Asda kitchen timer
Who would have thought that 99p gets a kitchen timer so crap that for 2 months every meal is either raw or burnt. For no good reason, it would randomly not go off at the allotted time, so you'd be sitting watching telly thinking "that timer should have gone off by now", only to discover that your baked alaska is now dribbly cream+carbon.

I half expected it to be featured in the 2008 Guinness Book of Records - along with "least inaccurate implementation of pi" (which is "3" if you didn't know*)

I smashed it last night and put it in the bin. About 2 hours later, we could hear it going off...


* Yes - in America
( Linbox has a serious dunk habit, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 11:50, 7 replies)

you can make Baked Alaska.....
....AND you have a penguin next to your name!
(JasperSinister is offering two tickets to the gun show, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 13:08, closed)

pi is 3????
that is disgusting misuse of a principal of mathematics.

Even 22/7 is a poor approximation in my books.

3.1415927 is a good approximation.
how sad i really am
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Fri 4 Jan 2008, 13:55, closed)

Why would a kitchen timer need pi?
It'll most likely use a quartz oscillator and some form of register as a counter.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 18:35, closed)

bazza
I can do slightly geekier at 3.1415926536
(clumsyeloquence is a girl, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 20:54, closed)

Hmmm
Pie is three? I just thought it was tasty.
(Stu Moo winner of five nobble piece prizes, Sat 5 Jan 2008, 0:57, closed)

I don't want to pee on your bonfire
but the house of representatives in Indiana passed an act defining pi as equal to 4 - which is far more inaccurate. Fortunately it was never signed into law, otherwise their footballs would have been a funny shape. Wait a sec...
(puerile is really getting into seagulls lately., Sat 5 Jan 2008, 4:22, closed)

Geek-off
Well pi=3 is accurate, it just isn't precise.
I hate myself.
( monkeybananaraffle, Sat 5 Jan 2008, 19:07, closed)