February 16, 2011 - 2:12 pm
there are several other models out there that are more expensive. i havent tried them, but i assume they are better quality. this isnt firm…you sit in it and it sinks quite a bit. but i really have enjoyed it. just trying it helped me realize that i will spend the money for a better quality one down the line. great for people who suffer from low back pain. sitting used to really hurt my butt bone and low back. i have disc degeneration, bulging disc and scoliosis. this time last year i couldnt walk due to back pain. exercise, sitting on this cushion and the Relax-o-back (another great product) in my car have all helped me in a quick recovery. thanks!
Why are people so stupid?
Can’t they see what the world has become? Society, the mass media, all this sh*t promoting a bunch of evil sh*t. Doesn’t anybody else see it besides me?? A bunch the idols of today the rock stars, madonna, etc. are behind everyone’s eyes doing satanic stuff. The media doesnt focus on the Seen World Graffiti stuff like that. They might know about it and probably don’t even care. Kurt Cobain said in his own words he liked to “get stoned and worship Satan”. He was a bad, bad individual; he wrote with graffiti God is gay and abort Christ on churches. He was possessed. You all will probably say thats bs but just more of your ignorance. Notice a lot of rock stars dying young? Jimi Hendrix was also possessed; he was into witchcraft. He said so and even his girlfriend talked about how he had a demon inside of him. Guess what happened to him: died young. Society today sucks. There’s so much more I could talk about… Anybody else agree?
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February 16th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
My nine year old loves this gift. He’s a fan of the show and loves its theory and the “build” aspects. This item has the same. The experiments both stimulate and satisfy his curiosity.
February 17th, 2011 at 3:55 am
Bought this for my eight year old son. He could do the experiments by himself and enjoyed them. We’ve bought many other kits that just fell apart. This one was durable and fun. We’ll probably pick up a couple for gifts for his friends.
February 17th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
The packaging is great, but not worth the price. There are like 3 experiments in the entire package. Was duped into buying all 3 because of a cheaper price, but not worth it dollar wise. The experiments were cool and fun but repeats of experiments they do in school. Quality of the items in the package is great. I would probably not buy another mythbuster though.
February 18th, 2011 at 3:59 am
The illustration shows how a person is being uplifted with this cushion – If someone of 170lbs weight sits in it – this sinks and it becomes useless – My solution of using a sofa cushion was better because it was more firm and I didn’t have to buy another thing. I figured this would be more compact, neat and firm – so if you need tailbone relief there maybe some purpose – else – its useless.
February 18th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
I’ve been using these sorts of cushions for maybe 10 years. I haven’t noticed one brand to be any different from another, so I usually go with the cheapest. My only problem is that, if you’re heavy, they flatten out. But they still serve the purpose of relieving the pressure on your coccyx.
February 19th, 2011 at 4:12 am
This thing is awesome. I had broken my tailbone from snowboarding and nothing was helping. Everytime I sat down then stood up it felt like death! The doc said it would never heal fully until I bought one of the butt pads, what I call them, to take the pressure off. I finally gave in and bought this one after reading some of the great reviews on it. And guess what>??? It really works!!! Lol I take it everywhere! When I sit, I cant feel a thing, and when I stand back up, still nothing! Im so glad I bought this thing. Now my tailbone will start healing correctly!!!!
February 19th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
I’ve had pain in my tailbone area for a couple years now. I recently got a new computer chair that was softer than my old one, which started causing more discomfort. I bought this cushion to try to remove the pressure from my tailbone area. Problem is, this cushion just compresses flat when I sit on it. It squished down so far that the little leather handle was actually pushing against my tailbone and I had to cut it off. I weigh in at about 200lbs, and didn’t expect it to be this flimsy. The reason I don’t give it 1/5 stars is because, while it squishes down way too much, it actually does help a tiny bit… just not nearly as much as I’d hoped. I think this cushion may work better for people a LOT lighter than 200lbs, though I’ve read reviews that it’s still not solid enough for a 120lb person.
For as inexpensive as it is, it’s worth a try to see if it may help you. Just don’t expect a miracle.
February 20th, 2011 at 3:35 am
I bought this item few years ago! (sorry for late review) but the movie was in best shape it could be in..played perfect and shipped very fast! If i ever see you selling a product that seems interesting will buy from you no questions asked..Recommend to anyone to buy something from you
February 20th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Over all this version of the film is a special edition. It features make it what is. This anniversary edition is a must in your dvd collection.
