@boygenius1991 What about the wand? Is this Don Juan? I like taking my shower(s) alone. Can you just get the shower Head job? He He¡¡

@actionPacked Depends, what law firm do you work at?

@actionPacked @awk Wolfram and Hart

@actionPacked No!!

In fact, the same item is for sale for $69.99 with the SAME coupon.

So the real comparison price is actually $38.49. Not THAT great of a deal.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079GB3X6S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_zt7BBbF6ZZK7B

@TBoneZeOriginal Clicking your link took me to model 5542 for $34.99 - coupon; the shower head is 4.3" instead of 6, but the coupon makes it $19.24, and it looks like it has exactly the same nozzles, just closer together. I’ll trade a more compact head for $10.

@martinam nice necro, marty.

@somf69 only with brass nuts! I’ve been wanting to say brass nuts since I read the description

@somf69what about an Orange POTUS!! Hee, Hee, Hee!!

@mehrrychristmas that’s the golden shower setting for 45.

@mehrrychristmas the different combinations you can make between both heads.

@legnip the specs stated 6 settings per attachment so it doesn’t add up.

@mehrrychristmas Either way I need at least 1000 settings. Each water jet individual and so on. I NEED this to shower properly, right. I’m sure i’m not alone on this. And yes off counts as one setting so no emails please.

@bugger @mehrrychristmas I bet there’s a showerhead with Bluetooth and an app that is what @bugger wants.

@mehrrychristmas New math.

@legnip @mehrrychristmas There are six settings each plus three diverter settings. So with both on there are 36 combinations. The another six with just one on, and another six with just the other on. So 48. Not useful, but it adds up.

49 settings if you include Off. Marketing FAIL.

@legnip @mehrrychristmas “OFF” is a setting, so 7 settings per attachment. 7x7 = 49. But in order not to be complete jerks they are refraining from counting “both OFF” as a “setting”. Hence, 48.

@phendrick this is Meh, no comment is too low

@nolrak @phendrick Do your comments hang too low in the morning?

@phendrick @rpstrong no, but they wobble to and fro

@nolrak

Only one place I have gone to has a Coke Freestyle machine (since I don’t go to chain fast food places).

The time I went though, they didn’t have most flavors, so it was a disappointment for me.

@PlacidPenguin honestly I think they’re a bit overrated; it has approximately 1.21 jigawatts of possible combinations but I think I get the same thing literally every time.

@nolrak @PlacidPenguin the freestyle machine is one of the things I hate most in the world. They are total shit.

1. Kids take forever because they want to play.
2. Old people take forever because they are confused.
3. It is always out of a bunch of flavors.
4. The flavors it does have, it doesn’t get right. Everything tastes synthetic and off just a bit. A Coke is not a real Coke from that abomination.

If I could start a crusade to eradicate something from the Earth, it would be the coca-cola freestyle machine.

/giphy not ready for prime time

@djslack @nolrak

It is always out of a bunch of flavors.

The one I tried only had a bunch of flavors available.

I’d imagine that chain fast food places keep better tabs on their machines.

Although the place I went to, had gotten their machine rather recently, so…

But if I’m paying $10-$20 for a burger (I’m not joking), I expect to be able to get cherry Coke if I so wish, and then to be able to add other flavors to it!

(And if you think $10-$20 for a burger is bad, you should see the rest of the menu. There’s a reason I don’t go out much for supper to places which serve meat.)

@nolrak @PlacidPenguin

I’d imagine that chain fast food places keep better tabs on their machines.

They don’t seem to, mostly. It seems that it is really a design flaw in that the machine basically takes ink cartridge sized little tanks (I’m only slightly exaggerating) of flavor concentrates. From my experience, if the restaurant has high traffic, they’re almost guaranteed to be out of something, and one flavor concentrate being empty can affect dozens of drink options in the machine.

It also seems that the flavors are so concentrated that a slight variation in calibration can make a huge difference in flavor. Since that part can probably only be done by a Coke technician, I have experienced quite a few bad-tasting drinks.

But Coke pushes this machine everywhere it can. The markup must be higher on the ink cartridges it uses. At least, you can’t buy the cartridges at Sam’s like you can regular fountain bibs. They are probably only available through Coke directly.

About the only real (like it was when you were a kid) fountain Coke you can get anymore is actually at McDonald’s. They go through so much of it that they have special production just for their stores. They are the only place that still gets their Coke syrup in the metal canisters instead of the bib system that is used everywhere else. They also keep the machines well calibrated, as consistency is their ultimate goal.

