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Borders defends the sale of 'control-a-woman' novelty remote

Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Posts: 15,165
edited March 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nation ... 5841492083

If only there were remote controls for nickelback and ACDC.

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Mute your music is painful
Volume down (no volume up button)
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,331
    Without reading the article, I wanna get myself one of these bad boys.
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  • Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    How dare you badmouth AC/DC!
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Posts: 15,165
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    How dare you badmouth AC/DC!

    Oh you haven't seen my thread haha :lol:
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  • FrannyFranny Posts: 2,054
    Yeah I've seen those in surf shops...but borders????

    Seriously even as a woman, there are women I would love to have such a contraption to use upon! Starting off with;;;;;
    Britney Spears
    Lady GAGA
    anyone who has been on home and away and tries thier hand at a singing career
    Lara Bingle
    Most of the breakfast tv presenters

    ...feel free to add!

    Do agree there should be one for picklehead nickleback, but I think you better step away now with acca dacca comments....thems fighting words dude!! :lol::lol:
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Posts: 15,165
    Lara Bingle yes
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Lara Bingle yes

    OMG!!! how doomed was this relationship if this nudie shot hoohah resulted in a break. ridiculous.

    i suggest women lighten up. had to admit i laughed when i heard about his remote. as if men could control women. :lol:
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Well at least they were also selling a 'control-a-man' remote.
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  • iamsam_pjiamsam_pj Posts: 300
    they were selling these at urban outfitters for years with no complaint...most hilarious question asked by a customer about the control a man remote..."does it really work?" and she wasn't kidding!
  • StarfallStarfall Posts: 548
    Uh.... no. It's bad enough that women are unfairly stereotyped without marketing a device that plays to some of the worst of those.

    Kinda like that Hillary Clinton nutcracker (where you used the legs to break nuts) - there's just something insidiously ugly about it.

    Really bad move on Borders, IMO.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Starfall wrote:
    Uh.... no. It's bad enough that women are unfairly stereotyped without marketing a device that plays to some of the worst of those.

    Kinda like that Hillary Clinton nutcracker (where you used the legs to break nuts) - there's just something insidiously ugly about it.

    Really bad move on Borders, IMO.

    borders sell all kinds of novelty stuff. and its all so stupid that alls i can do is laugh. i cant raise enough indignation about this to even float a feather. should i be offended???
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Posts: 15,165
    catefrances wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Lara Bingle yes

    OMG!!! how doomed was this relationship if this nudie shot hoohah resulted in a break. ridiculous.

    i suggest women lighten up. had to admit i laughed when i heard about his remote. as if men could control women. :lol:

    They are both tools.
    I back Simon Katich, he should've punched some sense into pup but the boys separated them.
    Lara is the worst of the worst.
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  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    A MELBOURNE bookstore chain has defended the sale of a remote control for women, saying the male remote control has already sold out.



    exactly.
    i've seen both. while i wouldn't buy one, i laughed and moved on. people need to stop taking EVERYthing so seriously.
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  • FrannyFranny Posts: 2,054
    decides2dream wrote:
    A MELBOURNE bookstore chain has defended the sale of a remote control for women, saying the male remote control has already sold out.



    exactly.
    i've seen both. while i wouldn't buy one, i laughed and moved on. people need to stop taking EVERYthing so seriously.


    Oh that's classic! I know quite a few fellas who are controlled quite well, but not by a remote. More like whipped..p u s s y whipped!! :lol::lol:
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