• (nodebb)

    The translations in that ant bait article are even funnier.

    Aussterben the Ant nests by feeding bait to within the ants Country.

    Sounds like an act of war to me.

  • (nodebb)

    I remember I bought some 3rd party bags for my Litter Genie off Amazon. Some time after I bought it, I noticed a picture on the packaging that didn't have what, I assume, was the needed copyright info for the source of the image (it was a picture of a cat from an anime). I wondered if that picture was there on the product page or if the company had snuck it on after taking the pictures for the Amazon page, but when I returned to the product page, the image was of toilet paper or paper towel. It was some trick some sellers were doing for some reason (I think it has something to do with getting good reviews and replacing the product with something bad, or likely to have bad reviews)

  • (nodebb)

    That Samsung EVO will surely protect my PC from bugs. ROFL

  • Brian (unregistered)

    I always get a laugh from these products with "evaporated cane juice". As if they're pretending a load of sugar is actually good for you.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Brian

    Usually it's not, but together with Atlantic salmon as part of Italian cheese, it's great for you.

  • Argle (unregistered)

    More information about Amazon: Years ago, I did some contract work for friends. Among other things, they had a problem with their own products' copy being changed. I wrote an application that scraped Amazon for just their listed products (they had hundreds) and I'd get an alert if there were changes to the specific product information. I don't know just the thinking behind it, but multiple vendors of identical products could modify one another's product descriptions. One day a cell-phone replacent screen became blueberry pie. I can only imagine some vendor out there hired his nephew and showed him how to update one of their products and.. "oops! you edited someone else's? don't worry about it. just move on."

  • matt (unregistered)

    On the topic of COMMON errors: Lyle, the most common type IS (not are), and submitter Mark, under the name of WHOever compiled the letters (not whomever).

  • Wildstar (unregistered)

    In addition to Raid, other available fragrances may include engine grease, tree sap, and napalm.

  • Die Kuhe (kein roboter) (unregistered) in reply to Mr. TA

    Nothing personal against anyone, but every time that you call "cheese" the mozzarella, a South-Italian dies a little inside... :'-(

  • Foo AKA Fooo (unregistered) in reply to matt

    I really could care less about such common grammar errors.

  • (nodebb)

    The reason to change the item description is to basically farm good reviews. You have a product that has good reviews, you then replace it with scam product and because the item is the same, the reviews stay.

    Amazon really needs to implement some sort of versioning for products and tie the product reviews to a revision of the product copy. If too much of it changes then they should point out the reviews are for this archived product copy. After all, you shouldn't need to make a million updates to a product copy other than fix minor typos and such, and you shouldn't need to update the title, photos, or make huge changes to the descriptions. Maybe after too many, the reviews simply disappear.

  • Klimax (unregistered)

    Amazon fun is long standing one: One of MANY articles about it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/amazon-still-hasnt-fixed-its-problem-with-bait-and-switch-reviews/

  • (nodebb)

    @Foo AKA Fooo OTOH garbled idioms are a whole 'nuther kettle of deer.

  • MacFrog (unregistered)

    If I'm not much mistaken, Christian wouldn't have to wait - rather he might be too late now. Doesn't it say "Monday, 1st of January"? This would likely have been this year, and not the upcoming Wednesday, January 1st, 2025...

  • (nodebb)

    Clearly Hemingway authored the letters he wrote - by definition. If somebody collected them in a book, I'd expect it to say "collected by" or "edited by".

    On a slightly different note, Amazon has been giving me recommendations based on my purchases for years. Have they changed the algorithm or are they just relabelling their existing algorithm "AI" for marketing purposes?

  • Thing your mosquito gave you that you don't know what it does (unregistered)

    There are pesticides that only work on one sex. If I developed one that used pheromones & only worked on male mosquitos, I would absolutely call it "Raid fragrance for men," but I'm guessing that's not what this was.

  • Thing your mosquito gave you that you don't know what it does (unregistered)

    (oh, also, such a fragrance for men would necessarily be part of a depopulation strategy, because the females are the ones that bite, not the males)

  • LZ79LRU (unregistered) in reply to Wildstar

    You laugh, but Tom Ford genuinely has an official product that makes you smell like motor oil and ashtrays.

  • (nodebb)

    Hmmm. Now I'm curious how lox and mozzarella tastes.

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