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TheHeartless
03/19/09

In reply to With No Real Apple Netbook on the Horizon, Chinese Create Fake One
The insistence on the part of the Chinese (and elsewhere, to be sure) of stealing other peoples' ideas, and then repackaging them into inferior products to sell to unsuspecting luddites, never fails to make my blood boil. It's not cutesy fun to me anymore, to look and say "oh look what half-assed shit those people make!" This past Christmas a friend of mine ordered a HiPhone on behalf of his father, to give to the daughter of his father's girlfriend (stick with me). This "HiPhone" ([www.mobilewhack.com]) is a pretty close knock-off of the iPhone, until you actually start using it and realize that it's about 10 years behind the ball as any sort of pocket electronic device, and I still pity that girl for having received it as a Christmas present.

I wish these people would make something of themselves and go out and earn an honest living. If you can't think up your own innovative ideas, then you should probably fuck off and go be a farmer or a bartender, and leave the inventing to the inventors.
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strider_mt2k
03/19/09

In reply to With No Real Apple Netbook on the Horizon, Chinese Create Fake One
It's an outmoded idea anyway.

Just go buy a (whatever) and put (whatever) on it.

Look, it's the FUTURE, here! Get with the times.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
03/18/09

In reply to Fake Aura Slaps On Fake Louis Vuitton For Ultimate Tackiness
Looks like it should have been called the Stargate phone...
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Kaiser-Machead
03/18/09

In reply to Fake Aura Slaps On Fake Louis Vuitton For Ultimate Tackiness
Yeesh, that thing looks like it's a bit insect-themed. It looks like the abdomen of a hissing cockroach.
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Purple Dave
03/18/09

In reply to Fake Aura Slaps On Fake Louis Vuitton For Ultimate Tackiness
Stuff like this is for people who are making a statement about how they can afford to have a complete and utter lack of taste. I helped out on an episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition last year, and at the unveiling there was some froofy balding guy in the VIP section who was wearing these spastically tacky sunglasses that had designer logos the size of postage stamps on the temples, and a leather jacket that looked like the sort that you can only wear indoors without damaging it. If I hadn't gone about 30 hours on 4 hours sleep, I would have been very tempted to point at him and laugh out loud. With my hat off, so he'd be able to see that I have a naturally full head of hair.
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RainyDayInterns
03/18/09

@Purple Dave: That would have show HIM! Love the EMHE name drop though...
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Purple Dave
03/18/09

@RainyDayInterns:
Yeah, well, we would have loved it more if they'd namedropped MichLUG for pretty much single-handedly doing all the LEGO-work in the youngest kid's room. You know, considering they tracked us down and specifically requested our help in that regard. We got no listing in the credits, and out of about half a dozen participants, I am the only one you can see in the real-time footage...where I'm seen, from the back, holding up a model airplane in a different room. Plain and simple, we got shafted. Instead of acknowledging all the hard work we put in, they instead did some feel-good clip where they went to a child-therapy group that the three boys had been attending, and had them build a bunch of models to "help out". Not one of those models ever appeared in the room that I ever noticed, and while admittedly I was not actually in the room during the final hour or two before they let the family in, I have a strong suspicion that the segment with the kids was filmed after the house was turned over to the family.

When you really see what's going on, it's very obvious that it's more feel-good than do-good. They gave a 3000-sqft house to a family of four, and filled it with at least seven HDTVs and Blu-Ray players, lit pretty much every room with recessed lighting (nothing like lighting a 10'x10' room with a dozen 60w bulbs to keep energy costs down!), and gave them a living room that's two stories tall. Between skyrocketing property taxes and utilities, this family of four (that had no income that I'm aware of) should be in even worse financial ruin by the end of the year that they're required to keep the house intact. But of course, noone wants to watch an hour-long show where they give some deserving family a completely sensible house that they can afford to live in.

Also, they put a large aquarium in the dining area, and dropped a damn lionfish in it. Sure, it's a gorgeous fish, but who gives lethally poisonous pets to families with young kids?
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/25/09

In reply to Sarah Connor Chronicles Fake DVD's Back Cover is Refreshingly Honest
Nice! Not only is the DVD pirated but the review is too...
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jakebathman
02/25/09

In reply to Sarah Connor Chronicles Fake DVD's Back Cover is Refreshingly Honest
I have never watched the show, but terminator is a girl?
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Pessimippopotamus
02/25/09

@jakebathman: And she's HOT.
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Kev50027
02/25/09

@jakebathman: There was a chick Terminator in the 3rd one, right? Or was that the second? I dunno, but she was nude, and hot.
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Pessimippopotamus
02/25/09

@Kev50027: Summer Glau > Kristanna Loken
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Purple Dave
02/25/09

@Pessimippopotamus Parkingtonius:
Yeah she is. But she didn't sign on until the second season, so this is probably referring to Vicki from Small Wonder. She's a little bit...not. Maybe it's the Christina Ricci eyes.
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Brian Sexton
02/25/09

@Purple Dave: No, Summer Glau has been on the show since the pilot.

