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The Cult of the Snuggie

alexbwFor those of you who may be uncertain, this is indeed a significant time in the relatively brief history of humanity. Our species has advanced to the point where we can say “go fuck yourself” to those dumb-ass blankets, quilts, and comforters that have kept us warm for so long. It’s time for a new dream, a reformed vision–the revolution will surely have sleeves.

Women on both sides, sports logos on the blankets...still seems immasculine.

Women on both sides, sports logos on the blankets...still seems immasculine.

The phenomenon of blankets with sleeves can not possibly be a good sign. When a humorous fad gains speed, there’s really no stopping it until everyone owns one–or knows someone who owns one. We’ve learned our lesson with the Sham-Wow.

Sure, it outperforms Zorbees, but that’s like saying that a paper-shredder outperforms a hole-punch to more effectively destroy your money.

The Snuggie has managed to successfully saturate the market while remaining consistently inferior to its fellow sleeved blanket products. Should $20 product that is rated by users as being essentially a slightly thicker hospital gown continue to outsell its superiors? Perhaps a better question would be: Should we even be allowed to have blankets with sleeves at all?

Snuggie‘s Satanic cult cloak design will go down a long and dangerous road ending in an unquestionably lazy, fat, and slightly warmer populus. At GetSnuggie.com, one may find information on joining this cult of comfort along with the fabrication of a lifestyle associated with close, warm relationships with your family and friends.

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Like its religious counterparts, Snuggie has already branched out to cover insane new markets.

Has the ineptitude of religion and consumerism reached such levels that we actually wear this product–this cloth reminder of a terrible decision made weeks before–out of the house? We mock ourselves with a tacky leopard or zebra print Snuggie, and mock our pets by spreading our misfortune to them.

It may seem harmless at first, but when you spend all of your free time lazing around in your Snuggie, you’ll shortly find that your piss-stained, crumb-covered, sweaty sleeved blanket will begin to fit you like a tube top.

If the Snuggie continues on its current path, I can see the future being quite, quite dark. On the other hand, you’ll already be appropriately dressed to worship the Dark Master of your shadowy future. But what if he prefers the Slanket?

Alex G/

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What the Fuck Happened?: As Seen on TV

alexbwWas there a specific moment that slipped by the collective conscious of the entire world, or have we all just gone batshit insane? Either way, we’ve all gone soft on the As Seen on TV product marketing schemes perpetrated by the likes of Billy Mays and Vince Shlomi (a.k.a. The Sham-Wow guy).

I recall a time when the educated American would see a commercial for (insert product name here) on television and change the channel, or at least laugh it off. Now, we’ve become so engrossed in a culture of instant satisfaction that we believe any nonsense claim that a spokesperson shoves down our throat, regardless of the ludicrous  fucking impracticality.

While I suppose there’s no harm in spending $9.95 for a cheese grater for your feet or a super-absorbent, well, anything, the more we look past this super-enticing opiate of the masses, the more we will be squeezed in its python-like grasp until we are robbed of cash and oxygen.

Anyone who has a Lionel Coinbank in their home is surely psychotic in such a way that only years of study by a team of analysts could figure out. Similarly with anyone who found a way to purchase this product without collapsing a lung with laughter:

When I was young(er), I was brought up to believe that these commercials were not only asinine, but specifically targeted towards to dimwitted and intellectually bankrupt.

If you honestly need the MagneScribe as much as the individuals in the commercial, you’ve probably been writing all of your lists and important documents in your own feces for the past few years.

The non-product product is the most impressive beast in the As Seen on TV kingdom. The art of creating the insatiable need in the viewer’s mind for a product that they not only don’t need but also already own is a practice these fuckers have mastered well.

I suppose my biggest issue with the resurgence of the As Seen on TV products is the fact that they seem to be everywhere now. Is it just me misremembering my childhood, or did these commercials used to only be on during Grandma’s afternoon Stories and late at night for the impressionable somnambulist/drug-addict crowd? They’re on all the time now–invading the casual television and radio-space of us normals.