February 21st, 2011 at 3:45 am
THE EXORCIST will make 1973 live in infamy. But in a good way. This film is No. 3 of my Deeply Personal series of reviews–films that changed the world.
1st off: Dick Smith did the makeups for this film, and in case you did not know, is the greatest makeup artiste in history.
2nd: I am NOT reviewing a Blu-ray, death ray or shrink ray or any other kind of ray. I review FILM.
As if you didn’t get it, this movie scared the sh** out of the whole world. Because of my ‘condition’ at the time, I did not go to the theater to see this, but rented it on VHS around 1977. What I recall are my older siblings who went to see it. They nearly fainted in the theater, one brother developed post-traumatic stress from it, and my eldest sister couldn’t sleep for 3 weeks. And that was just my family…think of it, the whole world was talking about this horror flick. It still talks about it.
Well, “Tubular Bells”, the rest of the soundtrack, the lighting, the atmosphere and the great Max Von Sydow as Father Merrin gave this movie the setting. The horrific visions (the near-subliminal death’s head is awesome), along with the horrors inflicted on the little possessed one (Linda Blair) is what made people’s hair turn white.
(That’s right: newspaper accounts said people were emerging from this film with their hair turned white. I read it myself…was it a joke, or were the reports allegedly genuine? This movie WILL turn your hair white if you’re lucky….)
Few people know this film is based on a true story. Fourteen-year-old “Robbie Mannheim”, also listed elsewhere as “Ronnie Doe”, of Cottage City, Maryland, was exorcized by the Church of Rome sometime in the late 1940s or possibly in 1950. His story had none, and I mean none, of the horrors of this film…but William Blatty the Maker had access to the records of exorcism. Blatty exaggerated a rather silly exorcism into THIS. (You can find the Showtime movie version of the true story titled POSSESSED; see my review.)
Let me also note that this story is NOT the only case of exorcism of a demonically possessed person in the U.S. There are about four others. The real priest/exorcist in this tale, Father Bill Bowdern, refused to assist on the film, but he begged Blatty not to divulge anything crucial that would lead people to find the real demoniac. As to Von Sydow’s Fr. Merrin, all I can say is he had the personality of Fr. Bowdern, but he physically resembled the other real-life assistant, Fr. Walt Halloran.
Max Von Sydow did what few have been able to do: he made us think he was a real priest in that film. (Two men have taken a crack at this since then, and failed. One is Stellan Skarsgard in DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST and the other is the operatic and hammy Timothy Dalton, who played the real Father Bowdern in POSSESSED.)
Ah. No horror film could be the same again. They were never much good since they began getting violent, bloody and just plain sick. After THE EXORCIST, which still impacts film today, well…the world wanted to sleep with the lights on all the time. Babies.
Stars awarded: let me explain. This film, as great and legendary as it is, I find too shocking and gratuitously SICK to merit even a mention in any Great List. I know its true worth, but I still take stars away for its shock-schlock and profanity, neither of which it needed to be scary or to be effective.
This film is still one doubly exciting for me, despite the gross-out quality. It made a deep impact on everyday life all over the West…and it changed the way the world perceived us. I should add that this movie is one of the few officially ’sanctioned’ after-the-fact by the Church. They have never condemned it.
Finally, let me tell you: real-life exorcisms are so BORING compared to this film.
February 21st, 2011 at 3:23 pm
The blu ray will be available from 05.10.2010 in a digibook which includes 40 pages of info and photos. Both films remastered from the original negative.
Disc 1 – Extended Director’s Cut aka “the version you’ve never seen” from 2000 plus Special Features:
Commentary by William Friedkin
“Raising Hell”: Filming the Exorcist – set footage produced and photographed by Owen Roizman, camera and makeup tests, and interviews with director William Friedkin, actress Linda Blair, author William Peter Blatty and Owen Roizman (Blu-ray exclusive)
“The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now” – a tour of the iconic locations where the film was shot (Blu-ray exclusive)
“Faces of Evil: The Different Versions of The Exorcist” – William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty discussing the different versions of the film and featuring outtakes from the film (Blu-ray exclusive)
Trailers, TV spots & radio spots from the film’s 2000 release
Disc 2 – The Theatrical Cut from 1973 plus an Introduction by William Friedkin
Commentaries:
William Friedkin
William Peter Blatty with Special Sound Effects Tests
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Additional interviews with William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty:
“Stairway to Heaven”
“The Final Reckoning”
Original ending
Sketches & storyboards
Trailers & TV spots from the 1973 version
February 22nd, 2011 at 4:03 am
I got this to clear my shower when it got blocked by the usual gunk. This device proved totally ineffective in clearing the shower. The problem seems to be when you pull the trigger a set of 5 plastic strip expand outwards – but this is too narrow for my shower drain and it doesn’t reach the sides. So everything just slips down around the side of it when I pull it out. I’m sure it must be grabbing some stuff, but it simply wasn’t staying attached.
