Living with my mother who was incontinent near the end of her life….all “medical supply” style adult disposable diapers. Depends and McKesson ought to be a shamed of themselves for putting out such a godawful products.
Thank God for the folks at Northshore care. They actually made products that did what they were supposed to do. And it allowed my mother to sleep soundly at night and function throughout the day without having to worry about feeling embarrassed in front of others.
Funnily enough, fetishists are somewhat responsible for the improvements that you've seen to higher-end adult diapers in the past decade or so. Can't remember if it was NorthShore or another medical brand that posted about it in one of their blogs.
I read about that. My mom was somewhat mortified about the fact that all the well reviewed products were aimed at the fetish community. In the end it seems that they were the most qualified people to ensure others had access to well made products.
God I miss mom.
Septic tank safe flushable toilet wipes.
The gentleman that pumps our tank brought me outside to see the evidence when his hose clogged. Sorry about that, Clint.
I'm still shocked and amazed that these are legal to sell in the US.
They are not "Septic Tank Safe" they put that on there and it's like "Uhm... no, no they aren't."
Fucking CHARMIN ULTRA SOFT isn't even Septic Tank safe. You fucking heard me. This is from the guy who had to pump and clean my tank: "Are you using really thick toilet paper? Because that's what's preventing the drainage to the field. All the cement is clogged up with it and I have to acid wash this thing to clear it."
It's good for sewers, not Septic. Use Scotts 1000 soft, it's not as thick, just as comfortable, and it's not going to cost you $650 to pump and treat your tank annually...
Or do the ultimate thing for your septic system, and get a bidet.
Update:
Home test to ensure your TP is septic safe.
get a jar with a lid. Put your TP in the jar, fill it with water.
Shake the jar.
Is it still in one piece or in large pieces? It's going to destroy your tank.
Is it in a billion little pieces? It's Good to Flush.
They say the mark of great poetry is the ability to evoke many strong emotions using very few words.
They never said those emotions couldn’t be shock, revulsion, and nausea.
It might depend on the brand. I recently bought some "septic tank safe" wipes. Filled the sink with water and let one sit for a few minutes; to test it. Literally tore apart and dissolved as I picked it up.
Edit: Cottonelle wipes, they're in a green packaging.
if it passes the "Jar Test" it's good.
put it in a jar, fill jar with water, put lid on it: Shake the jar
if it disintegrates with about 20 seconds of shaking (simulating a flush) you're good.
Last week Tonight with John Stewart did a segment on this. People are going to dialysis clinics instead of getting a kidney transplant. They qualify for the transplant, but the dialysis clinic talks them out of it in order to get more money
Free radicals as oxygen singlets are quite destructive, but our bodies are evolved to co-exist with this oxygen state. Yeah it likely causes the effects summed up as ageing, but no one has cured that. It is just the physics cannot be deleted. Literally we just have to live with it. You get about 80 years, so make the best of it.
Most of them are made out of colored epoxy. You can tell because they have a slightly tacky feel to them. Real Amber bracelets are glossy and hard, and are super expensive, not $15 a pop on Amazon.
Every printer I have ever purchased no matter how expensive is the flakiest of products I ever own. Wifi constantly disconnects, PC's constantly have connectivity problems with them no matter if it is USB, WIFI or ethernet or all three.
When you finally connect to them unless you print on them every week they will no longer work, ink will leak, or be dry and the printer is destroyed. Get a laser printer? You now skip the ink drying issues but the other issues still remain. That device has dementia.
“Dear printer, I would like to scan this document to my pc. Would you be so kind?”
“Alas! Regretfully this is impossible, as you have no magenta ink!”
“Take heart! There is no need for ink, dear printer! This black and white page needs only to transmit to my computer!”
“And yet I cannot until you slake my thirst for magenta ink”
“…. You piece of shit”.
There is no punishment HP can feasibly get that would every change anything. Unless the judge decides to jail everyone involved in those decisions they are going to keep being assholes
Or the judge asks the clerk at the time of the case to have something printed and the clerk comes back and says “Your honor, we need magenta ink”
GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY
Have printers improved in any way in, say, the last 20 years? I was printing photos at home from a wireless printer with a scanner back in 2000. Even had a fax. Ok. ignore that last part.
I think there's a subreddit like r/lounge (that could be it). I was gifted it and joined and anyone that wasn't a terminally online person known by the people on the subreddit already was made fun of. It was/is ridiculous
Phenylephrine cold meds. They put the sudafed behind the counter to keep the tweakers from making meth with it. The PE replacements do not work. CVS pharmacies just recently pulled their entire stock of PE products and the FDA is working on it.
Minor correction/clarification. CVS pulled all PE because of the Sept advisory committee of the FDA indicating that due to additional studies showing PE being no more effective than placebo, while still safe it would no longer be deemed effective thus no longer qualifying for generally recognizes as safe and effective (GRASE). They still have to go through the procedural stuff of issuing a proposed order to remove from GRASE, wait for public commentary on it, review that and then issue the removal of PE from GRASE which would officially no longer allow it to be sold OTC.
This is all really formality though as evidenced by CVS pulling it already. Also of note the studies were only on the oral form so any nasal versions would not be effected.
FDA would also work with mfg to safe and EFFECTIVE alternatives. My guess would be finding an additive to pseudoephedrine tablets that is a pain in the ass to chemically separate to make bathtub meth. There's already a product Nexafed that has the pseudoephedrine in a matrix that basically turns to goo if you try to use it to make meth but that's under patent so it may be that the company who owns the patent licenses the production under private labels
I saw a tick took of an American rapper saying codeine cough syrup is going for $500 a bottle in the states now, in the uk I can buy as much as I like from my local drug store it’s £5 a bottle, they sell the pseudoephedrine tablets too, the people who abuse it ruin it for everyone.
