Cheap TatOneEyedMonster remindes us about the crap you can buy in pound shops: "Batteries that lasted about an hour and then died. A screwdriver with a loose handle so I couldn't turn the damn screw, and a tape measure which wasn't at all accurate."
Similarly, my neighbour bought a lawnmower from Argos that was so cheap the wheels didn't go round, it sort of skidded over the grass whilst gently back-combing it.
What's the cheapest, most useless crap you've bought?
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chthonic, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:26)
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Argos strikes againMrs. Coops went out and bought a garden shredder - you know - you feed bits of tree in one end and it chops it up into delightful little piece and spits it out the other end - seeing some excellent potential for shredding fun, I switched it on and fed a branch no thicker than my little finger into it. It jammed, then started to vibrate and finally went pop accompanied by some blue smoke.
Moral of the story - don't buy anything from Argos.
Length - about 1m, with some leaves still attached.
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HSDriver was probably still at work on, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:48,
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Get orf my laaaaandAh, I do miss the days when I were a teenager and we lived on a dairy farm.
We had a shredder that connected to the back of a tractor and used the engine to power it. It almost became a challenge to find something it wouldn't destroy.
Old car tyres, planks of wood, a coffee mug. I seem to recall my brother stuck an old PC motherboard and hard disk which came out as powder.
We got a bollocking before any permanent damage was done to either shredder or ourselves. This, kiddies, is why there's always the occasional story of a farmer who has kicked a bit of debris out of something like this whilst it was running. And ended up as a cloud of red mist shortly afterwards...
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dan j the filthy bastard, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 9:25,
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