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    This Autofetch Motion Pet Ball Is One Twisted Toy

    Learn How To Tell Time and Waste Money With a Manual Digital Clock

    This Is What Overstimulation Does to Us

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    Image of drsmith drsmith
    10/31/09

    In reply to This Autofetch Motion Pet Ball Is One Twisted Toy
    I don't understand what's so gross about this. A dog is a mammal and so are humans. For the most part, we eat similar foods. If it's clean enough for your dog, it's logically clean enough for humans as well. Ever heard of the 5 second rule?

    Yet another friggin germophope!!! The only difference is that now someone managed to give you the ability to post useless opinions on gizmodo. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Bokusatsu_Tenshi promoted this comment drsmith was starred drsmith was unstarred
    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    10/31/09

    @drsmith: It's because even humans being mammals just like dogs, there's a difference: We can communicate and express our own tastes regarding food.

    Grossness isn't only about germs and being clean enough. For instance, pee is mostly germ free and, at least for most of us, it's still gross to drink it.

    tl;dr - Gross isn't the same as "not being clean". #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of iconoclasttt iconoclasttt
    10/30/09

    In reply to This Autofetch Motion Pet Ball Is One Twisted Toy
    Safe to say you don't have a two-year-old, Rosa? My sister has to wear out my niece every night to get her to sleep--they even call it "running the puppy." This sounds like a perfect gadget for them. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    10/30/09

    @iconoclasttt: And suddenly I'm not sure I ever even want to have a two-year-old... #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    10/29/09

    In reply to This Autofetch Motion Pet Ball Is One Twisted Toy
    It only needs one mod to make it the Most Perfect Pet/Child Toy Ever:

    A speaker playing "Yakety Sax" loudly, on repeat. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    met2art promoted this comment Gordonium was starred Gordonium was unstarred
    Image of met2art met2art
    10/29/09

    @Gordonium: Great, now I am picturing Benny Hill chasing it, because his Viagra pills are in it... #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    10/29/09

    @met2art: Hahaha - Oh god, just imagine what would be happening in that scene when the timpani starts doin' its thing in the song. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/29/09

    In reply to This Autofetch Motion Pet Ball Is One Twisted Toy

    That would go great with this orange dog toy also... #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of met2art met2art
    10/29/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Ahh, yes, one for receiving and one for dispensing. Although, beware the individual who owns both of those, but no pets. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    10/29/09

    @met2art: MY EYES! THEY BURN! #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach
    10/29/09

    @met2art: Oh, ow. Mental image. Ow.

    Oh hey. You got your star back. What happened with being banned from LH and stuff? *lost his since to site-specificness*
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    met2art promoted this comment Edited by Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach at 10/29/09 11:31 PM Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach was starred Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach was unstarred
    Image of met2art met2art
    10/29/09

    @Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach: Yeah, about a week ago I got it back. I guess my comments helped atone for the ass-hattery I inadvertently engaged in. Henceforth, I'm being extremely careful about posting outside of Giz. :) #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    10/30/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: That's a pet toy??? #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    10/30/09

    @SigmundTheSeaMonster: Yeah, it's like a Real Doll for dogs.. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    10/30/09

    @Reil: Happy Friday. Here's a present. Use it well. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach
    10/31/09

    @Rosa Golijan: I always knew your were my favourite. Thankye verily, I shall wield this power with discretion! #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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    Image of psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland
    10/15/09

    In reply to Learn How To Tell Time and Waste Money With a Manual Digital Clock
    This is by far the most useless, lamest, stupidest thing I have ever seen in my whole entire life. I just ordered 4 of them.

    Seriously though, whats wrong with paper and crayons? Or what's wrong with giving the kid some power tools, a few blocks of wood and let him build his own, geeez. #digitsclock
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    Image of G-Ram G-Ram
    10/15/09

    In reply to Learn How To Tell Time and Waste Money With a Manual Digital Clock
    I see stoners everywhere buying this and leaving it at 4:20 so they have an excuse to get baked all day. Same thing goes for alcoholics with the "it's 5 o'clock somewhere" mentality. #digitsclock
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    Image of G-Ram G-Ram
    10/16/09

    @G-Ram: Perhaps as a result of the loss of my star for a day, a few noobs thought they'd be funny a few hours later and post the same ideas I did. Thanks Giz. #digitsclock
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    10/15/09

    In reply to Learn How To Tell Time and Waste Money With a Manual Digital Clock
    Something about this bothers me on a deep level.

    It really doesn't take much to realize that this is a fundamentally retarded product. Teaching kids to read a digital clock? The best part is it comes with a warning- apparently all those small parts are a choking hazard to its intended audience.

    And where's the money going? It's a just a handful of simple injection molded plastic pieces... it's probably made in China and costs $0.75 to make. And they're selling it for $100. How much of that $100 is going into marketing this stupid piece of crap? I mean, nobody's going to buy this thing on its merits alone.

    So we have a stupid product with a high price tag, most of which will go into marketing. I mean, you'll basically be paying $100 to have someone convince you to pay $100 to have someone convince you to .... argh. It's the carbon cycle of stupid.

