There are a lot of truly useless products in the world – they are made for a miniscule minority of people with truly and utterly specific needs. Or they are made for some exceedingly lazy or humungously non-bright people – like a banana slicer, square rolling-pin or cutlery with ropes (I believe these things exist). So when they started a #StuffThatShouldNotExist hashtag on Twitter, there were loads of excellent answers that I totally identified with.
The @HashtagRoundup page started this hashtag and invited others to play along.
Nah, these aren't real, I thought. But then I checked and apparently, they exist. This is some sort of Japanese fashion item.
Centipedes (or whatever in stone-cold hell this is), make my skin crawl. Often is the time I've thought, couldn’t the world do just as well without these creatures?
I don’t know. The real question is, how do I un-see that abomination!
Who on earth wants any object that hideous; much less a toy!
These are a thing – and amazon.in has them.
Clearly, someone didn’t think things through. But then I'm happy with hotdogs without the buns, so who am I to judge.
If it’s alcohol free, how is it a beer?
Nope! This is a real thing – sequined pillow that turns into a face. And these are customisable – so it’s possible to replace Nicholas Cage’s mug with your own picture.
‘Unique Find’ says the Zulily product page. So unique in fact, that this item is no longer available for sale. Good sense might have dawned.
Why indeed! Who in the world thought – oh I know what the world needs – bread in a can.
The Amazon product page tells us that this is a way to ‘soothe yourself’; that licking a cat using this object is ‘meditative practice’ and a way to ‘bond with your fur baby’. Whatever.
Picnic pants – ‘snack-ready jeans’ as they are called – are for when one wants to eat things directly off their crotch presumably.
Seems like a bad idea, for sure; a very specific rather personal gripe.
It a dog that cute dislikes it, I probably will as well.
There are a lot of people who believe zoos are cruel, horrible places that should not exist.
Add caste discrimination to that list.
COVID is definitely, definitely in the list of #StuffThatShouldNotExist.
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