Ok, for all you iPhone lusters...
James Dore
When you have more money than sense.... The clue's in the link.
Cheers,
--
james dore
IT Officer,
New College, Oxford
http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/ it-support@new....
Paul Russell
> http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
>
> When you have more money than sense.... The clue's in the link.
>
> Cheers,
Amusing to watch, but not a very clever thing to do - there are some
quite nasty chemicals in some electronic components (e.g. beryllium) and
releasing them into the air like that could be lethal.
Paul
James Dore
Andrew Stephenson
james...@new.ox.ac.uk "James Dore" writes:
> Paul Russell <prus...@sonic.net> wrote:
>
> > James Dore wrote:
> > > http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
> > >
> > > When you have more money than sense.... The clue's in the link.
> >
> > Amusing to watch, but not a very clever thing to do - there
> > are some quite nasty chemicals in some electronic components
> > (e.g. beryllium) and releasing them into the air like that
> > could be lethal.
>
> Presumably why it's flagged 'Don't try this at home'....
The sort of person who _would_ try it at home tends to tune out
such routine warnings, much as smokers manage to ignore the big
"Smoking Kills" cautions on the ciggie packs. For a few, those
signs may even serve as a lure. ("Here are facilities for some
especially stupid behaviour!")
BTW: beryllium, yes, fun stuff. AFAIK, it works as a catalytic
poison, so microscopic amounts serve nicely. Used in high freq
power transistors ISTR. Naturally brittle, being crushed it'll
tend to make a fine powder. Laffs all round.
--
Andrew Stephenson
Fred Finisterre
news:1i132s6.1ug73881uy53wuN%james...@new.ox.ac.uk...
> http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
>
> When you have more money than sense.... The clue's in the link.
It's not really a case of more money than sense. In this case it's a blender
company spending $500 advertising their blenders and reaching tens of
thousands of people.
Quite shrewd really.
Fred.
Peter Ceresole
> BTW: beryllium, yes, fun stuff.
Huge fun- super-duper neutron reflector. Ted Taylor (I think) dreamt up
the way to use it within thermonuclear weapons, reflecting neutrons from
the fission firecracker at one end (Ted's bit) onto the can of thermo
fuel at the other. Result, tremendous pressures, temperatures and
neutron fluxes making for the first non-ginormous H-bombs. Sweet as a
nut, all thanks to Ted and beryllium.
--
Peter
James Dore
Completely failed on me then - I never even clocked what sort of blender
it was, and a colleague did ask, but we still don't know.
Hmmm!
Ben Shimmin
> Fred Finisterre <finis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "James Dore" <james...@new.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1i132s6.1ug73881uy53wuN%james...@new.ox.ac.uk...
>> > http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
>> >
>> > When you have more money than sense.... The clue's in the link.
>>
>> It's not really a case of more money than sense. In this case it's a
>> blender company spending $500 advertising their blenders and reaching
>> tens of thousands of people.
>>
>> Quite shrewd really.
>
> it was, and a colleague did ask, but we still don't know.
It says `Blendtec' on the front in fairly visible (even with YouTube's low
quality) letters. If you go to Blendtec's web site, you can see they
mention the `TotalBlender, as seen on Will It Blend?'.
Advertising aside, I found it extremely amusing.
(The Blendtec web site is also worth a visit just for the wonderful stock
image person in the bottom right.)
b.
--
<b...@bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/>
`If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end,
I wouldn't be surprised.' -- Dorothy Parker
James Dore
> James Dore <james...@new.ox.ac.uk>:
> > Fred Finisterre <finis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> "James Dore" <james...@new.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message
> >> news:1i132s6.1ug73881uy53wuN%james...@new.ox.ac.uk...
> >> > http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
> >> >
> >> > When you have more money than sense.... The clue's in the link.
> >>
> >> It's not really a case of more money than sense. In this case it's a
> >> blender company spending $500 advertising their blenders and reaching
> >> tens of thousands of people.
> >>
> >> Quite shrewd really.
> >
> > Completely failed on me then - I never even clocked what sort of blender
> > it was, and a colleague did ask, but we still don't know.