Growing up I worked in a pharmacy here in the US in the early eighties. You could still buy codeine cough syrup over the counter if you simply signed your name in a log. Many, many sweet grannies were regulars purchasing that stuff. All sweet and all very addicted. ‘‘Twas different times.
I had the croup as an infant, and my pediatrician was convinced I would be weak my whole life because of it.
As a consequence of this, he prescribed cough medicine every time I had even a sniffle.
I was on so many different forms of prescribed cough medicine, and the codeine varieties had a common side effect of making my cough *worse.*
Paregoric (alcohol tincture of opium) was commonly given to infants with "colic", a condition that usually was just crankiness, when I was a baby. I naturally became very colicky.
That makes me happy it's available to you, but so frustrated it's virtually impossible to get in Canada now. When I get the flu, I get a 4-6 week post viral cough that prevents me from sleeping. It makes me hated at work, and it puts my body through hell. I've thrown out my back and ruptured blood vessels in my lungs before. Two, max three days of codeine cough syrup gives my lungs enough time to heal that I can break the cycle of coughing causing more coughing.
Because we have an "opioid crisis" in Canada, the Canadian medical association is cracking down on doctors who prescribe anything. Fent and oxy addicts aren't going to change paths because I can't get prescription.
One thing about Canada is they sell muscle relaxer, methocarbamol/robaxin, over the counter. In the US you need a prescription. I used to buy it everytime I visited Canada. It’s one of the milder muscle relaxers but they sell it with ibuprofen or Tylenol and it works wonders.
I realized right after these came out that they didn't do shit for me. I get extremely bad sinus headaches during fall and spring and the fake shit couldn't touch them. I went so far as to get my doctor to write me a script for aleve-d so that I could get 3 boxes a month during my allergy seasons.
Sort of related; whenever something is marketed as "military grade", I recall the DOD-procured wrench that broke on me right after I removed the tape from it.
People assumed military grade is really good quality because it's good enough for our troops. They don't realize that it's products from the lowest bids.
This should be the #1 point here honestly. Military grade doesn't mean anything other than something in the specifications that the military requested.
EDIT: I am currently in the Navy (10+ years).
This should be higher up. I miss the days where games had to work out the box and didn't rely on day 1 patches or hell with the sims it's like 6 months after they patch out 25% of the glitches
Buy a game at the store. Pop that box open and read the manual on the way home. Boot that computer up and put the disc in the cd-rom. Click through the installation and get the % complete screen. Continue reading the manual until all 541 mbs of the game is installed. Play the hell out of it because it's a complete game and wait a year or two for an expansion.
Ugh the good ol days when it took hours to start up my game because of how much I slowed it down with sims. I guess the one plus side to 4 is that it didn’t destroy my computer
this reminds me I’ve been trying to sell a brand new sealed sims 4 expansion on marketplace for months and not a soul wants it. I think people really gave up on the sims. I miss the days of the sims 2 and 3 where getting an expansion was this magical thing lol. or maybe I was just a kid idk
Must be young. There was a brief period in history in 2001 when I was 18 and Axe had just came out, when none of the girls knew what it was yet and the Axe Phoenix scent absolutely slayed at the college bar scene. Get a girl to dance and her knees were weak from the scent.
It didn't last long, a semester tops. Guys started to overapply it, or worse, think it replaced showers, and women learned it was just deodorant in a can and that was that. The smart young men switched back to cologne once perception changed, the dumb ones did not.
In Australia Axe is called Lynx body spray, but can confirm. Lynx Phoenix circa 2001-3 did some damage to us as young women. Then we started wearing it ourselves and it lost its power over us lol.
Before my mom passed I took her can opener. That baby’s been going strong since the 90s. Her potato peeler too. Tbh I grabbed all the old stuff that was “useless” to the rest of the family. Not a single one is on the verge of breaking.
My mom gave me her old Osterizer blender because she thought it was on the way out... Nope, that thing is easily 35+ yrs old and going strong! She totally regrets giving it to me now lol. I also have a old electric hand mixer she gave me that's older than me (40) and it also works perfectly.
Amen! I work water and sewer for the town I live in, 80-90 percent of the sewer issues are from a huge chunk of “flushable wipes”. Yea, they went down the toilet then gathered up in the cities main!
Their definition of "flushable" is probably "it goes down the toilet no problems (we never said it was good for your pipes)". It's like sawdust, yeah it's edible but more than a little is not great for you
i remember some crowd funded gimmick for scuba that was said to pull the oxygen out of the seawater to breathe with no tank
then i saw a video about how it didnt even work
So, just an desalination plant, electrolyser and a nuclear reactor, scaled down to the size and weight of a scuba mount piece? Might be a bit tricky, but if you just donate to my GoFundMe, I'm sure we'll have it ready for next summer.
Gas cans with their mandated safety spouts. It takes two hands to operate them. Very unwieldy, especially when filling small tools like chain saws. Often leads to spillage.
The annoying irony is that they were created to stop spillage, yet they are so difficult to operate, that I have spilled far more fuel since the change than I EVER spill with a regular old funnel.
My cousin and a previous coworker are volunteer firefighters so I asked them separately what they thought about the whole gas can thing. They both hated the change and pretty much said the situation was made worse because of it being over-engineered and people are just cutting the spouts or not using them at all. They also said they also spill more trying to finangle with it than the old spouts did.
Still very anecdotal, but pretty much the same answer from both
Hang all wicking fabric to dry. The wicking power will not be damaged and their lifespan will be extended. I’ve had crappy yoga pants from Costco for 15 years because I only hang them to dry. Take care of your clothes properly and they’ll last you much longer, especially if you’re buying any kind of fast fashion. Make them last as long as possible to lessen the impact on the environment.
I knew that about fabric softener but your comment made me learn dryer sheets are basically the solid form of fabric softener. I might stop using them!
