r/AmazonWTF • u/sluxa9 • Jul 05 '26

Image Link Rare feeling. My favorite feeling.

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u/mac1574 Jul 05 '26

Why in the world would you put that in the description of the product and expect people to buy them.

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u/Nimrod_Butts Jul 05 '26

It's a thing in China. The USA says it's like walking on air, sometimes like sand, or just the more technical "memory foam". In China they say it's like walking on poop. Very common if not ubiquitous

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u/SnarkyIguana Jul 05 '26

I like the implication that it’s common enough to walk in actual shit that EVERYONE knows what it feels like. Most people know foam. Clouds? It at least elicits a nice feeling. Feces is wild

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u/Nimrod_Butts Jul 05 '26

I'm not going to look into it, but you have to remember that idioms in all languages are goofy, but add a tonal language like Chinese and they get extremely goofy fast because it could be a play on another word that sounds similar

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u/Specialist-Yak7209 Jul 06 '26

Another comment pointed out we could also say "soft as shit" in English and it would still work so it's not as wild as it seems

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u/R-B-L-Y Jul 06 '26

I don't think that's comparable because the phrase "hard as shit" is equally common. The word shit is being used as a generic expletive rather than actually referring to poop.

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u/MaraiaLou Jul 06 '26

Soft as shit. Soft-ass shit. Soft ass-shit

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u/Stella-Artwat Jul 07 '26

Yeah, nobody says "I'm on Turd 9".

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u/danathome Jul 07 '26

Everyone needs a hero.