This chick is on hold for two hours and seventeen minutes waiting for a Crackberry rep to pick up.
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We Call Up Liquour Store That Allegedly Humiliated Readers Girlfriend
By 10.5.06
We called up Shannon to find out about The Wine Press policy against humiliating customers. She was very feisty. We told Keith to have his girlfriend call the manager. Actually the most part is the aspersions Shannon casts against blogs.
Extremely Irate Building Manager Screaming For Elevator Repair
By 10.4.06
Kudos to the customer service rep for remaining completely cool and professional the whole time (a study in contrasts).
Cingular Salesman Attack Each Other With Boxes
By 10.4.06
The stagnation has gotten so bad that their their salesman are reduced to cruel cardboard box pranks to entertain themselves.
Alton Brown Saves Us Money With Proper Knife Care
By 10.3.06
The Food Network’s Alton Brown explains proper knife knife care, and how to get the most bang out of your cutlery chums. The video also features some *very* dynamic camera blocking.
QVC Ladder of Shame
By 9.28.06
Here’s a classic (i.e., 9 months ago) video demonstrating the ease and reach of the Telesteps 12 1/2 Aluminum Telescoping Ladder. Not recommended for consumers maladroit at landing on their feet…
Soldier in Iraq Shoots Crappy HP Printer
By 9.11.06
Loosely in honor of 9/11, here’s an American soldier in Iraq expressing his dissatisfaction with an HP printer. With his automatic rifle. According to the original post on Break.com, after they sent this in to HP, they received a free new printer in return.
Other Side Of The USAA Phone Line
By 9.8.06
Here’s what’s happening on the other side of the phone line when you call into customer service with your inane questions…
Fox 6 Reporter Beaten on Camera By Identity Thief
By 9.7.06
And this is why we file all our reports from the safety of our apartment.
419 Scam Raid In Action
By 9.1.06
Here’s a sexy beeb video of a Nigerian cybercafe getting busted for sending out spam-scams. As thrilling as it is to see these jerks arrested, the EFCC’s job has to be akin to whack-a-mole.
Improv Everywhere Invades Home Depot
By 8.25.06
Softcore agit prop group Improv Everywhere sent 255 people to Home Depot in Manhattan to shop very slowly for five minutes.
Don’t Be This Consumer
By 8.21.06
Instead, he used the oldest black hat consumer trick and bought a new video ipod, put the old ipod in, and returned it.
Tap Icer Demo
By 8.18.06
Here’s an exciting way to save time when cracking ice, the Tap-Icer! Found this in a drawer here in the Poconos. They’re supposed to be good for crushing ice for martinis and mixed drinks.
Operation FTB: Taco Bell Sauce Dumping Video
By 8.14.06
I officially hate these Taco Bell jackasses now. Pedestrian rhetoric and wooting in the Taco Bell parking lot leads to storming a busy Taco Bell and disrupting everyone’s meal as they just completely trash the place by dropping 400 pounds worth of garbage on the floor. They claim that they “returned the sauce out of kindness” after rejecting the idea of using it as a prank, but come on… this was the prank.
GameCrazy Sales Training Video is So Bad it Hurts Good
By 8.8.06
Revel in the upsell tactics, uptempo snyths and local video production house stable of actors, especially Zelda Scott. She’s prone to lines like “I’m down here in the hizzouse, you know, the heezy, with the GC posse, to get the 411 on GameCrazy,” and “They can’t hate on our used games.”
The Source of An Inconvenient ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Spoof
By 8.4.06
Know this An Inconvenient Truth parody? If you’ve been on YouTube any time in the last 48 hours, very probably. Perhaps you were even one of the knee-jerk reactionaries who left a comment either praising (“Finally sockin’ it to those hippy pansies in the taint!”) or condemning it (“Wow, was that ever unfunny. Unlike that giant flap of skin on the neck of the guy who runs Exxon.”)
Head-On Watch Continues
By 8.3.06
It’s been a busy week for HeadOn. After making the blog rounds, it was the subject of a Slate feature and it burbled up to national media, appearing on the Nightly News, MSNBC and NPR’s “Day to Day.”
