Luxury item "unboxing"... "unpackaging?" (Comedy Open Mic Round 23)
It was Amazon Prime Day and the price was right, so I bought: underwear.
Rated TSFW (totally safe for work).
Little did I know that I had bought the next greatest thing in undergarments, so I figured that you would all want to share in this exclusive experience.
Honestly, I thought I had bought the wrong type of item when I read the box and it said 2 pouch underwear... keeps a man's intimate areas comfortably separated.
2 pouch?
Are a man's balls not allowed to touch anymore?
Stick and ball segregation is where the 20th century has brought us?
At least they were smart in using Rubix Cubes as graphics for the lid, because the mental confusion is immediate and gets worse upon opening.
I'll be honest, I've bought Fruit of the Loom boxer briefs my entire life that come in a nice boring plastic bag.
No mystery required, it's men's underwear.
Not anymore.
There were 7 boxes inside of the box.
I've bought laptops, cellphones, and all sorts of electronics, and for those one box was always enough.
Not for 2-pouch underwear.
If you can't handle opening 8 boxes for 7 undergarments, then your balls don't deserve this experience.
My kitchen table is now completely covered with one (uneventful) week's worth of underwear.
EVERYDAY is printed multiple times around the waistband of each pair, so that in case you get tempted to free-ball it one day, you will feel immediate guilt and remorse.
Each pair of briefs, once extricated from its safe little box, sports more tags than an Alpine ski coat, which inform you that this is not just cotton: this is super cotton
Let's make underwear great again, folks.
Speaking of super underwear, I visited the company website for these briefs and aside from some pictures of ordinary every day usage, such as mooring one's boat in one's britches, I encountered the special mascots for these underwear: "Jimmy and Oddball."
I may never get the GIF out of my head.
Here, you try.

I have a LOT of questions for whoever's "jimmy" can perform that dancing number.
At this point, I became aware of two things:
- I clearly don't read things very carefully before I buy them. So much for relying on masses of Amazon stars for navigational guidance.
- I was into a whole new level of witchcraft that I hadn't properly prepared for.
Time to read the boxes inside of the box.
Like most men, I abhor instructions, but when it comes to how to work my underwear, I don't want to find out from someone else that I am doing it wrong.
This company is happy as long as my balls are happy.
When your balls are happy, then of course the natural thing to do is share this with your family.
Boy, this gives me so many more un-answered questions.
Let's see what the other side says.
Okay... I guess this follows naturally from the statement on the previous side....
But does this company really have a department that is concerned if my balls are unhappy?
What sort of training guidelines do they have to "put a smile back on my face?"
I'm not sure that I want to know... ok I lied, I'm probably going to email them and see what happens.
Well, the boxers were all un-boxed, and it looked like Christmas in July.
Honestly, I hadn't given 2 pouch technology too much deep thought at this point, so the only thing that made these look different from any other pair of briefs at surface glance was the iridescent sheen of the waist-band.
Perhaps this is now the male equivalent of a woman's G-string peeking over the top of her pants.
When a prospective mate sees the shimmer of EVERYDAY briefs glimmering from across the gym, then he/she knows that something special is going on inside of those shorts.

Okay, so then I tried a pair on.
No more pictures folks, from here on out imagination is required.
I did the obvious first move, and reached for my junk.
It wasn't there.
Well, more specifically, the window through which I have always had access, was gone.
My first thought was that I had put them on backwards, but no, not that.
Defective? Hang on, why was I getting a draft up my "jimmy?"
It turns out that 2-pouch means that there is a vertical "chute" traveling down the face of the briefs which ends somewhere between your legs.
Alright, ergonomically I suppose that makes sense, but please refer to this professional diagram for an exposé of said armaments being battle-tested.

I think that we are in a generation that loves to think we can finally evolve past all the erroneous ways of our forebears, and since democracy and human rights are too hard, we've settled for underwear.
Let me postulate another scenario.
I have had a couple of sexual encounters where a lovely young woman was unzipping my pants and manipulating the "common-sense" side-to-side flap of my boxer briefs.
Now, what if that traditional window, which both sexes are comfortable in navigating, is replaced by "rear-access" underwear?
What if said sexual partner reaches into my pants, finds no access window, and thinks to herself, "well this idiot can't even put his underwear on facing the right direction: clearly I misread him."
