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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I used to livein the west end of london, and across the road from my place of domicile was a nightclub in a basement. It was all fully legit, and knowing as we did the promoter got in for free, which was rather nice.
What also struck us, once we got inside, was the very, very cheap vodka on offer - it was dirtily inexpensive, and for around 2 quid you got a double plus mixer in london, where a single shot is usually more than that. Good times were indeed had by all.
It's not that the cheap vodka was without fault - as soon as you hit fresh air your legs went to jelly and your memory turned off, and the next morning you felt as though someone had filled your head with barbed wire. Having drunk plenty of cheap voddie at uni without said problems, we had a running joke regarding the contents of said beverage.
A while later myself and my colleagues had moved away, but not too far, and frequently returned to our very old haunts. On one such occasion we ran into a guy we knew in the pub, a fellow patron of the cheap dirty club night, who had a big smile on his face.
He held out a leaflet.
"Read that!"
The diminutive missive revealed details of some counterfeit grog being sold in london. According to the article, it was being made in a shed somewhere out of industrial alcohol for imbibation by the unsuspecting cheapskate masses, such as myself.
Our friend pointed to the bottle in the illustration.
"Isn't that the vodka they sell at ******"
The brand name and label were scarily familiar. Unless I was very badly mistaken, which considering the side-effects of drinking said beverage, I was certain I wasn't, I'd been paying the people over the road a token sum for the privilege of....
"Drinking Meths?! We've been drinking meths?!"
Our friend nodded. Instead of cheap booze, we'd been caning our livers, and doing something you'd only ever normally do if you were a tramp or dared, and in the latter case they now owed us a fortune in dare spoils.
To re-enforce the message, the arrest of the guy who made it made the local news a few days later. Our haunt got a new brand of cheap, nasty spirit in, which we proceeded to drink in quantity.
(, Sun 6 Jan 2008, 15:40, 1 reply)
Ah, wrong vodkaThe same thing happened where I lived when I was 14/15-ish. We'd been buying disgusting 'Russian' vodka for about £6 a litre for a good year or so by the time local papers discovered that it made you go blind.
Luckily, despite the amount of it we drank, we did not.
(, Sun 6 Jan 2008, 17:37, closed)
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