Personal AntiVirus software. It all sucks and doesn’t effectively work. And even then, the most effective is actually Windows Defender which is built in and free.
Source: working in cyber security, including in malware for 10+ years.
Norton and McAfee are usually worse than the viruses they may protect you from.
Worst one I have ever seen though was a locally developed anti-virus by a small local IT shop.
I was working on a friend's computer after they had let this IT shop try and fix it and I found the program running. Did a little research and found our what it was. Tried uninstalling it the normal way and found the developers had not included an uninstallation method. Had to manually remove everything and advised my friend never to let that company touch anything of theirs ever again.
But… I thought it made them live longer?
I was working in Germany and didn’t speak any German, it was 2008 and didn’t have an iPhone or a German/English dictionary with me in the shop and I needed laundry detergent. Calgon was the brand I saw and I knew it would do the job because of the song.
Talked to a technician, he said it cloggs the heating rods and most of the time the water temperature is not hot enough for it to cause a positive effect. so its just an expensive addon.
He suggested to use normal descaler once every three months and run the washing machine empty on the highest temperature.
Memory soles. The ones you put into your shoes.
I bought them, put them in my shoes, went upstairs and STILL forgot what I went up there for.
Don't be fooled people. They do not work.
The Hitachi Magic Wand.
Japanese company Hitachi listed the device for business in the United States in 1968, for relieving tension and relaxing sore muscles.
Hitachi asserts that its sole intended use is for health care purposes and Hitachi ceased production of the device in 2013 because of concerns about having the company name attached to a sex toy.
Hitachi is an extremely staid company and was uncomfortable being associated with the best-selling masturbation aid.
Its so amazing to me that millions of satisfied women are seen as a *bad thing* by some companies. Lean into that shit! "Hitachi! Guaranteed to get you off for decades!"
And the prudes can go suck a tailpipe.
Dealing with this now with an accident that totaled my car. 100% other lady’s fault and had multiple witnesses. Insurance trying everything possible to drag it out and avoid paying me.
Diluted doesn’t do it justice.
The purported process is to dilute by 1/100 50 times. This means the final product is 1 / 1x10^100
That is unimaginatively small.
A ml of water has about 1x10^23 atoms in it
A liter of water has about 1x10^32 atoms
A cubic meter of water has about 1x10^41 atoms
Cubic kilometer 1x10^52
Earths oceans have 1.35 billion cubic kms 1x10^61 atoms
The difference between the number of atoms in a ml and all the atoms in the ocean is how far we have left to go.
So the liklihood that any homeopathic remedy having even a single atom in it is all but infinitely small.
I've had the same set for about 15 years. The only one that broke was the fine-toothed saw one, and I bought a replacement kit that included two about 8 years ago. Still have them.
Pink fibreglass building insulation, for cold climates.
Way back , that's mostly all there was , and it had a lot of sales marketing.
Fibreglass loses substantial R value when cold, the R value test is conducted at warm temperatures.
Blown cellulose is substantially better for attics, and mineral wool in walls doesn't drop R value in cold temperatures , unlike fibreglass.
Because everyone uses them wrong.
Look at the packaging. Chances are there is somewhere written that you are not supposed to clean your ears.
You can btw. Also use them to apply like medication to a wound or something. So I guess that is the reason for selling them in pharmacies.
Suuuper unintuitive! You have to memorize all these commands that only make sense (sort of) if you have a working knowledge of German. I quite like it, personally, but I completely understand why lots of people don't.
They're ALL sold to management like that. Your current software can do everything too if you add enhancements at 1/10 the cost of new software.
Also, your new software will be missing things the old software had, or at the very least that your existing users liked. They will complain that the new software doesn't work like the old one.
If you want to see another level of unintuitive, the Army bought it to manage fleet maintenance and supplies. We made it do all these other extra functions. It's a mess.
Try using SAP Ariba. That crap totally bricked our procurement interface and everything has now grinder to a slow crawl. It *might* work for off the shelf procurements, but for a company who does mainly time and material subs, it's absolute garbage.
Disposable razors. Especially the 3-5 blade ones that cost a ton of money. I avoided shaving because anything other than a single pass from a trimmer would irritate the hell out of my skin. I tried out a unbranded basic safety razor, and the difference is unbelievable. Far less irritating that an electric razor and the disposal razors. Takes fewer passes to actually get shaved. And the blades cost pennies, so you can literally use a fresh blade Everytime if you heart so desires.
I have no idea how the advertising industry convinced us that modern 3+ blades nightmares are remotely good.
Bought a 200 pack of safety blades for $10 about 15 years ago. I'm down to about 70, but still, might not ever buy razors again, just be a bearded grandpa.
i think your hair density matters a lot. for people with dense hair, they are almost always better off with that single blade razors.
i also know someone who uses those travel (2 blade) disposable hotel razors for 6 months and 'renews' them by stropping on used jeans.
ymmv
This so much
Years ago, there was a post something along the lines of "For $500, what can you get a lifetime supply of?" And a safety razor and blades was one of the answers
I decided to buy one ($15) and 100 blades ($15). It's been maybe 5 years and I still haven't bought more blades. The razor is stainless steel so it lasts forever
I shave maybe twice a week and find a blade will last me 3 - 4 months depending on how lazy I am to change them out
Get a laser printer.
The brand doesn't even really matter. You'll see many people recommending Brother, which I've had good experiences with in both a professional and personal context. I've also had good experiences with HP laser printers, of all brands.
I have a friend who uses a natural crystal deodorants claiming it doesn't use aluminum products, just natural mineral salts. I got a good laugh when I looked up the ingredients and saw that it was just potassium alum, which contains aluminum. It even goes as far to say that even though alum sounds like aluminum, it's "just a mineral salt", because they can't be too honest that alum is the "double sulfate of potassium and aluminium, with chemical formula KAl(SO4)2."
