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I recently saw one of these
https://www.thesnug.co.uk/collections/home-accessories/products/coco-chanel-fire-extinguisher
It's made of ceramic and though it looks like a fire extinguisher it contains only air (at room pressure) and therefore is of no use for fighting fires.
It is also branded with the logo of a fashion brand (there are also Hermes, Ferrari ones) and no permission has been sought to use the logo or royalties paid for its use.
This is wrong on so many levels - how the hell did anyone ever think it was a good idea to produce them?
I wanted to be awkward and say I'd really like one of those but in actual fact I think its a rather dangerous thing to have in your house!
Ceramic?
Made from steel and covered with a high quality coating
Resprayed out of date extinguisher? Ridiculous bloody item either way.
I bet the ‘cease and desist’ letter will be interesting.
Oh, it says "coco." My mistake.
"I don't do fashion, I AM fashion" said the useless fire extinguisher, meaningfully.
Let stupid rich people buy em I say.
It seems to be working perfectly to me
first thought was it's the sort of thing you get on a crappy/scam site e.g. Wish or similar, then realised they're an actual bricks & mortar shop not too far from me 😂
some of their other stuff looks OK but yeah, that extinguisher is particularly crappy & IP infringing!!
Slapping some paint and a logo onto something that's come to the end of it's life then sell for ££££s to gullible people is fine with me.
Now this sort of thing is insanely stupid. Single-use landfill rubbish - just whack some bleach down now and again...
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These always make me chuckle
I've got an old fire extinguisher in the back of my van as a tubeless inflator. It even still LOOKS like a fire extinguisher. I really must get round to painting and labelling it up for it's current purpose.
Made from steel and covered with a high quality coating
Hmm interesting - the one I have handled is definitely ceramic, but it was a Hermes one rather than COCO Chanel.
Either way what a stupid thing.
anything by Balenciaga
Anyone with elderly parents or neighbours would think that logbook is a very very sensible thing indeed! Our neighbour managed to lock himself out of his brand new ipad because he forgot his PIN about 4.56 seconds after he'd entered it twice. His relatives told him to never write any passwords down, etc etc...
Oh, it says “coco.” My mistake.
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Anyone with elderly parents or neighbours would think that logbook is a very very sensible thing indeed!
Yeah, maybe, I suppose it depends where they keep it. Many are advertised as 'handy to keep in your handbag'...
This is wrong on so many levels – how the hell did anyone ever think it was a good idea to produce them?
They produce them because people will buy them. That's how retail works. We should instead consider who would buy such a thing....
Hmm interesting – the one I have handled is definitely ceramic, but it was a Hermes one rather than COCO Chanel.
Should be Evri now, Shirley?
I would suggest that writing down your passwords in a book and hiding it is pretty safe. I know many people who have been hacked, identity stolen, been scammed etc through a password breach - literally none of them had their home broken into and the passwords stolen that way!
Admittedly i probably wouldn't write them in a big pink book labelled PASSWORDS though......
Tea bag squeezer at Lakeland plastics
AXXIOS stickers?
Tea bag squeezer at Lakeland plastics
Are bloody excellent - no longer does MrsMC drip tea all over the worktop while scalding her fingers as she moves the teabag from mug to compost container
I’m of the unpopular opinion that grated cheese, ice cubes and bottled water are in the insanely stupid products category.
Regarding password books, my FiL has one. Without it I’d spend 90% of my time unlocking devices or remembering passwords for him!
I’ll regret asking this but here goes. What’s the purpose of the not fire extinguishers in the OP? Decorative, blowing out candles?
Tea bag squeezer at Lakeland plastics
Mine's still going strong after approx 10 years. It was a gift though, no way I'd have bought it.
Years ago Girls Aloud put out a single called Can’t Speak French. Nothing too insane about that, but…
Here’s the French version:
ice cubes and bottled water
I always buy bags of ice cubes, a quid a time as I don't have ice trays, or anywhere big enough in the freezer to balance them while they freeze.
