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Label yourself a permadork for life: Wii cufflinks
Colette Bennett04.22.2008 14:25 (136 day(s) ago) 28 comments

Label yourself a permadork for life: Wii cufflinks screenshot

Per the words of our own resident tipster Jonathan Ross, these Wii cufflinks hover somewhere between awesome and ridiculous. Awesome because if you're a raving Wii fan, you can show it off mack daddy style with silver cufflinks in the shape of the infamous Wiimote. The ridiculous part of the equation comes at the part where you actually reach for your wallet and realize these little guys will set you back $150. Whoa, people! Since when do gamers have $150 to blow that they haven't already spent on games?

Somehow, this reminds me of all that metrosexual Mario talk back from last January. I'm not saying we can't have nice things, but rather that to a gamer the value of a dollar is probably better spent on the focus of our obsessions - games themselves - rather than iconic and pricey objects having to do with our hobby. If you're buying them as we speak, I'm sure I'll get hate mail about my stance on them. This is good because I just set up a separate post office box for hate mail, which I periodically douse with gasoline and set on fire.

[Via Electric Pig - Thanks Jonathan!]

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Demtor's Avatar
Demtor at 04/22/2008 14:22

I heard 007 will be sporting these babies in the next Bond movie... call me a liar, I DARE YOU!
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rhk at 04/22/2008 14:23

Liar.
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Cowzilla3 at 04/22/2008 14:25

Jizz.
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loki d20 at 04/22/2008 14:32

Love them, but no freaking way am I paying $150 for some cuff links w/o any bling on them. Of course, all the cuff links on that site, including the usual type, are extremely overpriced and I can get them for less than half the cost at other stores (example: Bachrach).
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GrayFox at 04/22/2008 14:33

Bahahaha
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GoatRoyale at 04/22/2008 14:34

Wiimote cufflinks? pfft. Now if they made cufflinks that looked like an old NES / SNES pad, then I might just have to file it under "DO WANT"...not that I'd pay $150 for cufflinks (dammit, what's so wrong with regular buttons?), but still.
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Topher Cantler at 04/22/2008 14:34

HAHAHA
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Johnny Blaze at 04/22/2008 14:43

Man that made my diamond cutter nipple scream with joy till Colette said the price.. :(


On a fo real note: This is something I would want for my wedding and this cake..

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Knives at 04/22/2008 14:45

If I had a ton of money to throw away i would get them, but I don't, so I'll take and overused inet phrase and say: omg, wtf? laym.
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njsykora at 04/22/2008 14:47

The phrase 'DO WANT!' doesn't quite cover it.
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king3vbo at 04/22/2008 14:53

Redicuawesome is the descriptor here
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Char Aznable at 04/22/2008 14:59

Reading the phrase "made my diamond cutter nipple scream with joy" was the best part of my day so far.

That's pretty sad, huh?
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Oni at 04/22/2008 15:09

Man, that's awesome. Y'know what would be more awesome? If they were original controllers or SNES controllers. Then they'd go from 'why not' to 'must rob the store that is carrying them.
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Super Klytus at 04/22/2008 15:22

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1: not having or exhibiting good taste: as a: marked by lack of style : dowdy b: marked by cheap showiness : gaudy
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PaperBowser0 at 04/22/2008 15:31

Those are pretty much sweet, but WAY too expensive.
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iamcuriouslyyellow at 04/22/2008 15:40

Certainly, wearing those to a job interview would make getting the job a cinch, especially matched with a Mario tie.
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Grapefruit Juice at 04/22/2008 15:40

Wedgies in board room meetings up 237%
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ceark at 04/22/2008 15:45

I just had this mental image of you printing out junk/spam/hate mail and then burning it.
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mistic at 04/22/2008 15:57

Well I think they look pretty good, I'd never get them... but they look good...
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McSnow at 04/22/2008 16:11

£80 for something that will be hidden up my sleeves most of the time?
No thanks, I'll stick with the 50p ones I picked up in the charity shop to go with my £1 Tux.
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Nessie at 04/22/2008 16:15

way too expensive, but a cute idea.
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brainderailment at 04/22/2008 16:38

If you ever wear these, women will smell it on you for the rest of your life and probably kick you in the nuts for making them stay in the same room with you.
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Tpete2008 at 04/22/2008 17:38

those are actually the most amazing fashion statement i've seen all my life....

I need the money to buy them NOW.
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necrozen at 04/22/2008 23:13

cute
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HarassmentPanda at 04/22/2008 23:40

$150 isn't bad for cufflinks at all! I should pick these up to wear to more whimsical events. Thank you Mr. Ross; you make me a little more complete every day.
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Holyetheline at 04/23/2008 09:10

WTF that's too damn much money for something I'd never wear.
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Gamechamp at 04/24/2008 22:16

I don't even have any idea what a cufflink is.

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