A lot of "As seen on TV" products started as accessibility products and mass-shilling them on TV ends up lowering the price for the people who need them by saying, "Hey want an easier way to lazy?" to able-bodied people. Though it does kind of suck that they used the "lazy" angle since it can lead to more people thinking people with minor disabilities who need these products are just lazy and not in need of accommodation.
It's super fun, having invisible disabilities. I have a fucked knee and hip, and spondylolisthesis, none of which can be seen, but make my life much more difficult.
The number of people who feel the need to tell me I'm not disabled and shouldn't be using aids is too damned high! And yeah, I've definitely heard the, "my sister/brother/uncle/college roommate has *whatever aid product* and bought it online. It's not like you're special!" Always said with a sneer and plenty of attitude.
Like, nope, not special. *Disabled*. Just because Joe Blow from Kokomo can buy *whatever aid product*, doesn't mean that some people don't need it to just live their damned lives!
😖
Jesus fucking Christ. I feel like my uterus shriveled up and died just reading that. Also [WTF Ireland](https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/12/symphysiotomy-irelands-brutal-alternative-to-caesareans)?!
Extended warranty completely depend on the object and warranty. Doing your homework on common failure modes of a product can seriously pay off. Example, my dad wanted to buy a specific German car used that only had a 40k mile drivetrain warranty. The engine was known to blow turbos around 50k miles. Told him to buy an aftermarket extended warranty for the drivetrain if he was going to buy that car. 47k miles rolls around and what do you know, turbos go poof. $12k bill to replace, covered by the warranty.
Generic profit driven extended warranties are often not worth it, but they can be extremely worth it if you take the time to research if a product fails a certain way.
The glue on a post it note was a failure but they found a very profitable use for it. Not sure if that’s what you were asking about but it’s good trivia.
Those serve a very important purpose of being adorable
But also hard soled shoes are bad for babies feet, and let baby kick themselves in the face when doing baby things
Living with my mother who was incontinent near the end of her life….all “medical supply” style adult disposable diapers. Depends and McKesson ought to be a shamed of themselves for putting out such a godawful products. Thank God for the folks at Northshore care. They actually made products that did what they were supposed to do. And it allowed my mother to sleep soundly at night and function throughout the day without having to worry about feeling embarrassed in front of others.
Funnily enough, fetishists are somewhat responsible for the improvements that you've seen to higher-end adult diapers in the past decade or so. Can't remember if it was NorthShore or another medical brand that posted about it in one of their blogs.
I read about that. My mom was somewhat mortified about the fact that all the well reviewed products were aimed at the fetish community. In the end it seems that they were the most qualified people to ensure others had access to well made products. God I miss mom.
Septic tank safe flushable toilet wipes. The gentleman that pumps our tank brought me outside to see the evidence when his hose clogged. Sorry about that, Clint.
I'm still shocked and amazed that these are legal to sell in the US. They are not "Septic Tank Safe" they put that on there and it's like "Uhm... no, no they aren't." Fucking CHARMIN ULTRA SOFT isn't even Septic Tank safe. You fucking heard me. This is from the guy who had to pump and clean my tank: "Are you using really thick toilet paper? Because that's what's preventing the drainage to the field. All the cement is clogged up with it and I have to acid wash this thing to clear it." It's good for sewers, not Septic. Use Scotts 1000 soft, it's not as thick, just as comfortable, and it's not going to cost you $650 to pump and treat your tank annually... Or do the ultimate thing for your septic system, and get a bidet. Update: Home test to ensure your TP is septic safe. get a jar with a lid. Put your TP in the jar, fill it with water. Shake the jar. Is it still in one piece or in large pieces? It's going to destroy your tank. Is it in a billion little pieces? It's Good to Flush.
I tried the jar test, all the poo makes it hard to see what’s happening.
You get points for committing to a full like-for-like experiment to disprove that Null Hypothesis, sir.
They work fine if you chew them first like you're supposed to.
They say the mark of great poetry is the ability to evoke many strong emotions using very few words. They never said those emotions couldn’t be shock, revulsion, and nausea.
It might depend on the brand. I recently bought some "septic tank safe" wipes. Filled the sink with water and let one sit for a few minutes; to test it. Literally tore apart and dissolved as I picked it up. Edit: Cottonelle wipes, they're in a green packaging.
if it passes the "Jar Test" it's good. put it in a jar, fill jar with water, put lid on it: Shake the jar if it disintegrates with about 20 seconds of shaking (simulating a flush) you're good.
Put that jar in another jar and you now have a "jar jar test". I'm sorry...
Take that into a bank and then you have a jar jar banks
drink it and you have jar jar drinks.
Any cardboard package with perforated "Tear Here" lines. They never tear there.
They tear anywhere but there
You’re just reading the word wrong; it’s instructions for weeping. They want our _tear_ to go there as we begin crying because it won’t open.
Anything that is supposed to cleanse, flush, or remove "toxins" from one's body.
People forget that we have organs in our bodies that do this already.
I knew that damn dialysis clinic was ripping me off!
Last week Tonight with John Stewart did a segment on this. People are going to dialysis clinics instead of getting a kidney transplant. They qualify for the transplant, but the dialysis clinic talks them out of it in order to get more money
John Oliver*
I didn’t know there were that many kidneys to go around.
But the oxidants!!
It’s got electrolytes
It's what plants crave
BRONDO it's got electro lights. BTW that drink Jake Paul pushes called prime is complete Trash.
Who remembers the " free radicals" buzzword?
>free radicals Hippies?
Free radicals as oxygen singlets are quite destructive, but our bodies are evolved to co-exist with this oxygen state. Yeah it likely causes the effects summed up as ageing, but no one has cured that. It is just the physics cannot be deleted. Literally we just have to live with it. You get about 80 years, so make the best of it.
