"I lived in Ireland decades ago, and, being interested in pens, I was surprised that, when I was browsing in a store, I found that you could buy refills for the Bic Crystal Pen, the type I bought for 19 cents in school, and chewed up with frustration in class, surely ingesting a bit of plastic.  I am really glad that you like this pen concept, because it resembles, to some degree, my Miniature Pen with Cap.   It's a bit different, because I conceived it as being something that you would by in a pack, and carry it in your pocket, and, I, too, had a small clip, but I incorporated it with a hole, suggesting that it could connect to a pull-tab on a jacket.  My concept was to answer the question:  "Do you have a pen?"   If you bought a pack of these small pens, you could have one on all your jackets,  hanging from your belt loop, loose in your pocket, on your key ring, etc.  To that end, the pen is designed to hang like a knife in a sheath, so that it won't accidentally fall out.  As you can imagine, nobody was interested.  https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/91/71/4c/80718262df5e48/USD303991.pdfSomebody did like one of my pen ideas:  Pilot.I discovered that rolling ball writers didn't dry out, so I wondered why nobody made a retractable version, so I invented one, sent it to o Pilot, and found their Explorer in a store nine months later.  I asked the proprietor "Is this new?," to which he replied "They're exploring the market."Needless to say, nobody wanted my patent.https://patents.google.com/patent/EP0421937A2/en?oq=ininventor:Kent+ininventor:D+ininventor:Murphyhttps://www.officeworld.com/Worlds-Biggest-Selection/PIL35360/14Q1/"

"I'm glad I can finance this piece of plastic junk, and only pay $84.84/mo (what is the secret code of $84.84") - and I don't have to pay interest, because I wouldn't pay anything at all for this HOAX, and I don't know why Core77 is doing this.  Answer, please.  From $84.84/mo or 0% APRhttps://www.hellerfurniture.com/products/limbo-chair"

"Apparently, the horse-drawn caravan is now nostalgia, and, so, you can enjoy it on holiday.   https://irishhorsedrawncaravans.com/Caravan.htm"

"I lived in Ireland in the early 1990's, and the third picture - the cylindrical one - brings back memories.  Back in the day - maybe now, I don't know, who knows - there were travelling people - known as "travellers" or "tinkers," or what Americans would think of as "gypsies" - and I was only aware of them from the television, except that, when I lived in a small seaside town north of Dublin, one morning I walked over to the seaside, and saw some cylindrical horse-drawn caravans in the carpark, and, later in the day - about noon - I was in the pub, and told Sean what I had seen, and he said they'll be gone soon, and, later in the day - maybe the next morning - I wandered to the seaside, and, sure enough,  the caravans were gone and the carpark had large rocks piled up in the entrance points, as a "don't come back" message.  So, it's interesting that somebody in Ireland wants to upgrade - make posh - the tiny home.  Has the Celtic Tiger gotten it's claws into the horse-drawn caravan, which was the typical Irish "tiny home."By they way, what's the difference between a "tiny home" and the old fashioned trailer?  Except that, I guess, after Hurricane Katrina, the government seemed to have thousands and thousands of trailers available, except that they were contaminated with formaldehyde.  Oops. I suppose the bad publicity from Katrina's formaldehyde trailers gave people the idea to for "tiny homes" that people made with wood and nails. At the time of Hurricane Katrina, I remember that a Dutch aid group offered a bunch of tents, and they were rejected, with the statement "American's don't live in tents."  Not tents that can be shipped collapsed in bulk, but, rather, in formaldehyde-contaminated trailers that have to be hauled on tractor trailers, and,  once they are discovered to be poisoning the beneficiaries, I think they gave a lot of lawyers the opportunity to sue who knows who.Somebody, of course, got a contract to make all those trailers, and somebody got the contract to store them, and somebody got the contract to haul them, and somebody....And, I think, after the Haiti earthquake, some of the formaldehyde trailers wound up down there, where nobody will sue, and the life expectancy probably make formaldehyde nothing to worry about.I'm glad the Celtic Tiger gave somebody enough money that the old-fashioned horse-drawn caravan will disappear from the Irish landscape, and the carpark from a little seaside town north of Dublin.I'll drink to that.  "

"Please don't tell me that I'm the only one that thinks this is a total AI hoax.  Thousands of dollars for ugly cobbled-together idiotic useless junk from Bentonville, AR, as in Arkansas, as in the home of Walmart.  Join the vibrant Gnargo Bike Community in Bentonville, AR"

"The anti-digital movement has people reverting back to vinyl records.  And, I listen to the great New Orleans radio station WWOZ - wwoz.org - and they recently had their fundraiser, which featured a boombox, and, would you believe it that you can now record cassettes, directly off the radio?!  Maybe that electronic player gadget thingy that you use, too, just in case you can buy cassettes and know somebody with a cassette player so you can share.  https://wwoz.org/member-thank-you-gifts"

"Some years back, I bought a similar Eton product with excellent design and seemingly excellent features.  I had experience with similar radios from Kaito, but, for some reason, I bought this Eaton radio.  It was being peddled on a radio program I listened to regularly, and, perhaps, I thought I should buy something from them.  Just to say thanks. Looks, in that case, were deceiving.  I don't remember too much, but everything was substandard as regards the ease of use and performance I expected.  I didn't even use it, just reading the instructions made me hate it.  One thing I do remember, though, is that it did not come with the AC adapter that such radios came with at the time, although it had an input socket.  And, beside the socket was the voltage, and it wasn't 12, or 9, or 6, or 5, or 3, which seem to be commonplace; no, it was something like 5.6.So, you couldn't charge it at home, unless you had somebody make you a 5.6 volt adapter.  And, I think the cranking and solar charging times were very poor: very short radio play time for the cranking or sit-in-the-sun time.I packed it up and gave it to Goodwill, and wrote a letter to the company's president, telling him it was less than useless to me - I live in West Virginia - and that, in my opinion, it's only purpose was as a stylish-and-never-hoped-to-be-used accessory for somebody in California to carry around in the boot of their Porsche.After a while, I never heard the radio advertised on my radio station, and I don't know if my letter had anything to do with that. "

"Yellow grips lead to hideous wasteful monstrosity and escape to various islands, surely each with landing strips to land the jet.  From one to the other,  they never know where you are.   "

"It appears that you can't use the toilet if you are cooking, since the stove and sink must be hidden and covered to permit the refrigerator to slide to the right to allow access to the toilet.  Maybe they figure you'll only boil something, which would require only a few minutes, but then you've still got to put the cooking devices somewhere and conceal and slide everything.  But, if your camped, I guess you just go outdoors, with the toilet only serving - essential - as a shower, which, of course, can be planned. If you cooking, and suddenly you  - or somebody - needs to go to the toilet and it's cold or muddy or snowing or raining outside, the really clean and neat Nordic decor lets you know your experiencing outdoor living.  "

"Got it wrong.  They didn't sit him down on a bench, they flew him in a helicopter.  Stephen Wiltshire - Autistic Savant Artist Draws City From Memoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1O_TMTc660"

"I think the term is savant.  In the bad old days, it was "idiot" savant.I remember seeing a report of a young lad from Britain who was brought to New York, and he just sat down on a bench and proceeded to sketch a brilliant rendering of New York.Centuries ago, certain artists produces amazing paintings.  They were surely "idiot" savants.Some of them, I think, were sponsored by the royal and wealthy class.  Obviously, they were head-hunted.   "

"Germans make vans, and Americans make pick-up trucks.  "