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By implying you think it’s funny to see elderly, beloved pets in pain? Gosh, no. Imagine that. In fact, you make me quite sick.
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I tend to think it’s just a wry, dark sense of humor that doesn’t always come across well in print. But who knows?
GS-27 Scratch Remover. I bought a tube a long time ago and it clearly does not work on a car’s painted surface.
[QUOTE=JSexton]
Well, don’t you hold one nostril closed when blowing your nose? . . .
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No. Unless only one nostril is stuffed up, which is rare. Most times it’s just a half-pinch to restrict flow, thereby increasing pressure.
[QUOTE=JSexton]
I tend to think it’s just a wry, dark sense of humor that doesn’t always come across well in print. But who knows?
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Bingo.
But, to actually comment on the thread subject, the most useless product I can think of are those big fancy BBQ tool sets that come in a customized carrying case, like a sniper rifle. Seems that everyone I know has one and they never use them, they have their favorite spatula and tongs and the kit sits on a shelf in the garage gathering dust.
Kind of like these.
I’m sure somebody uses them, and no product is completely worthless if it is useful for making money for whoever sold it but, c’mon.
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22 posts and no mention of Head On!
(Apply directly to forehead)
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Head On sort of works actually. I mean, I’d rather just take a couple excedrine and get rid of my headache, but it does cause a cooling sensation on your forehead. It’s about as effective as a cold washcloth.
I wouldn’t waste money on it personally but it’s not totally useless.
[QUOTE=MrSquishy]
How about any product that claims to remove “toxins” from your body? I suppose they might be good, if you don’t have a functioning liver.
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I like the one that supposedly extracts the toxins from your feet. To show it’s scientific basis, they show a picture of a tree sucking nutrients through its roots. Because we all know that’s how humans do it too.
[QUOTE=billfish678]
Just for the sake of clarity…in case you are refering to my Ronco Egg cuber. It doesnt cut the boiled egg into little cubes, nor does it shave/cut the boiled egg in a cube shape. Miracle of Miracles you end up with a whole boiled egg that that is cubed shape.
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How does it work? I can’t find anything by Googling.
[QUOTE=BiblioCat]
How does it work? I can’t find anything by Googling.
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It just squishes it into a cube and lets it set up that way. Here’s a video .
[QUOTE=5-HT]
Head On sort of works actually. I mean, I’d rather just take a couple excedrine and get rid of my headache, but it does cause a cooling sensation on your forehead. It’s about as effective as a cold washcloth.
I wouldn’t waste money on it personally but it’s not totally useless.
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Only because you could jam a shoelace down the middle of it and Voila! An emergency candle!
[QUOTE=5-HT]
To show it’s scientific basis, they show a picture of a tree sucking nutrients through its roots.
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Watch closer; they show a diagram of a tree sucking nutrients in through the leaves and expelling toxins through the roots. The voice-over also states that trees do this. Obviously the soil around long-lived trees must be heavily contaminated by toxins.
Or not.
[QUOTE=redtail23]
It just squishes it into a cube and lets it set up that way. Here’s a video .
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That’s actually kind of neat. Yeah, it’s stupid and useless, but it would be fun to show up at a party with square deviled eggs.
The pocket bra for agents of CONTROL in their fight against KAOS. Agent 99 in a KAOS control bra sounds interesting and a must see.
I know they sold devices to grow square fruits like tomatoes too.
Here’s some square and pyramid melons.
Click the small pictures to see large pictures of the square ones on a conveyor.
[QUOTE=tbdi]
Watch closer; they show a diagram of a tree sucking nutrients in through the leaves and expelling toxins through the roots. The voice-over also states that trees do this. Obviously the soil around long-lived trees must be heavily contaminated by toxins.
Or not.
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haha. yeah, you’re right. that’s even worse.
[QUOTE=Rich Mann]
I nominate the leaf-blower.
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God I hate those things. I can’t imagine how something that makes that level of noise ever became acceptable. Damn you all that use them, or make other people use them for you. Get a rake.
Years ago, my ex-wife bought a set of icecube trays that were in the shape of hexagons-interesting, but useless :smack:
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus]
God I hate those things. I can’t imagine how something that makes that level of noise ever became acceptable. Damn you all that use them, or make other people use them for you. Get a rake.
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I hate noise myself, and as stated earlier, there are electric models available that are very quiet.
[QUOTE=BiblioCat]
That’s actually kind of neat. Yeah, it’s stupid and useless, but it would be fun to show up at a party with square deviled eggs.
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I thought so too. I found a place that sells the device
Necktie – What’s it spossed to do? Replace the top shirt button?
[QUOTE=DMark]
Those outrageously expensive, useless ionizers that supposedly make the air in your home as fresh as an ocean breeze. Every study has shown them to be worthless junk, but Sharper Image had (or still has?) pages and pages of various models for sale in their catalogs at ridiculous prices.
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What is being studied? Electrostatic precipitators (i.e. the air is passed through two sets of electrodes, the first charges particulate matter making it attract to the second electrode to be filtered) is a valid technology. Consumer filters just might be poor implementations. If you’re talking about “health benefits of negative ions” being questionable, you’ll get no argument from me.
[QUOTE=DrCube]
I also nominate weed eaters for category number 2. I’ve never seen a power tool that so consistently fails at what it is supposed to do. It is basically a hundred-dollar disposable eyesore.
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Go buy a nice electric weed-eater, a cheap tap and die set, and a nice commercial-grade replacement trimmer spool casing… all this combined will still cost less than all but the cheapest gas trimmers. Remove the plastic portion of the factory trimmer head… note smooth metal shank making it impossible to install wide election of aftermarket-accessories. Cut threads in shank using die set. Screw on commercial grade trim head. Go trim grass with a smug feeling of giving it to the man.
I followed this route (with a few extra steps, mind you) recently with a Black & Decker GH1000 GrassHog XP after the original plastic head melted off on the second time using it.
[QUOTE=ralph124c]
Years ago, my ex-wife bought a set of icecube trays that were in the shape of hexagons-interesting, but useless :smack:
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Well, that’s only because she didn’t get the matching pentagonal ice tray so you could build geodesic ice sculpture. I would probably buy hexagonal ice-tray specifically for this reason and just leave the pentagon faces open, actually. :o