    Yeah, this is nothing new. But I feel like I'm looking at the epitome of stupid behavior here. Pure essence of wasteful stupidity immortalized in non-biodegradable plastic form. #digitsclock
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    Image of Marandmar Marandmar
    10/15/09

    In reply to Learn How To Tell Time and Waste Money With a Manual Digital Clock
    That's Chuck Norris' clock, he decides what time is it. #digitsclock
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    psychonaut2021:Jesus is THE man! promoted this comment Marandmar was starred Marandmar was unstarred
    Image of psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland
    10/15/09

    @Marandmar: Indeed he does. #digitsclock
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/05/09

    In reply to This Is What Overstimulation Does to Us
    As an adult there are times I wish I could go back to being a kid, just for a little while...
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    Image of RE-L RE-L
    10/05/09

    In reply to This Is What Overstimulation Does to Us
    I don't think I was ever bored when I was a kid. And I didn't have any of the crap that kids have these days. I listened to music, made up my own games, and did so many other things. What's wrong with kids today?
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/05/09

    @RE-L: I was bored all. the. time. I would have loved to have been able to watch movies while my family drove around the southwest United States.
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    10/05/09

    @RE-L: I had 3 siblings. When we got bored, we just beat the living shit of each other. It truly can be fun after awhile!
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    bagellord promoted this comment mattycakes was starred mattycakes was unstarred
    Image of bagellord bagellord
    10/05/09

    @mattycakes: It always pays to be the older sibling in that situation.
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    Image of Identity (reclamation) Identity (reclamation)
    10/05/09

    @mattycakes: :)

    I can attest to that. 3 brothers. All within a few years of each other.
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    10/06/09

    @bagellord: That's why it was probably more fun for me than the other 3.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/05/09

    In reply to This Is What Overstimulation Does to Us
    When I was a kid, if you got bored (and were dumb enough to say so) you either got a ton of work to do, or the sh*t slapped out of you. No more boredom.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/05/09

    @Curves: Dad used to tell me that only stupid children got really bored, because they lacked the imagination to come up with something to keep themselves interested, and lacked talent to pass the time.
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    Image of drsquirrel drsquirrel
    10/05/09

    In reply to This Is What Overstimulation Does to Us
    I don't know why people hate the fact that kids can have DVDs in the car these days.

    When I was a kid, rides were BORING and rubbish... why should a child be interested for more than a few minutes staring out of the window, maybe for an hour but longer... ack.

    I have the issue with flying these days, not doing anything etc. So I try and watch a film, watching i makes the time pass faster... i've watched one more movie that I planned to watch, thus gives me more time when I could do 10x the different types of things.

    When my kids are older, they can have a video in the car for long journeys, if they ask for more, they can have travel bingo or STFU. And they won't get their own ones either, as I will choose the movie, there, they get something to do, but I still decide what it is... now tell me that child is spoilt.
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment drsquirrel was starred drsquirrel was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/05/09

    @drsquirrel: When I was a kid, I was actually glad to see the scenery rushing by. I was not as interested in listening to music or watching a movie, though at the time things like iPods and DVD's did not exist. I was not into the internet, since the internet was not really worth watching for long sessions at the time anyway. I was actually more into reading back then, and was more at ease left to my imagination. Of course, after finally delving into the internet, watching a plethora of DVD's and playing video games, that crap's set sail.
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    10/05/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: As a kid I watched scenery, watched clouds rush by and learned about the courtyside in car trips. I also read. A lot. I remember on one packed to the wall car tripI escaped into Jurassic Park and had the best time ever. I read that book in two days flat the first time and utterly killed it. My beaten, broken copy of Jurassic Park is one of my most treasured books for this reason.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/05/09

    @RoboBagins PAX'd till he Plotz'd: Wow. That was one of the first novels I ever really dived into as a kid as well. I had actually read it before the movie was released, and while everyone else was all ooohing and aahing at everything, I was a little disappointed.
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    Image of drsquirrel drsquirrel
    10/05/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:

    How long could anyone sit there watching it? I used to do it on the train for hours at a time every week, made me sick... meh.

    I do like to do it though, I just think its a bit pointless when its going by so fast, or you are just staring at fugly motorway debris.
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    10/05/09

    In reply to This Is What Overstimulation Does to Us
    They should immediately throw him under a bus.
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    Image of En0s1 En0s1
    10/05/09

    In reply to This Is What Overstimulation Does to Us
    Ah yes, he'll make a fine banker one day.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    10/05/09


    @En0s1 has been re-auto tuned: power to the Chens:
    A banker in an ape mask is still a banker.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    10/05/09

    In reply to This Is What Overstimulation Does to Us
    Sure thing, Tyler. Mak'a-il, the Horned Overlord of the Ninth Pit, has a taste for snot-nosed 10 year-olds like you. Beverly, get out the ceremonial knife. We'll make you into a burnt offering after your soccer match, son.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/05/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: If the kid pulls out his Magic card to Evoke Shield, that's when you slap him upside the head.
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