Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine smashes fine china, doesn't give your quarter back
By Nilay Patel 
posted Jun 10th 2008 2:01PM
posted Jun 10th 2008 2:01PM
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Hmm, eat more Canadian...
HAHA, didn't know what you were talking about at first. Is there any difference between canadian food and american food?
I have a squishy America-shaped stress reliever. Every time I need it I laugh not because crushing it makes me feel better, but because the first time I used it Florida broke off.
That should happen for real.
You bet there is.
Hey, my Magellan Roadmate has "Canadian" as an option under the "restaurant" finder -- I guess this is that elusive Canadian restaurant!
so what do you do if it steals your money :)P
mmmm. I'm in the mood for some hot Canadian.
um, wait a second, that came out wrong
Bring on the Poutine!
What the fuck is 'Canadian Food'??? As a Canadian, I'd like to know because I'm pretty certain that we don't really have a cuisine of our own.
Any chance these things will be popping up in the office?
Yesss....
I don't think the resulting ticket for littering would help someone with their anger management issues.
rtfa - it falls to the bottom of the vending machine and smashes inside.
brilliant. I envisage a popular phone there that shall remain nameless, ready for my $2.
....razr?
iPhone 1.0?
*sees clak and iEye coming*
I... re-re-retract that statement.
*runs*
dude, Aguiluz, you deserve the first, newly-coveted, highest ranking.
@teej (spelling?)
There WAS a "Highest Rank." Never knew what happened to it...
I don't think the resulting ticket for littering would help someone with their anger management issues.
stupid posting delays.
No, see, when it vends the china, it falls and violently breaks in the dispensing area. No littering ticket.
Jesus Christ, they really need to put art/music back in public schools!
wouldn't they break when they're being dispensed?
Love the idea of this machine, but I think I love your comment even more.
wait... is that what it's suppose to do? smash it on the inside? either way it's strong work...
*misses art school* / *sigh*
Hahahaha, at least there's some fun in the fact that you can't delete your own comments.
That's embarrassing...
Well, it was a poorly written article, anyone could have gotten confused.
Instead of destroying the kitten can the machine just destroy the essay thats due Friday?
I was hoping this would be more engadget ipod news :(
I mean, iphone....lol
I know, right? I want iPhone news all the time!
Can I have permission to kill this "helloUser" dude?
Dude, I want one over here in INDY
.uʍop ǝpısdn sı ɔıd ɹnoʎ 'ǝpnp
rank HIGHER, damn you! higher!
dude...
Wow Mile, I honestly thought there was a gas leak in my house the first few times I read your post.
@Mile: How the HECK did you do that?!
·əlεıssod sı бuıμנʎuα 'əɔuəıנαd μбnouə μנıʍ
ɐɥ ɐɥ ɐɥ ɐɥɐɥɐɥɐɥɐɥɐɥɐɥɐɥɐɥ
iiiiiiunɟ os sı uʍop ǝpısdn bu!dʎʇ iiiibɯO
@Samo: http://www.fliptext.org/
I don't see how this works. I'm not going to relieve any stress or anger by watching a porcelain figure get smashed, I'm going to relieve it by DOING the smashing.
I guess that's why it's a "passive aggressive" machine instead of direct... although the wording is still vague and doesn't make total sense. Such are most "functional" art projects though (a great way to waste college money).
I hope they developed it so the the vending machine never works, creating an instant increased market for the product.
This is all well and fine -- but wouldn't this only intensify your anger if you put in your money and the unit fails to dispense the selected item? I suppose pushing the unit over face-first is the only true satisfaction you could get out of breaking something then, right?
Ha, that's just outside the Drake Hotel on Queen West in Toronto. Part of the Luminato Arts Festival going on this week.
So this isn't one of the new app on the iphone 3G
Video or its not real
The piece of china should by design get stuck and then the user could then violently shake the machine until the piece of china falls and breaks. That would probably be a more effective way of releasing anger.
You don't know why it's called "passive," no?
Maybe "active" machines could do that.
I live across the street from that! It's in front of the Drake Hotel in Toronto.
Cool! Maybe give us a YT video of the machine "in action!"
:D
Wait, Toronto Canada? I live there.
Thanks for the directions. Will get to smash one...
actually - original is here: http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/06/07/passive-aggressive-anger-release-machine/
Which happens to be the READ link. Thanks for pointing that out.
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I think half the engadget posters could use this, because the other half doesn't understand the concept of "passive" in context.
Maybe a web-enabled version with real-time video feed? :)
Haha, I saw the word china, and even though I understood it wasn't referring to the country, I still just assumed the machine was in China... I amused myself.
Nice. I live just down the street from there... should check it out. I wonder why they chose that neighbourhood... or maybe they have more around the city...
And you know the city is multicultural when the SPECIAL is Canadian food. :D haha
it's not in china tho, it' sdowntown toronto
I'm surprised the glass of the vending machine is not cracked. Cos I would be kicking it when i realized that i just wasted a quarter and couldn't break the dang thing myself. Might as well have a vending machine where the snacks keep getting stuck and people never get it. Equally frustrating and fun for onlookers watching a Canadian going postal on a vending machine.
PASSIVE hun, it's a PASSIVE aggressive machine.
Not ACTIVE
PASSIVE
Wikipedia is your friend
i get the passive part... just don't think most people would realize it until it happens the first time.....
The only true satisfaction is taking away satisfaction for others by running this machine over with a truck....
No, no, it's waiting with the truck, watching for losers, waiting till the quarters drop, they enter their selection, and just as they gaze, watching for the impending satisfaction of destruction...
WHAM! You run over _them_ with the truck; that way you can come back and do it again later. Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg shards!