do it yourself, quickly, easily, and competently.
And afterwards, you still have the tool for the next time.
For example, we had tree roots that kept growing into the sewage outfall from Chez Merde, our previous house. This caused the sewage line to back up, typically on a holiday weekend, and generally right before guests were coming over.
Finally I bought a power auger ($400), so every six months, when the problem recurred, I'd just wheel it out and 20 minutes later it was done. No sweeter sound than that sudden gurgling when you've cleared the obstruction!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:31 PM (pg90N)
I fell hard for handbags a few years ago after carrying my mama's used Stone Mountain bags for all of my adult life. I never understood the appeal for 40 years, but then boom, I saw a Boy bag.
I have a small collection of luxury bags now, and I have definitely repeated styles in a few different colors. Price aside, I don't think it's any different than having a variety of dresses or tops and pants. It's a HUGE aside, though, I do get that!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 03:31 PM (0hLBF)
Posted by: Hands at February 17, 2019 03:32 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at February 17, 2019 03:32 PM (TN1P5)
Posted by: Michael K. at February 17, 2019 03:32 PM (S3Dx6)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Bonus points if they are all interchangeable.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:30 PM (LDbTO)
I've been putting off surgery for a deviated septum, but periodically eye my Dremel ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:32 PM (pg90N)
Damn, you are serious about your teeth!
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2019 03:30 PM (x/2Z
They're VERY white, and pointy too!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:34 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Miklos, gotta calculate on a lifecycle basis at February 17, 2019 03:34 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at February 17, 2019 03:34 PM (eAMlh)
Posted by: rickb223
That was two rotating tools and two reciprocating tools. I'll give bonus points if only those pairs are interchangeable.
And now I'm thinking that the impact angle grinder sounds more dangerous than the sawzall toothbrush attachment.
Posted by: mikeski at February 17, 2019 03:34 PM (P1f+c)
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at February 17, 2019 03:34 PM (eAMlh)
For $500 the come with holes and rips
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2019 03:36 PM (Y+V3r)
Virtually any garment that says "Dry Clean Only" I pass on. Makes clothes-shopping that much more efficient.
I mean, this is supposed to be something that absorbs sweat, takes the occasional splash of hot coffee, snot, baby saliva, comes into contact with bus benches and the like so my bare legs don't have to, in some cases virtually brushes the ground, and I can't subject it to soap and water?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 03:36 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Hands at February 17, 2019 03:32 PM (786Ro)
===
They smell good.
And they make bathtime fun.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2019 03:36 PM (2zFt4)
Posted by: Deep Burnt State at February 17, 2019 03:36 PM (uloIh)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:36 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: mikeski at February 17, 2019 03:34 PM (P1f+c)
I've thought about marketing a sawzall dildo attachment to target the feminist market segment.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:36 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2019 03:36 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:20 PM (pg90N)
I don't have a link, but I remember a scene from an early Woody Allen movie from the 1960s that made fun of that very thing.
Posted by: rickl at February 17, 2019 03:37 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at February 17, 2019 03:34 PM (eAMlh)
I remember companies selling pre-worn jeans. And it wasn't Goodwill.
Posted by: Miklosian anti-marketing, PLC at February 17, 2019 03:37 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 17, 2019 03:37 PM (aWjrD)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
You're too late, unless the feminism is the point.
Posted by: mikeski at February 17, 2019 03:37 PM (P1f+c)
Posted by: Surfperch at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (tVQUs)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:25 PM (pg90N)
And probably cheaper.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (wYseH)
Pure marketing genius. Getting people that are contemptuous of trailer trash to want to live in trailers and brag about it.
Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at February 17, 2019 03:34 PM (eAMlh)
"professional clothes stainer" sounds like a career I'd have said I wanted, when I was six.
This hasn't changed a bit since then, mind.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Vic at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: disgusting oration at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (vtd+q)
It cost $1,200 more than I had (it cost $1,200) and I didn't have a CT gun permit, but goodness it was a left-handed Weatherby. (.300 Wthby mag).
It was the prettiest thing I've ever seen that didn't have tits on it.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2019 03:36 PM (ycWCI)
On a scale from one to ten, ginger is the best flavor.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Jay Vee Obama, Still Deciding Whether Straight or Gay at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (uloIh)
I have a small collection of luxury bags now, and I
have definitely repeated styles in a few different colors. Price aside, I
don't think it's any different than having a variety of dresses or tops
and pants. It's a HUGE aside, though, I do get that!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 03:31 PM (0hLBF
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You're a collector then. Good on ya.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (13CQC)
I retired as a professional mechanic and have a crapload of tools gathered over the years, all of which is name brand premium stuff, nearly every piece has a lifetime warranty.
