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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A momentary lapse of tasteMy wife usually displays impeccable taste (she married me, didn't she?), which is why I find it so hard to understand how we came to have a pair of solar powered, light-up-at-night plastic flowers (with wavy fibre-optic things sticking out!) in our garden. And when I say "light-up-at-night" I don't mean in a useful "providing a decent amount of illumination to stop you walking into a flower-bed" kind of way -- no, these things have tiny little bulbs in them, that slowly change colour without actually lighting up their surroundings at all. By day, they sit there looking like the cheap, ugly garden ornaments that they are.
In fact, while they are most certainly tat, I don't know for sure that they were cheap. I don't even know where they came from, they just appeared one day. I think possibly my mum gave them to us, but that's just a guess based on my mum's own...um...proclivities. But my wife made it clear that she likes them, so they're staying.
There's light (haha) on the horizon though -- one of our friend's kids has taken against the things, and each time she visits she manages to inflict some further minor damage to them. I've already (grudgingly) had to fix them several times with duct tape, but their days are numbered...
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reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 10:29,
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