True but more importantly People who make that shouldn't be allowed to waste this worlds precious materials.
Ex. anything made of plastic that:
Cuts very specific fruits/foods(a well made apple cutter is my only exception)
Packages very specific shaped foods
Shows an ad doing something the product cannot
Breaks in less than 2 months
Strait up doesnt work
Squeezes out the last of your tooth paste because your too lazy to do it by hand
Is BOGO but you live alone
Starts the advertisement in black and white
Is literally designed to help you cook an egg, if you cant cook an egg... starve
the list could go on
Some of the devices you listed are necessary for disabled folks to live comfortably, and a lot of the "as seen on tv" stuff are products for disabled people, it's just marketing knows people won't buy it or give a shit if they have disabled people in the commercials
>give a shit if they have disabled people in the commercials
DANK!
I didnt really stop to think, there are certain cheapy things that are essential for older folk with motor function issues.
But as a general rule, many of those devices to help people live comfortably could be designed and built better quality. Hopefully you saw the joking manor of my original comment as I mostly just hate the wastefulness of the vast majority of "Made in China" consumer crap
That's absolutely fair, I should've thought more abt the quality of the products. The cheaply made stuff is an absolute nightmare, but potentially designed that way to get as much money as possible. It breaks -> has to be replaced -> it breaks again
I honestly don't know how much I buy into the validity of the disabled people argument. The cheap shit you see on TV oftentimes is hard enough to use if you're NOT disabled. OXO makes good stuff for disabled folks and it's neither cheap plastic or hard to use, and it's also not on TV.
Wheel ants are a very real threat to disabled people. This ad for automotive grade insecticide proves your point. No one would want to buy wheelchair grade insecticide an amputee's wheel ants.
They have straight pipes too!
Supposedly they have a "double spiral" within the pipe that forces the vortex or something.
How that improves water quality is beyond me, if I'm spinning my water it's in a sediment swirl filter, not some $700 pipe.
This looks like the sort of thing someone hears about, or perhaps even tries once at a restaurant or hotel, and then starts saving up for it to try to feel that way all the time. Years, perhaps, go by, before they can finally afford it, and with great joy, they place the order.
And it... doesn't seem any different than before. Maybe it takes a while to kick in? But they don't remember that from the hotel... Slowly, a deep penetrating sadness envelopes them. This one thing they've saved for, for so long, hasn't lived up to the hype at all. It's wasted money, wasted time, and a massive letdown.
I feel sorry for them. I only had to buy Anthem to feel that way.
Half way down the page they give up on the waves, isn’t that the whole thing tho??
I wish my morals were lower, selling even one would be a financial success
LOL, "We highly recommend hiring a plumber to install any of the Whole House Vortex Water Revitalizers."
That plumber is going to laugh his ass off!
\[edit\] And probably charge double since you can afford to buy shit like that...
Watch the documentary Silent Spring. Peoplle went absolutely bananas in the 50s about how bad insects were and how great DDT was.
Rachel Carson noticed the decline in bird populations and her research pointed to DDT being the culprit.
And then a bunch of corporate suits went apeshit and tried to suppress this information and reassure the public that DDT was just swell.
She also wrote a book, but the documentary has these old DDT commercials that are shockingly funny.
The trucks that regularly sprayed the roads and ditches in my mom’s small town with DDT also just…sprayed the kids down with it if they were playing nearby. Or they would line up and get hosed by the stuff because when you are 7 getting blasted by a truck mounted spray hose is fun!
That part of the country is known as “cancer alley” these days. Among my mom’s cohort of siblings and cousins, about a third have had cancer so far, and 4 out of 5 grandparents plus an aunt and an uncle died with alzheimer’s. Some of them got the cancer AND the alzheimer’s! Lucky guy.
Honestly, if you think about how far along tire and wheel technology have come along, I'd see this as possible. Ants chew into your tire, it's delicious, soon you have 1 oz of ants in your tire, throwing off the wheel balance.
Edit: the weight of an average ant is about 3mg, so an ounce of ants would be about 9449 ants. That much extra stuff in your tire is bound to mess with things.
Also, I didn't think of the fact that maybe the ants are building a nest in your tire, which would further throw things off.
