The Consumer Category
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Did Jimmy Savile pick the Tesco Christmas advert song?
ONE current advert for Tesco’s Christmas stuff features a girl reaching into a stocking. As she grins, Joseph Arrington, Jr.’s (aka Joe Tex) song I Gotcha plays out. Bit odd, no? The wholesome lyrics are after the ad:
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Posted: 4th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The worst underwear advert ever
IS this the world’s worst ever advert for underwear:
Posted: 4th, December 2012 | In: Fashion, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Men’s underwear sales slacken with age
MEN. Do you buy underwear? Do you think the undies in your drawers never get old. Are you married to good woman or the son of a fine parent who just replaces you revolting old guntees with fresher ones? Business Insider’s Sam Ro looks at the data:
HS Dent, an economic forecasting firm, compiled Census data on spending behavior and presented them as a series of demand curves. The curves measure average annual expenditure for a given product over the age of the consumer.
The loungewear curve includes Hugh Hefner’s housecoats. Although what’s under it may be prone to sagging.
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This is Brusspup’s new optical illusion video
He writes:
Master of optical illusion Brusspup has a new video … showing some really fun optical illusions using anamorphic projections. The trick is pretty simple: the photographs are skewed but then filmed at an angle where everything looks normal, but when the illusion is revealed it’s still pretty mind-bending. Brasspup also provided downloadable high resolution files of the Rubik’s cube, shoe, and tape so you can print them out on 8×11″ paper, trim, and try for yourself.
Please let us know if you do…
Posted: 3rd, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
For sale: $899.00 for pair of interestingly stained jeans
ITEM of the Day: eBay user baseguyscuz is selling a pair of “RARE VTG LEVIS BIG E hidden rivet selvedge jeans 32×30 conmar zipper AMERICANA”. Yours for US $899.00.
Listed for your consideration is a vintage pair of LEVIS big E selvedge jeans (505 I think?). The Jeans are in vintage condition, they feel very old & brittle, I’m not sure if they could be worn without falling apart, but they are a great piece of Americana. The jeans measure out to be around a 32×30 and look to have been hemmed many years ago. They have spent there whole life in Northern Arizona.
Features: Hidden rivets, Conmar zipper, Big E red tab, V stitch.and of course selvedgeThey would be perfect for anyone to add to their personal archive! Might also look great framed like a piece of art.
Shipping will be $14.99 within the USA
International shipping will be $49.99
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Posted: 3rd, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Kylie Minogue loses a foot on Elle magazine cover
KYLIE Minogue is on the cover of the January 2013 issue of Elle magaine. She looks goo. But where is her foot?
Suggestions, please…
Las Vegas satisfies governmental ‘megalomaniac desire’ to stop you smoking
LAS Vegas regrets that it must tell you under pain of law not to smoke.
Spotter: Brendan O’Neill
Posted: 3rd, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Jigsaw man says crackers are broken in factory not in transit
GLEN Hunter, 70, of Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand, did not misread the directions on his box of Snax crackers and mistake it for a jigsaw. For an hour and a half, Mr Hunter attempted to piece together the broken biscuits. He wanted to see if they were broken in the box or at the factory:
“I painstakingly have tried to match up the broken pieces without any success. I say they are being broken in the factory and being packaged like that.”
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Posted: 2nd, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
New cigarette packets in Australia glorify death and disease
IF you like death and disease you should love these new cigarette packets designed by the Australian State. The country has introduced plain packaging for cigarettes. It now means that its takes smokers much longer than ever to pick out their favoured brand. It should also mean more youth picking a packet of iffy Raffles over cool Marlboro Lights, albeit accidentally.
All tobacco boxes are now a dull brown-green colour (see smokers’ lungs) and festooned with anti-smoking messages and gory photographs. The brand names appears in smell letting.
So. Does it work. Would these new packets put you off smoking?
Posted: 1st, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Coffee is a nutrient
IS coffee good for you? The Daily Mail considers the theory with headlines like:
Drinking three cups of coffee a day ‘shrinks women’s breasts
Countdown to danger… or the terrifying speed at which cake, coffee and other treats harm your body
Tummy troubles? It could be too much coffee, a slipped disc… or even diabetes
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Posted: 1st, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Swedish toy catalogue says yes to gender equality – or does it? (photos)
GENDER equality is all the go in Top Toy Group’s catalogue. The Swedish arm of Toys R’ Us has created a Christmas toy catalog deep in sexual equality. Or has it? We commend to your attention pictures: 1. he rugby tackling the baby doll; 2. his hand is on top of hers as if commanding her to iron; 4. he operates the barrier; 5. he has a helicopter – the blue one; 6. she is at the business end of the nappy; 7. he is enjoying the kill, she is a emotion-free Danish cop; 8. she follows him with her pink vacuum cleaner, finishing up his slapdash cleaning; 9. he is electrocuting three dogs – and enjoying it; 10. he runs the salon, she preens:
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Posted: 1st, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Shave with bacon flavoured shaving foam
EVER found yourself shaving and wondered how magical your life would be if you could eat your shaving cream? Of course you have. Everyone on Earth has wanted to eat shaving cream.