Bottled water is an essential in some areas. CD junior lives in London where the water is undrinkable, my parents are in N Lincolnshire where it's also disgusting (to them).
moves the teabag from mug to compost container
Aren't most teabags plastic derived and not compostable? Twinnings used to advertise there as being compostable but outside expensive tea that's the only one I've seen. And to make it worse some that are compostable are not compostable at home.
Fill a bag with water, place it where you put the bag of ice cubes. Wait until it freezes, smash it with a hammer. The water in UK toilets is of a drinking standard so unless you’re in the third world I think essential is pushing it a bit.
I’ll regret asking this but here goes. What’s the purpose of the not fire extinguishers in the OP? Decorative, blowing out candles?
This is the only thing old fire extinguishers should be used for:
Rockhopper
Free MemberI wanted to be awkward and say I’d really like one of those but in actual fact I think its a rather dangerous thing to have in your house!
Anyone else with a tubeless inflator made out of a fire extinguisher? Ever wondered what'll happen if there's a fire and a bystander finds it? Either blow the fire out or the exact opposite.
I worked at a fringe show years ago that had as one of its pyrotechnic tricks a bunch of fire-ers. A fire-er being a fire extinguisher, with the extinguish removed. Big red cans of pressurised paraffin (IIRC) and a little pilot light that could throw fire across the whole stage, while still looking pretty much exactly like a normal fire extinguisher. The risk assessment was kind of long, especially since it was definitely a show where people were reasonably likely to go on fire and have to be extinguished and definitely not -ered.
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Orange Bigger. Makes oranges bigger. Satumas 4ft, Sevilles 8ft. Also available, cheese greater.
Also available, cheese greater.
@dmorts I (an Engineer) once went on a training course and at the end had to put together a session to teach all the other (not remotely technically minded) attendees something. I did a whole presentation on the BS1363 plug standard and the horror that is those plug covers. It actually went down really well!
Any lip fillers, injections and plastic surgery. 🤷♂️
Those multiple outside downlighters, so the rest of the street can admire your 1980's Barrat home at night.
@nixie I think the problem is that a lot of teabags have plastic sealing the two layers of paper together. Most tea brands are meant to be moving to compostable alternatives though…
Lighting up the outside of a house just seems mental to me. You live on the inside and nobody else gives a shit about your house.
Those multiple outside downlighters, so the rest of the street can admire your 1980’s Barrat home at night.
Someone near us has installed those uppy downy lights at first floor level. None at ground level. "Look at my first floor windows!".
I’m of the unpopular opinion that grated cheese, ice cubes and bottled water are in the insanely stupid products category.
A big bag of ice cubes is difficult to make quickly at quantity. With you on the other two though.
I’d consider anything ever made by the denzions of hifi foo Synergistic Research to be an insanely stupid product, I’d also consider anyone foolish enough to buy anything from them to be of feeble intelligence.
That's surely an elaborate parody.
Uh. Isn't it?
Nope, that’s just scratching the surface of utterly insane stupid hifi products.
You really need A full suite of Quantum stickers to be a really big swinging dick in the audiophile scene, look at their other products to get an idea.
That’s surely an elaborate parody.
Uh. Isn’t it?
Is that like the weird machine that scientologists use? basically a wooden box with a light that comes on when the 'on' button is pressed?
Aren’t most teabags plastic derived and not compostable? Twinnings used to advertise there as being compostable but outside expensive tea that’s the only one I’ve seen. And to make it worse some that are compostable are not compostable at home.
As said there's a plastic layer on the paper, once the rest has composted the "ghosts" can easily be sieved out.
Some bags definitely are worse though, looking at those tea pigs...
I’d consider anything ever made by the denzions of hifi foo Synergistic Research to be an insanely stupid product, I’d also consider anyone foolish enough to buy anything from them to be of feeble intelligence.
I had to look after that description. The atmosphere module appears incredible. I wonder how many they’ve sold?
