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Hmmm...

People who bought this product also bought this!
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:lol:
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Auric Illuminator - because once you've committed yourself to being a complete pushover for bovine faeces, why not go the whole hog?
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I love it when they say: "The subjective experience is greatly enhanced by Auric Illuminator.". :lol:
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Shouldn't these things be in the Non-PCF Fail thread? :P
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Man I lolled.

Edit: I think I will have to design some product to sell to loons like these. I think I'll make some good money.
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Not AS dumb as the fuel saver one because I can see people who arent literate with electronics falling for this one
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This cable has AV protection because apparently viruses make noise that interfere with your image quality... :/

http://gizmodo.com/5928934/is-there-any ... protection
Is There Anyone Stupid Enough to Believe That This Cable Has Anti-Virus Protection?

This "Xbox 360 Elite HDMI cable" should be just like any other HDMI cable in the planet, right? Wrong! According to the box, it's a "100% Mylar" double shield 1.3c grade cable with anti-virus protection to reduce virus noises and to obtain perfect image transmission."

Now, forget about the fact that this company should get sued into hell for fantasy claims that make no sense whatsoever. That's obvious. What I really—REALLY—want to know is if there is any people in the world so stupidly stupid as to believe that a virus may attack your video cables and cause noise.

These crooks probably went to the Monster Cable marketing school. [Thanks Jorge!]
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Is There Anyone Stupid Enough to Believe That This Cable Has Anti-Virus Protection?
err.. yes... console gamers? :? was this a trick question?...

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:lol: Bloody hell!!
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I think we need a new thread: Stupid products for Dumb and Dumberer
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Hman wrote:I think we need a new thread
i was pondering that very thing this morning...
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rustypup wrote:
Hman wrote:I think we need a new thread
i was pondering that very thing this morning...
They say great minds think alike.... doesn't explain why you had the same thought though. :P :twisted:
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Because fools never differ :P
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//Wonders how much money he could make flogging Ultra-Thick Niobium-Plated Anti-Malware and Dandruff-limiting Network Cable to the gullible...
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/02/theo ... t-history/
Theory of cliodynamics uses science to predict history, sees violence erupt in cycles
By Jon Fingas posted Aug 2nd 2012 8:55PM

Ever get the feeling that you've seen it all before? University of Connecticut researcher Peter Turchin has, and he (along with Russian partners Sergey Nefedov and Andrey Korotayev) has even crafted an entire scientific theory around the idea. Cliodynamics, as it's called, works on the view that broad trends of history occur in predictable patterns based on common factors like government strength, population size and social inequality. The surprise to Turchin is that violence outside of wars, at least in the US, triggers roughly every 50 years like clockwork: people rebel against a social crisis, but their children stay out of the fray and lead to the conditions that ultimately trigger another outbreak, like the 1970s civil rights and peace movements. Don't set your watch to cliodynamics just yet. Many historians are still skeptical, and even supporters note that one-off events or major wars fall through the cracks. If the theory pans out, however, science could be used to help governments do the right thing before they're made to do it at gunpoint.

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Resistant strains of TB in 3... 2... 1...
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LOL, yeah new ones will come. I used to work in the specialist TB hospital in KZN :P , the mother hospital for TB. Jeez the patients are .... special. Stupid is an under statement. We have a drug called PAS. Its about R2000 - R5000 per month per paitent (i think, its extremely expensive stuff dont know its exact price now cause its imported from the USA). I found it in the bin one day, the patients where throwing it away because "they didnt like the taste" .... well they died in the end.

Shows how ungrateful human beings are when they dont earn their stuff, that money came out of our taxes :/
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RiaX wrote:patients where throwing it away because "they didnt like the taste"
Darwin winning...

/nothing of value was lost (except the meds)
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jamin_za wrote:
RiaX wrote:patients where throwing it away because "they didnt like the taste"
Darwin winning...

/nothing of value was lost (except the meds)
Two words.

Patient education.
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