Random Thoughts Thread

[Jeff Lebowski]

doterra reps are annoying. Its the newest mlm for women. They claim to have a scented oil for everything. Diarrhea, psoriasis, cancer, anxiety, cold, flu they can help.

Can't believe people fall for that crap. Someone develops an MLM based on snake oil and people still buy it. Amazing.

[FN Phat]

Side note: one of said women in our neighborhood who sells doterra posted a photo on Facebook of her daughter who had apparently dumped a full bottle of one of her $150 bottles of oil all over her. I felt sorry for about a half a second and then laughed.

That is awesome.

[Pheidippides]

Can't believe people fall for that crap. Someone develops an MLM based on snake oil and people still buy it. Amazing.

I have a couple of friends involved - intelligent women with masters degrees that are blithering idiots in this respect.

SHW was hung-ho for a while on it. Until I pointed out she could get the exact same thing online for 1/4 the price. After three hours of me telling her how mlms work, she realized how stupid it was, at that was that.

[Uncle Ted]

Can't believe people fall for that crap. Someone develops an MLM based on snake oil and people still buy it. Amazing.

And why do these companies always seem to form in Utah (largely in Utah County)?

At least the lawyers are making money from these MLM's:

Essential oils rivalry spills into Utah courts

Two Utah companies that sell therapeutic oils with purported healthy properties are suing each other, alleging the theft of trade secrets, faked lab tests, false advertising and "pure" products contaminated with unnatural substances.


Young Living Essential Oils of Lehi and upstart competitor doTERRA of Orem have filed dueling lawsuits in state and federal courts, setting up an intense legal battle between companies that take in tens of millions of dollars in annual revenues from the sale of rival products.

[...]

A day after the doTERRA lawsuit was filed, Young Living came back with its own federal lawsuit that alleges an independent French laboratory had tested doTERRA oils and found various contaminants. The complaint accuses doTERRA of falsely advertising the pureness of its products in order to capture business from Young Living and lure away distributors.

It seems the only thing that drives these MLMs is greed and false promises of some super snake oil. And it seems to feed off the LDS network. Recently I had a member try to sell me on the health benefits of Asea. Of course, the approach they used was showing me all these people in their nice homes and fancy cars that sold Asea. Asea is nothing but Utah tap water with some salt added to it. I threw the LDS member and "friend" out of my house and told him to never come back.

[thesaint258]

Last night was a good night. I was able to see friends I haven't seen in years, have a bottle of one of the best beverages on the planet almdudler.jpg, and I was able to go hear President Uchtdorf speak. When he noticed the hail outside, he commented that he hoped all of our cars were okay. He continued, "But that shouldn't be a problem for you because all German-speaking missionaries should be driving German steel." Now I'm trying to convince my wife that President Uchtdorf commanded us to get a BMW.

[lambdacoug]

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[Donuthole]

doterra reps are annoying. Its the newest mlm for women. They claim to have a scented oil for everything. Diarrhea, psoriasis, cancer, anxiety, cold, flu they can help.

Can't believe people fall for that crap. Someone develops an MLM based on snake oil and people still buy it. Amazing.

One of my fb friends who I generally have a lot of respect for is constantly pimping doTerra oils. She is well-educated and overcame a lot of social and familial adversity to become a successful pharmaceutical rep. When she had her second child, she had a bad experience with an epidural and has now forsaken the drug industry. She is now very successful with doTerra, in large part because she is constantly pimping the fact that she worked for Big Pharm and knows how their drugs are not made to cure illness, blah, blah, blah. I'm trying hard not to lose respect for her, knowing her backstory and what she has overcome, but the more she pushes the essential oils, the more difficult it becomes for me.

[Surfah]

We have a friend in our old ward who sells it. She was never pushy or anything and doesn't get evangelical about it. She even gave Gidget a few bottles of stuff free. Our girls seem to be magnets for mosquitoes during the summer so one of the things she gave Gidget was some bug repellant oil. You're supposed to put it on the soles of your feet or something. I laughed when I heard that and said no way that works. Sure enough our girls came back in from playing outside covered with large welts from mosquito bites. When a Facebook friend started hitting us up to buy from her we shared this experience and said no thanks.

[Katy Lied]

I have a question that has been puzzling me. The only "Random Question" thread I could find was Art's, and I am sure he is busy preparing this week's, so I thought I would just put mine here.

Mostly, when I look at myself in the mirror, I think to myself "For being a somewhat short and bald 40-something, there is a fine looking man."

On the other hand, whenever I see a photograph of myself, I think "There is the ugliest spud that I have seen in quite some time."

So my question is, which is more accurate, the mirror or the camera? Please when you reply do not take into consideration that my entire sense of self-worth is hanging on the answer to this.

Short answer: you are a relativist. In the mirror, you are by yourself. In the photographs, you are pictured next to others, usually your wife, and you married as well as PAC did. Which is why your kids, also commonly pictured with you in the photograph, equally outshine you.

[San Juan Sun]

True story: This morning I woke up with a certain song in my head. When I went out and got in the car, it was the first song on the radio. Mind = blown.

Warning: NSFW

[FN Phat]

I love how the first thing that came to your mind was Ice Cube.

[Pelado]

I love that ever other commercial on BYUtv is for another college (UVU, SVU).

[lambdacoug]

[thesaint258]

By far, the dumbest thing I did today was throw an entire fortune cookie into my mouth while simultaneously forgetting that fortune cookies have pieces of paper in them. Then I figured out why the crunchy cookie was chewy...

[Indy Coug]

Signs you're getting old: you realize your great-great-grandfather was born a couple of months after Joseph Smith was killed.