The Hiccup Stick By Hicural

So uh… That looks like a pretty stupid product, and it probably is. It’s a plastic stick that you bite while swallowing some water, and it will somehow magically stop your hiccups. Something about throat muscles tensing, and somehow this connecting to the diaphragm and making the spasms go away. We… we’re not buying it. Not to mention that we’re not sure what’s so special about this particular stick over another plastic stick to justify its $20 price tag.

Any hiccup experts in the crowd able to tell us if it’s just as much malarkey as we think it is?

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Guy Fakes His Own Death to Propose to His Girlfriend – Sounds Pretty Stupid to Me

People are probably starting to feel the pressure when it comes to proposals with all this news about guys coming up with ingenious ways to propose to their girlfriends (and vice versa).

30-year-old Russian businessman Alexey Bykov is no exception. So he thought long and hard and finally decided to give his bride-to-be the proposal of her dreams nightmares.

Fake Death Marriage Proposal

Photo Credit: Sina

Here’s what Alexey did: he covered himself in a lot of blood and had a group of co-conspirators pretend that he had figured in some bad car accident. Ambulances and mangled cars surrounding him at the scene of the purported accident help make the entire thing more believable.

His girlfriend says: “When I arrived there were mangled cars everywhere, ambulances, smoke, and carnage. Then when I saw Alexey covered in blood lying in the road a paramedic told me he was dead and I just broke down in tears.”

When Alexey had seen enough, he brought himself back from the dead and proposed to her. Lucky for him, she said yes. If that were me, I would’ve probably slapped him silly before giving my answer. I doubt there’d be any girl out there who’d be pleased with an “I’m-dead-but-not-really” type of proposal.

So why’d he do it? Alexey explains: “I wanted her to realise how empty her life would be without me and how life would have no meaning without me. I think it worked but I promise it’s the last time.”

That sounds a little thick-headed but apparently, it worked. At least, for him.

[via Gawker via Geeokologie]


Stupid Product Of The Day: Text Bands

By David Ponce

We’re torn between thinking there’s some kind of genius, kid’s-mind-controlling magic going on here, and thinking the Hallmark Text Bands are just one of the worst products we’ve seen in the last little while. To be honest, we’re really leaning on the stupid side. They’re these wristbands that kids are supposed to wear and use to exchange texts from a distance. But here’s where the fun starts. The texts are limited to 10 characters. And you only have 3 buttons to type them out! So the kid is expected to scroll left and right, select a letter and press enter, then move on to the next. No wonder it’s only 10 characters! But even if we assume that a kid will be happy to painstakingly enter and send messages like seeyoul8tr, the range at which these things communicate is… 10 feet! Well, for crying out loud, at that range why not just say what you want to say? It… boggles the mind.

And yet, children have been known to make mind boggling decisions, so should they somehow fall in love with this product, know that it’ll only cost you $15.

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