Feb 16 2009Luxury Ice Comes At A Cost (Hint: $8 A Ball)

First and appearantly I suck nuts

@1 At least you're not in denial.

what a crock of $hit

Roll my expensive, alcohol soaked balls in your mouth...

Hehe, this should appeal to douches who insist on drinking only their favorite brand of premium vodka - a drink which is by definition "tasteless, colorless and odorless."

Hopefully anyone who knows people who will pay for this "luxury ice" will flat out tell them what idiots they are rather than being impressed, which is no doubt what they're looking for...

Fake. I killed you on Mos Eisley.

The rich need better pastimes.
ps. Couldn't they get someone classier to model the stuff? Might justify the price a wee bit more (say, by $.002).

eskimo ban wa beads?

my keystone light doesn't need chilled, I drink it warm

Another luxury item for the bold and the rich.Hand over your checks!

*ben

Women are complicated! Why would a woman want ice balls? Well, whatever, I guess you have to play the game. $8 for each ball? As soon as she's drunk I'm switching back to regular ice blocks!
how do i get her to talk to me again - 26 200 000
Buy her ice balls, I guess, thanks GW, i guess. Can I email them?

Now I know there is too much people with too much time in their hands

...Is that Hiromi Oshima in the second pic?

hah...I've actually had skittle brew

first, never had skittle brew, but love vodka, and willl have to try it.
second: ice balls!!! WTF!!!!!! Next thing you know, they'll be making ice in the shape of dice!!!!

"And besides their claims that a sphere is 'among the most efficient ways to cool your drink'"
That's funny. Looks like there is less surface area then half the ice cubes out there to efficiently cool a drink.

Eight dollars a ball? If I'm going to buy something that small for eight dollars it better be made of gold, silver, copper, or some other precious metal. Talk about a total failure. Rich people need to stop spending their money worthlessly and just give it to me.

I thought I read an article once where you could buy the things to make your own ice balls.

Personally I don't like my balls iced. I totally loose too much feeling that way.

I have tried icing my whole left arm before.

Super stranger action!!!

I would imagine spheres would be the least efficient means to cool a drink, since they would have less surface area ratio (spheres have the smallest surface area to volume ratio of any shape). Secondly, $8? Why not take that money and make your own spherical ice cube (ice sphere?) trays.

anyone call the site's "contact us" number yet?

i called and no one answered, but then they called me withing a second back.

i talked to juan and told him he was outta his gourd for charging 1400 dollars for 240 water balloons worth of water

"I would imagine spheres would be the least efficient means to cool a drink..."
I would imagine the same, unless by some perverse definition of 'efficient' they mean 'slow'.
That sounds even stupider now that I've typed it :(

what about fingerprints when they're hand carving?

whoever sells these is totally smart

whoever buys these is totally paris hilton

@ 23

Snap!

Oh-no-you-di-int!

Have at that one fSN...

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Tender Dracula where Dracula froze the eye balls of his resurrected man servant and served them to his guests in martini glasses.

aw screw luxury ice, ill use that ice tray that looks like an AK-47 clip and makes ice that looks like AK-47 cartridges. http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/?p=5344

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max has to use a pay phone to try and save the world from a nuclear war and has to convince a soldier to shoot up a soda machine to get the change out of it to make the call.

I hate icy balls!! I get icy balls after I go snowboarding nude with friends in my nudist colony. Wait a minute.................... I can make some money off this! I will charge a discounted rate of $6 do dunk my icy balls in your drink! Hot coffee and tea will be an extra charge. Here is an example of the merchandise you will be dealing with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpDsjwMTWw

@25: I really don't have much to say on this, other than:

@23: "Paris Hilton throat-fcuked a guy on night-vison and sells fragrances to tweens! And I'm pretty sure she's legally retarded!"

Geezus god what a freaking SCAM. It's big ICE! It's an excuse to put smaller amounts of alcohol into the glass! Geez.

@19, you're right. They should be ice stars.

I have to admit though, they do look pretty cool. I'm thinking you could achieve the same effect with a tennis ball cut in half and some plumber's tape.

@33: more like Donuts actually, surface areas inside, and out ....same as the model of the universe.

A donut seems to be the key shape for everything and anything...the universe, the most surface area, hemorrhoids, Homer...

@16: That's not such a bad idea...
Anyway, I wouldn't buy anything eatable that's been hand carved, but I would pay $8 a ball to the guy selling these if he'd let me kick him there with my army boots on.

I would be happy to pay $8 for that asian chick with the bunny ears to blow on my icy balls!!

anyone rich and stupid enough to spend $8 on a ball of ice deserves to wonder where the hell their money went when their careers go bust and they have several million dollars in tax debt

I'm all for this. I mean, this is a great way to make sure to know which people are the pretentious d-bags & who isn't.

Insist on having "Canadian" carved ice balls in all of your drinks? Guess I know who I'm *not* going home with tonight. Of course any guy who insists on this probably isn't in the market for something with a vagina, so it's a moot point.

I have no issue communicating without the use of profanity. Quite frankly, the english language offers much more colorful adjectives. The point being made is simply that in this country, where this blog is hosted, we have freedom of speech. The same freedom of speech that would protect this blogger (GW) in court. I find it rather disingenuous of him to post NSFW content and genitalia jokes, then censor our comments about them.

Wow, this... is... making me think of "Lick my chocolate salty balls"... there goes my morning...
PS- $8 for stupid shit? Welcome to the land of WTF'ery.

omg y'all people suck. dont you know what these are for.... i'm rich and what i do with them is i pay my servants to get naked and shove these up their asses, and then shoot them out at each other. it's the funnest evarrrr

That makes this seem like a steal:

http://failblog.org/2009/02/16/sales-fail/

While giant ice cubes have their merits (seriously), dude already figured out how to do it at home for nothing.

http://www.alcademics.com/2009/01/ice-balls-made-easy.html

I seem to remember reading a couple of months ago that for about $50 you can buy a device from Japan that freezes ice into a sphere, with optional soccer ball design.

The guy's worse than a 17th century thug. Though, quite seriously he,s got real balls to have come out with some thing so preposterous. I have been selling similar ice ( under the name Perfect Ice ) for ywo decades priced at some thing like one cent a piece.The way to make ice totally without minerals and impurities, one must freeze the water while in motion. All modern Ice Makers do that and the ice is same as claimed by .Roberto-The Hustler.

Last!

Order Ice Balls, Ice Caters (http://www.icecaters.com) sells them at per ball prices less than $2 and they come in insulated containers so you can hold them under or behind a bar without refrigeration.

email me, say you saw my comment, and we'll send you a free case to sample (you pay overnight shipping) mshoer@icecaters.com or call 888-464-3838 and say "Balls, Mike!"

Radiator wine! ha! And to think I spent all my money on literature, supplies and ingredients to make hard cider. There is nothing like 20 gallons of booze in your basement, nothing.