Maybe for narrower pipes it’ll do a better job, but for me it has been worthless.
February 22nd, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Drain Sweep worked really great. I was using liquid drain openers in my bath tub, but they don’t help much if hair/debris is stuck to the walls of the drain pipe. The Drain Sweep collected the debris from the walls of the drain pipe and pulled everything out. At one point Drain Sweep was stuck and I had to move it forward / backward and sideways and pull it out with force. Good product.
February 23rd, 2011 at 3:43 am
“So good it’s patented.” Whatever, this is one of those silly “as seen on tv” items that actually works. It’s a simple but effective drain sweeper. Works well and is reasonably inexpensive. What’s not to like?
February 23rd, 2011 at 3:50 pm
I wasnt sure if this would really work, but I love gadgits so I thought I would give it a try! Its amazing the stuff it pulls out of your sinks! I give it a A+ and its easy to use!
February 24th, 2011 at 3:53 am
Even if you don’t run but you admire what people can do – very interesting book
February 24th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
My own story ties in with Author McDougall’s. So forgive my write up but this book may have been the genesis for a profound change on my part. This book may affect you like it did myself.
I had seen extreme running for years and figured it was sort of strange obsession that modern people have. It’s like Civil War reenacting, Star Trek geeks, and people who bungie jump for a rush; people have a diversion from their weekly boring lives. But I had heard the part about barefoot running and was intrigued, bought the book and read it. This book may have just saved me.
The following story relates to the book.
In 2006 I had been called by the Army out of retirement to do my part to save civilization, train soldiers to fight terrorism and all that. Then three things happened to me. First, I was involved in a minor vehicle accident when getting training supplies that left pins in my ankle and total pain when I ran. Second, I found out my activation did absolutely nothing to help train these soldiers. It was pointless. Last, I ran across an insane active duty army colonel who took it on herself with misguided zeal to have every soldier going through Ft. Sill, Oklahoma to be fitted with special shoes to prevent running injuries.
I am well over 40 and looked at this colonel the same way folks in the past had heard insane ravings from people in charge. In your gut you know they are wrong, seriously wrong. But you do not have the power to prevent their well intentioned bad deeds. The weird thing, when looking back on it after reading this book, is this colonel may have injured more soldiers with bad running shoes than terrorists have done when fighting in Iraq.
In 2007 the Army sent me back to retirement. I drounded my spirits with analogs to alcohol: sloth and food. While years earlier I was in fair shape. 2007 turned into later years and I got more and more out-of-shape. I was a big and bloated normal American.
Modern doctors do not read a person a riot act as in the past. Contrary to popular wisdom, they are far too busy for that. They just shrug as you get more and more out of shape. The doctor might think it’s a minor bet if you will make the next annual physical.
This last June I saw this book at a library. The story on the barefoot runner got my interest. But this reader is a military historian and studies armies in action.
This book gave me the back ground of how the German Army beat France in 1940 and the Confederates ran rings around the Union Army in 1862 to 1863. More on that later.
Christopher McDougall explains that we humans are born to run. A human, with proper training, can run a marathon, lose weight, and live a very healthy lifestyle. Indeed, I consider this book so imporatant that if every college made it required reading you would not see such heavy college students.
Honestly, I liked this book. Christopher does two things with this book. First, he tells us about the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico. These people are suvivors of both the Aztec’s aggression and the blood thirsty Spanish invaders of the 16th Century with their diseases that wiped out no less than 90% of the people living in the Americas 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. The Tarahumara merely retreated to the most remote and hot part of Mexico to live their lives in peace and to be the world’s last perfect runners. The second part of this book is Christopher ties in what is wrong with our modern running. He weaves both the Tarahumara and an introduction to running together in a seemless book that’s a fun read.
