BATTERIES: TIANQIU Super Cell
We made a joke. Reader “ThreeOliveMartini” emailed these battery photos in, then we replied saying “TIANQIU VERY MUCH.”
It just came to us. Just like that. We should be on stage in front of thousands, not slumped in front of a whirring Dell constantly on the verge of tears.
“Tianqiu could mean many things, including heaven-autumn or jade earplug-small dragon with horns. Hard to say without the hanzi.”
“Is it wrong to like them more when they’re torn and battered?”
“The copy under the maple/cannabis leaf says “Mercury = 0″. Phew.”
“Depth of field motherfuckers” – ThreeOliveMartini.
filed in BATTERIES! on Jul.01, 2010
July 1st, 2010 on 11:09 am
Your Dell’s constantly on the verge of tears? Blimey, I’d get that looked at if I were you.
Those batteries are rather special aren’t they?
Google translate seems to think the word Tianqiu is English already so isn’t much help translating.
I tend to prefer my batteries in pristine mint condition as they last better and you can enjoy them for longer then; but the way that one’s flaunting its interior like that, makes me think of Victorians flashing a bit of ankle…the little tart.
And yes, that’s some cracking depth of field there. If only it hadn’t been taken with a Sony camera…
July 1st, 2010 on 11:35 am
I dream of the day a girl asks me if i want to “improperly insert”
Or anyone, actually.
July 1st, 2010 on 1:16 pm
I’m in front of a Dell on the verge of tears too. In fairness its not directly the Dells fault I suppose, but the Dell is certainly part of the low self esteem and utter futility that marks my working day.
July 1st, 2010 on 4:39 pm
I sit in front of a Dell all day too. My tears were all done long ago though; I can cry no more. I’m just coldly, bitterly indifferent to absolutely everything. I’m not blaming the Dell either, but there’s a pattern forming nonetheless
July 2nd, 2010 on 3:13 am
These batteries are old – stolen from a drawer at work. Who knows what stories they could tell.
I’m gonna defend my camera by saying it’s basically a Minolta with Tamron and Zeiss lenses, but that isn’t much of a rallying cry for Sony, is it?
I sit in front of an imac all day. It doesn’t make me cry, but the fact that ‘creative’ is considered a noun does.
July 2nd, 2010 on 6:06 am
it means “celestial sphere” apparently. I looked up the Chinese on their website. You could probably make a tits joke about that if you wanted to.
July 2nd, 2010 on 7:36 am
You mean like ThreeOliveMartini has a nice pair of celestial spheres?
Yup, think that’ll do.
July 2nd, 2010 on 12:13 pm
Um, thanks.
Does this mean you accept my femaleness? To be fair, I did flash you a good look at my email addy.
Although why an otherwise quite girly girl hangs out here and occasionally takes photos of batteries I can’t explain, sorry. I guess I just like you guys. (By ‘you guys’ I mean ‘gadgets with faces’ obviously.)
July 2nd, 2010 on 3:06 pm
Do we accept your femaleness? I’d suspect it would depend on how it was offered and who to.
Some of us still have nightmares about Jody Barton.
July 2nd, 2010 on 4:12 pm
If we accept you, ThreeOliveMartini, will you undertake not to directly look at us, or indeed accidentally meet our eyes? That harms our self-esteem even more than the inevitable Dells :(
July 2nd, 2010 on 9:18 pm
Some of us still have nightmares about Jody Barton.
I’m certain that Jody Barton does.
July 2nd, 2010 on 9:25 pm
Bagsy first go on ThreeOliveMartini.
That… that is how this works, right?
July 3rd, 2010 on 6:08 am
I promise not to look anyone in the eye, not to talk about shoes unless it’s contextually relevant (ie “Nice shoes, therefore would”) and never to mention that FPS makes me dizzy and motion sick.
Trilby, depends how gallant you want to be. Some schools of thought suggest letting the girl do eeny meeny miny mo.
July 3rd, 2010 on 1:08 pm
ThreeOliveMartini ? Girl ? Mac ? Now I am in front of a Dell, close to tears and vaguely threatened. Its so much easier when they just thing-hold electronic gadgets and dont use them to interact. :-( :-(