There aren't half some weird calendars out there when Christmas and the New Year arrive, aren't there?
Take the 2017 Carponizer carp fishing calendar, which is available from Amazon for the not-so-cheap-as-chips price of £16.90 and currently has a five-star product rating. Its designers describe it as being made to 'make men's hearts beat faster'.
I'll admit I'm not much of an angler myself, but even the most devout fisherman would struggle to make the case that the hobby is edge-of-your-seat, 160-bpm stuff. You put on your hat, get your tackle out, lay back in your chair and wait for a bite.
Apparently the designers saw the problem with making carp fishing into a stocking filler. What did they do?
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Well, have a look...
Image credit: www.carponizer.net
Leaving out all essential parts of carp fishing, they instead decided to have naked women pose with the fishermen's catch.
Writing in the product description, Pöhler, the makers of the calendar, said: "The 2017 Carponizer Carp Calendar is certainly one of the most extraordinary ideas of how this magnificent fish can be presented in an appealing setting.
"Carponizer has once more managed to courageously make every month of the year that little bit more special.
"For this impressive outcome, twelve major carp had to first be carefully caught."
This isn't the only weird calendar to have been put out this year involving animals. You can get a 'Bearobics' calendar featuring bears doing aerobics, a calendar featuring images of dogs under water and one of cats taking selfies.
Sometimes I take a moment to quietly contemplate what the production of objects like calendars means about the future of our society and human civilisation more broadly. After a passing second of horror, I do the only thing I can, decide that later I will be going to the pub.
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