CCCToad on 2/3/2010 at 01:50
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
ITT CCC misses the point again.
Nothing to write home about.
You mean to say that the snuggie isn't completely useless?
june gloom on 2/3/2010 at 02:02
I have one. It's pretty useful. Theory shattered.
SubJeff on 2/3/2010 at 02:05
Quote Posted by SD
You take your bathroom scales on holiday with you, do you?
I bought luggage scales last year and they've saved me excess baggage charges on the one holiday I've used them for. They've paid for themselves already.
I use the scales in the hotel. They always have at least one and probably more. Some weigh your luggage for you.
What to you do with the excess stuff that is too heavy? Do you dump it?
Besides - read below.
CCC - no, the gold thing. Trinkets like that are whimsical buys and that one can even be considered to be related to cultural superstitions so I don't think it applies. I'm talking stuff that has a function, but a function which is easily fulfilled in some other way. The luggage scale is pretty much like the single glove that that guy wanted to market to remind people which side of the road they should be on when in Europe (British chap). Redundant.
I was actually hoping people would mention similar redundant items that they'd seen for sale.
PeeperStorm on 2/3/2010 at 02:33
Here's something that's completely useless: (
http://www.laserlyte.com/new_products/New_PB_1.html) The pistol bayonet.
For those of you who've never thought about it, a bayonet is a knife that's designed to attach to the end of a rifle without (usually) blocking the opening where the bullet comes out. The advantage of doing this is that you end up with both a rifle and a short spear in one unit without significantly changing the handling characteristics of the rifle.
On the other hand, when you attach this useless piece of crap to your pistol, you have a pistol that suddenly has become forward-heavy, making it somewhat harder to aim and impossible to holster, while the prefectly usable knife becomes a much heavier, unbalanced knife with an awkward L-shaped handle.
june gloom on 2/3/2010 at 02:43
Yeah that shit only works in Borderlands.
SD on 2/3/2010 at 03:06
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
I use the scales in the hotel. They always have at least one and probably more.
Well, that's fine I suppose if you (a) always stay in hotels (b) with scales. But the last two times I was out of the country it was to her family's apartment in Spain. No scales there.
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
What to you do with the excess stuff that is too heavy? Do you dump it?
It goes into my hand luggage. There's usually no weight restriction on that, only a volumetric one.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that luggage scales are by no stretch of the imagination
useless, especially for those of us who bring back a fuckton of stuff from their excursions abroad.
AR Master on 2/3/2010 at 03:14
what if the weight scale itself puts the bag over the limit? you would never know
Aerothorn on 2/3/2010 at 03:16
Yeah, I could totally use one of these. The "use scale, do math" approach is all well and dandy when we're talking about a highly accurate scale, but most scales are off a wee bit and some more than that - I remember when I weighed myself with a suitcase and myself without the suitcase and did the map, came in under 50...and when I got to the airport my bag was 54 pounds! Damn thing. So yeah, this device = not at all useless.
Aja on 2/3/2010 at 08:36
a snuggie is basically a backwards housecoat made out of the cheapest fabric that isn't flammable.
So it's not nearly stylish enough for pub crawls, despite the website's assurance.
Unless you've got the badass camo-print version, that is.
