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Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine

“All you have to do is insert a coin, and a piece of china will slowly move forwards and fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking, and leaving you happy and relieved of anger.”

The link is here.

Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 20, 2009 at 12:11 PM in Economics | Permalink

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Didn't Mr Toad have a Passive Aggressive Relief Provider?

Posted by: dearieme at Mar 20, 2009 12:38:13 PM

In «Il pianeta degli alberi di Natale» they had a «Smash-up palace», free for anyone to come into and smash whatever there was (it was furnished like normal dwellings) to heart's content, and rebuilt at common expense when nothing but the foundations remained.

Posted by: Grammar nazi at Mar 20, 2009 12:39:00 PM

Efficient destruction??

Posted by: liberty at Mar 20, 2009 12:42:24 PM

P.S. It's a sculpture. Cool, though.

Posted by: William at Mar 20, 2009 12:54:49 PM

A piece of China? I got dibs on Beijing.

Posted by: Andrew at Mar 20, 2009 3:51:33 PM

This could be a job stimulus machine: The government inserts a coin, the plate breaks, a little man inside the machine creates a new plate, the governement inserts a coin, the plate breaks, a little man inside the machine creates a new plate, the gov....

Obama needs to set up these machines across the country! With a multiplier of 1.5, we will really be in business.

Posted by: Tom at Mar 20, 2009 3:53:32 PM

I am officially reserving the right to be the provider of the kilns and to provide the ongoing service contract to those said kilns. Forget about the china...thars money in dem kilns!

Posted by: dave at Mar 20, 2009 6:59:25 PM

How many blogs do you read?

Posted by: Paul N at Mar 20, 2009 10:11:14 PM

Silly machine. But then a fool and his money are soon parted.

Posted by: techreseller at Mar 24, 2009 9:17:13 AM

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