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Topic: My Fun Fish Tank (video)
Posted By: PaWolf
Subject: My Fun Fish Tank (video)
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 1:06am
LOL"Look! Over on the kitchen counter! It's a JUICER! It's a Brita Water Container! Noooooo....it's MY FUN FISH TANK!"
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I *just* saw this while drinking some almost-expired chocolate milk - the timing couldn't have been worse as the cup in the commercial started filling up with what appeared to be the same thing I was guzzling. Yup. I puked a tiny little bit in the back of my mouth - now I taste the chocolate milk and peanut butter-filled pretzels I just finished off.
But that's not all.
Common sense tells us fish just don't do well in modified water pitchers - fish swim back and forth, not up and down. Got a 'My Fun Fish Tank'? You'll probably have a psycho fish in no time now that he's locked in a glass solitary confinement cell. Probably why they used Japanese Betas (they only live alone). Know this: While you are smiling, pointing and tapping on your 'My Fun Fish Tank' your fish is trying to figure out to trade places wish you so you can feel his pain.
 


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Posted By: i8acannibal
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 1:58am
Thought I was the only one who thought this commercial was screwed up. Or the only one who had seen it. Was going to post about this as well, but couldn't remember the name of it. There's also a bunch of these cheesy kids product commercials. Again I can never remember the name of the products because all I can think when they're on is "who comes up with these ultra cheesy, junk filled, awful rhyming ads?" Better than rap,I guess. But still sucks.

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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:09am

Those kids'll be amused for 5 minutes, and in about 5 days, the fish dies.

When parents buy their kids such stupid crap, don't they understand this?




Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:22am
^No. Not all humanoids were meant to breed, but it's against the law to spray for them, or even spay them, so we end up with stuff like 'My Fun Fish Tank'.
"Come play in 'My Fun Wolf Cage'!"
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/trapped-concept-wolf-cage-sad-look-33814990.jpg" rel="nofollow">Trapped


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Posted By: Neil R
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:25am
I'm more interested in these peanut butter filled pretzels of which you speak.
Are they available in nationally known stores and why haven't I seen such treats before?


Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:25am
They should have a "My Fun 55 Gallon Drum Aquarium".

Give those poor little fishies some room to swim around in.




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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:26am
Originally posted by Neil R Neil R wrote:

I'm more interested in these peanut butter filled pretzels of which you speak.
Are they available in nationally known stores and why haven't I seen such treats before?

Same here!!!

What's with these peanut butter filled pretzels????




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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: Papa Lazarou
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:27am
YAY! ANIMAL CRUELTY IS SO AWESOME! :D

Even Betas have been shown to be infinitely happier in a 10 gallon that the stupid .5-1 gallon tanks typically sold for them. I have a nice-sized 2-gallon container with some stuff in it, but mostly just clams, micro-life (got a triop in there, but the other eggs didn't hatch, apparently) and a few fish I've researched who are more resilient and don't mind smaller-size (though this container is pretty wide). Right now there's just Gambusia in there because I bought them for an outdoor pond and they've been breeding like rabbits.

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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:35am
Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Neil R Neil R wrote:

I'm more interested in these peanut butter filled pretzels of which you speak.
Are they available in nationally known stores and why haven't I seen such treats before?

Same here!!!

What's with these peanut butter filled pretzels????



You haven't seen these at the Dollar Tree?

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Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:41am
Originally posted by Neil R Neil R wrote:

I'm more interested in these peanut butter filled pretzels of which you speak.
Are they available in nationally known stores and why haven't I seen such treats before?
H K Anderson Peanut Butter Filled Pretzel Nuggets - Dollar Tree, in the 'snacky section' with other pretzels. Small bag, just enough of them. They're great, worth all one hundred pennies!
You can find jugs of them in other stores for anywhere between $6-$12.
Now, if you are familiar with TARGET/COSTCO's 'KIRKLAND' products, they also make them (I've never tried theirs). 


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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:43am
Not that I recall, but then again, I don't go down that aisle much anymore & actually, don't really go to DT that much anymore in general. Just about all I get there anymore is bread.





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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:43am

They're really good.  They also make a cheese-filled pretzel, which the DT gets occasionally.




Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:44am
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

They're really good.  They also make a cheese-filled pretzel, which the DT gets occasionally.

I'd prolly go for the cheese filled.


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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: Neil R
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 2:52am
No, Dollar Tree is a place I never go here in Statesboro but I'll be there soonly to check out these snack miracles.