Scary how much money is in that box and rollcab.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 17, 2019 03:39 PM (S/hVx)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y2ylwppn
Posted by: Splunge at February 17, 2019 03:39 PM (ed8K1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
We are most interested to discuss similar ideas.
Posted by: Sharia-compliant Gynecologists of Greater Detroit at February 17, 2019 03:39 PM (zCyNd)
This hasn't changed a bit since then, mind.
Posted by: hogmartin
It was further down on my resume, but it was fun.
Posted by: Wm. J. Clinton at February 17, 2019 03:39 PM (P1f+c)
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at February 17, 2019 03:39 PM (eAMlh)
Now CD's can be had for pennies--except for expensive box sets of old Dylan or Beatles stuff.
Posted by: JoeF. at February 17, 2019 03:39 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Aka, Sybian.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:40 PM (LDbTO)
No argument whatsoever from me, other than no, I won't get rid of it in 5 years. I'm not a fad person. I still wear a pair of black jeans I bought in 1984, and I also still wear my sweet sweet Chemin de Feurs (sp?), bought in... I don't even remember, but it was just as long ago, I bet. Both pairs were WAY WAY WAY out of style for years, being high waisted, and narrow legged, but I wore them anyway, because they were flattering in me. (As flattering as a flat assed woman can look in jeans, at least)
I have two bags that are pretty faddish, but I will carry them long after they go out of style. And the Louboutin bagisn't really all that faddish, per se (it's black with a little bit of red and a bit of leopard) but it's quite tacky and I love it.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 03:40 PM (0hLBF)
---------------------------------------------------------------
More like 16 with me......
Posted by: JoeF. at February 17, 2019 03:40 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at February 17, 2019 03:39 PM (eAMlh)
Equipment, or subscription?
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:40 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2019 03:36 PM (ycWCI)
On a scale from one to ten, ginger is the best flavor.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (t+qrx)
If we are talking Redheads, then I agree.
If we are talking the root, I am giving you the side eye.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2019 03:41 PM (ycWCI)
Just so they would able to play golf in peace.
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:41 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: DaveA at February 17, 2019 03:41 PM (FhXTo)
Equipment, or subscription?
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:40 PM (t+qrx)
Subscription
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at February 17, 2019 03:41 PM (eAMlh)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:20 PM (pg90N)
I don't have a link, but I remember a scene from an early Woody Allen movie from the 1960s that made fun of that very thing.
Posted by: rickl at February 17, 2019 03:37 PM (sdi6R)
In fairness, it was his wife's doing. She's earnestly liberal, and much given to all things European. He himself is very sensible.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:41 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Speaker Nancy Pelosi at February 17, 2019 03:42 PM (zCyNd)
If we are talking the root, I am giving you the side eye.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2019 03:41 PM (ycWCI)
Either. A bit spicy and a little sweet, what's not to like?
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:42 PM (t+qrx)
Scary how much money is in that box and rollcab.
Posted by: irongrampa
$200 to $300k?
Last Snap On payment due June 2024?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:42 PM (LDbTO)
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2019 03:42 PM (/rm4P)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:42 PM (//K3c)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 17, 2019 03:43 PM (aWjrD)
The Democrat party
Posted by: American at February 17, 2019 03:43 PM (BfSYp)
I have a very good friend who bought a $1000
European coffee machine. It takes a degree in hydraulic engineering to
operate the damned thing.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:20 PM (pg90N)
I don't have a link, but I remember a scene from an early Woody Allen movie from the 1960s that made fun of that very thing.
Posted by: rickl at February 17, 2019 03:37 PM (sdi6R)
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I remember an episode of The Sopranos where someone (Paulie?) sends Carmen a 4-figure coffee machine as some sort of atonement and she's frowning at the stupid overpriced overcomplicated thing asking what's wrong with that man.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 03:43 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2019 03:36 PM (ycWCI)
With the proper amount of garlic and schezwan peppercorns,
absolutely
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:43 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: disgusting oration at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (vtd+q)
Japan: nuked too much, or not enough?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:43 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:44 PM (LDbTO)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:44 PM (//K3c)
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at February 17, 2019 03:41 PM (eAMlh)
Haven't had one since 2014 or earlier. Don't want one either.
