iPhone Pocket: $229.95
iPhone Pocket: $229.95
www.apple.com
Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
"The design drew inspiration from the concept of "a piece of cloth"
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Here I thought it was going to be a small screened cheap iPhone and I was excited for a minute.
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cheap iPhone
LOL
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I mean, they have done it. When I was looking at phones a few years back, it was genuinely a toss up between a Pixel 4a and an iPhone SE. If all you need it to be is a cameraphone, then both were good options.
Even now, the iPhone 16e is a relatively inexpensive phone when considering its featureset, but I would prefer a "mini" or newer SE variant instead.
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Compared to other flagships they're not outrageously expensive
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That's exactly what I was thinking too. Like an iPhone nano or something. The laugh I let out when I saw what it actually was though, I really needed that today.
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Very disappointed that’s not what this was.
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Personally, I'm saving up for the "Apple Stick and Bindle", the nouveau-hobo accessory of the season.
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I thought it was going to be a new form factor iPhone that could fit comfortably in your pocket.
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Why in the hell would they make something people want?
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-me and my iPhone 13 mini dreading an “upgrade”-
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We've come full circle.
Also, I wonder if this is some kind of scheme to park the "iPhone Pocket" name for a bit in case they want to make a phone called that in 10 years.
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I suppose if they ever make a flip phone with a folding screen that would be a good name for it.
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What the actual fuck.
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I've commented on here before how women's clothing generally doesn't have large-enough pockets for smartphones. A lot of modern women's clothing is form-fitting, and has small pockets.
So either you revise the clothing or add some kind of wearable bag/pocket.
Used to be that women wore dresses, had slits in the skirts that they could reach through, and then had sorta wearable pockets on beneath them. But full skirts are pretty dead now, so:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket
By the 17th century, pockets were sewn into men's clothing, while women's remained as separate tie-on pouches hidden beneath skirts.[5][6]
In the 17th to 19th centuries, women's tie-on pockets—mentioned in the rhyme Lucy Locket—often carried everyday tools like scissors, pins, needles, and keys.[7][8]: 113
In modern fashion, men's clothing usually includes pockets, whereas women's clothing often has smaller or even fake ones, sometimes called Potemkin pockets after the concept of a Potemkin village. A 2018 study by the Pudding found that fewer than half of women's front pockets could fit a thin wallet, let alone a phone or keys.[9]
When I first ran into this, I thought "well, put the phone in your purse then, dammit, you're already carrying that for feminine hygiene products". Problem is that women don't haul (bulky) purses everywhere --- walk into the office, say, set down the purse at the desk, and it's mostly staying at the desk. I don't know any women who wear their purses around the house. But they do want to keep the phone available all the time.
And the smartphone is a pretty ubiquitous item to want to carry around now.
So unless women's clothing changes to have large pockets and somehow deals with not messing up the body's silhouette or whatever makes that a problem or the smartphone form factor changes ("big smartwatch?"), I expect that people have to wind up with some kind of mini, wearable container. Like this.
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I mean, this is a absurdly priced solution, but that's a fair point.
It's stupid fashion's that way. I always thought that when I saw girls sticking phones in their shorts waistbands or whatever.
We should go back to the future:
Or even better, improve it:
And have shorts like that too? I dunno, I'm not a fashion expert, but still.
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Oh I'm not at all reacting to the usefulness. I'm reacting to the price of the item. Pockets on women's clothes are a bit of a disaster.
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“a piece of cloth” huh
::: spoiler borat wearing very little :::-
That was my first thought!
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Very nice!
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Like many, I thought for a microsecond that they actually brought out a new phone model that will fit in a pocket.
But no, of course they didn't. Because why the fuck would anyone want that.
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I'm so sick of this trend of trying to make the phone as thin as possible and then the camera bump has prominent as possible, completely negating any benefit. My partner would definitely like a thinner phone and would probably buy a phone that didn't have the camera bump because it didn't have any camers, if it meant a thinner phone that would actually fit in her pocket.
Either that or keep the camera bump and just thicken the whole phone out and give me a larger battery and the apparently too big to fit 3.5mm audio jack.
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What I don't get is why they don't make a model with more battery space to flatten out the back. I would love a phone with 10Ah instead of 3Ah and I already carry a battery pack for this exact reason. The lack of options is super annoying.
