During one of my recent late-night television-watching sessions (which happen more often than one would think), I happened to see a particular infomercial that I've seen several times in the past. Remembering how utterly ridiculous it was, I decided to summarise my feelings about it here (thereby justifying the word "rant" in the website's title). The product, in case you're wondering, is the amazing Flip Fold! Anyway, the Flip Fold is supposed to fold your clothes in 5 seconds, which is about the time I require to fold my clothes by hand. You put the shirt or whatever onto it, then proceed to fold and unfold it like one of those things kids make out of paper to put on their hands and tell people their fortune. Wow, what a piece of space-age technology!
Here's my solution: get one of those double-folded pieces of cardboard that kids always use to present school science projects. Use it to fold your clothes. Bam! You just saved yourself 34 American dollars (which in my country can buy a modestly-sized factory). And as a bonus, you don't have to face the embarrasment of your credit card company finding out that you're a moron for buying the Flip Fold. If you're not sure if you should buy this product, here's a simple math equation to help you out:
If: Product Price (p) + Number of Individual Flip Folds You Intend to Buy (n) + Number of Times You've Accidentally Shot Yourself in the Face Out of Sheer Stupidity (t) is equal to or greater than your I.Q., then you're just the sort of person who needs to buy a Flip Fold(s)!
All ethnic slurs aside, this "revolutionary new product" should have been named the Gyp Fold. Employing my amazing mathematical skills, I calculated that one will have to fork over a hefty $36.89 US for this bad-boy, after taxes and S & H. And for what? A piece of plastic that folds your clothes. 
Maybe it's just me, but how lazy and/or stupid do you have to be to be unable to fold your own clothes? If you can't perform this simple task, how the hell did you get forty bucks? And what do you need crisply folded clothes for? Certainly not to wear to work, because there are no jobs for someone of your mental calibur.
