{"id":489,"date":"2005-07-06T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2005-07-06T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T12:00:05","slug":"stupid-product-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/stupid-product-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid product round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid-fire round-up of strange things I keep hoping to write something funnier than this about.  No time, no time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4578895.stm\">In-vehicle toilet for the incontinent<\/a> &#8211; Nikki could have used this one today<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/healthcareindus.com\/Adrena-page.html\">Adrenaline Strips<\/a> &#8211; melt-on-your-tongue caffeine strips, in case you don&#8217;t have time to digest coffee for some reason.  Man.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lastminute-auction.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/sneaky-alcoholic.html\">Squirrel Taxidermic Flask<\/a> &#8211; Because nothing says surreptitious like sucking on the decapitated corpse of a furry tree dwelling rodent.  Nothing to see here, move along.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.headblade.com\/Merchant2\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=THS&amp;Product_Code=5201&amp;Category_Code=5200\">The HeadBlade<\/a> &#8211; a razor specifically designed to shave your coconut.  Bet they didn&#8217;t design this thing for a head with the radius of mine&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathlete.com\/portfolio\/wakeNbacon.php\">Wake &#8216;n Bacon<\/a> &#8211; Needs no explanation, and this would be the clear winner to the evil maniacal scientist alarm clocks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/yet_another_whi.html\">I wrote about previously<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd finally,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.t3.co.uk\/news\/auto\/other\/toyota_evolves_the_airbag\">Airbag ass cheeks<\/a> &#8211; Toyota&#8217;s next generation airbags with an unfortunate resemblance.  I&#8217;m sorry to say that the Sienna doesn&#8217;t already have an explosive butt hidden inside the steering wheel to erupt into my face in the event of an accident, but maybe the next one we buy will&#8230;  Although if the accident is bad enough, it does save you the trouble of bending over to kiss your own butt goodbye.  If you do survive, it&#8217;s also more or less fore-shadowing the position you are likely to be in trying to get insurance on your next vehicle with all those accidents on your record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid-fire round-up of strange things I keep hoping to write something funnier than this about. No time, no time. In-vehicle toilet for the incontinent &#8211; Nikki could have used this one today Adrenaline Strips &#8211; melt-on-your-tongue caffeine strips, in case &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/stupid-product-round-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-7T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}