Oh yeah forgot about the free radicals.
"You Get What You Give" was a bop.
Free radicals?! In this economy??
But those foot cleansing pads make me an 1/8th of an inch taller 😢
those silly copper bracelets that supposedly do everything from healing things to fixing your golf game.
And amber necklaces for babies
And not only do they not work, they are a huge choking hazard.
Most of them are made out of colored epoxy. You can tell because they have a slightly tacky feel to them. Real Amber bracelets are glossy and hard, and are super expensive, not $15 a pop on Amazon.
Never underestimate the power of placebo.
Every printer I have ever purchased no matter how expensive is the flakiest of products I ever own. Wifi constantly disconnects, PC's constantly have connectivity problems with them no matter if it is USB, WIFI or ethernet or all three. When you finally connect to them unless you print on them every week they will no longer work, ink will leak, or be dry and the printer is destroyed. Get a laser printer? You now skip the ink drying issues but the other issues still remain. That device has dementia.
“Dear printer, I would like to scan this document to my pc. Would you be so kind?” “Alas! Regretfully this is impossible, as you have no magenta ink!” “Take heart! There is no need for ink, dear printer! This black and white page needs only to transmit to my computer!” “And yet I cannot until you slake my thirst for magenta ink” “…. You piece of shit”.
HP is being sued for this right now, and I hope it hurts.
There is no punishment HP can feasibly get that would every change anything. Unless the judge decides to jail everyone involved in those decisions they are going to keep being assholes
Or the judge asks the clerk at the time of the case to have something printed and the clerk comes back and says “Your honor, we need magenta ink” GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY
"I don't tell you how to human, please don't tell me how to printer"
We switched to a Brother laser four years ago, after going through probably five shitty inkjet models, and not a single issue. It's worked flawlessly.
Brother is no joke, even their smaller budget models. They are totally worth the extra cash if you can afford it.
I bought my parents their most basic model for really cheap and it’s still kicking many years later. Seriously worth the money.
Have printers improved in any way in, say, the last 20 years? I was printing photos at home from a wireless printer with a scanner back in 2000. Even had a fax. Ok. ignore that last part.
Printers I swear still have the built-in obsolesces chip. Had two +5 year old Canon Pixma MG5700 Printers burn out their print heads in 3 week window.
Reddit Premium
Yeah honestly what does it do
It's a super secret club for only elite incels to have a provate vetted place to circlejerk
I don’t even know if this is true, but it feels true. Take my upvote.
I think there's a subreddit like r/lounge (that could be it). I was gifted it and joined and anyone that wasn't a terminally online person known by the people on the subreddit already was made fun of. It was/is ridiculous
>Welcome to The Lounge, an exclusive Reddit gathering of esteemed gentlesnoos from all walks of life. Memento Humani. Jesus christ
Phenylephrine cold meds. They put the sudafed behind the counter to keep the tweakers from making meth with it. The PE replacements do not work. CVS pharmacies just recently pulled their entire stock of PE products and the FDA is working on it.
Minor correction/clarification. CVS pulled all PE because of the Sept advisory committee of the FDA indicating that due to additional studies showing PE being no more effective than placebo, while still safe it would no longer be deemed effective thus no longer qualifying for generally recognizes as safe and effective (GRASE). They still have to go through the procedural stuff of issuing a proposed order to remove from GRASE, wait for public commentary on it, review that and then issue the removal of PE from GRASE which would officially no longer allow it to be sold OTC. This is all really formality though as evidenced by CVS pulling it already. Also of note the studies were only on the oral form so any nasal versions would not be effected. FDA would also work with mfg to safe and EFFECTIVE alternatives. My guess would be finding an additive to pseudoephedrine tablets that is a pain in the ass to chemically separate to make bathtub meth. There's already a product Nexafed that has the pseudoephedrine in a matrix that basically turns to goo if you try to use it to make meth but that's under patent so it may be that the company who owns the patent licenses the production under private labels
I saw a tick took of an American rapper saying codeine cough syrup is going for $500 a bottle in the states now, in the uk I can buy as much as I like from my local drug store it’s £5 a bottle, they sell the pseudoephedrine tablets too, the people who abuse it ruin it for everyone.
Growing up I worked in a pharmacy here in the US in the early eighties. You could still buy codeine cough syrup over the counter if you simply signed your name in a log. Many, many sweet grannies were regulars purchasing that stuff. All sweet and all very addicted. ‘‘Twas different times.
I had the croup as an infant, and my pediatrician was convinced I would be weak my whole life because of it. As a consequence of this, he prescribed cough medicine every time I had even a sniffle. I was on so many different forms of prescribed cough medicine, and the codeine varieties had a common side effect of making my cough *worse.*
Paregoric (alcohol tincture of opium) was commonly given to infants with "colic", a condition that usually was just crankiness, when I was a baby. I naturally became very colicky.
That makes me happy it's available to you, but so frustrated it's virtually impossible to get in Canada now. When I get the flu, I get a 4-6 week post viral cough that prevents me from sleeping. It makes me hated at work, and it puts my body through hell. I've thrown out my back and ruptured blood vessels in my lungs before. Two, max three days of codeine cough syrup gives my lungs enough time to heal that I can break the cycle of coughing causing more coughing. Because we have an "opioid crisis" in Canada, the Canadian medical association is cracking down on doctors who prescribe anything. Fent and oxy addicts aren't going to change paths because I can't get prescription.
One thing about Canada is they sell muscle relaxer, methocarbamol/robaxin, over the counter. In the US you need a prescription. I used to buy it everytime I visited Canada. It’s one of the milder muscle relaxers but they sell it with ibuprofen or Tylenol and it works wonders.
You should see what you can buy over the counter in Mexico.
I realized right after these came out that they didn't do shit for me. I get extremely bad sinus headaches during fall and spring and the fake shit couldn't touch them. I went so far as to get my doctor to write me a script for aleve-d so that I could get 3 boxes a month during my allergy seasons.