The TV is nice, because I use it as the display for the computer in the living room, but no, you're not the odd one out if you don't have cable or satellite.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:44 PM (t+qrx)
But there are expensive brands that claim to be from this or that exotic place.
Evian water is from the Alps----and damned if it DOESN'T taste like melted snow....
Posted by: JoeF. at February 17, 2019 03:44 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 17, 2019 03:44 PM (Dhht7)
I probably have enough rifle for the zombie apocalypse, but there was this one time that Cabela's had a left-handed Weatherby.
It cost $1,200 more than I had (it cost $1,200) and I didn't have a
CT gun permit, but goodness it was a left-handed Weatherby. (.300 Wthby
mag).
It was the prettiest thing I've ever seen that didn't have tits on it.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (fuK7c)
Wen had a small gun shop not far from where i used to live in GA that had one of those Weatherby rifles in the shop. When I went in there I used to take it down and drool over it mightily. It was the most beautiful gun I have ever held in my hands. But alas, the price was way out of my ballpark.
Posted by: Vic at February 17, 2019 03:44 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2019 03:42 PM (/rm4P)
The $168 Billion apartment in NYC was pretty insane as well. Seems like you could build a pretty impressive house pretty much anywhere more sane.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2019 03:44 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: mr_jack at February 17, 2019 03:44 PM (M59SC)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2019 03:45 PM (ePWRo)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Posted by: Speaker Nancy Pelosi at February 17, 2019 03:42 PM (zCyNd)
+++
We obtained power of attorney and were able to put my 92 year old grandmother into a assisted living home after going before a judge. He asked her 3 questions: One was the date, where she lived, and who was president.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 17, 2019 03:45 PM (aWjrD)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:44 PM (//K3c)
LMAO squared
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:46 PM (RZ6R1)
Just so they would able to play golf in peace.
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:41 PM
Simple math. Much cheaper than divorce.
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 17, 2019 03:46 PM (Dhht7)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (fuK7c)
Yeah....we lefties are screwed when it comes to rifles. Most of the really beautiful ones are for those weird people who do stuff with their right hands.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 03:46 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: mr_jack at February 17, 2019 03:44 PM (M59SC)
That's like the Mitch Hedberg routine - Coke in a glass harmonica, individually-wrapped cashews. Except that was about how hotel minibar food is impossible to replace.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:46 PM (t+qrx)
Thought Dell's was 100 plus million...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:47 PM (//K3c)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 17, 2019 03:43
I used to go to the LA shows with grandma when she had her sportswear shop in Palm Desert. She would double what she paid and add 20%. They were still reasonable priced and you have to cover overhead somehow.
Posted by: Infidel at February 17, 2019 03:47 PM (9L2du)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 17, 2019 03:47 PM (vP+yw)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 17, 2019 03:43 PM
It takes a lot to compensate for the aggravation inherent at the retail level in this market segment.
Posted by: Al Bundy at February 17, 2019 03:47 PM (DMUuz)
I retired as a professional mechanic
I've got a car question.
Where could an Automatic Transmission leak from only when it's running?
Is the pan seal under pressure when running?
Posted by: DaveA at February 17, 2019 03:47 PM (FhXTo)
I don't consider myself a bag collector, but I do have the collector gene for sure. Got my eye on a blush Boy and one of those damned Prada Cahiers. Talk about faddish, but I am ashamed to say I have seen several I really like! They look like old books, and I am smitten.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 03:48 PM (0hLBF)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:25 PM (pg90N)
And probably cheaper.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (wYseH)
Definitely. People buy CLR (calcium lime rust remover), which is a small amount of dilute HCl, for $5 or $6. You can buy a gallon of concentrated HCl (aka "muriatic acid") for pool use for twice that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:48 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at February 17, 2019 03:48 PM (eAMlh)
Right? And my 1911 is the most brilliantly ergonomic device ever made for people who use the wrong hand.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 17, 2019 03:48 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 17, 2019 03:45 PM (aWjrD)
Pelosi's answers would be: Juneuary 32nd, 2016, San Francisco and George W. Bush.
Posted by: Surfperch at February 17, 2019 03:48 PM (tVQUs)
And put maple syrup on our French toast...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:49 PM (//K3c)
Thought Dell's was 100 plus million...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:47 PM (//K3c)
Ok, I am half asleep. It was $238 Million (which is still a hunk of change.) I also believe it was simply a white box- completely unfurnished and without and sort of interior.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2019 03:50 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2019 03:50 PM (/rm4P)
Posted by: mr_jack at February 17, 2019 03:44 PM (M59SC)
That *would* slow you down from eating too many of them.
