What products prey on stupid people?

JupiterKid

90% of the stuff flogged on the late night shopping channels on TV.

digzy

funnights74 wrote: »

The shopping channels on satellite TV are full of nonsense rubbish, those exercise machines where they use body builders to convince people they can look like this in a month are ridiculous. Abs developers are another scam. A fool and his/her money......

Tbf when the 'ab crunch ' machines started out a few years back, I reckon half of the households I'd visit had one...including me!!

Shenshen

Ann_Landers wrote: »

On the whole diamond thing, I am fully aware of the whole early 20th century advertising campaign to popularise them but remember, diamond was a gemstone before that. That means that diamond, just like any other gemstone, was probably the favourite of some women before the campaign. Ask a crowd of late 19th century women what their favourite gemstone was and diamond would probably be mentioned alongside sapphire, ruby, emerald and the rest.

So these days, I am sure some women do genuinely like diamond the best of all the stones and to them, it doesn't really matter what the resale value of the ring is. An engagement ring has huge sentimental value for the wearer. I'm not a jewellery person, so never got an engagement ring but I know my married friends could not care less what their engagement ring is worth. It's missing the point a tad to think that the resale price is the only thing that matters in a diamond ring.

See, what I don't get about that it - if the value of the ring is as you and others say almost entirely sentimental, why would you spend a lot of money on it in the first place? There are quite lovely rings out there for around € 20 - €50, why not go for one of them instead?
Given that many jewelers themselves would be hard put to tell a good cubic zirconia from an actual diamond these days, why should some poor lad be spending thousands on the "real" diamond?

Or does the sentimental value come from the fact that he was willing to spend a vast sum of money on a gesture?

Wanderer78

Sam Kade wrote:

The man needs 24 hour care he can't even move his head never mind the rest of his body yet he can do all his work as well.

Yes, it's pretty astonishing what just the mind can do, incredible organ

Sam Kade

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Yes, it's pretty astonishing what just the mind can do, incredible organ

So you believe he can do all that with his cheek muscle, the only functional part of his body apart from his brain, apparently.

italodisco

Green tea slimming waist wraps, forever living aloe Vera juice, slimmers that are legal to buy....

ohnonotgmail

Sam Kade wrote: »

So you believe he can do all that with his cheek muscle, the only functional part of his body apart from his brain, apparently.

so you think they just wheel him around for what reason? why go to that massive expense? he has somebody employed fulltime just to maintain the tech in his wheelchair? why have such an expensive stooge?
who write his books? who delivers his lectures?


so many questions that i'm pretty sure you cant answer.

ohnonotgmail

Sam Kade wrote: »

So you believe he can do all that with his cheek muscle, the only functional part of his body apart from his brain, apparently.

you do also realise that he is not unique? that there are similarly disabled people who use the same technology to communicate? are they all being faked as well?

stimpson

Sam Kade wrote: »

So you believe he can do all that with his cheek muscle, the only functional part of his body apart from his brain, apparently.

You can download the software he uses here so it's unlikely to be a conspiracy.

https://01.org/acat

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Sam Kade

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

so you think they just wheel him around for what reason? why go to that massive expense? he has somebody employed fulltime just to maintain the tech in his wheelchair? why have such an expensive stooge?
who write his books? who delivers his lectures?


so many questions that i'm pretty sure you cant answer.

He's the perfect puppet and plenty fools believe in him. He's a physicist, what does he know about climate change, nothing yet they use him to get that agenda and other agendas across.

Sam Kade

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Like I said earlier he needs 24 hour care not much time for doing complicated formulas and writing books never mind giving lectures for 30 years in that condition.

ohnonotgmail

Sam Kade wrote: »

He's the perfect puppet and plenty fools believe in him. He's a physicist, what does he know about climate change, nothing yet they use him to get that agenda and other agendas across.

huh? you think he is capable of being a physicist but you think he is being used as a stooge for other agendas? Off to the CT forum for you though i'm not sure even they would have you.

Ush1

Kennedi Spoiled Turnpike wrote: »

Because engagment is something worth signifying with a special ring. Marriages not lasting is irrelevant as if you think like that when getting engaged you shouldn't be getting engaged.

The ring isn't "special". Just because something is expensive doesn't make it special or rare.

It's mass produced, many people will likely have the same ring, the diamond was likely exploited from some third world country under awful conditions, the diamonds themselves aren't rare, in fact there is too many and the supply is held back by the Belgians, just a lump of coal under pressure for a time period. The engagement ring tradition is relatively modern and has been said, you may end up divorcing anyway.

As Warren Buffett said, price is what you pay, value is what you get.

Akrasia

Back on topic, everything on sale here
http://www.infowarsshop.com/

Conspiracy theory nonsense is a very profitable business

Valmont

caniask86 wrote: »

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It is not a placebo effect. Don't tell me you believe in chem trails too.