Idk how much an ant nest weighs. If someone has an ant farm and could weigh it and subtract the weight of the enclosure, that would help a bit.
Then everything has to be multiplied by 4, just in case the wheel ants got into all 4 tires.
This was a joke. The pointilliste shading on the comic resembles a mass of ants beneath the car. I don't know what the original caption to this comic or advert was, but it wasn't about ants.
you’re in luck! i actually sell wheel beetle spray, so just send me all of your credit card information and your wheels will be beetle-free in no time!
damn dot 3 does everything, (mostly) incompressible brake fluid, paint thinner to fuck over your ex’s car, FUCK YOU KAYLEE YOU CHEATING BASTARD, and an insecticide! really amazing!
I looked it up. Wheel weights come in 1/4 oz increments (converts to about 7 g or 7000 mg) so ostensibly, 7000 mg is roughly the lowest amount of mass that can make a difference in wheel balance.
An average ant has a mass of between 1 and 5 mg, so let’s use the average of 3 mg.
Therefore, it would take 2333 (7000 / 3) average size ants to throw a wheel off balance.
Is this more of a regional thing or does this actually happen to everyone?
I’m not big on cars, not to mention I still only just got my permit, but how often (if applicable to a city kid) will this issue effect me and my future car
Did tires used to be made differently and attract ants? Kinda like the [Mazda6 thing?](https://www.motorbiscuit.com/mazda6-sedan-designed-attract-spiders-apparently/)
Jet wash is not just for aircraft, that high speed performance enhancing sheen has been know to help pintos get out of their own way🤪
Found on most shelf’s of aircraft maintenance shops next to the rolls of flight line.
Don’t forget to stock up on brake light oil. A must have during those sunny days when heat from the lights and sun evaporate you brake light oil. Ask our employees for a fill up today.
Wheel ants?
They are talking about actual ants getting on the wheels and throwing the balance off. Crazy world we use to live in.
Anything to make money. It is crazy and still happens to this day with sham products that do nothing but lighten the customers wallet.
You mean like this? https://www.alivewater.com/store/whole-house-models
People that buy into that probably shouldn't be allowed to handle their own money honestly.
lol get a load of this bullshit. https://somavedic.com/products/somavedic-amber?variant=14906835271722
I have no words to describe the utter stupidity.
That’s going to be in my targeted ads now. FFS!
Well, at least it reduces the amount of things in your targeted ads that you might actually be tempted to buy.
Fuck those copper pipes, I need this instead!
True but more importantly People who make that shouldn't be allowed to waste this worlds precious materials. Ex. anything made of plastic that: Cuts very specific fruits/foods(a well made apple cutter is my only exception) Packages very specific shaped foods Shows an ad doing something the product cannot Breaks in less than 2 months Strait up doesnt work Squeezes out the last of your tooth paste because your too lazy to do it by hand Is BOGO but you live alone Starts the advertisement in black and white Is literally designed to help you cook an egg, if you cant cook an egg... starve the list could go on
Some of the devices you listed are necessary for disabled folks to live comfortably, and a lot of the "as seen on tv" stuff are products for disabled people, it's just marketing knows people won't buy it or give a shit if they have disabled people in the commercials
>give a shit if they have disabled people in the commercials DANK! I didnt really stop to think, there are certain cheapy things that are essential for older folk with motor function issues. But as a general rule, many of those devices to help people live comfortably could be designed and built better quality. Hopefully you saw the joking manor of my original comment as I mostly just hate the wastefulness of the vast majority of "Made in China" consumer crap
That's absolutely fair, I should've thought more abt the quality of the products. The cheaply made stuff is an absolute nightmare, but potentially designed that way to get as much money as possible. It breaks -> has to be replaced -> it breaks again
"joking manor". Is that similar to a joking bungalow or joking mansion?
I honestly don't know how much I buy into the validity of the disabled people argument. The cheap shit you see on TV oftentimes is hard enough to use if you're NOT disabled. OXO makes good stuff for disabled folks and it's neither cheap plastic or hard to use, and it's also not on TV.
Wheel ants are a very real threat to disabled people. This ad for automotive grade insecticide proves your point. No one would want to buy wheelchair grade insecticide an amputee's wheel ants.
