Wait, Are Nerds Unaffected By The Economic Crisis?
Did you know that there are Flux Capacitor replicas that you can buy for 229 dollars? There are. Just in case you have 229 but don't have the ability to grow up.
Look, it's no secret that there is some stupid shit out there. Surely this is no more offensive than a Prada toothbrush, or a diamond-studded iPhone warmer. Although, as obnoxious and unnecessary as those two items that totally exist and that I didn't just make up are, they'd at least serve some nominal purpose. What is this thing supposed to do? It's not going to make your hair grow back! It's not going to change what happened at prom 20 years ago! Ugh. This is such a harmless toy that doesn't hurt anyone, and yet it makes me so mad. It's not so much that it's a waste of money, although it is definitely a waste of money, as it is the fact that we all have to do the work of growing up, nerds, so wipe the nostalgia out of your eyes. Your past is not precious.
Whatever. 229 dollar Flux Capacitor replicas, sure. Who am I to judge. You can buy them here.
Posted by Gabe at 5:45 PM in Dream Merch
Tags: Back To The Future | Darfur | Nerds
There is no defensible position one can offer as a reason for buying this. Except if you count tubby, t-shirted geek sadness.
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People buy these to put in the back of their deloreans. I'm serious. I have seen these at car shows.
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You trickster... You made me feel bad by linking to a site begging for money for Darfur when I wanted to read the site's justification for the Flux Capacitor replica. Now I have to walk around knowing I looked desperation in the eye and got annoyed because it wasn't a site devoted to that which makes time travel possible.
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You trickster... You made me feel bad by linking to a site begging for money for Darfur when I wanted to read the site's justification for the Flux Capacitor replica. Now I have to walk around knowing I looked desperation in the eye and got annoyed because it wasn't a site devoted to that which makes time travel possible.
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Real Nerds build their own Flux Capacitors.
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When I was making my Halloween costume this year, I needed a flux capacitor, so I was looking around on the internet and found this. I started to cry. Then I realized that I could draw one on paper and it would be cheaper than this. Nerds, just draw one on paper if you feel like you really need a flux capacitor. Because you don't and you will use the paper one just as much. Then you can use the 229 dollars on some sort of Pygmalion class for nerds.
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Having a bad day? I was more pissed off at the previous video of the cat sliding into the box. Now that was a colossal waste of time.
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But how will I get girls to like me without one?
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WHAT? You mean the damn thing doesn't really work?
(Wonder if it's too late to get my $229 back?)
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Isn't this amazingly condescending? While I know that such things are silly, saying that people should in some way grow out of their tacky childhood loves (enjoying Back to the Future too much) seems, in comparison, pretty tacky.
If anything this product is a shitty piece of (tacky) art that probably helps out a number of different industries and employs at least one artist. The product might suck when looked at by over-educated art critics like you and me, but it's no worse than a supposed "authentic artist" working so the he can pay for expensive positional goods like his studio apartment. By this logic we should stop supporting artists and, by proxy, send all of the retarded sums of money spent at black tie auctions to Darfur and not artists.
The latter I think everybody can agree with, the former not so much.
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Congratulations, Gabe. You just invented Darfur-rolling.
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Does it come with fake plutonium?
Does it at least blink?
If it does then maybe it could be used as some sort of Ultimate Dork nightlight or maybe it could be jimmy-rigged to be a toilet paper dispenser or something...
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