I am posting this under Gift Ideas for women with flat breasts. If you are looking for that perfect bra, you should also consider checking the bra for men. For one it offers more variety to choose from. Apparently they sell well in Japan among men but I wouldn't be surprised if women buy them too! Wondering what a guy's reaction might be if you bought him a bra for a gift, not bad for a prank gift idea actually...
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Showing posts with label shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shop. Show all posts
Monday, August 17, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Tear gas for self-defence
Big riots in Greece so out of control are rare but I've seen them happen in other countries too (US, France). My experience in Greece is that shop owners are completely defenseless, the Greek police cannot protect the streets or the shops. I remember when Bill Clinton visited Athens and the city was burnt down. He cut his trip short and went for a 'safe' trip in Turkey next door. As a better alternative to guns or hiring snipers from abroad, shop owners in Greece should arm themselves with tear gas and use it to protect their property. It takes 1 hothead shop owner to start shooting at protesters destroying his property or threatening his life. If caught he can claim self-defense.
But with no police around and fire and smoke all over no one will see him or his sniper firing. This is the scenario of all hell breaking loose with many dead people. If the police can't protect, tear gas is better self-defense to guns.
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But with no police around and fire and smoke all over no one will see him or his sniper firing. This is the scenario of all hell breaking loose with many dead people. If the police can't protect, tear gas is better self-defense to guns.
http://www.thinkaloo.com
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Is this fashion??
I don't know maybe it's just me. I saw this shop front in a supposedly upscale lingerie shop. What's the zipper on the face supposed to be? I'm curious to know if people who are into kinky stuff really think this is actually kinky or plain silly. To me it's totally tasteless and in total opposition to the rest of the lingerie they sell in the shop. Whoever put it on display in the front and got paid for it must have been high on drugs or something that day. If not him, then whoever paid him.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Antique shop with modern furniture
Antique and modern? Sounds like a total contradiction but if one knows how to combine antiques with modern furniture in an interior space the result can actually be very nice, depending on your taste of course. I've never seen it anywhere yet, but an antique shop that showcases antiques and modern furniture and shows people how to combine the two would be a very interesting new concept I think.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Introducing the new slap-padded abayas for Saudi women
Women in Saudi Arabia got very upset and reportedly 'protested' when they heard a judge arguing that if a husband gives $320 to his wife and she spends $240 on an abaya from a brand shop (abaya is the black cover Muslim women wear) she deserves to be slapped by her husband as punishment. We all know there are billions of poor people in China and elsewhere, kids included, sweating long hours to produce cheap $2 counterfeits. If a Saudi husband slaps his shopaholic wife then surely it must be out of respect to that little kid in China sweating blood to compete with Hermes. Yup, we all buy that!
It's becoming plain obvious that men in Saudi Arabia think backwards when it comes to understanding the shopping nature of women, a nature so complex and subtle it took years in Enlightenment intensive care for the man of the West to fathom. There is a universal truth that says that if you are the man and give your woman a $320 shopping allowance for an abaya and still seriously expect that she will buy the $2 one, the problem is not with the woman but with the man harboring foolish and unrealistic expectations.
The Western man, after many years of trial and error, responded by eventually letting women work so they don't have to be giving them allowances. The Saudi man still thinks that a slap here and there will do. How conceited!
Wish conceit was that simple though.
If women in Saudi Arabia are slapped a lot, isn't it convenient that they have to wear that black cover all the time? It's a full-blown cover and it's so full that you can hide anything you like underneath. Women also tend to wear sun glasses when they go out so with their eyes rendered fashion-invisible that means one can hide all the shame he wants in a woman. Although original use might not have been thus intended, the abaya is probably the most convenient camouflage for all sorts of slapping to flourish in a society. The good news here, of course, is that Saudi men don't beat women indiscriminately.
They will only do it if there is a good reason to do so. And there always is. Next time you are about to make any unfair generalizations about the state of happy beatings in Saudi Arabia, please remember the Chinese little kid sweating blood to make a counterfeit we all love to have or buy.
What if the global recession forces men in Saudi Arabia to up the slapping ante though? Women might become too scared to buy $240 abayas and that's profit-depressive for foreign and local luxury brands. My advice to all brands operating in the country would be to consider padding the expensive abayas with cushion to soften the blow from the slapping. They will be advertised as smart abayas but only Saudi women will know what is really smart and intelligent about their design.
Every luxury item has a cost. In Saudi Arabia the cost is the threshold of pain that can be tolerated to justify the purchase. Increase threshold pain-tolerance and recapture market share from Chinese counterfeits.
I know. It's definitely a woman's dignity not to be slapped. But it's also a woman's right to be able to buy the $240 abaya she so much desires without being fearful of the slapping afterward just because some young kid in China sweats blood to sell a cheap counterfeit on the street that her husband secretly hopes she won't buy so that he can beat her after.
