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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I've always been more of a "you get what you pay for" kind of guy...but Big Dave, with whom I shared a house for a couple of years, just couldn't resist a bargain, such as:
- the screwdriver set made of metal so soft that they simply disintegrated when confronted with a screw
- a set of 'non-stick' saucepans coated not with Teflon, but rather a thin coat of dark grey paint. And 'comedy' handles that weren't actually attached at all -- great for those hilarious "oh shit I've just poured boiling hot water all over myself!" moments
- Toiletries (soap, shower gel etc.) that genuinely smelled like a toilet, and which, if you were so unwise as to bring them into contact with bare skin, invariably resulted in something akin to leprosy
- Leaky pens
- Video tapes that unspooled inside the VCR
...the list could go on.
Pound shops: because you're life isn't quite shit enough already.
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reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 9:12,
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