As entertainingly idiotic as these commercials are, I’m sincere in my desire for them to go the fuck away forever. In these tough economic times, we need to be spending money wisely…and if I need a new potato peeler, I’ll go for one that isn’t impractically ri-cunting-diculous.

Alex G.

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The Wasp Knife…Why?!

joeDriving up to school I was listening to the Preston and Steve Show (You guys rock.) and they were talking about the Wasp Knife. I was so interested and disturbed by this that I just had to look it up. And what is the Wasp Knife you ask? Let me give you a brief explanation..

The Wasp Knife
looks like a regular hunting knife but instead of a big-ass sharp blade that can kill, maim, gut, slice and dice (which I think is more than enough for the job) they made it even deadlier. Inside the handle is a c02 cartridge that when the handle is triggered, injects gas ball inside the target that expands to the size of a basketball, freezing vital organs and creating an extreme amount of pressure causing the area the target was stabbed to explode.

Yes… I said explode. Think of the Chest Burster from the Alien films. Don’t believe me? Watch this!

Maybe I’m the only one, but I actually felt bad for the watermelons. The main uses excuses the makers of the wasp knife use is for taking down large predators under water and on land. Bears and Sharks for example.

OK granted, for the rare event I leave my couch and go diving and a shark came after me, I’d probably want to use something effective against it; although, a regular diving knife would probably do the job of giving the shark the message of: “Yo! I’m not a seal man! FUCK OFF!”

Also, I don’t think an exploding shark under water is something I wanna be around. As for bears…why the hell would I want to have a knife fight with a bear in the first place? I don’t think I would want to get that close to a bear to begin with. I don’t think a West Side Story knife fight works in a bear fight no matter how many Jets are with you.

It also lists use for tactical and military. I’ll quote the site because I couldn’t make it sound funnier if I tried.

“Today our soldiers face many new challenges and to overcome those challenges they deserve the most advanced equipment that is available to them. A simple knife is OK to have, but when it comes down to the last line of defense you want to be carrying something that will get the job done.” – Wasp Injection Systems

Get the job done?! The job is done when you kill the bastard! Not when you make his intestines spray all over you! Grenades are thrown not handed to the enemy! RPG stands for Rocket Propelled Grenade. Rocket Propelled being the key words in the initialism, that fucking thing needs to fly far far away from where you are.

Now on to the most important issue of my little rant: Do we really want the general public able to get their hands on these things? Unless you’re currently masturbating to the assassination footage of JFK I would think/hope you’d be saying “No!”

Look I’m just like any guy out there who admires something slightly dangerous and wants to toy with it. Give me a handful of M-80′s and I’ll have the time of my life. This knife however, crosses the line. There’s no use for this product other than to kill something with it or make it suffer.

Police officials in Great Britain are taking this seriously and are on high alert for anyone who is in possession of one. About 350 knife attack cases are reported everyday in England and Wales. I think exploding victims would greatly decrease the survival rates.

The knife is priced at about $380, which would make you think that it may be difficult for many muggers or low life scum bags to acquire, but I’m pretty sure the science behind it isn’t that complicated. What’s stopping someone from purchasing the damn thing, duplicating the technology, and selling it much cheaper?

Think about it, If you’re being mugged, you’re pretty much fucked if the son of bitch that stabs you has one of these. There’s not really much hope of you making it after part of you has exploded and you’re laying there dying of severe blood loss.

Gauze won’t do the trick, neither will stitches.

That’s a mess Billy Mays couldn’t clean up with all the Oxyclean in the world at his disposal. The Sham Wow guy wouldn’t even try to clean that up, unless of course a prostitute was involved…

From a forensics standpoint at least it won’t be that hard to catch the bastard and identify what weapon was used. There will definitely be PLENTY of evidence. Sadly I don’t think the victim will be able to make it to court to testify. Something like this needs to be banned. QUICK.

Joe_G

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