Don’t think I’d trust those unless they had an expiration date stamped on them that was far into the future. Even then I don’t know that I would trust them. They could be some cheap knock of brand they just going to split open or tear on use.
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In the 90s I was a teenager and I took a friend with me visiting family in Japan. I can't read more than about 100 kanji, probably less now.
We found a vending machine, a small one not the usual fridge size ones, just on the street. I was trying to figure out what it was selling, it didn't look like anything I recognised. We both smoked so I could just about recognise the words for pregnancy and something negative or anti, like a health warning.
We were there for a good 10 minutes and a few elderly people had taken notice of us and were giving us weird stares, proper WTF faces. My virgin ass finally figures out they're condoms, the kanji are the equivalent of Contra, Ceptive, and we bolt.
I don't see these as often as I used to, but they aren't uncommon.
You must not frequent sketchy neighborhoods.
Those used to be ubiquitous gas station features. I assume they were in the bathroom for privacy; but the machines were so loud, everyone in the store could hear anyways.
I've never seen any in my home state. This was in West Virginia, in what wasn't really a sketchy neighborhood (or a neighborhood to begin with)
That entire state qualifies as a sketchy neighborhood.
I've been to truck stops that have these dispensers with all kinds of weird shit in them
Way of the road.
We had this and emergency tampon in every bathroom on my campus … and the uni thought it was to pricy, now it’s only empty dispenser