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Stupid Products People Buy

I'm an incredibly lazy cook. If I can't stick it in a pot and ignore it for a while, I tend to not cook it. :p
 
Apparently there's a market for $ 12 inflatable turkeys :wtf:

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Buy it here.

Mmmmm, what a nice smell of vinyl! -what are you cooking?
 
New flavors of Doritos.

Seriously, they are all at most subtle versions of the existing nacho cheese, cool ranch and taco flavors. And taco flavor has always been a limited appeal one in its own right.

Fuck, it's all MSG anyway.
 
Voyager on DVD. Why anyone would pay good money and willingly subject themselves to that drivel is beyond me.
:lol:
I used to love my VOY rerun time when it was showing on Spike.

I did too.

And my OCD forces me to be a completest so I own the DVD's. But I found then on sale for very cheap so I don't feel guilty (well maybe not the seventh season) for buying them. I think I only paid like $30 a set.
 
A mandoline:

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(Plus some potatoes about to meet their maker.)

I did not know you could get one of those for home use. Somewhere around here I have a commercial one in a box, I think. May have been given to Goodwill as it wasn't in the best of shape.
 
Most of this stuff you guys are listing aren't that stupid.

It's more of "I don't need this so you're stupid for buying it!!!"
 
I would also like to add something called the "speed slicer" to the list. It was very popular back in the 80's. This "ingenious" product consisted of a long plastic board that had this blade set into it and a separate handle thing. You would take vegetables, fruit and even meat, attach the handle to it (which had these little spikes on the bottom to hold what was being cut) and then you would move it back and forth over the board which cut off perfect slices of whatever you were cutting. Needless to say this thing was a menace.

A mandoline?

They're a great way to add extra protein to your family's diet. At the very least, they get the keratin from your nails; at most they get the entire fingertip.

Mandolines are great. I love mine. You don't end up with that extra protein and keratin (:lol:) if you use the food-holder thingy, which works wonderfully on just about everything. Really.

Of course, I expect there are good mandolines and bad ones. Mine's a good one (though not quite as cool as Timby's, I must say) and I love it. I used it on Sunday night, in fact, and my fingers still have all their bits and pieces attached, the way they're supposed to.
 
^ Yeah, I'm sure you're right... but when I see the TV chefs slicing bits of their fingers off by accident using them, I kind of veer away.
 
Quite honestly, city folk who buy a 4x4 and the damned thing never leaves the pavement. These same people are the ones who drive with overconfidence during inclement weather (snow and ice) and wind up in the ditch.
 
Apparently there's a market for $ 12 inflatable turkeys :wtf:

inflatableturkey.jpg

Buy it here.

Mmmmm, what a nice smell of vinyl! -what are you cooking?
Hey, you never know when something like that'll come in handy! When I was nine I put a water-to-grow brain in my great-grandmother's toilet. She was a trooper. I heard a scream, and then she burst out of the bathroom and announced, "I've shit my brains out!" laughing hysterically.

And on a practical note: the turkey could be useful in the school play about Thanksgiving.
 
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