And, would that mean that we need to have warnings on our dating profiles: "if dates lead to a sexual encounter, please be warned that my equipment lacks front access?"
I will finish with a link to the very first "blog post" on the Separatec company website, which lists the reasons why, in fact, no man should go commando, listing reasons of hygiene, "ball-support" and potential embarrassment.
https://separatec.com/blogs/st-news/still-going-commando-men-should-wear-underwear
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I almost forgot! My #comedyopenmic nominations are @linnyplant, who never ceases to make me laugh, most importantly at myself.
and @nonameslefttouse whom I hear is excellent and awesome.
Soooooooooooo the berries have their own pouch but the twig just kinda free floats out the front with cover over it? Or is the font cover kinda velcroed under your taint? You are probably going to have to shoot a how-to video. Not for me of course ........... Um because @linnyplant always tells me she can't visualize stuff in her head well when she reads my posts.
:)
You are correct in your "floating around with a cover" theory! Not even any velcro: when the gif shows the "front door" as a cape, that's pretty much how it feels!
As for a how-to video, I think that if I did such a thing, I'd scare @linnyplant so far away, I'd never hear from her again lol.
I really did try to keep the post as family friendly as possible... family friendly balls? Shoot, now I sound like the Separatec marketing department.
edit personally I think "taint-velcro" is a very forward-thinking innovation, and deserves an illustrated post of your own to demonstrate =p
If you think that was a challenge, wait until you buy underwear from Ikea ^^
Peace.
I was under the impression that Ikea was a furniture store.
Which would make shopping for underwear there very challenging indeed.
Thanks for stopping by.
Sorry that Mace Windu killed your father, that's rough.
Oh MY! I can't stop laughing!!!! This is amazing... I am going to have weird dreams tonight after seeing that gif!
Jimmy "is he sleeping?"
Oddball "he's not moving, so either sleep or sudden death."
Jimmy "hey, knock-knock"
Oddball "I'm not in the mood, Jimmy."
Jimmy "knock-knock!"
Oddball "I mean he plays with you all the time but never plays with me..."
Jimmy "knock-knock!"
Oddball "Who's there?"
Jimmy "Under"
Oddball "Under who?"
Jimmy "Not under-who, under-where!!! Get it!! I ah, ah, ah, ah-CHOO, aw sorry buddy, I got a little on
you. GOD!! I LOVE my job!! Isn't life just fantastic?"
Oddball "I think I need some 2 pouch separation."
Sweet dreams, @bengy!
I have to say, the company sure knows about their packaging. Premium wrapping for a product designed to protect men's most valuable asset. The giphy..😂.
My, the product modernization these days. Rear access..the time to explain it all might be a mood killer. Bummer for you preppy men!
Great COM entry!
It's been so long since I have dated, that your comment sent me into a momentary panic and so I had to pull out my trusty dictionary, aka urbandictionary.com
Mood killer: "Someone who can ruin your mood extremely quickly without attempting too. They just have a certain style or attribute that kills moods.
Omg, that guy Teji is such a mood killer. Like i was going to ask this girl to the dance, he randomly came in and asked for a condom."
Dear Jesus! I need to be prepared to offer condoms to random strangers as I prepare to ask a woman to the local swing dance?
Preppy: "Preppies are people who go to prepatory highschools (Groton, Hotchkiss, Philips Exeter, Philips Andover, Deerfield, Laurence, etc.). Most of them shop at J. Crew, Banana Republic, Brooks Brothers, L.L. Bean, Ralph Lauren and all designer stores. Preppies are often mistaken for kids who shop at Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle Outfiters, Rave, etc. Those who think "preppies" are girls who shop at those stores are VERY wrong.
You could tell by the way they were clad in Brooks Brothers that they were utter preppies."
What. The. Hell. I don't know what any of those words mean. I need a dictionary for my dictionary.
Ye gods! What has this underwear purchase gotten me into?
Appreciate you stopping by my phishing post. I swear I had not known that was your picture @corpsvalues!
I think I'm getting the hang of this.

If I try to reply to this post any further then it would be a "mood killer..."
If I ask for further clarifications then I am definitely "preppy."
I can live with being a preppy mood killer.
Just a suggestion. On some Friday night when you find yourself dateless and you're looking for something to do, grab yourself a fruit punch and one of them thin cigars that no real man would ever put in his mouth, and sit on the back porch in your rear entry underwear. Make sure you have Justin Bieber on the radio. You'll feel like a millennial.
