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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/31/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    I gotta agree on the cheeseburger, but the love doll pretty much says you need to die, post-haste.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    Cheeseburger in a can: I am impervious to all toxins known to man.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/30/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: You are not impervious to cheese burger in a can.
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    Image of jcrockerman jcrockerman
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    I have the liquor sandals... but they're full of sand inside...


    they also have bottle openers on the bottom... but ... why would you want to open a beer with your sandals that are covered in cat poop?

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/30/09

    @jcrockerman: Cats poop sand?
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    Image of drewheyman drewheyman
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    I think the booze flipflops say, "i'm too much of a lightweight fraidycat to sneak in a plastic traveller and too much of a cheapskate to pay $5 for a well drink, so i'll settle for liquor warmed by my foot."
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    03/30/09

    @drewheyman:


    "so i'll settle for liquor warmed by my foot."


    not TERRIBLE if it's cognac...

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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    A cheeseburger in a can counts as a "gadget"? Hmmm... what about the Dinty Moore stew in my cabinet?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    But that watch and my crappy poetry that I keep in a journal under my bed, are the only thing that are "real"! And cutting is the only way I can "feel" anything.
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    Image of thePrototype thePrototype
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    @ IcemanD: I bought my husband one when we were apart, and he said it was great, and would recommend it to anyone. Oh, and @ Lite: thinks Scotty doesn't know. he is not a trucker or a construction worker.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/30/09

    @thePrototype: When I was at the "Adult Store" the other day I jokingly picked one up. The guy at the counter said that most of the people buying them are truckers, construction workers, and priests.


    I wasn't saying that's the only people that use them... Just that they do.

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    Image of shalegac shalegac
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    I've seen the liquor sandals at many Dave Matthews Band concerts.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    03/30/09

    @shalegac: anyd not a single pair were on anyone's feet.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    I own the glowing testicles, but they're not a gadget. They are my only means to reproduce. So please do not make "light" of this, Giz, lest I become offended.
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    Image of IcemanD IcemanD
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    What? no fleshlight?
    I was really curious what owning one of those says about a person.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/30/09

    @IcemanD: That you're a trucker or construction worker?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    03/30/09

    @Lite: thinks Scotty doesn't know.: Oh, BTW Lite, that router is on sale again at Buy.com. Mine just showed up that I ordered last week.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/30/09

    @JartMaster_GitEmSteveDave: Cool, too bad it's a rebate though. =| I have the worst luck w/ rebates...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    03/30/09

    @Lite: thinks Scotty doesn't know.: What I do, which may seem extreme, is fill out all my info/paperwork, and take a photo of all of that and a filled out envelope. I email that photo to myself to get a dated thing. I then go down to the Post Office, and have them print up postage for the envelope. When they do that, the receipt usually lists the zip code it's getting mailed to, so you have proof you mailed a letter on a certain day to that zip. Never had a problem yet.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/30/09

    @IcemanD: That you need to go door to door whenever moving into a new neighborhood.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/30/09

    @IcemanD: What if it has a Stargate attachment?
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    Image of dry-roasted-peanuts dry-roasted-peanuts
    03/30/09

    @IcemanD: I find it kinda interesting that it's apparently totally cool for women to own dildos and vibrators but it's somehow low class or perverted for a man to own a similar product.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/30/09

    @dry-roasted-peanuts: Welcome to the wonderful world of double standards. :)
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/30/09

    @Lite: thinks Scotty doesn't know.: Kind of like if a woman experiments with a woman in college, it's OK and perfectly natural. But as a guy if you suck one dick you're labeled as a queer for life.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    This article makes me feel refreshingly normal. I urge you to stop.


    Anyway, regarding the glittery wtf iPhone case, there's nothing wrong with simply saying "androgynous asshole" to sum it up.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/30/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Well, some people are offended when they hear the word asshole. Even if you are talking about yourself. You know, like mormons.
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    Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was starred Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was unstarred
    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    Oooh, knife gun. Next thing you know it evolve in to gunblades.
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    Image of theimmc theimmc
    03/30/09

    @Lite: thinks Scotty doesn't know.: Oh, you mean like a rifle with bayonet?
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/30/09

    @theimmc: No way, a gunblade! Like from Final Fantasy
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    Image of Dragonis Dragonis
    03/30/09

    @Lite: thinks Scotty doesn't know.:

    They had them.

    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/31/09

    @Dragonis:
    The write-up on that is a bit misleading. Typically, sword-pistols were cop-out solutions for people who weren't all that skilled with a blade. Get challenged to a duel, kill the guy _technically_ with your sword, and hope noone protests before you can reload. They didn't really have the structural integrity to handle a prolonged swordfighting career.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    03/30/09

    In reply to What Owning These 15 Gadgets Says About You
    I can honestly say I do NOT own a single one of these items…
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/30/09

    @Software_Goddess: That is truly unfortunate.
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    Image of madog madog
    11/02/08

    In reply to Fanboy Fever Explained Through Science
    love and hate can be equally irrational though. Think of all the shitbrained KKK people and listen to their so called arguements of why different people are "bad". Similar STYLED arguements are made by people in the MS v. Apple constantly. Rhetoric spewed by people who have done no research or otherwise have no factual evidence other than blind and superficial hatred towards the other.


    Same can be applied to love, but I don't think to the same extent as described in the example in the article. It's difficult to describe why exactly you love something because that reason isn't always expected to be elaborated upon. For example, "I love lamp" or "I love my girlfriend" statements aren't always expected to be reasoned with, "because it brightens up my room", or, "because of that nasty thing she does with her tongue when we are beneath the sheets". People generally will accept those love statements unless they have some precincoeved notion of hatred towards what you are referring to.


    Look at me... Rambling on again. "I love my iPhone because I can post comments on giz while on the can!"

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    Image of madog madog
    11/02/08

    @madog: it's kind of like the people who reply to Other's comments with, " it's their instead of they're! You probably work for the company!". Sometimes it's people who are generally uptight, holier-than-thous but I think most of the time it's people who, for whatever ridiculous reason, didn't like or approve of what the other was posting about and hide behind it with grammatical correction to establish a, " you're wrong because I just corrected your spelling and I hate you or whatever you are referring to" mentality.
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    11/02/08

    In reply to Fanboy Fever Explained Through Science
    Hate is the new Awesome... the abusing of words continues.
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