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    Hydroglass Allows You To Shower While Lying Down On a Fish Tank

    Fish Tank Bus Stop May Not Be Entirely Practical

    Duplex Bird Cage/Fish Tank Blows Your Pets' Tiny Minds

    LED Earth Globe Aquarium Addresses Poorly Represented Fish Bowl Rave Demographic

    USB Hub/Paperclip holder/Fish Tank, May be Worst USB Gizmo Ever

    Moody Acquario: Bathing With The Fishes

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    Image of sir_pantsalot sir_pantsalot
    05/05/09

    In reply to Hydroglass Allows You To Shower While Lying Down On a Fish Tank
    You can poop lying down right now if you want to nothing is stopping you.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/05/09

    In reply to Hydroglass Allows You To Shower While Lying Down On a Fish Tank
    i think you're supposed to use it with a buddy. some big, blonde, burly woman named olga. she will be your buddy.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/05/09

    In reply to Hydroglass Allows You To Shower While Lying Down On a Fish Tank
    Wouldn't this require some sort of aqua-glory hole, for those Troy McClures out there?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/05/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: That depends on whether we're talking about a worm or a moray eel. Fish react very differently to both.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/05/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Pool fish have no teeth, so they may appeal to the freaks out there.
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    Image of shoelessone shoelessone
    05/05/09

    In reply to Hydroglass Allows You To Shower While Lying Down On a Fish Tank
    I hate fresh water tanks.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/05/09

    @shoelessone: You need to see some of the better examples. A well planted community tank can be extremely beautiful. It just doesn't look as exotic as a marine tank.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/05/09

    In reply to Hydroglass Allows You To Shower While Lying Down On a Fish Tank
    If nautical nonsense be somethin' ye wish,


    then drop on the deck and flop like a fish!

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    05/05/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:


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    04/08/09

    In reply to Fish Tank Bus Stop May Not Be Entirely Practical
    This is why it wouldn't work in america: The put it in a very nice, low-crime, white neighborhood and it looks good/works out well...people love it. Then the low-class miniority complain that why do they get an awesome fish tank bus stop and they don't. So they put in a fish tank bus stop and it get vandalized, broken. then they take them out all together and no one gets anything.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/08/09

    @BeerManMike: Low-crime areas aren't immune to cruel treatment of animals. I think that these things would be in jeopardy no matter what part of the city you put them in. I've seen spiderweb cracks in the glass of bus stops in "safe" areas. People will not take greater care because the bus stop has a fish tank attached.


    The one and only proper life form to display everywhere in a city, is the tree.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/08/09

    In reply to Fish Tank Bus Stop May Not Be Entirely Practical
    Or some random fuckhead might either smash the glass, or put something in there to poison the fish. I was working in a pet shop on Nassau street some years back, and some kid came in and dropped a couple of mothballs into the African cichlid tank. I'm surprised I didn't get fired for tossing him out. I wanted to dunk his head in the tank. If people can be so bold indoors, these animals wouldn't stand a chance out in the open.


    Anyway, this is a stupid idea. No one is going to be at a bus stop for hours on end, so an animated aquarium that runs for 10 minutes or so on a continuous loop should do just fine.

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    Image of Kyonko Kyonko
    04/08/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: unless, of course, you have a bus service that comes around every 30 minutes or an hour and is inaccurate to the extremes. But I agree, this is a stupid idea.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    04/08/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Agreed. That thing is a center punch or a piece of sparkplug away from flopping fish on the pavement.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/08/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Are you talking about the old Petland Discounts that was by Hat Corner and J&R? Because I think I bought some aquarium supplies from you back in the day.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: That's the one.


    Too bad about Hat Corner. R.I.P. (unless they just relocated and I missed it)

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/08/09

    @Kyonko: The tank may be observed by transit workers frequently throughout the day, but it'd most certainly be in considerable danger at night.


    It's one thing to have public animal displays in a place that's continuously monitored until it's time to shoo the public out, but these things will be constantly accessible.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/08/09

    In reply to Fish Tank Bus Stop May Not Be Entirely Practical
    Yes. This is far less practical than the video bus shelters of Manhattan, each running a borked instance of Windows Media Player 11.
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    Image of FЯeeMan FЯeeMan
    04/08/09

    In reply to Fish Tank Bus Stop May Not Be Entirely Practical
    Ball Park Goldfish. They plump when you cook 'em.
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    Image of General Halfshaftery General Halfshaftery
    04/08/09

    In reply to Fish Tank Bus Stop May Not Be Entirely Practical
    The non-stop tapping on the glass would drive the fishies to insanity in less than a day.
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    Image of propertius propertius
    04/08/09

    @General Halfshaftery: Where I live, the fish would be lucky to endure insanity. A few blows to the aquarium would have 'em to the sidewalk right away, where our local pigeons would dine on them.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/08/09

    @propertius: Gulls, more likely.
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    Image of BigRocket BigRocket
    04/08/09

    In reply to Fish Tank Bus Stop May Not Be Entirely Practical
    I agree, buses just suck.
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    Image of A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake! A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake!
    04/08/09

    @BigRocket: In a lot of countries, buses are the preferred way to get around. The US has a terrible public transporation system and the buses here indeed suck (i.e. greyhound).
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/08/09

    @A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake!: Greyhound's a dingy disorganized tub of shit, but it's far more flexible than taking Amtrak, which often has a very limited schedule for where you want to go, and takes a hell of a lot longer than the bus to get somewhere. It is way more comfortable though. I try to go for them whenever I can, but often can only use Greyhound.


    Greyhound buses themselves also suck, as they're getting mighty old for the most part. Don't handle well in the snow or rain, tiny uncomfortable seats and they rattle and jolt over every bump in the road. Imagine sitting in one of those things for 7 hours. Yeesh.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/16/09

    In reply to Duplex Bird Cage/Fish Tank Blows Your Pets' Tiny Minds
    We call that "surf and turf" in my house.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    01/16/09

    In reply to Duplex Bird Cage/Fish Tank Blows Your Pets' Tiny Minds
    If it tips over (and it will sooner or later) the fish bowl will shatter, the birds will be free to fly around, and the cat will be in heaven. AND it looks like a b*tch to clean.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/16/09

    @Curves: That's why we need an edit button. Because what you wrote should read "When the cat tips it over, the fish bowl will shatter..."
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    Image of 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons
    01/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: "...and the bird and fish will be in heaven."
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/16/09

    In reply to Duplex Bird Cage/Fish Tank Blows Your Pets' Tiny Minds
    Our cat would look at this and meow quietly to herself, "Surf and Turf"
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/16/09

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: Bastard beat me to it
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    01/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Don't worry. You'll beat me to it on the next post..
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    Image of 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons
    01/16/09

    In reply to Duplex Bird Cage/Fish Tank Blows Your Pets' Tiny Minds
    I want to work at Yanko. I have a head full of artistic bull-sh*t the masses would love to gobble up.

    I am sure eccentric rich people buy this crap then just leave it up to the maid to worry about.


    Even if it is completely impractical, I do think it is beautiful to look at but that would only last 5 seconds till you had to feed the fish and it poops.

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