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Oh, aye - teapigs look awful (though that doesn’t mean they are awful)
There’s one of the big brands - Typhoo or PG maybe - who claim to have fully compostable bags.
Aren't most of the tea bag people moving to fully compostable?
There was an article in the papers about it a couple of years ago.
BTW, what about that 29er specific saddle?
If you want a green answer to teabags use a reusable teabag and loose leaf tea. A pet hate of mine - greenwashing which is what "compostable" teabags are. Reduce, reuse, recycle
Aren’t most teabags plastic derived and not compostable? Twinnings used to advertise there as being compostable but outside expensive tea that’s the only one I’ve seen. And to make it worse some that are compostable are not compostable at home.
6 Vs 1/2doz but when the council started doing food waste collections it was ascertained that any teabag was deemed compositable except those that explicitly weren't (teapigs). As the amount of plastics contained in the bag was miniscule. Microplastic generated as a result, and bound up in the soil might not have been perfect, but is probably about 1000th on the list of things you've done that are bad for the environment before 9am each day.
Teapigs are bioplastic, so will biodegrade, but not at the speed industrial composting plants need to work at.
FWIW, where i am, all the green waste goes into a large bio-digester plant to make fuel for the local buses and biogas, so even stuff like 3D printed PLA filament is "compostable" if it's smashed up sufficiently.
So teabags with a bit of bioplastics in are going to be no bother.
If it just gets dumped in a field to rot down, that's a different matter altogether.
TJ has the right idea. We have a bunch of those tea simmas at the house. Them and loose tea are the best way to make a cuppa and very common here in Sweden.
Ice cubes. Damn, I can’t remember the last time I used one. I must buy an ice tray at some point.
Disagree. Having your passwords written down like that is arguably quite sensible.
You have longer, more varied passwords that dont follow a pattern, and are held offline rather than in an online Vault like Lastpass or Google. Its only weakness is to someone physically sat at your desk, (or who steals the notebook), but what is the probability of that?
Slim to naff all, i would hazard a guess, especially if the notebook doesnt have "PASSWORDS!" written on the front of it.
Fancy Cables for HDMI* etc
"Oxygen free, 99.9999%pure copper, Gold plated."
Its a digital* signal you tit. It doesnt degrade. It gets there or it doesnt.
* - no idea whether it would make any discernable difference to an analogue signal. I doubt it.
I was a HiFi buff for a few years. It got seriously out of hand. I stopped.
That thing up there^ in TJ's post is a left bollock holder Shirley?
theft (or identify theft for getting loans/credit cards etc) by younger family members in financial trouble against elderly parents/grandparents is REALLY common - this is basically gift wrapping it for them 😂Its only weakness is to someone physically sat at your desk, (or who steals the notebook), but what is the probability of that?
Plus if they lose or forget where it is or there’s a fire or something, totally screwed.
You really need A full suite of Quantum stickers to be a really big swinging dick in the audiophile scene, look at their other products to get an idea.
I knew of a guy who used to sell loads of things like this in the early 90s, people seemed really happy after buying them. He had a flashy car and everything.
Bottled water is an essential in some areas. CD junior lives in London where the water is undrinkable, my parents are in N Lincolnshire where it’s also disgusting (to them).
Water filter jug? Bottled water really is insane.
somafunk
Full Member
I’d consider anything ever made by the denzions of hifi foo Synergistic Research to be an insanely stupid product, I’d also consider anyone foolish enough to buy anything from them to be of feeble intelligence.
This is brilliant, each page of their website finds another brilliant product
The shop selling the extinguishers looks to be based on "I Saw You Coming" in the Harry Enfield sketches!
I’m of the unpopular opinion that grated cheese, ice cubes and bottled water are in the insanely stupid products category.
if you actually look at price, grated cheese is generally cheaper per kg than a block of cheese. i guess they use the offcuts.
so, if you were going to grate it anyway...
Harry and Megan.
