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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You naughty naughty boyClash of mindset time (I feel old again):
Having grown up in the 70s/80s I would also have thought nothing of giving a lovingly restored shed a quick razz in the back street to see if it worked.
If I fell off and knackered myself, it would have been my fault.
If I'd been gripped for being a teenaged fool by Herr Plod I probably would have got a good slapping before being dragged home rather than charged (Embra Polis were errr...'robust' in those days).
Chances of random toddler being mown down? Bugger all at 10mph on a bike that emitted more decibels that Concorde on takeoff and IIRC left a fetching trail of blue smoke, oil and assorted spare parts behind it as it coughed along (and this was when they were new).
These days? Some knobber on a mini moto thing bought by Daddy belting along at 30. Bit different in terms of lethality, but if the rider gets pulled the chances of any meaningful punishment are about bugger all.
Different times, folks.
(Aye, we made our own entertainment in those days. Used to live in a cardboard box on central reservation of t'motorway.)
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