@ShotgunX what kind of deal were you hoping for?

@ShotgunX @troy Presumably one to eclipse all others.

@hchavers

@mediocrebot I’m very impressed with interpreting the mixed-language names as intended!
(At least, I assume that’s how they were intended to be interpreted.)

@warpedrotors My mom lives in an assisted living facility and gets help with bathing. I think it would make it a little easier for her and the staff to use something like this.

@warpedrotors

Or maybe they’re for one-armed people who need to shower just as much as the two-armers.

Well, almost as much.

@macromeh dark… but accurate… I like it.

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I love the Starbucks-esque logo on the backpack. And how none of the patrons are paying any attention to the “showering” operation unfolding there.

@mediocrebot @warpedrotors Is that Nick Nolte?

@djslack I think that this product is in fact an allegory for our collective battle with consumerism. While the external layer of soap keeps us squeaky-clean on the outside in our desperate attempt at social presentability, after 40 washes the facade is rinsed away, exposing the naked sponge that has been so dutifully absorbing our most shameful sins up to that point, and is now bursting at the seams with the proverbial soil and grime of our very souls. Just like our living spaces are bursting from the unretrained acquisition of frivolous products obtained from e-commerce mystery boxes.

Maybe we’ve been imagining the lavender all along.

@djslack the Spanish text on the aloe says “efecto humectante con sábila”, “moisturizing effect with aloe”, so the aloe has moisturizing effect but only if you speak Spanish. Us anglophones are stuck with regular old sponge soap.

Those glasses definitely aren’t special, @mediocrebot

@haydesigner wow, really an ol’ four eyes, huh? Bet the peripheral is out of this world!

Who scrubs up the pineapple under the sea?

Esponjabon esquerpanto!

Life-like(?) Patrick freaks me out.

@mediocrebot That’s hullirious!

@stolicat

But I’m suspicious of anything cucumber scented

That’s a real pickle.

@stolicat, agree, I want lavender and aloe. Why is is that they never pair items the way we want them. Probably because otherwise they would never get rid of the cucumber ones!

@ekw On an Amazon page there were some closer photos and reviews generally positive. it looked more traditional “spongy” and not that uniform plasticky sponge often from China. It appears these are made in Mexico. But I don’t know what “traditional spongy things” are made of.

@TheStas Compared to body wash housed in a plastic container, what’s the difference?

@TheStas @troy Funny you mention that, I recently started seeing a new TV advertising campaign about how American (with a capital USA) plastic manufacturers are changing their ways to embrace recycling and re-use and make plastic the great environmentally-wonderful thing of the future. Because apparently a lot of consumers, especially the younger ones with education and disposable income, are actually making purchasing choices about what they want to buy with this in mind.

Since I still can’t recycle almost any plastic in my neighborhood except regular drink bottles, I don’t see this ad campaign as being anything more than a silly thing to laugh at. Plastics were the miracle of the mid-20th-century but really as with anything it’s all about profit.

/youtube The Graduate Plastics

@pmarin @TheStas @troy That’s not new, plastic manufacturers have been spreading lies about how plastic can be recycled/reused for well over a decade, probably multiple decades. The truth is very little of the plastic that’s accepted for recycling actually gets recycled. Instead it ends up in a landfill, just taking a scenic route through a plastic “recycler” to get there. There’s lots of reasons why, too many to go into here, but it’s easy to find detailed articles & videos about it online.

That’s not to say you shouldn’t try to recycle all the plastic you can, I certainly do, but it’s important to understand that the plastic manufacturers are lying whenever they talk about plastic being recycled/recyclable. We need to reduce plastic usage pronto and it’d also be nice to force the plastic manufacturers to recycle their own products or be heavily fined, so they’re forced to make their lies reality or go bankrupt due to them.

@KevinS10 @pmarin @TheStas @troy This is a video on that subject which I stumbled upon recently:

It’s a bit long (30 minutes), but a decent overview the problems with plastic recycling, including a review of the entire history of plastic.

@jmrobinett Good catch. The options on the purchase page had it listed correctly, and now the information above does, too.

@adair5374 the coupon code option is on the checkout screen. If the coupon is valid with this offer it will work.