Power Balance bracelets - the new phenomenom

[mighty_tiger_79]

Anyone see the story on TT this evening???

i saw it

looks like a whole heap of shite

[mick]

I've never mentioned it before I'm selling rights to tolls on a bridge in Sydney, guaranteed $100,000 pa income, only $500 to get on board. People who bought the power bracelet should contact me ASAP.

[am Bays]

I think this quote from an 80s movie sum up the empirical evidence with respect to the effectiveness of Power Bracelets...

Crash Davis: If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid, or because you're not getting laid, or because you wear women's underwear, then you ARE! And you should know that! Come on, Annie, think of something clever to say, huh? Something full of magic, religion, bullshit. Come on, dazzle me.

Aceman if you think they'll work for you give 'em a go... But no one will ever determine the mechanism behind why they "work"...

[aceman]

I think this quote from an 80s movie sum up the empirical evidence with respect to the effectiveness of Power Bracelets...

Crash Davis: If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid, or because you're not getting laid, or because you wear women's underwear, then you ARE! And you should know that! Come on, Annie, think of something clever to say, huh? Something full of magic, religion, bullshit. Come on, dazzle me.

Aceman if you think they'll work for you give 'em a go... But no one will ever determine the mechanism behind why they "work"...

Been wearing one for 3 months, might well be MOM but I'm okay with that. I don't classify negativity towards the idea as one of my personal traits and still remember the show that was on TV a few years ago, Ripley's Believe it or not!.
The choice is yours to make.

[therisingblues]

I originally thought this thread was about Port Adelaide balancing their budget by selling gay wrist bands.
Either way I am not going to buy one.

[Sploosh]

The bracelets sound like a load of rubbish, but if some people choose to buy them, and then they feel they get benefit out of it, well, that's their business, I guess.

[Psyber]

I've realised there is a market for my latest invention.
It looks like a small self-adhesive paper rectangle. You place it on your wrist over your pulse.
Built into the paper device is an engram and nano-circuitry, which responds to your pulse and amplifies the energy giving you great sexual and intellectual stamina.

They are only $500 each which is cheap for such a wonderful product.
The Australian model is cleverly disguised as a local postal stamp so that no one will know you are using an artificial device to boost your prowess.
Watch your TV for my advertisements giving the post office box to send your order and money to...
Bulk rolls are available at a discount.

[Clever Dick]

I've realised there is a market for my latest invention.
It looks like a small self-adhesive paper rectangle. You place it on your wrist over your pulse.
Built into the paper device is an engram and nano-circuitry, which responds to your pulse and amplifies the energy giving you great sexual and intellectual stamina.

They are only $500 each which is cheap for such a wonderful product.
The Australian model is cleverly disguised as a local postal stamp so that no one will know you are using an artificial device to boost your prowess.
Watch your TV for my advertisements giving the post office box to send your order and money to...
Bulk rolls are available at a discount.

For someone who professes to be such a learned person, your imagination is so far fetched it's ridiculous.

[Psyber]

I've realised there is a market for my latest invention.
It looks like a small self-adhesive paper rectangle. You place it on your wrist over your pulse.
Built into the paper device is an engram and nano-circuitry, which responds to your pulse and amplifies the energy giving you great sexual and intellectual stamina.

They are only $500 each which is cheap for such a wonderful product.
The Australian model is cleverly disguised as a local postal stamp so that no one will know you are using an artificial device to boost your prowess.
Watch your TV for my advertisements giving the post office box to send your order and money to...
Bulk rolls are available at a discount.

For someone who professes to be such a learned person, your imagination is so far fetched it's ridiculous.

CD, I was taking the micky, and trying to be as far-fetched and ridiculous as the "power bracelet"..
I didn't think it would need explaining - it seemed ridiculously obvious that I was describing actual postage stamps.

Learning skills and imagination tend to go together, by the way.

