Alright, if there’s one thing I love to do it’s watch QVC around Christmas time. Now, QVC always has stupid crap for sale that’s cheap and useless, but around Christmas time it’s an invariable gold mine of swap-meet caliber junk. That picture on the right was taken today – a chinsy, floppy hat that has two “super bright” LEDs on it that light up when you push the button. I guess the idea is a flashlight on the brim of your hat. Do people actually buy this crap? Apparently they do, by the end of this product, about 600 were sold. Awful!
What I really love is how the salespeople on QVC really try to make it seem as though you’d need something like this. For jogging, working on your car, under the sink, during a power outage – honestly, would someone really wear this all the time in case of a power outage? Who buys this crap? Oh, wait, I know who. I can tell by the people who call in and testify as to the awesomeness of the product: fat, lonely, lazy midwesterners that sit and watch TV all day while shoving salt and vinegar potato chips by the handful into their fattanks, buying half the stuff on QVC. Get a life! Get out and go to the store. They have so much better things there. But I understand; you probably haven’t even left the house in a year and a half. Yuck!
Addenda: So after doing a quick search on YouTube for QVC, there’s some really good stuff, including Mike Rowe (from Dirty Jobs) selling a lava lamp in ‘92, the hilarious guy demonstrating a ladder but falls, or the guy who hurts himself with the samurai sword. But really, here’s another ladder one below that’s probably my favorite. Notice how quickly they cut away:
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