Posted by: rickl at February 17, 2019 03:50 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: literally serious at February 17, 2019 03:50 PM (Rw8Ov)
Posted by: pookysgirl at February 17, 2019 03:51 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Even though I am left handed, some things were done right handed growing up just because left handed items were just too cost prohibitive.
Left handed bolt action rifles were one of them. Left handed golf clubs were the same.
So I wound up doing them right handed.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:51 PM (LDbTO)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:51 PM (//K3c)
Honestly, bags and perfume are really the only ridiculous things I buy and I am just about set with bags. Perfume is another story entirely, but I am what I am.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 03:51 PM (0hLBF)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 17, 2019 03:48 PM (fuK7c)
I think the magazine release is perfect, and the slide release is right under my index finger.
The only thing it needs to be a perfect LH pistol is an ambidextrous safety.
And tits.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 03:51 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:48 PM (pg90N)
I have worked in labs with people who supposedly are trained and I am not real comfortable having them handle either concentrated acids or bases.
Buying the stuff already dilute is not a bad call.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2019 03:52 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: MichiCanuck at February 17, 2019 03:52 PM (3MPk1)
Just so they would able to play golf in peace.
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:41 PM
Simple math. Much cheaper than divorce.
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 17, 2019 03:46 PM (Dhht7)
I heard that theory
the only drawback was listening to wives bitch about their husband's girlfriends
Which is still better than listening to a gay client tell me about their sex life
Which they always did before signing the check UGH
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:52 PM (RZ6R1)
When I order water in a restaurant, I ask for Domestic water from [nearby river], run through a filter. Straight up, 55.5M.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2019 03:52 PM (u82oZ)
Pelosi's answers would be: Juneuary 32nd, 2016, San Francisco and George W. Bush.
Posted by: Surfperch at February 17, 2019 03:48 PM (tVQUs)
+++LOL
She has had these vacant brain disruptions for a long time. I think all throughout Obama's presidency she would say "President Bush" instead.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 17, 2019 03:52 PM (aWjrD)
Posted by: literally serious at February 17, 2019 03:50 PM (Rw8Ov)
This is so funny and so sad at the same time.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 03:53 PM (0hLBF)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLz4bSXcuYY
Muriatic acid and aluminum.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2019 03:45 PM (ePWRo)
Sure. Only an idiot would use concentrated HCl, which is around 10 M. I'm talking about diluting the concentrated stuff 100:1 or so.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:53 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: pookysgirl at February 17, 2019 03:51 PM (XKZwp)
I could have sworn I have seen this.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2019 03:53 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: DaveA at February 17, 2019 03:53 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2019 03:53 PM (PkIg+)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:51 PM (LDbTO)
I am completely spastic with my right hand, so a LH bolt gun was mandatory. And same thing with golf clubs. It is high comedy to watch me swing a club right handed.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 03:53 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2019 03:52 PM (u82oZ)
Except in Flint, where it's probably around 55.4 M from all the other crap in it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:53 PM (pg90N)
So I wound up doing them right handed.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:51 PM (LDbTO)
I'm a southpaw, but the thought of a left-handed bolt action just baffles me. I've always shot righty, although I will sometimes fire lefty for practice. But, yeah I'd look like an idiot trying to work a left-hand bolt.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 17, 2019 03:54 PM (jo0+f)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 17, 2019 03:45 PM (aWjrD)
Pelosi's answers would be: Juneuary 32nd, 2016, San Francisco and George W. Bush."
I remember a time when Troy Aikman was playing for Dallas, after a particularly nasty hit on the head, he was on the sidelines asking to go back in. The team doc asked him if he knew what city he was in, and he answered "Henrietta?" (which was where he played high school ball) That was the end of the day for him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2019 03:54 PM (V2Yro)
My wife hates it when I throw in a number after a decimal point, so normally I round down to 55M.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2019 03:54 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 17, 2019 03:54 PM (//K3c)
Depends, if it has a cooler, check the cooler lines. They rot out. If not, you're screwed. Just kidding
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2019 03:54 PM (RZ6R1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2019 03:54 PM (ycWCI)
They look like old books, and I am smitten.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 03:48 PM (0hLBF
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Someone I knew of modest means had his eye on a used Rollex. I didn't get it. Why? Then somewhere along the way my interests drifted into haute couture and I found those sites for used luxury items, like 1stdibs. There's a Chanel jacket out there, great shape, not that old, $3k, with my name on it. In another universe, I'd be tempted. In this one I'm not touching it, but I understand Rollex guy better.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 03:55 PM (13CQC)
Right? And my 1911 is the most brilliantly ergonomic device ever made for people who use the wrong hand.
