The Most Mis-Used Products
 

Like it says, products that are misused (as opposed to their intended purpose).

I'll start:

Tennis shoes
Screwdrivers
Pocket knives

Kitchen knives

Coke bottles...

pesticides and herbicides. Almost without exception and without playing the organic card.

It is a federal offense to misuse either. A big example is Round-up. As soon as the dandelions come out people spray that shit all over the lawn. Dandelions don't pick up any nutrients or pesticides when they are flowering, they use up what was stored the previous late summer and fall. That is when you apply roundup.

Guns

Bungee cords ;)

I love a yard full of dandelions. Yes I know they're weeds and stuff. Not like the front yard all full of weeds...I get that issue, but a piece of land where the dandelions take over, way in the back. I think they're so pretty.

Q-Tips. It says right on the package that they are for makeup application only, and definitely not to ever stick one in your ear. Yeah, sure.

My ear holes are about the only places Qtips ever go. We call them cotton buds over here. Not to be confused with cotton balls which are used to apply stuff like antiseptic to wounds or remove nail polish. ;)

We all talked one time about the 'eargasm' when you get out of the shower and use a q tip in your ear. The wax is all melty and it feels so good to scratch the inside of your ear with that cotton and paper goddess the Q tip.

Yeah, I have those most days.

I'm always sticking them in my ears because I get psoriasis in my ear canal, so after a shower, or sometimes just after I get out of bed is when it happens. They get so itchy. :(

eta: I think for me, it's probably like when you scratch your pet on just that special spot that sends them into a frenzy of one legged scratching with no real purpose.

sometimes I have to concentrate really hard to keep my leg still...

LOL

Exactly.

Duct tape. Less than 1% is used on ducts.

Nitrous Oxide bulbs for, ahem, making whipped cream. Years ago I read they are among the top 20 selling items from Australian supermarkets and the amount sold is enough to whip all the cream sold in Australia many times over.

Likewise, sales of tobacco rolling papers greatly exceed sales of loose tobacco. Can't imagine why.

JEEPS

anal lube what? did I just type that?

Glove boxes.

Antibiotics

cell phones

carrots.

toothpicks/cocktail sticks

see -even the transatlantic interpretatiin is a clue......


....offspin thread coming right up........

Bamboo skewers...

On the subject of Q-tips, they are always in the Baby Products section in Philly drugstores. Wouldn't it be dangerous to poke a cotton swab around a baby's face/ears?

You're supposed to clean between baby's little fingers and toeses with them ...

They're good for baby detailing.

The internet

disagree

My aunt actually uses them for making whipped cream. The first year she bust out her new whipped-cream-maker-thingy at Thanksgiving, I blurted out, "Oh my God, why do you have whippets?!"

Even after I explained it, she thought I was completely making it up. This is the same woman who once gave my son a toy called a "Ballzac" and could not understand what was so funny.

My lawn mower

It is used for knocking down mole hills in the lawn, clearing paths through the woods,
taking down the garden in autumn, clearing blackberry vines, etc.

It takes a lickin' but keeps on...


We don't talk about my chain saw in public.

I thought that was BigV.

Oh, it was made for porn surfing? :rolleyes::D

you have a better product for that?

Crocs being used as footwear in public. Or indeed in private. I don't know if Crocs exist in other countries. If not, Google it, and you will agree.

Paperclips

Bulldozers

Max loves his crocs.

My Dad has several pairs on his back porch for when you just have to go do something in the house yard.

They have their uses, but should never ever be worn in public. That is one thing I agree with.

I've heard that you can boil and eat them.

They do look rather like a fungus.

Traffic cones

MacGyver!

Oh dear. What am I to do. The last time I had a pair of Tennis Shoes, I played tennis in them. Ilie Nastase signature. It's been a while. Come to think of it, I've not seen "tennis shoes" on sale lately. Basketball shoes, hiking shoes, street kicks, but shoes specifically for tennis? I probably don't get out enough. Sigh. I'm old enough to remember when the computer wore them.

And I do have Crocs. I worked in a hospital. You're allowed to have them if you worked in a hospital.

I do regularly misuse the Q-Tips. How else are you supposed to shift that gunk?

Do you have access to an air compressor?

The apt has some pretty strict noise ordinances, but I do have an Oreck vacuum.

Maybe if you did it in the middle of the afternoon no one would hear you scream.

Speaking of misused products...

What? cocks on your privates in public? what did I miss?

Orecked him? Damn near kilt him.

Speech as a product of human activity. Or should it be the brain?

Damn near kilt him.

Shampoo. I lather, I rinse, I hardly ever repeat.

Does anyone repeat?

if i have been working a a REAL Nasty place i have been known to rinse and repeat a FEW times

I'm not counting the times I've had to shampoo with Lindane.

Oh I hate shampooing with Lindane. She just goes on and on and on about hair and her husband and her church and her kids. Old motormouth.

Try Bigv after a plate of oysters.