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[–] ummthatguy 89 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Bio-Dome is pretty fun. And you get to see an early appearance of Tenacious D.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I love the D

you can quote me on that

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Also jamming out to Voodoo Glow Skulls in a fuckin busted ass geo or whatever is a real mood. They certainly made trouble in that bubble.

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 14 points 2 weeks ago

The only thing I know about Biodome is from Weird Al.

"Cause I had my tray table up, and my seatback in the full upright position!"

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[–] thorbot 71 points 2 weeks ago (25 children)

Dude wipes are the most toxic masculine bullshit product I’ve ever seen. Honestly who the fuck buys that shit except the most fragile male ego in the universe

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I liked the answer that I once saw here: "Real men do whatever the fuck they want." No one cares about this kind of judgmental assholery.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Agreed. Stop flushing wipes, none of them are "flushable". If it doesn't dissolve from light manipulation when wet, it's not flushable.

Bidet. Just get one. They're like $30 and take 10min to install. Clean buttholes forever.

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[–] son_named_bort 62 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Liquid Death? It's just fucking water. There's already water in your house you don't need a fucking can with a threatening name for it.

[–] 2ugly2live 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I heard the branding was to help recovering alcoholics, so they don't feel like they're "missing out," and won't stand out so much with a scary can instead of a water bottle/glass. So they can still crack a cold one with the boys and such.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'd believe this with how much I see Steve-O drinking it on his YouTube channel. The dude made a point to drive a whole ass vending machine of Liquid Death across the country to his new home lol. At his previous home in California, it was apparently up against the coping of the half pipe in his backyard so you could do trick off of it.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

eh I find their tall boys of sparking water have made it so I hardly drink alcohol at all now.

It's worth $1.57 to fool my brain, and certainly cheaper than the same amount of beer.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

I had heard that's the point, to a degree, or at least to help people with a drinking problem not feel ostracized while out with friends.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Okay, but their teas are actually pretty darn good and not loaded with sugar. I agree about the water though.

(Although, aluminum is essentially infinitely recyclable compared to plastic, so is probably a better alternative to bottled water)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

I've heard of kids who have been too corrupted by drink marketing to drink water drinking liquid death. If it gets demographics who wouldn't otherwise drink water to drink water I can't get upset about it

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oi I'm not wiping my manly butthole with those pink girly wipes. That'd be GAY or probably something equally incoherent.

[–] samus12345 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'd never heard of Dude Wipes, and I don't get the point of them at all. I'd probably buy Gendered Butthole Wipes, though, I love the name!

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[–] paultimate14 36 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

A few years ago my friend's father passed away. My friend's mother continued to live in the house for another year or so. She never worked and had to eventually sell the house and downsize.

My friend had referred to her mother as a hoarder before. I've seen the reality TV shows about hoarders. But you don't really understand just how bad the problem is until you spend several days helping your friend clean out their childhood home for sale, filling up several dumpster bags worth of... Stuff. Apparently the mother has always had some mental health problems and a shopping addiction, but spending over a year alone in that house drove her off the deep end.

We could have opened an entire new Harbor Freight store. There were clothes in sizes I didn't know existed. My wife casually found a pistol just shoved in a random box. It was madness.

[–] thorbot 29 points 2 weeks ago

Came for meme comments, left with sadness and misery

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Pro-tip: if you choose to wipe your ass with babywipes/gendered moist towellets.... Don't flush them.

[–] Hobo 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just to reiterate, even the ones that claim to be "flushable" DO NOT FLUSH THEM. It's a damn lie and I don't know how they keep getting away with it.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

What? But they're flushable*, it says so right on the package.

* if your municipality allows it. No municipality does.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

We really gotta regulate the use of that word.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Regulate? Sounds socialist and anti capitalist. Better just let them keep doing what they want for the sake of The Economy (r)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I was given that exact red quesadilla maker for a work anniversary. I used it to make quesadillas, ngl.

[–] Shardikprime 12 points 2 weeks ago

The absolute madlad

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[–] pyre 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reading this on my Apple Watch, while riding my Hoverboard, watching Bio-Dome in the background, and eating a wet-ass Arby's sandwich I smashed into a quesadilla in my Quesadilla Maker... I can't wait until it rockets through my intestines so I can use my Dude Wipes! 😎

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

I laugh a little every time see a Dude Wipes billboard. What sucker is out there buying baby wipes for men?

