London – Toy time

The surprise hit gift of Yuletide '06? Vibrating cock rings. A disposable dick quaking device by Durex, the first sex toy ad aired on terrestrial TV, is giving Brits boners as they slouch in front of the box this Christmas. Also hot this year is the iBuzz Two, a vibrating cock/clit set activated by music. It's like sharing earplugs and buttplugs...

Tidbits - Women Can Pee Like Men?

In recent years a slew of devices have arrived on the market that allow women to piss standing up. The products, which basically amount to plastic and cardboard funnels that fit like guacamole against the ol’ pink taco, can be a godsend for gals who want to drunkenly spill urine on the side of a Volvo when they can’t hold it until home—just like one of the guys.

Tidbits - Shirt Stays

We were thumbing through a police supply catalog the other day and came across these guys. They're like those garters old men wear, but instead of anchoring your socks to your calves they use the power of your socks falling down to keep your shirt tails from constantly blousing out like Seinfeld. And if your socks aren't bugging you or you're not wearing them, they've got another model where the bottom ends in a little stirup for your heel (two of our editors got in a really big argument about which one was probably developed first). Anyways, we hate it when that shirt-thing happens--as apparently do cops--so we were pretty psyched to see some brilliant mind had foregone AIDS and cancer to cure something real for a change and ordered ourselves a set.

New York - Attempted Tidbits

Since we've already provided a primer to submitting Dos and Don'ts, we figured it'd be a generous service to offer up a couple of helpful suggestions for sending in Tidbits. So here's they are:

1. Products/Objects work best. This is more to do with the layout than us not liking funny ads or store names--if it can't be neatly cut out and dropped on a white background with a tiny little shadow, either we have to crop it down to just the essential part (which looks ugly) or it ends up taking over the page in a huge sprawling mess. Naturally this isn't always the case: Sometimes an abstract idea works every bit as well as some sort of handheld dealer.

2. We've got a running list of products we've done so many times that they have been wrenched of every last drop of intrinsic humor and reverted to being just boring/sad. These include Barfy burgers, Cock soup, Pussy incense, Smack ramen, and everything made by the Bimbo baking corporation of Mexico. Please, please, please do not send us these or slight variations such as Cock gumbo or products made by the Spanish Bimbo bakers.

3. It helps if it's even remotely funny.

New York - Scandinavian Tidbits Part II

Yesterday, we had Part I of the Tidbits up, and today we finish presenting the rest of Scandinavia's on the photoblog. Have fun staring at this lobotomy tool for hours trying to figure out how to go about massacring someone's brain with it.

New York - Scandinavian Tidbits Part I

Because we're all stunningly anal control freaks who completely flip our shit and shout at each other whenever anything isn't exactly how we want it, we've always insisted that all our foreign editions use the same Tidbits. It's kind of like how your dad would make you read the instructions for everything you bought, even if it was just a fucking walkman. Anyway, Vice Scandinavia went and burked our authority, so now we've got to sit here and drink ourselves into the proper rage to fight them when they get back in for the night.

In the meantime, check out the Photo Blog to see what they came up with:

RUSSIA - TIDBITS

LAPTI SHOES
A hundred years ago all Russians wore these primitive-looking straw slippers made by peasants in Belarus.

They look like Steve Martin’s “Cruel Shoes,” but holy shit are they comfortable. They feel like you’re putting your feet into vaginas.

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