Posted by: Bandersnatch
Which is why I switched to H&K USP.
Because I got tired of the thumb gymnastics required to drop the magazine. Much easier to hit the center mag release.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:55 PM (LDbTO)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 03:53 PM (wYseH)
I learned to golf and to shoot right-handed. I use a mouse right-handed also, because originally I only had one computer for my whole research group, and they were all right-handed.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:55 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 17, 2019 03:55 PM (mUa7G)
A competent gunsmith can retrofit one pretty economically.
And tits.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 03:51 PM
Speaker Pelosi and AOC do not approve, given the significant possibility of engaging that thing that goes up.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 03:55 PM (DMUuz)
A very good friend of mine bought not one but two $6000 coffee machines. (!!?!?!) One for decaf.
Of course, he got them on sale, so he would have been a fool not to get them.
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2019 03:55 PM (f6lTY)
Posted by: disgusting oration at February 17, 2019 03:38 PM (vtd+q)
Those crazy Japs, that atom bomb thing really screwed them up but good.
Godzilla weeps.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2019 03:55 PM (Z+IKu)
Virtually any garment that says "Dry Clean Only" I pass on. Makes clothes-shopping that much more efficient.
I mean, this is supposed to be something that absorbs sweat, takes the occasional splash of hot coffee, snot, baby saliva, comes into contact with bus benches and the like so my bare legs don't have to, in some cases virtually brushes the ground, and I can't subject it to soap and water?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 03:36 PM (13CQC)
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Preach it!
Sure, dry-clean-only is fine for things you rarely wear and even then only in controlled environments. But for everyday wear? Hah!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 03:56 PM (Rxduq)
Posted by: pookysgirl at February 17, 2019 03:51 PM (XKZwp)
Well, it's not gold-flecked, but it does cost about 50 bucks for a pack of three rolls:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y2qoqrtr
Posted by: Splunge at February 17, 2019 03:56 PM (ed8K1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2019 03:54 PM (u82oZ)
I bet you habitually begin all decimals less than 1 with a "0," right?
I know I do. I don't write .5 M, but rather 0.5 M, and I bet you do the same.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:57 PM (pg90N)
and it just goes to show, anything we can think of, no matter how depraved, is already on video somewhere.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2019 03:57 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 03:56 PM (Rxduq)
Must be Mitch Hedberg day.
"This shirt is dry-clean only. That means it's dirty."
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 03:58 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 17, 2019 03:55 PM (mUa7G)
Commando is mandatory when wearing these.
Posted by: literally serious at February 17, 2019 03:58 PM (Rw8Ov)
Of course, he got them on sale, so he would have been a fool not to get them.
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2019 03:55 PM (f6lTY)
On sale? Think of all the money he saved!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:58 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: El Cid Flyboy at February 17, 2019 03:58 PM (qM84C)
Oh yes! I had that done about five seconds after I bought my 1911.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 03:58 PM (wYseH)
I shoot them left-handed and honestly wouldn't know how to use a left-handed gun.
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2019 03:58 PM (jOEDM)
Teslas are fun, and the Chevy Bolt is quite nice. The rest of 'em mostly meh. They make no more or less economic sense than, say, an BMW 550i. But they get you into the carpool lane out here solo-occupant, which
But hey, just about the cheapest dude I know drives around in an used Nissan Leaf.
Posted by: JEM at February 17, 2019 03:58 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: HH at February 17, 2019 03:59 PM (mIJBI)
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2019 03:58 PM (jOEDM)
Same here.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:59 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille
Welcome to the wonderful world or men's suits.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:59 PM (LDbTO)
I know I do. I don't write .5 M, but rather 0.5 M, and I bet you do the same.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:57 PM
And do you put slashes through the zeros?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 03:59 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: HH at February 17, 2019 03:59 PM (mIJBI)
Impossible. CBD is right here in this thread. We'd have seen him post it.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 04:00 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Miklos, at a "trunk sale" at February 17, 2019 04:00 PM (zCyNd)
There's multiple places, cooler lines, pan itself, (usually gasket), porous case, accumulator seals--your best course is to take it to a pro and have him diagnose it.
This will let you know what and how much the fix should be.
Frequently the fix IS simple.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 17, 2019 04:02 PM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 03:59 PM (DMUuz)
Only in the context of computer stuff, and other places where 0 might be mistaken for O, and vice versa.
