Prime Day starts tonight at 12 am est.

[Elok]

I can only speak for myself, of course, but my arsehole is just not that big. (cue jokes about my tight ass, but really, a meathook is frigging huge)

C0ckney, the thing is, if you want to simply buy happiness, there's dope. Why are these people not smoking dope? Or porn. The internet also has a great deal of pornography. And video games. Amazon is where you buy, uh . . . well, my wife got a pressure cooker off of there not long ago. It's good for odds and ends like that. Also for media, if you're old enough to still buy DVDs and/or don't have a better option for downloads. I'm really having a hard time picturing myself getting mad over bad deals on TVs or phones or something.

EDIT: Also grossly overpriced "artisanal" game boards from Japan. Maybe all these people were peeved that it's still $100K?

[ZEE]

Elok sure is obsessed with anuses lol!

[Elok]

Whereas you are only obsessed with the guy who's obsessed with anuses.

[Sava]

but my arsehole is just not that big.

where there's a will, there's a way

[C0ckney]

I can only speak for myself, of course, but my arsehole is just not that big. (cue jokes about my tight ass, but really, a meathook is frigging huge)

C0ckney, the thing is, if you want to simply buy happiness, there's dope. Why are these people not smoking dope? Or porn. The internet also has a great deal of pornography. And video games. Amazon is where you buy, uh . . . well, my wife got a pressure cooker off of there not long ago. It's good for odds and ends like that. Also for media, if you're old enough to still buy DVDs and/or don't have a better option for downloads. I'm really having a hard time picturing myself getting mad over bad deals on TVs or phones or something.

EDIT: Also grossly overpriced "artisanal" game boards from Japan. Maybe all these people were peeved that it's still $100K?

i'm not talking about their real effects, but their imagined ones; those that are programmed into us by advertising and other mediums. what images come to your mind when you think of "dope" (a lazy stoner, or a desperate junkie perhaps) or "porn" (sleaze and some guy wanking off to it). even though people like these things, they can't really talk them or show them off to your friends/neighbours/colleagues ("you'll have to come round to watch that new dickgirl video i downloaded. it was so hot i just couldn't stop masturbating".) because the images attached to them are negative. even computer games have an element of this, although this has changed a lot in the last 10-15 years.

now what about all those 'mainstream' consumer products, how are they presented? if you look, they are invariably presented as a link to ease, comfort, social acceptance and advancement, "cool", sexual success, in other words happiness. the thing itself is fairly unimportant, it's the image that people are buying and buying into.

[The Mad Monk]

I can only speak for myself, of course, but my arsehole is just not that big. (cue jokes about my tight ass, but really, a meathook is frigging huge)

C0ckney, the thing is, if you want to simply buy happiness, there's dope. Why are these people not smoking dope? Or porn.

I've tried smoking porn, it's really hard to keep lit.

[Elok]

If you were trying to smoke an electronic image, I imagine you were fairly lit already.

[Sava]

I've tried smoking porn, it's really hard to keep lit.

PORNO THEMED ROLLING PAPERS

TRADEMARKED

[Elok]

Years ago, when I was stuck working at a gas station, one of my coworkers and I came up with the idea of LOLporn--a combo of the internet's two most popular products. Basically a skin pic with a caption like "I can haz peeniz?" typed over the bottom. We thought it was a surefire idea, but I, at least, never did anything about it. Maybe he did, after he quit. Wish he hadn't quit so soon, he was one of the least dull and apathetic of my coworkers there. Which is probably why he quit so soon.

Anyway: LOLporn. Maybe you guys can use it.

[Sava]

I was stuck working at a gas station

were you ever robbed?

if so, WTFOMG!

if not, did you ever wish you'd be robbed just so you could overpower the robber and commit an act of justice?

[Elok]

Well, no. The closest thing to a heroic fantasy I envisioned was working out if I could surreptitiously knock the phone off the hook and brush 911 with my fingers while the guy was on the other side of the bullet-proof glass. Then run into the back room if the dude noticed, before he could unload his piece in drug-addled rage. Mostly I didn't trust said glass to block, say, a shotgun at close range. That store was maybe five miles from a very methy part of town. Decently far, I guess, but not as far as one would like when working the late shift alone at a gas station. And most of those five miles were highway, so you might say five miles meant about five minutes.

[pchang]

Not many takers for the 50% off they offered on a 55 gallon drum of passion lube.

[The Mad Monk]

Ah, Passion Lube -- a true Amazon classic!

[rah]

I'd look that up on amazon but i'm afraid of the adds that would auto pop for the next six months.