# "How could anybody be &@#$\*ing STUPID enough to buy that and breathe?" products **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 22, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-anybody-be-ing-stupid-enough-to-buy-that-and-breathe-products/438651 "2008-02-22T00:56:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-anybody-be-ing-stupid-enough-to-buy-that-and-breathe-products/438651/181 "2008-03-24T11:52:56Z")
In one of the Florida lottery games, you can now “Choose your own jackpot!” You can buy a regular ticket for a buck to win thousands, or you can pay two bucks to win more thousands, or pay three bucks to win a million! At no time does the commercial claim your odds of winning are any better…but if you _do_ win, you get more! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-anybody-be-ing-stupid-enough-to-buy-that-and-breathe-products/438651/182 "2008-03-24T18:47:36Z")
[QUOTE=lorene] This is the one which makes me want to unsubscribe from this thread before I get too depressed about the stupidity of man. [/QUOTE] I dunno. I find a new-found respect for the inventiveness of man. The guys who market this stuff are no fools - they know how to separate mugs from their money. 🙂 I like this quote from the Brilliant Pebbles page… > [@](#): > > “Brilliant Pebbles have made a bigger improvement in sound quality than the last $1000.00 interconnect cables I purchased. Thanks!” - January 2008 Hi-fi addicts are truly something else… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-anybody-be-ing-stupid-enough-to-buy-that-and-breathe-products/438651.md?page=9)