I do put a slash through my sevens, though. It avoids confusion - especially of Europeans - between 1 and 7.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:02 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 03:48 PM (pg90N)
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I'm tempted to try that pool stuff mainly because my chemist son insinuates that stoopid mama should stick to the CLR.
How would you dilute it for running through the coffee-maker? One to one with water?
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 04:03 PM (Rxduq)
I lost all faith in the voter base of California with the passage of the stem-cell bond almost two decades ago.
We have >30% of the nation's illegals and >30% of the nation's welfare cases (correlation does not infer causation, but that's the way to bet at least in this case) and damn near the worst roads in the country (also a reasonable inference when you consider how much money is going to welfare and schooling illegals' kids), yet the voters will chip in for garbage like the Brown Streak.
They'll vote for Prop 47 and wonder why they can't keep windows in their car any longer.
It's absurd. And yet a lot of these voters actually seem sane if you meet them somewhere.
Posted by: JEM at February 17, 2019 04:03 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: Miklos, at a "trunk sale" at February 17, 2019 04:00 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 04:03 PM (wYseH)
They say, "Look at those dumb rednecks and their obsession with the details of guns and muscle cars! Such low-class Nazis!"
And we say, "Look at those effete metrosexual soicialists and their obsession with $17 toothpaste and shade-grown fair-trade goji berry colon cleanses! Such useless NPCs!"
They think our cultural preferences are despicable. We think their cultural preferences are despicable.
But in truth neither side gives one hoot about the other side's disapproval. So when we disapprove of them (and they of us), the act of disapproving does nothing to suppress their cultural preferences.
So, then, why does everybody poo-poo the other side's culture? As a form of tribal affirmation for our side.
We distinguish ourselves from them by distancing ourselves from their culture.
Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, I'm GLAD they waste their money on $17 toothpastes and $8 cups of coffee and all the rest. Better that they waste their money on slavish trend-following stupidity than spend that same money usefully funding their own political objectives. I say we should ENCOURAGE their idiotic overpriced consumer choices.
Posted by: zombie at February 17, 2019 04:05 PM (c+2jX)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:02 PM (pg90N)
I put slashes through all my numerals and letters, just so there's no ambiguity.
Oh, I once heard someone speak 'five' as 'fiver' over the radio. That was special. Good thing I wasn't driving.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 04:05 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: zombie at February 17, 2019 04:05 PM (c+2jX)
It is also hard water so year vinegar for the coffee pot and a dishwasher cycle of vinegar once a month at least.
Strangely I found tap water in NJ to be pretty good but then we got our water from the Delaware Water Gap which at the time was a very pretty area.
Not been to the DWG in two decades so it could all be different now.
Posted by: Big V at February 17, 2019 04:06 PM (sN665)
Posted by: zombie at February 17, 2019 04:05 PM (c+2jX)
Yes, but you're missing the point: we're right about them, and they're wrong about us. QED.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 17, 2019 04:06 PM (t+qrx)
How would you dilute it for running through the coffee-maker? One to one with water?
Probably more than that, while wearing long rubber gloves and especially goggles.
It's also used for etching mortar off the face of brick, particularly if you want an aged brick look. Significant skin contact involves thirty seconds or so of modest discomfort followed by "F*CKMEF*CKMEF*CKME"
Posted by: JEM at February 17, 2019 04:07 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 04:03 PM (Rxduq)
Good God, no. I'd dilute about 100:1 with water. And do so outside. HCl fumes are unpleasant, and will cause anything made of iron/steel pretty much instantly to corrode.
I just eyeballed my wife's measuring cups. I'd put about one-quarter of a cup of concentrated HCl in a quart of water. Again, doing so outside.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:07 PM (pg90N)
Hoards of barbarians surging over the border while half the politicians (and all the press) insist that it is nothing to be concerned with while making citizens pay taxes to support the free-loaders.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at February 17, 2019 04:07 PM (1g7ch)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 04:03 PM (Rxduq)
Start at 50 to one.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 04:07 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 04:03 PM (Rxduq)
I'd gun for about 1% solution. You can always run more through, if necessary.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:09 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 04:07 PM (wYseH)
Yep, right around is a good point.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:09 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:07 PM (pg90N)
Maybe even one-eighth of a cup, now that I look at it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:10 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:11 PM (pg90N)
And wear gloves and long sleeves when you make the solution.