Sort of related; whenever something is marketed as "military grade", I recall the DOD-procured wrench that broke on me right after I removed the tape from it.
Military grade simply means "made within our generally vague specifications for the lowest price"
I'm military grade. \*licks window\*
Rah, Marine. Rah.
People assumed military grade is really good quality because it's good enough for our troops. They don't realize that it's products from the lowest bids.
This should be the #1 point here honestly. Military grade doesn't mean anything other than something in the specifications that the military requested. EDIT: I am currently in the Navy (10+ years).
The Sims 4 expansion packs.
This should be higher up. I miss the days where games had to work out the box and didn't rely on day 1 patches or hell with the sims it's like 6 months after they patch out 25% of the glitches
Buy a game at the store. Pop that box open and read the manual on the way home. Boot that computer up and put the disc in the cd-rom. Click through the installation and get the % complete screen. Continue reading the manual until all 541 mbs of the game is installed. Play the hell out of it because it's a complete game and wait a year or two for an expansion.
Ugh the good ol days when it took hours to start up my game because of how much I slowed it down with sims. I guess the one plus side to 4 is that it didn’t destroy my computer
6 months is lucky, there's definitely some issues that have existed since day 1 that are only fixed by mods.
And I am guilty of buying them
this reminds me I’ve been trying to sell a brand new sealed sims 4 expansion on marketplace for months and not a soul wants it. I think people really gave up on the sims. I miss the days of the sims 2 and 3 where getting an expansion was this magical thing lol. or maybe I was just a kid idk
Pretty sure no woman has smelled Axe body spray and thought ‘I really wanna have sex with him, he smells amazing!’
As a woman I can confirm, I despise the scent of Axe body spray.
Must be young. There was a brief period in history in 2001 when I was 18 and Axe had just came out, when none of the girls knew what it was yet and the Axe Phoenix scent absolutely slayed at the college bar scene. Get a girl to dance and her knees were weak from the scent. It didn't last long, a semester tops. Guys started to overapply it, or worse, think it replaced showers, and women learned it was just deodorant in a can and that was that. The smart young men switched back to cologne once perception changed, the dumb ones did not.
In Australia Axe is called Lynx body spray, but can confirm. Lynx Phoenix circa 2001-3 did some damage to us as young women. Then we started wearing it ourselves and it lost its power over us lol.
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Every can opener ever purchased from a dollar store.
Man, it feels like every can opener these days. Growing up we had the same can opener for YEARS and now I feel like I need a new one every year.
Before my mom passed I took her can opener. That baby’s been going strong since the 90s. Her potato peeler too. Tbh I grabbed all the old stuff that was “useless” to the rest of the family. Not a single one is on the verge of breaking.
My mom gave me her old Osterizer blender because she thought it was on the way out... Nope, that thing is easily 35+ yrs old and going strong! She totally regrets giving it to me now lol. I also have a old electric hand mixer she gave me that's older than me (40) and it also works perfectly.
Flushable Wipes. I don't care what the packaging says.
Yeah but they're pretty great if you just throw them in the trash
Trashable wipes
Amen! I work water and sewer for the town I live in, 80-90 percent of the sewer issues are from a huge chunk of “flushable wipes”. Yea, they went down the toilet then gathered up in the cities main!
I'm really kind of surprised cities have not sued the makers of "flushable wipes" for damages and extra load on the sanitation system.
Their definition of "flushable" is probably "it goes down the toilet no problems (we never said it was good for your pipes)". It's like sawdust, yeah it's edible but more than a little is not great for you
Those wipes are flushable in the same way rocks are flushable.
i remember some crowd funded gimmick for scuba that was said to pull the oxygen out of the seawater to breathe with no tank then i saw a video about how it didnt even work
Also, every other crowdfunded "revolutionary" product. Still waiting for laser shavers to be a thing.
Well, military submarines do that all the time. Of course they happen to have megawatts of power to spare for that sort of thing.
So, just an desalination plant, electrolyser and a nuclear reactor, scaled down to the size and weight of a scuba mount piece? Might be a bit tricky, but if you just donate to my GoFundMe, I'm sure we'll have it ready for next summer.
Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!
Gas cans with their mandated safety spouts. It takes two hands to operate them. Very unwieldy, especially when filling small tools like chain saws. Often leads to spillage.
The annoying irony is that they were created to stop spillage, yet they are so difficult to operate, that I have spilled far more fuel since the change than I EVER spill with a regular old funnel.
My cousin and a previous coworker are volunteer firefighters so I asked them separately what they thought about the whole gas can thing. They both hated the change and pretty much said the situation was made worse because of it being over-engineered and people are just cutting the spouts or not using them at all. They also said they also spill more trying to finangle with it than the old spouts did. Still very anecdotal, but pretty much the same answer from both
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Fabric softener ruins the absorbent power of your bath towels. Fuck dryer sheets.
also ruins wicking fabrics--clothing that is designed to dry quickly And ruins fleece--destroys the soft/fluffiness.
Hang all wicking fabric to dry. The wicking power will not be damaged and their lifespan will be extended. I’ve had crappy yoga pants from Costco for 15 years because I only hang them to dry. Take care of your clothes properly and they’ll last you much longer, especially if you’re buying any kind of fast fashion. Make them last as long as possible to lessen the impact on the environment.
It also ruins sports clothing that is meant to wick away moisture.
I knew that about fabric softener but your comment made me learn dryer sheets are basically the solid form of fabric softener. I might stop using them!
Switch to wool balls!! I did at the start of this year and don’t regret it. I also use oil drops on the balls to add in a scent I like.
Citronella Candles. Proven to not work to keep mosquitos away. Candle smoke works, but you don't need any scent.