[Lunchcutter]

I've realised there is a market for my latest invention.
It looks like a small self-adhesive paper rectangle. You place it on your wrist over your pulse.
Built into the paper device is an engram and nano-circuitry, which responds to your pulse and amplifies the energy giving you great sexual and intellectual stamina.

They are only $500 each which is cheap for such a wonderful product.
The Australian model is cleverly disguised as a local postal stamp so that no one will know you are using an artificial device to boost your prowess.
Watch your TV for my advertisements giving the post office box to send your order and money to...
Bulk rolls are available at a discount.

For someone who professes to be such a learned person, your imagination is so far fetched it's ridiculous.

CD, I was taking the micky, and trying to be as far-fetched and ridiculous as the "power bracelet"..
I didn't think it would need explaining - it seemed ridiculously obvious that I was describing actual postage stamps.

Learning skills and imagination tend to go together, by the way.

hehhehehe well I laughed out loud to Psyber's post, but each to their own. - whatever floats your boat

[therisingblues]

I've realised there is a market for my latest invention.
It looks like a small self-adhesive paper rectangle. You place it on your wrist over your pulse.
Built into the paper device is an engram and nano-circuitry, which responds to your pulse and amplifies the energy giving you great sexual and intellectual stamina.

They are only $500 each which is cheap for such a wonderful product.
The Australian model is cleverly disguised as a local postal stamp so that no one will know you are using an artificial device to boost your prowess.
Watch your TV for my advertisements giving the post office box to send your order and money to...
Bulk rolls are available at a discount.

For someone who professes to be such a learned person, your imagination is so far fetched it's ridiculous.

CD, I was taking the micky, and trying to be as far-fetched and ridiculous as the "power bracelet"..
I didn't think it would need explaining - it seemed ridiculously obvious that I was describing actual postage stamps.

Learning skills and imagination tend to go together, by the way.

Hmmm, I thought that by use of the word "imagination" he knew you were taking mickey.

[Psyber]

Hmmm, I thought that by use of the word "imagination" he knew you were taking mickey.

I wasn't sure what he meant...
But he seemed to think being apparently "learned" and having an imagination capable of far fetched ideas were somehow incompatible or even opposites...
Or, perhaps people who "profess" learnedness are supposed to be stolid and unimaginative, and maintain an air of earnestness as part of their image?

[Footy Chick]

Take a look at St Kilda- basically their whole team wears them!
I never thought one team could surely have had so many wrist injuries!

I'd believe it

[aceman]

Hmmm, I thought that by use of the word "imagination" he knew you were taking mickey.

I wasn't sure what he meant...
But he seemed to think being apparently "learned" and having an imagination capable of far fetched ideas were somehow incompatible or even opposites...
Or, perhaps people who "profess" learnedness are supposed to be stolid and unimaginative, and maintain an air of earnestness as part of their image?

Nice work! You lost me in the second sentence but that's not all that hard to do, BTW!

[am Bays]

*bump*

As I thought.

Well if you bought one and you are short of cash over Christmas maybe you can get some money for an extra slab of beer given what the ACCC have ordered the company that make Power Bands to do....

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ordered Power Balance Australia to refund all customers who feel they were misled by the supposed benefits of Power Balance bracelets.

Not a bad fashion accessory though for the late noughties

http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/fitness/power-balance-bracelets-exposed-as-a-sham-20101223-195u7.html

[Interceptor]

Shouldn've even been allowed on the market in the first place.

[brod]

*bump*

As I thought.

Well if you bought one and you are short of cash over Christmas maybe you can get some money for an extra slab of beer given what the ACCC have ordered the company that make Power Bands to do....

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ordered Power Balance Australia to refund all customers who feel they were misled by the supposed benefits of Power Balance bracelets.

Not a bad fashion accessory though for the late noughties

http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/fitness/power-balance-bracelets-exposed-as-a-sham-20101223-195u7.html

So thats why the guy at work gave me one to try for a couple of weeks first (only yesterday)