Products that shouldn't exist.

hank scorpio89

So I was in the shops earlier and I seen those VIPOO Sprays they advertise on the tellybox.got me thinking who buys this Sh*t(pun intended)if you blow the jax Out of it open a window.I've never thought if only there was such a product for this exact event.any other products you just don't get ??

Hellywelly

All those strange excerise machines from the middle of the night shopping channels.
Though i am tempted to buy each and every one of them when I see them !

tomwaterford

Cycling Lycra for massively overweight people.....even at my best shape I wouldn't wear it

Baron Kurtz

hank scorpio89 wrote: »

So I was in the shops earlier and I seen those VIPOO Sprays they advertise on the tellybox.got me thinking who buys this Sh*t(pun intended)if you blow the jax Out of it open a window.I've never thought if only there was such a product for this exact event.any other products you just don't get ??

Devil's Dumplings. For an ad to get that in is hilarious.

Karangue

Lidl and Aldi specials.

hank scorpio89

Baron Kurtz wrote: »

Devil's Dumplings. For an ad to get that in is hilarious.

OK I'll give the ad that much haha but the product seriously 😣

A Battered Mars Bar

Thread title should be Product's that shouldn't exist but do

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gumbo1

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Thread title should be Product's that shouldn't exist but do

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Products that shouldn't exist, like a battered Mars bar?

hank scorpio89

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Thread title should be Product's that shouldn't exist but do

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I think people are smart enough to figure it out.

Irish Guitarist

RustyNut

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

There's one born every minute.

Junkyard Tom

Dehydrated water (just add water).

Owldshtok

Craft beer,multiple gin brands that suddenly came on the market at the same time and gourmet burgers.

Surreptitious

Robsweezie

Boneless pizza

4068ac1elhodqr

Synthetic liquid sprays for people with dry eyes, it's even recommended to be sprayed upon closed eyelids.

Makes you wonder how ever did the medieval blacksmith manage to tend the furnaces and hot anvil back in the olden times without the aid of big pharma. So too the countless dry, hot bakery staff not to mention desert nomads wading their 125cc camels in 50oC sandstorms.


Here's an idea: blink every once in a while between taking selfies.

KKkitty

Selfie sticks. Never had one and don't intend to buy one either.

kneemos

hank scorpio89 wrote: »

So I was in the shops earlier and I seen those VIPOO Sprays they advertise on the tellybox.got me thinking who buys this Sh*t(pun intended)if you blow the jax Out of it open a window.I've never thought if only there was such a product for this exact event.any other products you just don't get ??

Lynx Africa,that'll mask anything.

Jim Bob Scratcher

McGraths teabags

murphyebass

kneemos wrote: »

Lynx Africa,that'll mask anything.

Jaysus Lynx Africa. Now there's a blast from the past. It must 15 or 20 years since I last heard tell of Lynx Africa. It had some waft off it.

murphyebass

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

McGraths teabags

Now that's not in keeping with the thread.

It'd be a shame for this to turn in to products I don't like but others do.

Like beard trimmers. Have a proper shave ya hippy.

Mod/op rename it "pointless products that shouldn't exist but do. "

The water one is a good example early on of how this thread should go imo

Colonel Claptrap

Pre-NCT tests.

neonsofa

Raegan Fit Rubbish wrote: »

Synthetic liquid sprays for people with dry eyes, it's even recommended to be sprayed upon closed eyelids.

Makes you wonder how ever did the medieval blacksmith manage to tend the furnaces and hot anvil back in the olden times without the aid of big pharma. So too the countless dry, hot bakery staff not to mention desert nomads wading their 125cc camels in 50oC sandstorms.


Here's an idea: blink every once in a while between taking selfies.

Are you saying that dry eye is a symptom of just not blinking enough? Which is somehow linked to taking selfies??

Your Face

Own brand instant coffee.

Mr.Crinklewood

Golfing umbrellas.

osarusan

Banana slicer. More expensive and more time-consuming than just using a knife.

Widdershins

Pre prepared and plastic wrapped fruit and vegetables except maybe for people with disabilities like arthritis that make it hard to use their hands.

That toilet fragrance is the biggest load of horsesh1t I've heard of. Open a window and look at your diet if it's that bad.

Also machines to compost your kitchen waste. It doesn't require a fancy machine. If you want to speed it up, get some worms from the ground and they'll do it for you.

Coffee in plastic pods. Disposable sanitary products and nappies, except as an emergency measure or for people with unusual demands on their time and energy. You wash all of your clothes, they can be washed in a normal wash. Just pre soak. I get that it's nice to have a labour saving thing but people are paying a fortune for gyms after paying a fortune to save them physical effort at home. And look at the state of the planet after all the nappies and sanitary products. Yuck...

sbsquarepants

Hands free soap dispensers - "never touch a germy soap pump again!"

Who gives a toss how "germy" it is, you're washing your hands literally within a second!

