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The beauty of the free market is that it doesn’t judge you. In most American cities you can–in one shopping trip–buy a shotgun, shells, a children’s swimming pool and enough tacos to fill it up, and nobody will raise an eyebrow as long as your card doesn’t reject the charges.
But even the rational self-interest of the market takes the encouragement of our bad habits a bit too far. These are the products that seem specifically intended to turn us into a grave hazard to ourselves and others.
The beauty of the free market is that it doesn’t judge you. In most American cities you can–in one shopping trip–buy a shotgun, shells, a children’s swimming pool and enough tacos to fill it up, and nobody will raise an eyebrow as long as your card doesn’t reject the charges.
But even the rational self-interest of the market takes the encouragement of our bad habits a bit too far. These are the products that seem specifically intended to turn us into a grave hazard to ourselves and others.
ShareThe beauty of the free market is that it doesn’t judge you. In most American cities you can–in one shopping trip–buy a shotgun, shells, a children’s swimming pool and enough tacos to fill it up, and nobody will raise an eyebrow as long as your card doesn’t reject the charges.
But even the rational self-interest of the market takes the encouragement of our bad habits a bit too far. These are the products that seem specifically intended to turn us into a grave hazard to ourselves and others.
#6.Antipoleez Mints
The next time an officer of the law pulls you over after a long night knocking ’em back at T.J. McHooligans, or some nosy cop wants to know why you’re carrying a naked mannequin down main street at 4AM, ditch the vodka vapors with these hobo-breath-eliminating mints.
Ah, hold on. We spoke too soon. The website plainly says “never drink and drive” at the top. So these aren’t intended to aid illegal activity at all! What were we thinking? They’re probably just so you can hide your drinking from your wife, or employer, or your fellow astronauts on board the space shuttle. “Antipoleez” is probably just “breath mint” in some other language. And it has a picture of a police officer on the label because… uh…
Anyway, the makers of the coyly named Antipoleez breath mints tout them as having a “unique combination of components (which) work to increase the consumption of breath producing molecules by the epithelium of the mucous coat of the upper respiratory passages resulting in clean, fresh breath.” Which we think is just techno babble for “black magic and bull semen.” And we’re damned sure it won’t help you pass a breathalyzer test.
http://www.cracked.com/article/200_6-products-designed-solely-to-make-you-worse-person/
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