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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Poundstretcher bargain. What was I thinking of?A corkscrew. One of those with the arms that raise as the screw is turned which you then push down at either side to retract the cork from the bottle.
"That's cheap, only 99p," I thought.
"It's impossible to fuck a corkscrew up," I thought.
Wrong. Somehow the manufacturers of said corkscrew had made it so that the lugs that would normally lock with the grooves on the main shaft to pull the cork out were slightly too short and rather than gripping anything just slipped as soon as the arms were pushed down.
Cue disappointment and swearing that evening when I went to open a bottle of wine.
Moral of the story: Never shop at Poundstretcher; and a bottle of wine can just as easily be opened by pushing the cork into the bottle.
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Lord Gnome, Sat 5 Jan 2008, 6:05,
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