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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

FYI, Reddit is not a microblog.

I’ll leave this one up since it’s pretty unique and humorous as far as reddit posts go.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Gotcha, sorry. I'll hold off on posting reddit screenshots here.

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 82 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They all just sitting there collecting dust

[–] sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think that's a double entendre.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

A woman walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a double entendre.

So he gave it to her.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 2 months ago

They all suck.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really appreciate that these types of collectors of random appliances exist whenever I need to buy something and want to read real opinions written by people instead of the garbage sponsored recommendation list articles that seemed to pollute the search results (even before the LLMs appeared) that forced everyone to start appending 'reddit' to their Google queries.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 months ago

Oh, boy, I hate the "Top 5 X of 2025!" articles in my search.

I just skip right over those

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

this collection really sucks.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Specialized food-dish vacuum.

[–] Damionsipher@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We're you not at the vacuum collector meet up featured in How to with John Wilson (s03e04)?

[–] dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My exact thought when I saw this post.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Same, came to recommend the series. So many good clips!

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd love to see a whole series dedicated entirely to finding these people who have dedicated their entire life to some esoteric craft.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I may or may not own 4 myself.

Every couple of years, my mom gets mad at her vacuum cleaner and buys a new one. I get the "if you can fix it, it's all yours!" hand-me-downs and....all of them have worked just fine.

The only one I purchased myself was the shop vac

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Used to snatch them off the side of the road in the 90s. Watch a movie while cleaning them up, new bag and a belt, $20 profit.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Smart!

So far only one has needed "repair"....in the way of ripping the dog hair out of the roller with a blade.

[–] Bubbey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The number of vacuums I see thrown away at my condo complex that literally are just clogged...

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Just trying to fill the vacuum in their life

[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I did not know.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This guy's hobby sucks.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But who's collecting the collectors?

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

A&E’s Hoarders

[–] markz@suppo.fi 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Henry, HenrySomething, and James

Where's George? Off sucking Jeff again?

Must be Garbage Time.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This must be a thing. This is not the first time I’ve seen someone with a vacuum collection. There might even be a word for this.

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

My boss is collecting racing bicycles. He does not drive them. He has about 40.

[–] benni@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bubbey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He should put low batteries in each one, see if he can sync the beeps.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

You're thinking of smoke alarms

[–] zephiriz@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So this is why Amazon really pushed vacuums to me after I bought one. I was like really Amazon I only need one stop please I don't need 10 vacuums.

[–] EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Best one is the Oreck on the right. Like choosing the correct holy grail 😂

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 months ago

Oreck, the Honda of commercial vacuums.

Honestly I never found them to perform better than other vacuums, just that they're simply designed and easily maintained.

While Dyson is overpriced with cool (clear) but inferior materials (clear plastics tend to be more brittle than color), I've found they do work a lot better than most others. Just not $500 better than others.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Do they feel different?

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 2 points 2 months ago

man im jealous

[–] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Poor Henry's looking a little anaemic

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why american vacuuma have faces?

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thats a ~~US'~~ British companies brand identity, might say something about US-ans that they make a profit this way but might also not say anything about people from the usa.

Edit: Numatic the name of said company and it is from England. Interesting fact as a bonus:

The company was founded on 9 September 1963, and as of 2024 is owned solely by Chairman and Founder Chris Duncan, who created the compact shape for the cleaner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numatic_International

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not judging just thought it was cute

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

Funnily enough i looked it up some time after replying to you, only to find out it is actually a British company and not a US one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_%28vacuum%29 https://numatic.com/our-products/homecare/vacuums/

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Is the Henry not British?

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

My nephew was mad about vacuums up till he was about 5 or 6, and I used to watch vacuum videos with him. There was one kid called numaticrules or something who had a massive collection of Numatic vacuums (the Henry family of vacs). And another channel called Vacsock, which was a guy who just vacuumed up socks.

I wish he watched that stuff still instead of the skibidi crap he watches now.

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

There is not only someone who collect things that suck, but also someone who collect things that blow.