Maker Series: Artisanal Firewood | CBC Radio (Comedy/Satire)

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A satirical CBC Radio This Is That sketch profiling a Vancouver artisanal firewood company that sells bundles of kindling for $1000.

HN uses it as a punchline reference when a product or trend seems like a parody of artisanal premium goods.

Satire & parody #satire #firewood #thisisthat #cbc

4 comments from Hacker News

@0823498723498722024-12 · in “Who can claim Aristotle?”

trimming the ink sticks reminded me of nothing so much as ▶ this video ! > IRL the substrata (objective-C? PowerPC?) get cleaned out real artists ship, and shipping (like cherry blossoming) is ephemeral? 花の雲鐘は上野か浅草か

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@odysseus2022-07 · in “How I clean my glasses”

I feel like this article lays the groundwork for a high quality artisanal eyeglass cleaning video. Reminds me just a touch of ▶ this video

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@leoff2022-06 · in “Why championship chess sets are so expensive”

At first I thought this was a parody like the Artisanal Firewood video ( ▶ this video ). It seems like a lot of this process could and should be automated to improve consistency and quality.

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@xamuel2018-12 · in “How Premium Mediocre Conquered Fashion”

I guess I'm a dork, but I'll never understand beer branding. The active ingredient is alcohol, a drug that induces various desirable effects. You wouldn't pay extra for artisanal aspirin or tylenol, so why alcohol? Reminds me of this: ▶ this video

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