Nike shoes gets a lot of the blame for the terrible running problems in America. Why? Nike is merely trying to sell shoes and Christopher spends chapters telling the reader about the most perfect running machine ever designed: the human foot and the human body. Nike has done everything in their power to destroy feet in the misguided attempt of just trying to help. Honestly, when I read that Nike knew their shoes were causing injuries when they talked to running coaches BACK IN 1988 then I was steaming and wishing some good trial lawyers were writing good notes and getting their class action suits ready. For years this running had put up with shin splints and all sorts of other ailments. We protect our feet too much.
Christopher takes the reader through his own reinvention as a runner. Gone are the high-teck shoes that merely ruin a person’s feet. Christopher loses weight by adapting some of the Tarahumara’s diet and just plainly not-eating-as-much. Author McDougall sees a running specialist who shows Christopher how to properly run. In a year he goes from barely able to run five miles to being able to run ultra marathons.
While the reader is being given stories on how Nike knows their shoes are bad, how human beings are the greatest running animals in the world they are given stories proving the fact. A sort of humorous story is given how an in-shape college professor takes his dog out on an 85+ degree day and nearly kills the poor animal running; a properly trained runner on a hot day is dangerous to dogs. Author McDougall writes how our lack of running is killing us and he gives us dozens of other facts about Leadville, ultra marathons, and extreme running.
I didn’t quite like the stories of the Tarahumara, Leadville, “Barefoot Ted”, and the other half of the book as well as learning that humans are born to run. But the Tarahumara and “Barefoot Ted” are the reason I bought the book in the first place. Also, some of the characters in the book are quite fun. When a woman has Hunter S. Thompson’s picture of him shooting his beloved pistol painted on her car Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream and she is one of the top ultra-runners in the nation then a reader will think “the going is getting weird and these people are the pros”.
So, I enjoyed reading this book. In three months this reviewer may still be running, if the sloth demon does not get me. But if my motivation has really returned then owe it to this book. Hopefully in a year I’ll have those fun shoes that duplicate a human’s bare foot.
I highly encourage all runners and readers to buy this book. Just the seperate advice on running, the stuff on Nike, and advice on properly training for races is worth the price.
So, I thank this book for helping to kill a sloth monster that had been around my neck for three years. Perhaps I can run a marathon at the age over over 50.
And to people who read this book and wonder what it has to do with France of 1940 and the Confederacy of 1863 I give you these facts: Humans are born to run. The Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson had such well trained soldiers that they were referred to as “foot cavary”. Marches of over 50 miles a day were nothing unusual and Stonewall soldiers often exhaused the offier’s horses. Indeed, in later years Confederate General Wheeler said during the Spanish American war “Union soldiers can’t march worth a damn” when judged against the Confederate Army. Conversely, the German Army of 1940 was able to beat the French army by running and marching nearly 40 miles a day to the sea. The German Army merely out ran the French Army.
So, if you’re a runner then this book is worth your time. If you’re an old historian who has to beat the sloth monster then this book is worth your time.
Thank you Mr. McDougall.
February 25th, 2011 at 3:35 am
I am writing this review for those who may pick up the book on a whim, like I did, and come away from it completely astounded, motivated and most of all- curious. I am not a marathon runner- just an average person that tries to stay in shape with exercise here and there.
I have lived my whole life being told that my body type is not for running- that even though I have a small frame- my short and squat legs make running too damaging on my joints. And of course, when I developed a ‘permanent injury’ at the ripe, old age of 27, I figured they were right. But after reading McDougall’s book I learned something- I routinely have purchased new and state of the art running shoes that make me feel like I can sprint into clouds- thinking this is what I have to do as my feet need all the support they can get; I pound the earth like I am wearing 50 lb weights on my ankles; and most of all, my stride is long and my back is curved. I never have known how to truly run. A few weeks ago, I went for a run using McDougall’s technique and for the first time ever, I was not tired or in pain after running- and I was smiling.
McDougall is right- this is the answer to America’s survival and much more- the survival of the human race. Ever since I saw Disney’s Wall-E movie, I have been very disturbed by the idea that we are all on our way to “B&L Land”. We, as homo sapiens, cannot deny our very nature and purpose. We were designed to move and most importantly, to run.
So, if you have not bought this book yet- run and buy it. Then, run and buy a copy for your loved ones. And most importantly- get out and move in any way you can- you will surprise yourself and realize that you are….born to run.
p.s. My only critique of the book is that I am incredibly curious about what happened to the runners after the race…what are they doing now?