35 Products That Are So Bad, It’s Hard To Believe Someone Came Up With Them

Couldn't you have named it something a little more conservative like: Find My Bone, or Flesh Finder?

To remove fish bones. What else did you think of?

They could have easily called it easyde-boner and had no problems.

r/TheyKnew

TL; DR: i tried to put HUUUGE paragraph breaks in here, but no dice sorry, people: you're stuck with the ol' wall of text When I was in hair school, all the estheticians got a callous file in their equipment kits, for pedicures. They were big wooden paddles with a different grade of sandpaper on either side of the business end of said tool. Branded into the wooden handle, on both sides, was either the name of the company, or perhaps it was a simple how-to? It said "PedoFile," in giant capital letters. Lost in translation gone horribly, darkly hilariously wrong. It was awful, yet transgressively rad. If you can't laugh at your childhood traumas, you'd never get out of bed; trust me. I tried like crazy to buy one off the esthetics students that year, but no dice. Not even when I offered to buy them a new, better, more sterilizable metal callous remover, *and* throw 20 bux into the mix. It was either, "No way, dude, this is going up on my wall!!" or "Ewwww, you're creepy! No!!" One extremely creative student brought hers home during the weekend, and using a soldering iron, created a cool design to hide the unintentionally offending words. She sealed it all up with varnish after, and voilà: no more sick jokes. I think a few others paid her to do the same to theirs, or just sanded off the words. I cried in frustration at the waste of a perfectly good horrifying mistake. I wanted one BAD!! Those types of files are far from ideal for professional use, anyway! The sandpaper isn't replaceable on the cheap ones my school bought by the gross from China, and after one too many dips in the barbicide bath, they totally come apart. Or grow mold in any cracks in the varnish from being wet constantly. Better to use the metal cheese grater ones, or a Dremel set on low, with a new sandpaper disc for every client. Even the supposedly sterilizable "pumice" stones fashioned from glass get all kinds of gnarly bacteria growth inside all the little bubbles and crevasses. They eventually get all discoloured and disgusting. The school ended up being shut down about 5 years after I graduated. It was sad, because for years, it was considered to be one of the best beauty schools in town. My class was the last class to experience the high quality they were known for; things swiftly went seriously downhill from there. They didn't pay their staff enough, so the instructor turnover rate was astounding. One teacher would disappear into the bathroom for 20 minutes 5 times a day, and smoked crack with students out in the side alley that housed staff parking, dumpsters, and the cigarette smoking area. She only lasted about two months from what I heard. The estheticians' kits only had one set of pedicure tools, but they were booked mani/pedi clients back-to-back. Hence, their tools weren't given the requisite time to soap and water scrub, rinse, spend 15 minutes in a serilizing soak, washed and rinsed again, and dried on a clean towel. My then-SO and I both got toenail fungus from our first ever pedicures, as models for an ingrown toenail class. A class where they used the ONE, SAME INGROWN FILE ON EVERY SINGLE MODEL, WITH NO STERILIZATION BETWEEN USES!! I still have gnarly toenails almost 20 years later, despite numerous treatments, tinctures, etcetera. I'm so *pissed*. Even when I was 18, and in perfect health, my doctor wouldn't prescribe me the oral treatment, and every topical treatment I've used has failed, despite my extreme diligence. Eventually, a spa client ended up with Hep C. They sued, and the owner pulled a flight by night back to Columbia. I hope that client got at least *something*, even just from the liquidation sale that went on afterwards. That's a long-ass story that evolved from hilariously mis-named products. Hopefully your time, that you'll never get back, was at least rewarded by a smirk, or a few nose-exhalation-half-laughs.

On par with the wonder boner! XD

Reminds me of a fish deboning tool unfortunately called the Wunder Boner.

But what is this?

And the normal tweezers don't work for fish. You clearly need a giant pair that'll destroy half the fish. gj

Well that was easy!

I wish

As you get older, it's not as easy,

Oh, no device needed for that...

I'm going on 80 - I NEED this.

Cheaper than viagra!

that could hurt

Unless the ends are a lot softer that thing is a *de*boner.

Wunder boner!

Okay, I know there is a joke here.....

We already had this and it called deboner