Video How Much Stuff Can Timothy Jam Into His New Hoodie's Pockets? (Video) 183
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Timothy Lord is exactly the kind of person for whom the SCOTTEVEST Ultimate Hoodie Microfleece was designed; He's on the go all the time, needs to travel light, and wants to carry lots of stuff on his person to avoid checking luggage when he's flying. Yes, we know; before long half the people waiting to board airliners will be bulked out to double their normal width. Meanwhile, Timothy managed to jam an amazing amount of stuff into his new hoodie. Or jacket, as he prefers to call it.
Re:Obligatory "why is this on /." post (Score:0, Informative)
exactly, I can understand the news-funniness when a woman gets caught stealing a frigging chainsaw under her skirt.. but this?? (in Finland, there's this gypsy/romano minority that has traditional clothing with skirts designed with many layers and well, pockets inside them, it's sort of racist, but true stories.. and the traditional garments haven't been really in use for that long).
(they're also the minority to go to if you want meth. and a knife in your eye)
Just make it clear: is it an ad or not? (Score:5, Informative)
Why don't you mark this as a paid advertisement? (or if it really isn't, then make it clear because everyone assumes it is.)
Listen, I have no problem with Slashdot making money. But....you HAVE to know that this kind of thing is going to be flamed. So why not make it clear that a post has been paid for? Sure you'll still get some negative feedback, but I bet it'd be a lot less.
If I were Scottevest, I'd be pretty pissed about the conversation.generated by my ad. Hell, if I were them I'd never have advertised in the first place precisely because of that.
You upset your readers because they feel like they're being sold out - and you make the advertiser look bad. Not a good strategy, IMO.
Re:Just make it clear: is it an ad or not? (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, I bought the jacket myself (mostly because one of my coworkers raved about the company's products); if it were provided by the company, I would have said so. Scottevest has / had no idea that I was going to review this, and there's no connection between Slashdot and them (except for the obvious one disclosed -- ThinkGeek is one vendor of their gear, and Slashdot and ThinkGeek share a parent organization). Maybe one day they'll send me a great big gold-plated crate of dubloons, or special anti-gravity pants, but not yet.
My continuing impression is positive, btw, having worn this thing a lot in the last few weeks. I am skeptical about some of the pockets' longevity, but then, I'm hard on pockets, pretty bad about leaving pokey things in there (keys, etc). So, I'm hoping I still like it 6 months or a year from now.
timothy
Least Impressive Post Ever (Score:3, Informative)
wow! a hoodie with pockets! holy shit. break out the champagne, eureaka they have done! i cant believe i watched that whole video. i was assuming he would be packing a beowulf cluster of trs80's and a high res 21" CRT in there. but no, just some gum, chargers, and candy bars. i nominate this video for the least impressive thing i have ever seen on /.
anybody seen some totally lamely awesome 2am cable style slashvertisements? we should at least try and make this post into something fun. and they obviously want us to make fun of them
Polite cough (Score:5, Informative)
Submitter blocked from ever appearing on my front page again.
One step closer to removing this site from daily bookmarks.
And I *paid* to get rid of advertisements once already. Sure, we could argue about definitions of that in court but it's easier to just never come back here.
You want money? Ask for it. Don't alienate your regulars. I consider this "article" an utter betrayal of your geek cred, to be honest. Do it again, and I won't come back.
The last year, I've found myself doing nothing but finding reasons NOT to return to this site, if I'm honest, and have had to use my filters whereas before I never used them once. If you were actually *doing* anything, like making in Unicode compatible, or providing new features, then some things could be excused. But you are just doing nothing more than Yes/No and a little editing on user submissions. How well is that going to go when all the users bugger off because of abuses like this?
Sort it out, Slashdot.