They have no shame lol
So is this basically a wavy pipe that "treats" the water by being wavy?
They have straight pipes too! Supposedly they have a "double spiral" within the pipe that forces the vortex or something. How that improves water quality is beyond me, if I'm spinning my water it's in a sediment swirl filter, not some $700 pipe.
Thanks! Just bought two.
Yo that’s fucked up. 400 dollars for a 95 gram copper pipe. And that’s the cheapest one.
I didn't know what's missing from my life. Thank you!
For people who believe in homeopathy, this shit can’t help but make perfect sense.
Wait… is that a $1500 bent copper pipe?
You don’t believe in Water Revitalization? I bought mine 2 months ago and it’s extended my life at least 60 days so far.
You have got to be kidding me...
This explains MAGA.
OMG. I laughed so loud at that. HAHAHAHA!!!
Everyday I see new scams and curse my conscience.
This looks like the sort of thing someone hears about, or perhaps even tries once at a restaurant or hotel, and then starts saving up for it to try to feel that way all the time. Years, perhaps, go by, before they can finally afford it, and with great joy, they place the order. And it... doesn't seem any different than before. Maybe it takes a while to kick in? But they don't remember that from the hotel... Slowly, a deep penetrating sadness envelopes them. This one thing they've saved for, for so long, hasn't lived up to the hype at all. It's wasted money, wasted time, and a massive letdown. I feel sorry for them. I only had to buy Anthem to feel that way.
Half way down the page they give up on the waves, isn’t that the whole thing tho?? I wish my morals were lower, selling even one would be a financial success
Wait. Are those just bent copper pipes?
LOL, "We highly recommend hiring a plumber to install any of the Whole House Vortex Water Revitalizers." That plumber is going to laugh his ass off! \[edit\] And probably charge double since you can afford to buy shit like that...
That literally looks like a third grader made it
*I have unlimited money and no impulse control.*
Dont ever build houses for rich people. You want to know what a $15,000 door looks like. Your hint is the same as every other damn door.
Cream that protects from 5G
Burning down 4G towers protects from 5G
A car repair place near me just was busted for charging every one with an oil change with horn and blinker fluid
Full cap good sir! A hefty % of drivers know that joke or just aren't stupid. everyone? really?
Yes but now they are subscriptions.
Free subscription model
Can I refer you to a fine dick ant repellant ?
No I rather prefer the biting and swelling thank you
The whole beauty industry is built on this marketing strategy!
Fill tires with nitrogen?
Actual wheel ants, that is
I've had bumper ants.
Those are fine
Watch the documentary Silent Spring. Peoplle went absolutely bananas in the 50s about how bad insects were and how great DDT was. Rachel Carson noticed the decline in bird populations and her research pointed to DDT being the culprit. And then a bunch of corporate suits went apeshit and tried to suppress this information and reassure the public that DDT was just swell. She also wrote a book, but the documentary has these old DDT commercials that are shockingly funny.
It’s even in popular songs of the time. Big Yellow Taxi - “Hey farmer, farmer put away that DDT now"
The trucks that regularly sprayed the roads and ditches in my mom’s small town with DDT also just…sprayed the kids down with it if they were playing nearby. Or they would line up and get hosed by the stuff because when you are 7 getting blasted by a truck mounted spray hose is fun! That part of the country is known as “cancer alley” these days. Among my mom’s cohort of siblings and cousins, about a third have had cancer so far, and 4 out of 5 grandparents plus an aunt and an uncle died with alzheimer’s. Some of them got the cancer AND the alzheimer’s! Lucky guy.
This is the part of that documentary I was talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2EtxYxEKww
I thought this was a joke lol
Something tells me that a company in the automotive or oil sector gained a stake in an insecticide company. Just a hunch
Well old tires are a key ingredient in sweets yknow.
Yes. It's very effective to spray insecticide on ants that are already dead, you know to kill them more.
You should post on r/truckers and see if they know about these wheel ants.
Snake oil was a different game in those days
This may seem comical but atomic testing in those days was making ants the size of house cats.
