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For sale on Amazon: unhappy customer reviews Uranium Ore
FOR Sale on Amazon: Uranium Ore:
Radioactive sample of uranium ore. Useful for testing Geiger Counters. License exempt. Uranium ore sample sizes vary. Shipped in labeled metal container as shown. Shipping Information: We are always in compliance with Section 13 from part 40 of the NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules and regulations and Postal Service regulations specified in 49 CFR 173.421 for activity limits of low level radioactive materials. Item will be shipped in accordance with Postal Service activity limits specified in Publication 52. Radioactive minerals are for educational and scientific use only.
Posted: 16th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Cheese and Jerusalem: The Chedder national anthem
The aim, of course, is to promote the cheese and boost sales. But there is an easier ways. Just sponsor a scientific reprot that proves cheese does not cause cancer. Then compare the results to the myriad other things that do. Sales will soar.
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Posted: 16th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
An entirely astonishing observation on cheap flights from the Daily Mail
DID you read the news in the Daily Mail? No, amazingly it’s not that cancer causing immigrants damage house prices. Nor even that immigrants raising house prices cure cancer. Rather, it’s that markets work:
Holiday money firms are setting sneaky traps as part of a £720 million racket in rip-off fees for families going abroad, Money Mail has found.
The tricks are set to catch out hundreds of thousands jetting off on a post-Olympics break and, in particular, will shock many who took out pre-paid cards in the belief they were a cheaper alternative to expensive bank cards.
Firms are also making bigger profits by charging poorer exchange rates to travellers who live outside London or travel from cheap-flight airports.
The thing about cheap flight airports is that they are small airports. They’re not the vast retail emporiums that Heathrow or Gatwick are. And the thing about not London in this here UK is that they’re all smaller towns. With fewer shops in them.
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Posted: 15th, August 2012 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Vegetarian opens shop for ‘cloth’ sausages (photos)
FACE of the day: Vegetarian Silvia Wald puts cloth sausages in the sales counter of her shop “Aufschnitt” (German for cold cuts) in Berlin, Germany. The engineer for clothing technology started in 2009 to design cold cuts, sausages and meat from cotton stretch velvet, lycra, wool or micro fibre with a realistic look. The sausages have different functions such as pillows, seat cushions, or just for decoration. Nine out of ten meat eaters say Wald’s sausages taste better than vegetarian alternatives.
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Posted: 15th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Hitler pin cushion (photos of Roosevelt’s desk toy)
IT’S 1941 and for just $1.49 you can own an Adolf Hitler pin cushion. As seen on President Roosevelt’s desk! Comes with Prussian boots. Pins not supplied.
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Presumably it is a pleasure for President Roosevelt to use the pin cushion which is on the posterior position of Hitler statuette (arrow in left photo) – one of numerous do-dads that adorn the chief executive’s desk in Washington, as shown May 16, 1942. The President is said to have taken a special liking to the Hitler gadget, right). (AP Photo)
Spotter: Flapper Days, American Memorabilia
Posted: 14th, August 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Adolf Hitler is a hole on Blackpool’s crazy golf course (photo)
TO Lancashire, where keen crazy golfers (not yet an Olympic Sport) are being invited to fire a ball through Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leaders famously limited in the ball department. Golfers should resist urges to bounce the ball in the manner of a Barnes Wallace bouncing bomb. If your ball passes through the U-pass of Jake and Dinos Chapman’s work. Hitler raises his arm in a salute.
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Posted: 14th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
For sale – King of Poop: The Michael Jackson car windscreen bird poo
MICHAEL Jackson is now a bird poo on a car windscreen. Splatto Jacko – the King of Poop – fell from the Heavens onto the 1996 Cadillac Seville owned by 29-year-old Brandon Tudor of Oswego, Illinois.
Says he:
“Everybody loves it. There’s not one person who’s seen it that doesn’t agree it looks like Michael Jackson.”
