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Shower Gel Ripoff
00:05:42
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| Right, I'm aching a little bit. | |
| I feel a little bit... It's been a long time I've been away. | |
| I've been two months on the road. | |
| Two months I've been on the road! | |
| From Bucharest to LA, LA to Dubai, Dubai to Texas, Texas to London, London to Belgium, Belgium to Germany, Germany to Czech Republic, Czech Republic to Slovakia, Slovakia to Romania. | |
| So during all that time, all I was doing was two or three hundred push-ups a day to try and stay in shape. | |
| And I got back and I did a proper workout and now I can barely move. | |
| That's what happens. | |
| Anyway, today is going to be a very unique Tate speech because this is going to be the first Tate speech in history I use notes. | |
| I know that's unlike me. | |
| Normally all the brilliant information just flows from my super brain. | |
| But I don't want to get anything wrong. | |
| I'd be very, very specific because the beef I have for this particular Tate speech is a particular one. | |
| So I've already tweeted about this. | |
| If you don't follow me on Twitter, I don't know what you're doing. | |
| I get banned all the time, but my current Twitter is here at the bottom of the screen. | |
| And I tweeted something which had people inspired. | |
| My beef for this TakeSpeech episode, and I can't be as animated as normal because it's hard to move, is with shower gel. | |
| I have a genuine problem with shower gel, and my problem with shower gel is that it's a fucking ripoff. | |
| Everyone always uses shower gel. | |
| What the fuck is this with shower gel? | |
| I'm a soap guy. | |
| Give me a bar of soap. | |
| Oh, you can't use soap on your face. | |
| Why? | |
| Why can't I use soap on my face? | |
| What's gonna happen? | |
| Am I gonna die? | |
| I can use soap on my face and my hair. | |
| You can use a bar of soap. | |
| So I'm a bar of soap, dude. | |
| But as the world's become more pussy, along with everything else, people have become shower gel guys. | |
| Everyone's a shower gel dude. | |
| Oh, can you get me the cherry blossom shower gel? | |
| Like, what happened to the normal things? | |
| I was a coffee guy. | |
| A coffee. | |
| Coffee, please. | |
| Oh, cappuccino, latte, macchiato. | |
| Just coffee. | |
| Hot coffee. | |
| Coffee. | |
| The fuck? | |
| Soap. | |
| Everything's just so fucking fancy. | |
| Pisses me off. | |
| But shower gel pisses me off the most. | |
| Because shower gel is the biggest con in the history of humanity. | |
| Shower gel is the biggest rip-off ever. | |
| And I've got the statistics because I conducted an experiment. | |
| So what I did was I got a bar of soap, and I used that bar of soap until it expired. | |
| So the bar of soap was no longer usable. | |
| It was a little slither. | |
| I used up to the very, very end, and it was no longer usable anymore. | |
| And then I got a bottle of shower gel, and I used the shower gel to the end. | |
| Have you ever noticed that with shower gel, it never actually lathers up properly? | |
| Like, you get some shower gel, you put it on your face, and then you get it in, you squirt some more. | |
| And then you go and squirt some more. | |
| Like they deliberately don't even make it lather up properly, so you keep squirting more of that shit. | |
| People still buy it. | |
| So a bar of soap, the bar of soap I used was 19 cents. | |
| We're talking euros here, 19 cents. | |
| The shower gel I used was 1.99. | |
| Now, the soap lasted six times longer than the bottle of shower gel. | |
| So the bar of soap lasted six times longer than the shower gel. | |
| So bear with me here. | |
| You have a bar of soap for 19 cents. | |
| You have a shower gel for $1.99. | |
| But you need six shower gels to equal the amount of cleaning power as one bar of soap. | |
| Six shower gels at $1.99 is $11.94. | |
| $1.99 is $11.94, which means for $11.94, you could get 62 bars of soap. | |
| So that makes shower gel 62 times more expensive than soap is. 62. | |
| 62! | |
| Now what pisses me off about this is the following. | |
| There is no tangible advantage to shower gel. | |
| If you were to look at cars, for example. | |
| A nice car is $20,000. | |
| A Lamborghini is $200,000. | |
| It's 10 times more. | |
| But it's faster. | |
| Everyone pays attention to it. | |
| Everyone looks at it. | |
| Everyone stares. | |
| It makes noise. | |
| You get credibility. | |
| You get prestige. | |
| You get respect. | |
| All that is the extra you get for paying 10 times the price. | |
| If you had a $20,000 car and you paid 62 times the price, You'd have a fucking plane. | |
| It would be able to fly through the sky and cross continents. | |
| That's what happens when you pay 62 times more for a product. | |
| $20,000 for a basic car, 62 times more, now the car can fly. | |
| 10 times more, you have a Lambo. | |
| Shower gel to soap, there is no difference. | |
| I'm paying 62 times more for a product. | |
| But it does exactly the same thing as the basic product. | |
| For 62 times more, I expect to get in the shower with a whole bunch of naked hoes. | |
| But you don't. | |
| You get in the shower, and you're washing yourself. | |
| The shower doesn't wash me. | |
| I have to wash myself. | |
| It's bullshit. | |
| 62 times more. | |
| What a con. | |
| So when I point this out, some fucking bumbaclot come at me and go, yeah, but the smell. | |
| What do you mean the smell? | |
| Just put aftershave on afterwards. | |
| Just use a bar of soap and then put on some aftershave. | |
| Done. | |
| Why are you putting on a smelling shower gel and then covering yourself with aftershave anyway? | |
| Has that ever got you laid? | |
| Do you rely on the smell of cherry blossoms from shower gel to convince some 4 out of 10 to play with your penis? | |
| Is that your tactic? | |
| That's your game? | |
| I go to dates in gym clothes. | |
| With no shower. | |
| But I pull up in a fucking Lambo. | |
| Like, I don't need to change. | |
| Oh, let me put my cherry blossom on my face. | |
| You're all nerds. | |
| Shower gels for worms. | |
| It's a rip-off. | |
| It's the biggest con of the century. | |