He could always sell them to Shaquille O’Neal.
“We have a really big shoe here tonight. A really big shoe.”
Exaggerating the way that Sullivan would say “really big show.”
Edit- Dammit, ninja’d by kayaker!
- Glowers sternly.
Bwahaha… now that I get it, can appreciate it. Thanks.
Easy for you, for me ees very deefeecult!
Another one calls shenanigans.
So if they inadvertently ignored the decimal point, then that means he wrote his order as “14.50” which seems odd. Also, this means the factory actually makes a size 1450 slipper? The linked Guardian article says the company figured it may have been for a window display, which is why they made nothing of the size, but how would they know how big a size 1450 is? They have a scale for that kind of thing? Or did they see 1450 and say, “Hell, let’s just make a big ass shoe”?
Also, it seems to me that such an order would fail a basic sanity test. If I, as a software developer, got a bizarre Change Request (say, add a button to a website that allows the user to show the budget in [Ancient] Roman Dinars rather than USD, I’d raise a question and ask if they really meant Euros or something.
She’s actually in prison now for child abuse due to over-use of corporal punishment.
You didn’t think that the giveaway was that it was story promoted by a PR group on behalf of a company called “Monster Slippers” that has a website where people can only order in S, M, L and XL?
Or that the orders go through the distributor rather than directly to the factory?
Do news agencies even have an 8-year-old on staff any more that they can run press releases past to see if they can spot the logical flaws before they publish them verbatim?
BigNik you win this.
Obligatory xkcd link. (Damn you, Randall Monroe, I can’t stop doing this whenever I see that phrase, now!)
Because there is some wild and wacky stuff in China that is actually true. The chinese press prints tons of 'wierd stories from around the country" that were never verified and then get picked up as true. And there is also a bias where things that wouldn’t pass the “smell test” at home have suspended disbelief when it comes to China.
Eight year olds don’t work for free, bub.
Don’t even have to click. Actually, because of that, I at times will hyphenate in writing “big-ass” in order to avoid smartassery. Doesn’t work as well in speech, admittedly.
This super-sizing is kinda awesome.
My hat size is 7 5/8. If I was sent a size 758 hat, how big would it be? Could I live in it? Would I have to, since it would probably cost more than my house?
Is there possibly any other sizing system that would work? It seems like a shoe manufacturer would know how shoe sizes work, even when making a hoax.
Well, a man’s hat size is the diameter of his head, so your head measures 7 5/8 inches across. If you scale it up to 758 inches, it would measure just over 63 feet across. I don’t know how deep the hat would be, but you would have an area of just over 3100 sq. feet. So, yeah, it would be more than big enough to live in.
It’s entirely possible the paper knows the story is probably guff, but have published it anyway as it’s bound to generate interest.
There are also exchange services out there for mismatched shoes, that try to match up people with variously odd-sized feet. I guess the dream would be to find someone with the reverse shoe needs and the same taste.
I have a friend who had a leg infection as an infant, and ended up with one leg a little shorter and foot a couple sizes smaller on one side. She has to buy two pairs of shoes to get one.
It is not uncommon. I sold shoes in college, and we had to watch out for people trying on two sizes and swapping them into one box to buy, leaving us with an unsalable mismatched pair.