bobbins
i like the ones where you get to put it together, especially if it has wheels

WOO
( manolith hooray for me, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 15:47, archived)

three little bits of cheap plastic that you clip together,
you enjoy the novelty of it for about 5 seconds and perhaps even comment on it, and then completely forget about it until it turns up under the settee five years later.
When I was at school, the broken yellow plastic shells were the second most ubiquitous sort of litter after cigarette ends.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 15:50, archived)

exactly, brilliant!

( manolith hooray for me, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 15:52, archived)