Comments on: Now you, too, can quit like JetBlue guy: The SlipQuit™ http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 19:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Donald Petersen http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870656 Donald Petersen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870656 This made my day. So happy to have cats off my mind. My favorite part is the high-end shooping of the left arm, with its Thalidomide scaling, unnaturally precise 90-degree angle, and Flat Stanley beer paperclipped under the thumb. This made my day. So happy to have cats off my mind.

My favorite part is the high-end shooping of the left arm, with its Thalidomide scaling, unnaturally precise 90-degree angle, and Flat Stanley beer paperclipped under the thumb.

]]> By: urbanspaceman http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870152 urbanspaceman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870152 The IBM catalog number for their first mass-market PC was 5150. Hmmm... http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=274 The IBM catalog number for their first mass-market PC was 5150. Hmmm…

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=274

]]> By: OldRipbeak http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870410 OldRipbeak Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870410 I think a better name might have been the "Quit 'n' Slide". @imag: Do you really think this is more than just a 'shop quickie? I don't think anyone has actually made a physical version of this. I think a better name might have been the “Quit ‘n’ Slide”.
@imag: Do you really think this is more than just a ‘shop quickie? I don’t think anyone has actually made a physical version of this.

]]> By: Jack http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870169 Jack Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870169 Pthhhhpt. The two birds I can flip with my hands are cheaper and work better than a gadget strapped to my chest. Pthhhhpt. The two birds I can flip with my hands are cheaper and work better than a gadget strapped to my chest.

]]> By: Griffin http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870188 Griffin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870188 I would buy this in a hearbeat. I can think of so many common situations where I would be glad to have it! No, no more hastily jumping out windows for me - now I can jump out windows IN STYLE! Someone must make this become reality. I would buy this in a hearbeat. I can think of so many common situations where I would be glad to have it!

No, no more hastily jumping out windows for me – now I can jump out windows IN STYLE!

Someone must make this become reality.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870205 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870205 lame, it's missing a mic and PA system. lame, it’s missing a mic and PA system.

]]> By: sonicb00m http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870989 sonicb00m Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870989 I can't believe only 1 comment exposed the giant FAIL factor of this joke. It's not useable without securing some dope to wear it for you while you slide away... i get jokes, and this sir, is a bad joke. hehe.. jokes... I can’t believe only 1 comment exposed the giant FAIL factor of this joke. It’s not useable without securing some dope to wear it for you while you slide away… i get jokes, and this sir, is a bad joke. hehe.. jokes…

]]> By: IWood http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870508 IWood Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870508 This looks more like an escape slide for <i>other</i> people. You can't really slide down a slide that's attached to your chest...I'd have to stand there and act as an anchor for the slide and drink my beer while they got away. The best I could manage after that was a sort of forward somersault, which would roll me up into the slide like a Ho-Ho, immobilizing me. Then I'd get arrested and beaten. If that isn't worth $51.50, I don't know what is. This looks more like an escape slide for other people. You can’t really slide down a slide that’s attached to your chest…I’d have to stand there and act as an anchor for the slide and drink my beer while they got away. The best I could manage after that was a sort of forward somersault, which would roll me up into the slide like a Ho-Ho, immobilizing me. Then I’d get arrested and beaten.

If that isn’t worth $51.50, I don’t know what is.

]]> By: Brainspore http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870517 Brainspore Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870517 <blockquote>This looks more like an escape slide for <em>other</em> people. </blockquote> I was thinking it could work well as a way for discontented babies to escape their carrying harnesses. Grab a bottle, pull the cord and hit the road!

This looks more like an escape slide for other people.

I was thinking it could work well as a way for discontented babies to escape their carrying harnesses. Grab a bottle, pull the cord and hit the road!

]]> By: Ben Morris http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870263 Ben Morris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870263 Minor technical thing: please don't scale images in HTML. Currently this post, as seen from the front page, uses the same image, but scaled down using HTML. Every browser I know of will use a fast, ugly scaling algorithm, and people reading the front page will have to download the entire image, even though they won't see all of it unless they click through. Minor technical thing: please don’t scale images in HTML. Currently this post, as seen from the front page, uses the same image, but scaled down using HTML. Every browser I know of will use a fast, ugly scaling algorithm, and people reading the front page will have to download the entire image, even though they won’t see all of it unless they click through.

]]> By: imag http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870530 imag Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870530 You're probably right. I can't find anything about Dial House actually making products. I'm knee-jerking. I genuinely wasn't trying to troll though. Maybe it comes from my frustration when I go to a place like Walgreens, where we really are willing to generate a large hunk of plastic and electronics for a single funny joke or gift. I think it's buying behavior that should look as antisocial as throwing trash out your car window. It's wanton generation of permanent waste. It's based on conditioning that the price tag is the only meaningful data point when making a buying decision. So yes, I'm siding with the zombies. Definitely ;) You’re probably right. I can’t find anything about Dial House actually making products. I’m knee-jerking.

