# Hey MyPillow, suck on this. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 2, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492 "2016-11-02T23:04:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/1 "2016-11-02T23:04:40Z")
[MyPillow](http://www.mypillow.com/), the Chaska-based pillow manufacturer, [will pay more than $1 million in civil penalties](http://www.startribune.com/mypillow-gets-a-rude-awakening-with-1-million-suit-settlement/399669011/) “following a deceptive ad case brought by prosecutors in nine California counties. The company may no longer promote that its products are able to cure diseases.” - An advertiser on Fox takes it square in the nutz. Fuck you Mike Lindell, “inventor” of MyPillow, right up the olde wazoo. ---
**Author:** ![mind\_the\_gap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@mind\_the\_gap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mind_the_gap)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/2 "2016-11-03T19:54:32Z")
I live in the SF. bay area, and the guys at the shop listen to this lame ass radio station “The Bone 107”. Virtually every business that advertises on this station is bogus. One of the car dealers is SO bad they even have their own special page in the California consumer complaint site. When I head the booming obnoxious voice of the owner of “My Pillow” (think rush limbaugh with a bad attitude) hawking his wares I thought “yeah, right”. Not surprised at all. More than ever before…caveat emptor:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/3 "2016-11-03T22:38:55Z")
Let me get this right. You actually believed these pillows would cure diseases? You felt your were mil-led by the ads? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/4 "2016-11-03T22:45:31Z")
I once had a pillow that could do arithmetic. Add, subtract, multiply and divide. It wasn’t too good at fractions, though. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/5 "2016-11-03T22:53:34Z")
I like that the manufacturer is expressing sincere remorse. > [@](#): > > We took them off our website and out of our marketing materials,” Springer said. “We have a lot of customers who think our pillow has helped them in a lot of ways, but now we can’t let them share that.” Those prosecutors, such meanies. Squeezing out a little over $1 million in restitution from a company making $100 million a year. > [@](#): > > Lindell said that MyPillow did not admit any wrongdoing in the California case. > > “We decided to pay out rather than pay millions to prove our innocence,” he said. > > The amount of $995,000 goes to the California counties that are part of the suit. > > Another $100,000 will be paid to homeless and domestic violence shelters in California. > > “We are pleased our restitution in this case includes giving back, which is a central part of the mission of MyPillow. Cute. [QUOTE=Little\_Pig] - An advertiser on Fox takes it square in the nutz. [/QUOTE] You can blame it on Fox if you want, but this product was sold on QVC and the infomercials aired all over the place (on local and network TV). ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/6 "2016-11-04T00:06:58Z")
**MyPillow!** Apply directly to the head! **MyPillow!** Apply directly to the head! **MyPillow!** Apply directly to the head! ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/7 "2016-11-04T19:27:36Z")
They had an infomercial about it on RFD-TV last night that they laughingly tried to pass off as a news program. I didn’t watch it though, the on-screen guide said there was something else on that channel that I did want to watch. Stupid on-screen guide! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/8 "2016-11-04T21:04:39Z")
> [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > Let me get this right. > > You actually believed these pillows would cure diseases? > > You felt your were mil-led by the ads? Sloppy reporting in that article. Here’s the wording used in the suit: [My Pillow manufacturers falsely represented that the cushion could lessen the effects of fibromyalgia, insomnia, migraines, temporomandibular joint disorders and restless leg syndrome.](http://mynewsla.com/orange-county/2016/10/31/mypillow-maker-will-pay-1m-in-false-advertising-settlement/) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/9 "2016-11-05T00:12:53Z")
MyPillow advertises that theirs is the official pillow of the National Sleep Foundation - an organization that was created by MyPillow to promote their products. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/10 "2016-11-05T00:39:33Z")
It’s all about ethics in naptime journalism. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/11 "2016-11-05T01:11:47Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I once had a pillow that could do arithmetic. Add, subtract, multiply and divide. It wasn’t too good at fractions, though. But…but…but, fractions are just division! You shoula given your pillow a calculator. And not one of those pussy ones that “do” fractions. Learn your decimal equivalents, pillows! **dropzone** , who spent much of his life calculating fractional inches. Fuck irrationals! Round! The shop can’t get it any closer than 1/8" inch, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/12 "2016-11-05T15:39:14Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > MyPillow advertises that theirs is the official pillow of the National Sleep Foundation - an organization that was created by MyPillow to promote their products. I smell an urban legend. NSF was founded in 1990 and MyPillow didn’t exist until 2004. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/13 "2016-11-05T15:47:04Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I smell an urban legend. NSF was founded in 1990 and MyPillow didn’t exist until 2004. [From here.](https://www.truthinadvertising.org/mypillow/) > [@](#): > > Here are a few additional reasons why MyPillow may not be “as cool as the other side of the pillow,” to quote an ESPN catchphrase: > > ``` > The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) declined to comment on whether MyPillow paid the group for the “official pillow” designation it bestowed. Tom Clifford, vice president of marketing and development for the foundation, said in an email that the NSF hears “from many different manufacturers” and “works to select products that are a good fit for our organization.” The NSF sells the MyPillow on its own website, a king for $69.95 and a standard/queen for $59.95. > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/14 "2016-11-05T15:56:52Z")
I was referring to “an organization that was created by MyPillow to promote their products.” Why organize 14 years before the product even exists? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/15 "2016-11-06T00:21:34Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I was referring to “an organization that was created by MyPillow to promote their products.” Why organize 14 years before the product even exists? I smell a rat. Please give us the Straight Dope on this subject. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/16 "2016-11-06T00:28:57Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > I smell a rat. Please give us the Straight Dope on this subject. All I know is what I said above and that [the NSF website no longer sells products from MyPillow, Inc.](http://nsf.patientsleepsupplies.com/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=0&sort=&sort_direction=0&page=2) ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/17 "2016-11-06T01:32:46Z")
I see this on TV all the time and I got so sick of the ad that I mute it when is come on . I brought a great pillow at Marshall’s and gave it to my mom when she was in a nursing home , they took it away from mom and said it was one of their pillow ! I wish I could remeber what brand it was. I kind of thought MyPillow was being over rated on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/18 "2016-11-07T16:11:16Z")
[An overdubbed version of a MyPillow commercial. It’s pretty good.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3alLlPjTX1I) NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2017, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/19 "2017-06-04T08:41:48Z")
I keep seeing these ads and I did a search and found that the My Pillow promoter is a big time fan of Loser President Donald. [http://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillo...n-donald-trump](http://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillo...n-donald-trump) > [@](#): > > Like his preferred political candidate, specialty pillow mogul Michael Lindell loved larger-than-life business claims. > > Lindell, an ardent Donald Trump supporter, is the inventor of MyPillow, a foam pillow purported to treat a range of medical issues, from sleep apnea to fibromyalgia. The pillow, which has aggressively promoted Trump on its official Twitter account, has more in common with the politician than meets the eye. In the latest of an onslaught of lawsuits, MyPillow agreed to a $1 million settlement this week, after the company was accused of promising over-the-top health benefits it couldn’t possibly hope to deliver. Expect to see Lindell nominated to head the NIMH. Who cares about qualifications if you can help the nut jobs to get some sleep? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492/20 "2017-06-04T18:37:16Z")
Reminds me of that time when I had a nightmare so terrible, I caught my pillow in my teeth and shredded it to bits. The next morning, my roommate asked if I was feeling okay. I told him: “Oh, I’m fine. Just feeling a little down in the mouth.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mypillow-suck-on-this/770492.md?page=2)