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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Somehow, I don't think you're going to get a consensus hereSense of perspective?
An anecdote about a 14 year old having a quick blat on a knackered bike in a back street in days of yore - and in them thar days back streets were just that with not that many cars or people around, especially in villages where the flat 'at was the must-have accessory and whippet wrestling was obligatory.
Said gobby teenager mouths off to the plod and gets his comeuppance, and as a result gets a bit of a huff on re coppers and re-tells this three bloody decades later on a website...
And all of a sudden the B3ta Moral High Ground Stasi leaps into action.
He did something 'naughty'. Decide for yourselves the degree of naughtiness - I would put it somewhere between deserving a slap on the legs and meriting burning at the stake.
He got punished.
No-one got hurt.
The world will not end.
It's the bloody internet.
(Oh go on then... BURN HIM!!!)
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