I don’t actually drink Coke much anymore, but it was interesting to learn about that.

@djslack @nolrak @PlacidPenguin
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I tried 3 different Minute Maid fruit ‘mixes’ from the machine at Wing Stop yesterday; they all tasted pretty good.

@compunaut It’s not impossible to get a good drink from one (especially if it’s newly set up or well-attended), but the consistency is not great across all machines. I decided on one visit to a Wendy’s that the lime sparkling Dasani was pretty good. A few weeks later I found myself at a different Wendy’s across town, and got the same drink but it tasted like club soda that rode the bus seated next to some limes instead.

@djslack @nolrak @PlacidPenguin “Old people take forever because they are confused.”

People who criticize old people are slashing their own tires.

@djslack @nolrak @PlacidPenguin @radi0j0hn Yeah the better statement would be that those who don’t know how to use the machine can get confused and thus take more time. Automatically assuming that if you are old you are therefore confused is misinformed thinking.

@radi0j0hn my hatred is for the machine, not for the old or young people. Why, I hope to be an old person someday.

But I can see how it looks like that. My writing was imprecise.

@kidsandliz not all old people are confused by it, not all kids want to play with it. Some of each are probably slow for the opposite reasons. And some of each are probably quick and exhibit German-style levels of efficiency in making exactly the choice they want and moving along.

If it were truly a freestyle machine, and there were a UI that let you tweak the various flavor components and perhaps invent new sodas, I’d like to play with it too.

@djslack @nolrak @PlacidPenguin @radi0j0hn Acknowledgeing that the brain ages over time. All of us need to realize and accept that we will all reach a point where we will need help with things. There is nothing wrong with asking for help.

@djslack I always figured they had tied those things into computers so that if something hadn’t been ordered it wouldn’t dispense it (although there would be problems if 2 ordered water and one pop and a water person stole pop then the pop person wouldn’t get their drink).

@Kidsandliz Nope. You can explain that in two words: free refills.

The number of people that would order water and steal soda is hopefully pretty small, and they’re protecting a few cents worth of goods. Probably wouldn’t ever be worth it.

@djslack Well I don’t eat out much/at all so wouldn’t know… but that makes sense.

@djslack @Fen_Star @PlacidPenguin @radi0j0hn

There is nothing wrong with asking for help.

Hanging out on the Meh forums is already a cry for help

@djslack @PlacidPenguin

About the only real (like it was when you were a kid) fountain Coke you can get anymore is actually at McDonald’s.

This.
I’ve actually stopped there just to get a soda.

@djslack @Kidsandliz

order water and steal soda is hopefully pretty small, and they’re protecting a few cents worth of goods. Probably wouldn’t ever be worth it.

At the scale of standard retail level, no … but Disney resorts have started putting in Freestyle machines with RFID readers. The cups are chipped and are only good for a limited number of refills within a limited timeframe.

@nolrak Hmm. You learn something every day. I guess if you’re having people hang around the drink machines for extended periods of time and they’re not behind a counter, you do need some kind of countermeasures.

@nolrak Well yeah. I had forgotten that the cup costs more than the drink. Disney’s solution will make the cups cost even more but there the refill issue (for all day) might be a bigger issue.

@djslack Learned about people doing this when my kid tried it. Nope. Nope. Nope.

@djslack @nolrak @PlacidPenguin

@nolrak I bought one off of MorningSave and have no complaints. Great for the price.

@djslack Q&A on the amazon page said chrome covered plastic

@Kidsandliz most showerheads are plastic. That way you don’t have to worry about them corroding and they are lightweight to hold.

@hchavers The water saver is before the diverter valve. Turning on both heads means half the water to each head.

@hamjudo @hchavers Which is no doubt why the reviews on amazon complain about not much water pressure with both heads on.

@Tadlem43 Q&A on amazon page said chrome covered plastic

@bigevilgrape Reviews say pressure sucks only if using both heads at once. Of course there are only 10 reviews so who really knows.

@Kenbo (Note to self. Buy more stuff from Meh.)

@mfladd where you at?

@Kenbo does it come with this girl so i can stay longer in shower

@floriri If it did, my showers would probably not last nearly as long.

@Woody1 More like it’ll have one setting I like and 47 that are just meh. So on, off, meh.

The faucet handle can’t do meh.

@talidal I only got the one, now I feel left out

@djslack @talidal

I also only got one.

@talidal did you accidentally click the email button at the top of this page?

@jlopez1025

I still haven’t installed mine…

@jlopez1025 @jst1ofknd How about now?

@jst1ofknd still amazing!