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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week 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.

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

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They all just sitting there collecting dust

[–] sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think that's a double entendre.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

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

So he gave it to her.

They all suck.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 36 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

this collection really sucks.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Specialized food-dish vacuum.

[–] Damionsipher@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

My exact thought when I saw this post.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just trying to fill the vacuum in their life

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

But who's collecting the collectors?

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

A&E’s Hoarders

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This guy's hobby sucks.

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

Henry, HenrySomething, and James

Where's George? Off sucking Jeff again?

Must be Garbage Time.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week 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.

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

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

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

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

You're thinking of smoke alarms

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

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

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Poor Henry's looking a little anaemic

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Do they feel different?

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

Why american vacuuma have faces?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Is the Henry not British?

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days 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 1 week ago (1 children)

Not judging just thought it was cute

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 2 points 6 days 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/

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 2 points 1 week ago

man im jealous