This is one hilarious post. Thanks for laughs.
An outstanding suggestion. Fruit punch, a Swisher Sweet Cigarillo, sitting in my silky britches looking out at the sunset looking sad, yet courageous: tough, but vulnerable. Then post that shit to Instagram, and all of a sudden you'll see everyone doing it. See, the problem is I AM a millennial (I think I am? I don't know the exact rules, let me check.... ok I just tried to figure out Snapchat and couldn't do it so I'm probably not a millennial or else they're going to come after me to revoke my membership)
This was honestly one of the best reads of this round so far, great work buying them undies man! :D
I think if you post this as an Amazon review you'd have a good shot at making their annual list of funniest reviews....this is hysterical!! Love it!
Thanks @mtnmeadowmomma!
I really thought seriously about posting a review on Amazon about this purchase.
I knew from my own surprise and consternation that I could not be the only one suffering from shock after putting on my underwear, so it seemed like the the responsible thing to do as a member of society.
Then I heard the voice of Jimmy, high and squeaky, drift up from somewhere below my waist and he said don't do it! What if they laugh at us?
So what if they laugh? None of us know how to remember a telephone number anymore thanks to the cellphone: look where technology has gotten us!
Then I heard a deep baritone voice and knew it must be Oddball
listen son, I've got something wrong with me and I keep asking you to have a doctor look at me, I don't feel so well....
Now's not the time to feel sorry for yourself, Oddball, we have work to do!
The world must be warned before it is too late!
LOL Oh that giphy is great! When the pod bay door opened I expected to see the Snuffleupagus come out in unfurled glory, but nope!...that pouch executed a perfect containment move.
I would like to examine these underwear in greater detail so I'll rustle around at work tomorrow and see what I can uncover.
Awesome COM entry...I vote for you!! lmao
I was thrilled when I read your reply and realized that it described the ending of my favorite movie, Prometheus.
To those who are not fans of the sci-fi horror genre I deeply apologize and suggest that you can make that image less traumatic by replacing the engineer with "jimmy" yaaaay go jimmy
and the devouring trilobite with: a slide! yaaaay slide and here's the video!
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1642/1137/files/Separatec_v16_00_00_41-00_01_01.30_no_voice.mp4?17659597544981286396
That's right: I found a full screen alternate animation for "Jimmy" and "Oddball."
OK I have a question for you tamara and I ask it with great hesitation... you say
What is it that you do for work?
Wish I could say that I am a professional men's underwear fitter, but alas, I am but a humble retail worker. Many's the package I would like to inspect, but some I wouldn't touch even if they had a 10 foot pole.
Don't you think 'The Jimmy and Oddball Show' has a nice ring to it? It should be a regular addition to late night television.
Oh I do agree with you on 'The Jimmy and Oddball Show'... I keep trying to develop the characters in my mind, and tried some dialogue with them in two of the comment replies on this post... I might have scared @ bengy, lol.
I had assumed that you might work in retail but had to double check just in case you had one of those bizarre (but probably real) jobs like fitting briefs to underwear models.
According to Separatec, their special design is patented... so they might actually be the only ones re-inventing the wheel, and then I just lucked out on what seemed an easy common-sense purchase on Prime Day. But be sure to let me know if you discover other strange anomalies in clothing that are appearing without our notice!
😂😂😂😂 OMG!!!!
Then the GIF 😂😂😂😂😂 Holy shit dude I have been laughing for five minutes! So fucking awesome!!!
Yes, that GIF was a stroke of genius on someone's part.
To be perfectly honest, I am still perplexed.
I don't know if Separatec is being perfectly straight-faced about their cutting-edge product, or if the whole thing is tongue-in-cheek.
I don't know if I own 7 pairs of underwear, or 7 party gags I'm going to have to re-gift to someone else.
I do know that we all have two new heroes we can admire and they are Jimmy and Oddball.
I laughed my balls off.
Dear Separatec customer service:
Your product which I purchased on Amazon has had the unfortunate side effect of a friend laughing her balls off.
This means that her balls are no longer "dry or well supported."
I knew from the customer support message on the packaging that you would be concerned, so I have notified you immediately.
Please advise on how to proceed... maybe you can go to the cubicle where Jimmy and Oddball work and ask them?
They are my heroes and will know what to do.
Please help my friend get her balls back!