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How many condom machines are there out there that just don't work?

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  • 08-04-2017 7:29pm
    #1
    NeverTheLess
    Site Banned Posts: 32 ✭


    Anyone else ever put money into a condom machine, to realise it doesn't work. Since it happened me twice, there's probably a lot of machines out there like this, that everyone's too embarrassed to complain about. Recently went back to the last machine I remembered that did work, and the sell by date was 3 years old, which would've been around the last time I used it!

    I worked in centra about a year ago, and this one dude went to buy condoms off me, and they wouldn't scan. A bit of a queue began to form as I had to awkwardly call for help. When the other cashier arrived, it even took him a while to computer code scanning thing. It's at times like this I know there's a God. It was then I said to myself "that's it; texco self check out for me!"

    Reminds me of another awkward story I'd recently, as a dude returning a badly designed point tweezers (€6!!!), that had rather rounded tips! How are rounded tips supposed to grab a hair. The lady was quite reluctant, and after saying "so this is for plucking hairs" she then consulted ANOTHER lady, insisting that I'd need the packaging too... which you need to cut with a scissors to open! Managed to return it in the end! It was almost as if she was hoping I'd be too embarrassed to put up a fight!

    Rant over!


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    #2
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Yeah in my youth I remember quite a few condom machine swallowing coins and that be that. Then just started going to the pharmacy , buying them there and strategically hide them in my wallet.


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    #3
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    I've asked around OP. There are currently 102 condom/Wrigley's Extra machines with faults relating to the distribution of said condoms/Wrigley's Extra.


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    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    Thinly veiled... I've got large denomination coins or something braggy like that.


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    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    I just buy mine in Tesco or even Aldi. (Rubber is rubber, right?)

    No embarrassment from me whatsoever.


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    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    I just buy mine in Tesco or even Aldi.

    No embarrassment from me whatsoever.

    You can still get it up Alf?


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    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    You can still get it up Alf?

    Yup.

    Ask yer ma if you don't believe me


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    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    Yup.

    Ask yer ma if you don't believe me

    Shame. What would Ailsa say?


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    pat k
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭pat k


    Hey O.P
    Did you not see the sign on the machine ?? usually on the side of machine , regarding refunds ... it says ..... :):) for refund insert Baby ! LOL. :):)


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    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    What would Ailsa say?

    Flamin Galah! Struth, ya mongral.


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    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    I'd rather a broker condom machine, than a broken condom.


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    #12
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Is this a stealth brag thread?


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    murpho999
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    Are people still embarrassed buying these things?

    I thought we had moved on from the 90s?


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    #14
    NeverTheLess
    Site Banned Posts: 32 ✭NeverTheLess


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Are people still embarrassed buying these things?

    I thought we had moved on from the 90s?
    People will always sense, or suspect other people's thoughts. The judgement...

    Lisa: "Would you believe, he bought condoms the other day! Who could he be banging?
    Jim: "I wouldn't have thought he'd be................. ah, I'd say she's not hot whoever she is!"


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    recyclebin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,501 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    They have them locked in security cases in Tesco. The checkout girl seemed to be more embarrassed having to open the case to sell them :pac:


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    NeverTheLess
    Site Banned Posts: 32 ✭NeverTheLess


    recyclebin wrote: »
    They have them locked in security cases in Tesco. The checkout girl seemed to be more embarrassed having to open the case to sell them :pac:
    that's not a great joke!


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,033 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Just be hopeful that it's only the machine that doesn't work...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #18
    9or10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭9or10


    OP just use cling film its just as good and a roll will last ages. :)


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    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    Its a valid point about them not working.
    Them ****ty spring loaded manual ones.
    Never ever put your money in.
    At least with the electronic ones you have a fair idea if its working.
    Although, sure even if you asked for your money back theyd let on they dont have the key its not their machine etc...


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    beertons
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    I had about 30 of them at one stage, in hotels and pubs. They were a gold mine. A fiver for 3 Jon bon jovi's. You'd buy them for 70 cents. The reject button didn't work, money went straight into the coin box. Cha ching. And a lad lost money in it, he'd be too embarrassed to tell a barman and try get a refund.


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    #21
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Those yokes are for dirty sailors


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    bobbysands81
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    I used to stock these years ago, the unreliability of the machines, and the ease of which they "broke" helped me through college!


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    DivingDuck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭DivingDuck


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    I just buy mine in Tesco or even Aldi. (Rubber is rubber, right?)

    I just realised I'm more of a snob than I ever imagined.

    I've no problem buying food/tools/even clothes in Aldi, but the prospect of buying condoms there sent a cold shiver down my spine.

    I've bought a few work jumpers in there over the years, and I notice they develop holes awfully fast. In a jumper, not the end of the world. In a condom...


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    osarusan
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    My condom machine story is being in a deserted pub with my then girlfriend, whose dad was the man behind the bar.

    I went to the toilet and took the chance to buy some from the machine. Even as I was buying them, I thought the clinking of coins was fairly loud and reverberating a bit, but when I went back out my girlfriend was beetroot red and said she could hear the whole thing. Her dad was a bit deaf in fairness, and she said he showed no reaction whatsoever, then or afterwards.


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,357 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    DivingDuck wrote: »
    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    I just buy mine in Tesco or even Aldi. (Rubber is rubber, right?)

    I just realised I'm more of a snob than I ever imagined.

    I've no problem buying food/tools/even clothes in Aldi, but the prospect of buying condoms there sent a cold shiver down my spine.

    I've bought a few work jumpers in there over the years, and I notice they develop holes awfully fast. In a jumper, not the end of the world. In a condom...

    You couldn't be using the same condom more than once ?

    I get wearing the jumper more than once and it getting a hole in it , but not the condom .


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    #26
    NeverTheLess
    Site Banned Posts: 32 ✭NeverTheLess


    osarusan wrote: »
    My condom machine story is being in a deserted pub with my then girlfriend, whose dad was the man behind the bar.

    I went to the toilet and took the chance to buy some from the machine. Even as I was buying them, I thought the clinking of coins was fairly loud and reverberating a bit, but when I went back out my girlfriend was beetroot red and said she could hear the whole thing. Her dad was a bit deaf in fairness, and she said he showed no reaction whatsoever, then or afterwards.
    she heard the coins from outside? What? Or do you mean that she heard the cursing when you realised the condoms wouldn't come out?


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    #27
    NeverTheLess
    Site Banned Posts: 32 ✭NeverTheLess


    bobbysands81 wrote: »
    I used to stock these years ago, the unreliability of the machines, and the ease of which they "broke" helped me through college!
    is it too late to get on that bandwagon?


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    #28
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,553 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    NeverTheLess wrote: »
    she heard the coins from outside? What? Or do you mean that she heard the cursing when you realised the condoms wouldn't come out?
    She heard the clink of coins, the first one...then a pause as I contemplated how loud it had been...then 2 clinks in quick succession as I said 'f**k it just buy them'.


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    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    DivingDuck wrote: »
    I've no problem buying food/tools/even clothes in Aldi, but the prospect of buying condoms there sent a cold shiver down my spine.
    If you think buying condoms in Aldi is bad, you can also buy them in Dealz!


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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,123 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Live on the edge OP. Go commando and hope for the best.


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    snowflaker
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    Pac1Man wrote: »
    Shame. What would Ailsa say?

    Boo!


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