Marvelous Ripoffs found on the Internet

[F.U.Shakespeare]

@griffin1977

I’m pretty that would be an all bread, fish, and wine diet (maybe with figs, olive oil and mustard, though those are just mentioned not actually consumed IIRC)

That sounds like they’re trying to market the “Mediterranean Diet” to religious people.

[Spiderman]

@griffin1977

If you are impressed enough by this douche bag’s olive oil on taint cure for impotence to watch his whole ad and find the link.

I was getting one in heavy rotation on youtube about a month or two ago. I have no idea what it was for; she was incoherently rambling; disjointed sentences that really didn’t add up but it was sooo skeevy that I would press the < Skip > button as soon as I could if not F5 to reload & sit thru a different ad.
A not-unattractive woman was speaking about how she heard about this one trick & her step-son came into her room while she was in the shower so she tried it out on him {brain bleach, brain bleach, brain bleach!} Assuming her husband was roughly the same age as her, his son would, at best, be 20ish; not the usual age for someone needing a little blue pill. Lesse - cheating, incest, maybe underage - those are all things I want associated with a product I’m selling. ::shudder::

[Al128]

@robby

Seriously, though I saw The Last Supper in person earlier this year in Milan, and it was painted that way—as a large mural in the refectory (i.e. dining hall) of a monastery—so that the monks could pretend they were participating in the Last Supper. The perspective in the mural was such that the painted table and painted room are an extension of the dining hall itself.

That’s why everyone in the famous mural painting is seated on one side of the table. The monks would be seated on the other side.

I thought that was the classic sit-com layout there …

Ignorance fought!

[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

My favorite is from around 20 years ago. A website asserted that they are able to predict the gender of an expectant woman’s unborn child from a saliva swab obtained using their kit. The cost was $99. It came with a money-back guarantee if their prediction proved incorrect.

Sound like a good deal? The guarantee offers you half of your money back if they are wrong.

I have first-hand knowledge of a major league athlete and his wife using the service.

mmm

[Al128]

even if they return 100% of the money when wrong, they still make (and average) $49.50 from any idjit that sends money their way.

on another note: weren’t ecographies (that show a fetus’ gender) standard for 30 or 40 years now?

[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

@Al128

…weren’t ecographies (that show a fetus’ gender) standard for 30 or 40 years now?

For ultrasounds to be considered accurate, I think they must be performed at 20(?) weeks or later.

The saliva claim was that the gender could be determined much, much earlier.

mmm

[Al128]

yep - much earlier, but only with 50% chance …

edit to adde: going from memory here but “ours” were clear at 3ish months, and given that it might take you 1.5 months to reckon you are pregnant, that was what I feel pretty early on ..