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Your favorite As Seen On TV garbage

Officer Big Mac

Officer Big Mac

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I saw this on a Vic Berger video and I'd never seen it before. I would be very hesitant to put my hair near anything that was spinning really fast. Plus you look ridiculous and your curls look like shit.

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But what does the woman in the iron mask think about all of this?

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Kard8p3

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Aren't most of these products actually for people with disabilities, and they use commericals like this so they aren't embarrassed about buying it?
 
thecouncil

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That woman in the mask reminded me of Cinco products and that reminded me of the sleepwatching chair which is such a great bit that I'm just gonna post it here:

 
MrNewVegas

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One of the staples of my youth that has died off with time. Watching shitty infomercials at 2 am lol.
 
L Thammy

L Thammy

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Kard8p3 said:
Aren't most of these products actually for people with disabilities, and they use commericals like this so they aren't embarrassed about buying it?
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I've heard that.

Although I have to assume there are also ginsu knife cases where people just realize that the product sucks and so they try to figure out a cheap, effective way of suckering people into buying them.
 
Kard8p3

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n00bs7ay3r said:
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www.bustle.com

As-Seen-On-TV Products Aren’t For “Lazy People” — They Make Disabled People’s Lives Easier

One of the very, very few issues with a late-night Netflix binge sesh is that you miss out on late-night TV infomercials. You know the kind: They usually feature delightfully retro music, egregious overacting, and products that you think couldn’t…
www.bustle.com www.bustle.com

www.vox.com

Products mocked as "lazy" or "useless" are often important tools for people with disabilities

From banana slicers to sock sliders to pre-peeled oranges.
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riotous said:
What?
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TheMango55

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Kard8p3 said:
www.bustle.com

As-Seen-On-TV Products Aren’t For “Lazy People” — They Make Disabled People’s Lives Easier

One of the very, very few issues with a late-night Netflix binge sesh is that you miss out on late-night TV infomercials. You know the kind: They usually feature delightfully retro music, egregious overacting, and products that you think couldn’t…
www.bustle.com www.bustle.com

www.vox.com

Products mocked as "lazy" or "useless" are often important tools for people with disabilities

From banana slicers to sock sliders to pre-peeled oranges.
www.vox.com www.vox.com






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I think the disconnect here is that you said these products are FOR people with disabilities, as in, designed and marketed with disabled people in mind.

Nobody is saying that people with disabilities can't make use of these products.

And it also doesn't negate the hilarity of infomercials presenting everyday activities as nearly impossible to accomplish for able bodied people.
 
Kard8p3

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TheMango55 said:
I think the disconnect here is that you said these products are FOR people with disabilities, as in, designed and marketed with disabled people in mind.

Nobody is saying that people with disabilities can't make use of these products.

And it also doesn't negate the hilarity of infomercials presenting everyday activities as nearly impossible to accomplish for able bodied people.
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I said they were not marketed directly at people with disabilities, so as they wouldn't feel embarrassed about buying them.

That's kind of the point.
 
TheMango55

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Kard8p3 said:
I said they were not marketed directly at people with disabilities directly, so as they wouldn't feel embarrassed about buying them.

That's kind of the point.
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I feel pretty confident that the vast majority weren't designed for people with disabilities either.

They are for the most part just inventions (often very innovative, sometimes pointless) that aren't revolutionary enough to go mainstream.
 
riotous

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Kard8p3 said:
www.bustle.com

As-Seen-On-TV Products Aren’t For “Lazy People” — They Make Disabled People’s Lives Easier

One of the very, very few issues with a late-night Netflix binge sesh is that you miss out on late-night TV infomercials. You know the kind: They usually feature delightfully retro music, egregious overacting, and products that you think couldn’t…
www.bustle.com www.bustle.com

www.vox.com

Products mocked as "lazy" or "useless" are often important tools for people with disabilities

From banana slicers to sock sliders to pre-peeled oranges.
www.vox.com www.vox.com






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The vast majority it of as seen on TV products aren't like these though.
 
n00bs7ay3r

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TheMango55 said:
I feel pretty confident that the vast majority weren't designed for people with disabilities either.

They are for the most part just inventions (often very innovative, sometimes pointless) that aren't revolutionary enough to go mainstream.
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And even if they were developed with people with disabilities in mind. The point of advertising them they way they are in informercials is almost certainly not to make people with disabilities feel less embarrassed about buying them.

EDIT: In fact, if they were designed for people with disabilities to make their lives easier it would make infinitely more sense to market directly to those people.
 
MikeHattsu

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Kard8p3 said:
www.bustle.com

As-Seen-On-TV Products Aren’t For “Lazy People” — They Make Disabled People’s Lives Easier

One of the very, very few issues with a late-night Netflix binge sesh is that you miss out on late-night TV infomercials. You know the kind: They usually feature delightfully retro music, egregious overacting, and products that you think couldn’t…
www.bustle.com www.bustle.com

www.vox.com

Products mocked as "lazy" or "useless" are often important tools for people with disabilities

From banana slicers to sock sliders to pre-peeled oranges.
www.vox.com www.vox.com
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Says in the articles:
Though not all of these infomercial-style products are specifically made for disabled people — even the Snuggie, which many people think was invented for wheelchair users, was not — many of them have the capacity to seriously improve life for people living with disabilities (and non-disabled people alike).
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Still, not all of these "useless inventions" were developed with the disability community in mind. Monique Haas, of the Hutzler Manufacturing Company that makes the infamous banana slicer, explains: "We are trying to look at what would make life in the kitchen easy for anyone and everyone. We do have a lot of one-handed things, just because it is easier to use one hand."
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StopMakingSense

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n00bs7ay3r said:
And even if they were developed with people with disabilities in mind. The point of advertising them they way they are in informercials is almost certainly not to make people with disabilities feel less embarrassed about buying them.

EDIT: In fact, if they were designed for people with disabilities to make their lives easier it would make infinitely more sense to market directly to those people.
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And how do you market directly to just disabled people? Especially back before the internet?

As for the items themselves, it really depends, the ones that are more obviously for disabled people if you stop to think for a couple seconds usually are made for people with disabilities, though. Usually the things that make you think 'how lazy do you have to be to want that?'

Reminds me of a friend of mine who posted on Facebook an ASOTV device for helping people put on their socks without having to bend over to that exact 'how lazy would you have to be?', and I had to tell them I was actually looking at that exact product because it would help me out every single day with my arthritis pain.
 
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1upsuper

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I find the narrative that companies need to avoid marketing directly towards disabled people so that they don't feel bad is worse than making fun of the legitimately funny "are you tired of" infomercial segments.

Do able-bodied people think every disabled person is ashamed of themselves? I'm sure as hell not.

Anyway, I don't think anything will top the Flowbee. Blades and vacuums are truly a match made in heaven.
 
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