[www.imdb.com]
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zenpoet
02/25/09

@jakebathman: [lmgtfy.com]
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Purple Dave
02/25/09

@Brian Sexton:
Yeah, but I thought we were talking about the _sexy_ female Terminator...
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ScottRose
01/20/09

In reply to Japanese Security Firm Yaroo's Logo Looks Suspiciously Familiar
I use Googare for all of my security needs.

They make their people change arm-patches every time there's a holiday though, so no one knows that they're security people.

It's pretty dumbs, I tell ya.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
01/20/09

In reply to Japanese Security Firm Yaroo's Logo Looks Suspiciously Familiar
Yaroo--ooh-ooh!
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SGriswold
11/11/08

In reply to Don't Support Illicit Christmas Light Cartels
It's spelled "Griswold." I should know, I've been living with the mixed blessing of this name my whole life.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/11/08

@SGriswold: I noticed how much you admired my white shoes so I got you a pair..
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/11/08

In reply to Don't Support Illicit Christmas Light Cartels
Now, I realize we're talking about Chinese products. So I must emphasize that I said LED not lead lights.
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Avizzv92
11/11/08

In reply to Don't Support Illicit Christmas Light Cartels
It's not truly the holidays until you get electrocuted putting up Christmas lights... I usually get 1 or 2 zaps a year putting up my outdoor lights. It doesn't help much when there rain/snow...

I wont have to worry I get all my stuff from Lowes/Walmart and if you wait until after Christmas all the stuff is like 50-75% off anyway.
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Geisrud
11/11/08

Only genuine LED goodness at the Geisrud residence. Oh, and sunglasses will be standard issue on my block. Just like Tim Taylor said, "don't look directly at the snowman."

@Avizzv92: what the hell are you doing that you're shocking yourself putting up lights? You're doin' it wrong.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/11/08

@Geisrud: They always work on the ground. When you put them up however, that's when the bulbs blow. You then need to plug them in to find the bad bulb and replace it. This is where the shocks come in.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/11/08

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: That problem doesn't tend to happen so much w/ the LED ones.
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OMG! Ponies!
11/11/08

In reply to Don't Support Illicit Christmas Light Cartels
No Hannukah Bush in my house so I don't need to worry; I just need to pick up the Hannukah candles.

Actually, I need to remember to pick up the Hannukah candles.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/11/08

@OMG! Ponies!: And NOT pick them up when lit.
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OMG! Ponies!
11/11/08

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: I'm not strong enough in the Force to manipulate the Shammos with only my mind.
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Ethan Allison
11/11/08

@OMG! Ponies!: That's nothing. I live right by a Lubavitcher temple and one of their congregants straps a six-foot tall menorah to the top of his car and as far as I know drives around like that all week.

Eventually I'm going to upstage him the only way I know how. A twelve foot menorah balanced on a bicycle.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/11/08

@Ethan Allison: Or a 3 foot one balanced on your schmeckle.
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OMG! Ponies!
11/11/08

@Ethan Allison: As your lawyer, I recommend against that course of action. As a guy who wouldn't mind seeing innocent bystanders set ablaze, go for it.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/11/08

@Lite: That's some schmeckle!
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Kaiser-Machead
11/11/08

In reply to Don't Support Illicit Christmas Light Cartels
Well, at least this isn't as bad as those exploding powder keg baby jesuses. man, that was one hell of a year.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/11/08

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: There's a hilarious story involving Richard Simmons of Sweatin to the Oldies fame, and baby Jesii.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/11/08

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: It's only worth it if Richard Simmons is assploded by baby Jesii
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/11/08

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: No. As I remember it from an interview I saw with him, when he was a boy, he went around, I believe on Christmas Eve, and stole the baby Jesii from the nativity scenes in front of churches. He got home and hid them in his room. Then apparently the news broke the story about the theft of all the baby Jesii. His Father went to tell him, and a baby Jesus rolled out from under his bed. He then had to go around with his parents and return all the Jesii. He said it was tough b/c each Jesus was different, and he had to do his best to match the Jesus to the Mary and Joesph. It was funnier when he told it. I am wearing hotpants and a tank top to try to channel his energy, but it didn't work.
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OMG! Ponies!
11/11/08

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Ironically, exploding Baby Jesuses do not make the Baby Jesus cry.
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AmishJohn
11/11/08

In reply to Don't Support Illicit Christmas Light Cartels
You can easily find one of these dealers by looking for a pair of elves tied together and thrown over an overhead telephone line.
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