>
> It says `Blendtec' on the front in fairly visible (even with YouTube's low
> quality) letters. If you go to Blendtec's web site, you can see they
> mention the `TotalBlender, as seen on Will It Blend?'.
>
> Advertising aside, I found it extremely amusing.
>
> (The Blendtec web site is also worth a visit just for the wonderful stock
> image person in the bottom right.)
Oh dear - I must be so cynical that I thought the whole thing was a
piss-take. Blendtec seems like such an obvious name for a blender
company, I thought it couldn't be real. Bless those Americans :-D
Cheers,
zoara
> Fred Finisterre <finis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "James Dore" <james...@new.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message
> > news:1i132s6.1ug73881uy53wuN%james...@new.ox.ac.uk...
> > > http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
> > >
> > > When you have more money than sense.... The clue's in the link.
> >
> > It's not really a case of more money than sense. In this case it's a blender
> > company spending $500 advertising their blenders and reaching tens of
> > thousands of people.
> >
> > Quite shrewd really.
> >
> > Fred.
>
> Completely failed on me then - I never even clocked what sort of blender
> it was, and a colleague did ask, but we still don't know.
It's an ongoing meme, especially on YouTube. "Will it blend?" they ask,
and then proceed to blend various things you wouldn't expect a blender
to cope with.
The idea being that the thing becomes viral (as it has, IMO) and people
send links to other people. Even if just a small percentage of these
people are after a heavy-duty blender (most likely to be in the catering
industry?) then they'll be interested - and will probably just google
"will it blend" (and the company is the first hit).
I think what they've done is pretty good. Cheap, cheap advertising,
survives exceptionally well in the internet memepool (I saw people
jokingly ask "will it blend?" as soon as the iPhone was announced), and
word of mouth will likely hit enough potential buyers to be very much
worth it.
-zoara-
--
defecation occurs
Steve Firth
> BTW: beryllium, yes, fun stuff. AFAIK, it works as a catalytic
> poison, so microscopic amounts serve nicely.
It featured in a story byy Colin Kapp in his "Unorthodox Engineers"
series, possibly "Getaway from Getawehi" but I don't have a copy to hand
so I'm not sure. It causes granulomas in the lungs if inhaled and the
mode of action is broadly similar to the way that asbestos causes
mesotheliomas.
Bella Jones
> James Dore <james...@new.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Fred Finisterre <finis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > "James Dore" <james...@new.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message
> > > news:1i132s6.1ug73881uy53wuN%james...@new.ox.ac.uk...
> > > > http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
> > > >
> > > > When you have more money than sense.... The clue's in the link.
> > >
> > > It's not really a case of more money than sense. In this case it's a
> > > blender company spending $500 advertising their blenders and reaching
> > > tens of thousands of people.
> > >
> > > Quite shrewd really.
> > >
> > > Fred.
> >
> > Completely failed on me then - I never even clocked what sort of blender
> > it was, and a colleague did ask, but we still don't know.
>
> It's an ongoing meme, especially on YouTube. "Will it blend?" they ask,
> and then proceed to blend various things you wouldn't expect a blender
> to cope with.
I wonder if it could cope with the Great Arsebiscuit of Doom.
--
bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
PeterD
> zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
> > It's an ongoing meme, especially on YouTube. "Will it blend?" they ask,
> > and then proceed to blend various things you wouldn't expect a blender
> > to cope with.
>
> I wonder if it could cope with the Great Arsebiscuit of Doom.
For sure - the GAoD is already a blend. Now, if you tried it with the
Krispy Single Malted Knobfinger, I don't fancy the blender's chances.
--
Pd
Bella Jones
Referest thou to your own Doughty Twinkie?
PeterD
> PeterD <pd....@dsl.pipex.invalid> wrote:
> > For sure - the GAoD is already a blend. Now, if you tried it with the
> > Krispy Single Malted Knobfinger, I don't fancy the blender's chances.
>
> Referest thou to your own Doughty Twinkie?
Doughty it may be, but soft sickly Twinkie is furthest from the truth.
And referest I not.
--
Pd