I think we should stop this discussion on this thread as I'm actually worried some people who need SSRIs might be put off by your nonsense.

Even the most enthusiastic pro-SSRI researchers concede that approximately 75% of the effect of the drugs is the placebo effect. The academic debate concerns what exactly constitutes the other 25%.

Ush1

Ush1 wrote: »

The ring isn't "special". Just because something is expensive doesn't make it special or rare.

It's mass produced, many people will likely have the same ring, the diamond was likely exploited from some third world country under awful conditions, the diamonds themselves aren't rare, in fact there is too many and the supply is held back by the Belgians, just a lump of coal under pressure for a time period. The engagement ring tradition is relatively modern and has been said, you may end up divorcing anyway.

As Warren Buffett said, price is what you pay, value is what you get.

Well think what you want but for me it was on that list of things to never ever be stingy with.

Sam Kade

Kennedi Spoiled Turnpike wrote: »

Well think what you want but for me it was on that list of things to never ever be stingy with.

Are you a woman?

Sam Kade

Sam Kade wrote: »

Are you a woman?

No.

seanrambo87

jca wrote: »

Cordless vacuum cleaners, power tools and worst of all the dreaded cordless garden tools...

It's obvious you don't work in construction, cordless power tools are a god send. They eliminate having to carry a heavy transformer and leads all over a site and are perfect when their is no source of electricity. whatever about vacuum cleaners.

Anyway this thread has turned crap with all the stupid arguments over ssri's etc

RollieFingers

Findom! Google it, there's an article on the journal about it.

jca

seanrambo87 wrote: »

It's obvious you don't work in construction, cordless power tools are a god send. They eliminate having to carry a heavy transformer and leads all over a site and are perfect when their is no source of electricity. whatever about vacuum cleaners.

Anyway this thread has turned crap with all the stupid arguments over ssri's etc

Until the battery goes flat and the second battery in the van is dead too... A neighbour had a cordless strimmer, a complete piece of junk. I agree though this thread has died a death, pity I was enjoying it.

Fathom

Impulse buying. At checkout.

retro:electro

Keith Barry

the_pen_turner

jca wrote: »

seanrambo87 wrote: »

It's obvious you don't work in construction, cordless power tools are a god send. They eliminate having to carry a heavy transformer and leads all over a site and are perfect when their is no source of electricity. whatever about vacuum cleaners.

Anyway this thread has turned crap with all the stupid arguments over ssri's etc

Until the battery goes flat and the second battery in the van is dead too... A neighbour had a cordless strimmer, a complete piece of junk. I agree though this thread has died a death, pity I was enjoying it.

Any decent tradesman that uses cordless tools day to day will have several batteries. Personally I have 22 batteries and over 100 ah of power.
Any decent power tool. Manufacturer will have 1 hour charger or faster.
There is no excuse for running out of power

valoren

Anyone who plans to willingly pay to watch the McGregor-Mayweather fight.

MarkY91

I think everyone is guilty of buying stupid products but the absolute worst has to be cigarettes. Fair enough with elderly people, they would have started before people knew what smoking does to you and were less educated. My brother is 24 an is smoking since he is 16. I never pass on the opportunity to tell him he is spending money to end his life early.

whisky_galore

MarkY91 wrote: »

I think everyone is guilty of buying stupid products but the absolute worst has to be cigarettes. Fair enough with elderly people, they would have started before people knew what smoking does to you and were less educated. My brother is 24 an is smoking since he is 16. I never pass on the opportunity to tell him he is spending money to end his life early.

Taking up smoking to socialise in the smoking areas, the new brand of stupid. :rolleyes:

NIMAN

Fashion has to be the no1 for me.

They tell you X is out of fashion and make you feel a prude for wearing it, despite the fact it cost you €100 and you got 5 wears out of it.

Y is where it's at, it's bang on trend. You have to buy it to fit it. So you buy Y.

Next year, Y is now the chosen item to be out of fashion, cycle continues

Then in 5 years, lo and behold, X is fashionable again! But you threw it out cos you were told it was useless.

thelad95

People who buy iPhones with low memories because they're 'cheaper' but then have to pay Apple an extra €5 a month for a couple of GB extra.

People who use NSAIDs e.g. Aspirin like they're candy. They absolutely destroy your stomach and intestines, so much so that most doctors won't prescribe them anymore without also prescribing an acid reducer to stop them destroying your gut.

All cold and flu medicines. I know people who will happily shell out over 20 euro for OTC stuff with the notion that they'll recover quicker. These things are created by big pharma for wusses to offer extremely short term symptomatic relief. The fact of the matter is that a cold will pass in exactly the same timeframe, these medicines don't heal you, they only offer slight symptomatic relief.