[–] YaDownWitCPP 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It used to feel gay when my finger would punch through the butt wipe and enter my anus. Thankfully I don't have to feel that way when I'm using Dude Wipes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

It's not gay if it's through the hole in the Dude Wipe

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My former roommate had gastrointestinal issues and used wet wipes because they were less irritating to his skin. But he just bought regular wet wipes not this gendered nonsense.

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm upvoting because he hyphenated wet-ass

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (27 children)

I don't get the hate for Arby's. The brisket sandwich and their sauce are good as fuck. Maybe it would have made a difference back when they first started and were like 5x more expensive than the competition (their signature sandwich was $0.69 when the next most expensive fast food was $0.10) 🤔

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[–] dejected_warp_core 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Jumping on the "don't use flushable wipes" bandwagon. Seriously, they can screw your home's plumbing up.

For anyone doubting this is even possible for a product that is mass-marketed and available everywhere, look back a little over a decade. For a hot minute we had scrubs and soaps that had tiny little plastic beads in suspension to provide some grit. All those microbeads got flushed down the drain and wound up who knows where. That is until it was made illegal.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Now these are my kind of ads 🤩

[–] Etterra 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The hoverboards are for kids as far as I can tell. Childhood just isn't the same without some way to bust your face open. Parks got nerfed by a well-meaning child safety crusade that fixed nothing and ruined playgrounds; because the problem wasn't that the playgrounds are dangerous - the problem was that kids are stupid and clumsy so sometimes shit happens and a kid will die tragically. It's literally unavailable, that's what makes it an accident.

Some of these kinds of things - especially "as seen in tv" stuff advertised by fumblebums - are actually intended for people who are partially or wholly physically disabled. But if they market it for disabled people then they'll sell less of them and the price will go up, and because we live in ~~America~~ hell, the disabled didn't make nearly enough to survive as is. So they market it to everybody with an over-the-top ad instead. Remember the Snuggy? Literally designed for people in wheelchairs and with mobility issues.

The rest is just brand awareness bullshit and market expansion. Seriously, man-wipes exist because they'd hit market saturation and are trying to squeeze out a profit increase by targeting a different demographic. Because in capitalism, the line MUST go up. Brand awareness is just a way of saying "Hey! Pay attention to me, I'm Diet Coke! Don't forget! Are you thirsty now? Pick me!" And the quest part? Both stupid trucks work because people are dumb.

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[–] Sam_Bass 18 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Actually have and use that quesadilla press. Works well enough and saves a little time over doing it on the stove

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago

What? Asshole!

[–] thirteene 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Was gifted it for Xmas, felt hard to clean, the leg broke immediately and temperature was uneven. Glad you liked yours

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[–] TrueStoryBob 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Awe... I like Arby's. Their curly fries are easily on my top 10 best fastfood fries.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I've had Arby's 5 times. In a wide variety of locations across the States while visiting friends or family. It's delicious, which is why it took me 5 times getting food poisoning to stop eating at Arby's.

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[–] samus12345 15 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The quesadilla maker's pretty useful. Skillets only cook food on one side at a time, you know.

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[–] simplejack 15 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Hey. I like my smart watch. I enjoy tracking my biometrics and being able to leave my phone, but still be able to listen to music, calls, texting, etc.

That said, I was also the kid who rocked a calculator watch in the 90’s, and I always wanted Dick Tracy’s watch.

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[–] TunaCowboy 14 points 2 weeks ago

bio-dome is fucking tite.

[–] StaySquared 13 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Can anyone explain why people hate Arby's?

I know they're pricy... but never understood why there's so much hate for the restaurant.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I dunno, I fucking love Arby's.

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[–] AdrianTheFrog 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't care about hoverboards, but a great side effect of their mass production is that you can get a pretty decent brushless motor now for very cheap. I also saw a video about a hack you can do to make it run better at higher RPMs. You can get one of those hoverboard motors for like $30 on ebay and pair it with a $25 ODrive clone from aliexpress. Its good for probably 10 nm of torque at 36v 10a.

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