And glasses!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 17, 2019 04:11 PM (wYseH)
Mama has more money than brains (in this area) and will stick to CLR!!!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 04:12 PM (Rxduq)
My only concern with used bags is authenticity. Chanel bags especially are still so insanely priced used that I am nervous about even going there. I made money selling one of my classic flaps to a friend of a friend, and I'd buy from someone I knew, but just really nervous about going through even the established sites like The RealReal and such.
Chanel are actually trying to stop resell on their products, which I think is interesting, as far as the legality of it.
If I were really a serious bag person (meaning I wanted a whole bunch), I'd consider going with fakes for big houses like Chanel, LV and Hermes. I normally don't like that sort of thing on general principal, but they go to such extreme measures to make sure the peasants can't afford their stuff that I wouldn't hesitate. Especially Hermes, good lord.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 04:12 PM (0hLBF)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:12 PM (pg90N)
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Some good points there.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 04:14 PM (Rxduq)
I just eyeballed my wife's measuring cups. I'd put about one-quarter of a cup of concentrated HCl in a quart of water. Again, doing so outside.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:07 PM
And pour the concentrated acid into the water, NOT the water into the acid!
While unlikely in this case, acid and water can react in a vigorous exothermic (heat-releasing) reaction, sometimes boiling the liquid. If you add acid to water, the water is unlikely to splash up, but even if it did, it's less likely to hurt you than if you add water to acid. When water is added to acid, the water boils and the acid may splatter and splash!
An easy way to remember the rule is "Add the Acid".
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 04:15 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 04:12 PM (Rxduq)
Fair enough. As I mentioned to CBD, as a chemist I forget that dealing with things like this does not come as second nature to most people. I don't worry about things such as HCl; I'm much more circumspect in dealing with concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids, which can be very dangerous indeed.
Most people will never have access to nitric acid, but pretty concentrated sulfuric acid is available at Home Depot for clearing drains. It's not the stuff with specific gravity of 1.89, which is truly nasty, but it's still pretty concentrated, and you need to have your wits about you in using it. For example, don't lean over the drain after pouring it in.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:17 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at February 17, 2019 04:17 PM (oURr6)
I mean, putting 17 cents worth of organic flavors in 10 cents worth of paste, sticking it into $1.70 worth of fancy packaging and selling it for $17? Good for them! Good for the people that sell freaking designer boots for dogs, or fancy CNC milled titanium/anodized grips for your 1911.
Because if you made a list of 20 stupid items, each moron here would probably pick something as being somewhat sane if not actually owning it. We laugh at all the crazy stuff so we can indulge in our own guilty pleasure.
Hell, I needed to get some deodorant the other day, and refused to buy Old Spice (Proctor Gamble) ever again. I became severely allergic to most antiperspirant aluminum content. Finding plain-old deodorant can be problematic, and eliminating my number one brand sucks. So I'm at the market, can't go to the drug store, and there's nothing but Old Spice. And wait - what's this? Some fancy-ass organic brand deodorant/antiperspirant with totally natural ingredients in strange scents like beachwood-juniper. $8.00? Are you fucking kidding me? But, I was in a hurry and bought it.
You know what? It's kinda good? I mean, it's not as smooth as the stuff with glycerin in it, sorta powdery feeling going on - but it actually works, maybe better than anything I've ever used! I don't think it will last as long (as far as uses per unit) but I think I'd buy it again! What's $8.00 over 3 months compared to $2.00 over the same time?
So, if somebody wants to forego the benefits of fluoride (I'm sure their dentist will notice) for mango/coconut or jambalaya flavored toothpaste at $17 a tube, go for it. God Bless America.
Posted by: clutch cargo at February 17, 2019 04:17 PM (sLicW)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 17, 2019 04:18 PM (Rxduq)
Sure, dry-clean-only is fine for things you rarely
wear and even then only in controlled environments. But for everyday
wear? Hah!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille
Welcome to the wonderful world or men's suits.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2019 03:59 PM (LDbTO
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FINALLY, something in fashion where the men come out losers.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 04:18 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 04:15 PM (DMUuz)
HCl isn't really a problem, but it's still practice.
The problem comes with concentrated sulfuric acid, because it's much denser than water (1.89 times as dense), and its dilution is extremely exothermic.
I used to teach my students to always pour the more dense liquid into the less dense.*
*Because otherwise you get a layer of the less dense on top of the more dense, and if the dilution is highly exothermic, the less dense liquid can be raised to the boiling point and spew out.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:20 PM (pg90N)
nervous about going through even the established sites like The RealReal and such.
Chanel are actually trying to stop resell on their products, which I think is interesting, as far as the legality of it.