I genuinely wasn’t trying to troll though. Maybe it comes from my frustration when I go to a place like Walgreens, where we really are willing to generate a large hunk of plastic and electronics for a single funny joke or gift. I think it’s buying behavior that should look as antisocial as throwing trash out your car window. It’s wanton generation of permanent waste. It’s based on conditioning that the price tag is the only meaningful data point when making a buying decision.

So yes, I’m siding with the zombies. Definitely ;)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870283 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870283 Just look at the banana-slide coming out of his chest. Just look at it. Just look at the banana-slide coming out of his chest. Just look at it.

]]> By: Christovir http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870292 Christovir Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870292 I think my favorite part is that they used the same image of the man twice and just photoshopped in the slide coming out of the shadowy backpack and pasted on his left arm. I'll bet it's a stock photo and the man isn't wearing the backpack at all. I think my favorite part is that they used the same image of the man twice and just photoshopped in the slide coming out of the shadowy backpack and pasted on his left arm. I’ll bet it’s a stock photo and the man isn’t wearing the backpack at all.

]]> By: OldRipbeak http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870553 OldRipbeak Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870553 <blockquote>Maybe it comes from my frustration when I go to a place like Walgreens, where we really are willing to generate a large hunk of plastic and electronics for a single funny joke or gift.</blockquote> Oh, I agree. The world already has too much fake plastic dog shit (and I mean that both literally and figuratively).

Maybe it comes from my frustration when I go to a place like Walgreens, where we really are willing to generate a large hunk of plastic and electronics for a single funny joke or gift.

Oh, I agree. The world already has too much fake plastic dog shit (and I mean that both literally and figuratively).

]]> By: netsharc http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870322 netsharc Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870322 Really? Opera and Chrome uses more advanced smoothing rescale algorithms. Just tried it with FF3.6, same deal. One thing I know is Opera has been doing it for a long time, which is good too since there are so many spare CPU cycles available on today's average web-browsing device. Really? Opera and Chrome uses more advanced smoothing rescale algorithms. Just tried it with FF3.6, same deal. One thing I know is Opera has been doing it for a long time, which is good too since there are so many spare CPU cycles available on today’s average web-browsing device.

]]> By: Trent Hawkins http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870328 Trent Hawkins Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870328 where can I buy this? This would make a bitch'n yet completely impractical Halloween costume. where can I buy this? This would make a bitch’n yet completely impractical Halloween costume.

]]> By: jimh http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870589 jimh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870589 This is pretty sweet, but to be legit you have to steal the beers. This is pretty sweet, but to be legit you have to steal the beers.

]]> By: imag http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870348 imag Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870348 Q: How do you know you're living in a decadent time? A: When people are willing to generate an entire backpack's worth of plastic for a single, not-very-funny joke. Come on people. This is out of hand. Do you really need an entire single-use inflatable slide to tell a few lame jokes? Q: How do you know you’re living in a decadent time?

A: When people are willing to generate an entire backpack’s worth of plastic for a single, not-very-funny joke.

Come on people. This is out of hand. Do you really need an entire single-use inflatable slide to tell a few lame jokes?

]]> By: avraamov http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870353 avraamov Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870353 imag @13.. you are trolling gently through the neighbourhood? right? imag @13..

you are trolling gently through the neighbourhood? right?

]]> By: irksome http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870358 irksome Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870358 It looks more like an emergency escape chute for his inner-child. It looks more like an emergency escape chute for his inner-child.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870359 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870359 Anyone else notice the URL? That's the name of the famous punk commune in England that spawned Crass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_House,_Essex Anyone else notice the URL? That’s the name of the famous punk commune in England that spawned Crass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_House,_Essex

]]> By: Felton / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870362 Felton / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870362 Imag has sided with the zombies! ;-) Imag has sided with the zombies! ;-)

]]> By: weatherman http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870371 weatherman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870371 I think what has always impressed me about this flight attendant's story is that, despite clearly losing his shit completely, he still had the presence of mind to grab two beers before pulling the chute. A point not lost on this parody - it's the most important part of the device! I think what has always impressed me about this flight attendant’s story is that, despite clearly losing his shit completely, he still had the presence of mind to grab two beers before pulling the chute. A point not lost on this parody – it’s the most important part of the device!

]]> By: Manooshi http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870117 Manooshi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870117 What took them so long to make this? What, it's already been like a few weeks and shit. Damn, this would have made a good April Fool's ad, but I guess it doesn't matter, since The Onion is pretty much real news nowadays. What took them so long to make this? What, it’s already been like a few weeks and shit.

Damn, this would have made a good April Fool’s ad, but I guess it doesn’t matter, since The Onion is pretty much real news nowadays.

]]> By: Jim_Graham http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870119 Jim_Graham Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870119 I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that the price tag is the same as the police radio code for "Crazy person" I’m sure it’s a complete coincidence that the price tag is the same as the police radio code for “Crazy person”

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2010/08/25/now-you-too-can-quit.html#comment-870127 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-870127 Damn. I bought the <a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/09/19/kiddie-pool-photo-on.html">one from Banzai</a> and it was only two feet long. Damn. I bought the one from Banzai and it was only two feet long.

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