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OneEyedMonster 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?

(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:26)
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Two Of My Best Friends Are Identical Twins...
Now, after completing his degree one of these twins (who we shall call Ben, for that is his name) went travelling around the world, whilst the other (who we shall call Danny for a similar reason) stayed at home. And so, around 10 months ago he planned his trip. He would set off for South America, where he would spend a few months travelling from country to country before carrying on to Asia where he would fly to Japan for a while with the aim of finishing in Taiwan for one week before flying home. Everything had been planned and budgeted for. He had had all of the correct injections and immunisations and got all the right equipment, and so it was with an eager anticipation that he set off on his travels.

However, upon arriving in South America he realised that things were a lot cheaper than he had anticipated. Infact, by staying off the main tourist routes and staying in cheap hostels he soon realised that his trip wasn't going to be nearly as expensive as he'd alotted for. Indeed the single most expensive things were the regular trips to Internet Cafe's to keep in contact with everyone at home. And things remained that way all the way to Japan where he found himself in a sea of cheap consumer and electronic goods, with enough money left over to get whatever the hell he felt like.

Noticing how cheap everything seemed to be, and the veritable plethora of choice available he decided to go online and ask his brother if he wanted to bring anything back for him, and after careful consideration Danny settled in typical style on... Japanese porn. It was agreed that Ben would buy the porn, and that Danny would give him the money for it when Ben got back in the country.

And so the splurge began. He bought a digital camera that was twice the spec that you'de get over here for the same price. He bought an Optimus Prime with little magnets in the fingers so that it would grip its gun when you put it in its hand. He bought a digital video camera, a mini hard-drive the size of a credit card and so it goes on. But despite this, he still had a lot of spare cash to go to Taiwan with. And so, after spending month after month in little shitty hostels, he decided to go out with a bang and booked himself into the most expensive hotel he could afford for the last week.

Now, just like in a film, we cut to Danny's porn:

Once back in the country Ben had charged Danny the princely sum of 50p for said porn, that unlike most had not come in a case as such, but instead in a plastic wallet. Nor had it got a title on the disk itself. But Ben had said he'd bought it from a street vender, since it was cheaper and so nothing more was thought about it. And so, Danny set himself up. Disk in the DVD player...check, knob in hand...check, play button pressed...check. And so, he settled down to a good old wanking session. The quality wasn't top notch, and he could see his reflection in the screen, but it'd do for 50p. Soon his boy custards would be flowing. That is until about 10 minutes in... when he realised that he wasn't wearing any jeans...but his reflection was!

Turns out that Ben had totally forgotten about the porn until the last night in Taiwan, and rather than admitting to this, had decided to use his new video camera to film the hotel porn from the TV. Little did he know however that the camera had picked up his reflection from the screen when he had decided to watch it himself, and so for a good ten minutes Danny had been watching a porno of his own brother merrily tossing away. And that was the worst 50p he'd ever spent.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:31, 8 replies)
*click*
and another if you can describe Danny's reaction? Must have been good, surely?
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:34, closed)
What a wonderfully unlikely story
Truth or bollocks, I like it either way.

*clicks*
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:35, closed)
Curse you
I've just wasted the last couple of minutes of my life on reading a re-hashed urban myth.

Still, it was well written, I'll give you that.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:50, closed)
HA
Best post I've ever read
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:51, closed)
i nearly spat my chewing gum at my shiny new monitor
from doing the lol

best post so far by far
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:51, closed)
how unusual.
It's normally a businessman.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 17:28, closed)
Last
time I heard this one it was an England cricketer on a tour.
(, Sat 5 Jan 2008, 16:52, closed)
Oh really?
I am dead certain I've read this on B3ta some time ago, except it was the boss returning from a trip, and giving the lads at work a treat.
(, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 5:34, closed)

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