Yeah, we might do our own hoovering, but we live longer happier healthier lives than you, so…
to-mar-to, to-may-to.
to-mar-to, to-may-to.
Denmark be like:
Yeah, we might do our own hoovering, but we live longer happier healthier lives than you, so… to-mar-to, to-may-to. |
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Point being, Denmark has an ever better argument than that.
Sure, most people in Denmark do their own dust sucking[*]... But so, I'm fairly sure, do most Americans -- they don't all live like McArdle. (Like, for instance, does she think the people who do hers have someone else to do theirs for them?!?) And, heck, there are even some people in Denmarkistan who do have others vacuum for them. Just like in the People's Republic of Britain, and even the Swedish and Finnish SSRs. So even the point where she presumes America to be superior is just plain bullshit. --- [*]: Though sadly perhaps not all with an Electrolux, or even a Nilfisk, any more. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi |
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"Nothing sucks like Electrolux"
Legendary failed advertising by Electrolux in USA - I have no idea whatever whether this actually happened or if it's just a legend - but it's one of those things that should have happened even if it didn't. |
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Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZrQqnRhmZ0 If nothing else, it does seem they used the tag line in the UK market. |
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Remember when Microsoft tried to make a mouse?
Review at the time: Microsoft won't make anything that doesn't suck until they make a vacuum cleaner. -- Drew |
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They made the Intellimouse Explorer, which at the time was the GOAT mouse.
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"I got bettah"
-- Drew |
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TBH they’ve never made a *bad* mouse
They’ve made a lot of very boring business mice, but their mice have always been at least usable. Apple, OTOH... ...yeah. That. |
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While I agree that was actually good hardware
The best possible mouse wasn't a mouse. It was the Kensington expert mouse trackball. That thing is incredible. It's like the old centipede trackball. Rock solid. I could twitch my thumb to have a slight press and make it fly across the screen and then catch it with my pinky while simultaneously clicking with my thumb as it traveled over the icon I wanted. Then I'd flick my pinky back and drop it exactly where it needed to be. Years of mouse usage destroyed my ulnar tunnel. It's kind of like carpal tunnel but a different pathway. I could not use a mouse and found out that many people who use mouse hardware end up like me. But after 2 weeks of using the trackball, my arm stopped hurting and my productivity multiplied immensely. I strongly suggest that all people try the Kensington expert mouse if they currently use a mouse. |
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If I were a hardware guy ...
I've always wanted to find a control panel for a scrapped Missile Command arcade game and turn it into a computer trackball. -- Drew |
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At the risk of derailing CRC’s thread...
...actually I’ll make a fresh one. |