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The supersized option in a line of products is always funny for some reason.

Last week I chuckled upon seeing this online store's inventory of coffee makers: ...10 cups, 12 cups, 18 cups, 50(!) cups: https://www.bialetti.com/it_en/shop/coffee-makers.html?cups=...

(The 50 cups option turned out to be a decorative piece.)

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It's a shame they didn't add a photo with another object for reference. Without looking at the price and dimensions, it looks pretty unassuming.

It's not even that large?

> Dimensions: 31.5 cm x 30.5 cm x 46.5 cm

I mean for a moka pot that's pretty large, but as a total size of an object? Maybe that's why they don't show it next to anything.

I managed to pick up a 22 lb Allen wrench/hex key for a good price a few months vack. Made for a great gag gift wrapped as a giant candy cane.

What size?! Any leads on a matching bolt?

2"! I found a matching reference to it but this is not where I bought it (and also sold for waaay more than I paid, which was something like $130 IIRC) https://www.ebay.com/itm/136814704435. The pictures and details in all of the listings are often very mismatched (there are several variations of different lengths and sizes) but that's the model number of the one I ordered.

Here's a funny picture comparing it to a 2 liter https://i.imgur.com/UIzpDMO.jpeg. As far as the matching bolt... I never did find one to order in time so I gave that as a challenge to figure out before next year! So far he has been using it as a doorstop, mostly to cause people to do a double take when they walk through.

If anyone knows of a good pair of comically large pliers that actually function well enough please let me know.

"Product designed solely for display purposes."

Sad. Although I am deeply amused that it's 'made' by Dolce and Gabbana.

Yeah, it's funny that they list how many cups this coffee maker could theoretically make if it were functional (and if you had a stove big enough, and were willing to risk damaging the no doubt hand painted artwork on your $3000 coffee maker).

I would have to check the size, I think its like 50 cups, but its a commercial coffee maker targeted towards caterers and offices. So 50 cups isn't that unbelievable, its 5 normal coffee pots. But for a moka pot its pretty large.

> The supersized option in a line of products is always funny for some reason.

Takeaway drinks, particularly coffee, have got so ludicrously large that it has me do a double take at times.

A litre of warm milk…

Well I dunno, if you need to attach a car to the roof of your garage to work on the transmission and you've run out of duct tape this seems like the perfect solution.

Oversized things are fun in general. I’ve always loved Claes Oldenburg’s giant renditions of everyday objects.

Mis-sized things are fun, either bigger than normal or smaller than normal.

I vaguely remember reading that Rowan Atkinson stuck to three gags for objects in Mr. Bean skits: something's the wrong size, Mr. Bean uses it the wrong way, or the wrong thing happens when it's used.

(Half of the point of this comment is a hope of being corrected with the actual quote.)

The 18 cup is good for car camping!

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