Inverarity is not a Scottish village

I knew a guy once who was an audio-engineer for some very high-end venues. He did shows in Vegas, major rock concerts, and was one of the folks in charge of the sound and lighting for the Democratic National Convention. He really knew his stuff.

Ask him about the "audiophiles" who buy super-expensive gold-plated speaker cables for their twenty-thousand dollar home entertainment systems and wank endlessly about how much clearer and purer and more refined the sound is, as opposed to that produced by lesser materials, and he would just laugh his ass off.

With that note, I present to you: the AudioQuest K2 terminated speaker cable - UST plugs 8' (2.44m) pair. Amazon price: $6800. (And free shipping!)

After you've picked your jaw up off the floor, though, you really have to read the product reviews.

(Originally seen on Making Light.)

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This is some funny shit, yo.

Top 25 WORST CHILDREN’S BOOKS…EVER

My favorite: All Alone with the Internet: A Choose Your Own Adventure Story

And One-star Amazon reviews of the greatest novels of the 20th century.

I do believe some people miss the point of what they are reading:

“In the first 20 pages, Alex and his lackies beat a guy senseless and rob him; they steal a car and trash it, they get into a vicious gang fight; they attack a couple at their home, destroy the husband’s life work (his book, A Clockwork Orange), beat him and his wife senseless, and rape the wife. This really ticked me off.”

“I bought these books to have something nice to read to my grandkids. I had to stop, however, because the books are nothing more than advertisements for “Turkish Delight,” a candy popular in the U.K. The whole point of buying books for my grandkids was to give them a break from advertising, and here (throughout) are ads for this “Turkish Delight”! How much money is this Mr. Lewis getting from the Cadbury’s chocolate company anyway? This man must be laughing to the bank.”

“I am obsessed with Survivor, so I thought it would be fun. WRONG!!! It is incredibly boring and disgusting. I was very much disturbed when I found young children killing each other. I think that anyone with a conscience would agree with me.”

(No, that was not a review for The Hunger Games, it's a review for Lord of the Flies.)

Then, of course, there are those who simply Have Issues:

“Well, it’s a girl’s world. The world of Gloria Steinem and the popular feminism, as distilled on TV (including CBC shows, not all fundamentalist Hollywood garbage) of my youth is GONE. Now the girls run the show. You’re not allowed to call them sluts. And it’s impossible to call them virgins. They’re all doing Rhett Butler. So what are they? Idiots… Hope you like the Gangstas. It’s what you deserve.”