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Oh God I feel dumber having read this. How is this not the onion?! A 3D knitted construction? Really?
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It’s the iPod sock of the 2020’s
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With heavy inflation
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People thinking this is a joke or laughing at this don't seem to remember when Apple released what was essentially a sock for your ipod video. or how about the $1000 monitor stand? or the wheels for your Powermac that cost hundreds of dollars.
This is Apple folks. If they can find a way to nickle and dime their gullible cultish user base they will do it. They've been doing it since...well since the company was founded.
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False. The IIgs was amazing.
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The monitor stand and wheels for the Mac are targeted towards businesses. The same kinds of businesses that will spend $1000 per chair on ugly and uncomfortable office chairs.
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Those $1000 chairs are not uncomfortable. A lot of the price is also the warranty and they are much cheaper for a business bulk purchasing.
I love picking up Aeron or similar stuff used. They’re great chairs and a used one isn’t any more expensive than those horrible racing style chairs but will actually last and be comfortable for over a decade. My current one is a 2006 model and still going strong.
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This is post-Apple. Apple died roughly around 2008-2011 when they figured out how to capitalize on douche snobbery. Previously they catered to the outliers. The clevil (clever evil) was when they figured out how to market that you are being an outlier if you own their crap. Which, ironically drove away the outliers.
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I love this. This is perfect for Apple people.
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It's really not.
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Apple seems to disagree with you.
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It looks like the bathing suit that Borat wore to the beach.
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What a sign of the times. God damn I fucking hate this. Some marketing team gleefully jerking themselves off to it somewhere. Their margins on this have got to be disgustingly high.
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Profit: $229
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Honest question, how do you Apple fans keep supporting this company?
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Well, not a fan, exactly, but I am forced to be fully engulfed in the apple ecosystem.
I don’t hate them more than Dell, Asus, Sony, or Microsoft. Not everything they make is a ripoff.
- the $10 A/D converter in the headphone adapters is a steal
- the mac mini with base config is a good deal
- the macbook air is worth the money and best in class
- ipad — no worthy competition for most users
- M-series chips and their energy consumption
- savvy users avoid all the upsell ripoffs like storage upgrades and displays and sock slings
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Main issue I have with that company is the ridiculous pricing of SSD or RAM upgrades. I'm not paying $200 for extra 256gb, we're not in 2008 anymore
And that it can't be upgraded after purchase
Edit, went to watch the price of the 256gb SSD upgrade and I was wrong. It's not $200 but it's €250 👍🏻
Edit2: I was also wrong about the SSD pricing in 2008, they're selling it at year 2012 prices, not year 2008 prices
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Personally I wouldn't call the MacBook air good value for money. It's not a bad computer but it's very expensive for the specs you get. You're basically paying for it to be very thin and really it's no more portable than the normal MacBook because when you think about it obviously it isn't because if the MacBook wasn't portable it would be a mini desktop.
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iPads cant even send SMS or make calls. The most gimped of tablets.
The rest of your list seems reasonable
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Since I started moving my family over to Apple, the amount of tech support I needed to do for them dropped to almost zero. It just works. I have my Raspberry Pis and Linux boxes for fun and my MacBook for when the computer needs to get out of the way and let me work.
That said, I have zero interest in buying this absurd fashion accessory ;)
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I used to work in Apple tech support and trust me the people who buy iPhones are the least tech savvy people in the world. People dwelling in caves in prehistory would have been more capable than your average Apple customer.
A good chunk of them found the concept of plugging your iPad in occasionally to be beyond comprehension. Also that their Wi-Fi didn't have a 600 mile range and no it wouldn't work if you were in a different country.
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apple is cool.
lemmy people aren't cool. they are practical.
practical people are the antithesis of cool people. cool people don't care about value or function.
hence why they pay $1000s for wear it once clothing.
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MacBooks are pretty practical. ARM laptops like MacBooks have genuinely ridiculously good battery life; I was genuinely shocked the first time I used one.
Yes, ARM windows exists, but it's clunky and has little support because unlike MacBooks, not all Windows laptops run ARM, so developers have little incentive to make ARM Windows versions their apps.