Maybe I'll make a horrible commercial for it that we can all complain about!


Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 3:15am

Originally posted by Neil R Neil R wrote:

No, Dollar Tree is a place I never go here in Statesboro but I'll be there soonly to check out these snack miracles.

Maybe I'll make a horrible commercial for it that we can all complain about!


I hope you find them there, because if you don't, you'll be in for a bad case of the Statesboro BluesCry

Better wake up mama.




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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 3:25am

Nothing wrong with Dollar Tree - I'm damed glad we have one (we have very few stores on the island)...anyway, now that Dollar Tree owns Family Dollar (DT bought them last week), you may start seeing common products in both places...inccluding PB-stuffed pretzels ~aaand~ 'My Fun Fish Tanks'.



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Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 3:27am
Damn! That snack sounds gooooooooooooooood!

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Posted By: crainbebo
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 4:50am
Fish Tanks? Wolf Cages? 55-Gallon Aquariums? How about "My Fun Storage Unit"? 

http://www.joyblooms.com/Lubbock/storage-unit.jpg

Bye Bye "Fish Tank"! 

-crainbebo


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Back after a long absence...still hating those commercials. Go away Limu Emu and Doug!


Posted By: Papa Lazarou
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 5:01am
55 gallon is actually useful. :P

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Posted By: i8acannibal
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 5:20am
Peanut butter, fish, storage units...... I'm hungry.

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Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 3:32pm
Originally posted by crainbebo crainbebo wrote:

Fish Tanks? Wolf Cages? 55-Gallon Aquariums? How about "My Fun Storage Unit"

http://www.joyblooms.com/Lubbock/storage-unit.jpg

Bye Bye "Fish Tank"! 

-crainbebo
LOLLOLLOLWhy, thank you for the great idea there, Hannibal Lecter!
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Posted By: crainbebo
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 6:34pm
We can put that so called "fish tank" in the 2 boxes entitled "GLASS". LOL

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Back after a long absence...still hating those commercials. Go away Limu Emu and Doug!


Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 7:08pm
Damn! That voiceover makes me want to punch something! That is not a very roomy tank, poor fish!

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Posted By: i8acannibal
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 7:32pm
Originally posted by Papa Lazarou Papa Lazarou wrote:

55 gallon is actually useful. :P


Just big enough to hide a body.

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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 7:41pm

^  You'd probably have to break it down into parts.  I know that when I put tree branches into my 96-gallon yard waste container, they fit much better when I break them up.  Another possible solution is to stuff the body in there, and then jump up and down on it, so that it all squashes down nicely.  Just be careful not to crack the glass walls of the aquarium.  Then, you end up having seepage.








Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 8:06pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

^  You'd probably have to break it down into parts.  I know that when I put tree branches into my 96-gallon yard waste container, they fit much better when I break them up.  Another possible solution is to stuff the body in there, and then jump up and down on it, so that it all squashes down nicely.  Just be careful not to crack the glass walls of the aquarium.  Then, you end up having seepage.

I think you have to fold the body into the fetal position & it'll fit nicely into a 55 gallon drum.

Of course, it depends on the person's weight.

Not gonna work with a fatty.



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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 8:06pm
This reminds me of how gullible the public is, and how many stupid ads there are.
 
 


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 8:41pm
Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

^  You'd probably have to break it down into parts.  I know that when I put tree branches into my 96-gallon yard waste container, they fit much better when I break them up.  Another possible solution is to stuff the body in there, and then jump up and down on it, so that it all squashes down nicely.  Just be careful not to crack the glass walls of the aquarium.  Then, you end up having seepage.

I think you have to fold the body into the fetal position & it'll fit nicely into a 55 gallon drum.

Of course, it depends on the person's weight.

Not gonna work with a fatty.


On the other hand, you could probably get quite a few babies into one.  Sweet, precious, tender young babies who simply wouldn't stop crying when you told them to.




Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 9:04pm
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

On the other hand, you could probably get quite a few babies into one. Sweet, precious, tender young babies who simply wouldn't stop crying when you told them to.


And if you use one of these...



...there's no telling how many you could fit in there.



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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender

C'mon, man!
Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States


Posted By: LeeboKC
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 10:03pm
Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

On the other hand, you could probably get quite a few babies into one. Sweet, precious, tender young babies who simply wouldn't stop crying when you told them to.


And if you use one of these...



...there's no telling how many you could fit in there.



I’ve had one of the most sad and depressing weeks in many moons this week..