Recap. The man who doesn't want to have to beat his wife over a $240 piece of cloth let's her woman work for it. The man who likes to beat her woman gives her the money and pretends he is upset about how she spends it.
How many Saudi men actually go all the way to insist that the wife returns the expensive abaya back to the shop? I really don't want to know the actual number because I doubt there are many items returned.
Sometimes I seriously wonder, why is our world so mentally crooked and twisted? Why can't you just slap someone without costing you $240?
Just Kiddinggggg! :D:D:D
http://www.thinkaloo.com
It's becoming plain obvious that men in Saudi Arabia think backwards when it comes to understanding the shopping nature of women, a nature so complex and subtle it took years in Enlightenment intensive care for the man of the West to fathom. There is a universal truth that says that if you are the man and give your woman a $320 shopping allowance for an abaya and still seriously expect that she will buy the $2 one, the problem is not with the woman but with the man harboring foolish and unrealistic expectations.
The Western man, after many years of trial and error, responded by eventually letting women work so they don't have to be giving them allowances. The Saudi man still thinks that a slap here and there will do. How conceited!
Wish conceit was that simple though.
If women in Saudi Arabia are slapped a lot, isn't it convenient that they have to wear that black cover all the time? It's a full-blown cover and it's so full that you can hide anything you like underneath. Women also tend to wear sun glasses when they go out so with their eyes rendered fashion-invisible that means one can hide all the shame he wants in a woman. Although original use might not have been thus intended, the abaya is probably the most convenient camouflage for all sorts of slapping to flourish in a society. The good news here, of course, is that Saudi men don't beat women indiscriminately.
They will only do it if there is a good reason to do so. And there always is. Next time you are about to make any unfair generalizations about the state of happy beatings in Saudi Arabia, please remember the Chinese little kid sweating blood to make a counterfeit we all love to have or buy.
What if the global recession forces men in Saudi Arabia to up the slapping ante though? Women might become too scared to buy $240 abayas and that's profit-depressive for foreign and local luxury brands. My advice to all brands operating in the country would be to consider padding the expensive abayas with cushion to soften the blow from the slapping. They will be advertised as smart abayas but only Saudi women will know what is really smart and intelligent about their design.
Every luxury item has a cost. In Saudi Arabia the cost is the threshold of pain that can be tolerated to justify the purchase. Increase threshold pain-tolerance and recapture market share from Chinese counterfeits.
I know. It's definitely a woman's dignity not to be slapped. But it's also a woman's right to be able to buy the $240 abaya she so much desires without being fearful of the slapping afterward just because some young kid in China sweats blood to sell a cheap counterfeit on the street that her husband secretly hopes she won't buy so that he can beat her after.
Recap. The man who doesn't want to have to beat his wife over a $240 piece of cloth let's her woman work for it. The man who likes to beat her woman gives her the money and pretends he is upset about how she spends it.
How many Saudi men actually go all the way to insist that the wife returns the expensive abaya back to the shop? I really don't want to know the actual number because I doubt there are many items returned.
Sometimes I seriously wonder, why is our world so mentally crooked and twisted? Why can't you just slap someone without costing you $240?
Just Kiddinggggg! :D:D:D
http://www.thinkaloo.com
Thursday, April 23, 2009
What will bookstores in the future look like?
Despite Amazon, people like to visit bookshops. On a recent class discussion on the future of Amazon, I had the thought of a new bookstore concept that blends Amazon and the traditional bookstore. I was thinking of creating a physical bookstore that sells paperbacks without stacking any of them on its shelves. The shelves will instead stack thousands of kindles with book titles on them. The kindles will look like physical books using 3D holography. When a customer picks a kindle book to browse, the titles of all the books next to it change to become more relevant to the content browsed.
Because there's no physical paper inventory, there are no sections. The customer types a keyword in a little screen and all the titles near him change. It's like browsing online in a physical space. When the customer decides which books to buy, he places the order, pays and laser printers at the back of the store print out the paperback. Books will be less expensive to buy and the experience of a visit to a physical location preserved. The second-hand bookstore will probably not be able to compete and die.
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Because there's no physical paper inventory, there are no sections. The customer types a keyword in a little screen and all the titles near him change. It's like browsing online in a physical space. When the customer decides which books to buy, he places the order, pays and laser printers at the back of the store print out the paperback. Books will be less expensive to buy and the experience of a visit to a physical location preserved. The second-hand bookstore will probably not be able to compete and die.
http://www.thinkaloo.com
Friday, April 10, 2009
breast milk shops
this is shocking new business idea. i read breastfeeding bring health benefit to mother and child for many years (increased intelligence, reduced risk of breast cancer and more...) a business with many shops in town for lactating women who sit and offer their breast for milk feeding to adults. the milk will be more expensive than buy at supermarket and women can make money. people who did not breastfeed enough when little can breastfeed now and also drink very healthy fresh milk. it's crazy but good idea. someone must try, only need capital for shop and advertisement to recruit women on voluntary basis. why not? yo think it
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