The temptation would be to put the car in your longe and create the Celebrity Bird Shit Museum, featuring lookalikes of Stalin, John Terry and France. And you might yet because Tudor is selling his windscreen on eBay. He says:
“One of two things will happen. It will go for an astronomical amount or I’ll get nothing.”
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Posted: 13th, August 2012 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comment
16 very funny and unusual classified adverts – buyer beware
Posted: 12th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Beware the 15%: child-proof product of the day
PRODUCT of the day: The lighter with a warning. Beware the 15%!
Posted: 10th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
All about VietJetAir for the bikini-clad banana dance
ONBOARD Vietnam’s VietJetAir, the air hostesses are doing the bikin-clad banana dance. To mark VietJetAir’s first flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang, the ladies are working the aisle like a model’s runway.
Sadly, the beauty pageant “violated local aviation regulations”. VietJetAir have been fined – get this – 20m dong (£611, $956) (fnar!) for banana dance off.
In case of emergency, pull the cord:
Previously:
Mexican stewardesses stip
RyanAir’s porn star
Posted: 10th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Cool ad watch: Slim Chance for Surplus Sales
GREAT ad of the day features entertainer Slim Chance advertising the value of shopping at Surplus Sales in Hudson, Florida:
The store front is inviting:
Spotter: reddit
Posted: 9th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Grazia’s shopping tips features plug lots of in-house shopping expert’s clothes
DOES anyone take any notice of those fashion tips in Grazia. Well, she does. Recently, Grazia has been plugging beachflamingo.com, a site flogging gear like the £350 “tummy tamer” bikini and a dress costing £434. Both items and more were tipped by Grazia’s style gurus as best on the market. On Grazia’s website, no less than two of Summer’s Coolest Hats are available at beachflmingo.com. That’s two from just six hats. It’s an exclusive group.
Private Eye reports that in a segment called “No Fear Swim Wear”, no fewer than five swimsuits from beachflamingo were praised.
And:
In another online piece, Grazia’s Shopping Editor Lily Russo tells readers how to “dress like Lily“. You need just five items, one of which is a pair of Beach Flamingo sandals, yours for £59.
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Posted: 8th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Groucho Marx endorses lightbulb snatching and more
GROUCHO Marx was a funny man.But could he make you buy thing? Would a Groucho Marx endorsement make housewives buy products, like lightbulbs, shaving goods, breakfast frosted flakes and peanut butter? Someone thought so:
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Posted: 8th, August 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, The Consumer | Comment (1)
ArKay brings us an alcohol-free whisky drink
I RECENTLY met someone planning to sell hash flavoured electronic cigarettes in his Dublin bar. Smoking one seemed like taking your disappointing life and doubling it. Now news reaches us of US-based ArKay’s alcohol-free whisky flavoured drink. It is “genuine whisky-flavored alternative for mass consumption.”
Top out the tin lid on the awfulness of this witches brew (what might be called booze-flavoured tea) the stuff contains no fat, sugar, calories or sodium. ArKay’s VP of Sales Josh Polky says without laughing: “This beverage is not intended to be medicine, but is a healthy alternative substitute to liquor and may we mention again: Hangover free.”
Like filtered water.
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Posted: 7th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
German waterpark bans women from slide – intimate wedgie issues blamed
DOOOCHE! To Germany, where women have been banned from riding the X-treme Faser slide at the Galaxy Rutschenparadies, at the Therme Erding sauna centre. This is to prevent “intimate injuries”.
Spokesman Marcus Maier explains why six women and no men have been hurt:
“These injuries are caused by the nature of the female anatomy. We are trying to do right by women; we don’t want to discriminate against them.”
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Posted: 5th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Huffy Radio Bike – With AM Radio!
CONTINUING Anorak’s look a bicycles and cycling, we bring you the 1955 Huffy Radio Bike. The bike contained an AM radio.
Boys Life: “Not a toy. Powerful radio has lock, sensitive tuner, volume control, clear-tone speaker. The bike’s a beauty; streamlined design, gearshift, new easy-pedal tires.”
The radio is in the body. It uses vacuum tubes. The batteries are on the back.
