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Started by viper37, May 24, 2012, 07:38:16 AM

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viper37

In overpaying for common appliance.

No, don't worry.  I have not bought a 4000$ stroller.

Only a 111$ toilet brush.  :Embarrass:

I really should have checked the price before placing the order.  And I thought I'd be saving money by going directly to the distrubutor.  Frack me :(
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Richard Hakluyt

 :lol:

What does it do to justify the price?

PDH

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Malthus

I don't think your massively overpriced toilet brush is going to impress people with your conspicuous consumption like a $2000 stroller would.

Though I guess it depends on the crowd you hang out with.  :D
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Brazen

It would really have to be fitted with an Automated Skidmark Detection System clean the toilet itself to justify that price! Can't you send it back for a refund?

I still have one of the toilet brushes that came with my flat. There were two originally. And just one toilet :unsure:

Malthus

Quote from: Brazen on May 24, 2012, 07:50:21 AM
It would really have to be fitted with an Automated Skidmark Detection System clean the toilet itself to justify that price! Can't you send it back for a refund?

I still have one of the toilet brushes that came with my flat. There were two originally. And just one toilet :unsure:

I suppose it gave the previous occupant and a friend something to do together of an evening.  :D
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Razgovory

It was the only toilet bowl brush he could find that exclusively cleaned the toilet in French.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

mongers

In some ways technology can perform this 'function'; I especially look back on the just sub $800 20MB hard disk I once bought, particularly  as yesterday a 4000MB micro-sd card cost me around $3. So roughly 250th of the cost for 200 times the capacity.


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Actually I don't ever recall paying over the odds for something, whose function couldn't be performed by a budget or quality reasonable priced item.

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

viper37

Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on May 24, 2012, 07:39:05 AM
:lol:

What does it do to justify the price?

Nothing special, it's just plastic with a chrome like finish and it is bolted to the wall.  I selected all my accessories thinking no one would charge more than 20-30$ for something like that.  Turns out, I was wrong.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

viper37

Quote from: Brazen on May 24, 2012, 07:50:21 AM
Can't you send it back for a refund?
no, all the stuff was a special order.
The other model I wanted was unavailable.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

viper37

Quote from: Malthus on May 24, 2012, 07:48:10 AM
I don't think your massively overpriced toilet brush is going to impress people with your conspicuous consumption like a $2000 stroller would.

Though I guess it depends on the crowd you hang out with.  :D
I'm not a lawyer, I have to start small :D
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

mongers

Quote from: Malthus on May 24, 2012, 07:48:10 AM
I don't think your massively overpriced toilet brush is going to impress people with your conspicuous consumption like a $2000 stroller would.

Though I guess it depends on the crowd you hang out with.  :D

Maybe it depends on where your crowd hangs out; maybe it'll get notice by a friend taking a line of coke off the downed toilet lid ?  :unsure:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Richard Hakluyt

Pimp My Bogbrush  :hmm:

There might just be a reality show in it, one can never underestimate the taste of the public  :cool:

Malthus

Quote from: mongers on May 24, 2012, 08:41:21 AM
Quote from: Malthus on May 24, 2012, 07:48:10 AM
I don't think your massively overpriced toilet brush is going to impress people with your conspicuous consumption like a $2000 stroller would.

Though I guess it depends on the crowd you hang out with.  :D

Maybe it depends on where your crowd hangs out; maybe it'll get notice by a friend taking a line of coke off the downed toilet lid ?  :unsure:

I don't know - do people do coke off toilet lids in their friend's apartment?  ;) I though that was more a 'night at the club' sort of thing ... but maybe his friends don't want to share.  :hmm:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

11B4V

Quote from: viper37 on May 24, 2012, 07:38:16 AM
In overpaying for common appliance.

No, don't worry.  I have not bought a 4000$ stroller.

Only a 111$ toilet brush.  :Embarrass:

I really should have checked the price before placing the order.  And I thought I'd be saving money by going directly to the distrubutor.  Frack me :(

Dude go to walmart for that shit.
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