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Awkward Stock Photos – WTF Friday

If there is any time where my day job and side hobby worlds collide, it would be on a stock photography website. I can’t recount the number of times I was searching for a stock image when I encountered one of the weirdest and most awkward photos I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen A LOT of photos). I even found a website dedicated to these awkward photographs for sale: http://awkwardstockphotos.com/

Therefore, in honor of my WTF Friday, I set out to find some of the most disturbing pictures and I ask “Why, oh why, would anyone purchase these for commercial use?”

There’s nothing like a relaxing, almost orgasmic experience than spending your evening with a cactus, if I do say so myself.

“DIY at home Salon kit”

She’s either having too much fun with her cosmetic surgery, or a funky mummy

Damn Pineapple heads always money hungry!

I could see using this for my dad’s dental site

I call this one “The Heartbreaker”

“So whatcha up to tonight?”, Oh nothing, just heading to the Home Depot, picking up a battery operated drill and killing myself for paying 100k too much for this fixer upper.

I’m pretty sure this was the clown in my nightmare growing up

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Family fun entertainment for everyone

I’m just a monkey, hanging out. Wassup?

Anyone need a jump?

Now if this guy can’t sell computers, I don’t know who can!

Probably my favorite, except the monkey. I like monkeys

You think this guy look familiar? He is! You may have seen him in the horrible Lower My Bills advertising

I had no idea what these were supposed to be, until I saw the description “Flowers with eyes”… I still don’t know why.

Am I the only one here? Have you seen these pictures also? Better yet, have you seen them actually USED on websites?

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Sexually Suggestive AS SEEN ON TV Exercise Equipment | WTF Friday

We all know the AS SEEN ON TV products that hock the next best product that will lift and tone, strengthen and tighten, all in a few minutes a day and for very little investment. What I can’t understand, is how they all manage to put you in sexually compromising positions or include the use of fallic looking devices:

Possibly the most famous example of this is Suzanne Somers and her ThighMaster:

Bally’s newer yet still seductive version:
Same idea

It’s hard for this thing to NOT be suggestive:

woman using thighmaster

The new craze ShakeWeight, notorious for commercials of bouncing moobies and boobies, is now in the running to overtake Somer’s thrown as the most sexually charged exercise equipment around:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S3C4AC908w

Shakeweight in use

The Neckline Slimmer. That’s right girls, build those muscles, your men will be proud! (And HAPPY!)

Rock and Go Exerciser- I’m not going to say what this looks like, but let’s say it wasn’t uber popular because people felt “weird” sitting on it.

weird exercise equipment
Maybe it’s the arrows that make this Fitness Quest Leg Magic Ultra machine look suggestive?

open wide fitness lady

Back2Life has been prepping couples for copulation since early 2000:

woman on her back legs up

And just for good measure, check out this “Booty Ballet” offered:

booty ballet yoga

OK so maybe not sexual, but definitely suggestive, I couldn’t make fun of exercising without throwing in good old Richard Simmons!

richard simmons posing provocatively

So yes, I say “WTF As Seen on TV exercise equipment inventors? How are you guys such marketing geniuses?!”  Remember- sex sells! Keep up the good work…

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