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I focus on the hardware, OS and ecosystem which are all very good for my use and just shake my head at things like this and move on. It’s not like I approve or feel like I have to approve of everything a company does to use their products. Of course the more attuned they are to my needs the more I like them. And Apple has been a mixed bag over the years. Then again so has everyone else.
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As a recovering Apple user, the hardware really is very, very good.
I have an M2 MacBook Air that is, quite frankly, the fastest computer I've ever used. Running Window in a VM within it gave me the fastest Windows computer I've ever used. I've had it two years and still get all day out of the battery. It can export a two hour AIFF recording of my radio show from Reaper in around 10 seconds. In the two years I've had it there have been perhaps three occasions where I wished I'd opted for a Pro instead.
I also have an iPad mini which is a ridiculously useful little tablet, when used in conjunction with my MacBook.
However, over the past year I've been drawing further away from their ecosystem, to the point that I mostly only use the MacBook to present my radio show because it's fanless so doesn't cause any noise issues when my mic's open. And that's as a direct result of Apple being a trash company run by corporate fuckheads who would sooner capitulate to fascists than actually fucking stand for something.
So yeah, very few of us do actually support them.
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So, a knee-high sock with a slit on the side. For $230 US.
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How are we getting so dumb? Worst of all, notoriously dumb. A bit of "under the surface stupidity" is tolerable, however, we're well beyond the rubicon of stupid.
The boomers were on to something when they called us "darn idiots".
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does it bother apple that it is compatible with all other phone brands?
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Probably not. Can you imagine someone with a non-Apple phone not being willing to buy an iPhone, but being willing to buy one of those?
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I cannot imagine anyone getting that phone cumsock to parade around
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So a typical cross body bag?
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No. Those can be useful. This can only hold your phone.
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Many years back, I kept my ipod classic in an old sock to protect it while it banged around inside my bag. My buddy made fun of me for it, little did he know that my sense of fashion was just far ahead of its time.
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Tangentially related. I used to go out on boats a bunch meant years ago. Lost a moto Razer when they were still kinda new. Was bummed, but learned. So I bought what at the time was a kinda nice Nokia(one of the first bar phones with blue tooth) and put it in a condom and tied it off. Could still use it fairly normally, and there was enough air to keep it floating the few times it fell in. Caught on with some of my cohorts, others got a very expensive lesson in laughing at me.
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A literal fucking pocket, as I expected. SMDH
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Apple users are so fucking stupid.
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It's pathetic that they
couldn'trefused to offer more than a handful of colors for their "piece of cloth". And "3D-knitted construction"? Fuck off.Also, that thing looks like a pickpocket's wet dream.
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Some people might find this shocking…. But a lot of knitting is already 3D. It’s not a very novel concept.
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eeWHAAAAaaaaa???!
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It's an iphone purse
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iPurse
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iTubeSock
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i Pass
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Over two ton for something you could get your abuela to knit you for next to nowt.
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It'll just make idiots even more identifiable
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This is a sock that has been sewn shut and a cut in the side. I love knowing people will buy somthing so useless for so much money. An actual small bag the can hold other items too is more functional and cheaper.
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To be fair I looked into the pretentious fashion company behind this and they sell small bags for like >$600 so I guess this is kind of a bargain if you’re into that world
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Reminds me a bit of an upside down panty hose.
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I can’t browse the announcement page without thinking of Borat
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checks date
not April 1st
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The secret to apple is: wait 10 years, buy it for next to nothing: enjoy.
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Or wait 4 Years and buy a decent Linux thinkpad
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Well if we’re talkin linux the sky’s the limit.
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For that price, buy a sewing machine and make something better, like clothes with pockets.
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Can't you already get this on amazon for $20? I might have missed it, but I can't even find what material it's made out of.
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If you can’t already, you’ll surely be able to find cheap knockoffs in a week’s time.
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The iScrote?
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haha. that was my exact thought as well: looks like a nice banana hammock
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Cross body phone sock.
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First off, yes, this is a pretentious sock bag for rich people.. or “aspirational” or design-focussed people, let’s say.
But it makes perfect sense.
- Apple does collabs on accessories all the time, from Hermes to Belkin and Logitech. They’ll sell them in their stores if they’ve have input, generally.
