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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Pound shop shiteHaving only about a 6-foot stretch of shrubbery in the front garden, I'm too mean to buy a hedge-trimmer to tidy it up and don't know anyone with one to borrow.
Imagine my delight upon finding in the local singular sterling emporium a quality (looking) set of manual trimmers. Now imagine my disappointment when during the test run, the blades bend under the strain of cutting a twig approximately half the girth of a pencil.
Those shiny new blades were keen as any produce of Gilette or Wilkinson Sword, unfortunately they also proved to have the rigidity of play-dough.
I still love cheap shit, I just need to lower my expectations of its performance.
Length? Those fucking bushes look like Ozzy Osborne after a bad perm.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 10:56, 2 replies)
If they really were that shitReturn them. You have a right to expect that they'll do what they're sold to you for.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 11:32, closed)
For a quid?I'm not a rich bloke, but surely you must question the gain from effort involved? Besides, I think they may object since I amused myself for a while by seeing just how malleable the mild steel was and bending them into pretty shapes.
If they're still in the garage, I may consider recycling them into a ninja stylee weapon to use in a pound-shop rampage.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 11:53, closed)
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