I got to "silicone br" and clicked...I'm such a fark-up...

It took balls to come out and tell everyone about your nut cancer.

I prefer real ones, silicone ones make their wrists look fake.

God I wish I had come up with that idea. Put a 1 cent hologram on a 10 cent bracelet, sell it for $5-$10, and tell people it "balances your energy" and let the placebo effect and positive correlation bias make me a mass millionaire.

//my mother hasn't spoken to me since I laughed in her face when she bought me one and expected me to wear it. I gave her a short explanation of placebo and correlation bias, stated that every person that bought these were utter fools, and that I really admire the guy who came up with the bracelets as he's a genius in the land of gullibility.

I'm pretty hip so of course I wear one

TravisBickle62: I'm pretty hip so of course I wear one


Me too, but I don't wear mine on my wrist...

Loaf's Tray: I got to "silicone br" and clicked...I'm such a fark-up...

great minds

Lexx: //my mother hasn't spoken to me since I laughed in her face when she bought me one and expected me to wear it. I gave her a short explanation of placebo and correlation bias, stated that every person that bought these were utter fools, and that I really admire the guy who came up with the bracelets as he's a genius in the land of gullibility.

"Psh, it wouldn't work for you anyway because you're closed-minded."

/You're not alone

It's a great way to let people know that you pretend to care about a cause.

This was the only thing I was ever hip about, and only because I'm a cycling dork.

I bought one during the Tour in '04 when Armstrong's foundation first starting selling them. For the next few months people kept asking me if I'd been to a concert the night before, etc.

I wore it til it broke pulling the knit nomex wristlet of my bunker coat off after a call on a hot summer day two years later.

CSB.

FWIW, my son's middle school banned "BOOBIES" bracelets because they are...titillating. If they were purely political speech, they'd be protected.

Look at me, I donated a dollar.

It's harder than you think to sell all of these "Irritiable Bowel Syndrome Awareness" brown magnetic car ribbons.

-- internet bracelet?

Lexx: God I wish I had come up with that idea. Put a 1 cent hologram on a 10 cent bracelet, sell it for $5-$10, and tell people it "balances your energy" and let the placebo effect and positive correlation bias make me a mass millionaire.

//my mother hasn't spoken to me since I laughed in her face when she bought me one and expected me to wear it. I gave her a short explanation of placebo and correlation bias, stated that every person that bought these were utter fools, and that I really admire the guy who came up with the bracelets as he's a genius in the land of gullibility.

No one's saying it's too late for you to get in on it. You just need to change the hologram design slightly so it's more finely tuned to the natural harmonic frequencies of something-or-other which makes it more efficient at balancing your chi. Maybe pay a guy who's 1/16th Cherokee to endorse them so you can say your bracelets are all Native American-y and shiat.

I've seen the ones for religion. They try to sell them at local festivals. I recall one particular spiel I got from a fairly pretty, if naive, booth-worker:

Her: Would you like to buy one of these $1 "Jesus" bracelets?
Me: No thanks. I don't believe in "god".
Her: Well, still. We use the money for good things like feeding the poor...
Me: No thanks.
Her: Why not?
Me: I don't believe in bracelets.

I know something else made of silicone that earns one dollar for charity. The single mothers of the stage charity.

Americans are idiots. That is all.

rocinante721: [www.anytimecostumes.com image 230x330]

I keep it olde-school, homeslice!

THIS!

wait... those were bracelets? I used mine as a cockring

Crewmannumber6: Loaf's Tray: I got to "silicone br" and clicked...I'm such a fark-up...

great minds

that's funny, I got silicone breast implants from "silicone bracelets"

/prolly the insanely hot asian woman at the front computer and on my mind
//tattoos, body mods, the works
///freak

It's a good way to show everyone that you're a cheap bastard.

Who cares about a cause and gives one farking dollar? Honestly.

If you need a charity badge, you don't understand charity.

skullkrusher: wait... those were bracelets? I used mine as a cockring

Wow Skullkrusher, your boyfriend must have a humongous dong!

