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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My parents won some cutting-edge cheap tat...in a newspaper compo: a combination DVR (hard drive-based digital video recorder, like Sky+) and DVD recorder. It's great -- you can do all the pause-live-TV stuff, it'll store 70-odd hours of crap that you'll never watch, and what's more if you want to keep something you can just dump it to a DVD and Bob's your uncle.
What's the catch? Well, it's pretty flimsy, cheap tat (made by LiteOn) and while it works just fine, it's far too complicated for normal people to operate.
Which is why I was given it for Christmas. Yay!
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reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 17:16,
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