The Consumer Category
We bring you the chic and unique, the best and most bizarre shopping offers both online and offline. We offer you tips on where to buy, and some of the less mainstream and crazy, individual and offbeat items on the internet. Anything that can be bought and sold can be featured here. And we love showcasing the best and worst art and design.
Harry Potter Bouncy Castle Is The Inappropriate Toy Of The Day
THE Harry Potter bouncy castle is the Inappropriate Toy of The Day.
Previously: Buzz Lightyear Sip Cup Is The Inappropriate Toy Of The Day
Posted: 17th, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Countdown Anaslam: Nintendo Wii Abuses Players
PEOPLE playing a Nintedndo Wii version of Countdown are “SHITHEADS”.
Not out view, but that of the game’s makers. But Victoria Smith says she is no “SHITHEADS” and neither is her son Oliver, 3, whom she bought the game for to try to improve his vocabulary by playing the conundrum – a nine-letter anagram for “SHITHEADS”.
The lad puzzled over the anagram “SHAHSITED”. What could it mean? And then the legend was reveled. Of course: “SHITHEADS.”
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Posted: 11th, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Snail Found In Tesco Duck Wrap Stars On BBC Show
THE Tesco’s fusion cuisine Hoi Sin Duck Wrap contains an added bit of crunch: a snail.
Sue Gray, 39, chomped down on her fancy sandwich and bit into a live snail. Her teeth shattered parts of its shell.
Says Sue, who works at the BBC:
“I was in the newsroom at work eating it and then I crunched something which I first thought must be a loose filling. When I saw a piece of shell, I immediately spat the rest of the wrap out on to the packaging and saw the snail. The girl sat next to me was horrified and I felt awful. I ran to the toilets straight away to wash my mouth out and clean my hands.”
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Posted: 11th, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Victoria’s Secret Model Loses Arm In Photo Shoot
VICTORIA’S Secret models are not all arms and legs – sometimes they are arm and legs.
In this photo Marisa Miller shows off “The Sexiest Polo” for the amputee community.
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Posted: 7th, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Egypt: Kenneth Cole Sees Five Dead As A Marketing Opportunity
THANKS to the good people at Kenneth Cole the Egyptian protests – at least five deaths so far! – is now a marketing opportunity for belts, bags and shoes. The brand used the #Cairo hashtag to market its range of goods.
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Posted: 4th, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
How To Be Taller: Add ‘Solid Height’ For $47
WHAT is the “idiot-proof way” to get taller? At GrowTaller4Idiots.com, you can learn how to add 3 or even 4 inches to your HEIGHT. Don’t be like the “short guy” in the adverts. He’s bald. He’s got bins like Olive from On The Buses. He’s wearing a terrible suit. He has very small feet like a goat. But worse than that he’s SHORT. His tall associate is a patronising fool, but he’s in the land above your head, where everyone has Hollywood hair and reassuringly big feet. He is successful.
Says one user:
I Discovered the Secret to Add Several Inches of Solid Height to Anyone, No Matter What Your Age Is… Even If You Haven’t Grown in Years!
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Posted: 3rd, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
London College of Fashion’s MA Graduate Fashion Show Catwalk Photos: Hospital Chic
THE London College of Fashion’s MA Graduate Fashion Show – Catwalk photos: Hospital Chic hits the catwalk. It’s what all the cool kids will be wearing on the wards…
More: Stylebrity
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Posted: 3rd, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comments (7)
Marks and Spencer’s Launches Austerity Range
AT the launch of a range of Marks and Spencer’s Nearly Naked lingerie outside the Marble Arch store in central London, Anorak stopped and wondered: Why are most photographers men?
Posted: 3rd, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Kraft Brings Back Rationing To Britain: Cadbury’s Daily Milk Loses Two Chunks
FIRST CADBURY is sold to Americans. Then it reduces the size of its Dairy Milk bar by two squares – the 140g bar is now 120g. But – yep -the price remains the same.
Do Kraft Foods, the new owners of Cadbury, think the UK is still living on rations and Yanks can come over here and woo us with their chocolate and nylons?
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Posted: 2nd, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
Woman Finds New Life Form Inside Can Of Beans
A WOMAN opened her can of beans, bought at the FoodMaxx store in Bakersville, California, and found this inside.
Anyone know what it is?
Posted: 1st, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
Giant Colombian Ants In A Can Taste Like Bacon
YOU don’t have to be a giant Colombian to like giant Colombian ants now that the itchy treats come in cans. And the best bit about them is that they taste like bacon.
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Posted: 1st, February 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Bid For Fake Sunflower Seeds And Picasso’s Sex Life At Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale
THERE is money in art. Lots of it. At Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale, London, you can get close to a bowl of Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds. You can buy 100 kilos of his life-sized porcelain “seeds” for between £80,000 and £120,000. The portrait of Frans Hellens by Amedeo Modigliani is earmarked at £3 million. David Hockney’s Hotel L’Arbois Sainte Maxime of 1968, should fetch £2 million. The triptych, three studies for a portrait of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon, will go for a lot more than £9 million. And for any banker aiming to look arty, the Picasso Portrait of his mistress and muse Marie-Therese from 1932 is expected to fetch around £18 million. And you thought extra-martial sex never paid off…
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Posted: 31st, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Toxic Waste Candy Contains Actual Toxins: Kids Love It
THAT Toxic Waste candy does exactly what it saw on the packet: it is packed with lead. The Nuclear Sludge sweetie imported form Pakistan is no good for you.