Wowzer!
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Posted: 4th, August 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Why people support Chick-fila-A – a must-see video explainer
WHY did people come out in support of Chick-fila-A, the fast-food chicken shops owned by a man not in favour of gay marriage.
YouTuber Liberalegg surveyed the views of soem who came out to support the chain. As they tell it:
I ask people at Chick-fil-A some simple questions. At least… I thought they were simple enough, until they tried to answer.
In terms of the name calling, this video was not intended as hard-hitting journalism. It was just something funny for my friends, I never expected so many people to see it. I think the video would have been more effective had I allowed them to speak for themselves.
I apologize for the background noise; captions are available (just press the little cc button at the bottom right of the player).
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Posted: 4th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Man who reads management text books hangs on phone to customer service for 15 hours
ANDREW Kahn might well hold the world record for the longest time spent on hold. Kahn says he was kept on hold by Qantas for 15 hours. Kahn is a “marketing executive from the US” who claims that durting the call he read a 200-page management textbook (and remained awake!) , surfed the internet and did some other stuff. He says:
”I think the wait time was simply my determination to see what exactly they meant by a representative coming on the line as soon as possible.”
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Posted: 4th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The advert for Little Baby’s ice cream is as disgusting as the stuff you won’t eat
LITTLE Baby’s Ice Cream. With a name like that selling the stuff as a prelude for sex (see all other ice creams) is going to be problematic. Better to make eating it an act of bukkake cannibalism. Yes, that would be much more wholesome and d’lish:
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Posted: 3rd, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Bob Dylan takes a shower with Jonah Lehrer, who gets an early bath
THE Johann Hari School of Journalism calls New Yorker staff writer Jonah Lehrer. He’s the author of Imagine: How Creativity Works. In that book, Bob Dylan takes a shower and tells Lehrer:
“‘It’s a hard thing to describe. ‘It’s just this sense that you got something to say.’”
Lehrer analysed it:
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Posted: 31st, July 2012 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
Jolly Rancher Crunch and Chew sweets come with free shank knife
TO Santa Clara, where Amy Hu is retrieving her free shank knife from a bag of Jolly Rancher Crunch and Chew sweets. Says Hu of her surprise gift:
“I was all excited to try them out. Opened it up, ate two pieces first, went back in for my third piece and pulled this right out of the bag and was just in disbelief.”
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Posted: 31st, July 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Never forget a face with a look-alike urn
WHEN a loved on dies don’t just cremate them and stick their ashes in any old urn. Stick them in an ornamental vase that looks like they did. Personal Cremation Urns for ashes delivers its “Never forget a face!” range of urn-alikes.
If your loved one was lacking in looks or power, why not stick them in a pot that looks llke your favourite sportsman or politician? Or why not have the last laugh and stick them inside the head of someone the deceased really loathed?!
Now we can create a custom cremation urn for ashes in the image of your loved one or favorite celebrity or hero, even President Obama!. Personal Urns for ashes combine art and the very latest in technology to create a family heirloom that will be cherished for generations. They are built from just one or two photographs of any persons face. They are made of a tough polymere compond and a solid marble base. This is the most heartwarming and special memorial product available anywhere – “A Personal Urn”.
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Posted: 31st, July 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
LA cougars advertise for ‘Motherf*ckers’
WHERE-oh-where can a man or bi-curious lipstick lesbian find a middle-aged mother to have sex with? LA Weekly advises:
“CougarLife claims that the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood…is the epicenter of American cougardom. Cindy Rocker, the site’s “head of cougar relations” (really), claims the 90069 zip code (hair city USA) has the most cougars per-capita of any other zip code.
Women of Utah gnash their teeth and snort. Meanwhile, in Cheshire…
Posted: 29th, July 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
1950s boys advertise underwear for an appreciative man
AS Old Mr Anorak knows, you can always trust man who tucks his vest into his Y-fronts. The young lads in this 1950s advert are on-message. The man on the left, however, is most likely wearing a bikini briefs and knee socks…
Posted: 29th, July 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
