Comments on: Philips Unleashes Sex Toy Range

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:31:26 +0000

Kevin, I agree with you 100 percent, but then I talk patent bollocks most of the time.

By: chenier

chenier — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:25:36 +0000

Nick, you will no doubt have spotted that appending the word ‘technically’ to any statement will have me reaching for the offswitch; remember that I am grappling with Vista here…

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:17:39 +0000

Chenier, technically a light bulbs primary purpose is to be used in the dark…
o_O

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:53:52 +0000

We men, however, if we are mad enough to believe that a gift of a lurve toy is appropriate - should be forced to look for them in surgical supply shops on dusty trading estates out of town. The kind where an emphysemic one-eyed shopkeeper glares at you from behind a rack of trusses while you hurriedly select something that you think isn’t going to replace you in her affections.

By: Alice P

Alice P — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:56:08 +0000

To be fair; the idea is not exactly new - the only reason this is such news it is simply the fact that is represents such a big diversion for what is after all an electronics firm.

Emotional Bliss massagers are also non-penetrative massagers - the difference being that they really are female-friendly.

Alice

By: magnetite

magnetite — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:37:32 +0000

In that case have a machine that holds your hair while you’re being sick, then rubs your feet until you drift off. It then carries you to bed without pestering for anything, makes breakfast just before you wake, and puts the bins out. THEN it tells you how good you look as you leave the house.

By: chenier

chenier — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:30:08 +0000

That would leave considerable problems for those of us who don’t drive…

By: magnetite

magnetite — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:16:50 +0000

I also thought that the preferred sex toy for the 35-55 year old woman was a 20-25 year old man.

I suspect that a satnav that tells you how good you look today will eventually replace all us chaps anyway.

By: chenier

chenier — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:12:15 +0000

I am the first to concede that XYs have their plus points.

I have never noticed map reading skills to be amongst them…

By: June

June — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:09:13 +0000

a map reading one on the other hand…..

By: chenier

chenier — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:08:18 +0000

Bearing in mind that it’s targeted at 35-55 year old couples, do you really think anyone’s going to buy them?

How sad do you have to be to say to yourself that you need sex toys for the middle aged?

Not only to yourself, but to the person at the till.

We are in ‘You are never alone with a Strand’ territory…

By: magnetite

magnetite — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:55:13 +0000

The laydees should be allowed this though, purchased discreetly from reputable shops. You know - clothing, shoe, any shops with a line of bored-looking men standing with bags outside while their beloveds browse to their hearts content within.

“Can it drive?”
“hrrrk…cough..no, of course not.”
“Right,. I’ll have this one then.”

By: June

June — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:46:35 +0000

I used to work for Phillips, frequently late for work, the teasmade…..

By: chenier

chenier — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:46:24 +0000

…..and the next step is to market exercise machines so that the happy couples will be able to face keeping the lights on whilst grappling with the tasteful purple covered stones…

By: chenier

chenier — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:35:39 +0000

I suspect that this was the result of one of those desperate brain storming sessions where people run things up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes…

By: magnetite

magnetite — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:28:25 +0000

I had a temperamental Philips TV once that would only return to life after a good thump on the top of it. Is nocturnal suburbia soon to be filled with the sound of these things being thwacked off bedside tables? If so, it’ll make a night-time walk home sound like a mass distributed Gene Krupa solo. Flim. Flam. Paradiddle.

By: F3L1P40

F3L1P40 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:19:19 +0000

In my opinion, Sex Toys won’t be good for the brand in long-term basis. The brand may get attention and some money now with your pseudo-dildos but don’t forget that Philips recently acquired the babycare and/or mothercare company called Avent. Whatta hell Philips executives plan to do?

By: chenier

chenier — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:10:31 +0000

Phillips made its money marketing light bulbs; it’s taken them 80 years to come up with a product which can be used in the dark…