With that in mind, thank the stars for the land of the free! America, a place of many delightfully crackpot ideas, has a company who has developed a new bacon-flavoured shaving cream. You read that correctly. Shaving foam that tastes like pigs.
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Posted: 30th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
London’s Teddy Boys – a photo essay
ALL hail the Teddy Boys. Long-drape jacket, drainpipe trousers, slim tie, plain shirt with high collar, brothel creepers and overt socks the Edwardian style. And hair. It’s all about the hair. Teen culture always is.
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Posted: 30th, November 2012 | In: Fashion, Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
T-shirt of the day: Keep calm and try.. what?
T-SHIRT of the day: Keep calm and try…what? (More T-shirts misbehaving.)
Posted: 30th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
It’s Atari and PONG’s 40th birthday
HAPPY 40th Atari! Amber Frost reminds us that “40 years ago today, with only a $500 out-of-pocket investment, engineers Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney introduced PONG to the market on the Atari game system. From those two humble lines and a single, noble dot came a great pioneer in computer, arcade, and console gaming. Atari is even where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple got their start.”
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Posted: 29th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Everyday sexism: the Girls laptop has half the features of the boys’ version
EVERYDAY Sexism: the Irish toy laptop for girl with half as many features as the toy laptop for boys:
Posted: 29th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Lexxa Ridley: Car dealer dad uses model daughter to sex up his lot
LEXXA Ridley, 20, (real name?) is the mo-del helping dad Kim flog a 1977 Datsun 280Z on eBay. Says Kim Ridley: “If I felt bad about it, I wouldn’t do it.” He owns Ridley’s Rides in Eugene, Oregon. “Girls and dogs attract people’s attention.” Dogs with Girls is the dream – see the Ridley advert of Max, the family’s golden retriever, riding in a sidecar while Lexxa straddles a bike.
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Posted: 29th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Buttock implants gone wrong: the video
BUTTOCK implants gone wrong. The video: (More here.)
Posted: 28th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Yoko Ono’s hand job fashions for Opening Ceremony (full range in photos)
YOKO Ono has designed range of clothing for Opening Ceremony. The outfits are based on Yoko’s drawings from 1969. She had intended John Lennon to wear them – to “celebrate John’s hot bod”. She gave Lennon the sketches as a wedding gift. The clothes scream one thing: John asking Yoko, “Did you get a gift receipt, love?”
The mesh cut out shits cost $145.00. The kneeless Conservative Pants are yours for £255. And the Hand Trousers are $335.00. For that money you can go to a tailor in Thailand and get an actual hand stuck to your cotton crotch. The hand will even do the ironing and tell you how great you look…
Posted: 28th, November 2012 | In: Celebrities, Fashion | Comment
Russian forest now features this 170-ft long Tigger trampoline
THE Archstoyanie festival in Nikola-Lenivets, Russia, features Fast Track, a 170-ft long trampoline. created by Salto. It looks like fun. But it;s art, dammit. It has to be steeped in meaning. Salto explain:
“Fast track” is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends to be ignorant to its surroundings. “Fast track” is an attempt to create intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. It gives the user a different experience of moving and percieving the environment.
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Posted: 28th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Alternative uses for milk: milking is an internet craze
WHEN we called on readers to think up new uses for milk, and so rescue the EU zone’s milk producers from their milk lake, you responded. Milking is a new craze:
Posted: 27th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Si Chan’s Hug Me Jacket (for insane muppets)
MEN’S Fashion item of the day: London’s College of Fashion graduate Si Chan blogs has a jacket to make men feel “warm and hugged“. The “Hug Me Jacket” could cost £800, if it ever gets made. But if you do make it, some muppet will come to buy it. Most likely Krazy Kermit…
Fact checking: Qatar bans Piglet from Winnie The Pooh books?
TO Qatar, where Piglet has been purged from Winnie The Pooh books. Well, so one site reports. We are told that Qatar says the scared little pig is offensive to Islam. Really?
We’ve been here before. In 2007, Qatar Living featured a story about the shopper who’d found Piglet erased by black maker pens from a copy of Disney’s “My Very First Encyclopedia with Winnie the Pooh and friends”:
Yes, the cuddly cute pink Piglet had disappeared. First, I have no idea who would buy a book that cost about $30 that was marked up like this. Secondly, what the hell were the censors thinking!? Now as a Muslim, I can venture why they did this. But as a Muslim, I think it is totally ridiculous.
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Posted: 24th, November 2012 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
How to save on that grocery bill: eat less food
THIS somewhat surprises me. Unilever, which sells lots of food, is trying to tell people to buy and waste less food. Seems pretty odd really: killing your own business even.
You can see the advice here: all pretty standard stuff, plan your meals, only buy what you need, eat it before it goes off etc. The one and only bit that actually seems useful is this:
Remember to keep your fridge temperature below 5oC. Research shows that up to 30pc of our fridges are too warm, meaning food won’t last as long as it could. Milk goes off much quicker if the fridge is just a few degrees too warm.
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Posted: 23rd, November 2012 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comment