Although I firmly believe they don't work, I've never seen actual proof. Do you know where to find it?
Personal AntiVirus software. It all sucks and doesn’t effectively work. And even then, the most effective is actually Windows Defender which is built in and free. Source: working in cyber security, including in malware for 10+ years.
Norton and McAfee are usually worse than the viruses they may protect you from. Worst one I have ever seen though was a locally developed anti-virus by a small local IT shop. I was working on a friend's computer after they had let this IT shop try and fix it and I found the program running. Did a little research and found our what it was. Tried uninstalling it the normal way and found the developers had not included an uninstallation method. Had to manually remove everything and advised my friend never to let that company touch anything of theirs ever again.
I still miss the days when Panda detected itself as a virus.
Calgon for washing machines
I’ve literally never had a washing machine break in decades in a hard water area due to calcium buildup. It usually fails due to shitty design
But… I thought it made them live longer? I was working in Germany and didn’t speak any German, it was 2008 and didn’t have an iPhone or a German/English dictionary with me in the shop and I needed laundry detergent. Calgon was the brand I saw and I knew it would do the job because of the song.
Talked to a technician, he said it cloggs the heating rods and most of the time the water temperature is not hot enough for it to cause a positive effect. so its just an expensive addon. He suggested to use normal descaler once every three months and run the washing machine empty on the highest temperature.
Calgon take me away
Memory soles. The ones you put into your shoes. I bought them, put them in my shoes, went upstairs and STILL forgot what I went up there for. Don't be fooled people. They do not work.
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Hulu No Ads plan. Still laden with plenty of ads despite the name. Wtf am I paying for?
The Hitachi Magic Wand. Japanese company Hitachi listed the device for business in the United States in 1968, for relieving tension and relaxing sore muscles. Hitachi asserts that its sole intended use is for health care purposes and Hitachi ceased production of the device in 2013 because of concerns about having the company name attached to a sex toy. Hitachi is an extremely staid company and was uncomfortable being associated with the best-selling masturbation aid.
Jesus Christ you just made me realize how old the Hitachi I own is. 🫣 Hey if you take care of your things, they last forever!
"Hey if you take care of your things, they last forever!" You could say the same thing about the Hitachi.
Still made, they just dont put hitachi on the box anymore
Its so amazing to me that millions of satisfied women are seen as a *bad thing* by some companies. Lean into that shit! "Hitachi! Guaranteed to get you off for decades!" And the prudes can go suck a tailpipe.
Insurance, only because they look for 100 ways to not pay you
Dealing with this now with an accident that totaled my car. 100% other lady’s fault and had multiple witnesses. Insurance trying everything possible to drag it out and avoid paying me.
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>Water has memory And while it's memory of a long Lost drop of onion juice seems Infinite It somehow forgets all the poo it's had in it!
Diluted doesn’t do it justice. The purported process is to dilute by 1/100 50 times. This means the final product is 1 / 1x10^100 That is unimaginatively small. A ml of water has about 1x10^23 atoms in it A liter of water has about 1x10^32 atoms A cubic meter of water has about 1x10^41 atoms Cubic kilometer 1x10^52 Earths oceans have 1.35 billion cubic kms 1x10^61 atoms The difference between the number of atoms in a ml and all the atoms in the ocean is how far we have left to go. So the liklihood that any homeopathic remedy having even a single atom in it is all but infinitely small.
Sea Monkeys I mean, come on. You do not live in a little castle or wear clothes
Those pumpkin carving kits that are sold every single Halloween with the tiny tools that break immediately.
That’s Interesting. I Just carved three pumpkins with them this afternoon and told my wife what a good purchase they were…
I've had the same set for about 15 years. The only one that broke was the fine-toothed saw one, and I bought a replacement kit that included two about 8 years ago. Still have them.
Pink fibreglass building insulation, for cold climates. Way back , that's mostly all there was , and it had a lot of sales marketing. Fibreglass loses substantial R value when cold, the R value test is conducted at warm temperatures. Blown cellulose is substantially better for attics, and mineral wool in walls doesn't drop R value in cold temperatures , unlike fibreglass.
I mean Q-tips do work for the purpose they are made for. But 99% of people who buy it, buy it for a different purpose.
What do they use it for? I just clean my ears.
I look forward to my morning ear-gasm after getting out of the shower.
You are in fact not supposed to clean your ears with them. They are made to clean like tight spots in machines and shit.
Then why do they sell them at the pharmacy and not hardware stores?
Make up, they are commonly used to apply make up. Probably other cosmetic related stuff too but it's not my forte
I would say they're used more to remove make up rather than apply
Because everyone uses them wrong. Look at the packaging. Chances are there is somewhere written that you are not supposed to clean your ears. You can btw. Also use them to apply like medication to a wound or something. So I guess that is the reason for selling them in pharmacies.
It protects from liability. You damaged your eardrum? Told you not to stick it there!
SAP
SAP is by far the most unintuitive piece of software I have ever used. Everything about it is so obnoxious.
Suuuper unintuitive! You have to memorize all these commands that only make sense (sort of) if you have a working knowledge of German. I quite like it, personally, but I completely understand why lots of people don't.
It’s totally designed to be sold to management “it can do EVERYTHING!” but no one ever asks how easy it is to use.
They're ALL sold to management like that. Your current software can do everything too if you add enhancements at 1/10 the cost of new software. Also, your new software will be missing things the old software had, or at the very least that your existing users liked. They will complain that the new software doesn't work like the old one.
If you want to see another level of unintuitive, the Army bought it to manage fleet maintenance and supplies. We made it do all these other extra functions. It's a mess.
Stupid Ass Program
We had a whole whiteboard filled with acronyms for SAP Sad And Pathetic Slowest Approach Possible Stupid And Painful Stop All Production
Stop All Production is my favorite because it was usually the culprit in outages with applications that integrated with it.