Hold up a minute. How has it got this far without someone pointing out that squeezing your tea bags makes your tea taste disgusting?
Never squeeze.
I’d consider anything ever made by the denzions of hifi foo Synergistic Research to be an insanely stupid product
They sell fuses for $200.
I thought that was the peak but it's nothing.
That Telos Audio lot, sell them for £2400. Two Thousand Four Hundred Pounds.
https://www.futureshop.co.uk/quantum-science-audio-red-black-high-end-uk-mains-fuse
Rich_s I think that the solution to passwords is 1Password app.
I had reused a single password on quite a few sites and when Vodafone got hacked had to spend hours changing them. 1Password helps you to create (and auto paste) complex passwords - all in a database unlocked by a single (better be a good one) password.
I used a random list to produce my one master password as recommended by the 1Password developers.
Works across multiple devices. Syncs.
Alerts of website breaches and flags up reused or weak passwords.
Pets name? Place of birth? Dates of birth. All super weak.
Highly recommended.
Disagree. Having your passwords written down like that is arguably quite sensible.
You have longer, more varied passwords that dont follow a pattern, and are held offline rather than in an online Vault like Lastpass or Google. Its only weakness is to someone physically sat at your desk, (or who steals the notebook), but what is the probability of that?Slim to naff all, i would hazard a guess, especially if the notebook doesnt have “PASSWORDS!” written on the front of it.
I'm not going to get into the pros and cons of password managers, been done, but I will point out that every time I've seen someone with a hand written book/list of passwords they are always mydog, mydog1, mydog2, etc etc and never the randomly generated ones you speak of!
I’d consider anything ever made by the denzions of hifi foo Synergistic Research to be an insanely stupid product
They sell fuses for $200.
I thought that was the peak but it’s nothing.
That Telos Audio lot, sell them for £2400. Two Thousand Four Hundred Pounds.
> https://www.futureshop.co.uk/quantum-science-audio-red-black-high-end-uk-mains-fuse
Pah! That's the plebs fuse, what sir wants is the Silver Extreme edition for a cool £4,200 - https://www.futureshop.co.uk/quantum-science-audio-silver-extreme-level-uk-mains-fuse
Also, randomly generated passwords aren't exactly the best choice for passwords. Computers are great at tumbling through letters and numbers. You're better off with a pass phrase.
It doesn't matter. You just want a really long one, whatever it is, that would take until the heat-death of the universe to crack. A passphrase only makes sense if you need to remember it. I have so many passwords, all unique, I just let the keychain take care of everything 😎Also, randomly generated passwords aren’t exactly the best choice for passwords.
Got some of these sleep headphones for christmas so i can fall asleep listening to audiobooks etc.
Good idea.
Except when the battery gets to approx 30%, it announces extremely loudly in a strong chinese accent "BATTERY LOW!" about every 20 seconds. Brilliant bit of design for a device explicitly designed for sleeping in.
Fancy Cables for HDMI* etc
Its a digital* signal you tit. It doesnt degrade. It gets there or it doesnt.
Sort of. You do need decent cables if you want higher definition images or longer cables. Cheap cable will throttle the resolution, especially on longer runs but even on short runs for the very cheap cables. Found this out the hard way many years ago. Once it works you won't get any improvement with a more expensive cable, though.
reusable teabag
I'm on-board with this idea but the device pictured and similar always seem to be problematic because the tealeaves expand so that they cannot swirl around and the water does not circulate as well. Anyone got a better device with a larger swirl chamber?
Harry and Megan.
William and Kate too, and now as Harry's book reveals you can make it "insanely stupid violent products"
Too many insanely stupid "supercars" and monster 4x4s on low-profile tyres to choose one.
molgrips
Full Member
Anyone got a better device with a larger swirl chamber?
Brewdini, I picked one up from Bird & Blend in Castle Arcade (Cardiff)
Anyone got a better device with a larger swirl chamber?
CD junior lives in London where the water is undrinkable
I feel like this is an exaggeration.