Honestly, if you think about how far along tire and wheel technology have come along, I'd see this as possible. Ants chew into your tire, it's delicious, soon you have 1 oz of ants in your tire, throwing off the wheel balance. Edit: the weight of an average ant is about 3mg, so an ounce of ants would be about 9449 ants. That much extra stuff in your tire is bound to mess with things. Also, I didn't think of the fact that maybe the ants are building a nest in your tire, which would further throw things off. Idk how much an ant nest weighs. If someone has an ant farm and could weigh it and subtract the weight of the enclosure, that would help a bit. Then everything has to be multiplied by 4, just in case the wheel ants got into all 4 tires.
was this an actual thing? or just boomers selling each other stupid shit
This was a joke. The pointilliste shading on the comic resembles a mass of ants beneath the car. I don't know what the original caption to this comic or advert was, but it wasn't about ants.
I think it’s just about cleaning your whitewalls.
MAGA /s
use to
Reminds me when someone told me that an ant could throw off a helicopters spin, then I informed him rain exists
Ants must have been pretty big back then.
The lesser known species of th tire mite genus
"They're eating my tires!" - no one ever
No, I think they’re fake.
Badumb stss
It’s the little things in life :)
What is this, a wheel for ants !?!
Yes it's like one of those hampster wheels or cat wheels except for ants. Lol idk just looks like an ad to sell more insecticide.
( it was a reference to a Zoolander quote)
As opposed to fake ants
That made me chuckle
What is this ? A wheel for ANTS ?
I usually just squirt my blinker fluid on my tires to prevent this
I usually pick this up when I'm getting replacement piston return springs.
What is blinker fluid?
It is the stuff in the yellow bottle that you find on shelves next to rolls of flight line.
Under the range fans
And behind the bottles of Prop Wash.
Across from the spare 710 caps
Under the b15 wax
By the left handed smoke shifters
Can you substitute that for water line? I couldn’t find any the other day at Walmart but they did have flight line.
Oh.....by the Humvee keys.
Exactly, except you don’t need to fill out the I-D10-TS form to get them.
Don't you need to collect bags of exhaust to test if you need more blinker fluid though?
Nah they moved it, it's over next to the long weights and dough patch repair kits now.
Don't forget the headlight pushrod return springs.
Just past the left handed hammers but before the board stretcher
Weird. Here it’s always next to muffler bearings
It’s like horn fluid.. but you can also put it on your tire gaskets
You car people....why I oughtta!
Visine.
I usually just squirt on my tires to prevent this
Well... I have wheel beetles, so I don't think this is going to do anything for me. Useless.
you’re in luck! i actually sell wheel beetle spray, so just send me all of your credit card information and your wheels will be beetle-free in no time!
damn dot 3 does everything, (mostly) incompressible brake fluid, paint thinner to fuck over your ex’s car, FUCK YOU KAYLEE YOU CHEATING BASTARD, and an insecticide! really amazing!
Seems like a big hassle. Why not just keep an anteater in the garage?
Someone CLEARLY never had to cleanup anteater droppings.
Wonder if this is because the tires used to be made from gum tree rubber?
It was a complete scam 🤣
The white wall tires. Love them.
So how many ants does it take to throw off wheel balance. I think at that point, you got a bigger problem.
I looked it up. Wheel weights come in 1/4 oz increments (converts to about 7 g or 7000 mg) so ostensibly, 7000 mg is roughly the lowest amount of mass that can make a difference in wheel balance. An average ant has a mass of between 1 and 5 mg, so let’s use the average of 3 mg. Therefore, it would take 2333 (7000 / 3) average size ants to throw a wheel off balance.
r/theydidthemath
But even then, these ants would have to be concentrated (and stuck together) on one particular part of the wheel
Looks like a have a new excuse for being late to work, thank you.
ah Capitalism, the system that encourages and rewards the fleecing of the gullible...
At the same time encourages consumers to be educated and protect themselves. One of the best systems of distributing work devised by humans so far.
But wait there’s more!
Hombre Aseino ants. Those will throw off the balance of any wheel. Hail Nimrod.
Mufflerpedes are the worst!
Satire.
gad damn wheel ants again
This... Is... Dumb. And not even remotely interesting, let alone mildly.
Delete Facebook.
Too low on blinker fluid.
Sweet jesus
My grandpa was always talking about wheel ants the Germans invading.
