Truly, Now I Have Seen Everything

[filkertom]

Is it just me, or is this the most insane product ever? And, if it's not, what are your nominations?

Comments

[secanth.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* I'd have bought it when my little one was young, having unplugged a few toliet bowls in my time. ("But I just used enough to wipe..." Uh, you or the bathroom, child?)

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Oh no Tom, not even the beginning of close to the most insane product. The TP thing I can see, or at least the thought behind it.

No THIS is inane, if not insane

http://www.pastaexpress.tv/

Someone, tell me, HOW does this save me anything? Doesn't save time, doesn't save money.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Saves you from doing something rational and inexpensive. Gawd, the worst part about gadgets is that about one in fifty actually does work as advertised, and is incredibly useful and cool, but you've got to get through the other forty-nine to find it.

[jenrose]

Hey, that's actually a cool concept. It's not the time/money, it's the "You don't have to put it on the stove" factor. With our instant boiling water and this gadget, my 12 year old could make pasta without burning herself--she won't do it on the stove because she burnt herself once emptying the water into the strainer.

[gazerwolf.livejournal.com]

It's also a "I don't have to watch the water boil" thing. You can set it in a corner and set a timer.

[roane.livejournal.com]

No, this (http://biorelief.com/store/stadiumpal.html) is the most insane product ever. Or it was, back when the marketing on the webpage emphasized how you could just pee whenever you felt like it. ;)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Snerk. Love the slogan: "More Uses Than You Can Shake A Stick At".

[jenrose]

Good god. Useful for surgeons, but um, ew?

And the "buy it as a gift"... /snerk

[argentee.livejournal.com]

There's whole categories of insanity... I nominate this (http://home.att.net/~trferretcouncil/ferretclothes.htm) website for the 'only humans think it's cute' category.

[jenrose]

Now that is pretty insane... but...

[sydb42.livejournal.com]

My nomination for most insane product ever: Dildo Cozy

The one above is not the best one I've seen (my favorites are the fuzzy ones), but that's what came up first on a Google search this morning.

[jenrose]

Crocheted.... flying... spaghetti.... monster.... dildo....cozy.... NONE of these words should ever be used in conjuction wih the others, except "crocheted cozy". Ever.

Must wash brain.

[jenrose]

http://www.urbanbabydesigns.com/products/pptp.aspx

No really. The Pee Pee Tee Pee.


Scroll down to see the Santa Hat Horror.

Eeek.

The toilet paper doesn't even come close.

[sydb42.livejournal.com]

I have girls, so I don't have this problem, but a cloth diaper would work just as well and wouldn't require much in the way of aiming to get it in place in time. Scarily, if we'd had a boy, I'm pretty sure this product would have been given to us as a gift, and I'm not sure which friend/family member would have thought of it first. ;)

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

Dunno...I have memories of one of my big butch girl scout counselors telling us that no matter the mess, we could accomplish cleaning up anything with two squares of toilet paper. I think I would rather have the puppy.

[devospice.livejournal.com]

I just did a quick search for "stupid products" and found this:
http://www.stupid.com/stat/TOP.html

My favorite is the Butt/Face Soap. :)

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

Wow. I have THREE of their top ten things. :)

-=ShoEboX=-

[ddrussianinja.livejournal.com]

All I could think of was this (http://www.gamepro.com/sony/ps2/games/news/images/50268-1.jpg). I mean, I hardly ever bought them in the game, why would I buy one in real life?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Srsly. I mean just keep walking until you trigger an encounter, and grab a freebie. :)

[smoooom.livejournal.com]

Doesn't seem that insane, I've seen kids pull miles of toilet paper. It's an on going battle around here. Two other apects to consider, kids ar being marketed to more and more, a lot of parents actually listen to what their 6 0r 7 year old thinks when grocery shopping. Just lately it seems that we've (society at large that is) have added a "clean" fetish to everything else they worry about.

My most insane product? Diapers designed for boys or girls, getting ever more absorbent, then a "feel wet" diaper so that kids can toilet train better.

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid you have to have kids to appreciate this sort of thing. Truly. Now, the cynical part of me says "what a way to get kids to use more TP than they really need and spend more money on TP!" but the parent in me knows that it is a LOT more likely that they will use about half a roll each time otherwise. And the flushable wipes!? The person who invented those is a GOD. When you have little boys learning to wipe they make things a LOT easier.

Sorry but you did ask.
However, "watermelon" scented for wiping your butt?!? That's just... wrong!

Grin

[ann-totusek.livejournal.com]

I nominate the Octodog. See http://www.octodog.net/

(sorry, new enough at this that I haven't yet figured out to post links properly)
For something truly demented, go to the "How it works" link and click back and forth between steps 3 and 4 several times.... It's a Disney product, and I can't believe that they still haven't changed the way it works. Or maybe no one other than pervy mutant lover me has noticed....

[codevixen.livejournal.com]

That's really cool! I would totally eat an octodog.
(By the way, Livejournal automatically makes links into clickable links; if you want to do it manually, type "{a href="link here"}text of link{/a}" but replace the { with <s.)

No you haven't really...

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

Ok, well first of all don't tell my husband that this product is available because he will probably go out and purchase it FOR ME. He swears that I (and all women) use too much TP. He also says my son does. What amazes me is that someone thinks that people will actually purchase this product. But really it doesn't have one of the main marketing factors. It will only be purchased a few times then the kid won't need it any more. Of course new kids come along... so maybe it does.

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

Wegmans, a chain of grocery stores expanding slowly outward from central/upstate NY, sells boxes of microwavable white rice. I think it's 3-4 bucks a box.

-=ShoEboX=-

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

At first glance, I read that as though the microwavable rice was expanding slowly outward from central/upstate NY. Run away! Run away!

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

How the Hell do YOU know how much someone needs?

Still, not the most insane invention I've ever seen. That one still goes to "High-Energy Beer".

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

How the Hell do YOU know how much someone needs?

And that, precisely, is the root of the insanity. That, and the fact that, unlike many above, this isn't an infomercial product, this isn't a novelty item -- this is in your local supermarket now.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Fantastic. I've always wanted to wipe my ass with puppies.

Seriously, though, I saw someone responding to this product by arguing that they can't actually predict someone's individual wiping style. Sigh.

Anyway, the silliest product I can recall is some manner of omelette pan with two flap-thingies on the base of the pan, which (with some levers on the handle) would flip up, neating folding the omelette for you.

I'm quite certain that the product wouldn't work, because when you started cooking the egg would get under the flaps...

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

I nominate the "human skin laptop bag".

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/human-skin-laptop-bags

[darrenzieger.livejournal.com]

That is very disturbing.

I think I'm going to have to take my brain to the dry cleaners now...

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

silly looking, but someone toilet-training a kid will probably use whatever works. Trust me on this :))

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

It's gotta be in the short list.

I have a category of products I call "hyperconvinience" -- products designed to solve problems no one ever, ever had. This looks like one of them.

[denali1.livejournal.com]

I have one, but its adult in nature. Give me the thumbs up and I'll post the link.

When I saw it, my brains flowed out of my ears.