- If anyone needs some background on Issey Miyake]https//mds.isseymiyake.com/im/en/), this is a good read. People are mentioning the “A piece of cloth” line, but this goes back to the founding principle of that design company, there’s even a series of industrial weaving machines started in the 90s named A-POC (yes), one of which lives in MoMA.
- Designers at both companies probably adore each other’s work, they’re all pretentious types who turn function into fashion, but won’t say as much. They’ve probably been champing at the bit to collaborate for years, but like, what could we make?
- A piece of cloth(ing) for an iPhone. Obviously. Because for people outside the Apple bubble, they’re basically the iPhone company. Use a weaving machine. This was literally the only way to fulfill all their remits. If you asked AI to come up with a collaboration between the two, it would most likely… well let’s check.
The “iFold” Tote - A structured pleated tote bag that embodies Apple’s material minimalism and Miyake’s textile innovation.
The “AirPleats” Scarf - A sculptural pleated scarf inspired by airflow and minimal form — an homage to both the “Air” line and Miyake’s signature pleats.
The “iLine” Pouch - A small, sculptural accessory pouch or sleeve—Philosophy: “Soft engineering.”
I mean tbh some of these are more whimsical and interesting, but probably don’t hold as broad appeal, so the bag sock it is. This is actually pretty boring news now I’ve read a lot more about Issey Miyake. Potentially that’s on Apple, they spent most of their collaborative time shitting on whimsy? Maybe? Probably just the broadest, cheapest (to produce!), most marketingest thing they could excrete. It’s a bit sad really.
The pattern on the inside is weirdly a lot nicer.
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“It makes perfect sense” is a funny way of saying “its the word “pretentious” made of cloth with a profit margin % in the six digits by one of the worlds greediest, shittiest companies in a sea of companies that stand out for their shitty greed”.
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I forgot to put industrial weaving machine into the LLM, and well top result is now:
1 The “Woven Loop” — Sculptural Woven Bag
Concept:
A minimalist woven shoulder bag or clutch, created entirely from a single continuous industrial weave, without seams or hardware — a textile “unibody,” echoing Apple’s aluminum unibody design.
Made using Issey Miyake’s three-dimensional weaving technology, creating form and volume directly from the loom.
Followed by a pouch and a sash… so really I have to wonder if actually this was just a lazily AI generated idea all along.
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I bet the $9.95 is the production cost.
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I'll put it right next to my $999 monitor stand!!!
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capitalism breeding innovation right before our eyes!
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"WEAR YOUR SOCK WITH PRIDE FOR ONLY 1.7 DAYS WORTH OF PAY"
Created with Epstein in mind-
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A sock with straps for ONLY $229.95!
They know exactly how to price products for the Apple gang, any cheaper and no one would buy.
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Sock jokes aside, remember police need probable cause to search your person/pockets, but not your purse/bag.
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That's not true. Bags typically require a probable cause/warrant to search. If you are arrested, it can be searched. That is the same for anything on your person though.
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I’m here having to plan my meals and apple does shit like this. I can’t help but 😂.
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okay i hate apple but im actually upset about issey miyaki(also rip). like what the fuck happened?!
where's the interesting designs and the shit ton of zippers :/
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I can literally crochet this in under an hour.
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Sounds like you just found yourself a job.
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Man, I got excited for a moment they brought back the SE line, but at an even cheaper price.
I knew it couldn't be true, not with Apple, but, it is what I first thought.
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perfect to get your iphone stolen from your shoulder
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Inspired by the barracks makeshift meteor hammer weapon - hard soap in a stocking. * Fullmetal Jacket
Looks at URL.
Looks at URL.
This can't be real. Checks URL again.
...What the fuck? This has to be hack or something. There's no way a human being wrote that article, and didn't know what they were doing.
it's so stupid I'm still not convinced it's real.
"This can't be real. Checks URL again."
Dude! I was doing the same thing. I kept thinking, "Is this some new form of prank that hides the url somehow?"
I can’t stop laughing at this comment. I think that’s what we all did!
I did the same, but also double checked the date to make sure this wasn't some weird April fools that got missed
This was my EXACT experience. How was this not satire?
And with all that piffle, they never actually tell what it's made from. I assume some kind of acrylic? In which case it will snag and pill like crazy and look complete crap within a month.
I should start knitting these for Christmas gifts.