July• 2019 | 101That’s Outrageous!
DO WE REALLY NEED THAT?
BY MEGAN JONESshe has left to stay in
control – her feminine
wiles. This French
Pinot Noir is similarly
seductive,” read one,
referring to the series’ protagonist.
As it turns out, a tie-in with a story
about women being exploited for
their reproductive capabilities didn’t
make for a popular wine promotion.
Facing backlash, Lot18 cancelled
the wines within 24 hours. Not so
blessed were the fruits.AN OVERCOOKED IDEA
It’s a problem that’s plagued humans
since the invention of the toaster: you
drop your bread into the appliance,
then watch it emerge charred. Griffin
Technology claimed to have solved
this conundrum with its Connected
Toaster, which is controlled by an
app that allows users to dial in a
temperature and heating time –
preferences it remembers. While the
device was never released due to a
lack of customer interest, don’t fret:
these feats can be accomplished by
setting a ‘dumb’ toaster’s knobs to the
right spot, and leaving them there.EGO HYGIENE
Finally – men needn’t
risk harming their
masculinity every time
they visit the pharmacist.
In the US, Unilever offers the Q-tips
Men’s Pack, a bundle of cotton swabs
that are identical to the regular ones
but promise to be so much more.
According to the packaging, these
Q-tips are the ‘ultimate multi-tool’
and are necessary for ‘detailing,
cleaning and building’. What are
men supposed to be building inside
their ears? We might never know –
and that’s totally fine with us.BAD AFTERTASTE
Not every TV series needs related
products. Case in point: last year,
wine curators Lot18 announced a
collection of bottles based onThe
Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s
book-turned-show in which women
are enslaved by a totalitarian state.
The products’ descriptions left many
wondering if they already live in
a dystopian future: “Completely
stripped of her rights and freedoms,
ILLUSTRATION: PIERRE LORANGEROffred must rely on the one weapon