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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Thanks for the comments, allWell now. Just thought I'd pop back and say:
clumsyeloquence: The price would have served... but they told me the price after it was done. The smell of weed would have been a better indicator, to be honest. If only I'd known.
workboresme: Yes, lesson learned. Subsequent inkage has been done by people who knew what they were doing!
The Resident Loon, Davros' Granddad: I nervously asked a Chinese workmate at a place I used to work in to translate. It does say 'Father' - in the sense that it's one of the two characters in the phrase "Father and Mother". Of course, you could check Hanzi Smatter, who specialises in these things.
Thanks all
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