RumsfeldsReplacement: skullkrusher: wait... those were bracelets? I used mine as a cockring

Wow Skullkrusher, your boyfriend must have a humongous dong!

I have permanent lockjaw

Working in the Health Care industry, I am bombarded by 4 to 5 of these braclets a year.

Heart Health Awareness
Breast Cancer Awareness
Organ Donation Awareness

etc, etc, etc.

Ironically, the Healthy Circulatory System Awareness cut off the circulation in my hand.

Kuta: FWIW, my son's middle school banned "BOOBIES" bracelets because they are...titillating. If they were purely political speech, they'd be protected.

President Obama is againstBOOBIES!and they should be used to repeal the Bush ta cuts.

There we go!

Lexx: God I wish I had come up with that idea. Put a 1 cent hologram on a 10 cent bracelet, sell it for $5-$10, and tell people it "balances your energy" and let the placebo effect and positive correlation bias make me a mass millionaire.

//my mother hasn't spoken to me since I laughed in her face when she bought me one and expected me to wear it. I gave her a short explanation of placebo and correlation bias, stated that every person that bought these were utter fools, and that I really admire the guy who came up with the bracelets as he's a genius in the land of gullibility.

Wow, that's a lotta words to state "I DNRTFA."

While your rant may be well intentioned, it certainly isn't relevant to the thread.

/you should've waited for a Penn & Teller thread

All the girls were wearing these back in the mid-eighties.

I think subby means commercialization.

Another Pretentious Nickname: It's a good way to show everyone that you're a cheap bastard.

Who cares about a cause and gives one farking dollar? Honestly.

If you need a charity badge, you don't understand charity.

Eh, when Armstrong's foundation started it, it brought a lot of publicity to their cause. I can't tell you how many people I told about the foundation just because they asked me about the wierd yellow bracelet.

But I agree, after about a bazillion imitations, the real usefulness of them started getting lost.

thought those were cock rings

FTGodWin: Lexx: God I wish I had come up with that idea. Put a 1 cent hologram on a 10 cent bracelet, sell it for $5-$10, and tell people it "balances your energy" and let the placebo effect and positive correlation bias make me a mass millionaire.

//my mother hasn't spoken to me since I laughed in her face when she bought me one and expected me to wear it. I gave her a short explanation of placebo and correlation bias, stated that every person that bought these were utter fools, and that I really admire the guy who came up with the bracelets as he's a genius in the land of gullibility.

Wow, that's a lotta words to state "I DNRTFA."

While your rant may be well intentioned, it certainly isn't relevant to the thread.

/you should've waited for a Penn & Teller thread

Also, one day your mom is going to pass away and you'll wish you were less of a dick to her.

Why do they were o-rings on their wrists?

My favorite so far is Cee-Lo's bracelet:
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/nsfw-ish

Bomb Head Mohammed: Americans are idiots. That is all.

Considering you live in the country that brought us the Idol plague, the X-Factor pestilence and the Strictly Come Dancing outbreak, I will take your comments with a grain of salt.

Unless bracelets force you into bankruptcy:

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I tried on a free white (anti-smoking perhaps?) silicone bracelet that I was given while walking across a college campus. It was too big and fell off as soon as I let my arm hang by my side. I guess philanthropy is only for the big-boned.

Wake me when the fad among high school girls is to wear cock rings as bracelets.
(And they don't understand the significance.)

/Your challenge: Include pics.

Right now, I'm wearing an invisible bracelet to show that I don't support any causes.

ProfessorOhki: Lexx: //my mother hasn't spoken to me since I laughed in her face when she bought me one and expected me to wear it. I gave her a short explanation of placebo and correlation bias, stated that every person that bought these were utter fools, and that I really admire the guy who came up with the bracelets as he's a genius in the land of gullibility.

"Psh, it wouldn't work for you anyway because you're closed-minded."

/You're not alone

I thought the reason to wear these was to show support for his cause, not confer some sort of mystical chi correction (don't they sell those lame copper or magnetic bracelets for that?). Methinks you both got general hipsterism confused with specific woo, understandable really.