Things that surprised fivemack

[fivemack]

Should I be more surprised that you can buy light-weight hiking mugs made out of titanium, or that there are two sellers on Amazon of mugs branded as 'titanium' with the first entry in their description reading 'made out of porcelain' ? 'Titanium' appears to be a marketing term meaning 'shiny and slightly brown'.

There appears to be a gap in the market for people who want cutlery made of titanium (because who would not want a titanium spoon?) which isn't irredeemably ugly.

Comments

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Oh noes, how will I eat my desserts with such a spoon? ;-)

[seawasp]

Bah! Your separate cutlery is no match for the TITANIUM SPORK!!!

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

You can also buy a large aluminum beer stein with m1913 rail interface system. And probably testosterone-impregnated. (The official product name is the "battle mug").

It's actually a lousy beer mug; too conductive, too much surface area from all the detailing. So your beer warms up far too fast. On the other hand, that might be a selling point in England :-).

A good part of the joke is that it doesn't have a handle. If you want a handle, you attach an AR-15 carrying handle to the rail system.

You can also attach various optical sighting devices to the rail system. They call them "beer goggles".

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, I was going to look at unusual rare metals for investment purposes ..

[downybearded1.livejournal.com]

Who WOULDN'T want Titanium cutlery? I want a cyborg Titanium Boyfriend I think it's that awesome! But did it work dipping him in that smelting factory? Oh no, that Christmas gift went very wrong. Back to the drawing board for me... Suggestions on programming details welcomed ;o)