Ok, so we all know there are some dumb,crazy, or out there inventions(sometimes a combination of all 3). I’ve been stumbling across a few of these lately and thought I would take the time to share two them with you. I might start posting 2 a week or every few days, depending on how ridiculous, or ridiculously cool it is I may post more or less.
So lets begin shall we!

Yanko Design - The Carpet Alarm Clock

Now this invention here is a great concept! You know how it is first thing in the morning you mindlessly slam your hand down on the alarm and roll over and go back to sleep. Then you wake up 2 hours late for work and all you can do is scream fuck the whole time your falling out of bed as you have one leg in your pants hopping around think your panic mode will make you get ready faster…Yeah I’m talking about the alarm.

According to the company who makes these:

“In order to turn it off, you have to get up and step on it. If you really want to make it a challenge, place it far away from your bed. Of course it wouldn’t be a clock if it didn’t have and LCD screen to indicate time too.”

Which yes its a great idea! But, if your as lazy as i am you will find a way to throw something heavy enough down there to shut it off and be late 2 hours for the third day in a row. Plus I wonder if pets can turn it off?? Might be a new excuse sweeping offices I can see it now.

Boss:“Your LATE again!!! What happened this time??”
You:“Its not my fault my cat finds my alarm clock comfy to sleep on and turned off my alarm”

The Multimedia Remote Control Wrangler

Ok someone please tell me that this is a joke! I mean honestly who would be ridiculous enough to wear this!
And if you think the picture is ridiculous here are some highlights from the website:

“The Multimedia Remote Control Wrangler (aka Remote Wrangler) has taken a novel approach to remote control storage that will be sure to take the world by storm, head first. It will certainly win the hearts (and heads) of those frustrated consumers who have had enough and are ready to regain control over their lives and remote controls.” - YES it will win hearts and take the world by storm if we all decide its fashionable to look like an utter retard!

“Keeping comfort and accessibility as the main focus, remote controls (and practically any small handheld device) can easily be attached (and detached) with a Velcro-like material. Made from a stretchable fabric, the headpiece comfortably conforms to the face and feels like a second skin, minus the acne. As an added benefit, a surprisingly quiet and effective battery powered and remote controlled temporal massager is built into the headpiece.”- Yes because you have to feel comfortable looking like a moron all day while you wear it! Plus the temporal massager is good for those who hit their head that would usually be covered by their “special ed” helmet if they weren’t wearing this contraption!

And sadly, it also states there is only 2 styles availble. Which they describe as:

“For the sports enthusiast, there is the red white and blue “Retro Sportsman” model, which has proven to be very popular in the Asian market. The demure “Antique Olive ” caters to the conservative crowd who may prefer a more discreet and formal appearance.” - Yes that looks very discreet and formal!!!

GIVE ME A BREAK!

So that’s it today for my invention round up. Mind you if I see something else I may be posting invention round up 2 soon!

~Yeah I’m a ranting, opinionated lunatic so what?!~

Remember the 90’s when Simpsons’ mania was all over the place…. Well with the release of the long awaited full length movie it has hit again! This time it seems to be bigger than ever! It’s actually a little sickening this time around with all the marketing schemes they have had in place even before the movie was released to promote it. Grant it yes all movies are like that, any major or anticipated movie anyways.

Let’s see the big BK took on homer as the new spoke person for their new “ULTIMATE” whopper (which really isn’t that big of a deal since its just a whopper with more cheese and bacon added!). With that campaign they had the pint sized toy figures available for purchase. You know the ones I’m talking about, when your standing in line waiting to order your nice juicy burger and the little bastard in front of you can’t decide which one he wants or hes SCREAMING because the one he wants is not in stock! Yeah those figures! Also, as an added bonus BK teamed up with the simpson franchise to promote their simpsionizeme website. Which I fully admit I did try out with some ok results:

But, I’m noticing that maybe they are going a little overboard with the marketing on this movie. I mean grant it yes the simpsons are HUGE. I enjoy them and they have come a long way from when they first started, the animation is better, voices improved, story lines got a little more better but seemed to die off while they were making this movie…but still they have come a LONG way and have made a HUGE success of the idea they had!

Here is a few items they have come out with to promote the movie …now remember this is just a small fraction of what I found:

My problem is how much promotional marketing is too much? When are you over doing it? Yes I know this isn’t the only movie to have done this…Look at Transformers, LOTR, any big name movie and they all have done it. But, in all honesty, there has to be a limit to how much promotional stuff they can do. It’s ridiculous when everywhere you go your are only seeing one thing and for me at the moment its The Simpsons Movie!

What do you think? Do you think that sometimes these promoters go overboard?

~Yeah I’m a ranting, opinionated lunatic so what?!~

So, as many of you know I am addicted to watching vids on YouTube. While browsing around today I found a video a guy I am subscribed to made. It was about how he felt awkward talking to a girl at a bar because the conversation seemed tense versus him talking to the guy on the other side of him where they talked for hours tension free. He raised a good point/question….What is the deal with female/male friendships? Why is it that if a guy talks to a girl people automatically think they want to boink her?

One word for you! JEALOUSY! Pure jealousy. Thats the only reason why men and women cant JUST be friends. Society sees a male/female friendship as the start of something else because they want to boink one of the parties(or both in special cases) and are JEALOUS.

Take it from me, all my life I have found it easier to be friends with males versus females because I click better with males. I have always felt awkward speaking with girls or even hanging out with girls because of the fact I have little in common with them. And before you all jump on the bandwagon about this, I am purely straight just not your typical girl who does her nails and hair and tee hees about boys in the locker room*shudders at the thought*

Essentially, since I was always the one girl in a group of guys the rumors were always there. I have gone to blows with girlfriends, wives, sisters, boyfriends, mothers, and fathers because of this. It was never clear, especially to other females, why I had so many friends that were guys. They all thought it was because I wanted this guy or that guy or vice versa. When in reality I knew and MOST of the guys knew it was just because we had lots in common. Unfortunately, most people (especially significant others) had seen this as me or the guy in question living in sin and having a secret affair in the works.

This to me was fully laughable! Most of the guys I was friends with(yes Ill admit there was one or two that were the exception) I had NO, ZERO,ZILCH, interest in and they had NO interest(at least no admitted interest) in me! But, it happened over and over again…..Joe blow would get a new girlfriend and the fights started because she thought we were an item. I would get a new boyfriend and the same thing would happen. It is just because jealousy is the biggest BITCH in the world when it comes to this foolish assumption that guys and girls can’t JUST be friends.

People like drama, and what better to cause drama than to stir the pot and try to make your significant other lose their best friend of the opposite sex! *shakes her head at society* What is wrong with people? Can’t they open their eyes and see that sometimes what they think just isn’t true and move on? No because humans are animals, animals who are beasts, GREEN EYED MONSTERS who cannot accept things at face value. But, we also have to remember we are all the same just some cannot control this.

Ill admit I’ve been on the other side of the fence too. I let my green eyed monster show it’s face. But, like I just said we are all the same just some of us not to the extreme as others. I can control my jealousy and set it aside. Or if it does get that bad I will ask questions and try to find out the truth and remind myself that what I am seeing and thinking might just be that monster distorting my views on things.

I know I’ve gone on a huge rant about this but this is one of those things that kinda hits home. I’ve lost many friends and been in many arguments because society can’t except that a female and a male can JUST be friends.

And if this didn’t make sense to you….just stick it out my next blog will be more thought out and not so spur of the moment. Therefore, BETTER :o)

~Yeah I’m a ranting, opinionated lunatic so what?!~