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Who has a Power Balance wristband?

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So you're calling the head trainer for the Phoenix Suns stupid too? He's the reason I looked into the wristbands in the 1st place.
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He's only wearing one because they paid him to endorse it though, right?
 
LTC8K6 said:
He's only wearing one because they paid him to endorse it though, right?
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Doubt it, why would they pick an unknown NBA trainer to endorse a product? 99.9% people don't even know who the fuck he is. Shaq swears by them too, and I could see the people behind the product paying somebody like Shaq to endorse it. But he doesn't need money so and they couldn't afford his asking price any ways so it's highly unlikely he wears them because he's getting paid.
 
lxskllr said:
:^D

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It's got a special holographic image that massages your energy lines, or something like that. Take a credit card, cut off the holographic image, and tape it to your wrist. You get the same great results at a fraction of the price. You can PayPal me $10 for my valuable pro tip :^)
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cha-ching
 
For proper balance shouldn't you wear one on each wrist?



EDIT: The company sold $8,000 of merchandise in its first year and expects more than $35 million in sales in 2010.

WTF? I need to come up with the next "fleece the gullible public" scam.
 
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OCGuy said:
I guess we know who here is dumb enough to believe that crap...
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Stop being a dick about it. He likes it and he feels like, for him, it's money well-spent. Have you ever tried one on and had the muscle test done? If not, keep quiet.

I don't believe these bracelets are amazing things either, but I'm certainly not going to be a cock about it to someone who does.
 
eits said:
Stop being a dick about it. He likes it and he feels like, for him, it's money well-spent. Have you ever tried one on and had the muscle test done? If not, keep quiet.

I don't believe these bracelets are amazing things either, but I'm certainly not going to be a cock about it to someone who does.
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Really, how many do you have? Be honest.
 
grrl said:
For proper balance shouldn't you wear one on each wrist?
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According to the guy who tried to get me to buy into them, if I remember him correctly, it has to do with lining up all of the molecules in your body or something in order to have proper energy flow... or something.
 
eits said:
According to the guy who tried to get me to buy into them, if I remember him correctly, it has to do with lining up all of the molecules in your body or something in order to have proper energy flow... or something.
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Even the people who make them say they are placebo. Holy crap...
 
QueBert said:
My friend has one, he put it on me and did the tests where he tried to push me down and for whatever reason my balance was noticeably better than normal. He did it again and again I was able to keep my balance, where I normally would have fallen over. I'm not saying this wristband had anything to do with it, but it's really fucking coincidental and left me curious. Until you try one I wouldn't discredit it, not sure if I'm going to buy one. But putting it did cause something to change in my body.
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...

*groan

I didn't feel this way before, but PLEASE don't do anything like this ever again. I'm afraid you'll force me to blow my own brains out...and I don't want that to happen.
 
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eits said:
Like I said, none... but I'm not going to be an asshole and talk shit about people who feel a benefit from bracelet.
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At what point would you be willing to "talk shit" about people who you perceive to feel a benefit from something that provides no benefit? If I were to wear a tinfoil hat into your office and told you that it was the only means by which I was able to leave my house would you only be thankful that I found a means to leave the house. If along with the tinfoil hat I hopped to your office on one foot because I it fooled the earthworms into allowing me out of the house would you still be accepting of my methods.

What I'm getting at is where would you draw the line? Is there any action by anybody that you find foolhardy?
 
QueBert said:
My friend has one, he put it on me and did the tests where he tried to push me down and for whatever reason my balance was noticeably better than normal. He did it again and again I was able to keep my balance, where I normally would have fallen over. I'm not saying this wristband had anything to do with it, but it's really fucking coincidental and left me curious. Until you try one I wouldn't discredit it, not sure if I'm going to buy one. But putting it did cause something to change in my body.
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Or it could be he pushed you differently. I learned this trick while training in aikido. By standing a slightly different distance away or pushing at a different angle I can make you think I'm using magic ki energy to become a immovable wall.

It's all in the physics trick, the bracelet does nothing. No different then the 'unliftable' trick I do or the unbendable arm trick.
 
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