simonineaston wrote: ↑29 Sep 2022, 5:23pm
A curious moment after watching a Dyson advert i googled digital motor.
Not sure what your point is... that companies market their products using language that makes them sound great - unique, even? Of course! T'was ever thus. We know about that, don't we? We apply caution when we buy, chuckle good-humoredly, when simply browsing.
Are we surprised when our new and very expensive cordless dust-buster doesn't quite cut the mustard? We shouldn't be - they simply saw us coming, just like Harry Enfield.
Save your ire for the devious & deceitful processed food industry who lie and cheat to sell us the cheapest, most chemical filled and unhealthy slop that they can legally get away with. For example any label that claims loudly to be "low sugar" or "sugar free" or "50% less sugar" will be
filled to the brim with artificial sweetners.
If anyone can find even a single exception, I'll eat my hat...
Beware! Modern hats contain any amount of toxic substances and are also highly fattening. In addition, the society for the protection of hats will have you excoriated by hordes of unsocial mediums, who invoke gharks & hoos to harass you whilst wearing their various doxing and trolling titfers. "He's a dirty hat-eater! This is the address where he eats the poor hats, the pervert ......".
Incidentally, don't think you can get away with eating your old-fashioned hat. Although the society for the protection of hats will be less interested if the thing is unfashionable, various museums will object (especially The Victoria & Albert, where the old hat is almost worshiped, along with several other fetish object-types from yesteryear).
Such an old hat is likely to have been on and off your bonce for decades (well, mine all have) and this means it will have gathered numerous toxins of a different kind. When you were a lad did you use that brylcreem or employ your hat as an emergency micturation receptacle whilst walking home drunk (to avoid arrest by the many bobbies on the beat that roamed the streets after dark, in them days, looking for drunks to abuse)?
Don't even consider borrowing a hat to eat. Who knows what the owner has been depositing on them, inside and out? Some people have absolutely filthily hat habits, you know. I once knew an old shepherd who used his large cap to wipe
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Also, the hats of others may have picked up toxic notions from their wearers, somehow encoded in the weft & weave of their cloth. These notions might somehow get through your digestive processes unaltered, taking up residence in your own brainbox after a successful assault on the blood-brain barrier. Certain styles of hat are associated with a certain kind of toxic mind so you may be able to follow this option if you're careful to consider the match of hat-style to typical wearer. For example, try to avoid those large flat-topped items with shiny black peaks and gold braid; also anything with ostrich feathers in it; or lots of jewels; or the letters MAGA.
Cugel, your dietician.
PS Would you like to buy a lovely cotton cycling cap, once worn by both Bernard Hinault and Greg Lemond? It's the one they had a fight over (it was the last one in the kit bag) just before that famous TdF stage in which one beat the other, out of chagrin at losing the fight over the hat. It's been printed with special inks made from the blood of fans assaulted by Hinault and is presented in a special box signed by Lemond that he used to keep his Twinkies in. (They didn't have them gels, then). Only 10,999 francs.
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