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China is awash with fake products. I recently read of a fake Apple store that was so convincing that even its employees thought they were working for Apple.
We all know that fakes are worthless, and it's usually fairly easy to tell the real ones from the phonies, but this idea takes that process one
step further by faking the fakes.
For example: this means that your fairly obviously fake Rolex has actually really been made by Rolex to imitate the fake one.
Now you have the advantage of both worlds. You can experience all of the foolish pride in owning a prestige product, and laugh up your sleeve at those who think that it's just a cheap fake.
You can take extra satisfaction in knowing that the obvious flaws were in fact individually crafted by skilled technicians (Swiss of course) to a high degree of specificity and accuracy, as exact copies of the cheap and nasty Chinese fakes.
Apple Stoer (sic)
http://www.huffingt...tores_n_904409.html
love the word "stoer" [xenzag, Jul 29 2011]
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But people will struggle to tell the difference
between a Fake Fake and the inevitable Fake Fake
Fake. |
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Nothing like some recursive humour on the HB. |
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Is that real recursive humour or fake recursive humour? Or... |
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//We all know that fakes are worthless//
The best watch I ever had was a fake Rolex. |
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// laugh up your sleeve at those who think that it's just a cheap fake // |
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There is much amusement to be gained from taking a high-performance car or bike, or uprating a standard version of same, and simultaneously ensuring that said vehicle displays absolutely no evidence of being other than the lowest-powered base model; concealed dual exhausts, badge and trim removal/replacement, etc. |
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The look on a BMW-driver's face when he's chased and rapidly overtaken by an elderly short-wheelbase Land Rover (which just happens to have a twin-turbo short block fuel-injected Rover 3.5 V8, delivering about 250 BHP, dropped in to replace the standard 2.2litre 65BHP powerplant) is worth every moment of the time and effort. |
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Certainly there would be great amusement to be had if high performance cars were available with a bodykit to make them look like a cheap knock-off of some poxy little hatchback. |
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The same might be true of other devices. |
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Does this apply to breast implants? |
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[bigs], we'll send it recorded delivery. |
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My wife and I have a Hi-Def LCD TV with the brand-name
'Sova.' It came free with a package of DVDs intended to be
played in veterinary waiting rooms, only the repetetive
pet-care programs made the receptionists claw thier own
eyeballs out and run screaming into the streets, so Dad
gave it to us. The thing is, the aspect ratios are off; the
widescreen setting is slightly too narrow, and the 4:3
setting is slightly too wide. But what hey, it was free. |
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Conclusion of barely-relevant anecdote. |
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250 BHP? That's not even bringing a knife to a gun
fight, that's showing up with a plastic spork. |
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//Does this apply to breast implants?// |
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That would imply... somehow getting your body's own breast tissue to feel more like silicone. I daresay [nineteenthly] can suggest something herbal that'll do that, but it sounds tricky to me. |
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//getting your body's own breast tissue to feel more like silicone//
I shall selflessly nominate myself to the judging panel. |
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So...these items would be taken out of a store in a nice little carrier bag labelled "Genuine Fake". |
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//rapidly overtaken by an elderly short-wheelbase Land Rover// |
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A friend of mine said that he was feeling a little poor so was trying to drive his Mk. 2 Jag economically. Cruising along the motorway not particularly quickly, he found himself being overtaken by four nuns in a 2CV. |
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I guess I had it wrong about *fake* breasts. I thought I was to put the fake ones over my real ones...to imitate implants they'd be called outplants. |
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With breast implants, you have them implanted, whilst pretending they are natural. Fake implants would presumably be where you don't actually have any, but you brag about how expensive your implants were. So, fake fake implants would perhaps be where you don't have any, and you ostentatiously “pretend” that they are natural. No, really natural! Honest! |
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