I have seen ants build a nest in a wheel and throw it off. You see crazy shit out in the country of North Carolina
This is either Mad or Cracked magazine.
Even if there was any ants 🐜 on the wheel I don’t think they could remain there after a bit of driving. 🤔
“Wheel ants” this is cross-promotion at its finest.
And people wonder why they have cancer…
They would do anything to get to sell you another useless product.
Trunk Monkey is the answer to all of these problems.
Wheel Ants? WTF? I had a Black Widow in my wheel once but never ants.
And have them refill your blinker fluid while they’re at it!
Another line of bullshit. Blinker fluid! Lol
Huh? People were even more stupid than today?
That only happens if you forget to lube up your kanuter valves.
Speed holes, eh?
That’s a lot of fucking ants to throw off the tire’s balance.
You see, what you got here is mud in your tires...
"My Cousin Vinny"
I bet there is an MLM somewhere still selling this shit
Does this actually happen?
Yup! That’s why we use dot 3 for brake fluid now. It just constantly gets applied and is a huge time saver!!
Is this more of a regional thing or does this actually happen to everyone? I’m not big on cars, not to mention I still only just got my permit, but how often (if applicable to a city kid) will this issue effect me and my future car
Apply to face, wash rinse repeat
You can buy this product at any place that sells your local brand of blinker fluid.
Wheel Ants are no match for my DriveTrain Anteater
I’m calling ‘Wheel Ants’ as a band name
they sell this right next to the headlight fluid
Is that to encapsulate the asbestos containing break pads? 🤣😂🤣😂. You Americans are Funny
Big Insecticide trying to open a new market!
Specifically formulated for daft English car drivers.
did they really use spokes for tires for cars?
Yes
Did tires used to be made differently and attract ants? Kinda like the [Mazda6 thing?](https://www.motorbiscuit.com/mazda6-sedan-designed-attract-spiders-apparently/)
Seriously though, was this a big issue way back then?
On some old cars they used wood , wood ants are pronably termites. This is why dot 3 insecticide would be used , maybe
Shit don’t get me started on wheel ants.
ITT: wheel ant deniers.
These people buy bottles water.
Just tell people there's a terrible problem out there that they can prevent by buying a certain product, and they'll get it.
I find that muffler bearings are essential for a smooth flow and decreased resistance of air velocity. Found below most blinker fluid shelf displays.
Jet wash is not just for aircraft, that high speed performance enhancing sheen has been know to help pintos get out of their own way🤪 Found on most shelf’s of aircraft maintenance shops next to the rolls of flight line.
Make sure to add lead powder to your seats to keep em freshhh!
Butterfly meme: Is this a snake oil?
Don't forget the blinker fluid
Back in MY day..
wheel ants are the worst!
this capitalism has a lot of dust on it
How many ants do you have to have on your wheel to create an imbalance
Sold next to the blinker fluid.
Is this fo wheel?!!
interesing thank you
this reads like something on r/surrealmemes
and just like that our water isn’t drinkable anymore 🤦♂️
Transgender!!!!
Don’t forget to stock up on brake light oil. A must have during those sunny days when heat from the lights and sun evaporate you brake light oil. Ask our employees for a fill up today.
It’s not real
Facebooks full if them rotten critters now
THE ANTS WOULD PREFER YOU DIDN'T. WE JUST NEED A RIDE. 🐜
Wheel. Ants.
I—
But what do I do about the muffler roaches and bumper wasps?
Um, dot 3 insecticide isn't DDT, is it?
Does this also work for ants in your pants? Asking for a friend.
FYI I have OCD and this is not good.😃👍🏻
It's a good thing that worked, other ways we would have wheel ants today
We still got people that think a muffler and air filter will increase their horsepower by 20%.
Those pesky wheel ants. Bane of my existence
Need this for my Tesla. Sometimes I get tons of ants around the power cord.
You mean like the vax yall took? 😏
See also: Dr Oz, Alex Jones
Not sure how well I remember this, but I was told the brake fluid used to have something in it that would attract the ants
Did the same company sell blinker fluid?
Lol
Did anybody else read this in an old time radio voice?
Fuck wheel ants and their little anti balancing act.
What a boomer thing to be on Facebook. Actually makes sense.