It contains more than yours.

Hauntingly beautiful. Wow.

These are ABSOLUTELY, 100%, SUPPOSED to look like penises.

I worked for an unnamed "adult products" company, and we sold the "Bachelorette Party Kit", that included penis cupcake trays, a penis-shaped cake mold, penis napkins and plates, and, YOU GUESSED IT, thee VERY SAME drinking straws!

This is no mistake. Maybe the Bachelorette Party Kit didn't sell well, and they sold the straws to the toy company?

How to play DivX and Xvid on your AppleTV:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/how-to-play-divx-and-xvid-on-your-apple-tv/

The skeptoid podcast is great!

His explanation is that the pads are self adhesive, and will remove excess skin and dirt from the soles of your feet when you pull them off. As your feet get cleaner, so do the pads, accounting for the reduction of "toxins".

I believe this, but also find it interesting that the majority of bad reviews of this product complain that the pads are NOT ADHESIVE ENOUGH to stay on your foot, and users are resorting to taping the pads on, or wearing socks during sleep to prevent the pads from falling off due to low adhesion.

I'm not sure that a pad that barely stays on without taping it down would pull off enough material to look "dirty".

But, it's probably the most sensible answer.

I have seen these, and have done some research into customer reviews. I obviously am skeptical, but here are two notable things to consider.

1. Reviewers report that the pads DO turn dark icky colors, are gooey/sticky, and smell AWFUL after use. Suggestions were made that perhaps the herbs and materials in the pad react to your skin and sweat and/or each other and make the pads turn color and smell badly.

However, reviewers report that after several uses, the dark color starts to gradually lessen each time, as does the odor and gooeyness. Wouldn't this discount the assertion that something within the pads is changing color due to a reaction? Users also state there is no "order" in which the pads are to be used. In other words, there are no "stages' with different pads which could account for the lessening of the dark, gooey, foul material as they are used in succession.

2. I had a bout with a nasty cold/flu, and was looking for natural remedies. Garlic is purported to have antibiotic properties. Some people suggested putting a crushed clove of garlic in my sock during the day (or night) and my body would absorb the allicin in the garlic. Well, sure enough, after a few hours of putting a piece of garlic in your shoe, you can CLEARLY, STRONGLY smell garlic on your breath. SOMEHOW, that garlic gets into your body via the skin on the soles of your feet.

If the skin is slightly permeable there, doesn't it stand to reason that if something can go IN it could feasibly come OUT? Kinda makes sense. See also nicotine and birth control patches which produce the same effects.

I'm not defending, and do not use or sell these damn things, but I ALMOST bought a box. Can't bring myself to stoop that low, but, then I think about these simple concepts, and start to wonder!

To quote from a comment on this You Tube video:

"David Lynch? His movies suck no matter where you watch them."

++ QFT