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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8 lighters for a £1from a cheap pikey market.
by the time you get to the car at least 3 will have lost flints, one does not burn higher than a few millimetres no matter how much you twiddle, one will be the opposite and take off your eyebrows no matter how much you twiddle, ALL of the wheelie spark making things (technical term No 17, along with the thingymajig, oodgamiwotsit, and plastic switchy light bringing object) things will fall off within a week and the metal guard will fall off whenever placed in a pocket.
Don't even get me started on the litany of cheap shit useless pieces of crap known as my car history
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 13:30, 4 replies)
ExcitingI used to love cheapo lighters, especially the ones peddled by street vendors.
In the mid 90's my mother bought a shitload in blackpool and they really were astonishingly dangerous. If you turned them up high and kept them lit for more than ten seconds they would spit droplets of flaming liquid fuel like some sort of pyro-fountain.
As a 15y/o pyromaniac I thought they were the best thing ever and asked for several dozen for christmas.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 13:38, closed)
Last christmasmy work colleagues and I did our version of "secret santa" which we called "gyppo santa". Bascially nothing more than a pound - bonus points if bought from an actual pound shop.
I got given the afformentioned 8 lighters for 1 pound. And I was delighted! Yes, some of them didn't work, some of them barely worked and some of them acted like a miniature Piper Alpha, but fuck it . . . you can never have too many lighters!
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 13:48, closed)
Amen to cheap lightersShite beyond belief. But even in an emergency when i have to shell out 59p from the offy for a proper one, they all inevitably get lost in that special place where lighters go - along with the spare garage key and socks - Every house has one - Room 101. It must be fucking FULL of my lighters.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 14:26, closed)
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