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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Inner city v west countryNot a cheap useless crap story, but I often enjoy browsing the pound shops in Dalston, one of the more run-down areas of the UK's best borough, Hackney.
Quite apart from the bargains there are always a healthy population of cranks, crackheads, community cases and asorted loonies to make the trip worthwhile. If anyone wants a pre-Xmas adrenalin rush check out Dalston Argos. It scared the shit out of me.
So anyway here I am with my smug point of view and off I go to the safe west country city of Wells , with its beautiful cathedral and marvellous pedestrianised shopping mall.
Well would you believe, I went into the nearest pound shop and there's a pikey family beating the crap out of one another by the checkout till.
Made me feel quite homesick.
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Interesting FactetteWells is the birthplace of director Edgar Wright, Director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz - Much of Hot Fuzz was filmed in Wells. It's also the UK's smallest City.
You learn something new every day ;)
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Pah, I knew all of those facts about Wellsbut then I only live 10 miles away from it.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 16:42,
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You learn something new every dayUnfortunately, St. David's is the UK's smallest city, not Wells.
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le brian, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 20:17,
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:(I feel horribly deceived :(
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