If
I were really a serious bag person (meaning I wanted a whole bunch),
I'd consider going with fakes for big houses like Chanel, LV and Hermes.
I normally don't like that sort of thing on general principal, but they
go to such extreme measures to make sure the peasants can't afford
their stuff that I wouldn't hesitate. Especially Hermes, good lord.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 04:12 PM (0hLBF)
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Interesting about Chanel. Is it because a proliferation of fake lower-quality used items is tarnishing their brand?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 17, 2019 04:22 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 04:15 PM (DMUuz)
Duly noted and observed...
Posted by: Wavy Gravy at February 17, 2019 04:22 PM (sLicW)
Posted by: weirdflunky at February 17, 2019 04:25 PM (GwY6O)
It's funny because I just realized I even do this subconsciously in preparing cocktails.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:25 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:20 PM
No love for HF?
;-)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 04:28 PM (DMUuz)
I honestly don't know, but my guess is that they just don't want an undesirables carrying their bags, and figure if you have to buy used to afford it, they don't consider you worthy.
Having said that, Chanel ARE very conscious of their quality; you never see even things like their makeup or perfumes on the grey market for instance. If you do, you can bet it's fake.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 04:29 PM (0hLBF)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:25 PM
Unless you're doing one of those color layers cocktails, right?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 04:30 PM (DMUuz)
The YouToob was an observation not a commentary.
iirc Old time gunsmiths would put metal shavings in hcl to create a rust color that they would use in stock finishes.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2019 04:31 PM (ePWRo)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 04:29 PM
Why is there no love for Chanels #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, or especially No. 9? The last seems like a sure marketing win!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 04:32 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: weirdflunky at February 17, 2019 04:33 PM (GwY6O)
You can spend a year killing rabbits in the forest to earn enough points to buy the special sword you need to beat level 2, or you can click here to buy it for only $100!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 17, 2019 04:36 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 17, 2019 04:37 PM (dNzKv)
;-)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 04:28 PM (DMUuz)
I've used HF. If you want to see incredibly clean glassware, you need to see glassware after a dilute HF rinse. HF will actually float off the fiducial marks on, e.g., graduated cylinders. It's amazing.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:37 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 17, 2019 04:30 PM (DMUuz)
I don't make those, but they perfectly illustrate the problem of the wrong sequence of addition.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:38 PM (pg90N)
Anytime, day or night adults drive up to play this stupid game.
Wth has happened in your life to bring you to this?
Adults are doing this.
If you do this, just stop.
Posted by: weirdflunky at February 17, 2019 04:39 PM (GwY6O)
Anytime, day or night adults drive up to play this stupid game.
Kinda like hunting over bait, isn't it?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:40 PM (pg90N)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 17, 2019 04:40 PM (pg90N)
It's pathetic. We had the cops out here one night for probably the stupidest driver in the history of stupid. I told the cop about the Pokemon visitors hoping he would ride by and run them off from time to time.
Nope. It seems the police station and the courthouse are also Pokes. People drive up and park at the police station to play this stupid game.
Posted by: weirdflunky at February 17, 2019 04:45 PM (GwY6O)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 17, 2019 04:31 PM (ePWRo)
If they added iron filings to sulfuric acid they would make Copperas, which combines with tannin in the wood to make a very dark stain. Copperas is a "mordant" which makes dyes stick better.
You can also use copperas (vitriol of iron) with oak galls (allepo oak galls are traditional) to make traditional ink, and was the principal method of making inks for all those medieval books.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 17, 2019 04:54 PM (mUa7G)
LOL, they were not deemed good enough to bring to market. No 5 was the first effort Madame liked, 19 was named for her birthdate and released decades after 5.
22 was allegedly presented at the same time as 5, but they opted to release 5 first, and then 22, named for the year of release. It is an especially beautiful fragrance.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 17, 2019 04:54 PM (ofUYp)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 17, 2019 05:07 PM (e7Gwj)
Designer tampons, lovingly hand crafted by Papua-New Guinean indigenous tribespeople using fibers derived from shredded coconut husks.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 17, 2019 05:22 PM (kEb8E)
I guess the THUMP could have been the chicken trying to escape.
Posted by: weirdflunky at February 17, 2019 05:25 PM (GwY6O)
Posted by: Terry at February 17, 2019 05:52 PM (Lw1Ru)
Posted by: Marini Farmer at February 17, 2019 06:14 PM (3H9h1)
ALL malls and stores are factory outlets. Every....Single....One.
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Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)