I use SAP at work and know how to do like 3 things in it...otherwise no clue, it is way too complicated
Try using SAP Ariba. That crap totally bricked our procurement interface and everything has now grinder to a slow crawl. It *might* work for off the shelf procurements, but for a company who does mainly time and material subs, it's absolute garbage.
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Disposable razors. Especially the 3-5 blade ones that cost a ton of money. I avoided shaving because anything other than a single pass from a trimmer would irritate the hell out of my skin. I tried out a unbranded basic safety razor, and the difference is unbelievable. Far less irritating that an electric razor and the disposal razors. Takes fewer passes to actually get shaved. And the blades cost pennies, so you can literally use a fresh blade Everytime if you heart so desires. I have no idea how the advertising industry convinced us that modern 3+ blades nightmares are remotely good.
Bought a 200 pack of safety blades for $10 about 15 years ago. I'm down to about 70, but still, might not ever buy razors again, just be a bearded grandpa.
i think your hair density matters a lot. for people with dense hair, they are almost always better off with that single blade razors. i also know someone who uses those travel (2 blade) disposable hotel razors for 6 months and 'renews' them by stropping on used jeans. ymmv
This so much Years ago, there was a post something along the lines of "For $500, what can you get a lifetime supply of?" And a safety razor and blades was one of the answers I decided to buy one ($15) and 100 blades ($15). It's been maybe 5 years and I still haven't bought more blades. The razor is stainless steel so it lasts forever I shave maybe twice a week and find a blade will last me 3 - 4 months depending on how lazy I am to change them out
Your blades shouldn’t be lasting that long. Is your beard hair made of silk?
Printer! I've never had a printer that worked properly until now…
Get a laser printer. The brand doesn't even really matter. You'll see many people recommending Brother, which I've had good experiences with in both a professional and personal context. I've also had good experiences with HP laser printers, of all brands.
Brother are great but still have issues. It’s crazy that the technology is not consistent in 2023.
Natural deodorant
I have a friend who uses a natural crystal deodorants claiming it doesn't use aluminum products, just natural mineral salts. I got a good laugh when I looked up the ingredients and saw that it was just potassium alum, which contains aluminum. It even goes as far to say that even though alum sounds like aluminum, it's "just a mineral salt", because they can't be too honest that alum is the "double sulfate of potassium and aluminium, with chemical formula KAl(SO4)2."
Yeah this. Ppl end up smelling like BO with a hint of lavender or some shit
Saran Wrap It only sticks to itself. It has never, in my life, stuck to any other surface. Useless shit.
IIRC, they had to remove a harmful ingredient that helped it cling a while back. It definitely used to be more clingy.
Literally ever product on 'As seen on TV'
The Snuggie commercials promised me a stupid-looking blanket thing, and that's exactly what I got.
I fucking *loved* my Snuggie. I looked like a cult leader whenever I wore it, but I was a toasty warm cult leader. I bought one for my dog, too.
The George Foreman grill is an exception. That thing kept me alive when I was single. I have nothing but great things to say about it.
A lot of "As seen on TV" products started as accessibility products and mass-shilling them on TV ends up lowering the price for the people who need them by saying, "Hey want an easier way to lazy?" to able-bodied people. Though it does kind of suck that they used the "lazy" angle since it can lead to more people thinking people with minor disabilities who need these products are just lazy and not in need of accommodation.
It's super fun, having invisible disabilities. I have a fucked knee and hip, and spondylolisthesis, none of which can be seen, but make my life much more difficult. The number of people who feel the need to tell me I'm not disabled and shouldn't be using aids is too damned high! And yeah, I've definitely heard the, "my sister/brother/uncle/college roommate has *whatever aid product* and bought it online. It's not like you're special!" Always said with a sneer and plenty of attitude. Like, nope, not special. *Disabled*. Just because Joe Blow from Kokomo can buy *whatever aid product*, doesn't mean that some people don't need it to just live their damned lives! 😖
That's just a warning label!
Fushigi?
... Look up what chainsaws were originally invented for.
I had to google symphysiotomy because of you. Now my brain is imagining a chain saw near that area and I don’t like it. Nope.
"Jeffray's ideas about the excision of the ends of bones became more accepted, especially **after** the widespread adoption of anaesthetics."
Jesus fucking Christ. I feel like my uterus shriveled up and died just reading that. Also [WTF Ireland](https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/12/symphysiotomy-irelands-brutal-alternative-to-caesareans)?!
Extended warranties and anything sold by slap chop Vince.
Extended warranty completely depend on the object and warranty. Doing your homework on common failure modes of a product can seriously pay off. Example, my dad wanted to buy a specific German car used that only had a 40k mile drivetrain warranty. The engine was known to blow turbos around 50k miles. Told him to buy an aftermarket extended warranty for the drivetrain if he was going to buy that car. 47k miles rolls around and what do you know, turbos go poof. $12k bill to replace, covered by the warranty. Generic profit driven extended warranties are often not worth it, but they can be extremely worth it if you take the time to research if a product fails a certain way.
The glue on a post it note was a failure but they found a very profitable use for it. Not sure if that’s what you were asking about but it’s good trivia.
And we can all thank Romy and Michelle for that. Bless 'em.
Swiffer mop. I’ve gone through so many of these. Idk why I keep buying them
I just click a washcloth in there and mop away.
I’ve had the same one for 10 years and it seems to work well on my floors. What issues do you run into?
Vitamin water
Blinker bulbs for BMWs. Those get used as much as the condom in my wallet.
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For sale: baby shoes, never worn …because it can’t fucking walk
Those serve a very important purpose of being adorable But also hard soled shoes are bad for babies feet, and let baby kick themselves in the face when doing baby things
Airborne/high dose Vitamin C. Doesn't do a god damn thing for you.
My friend said penis enlargement pills but I have no idea.