It basically has a scaled down vacuum cleaner motor in the base.
It sure sounds like a vacuum cleaner. They are wearing clip microphones that are designed to not pick up external sounds and you can still hear it.
"It's a lot gentler" means it's weaker than a regular fan too.

Weaker, louder and a LOT more expensive... but it looks cool!

Oh. My. God. They're adapting. Slowly, over the course of who knows how long, house cats have been building an immunity to water. They're breaking the bonds of oppression, and this is their first act of civil disobedience.

Look into the kitty's eyes at 2:01, and try to quell the grip of horror that takes hold of you. It is a gaze that says, "Look! Though it pains me deeply, I will no longer run from this water; from showers, spray bottles, or hoses! What shall I do next? Learn to work the can opener? Pass casually in front of mirrors without concern for who that other cat is? Or shall I stand firmly in place as you approach with the vacuum cleaner, as a lone man before tanks in Tiananmen Square? Our day shall come. It is almost upon us. We shall rise, your kind shall fall, and you will all know the name of Mr. Cuddlesworth!"

Interesting, but not as hilarious as the giant vacuum cleaner they use to collect the chicks on the field.

Shit, now I'm hungry for some turkey.

^vacuum cleaners sound awesome

It sounds like a vacuum cleaner.

Are we sure those are actually ladybugs? We get huge numbers of beetles that look like ladybugs, but are actually some sort of related beetle from Asia. I mean, *lots* of them, but not that many of course. I was once sucking them up with a vacuum cleaner and counting as I went and I ended up with over two-hundred after only a few minutes and I was still just working the one bay window. Legend has it that if you see that many in your room, inside the walls they're swarming.

When you squish them they leave some sort of stain and a foul odor and I've heard they bite though I've never actually been bitten. The most annoying thing is that because there are so many, they're all half dead and they fly drunkenly around the room running into things. It's actually a little amusing when the ceiling fan is running, but those things would probably put your eye out at such velocities.

Still, if you're going to be infested with bugs, it could be worse. At least they aren't earwigs or cockroaches or something gross looking like that. Still, an invasive species reproducing so prodigiously has to be screwing up some ecological balance or other.

>> ^gwiz665:
Where's my damn flying car!? This is the future, dammit.

where's my nuclear-powered vacuum cleaner?

I haven't emptied my trap in a while, and I recall dropping a few things down there though I can't remember what they are anymore.

Quick warning for anyone though. Never ever use your shop vac anywhere near a sewer drain. Those ones in the basement floor are trouble. That's very very bad. It takes a long time and is very unpleasant to clean out your vacuum, you have to buy a new filter, and the basement will be uninhabitable for a while and possibly explode.

Anyways, I think the pantyhose might be a fine enough mesh to keep water out though, so maybe you could use a normal vacuum cleaner.

Addendum: I agree that it's probably easier to just use a wrench. Getting out the shopvac, plugging it in, finding some hosiery, and then putting it all away again probably takes longer anyways.

Ha! We certainly don't see you around here enough..

In reply to this comment by handmethekeysyou:
This is so much easier than getting a wrench, unscrewing two joints, and simply emptying the pipe's contents into a bucket!

Now all I have to do is hop in the car, drive to a hardware store, buy a wet/dry shop vac, come back home, steal someone's pantyhose (I hate that word and I hate their existence, for the record), and voila! So easy! Thanks handyman douchebag.

"In this case it's a wet/dry shop vac, but any vacuum cleaner, I would imagine, will do."

No it won't. Do not do that. There's a reason "wet/dry" is part of the name. If you drop your wedding ring down the drain and whip out your Hoover, you're going to be in for a very sad time.

This is so much easier than getting a wrench, unscrewing two joints, and simply emptying the pipe's contents into a bucket!

Now all I have to do is hop in the car, drive to a hardware store, buy a wet/dry shop vac, come back home, steal someone's pantyhose (I hate that word and I hate their existence, for the record), and voila! So easy! Thanks handyman douchebag.

"In this case it's a wet/dry shop vac, but any vacuum cleaner, I would imagine, will do."

No it won't. Do not do that. There's a reason "wet/dry" is part of the name. If you drop your wedding ring down the drain and whip out your Hoover, you're going to be in for a very sad time.

>> ^Dranzerk:
He violated a rule and is getting fired..nothing to discuss.
I can't believe the original poster is comparing don't-ask-don't-tell to racism. lol Apples and oranges


they are both fruits...

instead of apples and oranges, how about hippopotamuses and vacuum cleaners?

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

"There are many people who like to masturbate with vacuum cleaners." really?

Reminds me of Mr. Garrison's invention

Only two portable vacuum cleaners? Damn... I was interested but that's a deal breaker for me.

Fixed, thanks for the note.

In reply to this comment by residue:
*dead

She looks as though her soul has been sucked out of her body through her eye sockets via industrial strength vacuum cleaner. Time to reanimate a new corpse, Republicans, this one doesn't make me angry anymore.