March 26, 2009

sunny

Filed under: Miscellaneous — Shauna @ 10:34 am

Not to stick with the whole peeing motif around here lately, but my final project at work involves doing communication audits on incontinence products. So I am doing comparative analysis on a company and its competitors, noting key visual and messaging assets, points of differentiation, claims/benefits, strengths/weaknesses, etc. And it’s fun. It’s research, and I get to draw my own haughty opinions about why one site does the best job of promoting its product and why another makes my eyes bleed with its use of 37 colors, 42 fonts and excessive use of exclamation points.

But every single time someone has come to my desk today to give me work, my browser is open to some site touting SUPER ABSORBENCY!!! or FEELS LIKE SILK ON YOUR SKIN! or something equally fetish-sounding. Plus, if the product photos aren’t enough to make me look like a weirdo, the last site I had to review featured half-torsos wearing underwear that can hold up to 4½ cups of fluid.

So let’s think about something else, OK? Like these roses Jason brought to work for me in honor of my new job. Aren’t they beautiful? A wonderful shade of yellow. I love yellow roses.

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Hey, know what else is yellow?

The SUN, you pervs.

14 Comments

  1. Aww. Love the Pee Roses.

    FOUR and a half CUPS? Really? Is there…a MARKET for that level of absorbency?

    Comment by Tessie — March 26, 2009 @ 10:41 am

  2. 4 1/2 cups…holy cow that is alot.

    Comment by Becky — March 26, 2009 @ 10:44 am

  3. Congrats on the new job! The flowers are lovely.

    Comment by LoriD — March 26, 2009 @ 10:59 am

  4. Awww, so pretty! But yes, the color of pee. If you’re dehydrated.

    Comment by Jess — March 26, 2009 @ 11:13 am

  5. 4 1/2 cups? I….there….what???? I mean really that seems like a whole lot of overkill.

    Jason = Super Star for bringing you pee, I mean, Sun colored roses. :)

    Comment by Emily — March 26, 2009 @ 11:28 am

  6. Can someone actually pee 4 1/2 cups AT ONCE? I would assume (HOPE FERVENTLY, WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING) that one would change the protective underwear, regardless of it’s capacity, immediately after an accident, thus making underwear that holds 4 1/2 cups unnecessary. You do realize now, of course, that I am going to have to fill my giant measuring cup with 4 1/2 cups of water and pour it into one of my toddler’s diapers to see if her diapers are up to that standard…

    Comment by Fiona Picklebottom — March 26, 2009 @ 11:29 am

  7. How much is the average pee? I can’t imagine I have ever, even in beer drinking binge days in college, peed 4.5 cups at a time.

    Comment by Shelly — March 26, 2009 @ 11:35 am

  8. aw, pretty flowers! go jason :-)

    i, uh, have NO IDEA what the volume of an Average Pee is. i want to hear the results of fiona’s experiments, though!

    Comment by alice — March 26, 2009 @ 12:19 pm

  9. Fiona,

    You HAVE to do this experiment and let us know the results!

    Alice,

    During my research, I came across a Slate.com article where a guy actual field-tested adult diapers. http://www.slate.com/id/2199722/

    Comment by shauna — March 26, 2009 @ 12:25 pm

  10. HAHAHA! Oh, this is awesome. 4.5 cups? That is excessive.

    Gorgeous roses!

    Comment by Shelly — March 26, 2009 @ 1:14 pm

  11. It’s just not going to cut it on my 5 cup days. Not at all.

    Comment by Parkingathome — March 26, 2009 @ 1:36 pm

  12. I LOVE yellow roses.

    Comment by slynnro — March 26, 2009 @ 8:20 pm

  13. Those are gorgeous! Jason is so sweet.

    Comment by amber — March 26, 2009 @ 10:54 pm

  14. Hee hee. This is funny.

    Comment by Artemisia — March 27, 2009 @ 12:04 pm

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