Circle City Marketing and Distributing, in Indiana (trading as Candy Dynamics) is recalling its Toxic Waste brand sour candies.
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Posted: 31st, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Taco Bell Beef Is 64% Vegetarian: Plan To Wean Americans Off Meat Well Advanced
THE lawsuit levelled against Taco Bell in Montgomery, Alabama, alleges that the company uses “false advertising” on its menu and in its advertisements. The claim is that the beef on sale is not beefy enough. Indeed, a look at the Taco Bell beef box – labelled Taco Meat Filling – reveals a list of typically non-cow ingredients (unless cows have been injected with this stuff to reduce processing costs). That beef is 36% beef:
Water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats, soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin, soybean oil, garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide, natural flavors, yeast, modified corn starch, natural smoke flavor, salt, sodium phosphate, less than 2% of beef broth, potassium phosphate, and potassium lactate.
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Posted: 25th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (5)
Bar Refaeli To Head Israeli Negotiating Team: Photos
SHOULD Bar Refaeli be the Israeli’s chief negotiator in any talks with the Palestinians? We ask in light of the news that best looking people are often the most intelligent. On the Palestinian side, we suggest Mahmoud Abbas keep his job. The older man with the nice hair paired with the fit young woman is a mainstay of the TV schedules (although not on Sky Sports where experiments with two middle-aged men have proved ruinous):
Posted: 25th, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Forever Lazy Suit: The Soft Living Coffin
THE Forever Lazy. This is the item of clothing that says you are: a) an intermediate furry whose saving up for the head; b) a man who urinates sitting down; c) a baby clothing fetishist; d) swayed by advertising.
Is it available in wood, and so able to be worn as your body goes the same way as your sex appeal?
Posted: 24th, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
The Worst Romanian Underwear Advert Ever: Video
THE Worst Romanian Underwear Advert Ever may also be the Best Romanian Underwear Advert ever. ASIROM knickers will float your space hopper…
Spotter: BitterWallet
Posted: 20th, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
Panasonic Flies Snowman From Japan To Bahrain: Global Warming 101
TO showcase global warming to the locals of Bahrain, Panasonic flew a snowman packed in its high-tech insulation 5,314-mile journey from Japan to the desert.
Meanwhile, it’s been snowing Jerusalem- and in Bahrain you can buy a great snow cone…
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Posted: 19th, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Swearing Fark Toy Teaches American Children to Bark: Video
THAT My Pal Violet is turning the air blue with her rendition of a children’s favourite:
“If you’re happy and you know it f*** with me, if you’re happy and you know it f**k with me, if you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it f*** with me!”
The mum who bought it at her local Asda tells media:
“I played it back three or four times. There is no mistaking what Violet is saying.”
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Posted: 19th, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Martin Luther King Day: 20% Off All Discount Black Goods
FOR Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Thalia Surf Shop in Laguna Beach advertised “20% Off All Black Products“. Not too shabby for a company selling wetsuits (often black) in winter.
Look out for money off anything red on Labor Day; discount custard on VJ Day, and a big discount on golden brown stuff come Poppy Day…
Posted: 18th, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
eBay Sales: Bid For Paul Daniels’ Wig
ON eBay you can buy Paul Daniel’s wig. It’s being sold by Paul Daniels – as seen on TV…
Posted: 18th, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Starbucks Trenta Is Bigger Than Your Stomach (US Average)
STARBUCKS coffee is revolting – thin, insipid and served in a student-style white mug. And now you can get more of it. Behold the Trenta, a cup so huge it’s bigger than your stomach.*
(* East coast USA only, West London, Paris and India only)
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Posted: 17th, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comments (6)
For Sale: Winston Churchill’s Teeth (Photos)
FOR sale: Winston Churchill’s teeth. The teeth are false. But you can wear them and chomp on a half smoked cigar discarded by Winnie in 1944. Stick on a pair of glasses with the nose, heavy eyebrows and brush moustache attached and you can be Winston Marx and confound history. Both items are on sale at the annual Gentleman’s Library Sale, at Bonhams in London.
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Posted: 17th, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Shard: Photos Of Britain’s Tallest Building
THE shard is the tallest structure in Britain. It’s an odd name to give to a tower covered in glass, some might say it’s threatening. The Shard has passed the 235m mark, making it taller than One Canada Square in Canary Wharf.
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Posted: 17th, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Stony Stratford Library Protest Goes Digital (Photos)
THE shelves are empty at the Stony Stratford library, near Milton Keynes. The residents have combined cards to withdraw their maximum allowance of books. They hope this will stop the council’s plans to close it as part of budget cuts.
Or else the council will say that library has no books to lend, refuse to pay the staff to man an empty library, shut the doors and never open them again.
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Posted: 16th, January 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