Several more job rejections with my resources having dwindled to nearly nil, the passing of a true movie legend in Lauren Bacall, a beloved performer committing suicide by hanging (just as my best friend did years ago), riots and violence in the dirty city on the other side of my state (St. Louis), Americans back fighting extremist religious butchers in Iraq, ..

But there’s a bright spot: Jimbo and Thor wholeheartedly in agreement.

Of course, it’s a bad news-good news kind of thing…

The bad news:  they are agreeing on how best to dispose of numerous “sweet, precious, tender young babies who simply wouldn't stop crying when you told them to” into 55-gallon drums.

The good news: they are in wholehearted and creative agreement on the process.

First thing that’s made me smile all week. Thanks guys.



Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 10:12pm
^LOL
It is a sorry world, hang in there Leebo.
We are with you. Hug


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2014 at 10:37pm
Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

On the other hand, you could probably get quite a few babies into one. Sweet, precious, tender young babies who simply wouldn't stop crying when you told them to.


And if you use one of these...



...there's no telling how many you could fit in there.



Not true.  That number would be about 55, if you get them young enough, put the pieces into a blender, and set at frappe.

Think about it.  One 3-month old can probably be frappe'd down to about a gallon's worth of product.






Posted By: i8acannibal
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 1:06am
Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:


Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

On the other hand, you could probably get quite a few babies into one. Sweet, precious, tender young babies who simply wouldn't stop crying when you told them to.


And if you use one of these...



...there's no telling how many you could fit in there.




Not true.  That number would be about 55, if you get them young enough, put the pieces into a blender, and set at frappe.

Think about it.  One 3-month old can probably be frappe'd down to about a gallon's worth of product.






"The happy liquid kid farm." Guaranteed to contain at least 25 whole babies. * May contain incomplete parts and pieces. For external use only.

Maybe playing the "Spongebob Squarepants" theme song in the background.

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Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 1:12am
^that solution is too expensive - this is more affordable.


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Posted By: Papa Lazarou
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 1:24am
Not to get "off-topic" and go back to the fish thing, but...we just had a fair in my town, which means en masse animal cruelty is occurring. Hundreds of people winning pet goldfish, keeping them in too-small containers without knowing how to care for them (20 gallon minimum, plenty of cleaners/filterers to lower the toxicity of the water due to waste products from a goldfish's faeces and gills).

I've been re-iterating the same advice to about fifty people to-day.

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Posted By: i8acannibal
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 4:26am
I never understood the logic about giving living creatures as prizes. Fish, ducklings, baby rabbits.

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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 4:35am

Originally posted by i8acannibal i8acannibal wrote:

I never understood the logic about giving living creatures as prizes. Fish, ducklings, baby rabbits.

Hell, I wouldn't even give a live plant to someone unless I knew they were into them, and wanted another one.




Posted By: Papa Lazarou
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 4:48am
It made sense in the past, when most kids, y'know, had a basic concept of caring for animals and more often then not had family with land enough to raise 'em.

Also, to be fair on the fish side of things, I'd say it's only within the past 30-40 years that caring for them has really developed as a science to the point where it's more common for a fish to die of old age than from soaking in its own toxic waste stew.

But yes, it's a stupid and annoying tradition. I maybe wouldn't mind it if they did it with fish that can handle smaller dwellings, but goldfish? that's just cruelty.

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Banana!
BANANA!!
BANANA!!!
BANANA!!
Banana!


Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 5:06am

Parents often think of goldfish and other tiny animals as disposable, so they end up taking no responsibility for them after the kids lose interest.  I say, like humans, this one little life is all they get; if we're going to accept responsibility for it, we'd better make sure they get a good one.




Posted By: i8acannibal
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2014 at 7:34am
Originally posted by Papa Lazarou Papa Lazarou wrote:

It made sense in the past, when most kids, y'know, had a basic concept of caring for animals and more often then not had family with land enough to raise 'em.

Also, to be fair on the fish side of things, I'd say it's only within the past 30-40 years that caring for them has really developed as a science to the point where it's more common for a fish to die of old age than from soaking in its own toxic waste stew.

But yes, it's a stupid and annoying tradition. I maybe wouldn't mind it if they did it with fish that can handle smaller dwellings, but goldfish? that's just cruelty.


Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:




Parents often think of goldfish and other tiny animals as disposable, so they end up taking no responsibility for them after the kids lose interest.  I say, like humans, this one little life is all they get; if we're going to accept responsibility for it, we'd better make sure they get a good one.




Well said. Couldn't put it any better.

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