Captain Slow IRL

The Kardashians.

razorblunt

Women's razors.

They're just razors, do they still charge the poor lasses a premium for them?

LirW

Loads of baby products that have the target group of first time parents that don't know better.
I don't know how many things I bought with my first one that were such a waste of space and money.
The leader imo would be the 3-in-1 travel set. I know plenty of people that just change the thing within the first year for a small buggy that's so much cheaper and lighter. I'm guilty of that myself, I got one for the second one and changed it when she was 4 months old to some cheap buggy that reclines completely. I can operate that one easily with one hand because it's light enough.

SnakePlissken

Raegan Fit Rubbish wrote: »

Synthetic liquid sprays for people with dry eyes, it's even recommended to be sprayed upon closed eyelids.

Makes you wonder how ever did the medieval blacksmith manage to tend the furnaces and hot anvil back in the olden times without the aid of big pharma.

Funnily enough they didn't have computer screens, smart phones or tv screens in medieval times, do you think there might be a correlation between that and not needing eye drops?

osarusan

Those bands for round your wrist that come with bullsh!t claims of health benefits.

Gravelly

animatronic cat ears that wiggle and swivel to match your mood.

https://www.amazon.com/Necomimi-Brainwave-Novelty-Discontinued-manufacturer/dp/B00IBRCHLO

andrew1977

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=254404024

I was amazed to see this on sale in Tesco at the weekend, I was even more alarmed when I seen somebody buy it.

Ironing water !! .. good lord almighty, I have seen it all now

Wildcard7

Key organisers.

Like this: https://getkeysmart.com/



On my keychain I have 2 keys that would even fit in one of those, anything else wouldn't. And even if all my keys would work with this contraption, a normal key ring is a lot more practical.

I feel the same about compact "wallets" like this:



There must be a market for these things but I can't imagine why you'd want it. Does my head in.

Akrasia

'First Class' religious relics

First-Class Relics: items directly associated with the events of Christ's life (manger, cross, etc.) or the physical remains of a saint (a bone, a hair, skull, a limb, etc.).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relic

Everything that claims to have been in contact with Jesus is a fake, and everything that is a body part of a 'saint'... ewwww

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Relic-TITULUS-CRUCIS-Title-INRI-TRUE-CROSS-Reliquary-Jesus-Virgin-Mary-Catholic-/152696190105?hash=item238d66f499:g:N8AAAOSwceNZSsVJ

Gravelly

Akrasia wrote: »

'First Class' religious relics

Everything that claims to have been in contact with Jesus is a fake, and everything that is a body part of a 'saint'... ewwww

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Relic-TITULUS-CRUCIS-Title-INRI-TRUE-CROSS-Reliquary-Jesus-Virgin-Mary-Catholic-/152696190105?hash=item238d66f499:g:N8AAAOSwceNZSsVJ

:eek: Wow, didn't realise that people really sold that kind of stuff. You'd have to be fairly fuçking gullible trusting to buy it, wouldn't you?

Sam Kade

USC
Carbon tax
That extra 6 cent they put on a litre of petrol during the recession

jacksie66

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Akrasia

Gravelly wrote: »

:eek: Wow, didn't realise that people really sold that kind of stuff. You'd have to be fairly fung gullible trusting to buy it, wouldn't you?

'Sacred-relics' ebay relic store. 100% positive feedback
That's a lot of pieces of 'the true cross'

Gravelly

Akrasia wrote: »

'Sacred-relics' ebay relic store. 100% positive feedback
That's a lot of pieces of 'the true cross'

Just looked at them there - never knew such a trade existed. Pure Father Ted stuff.

the_pen_turner

the electrical socket push in "protectors". how are they allow to be sold. basically a cheap plastic piece of crap that takes a perfectly safe electrical socket that has safety feature built in and renders it dangerous.
how can they claim to improve safety by bypassing a very good safety feature .
the only thing worse is if they made it out of metal.

whisky_galore

Akrasia wrote: »

'Sacred-relics' ebay relic store. 100% positive feedback
That's a lot of pieces of 'the true cross'

The used say in the Middle Ages there were so many pieces of the True Cross you would think Jesus was crucified on a whole forest.

whisky_galore

Reindeer antlers and red noses for cars.

Gravelly

Mayo4Sam flags.

heroics

murphyebass wrote: »

Jaysus Lynx Africa. Now there's a blast from the past. It must 15 or 20 years since I last heard tell of Lynx Africa. It had some waft off it.

Still on sale too https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=261546847

this got me thinking so googled a bit

First released in 1995 and still going strong. According to shelflife in 2011 lynx had over 50% market share in ireland for mens deoderants and africa was its dominant product (http://www.shelflife.ie/freshening-up/)

In the UK in 2014 lynx deodorant had sales of 98 million GBP. In the UK in 2016 an estimated 8.6 million people used Lynx. Ranked second and third were Right Guard and Nivéa
https://www.statista.com/statistics/305030/brands-of-anti-perspirants-and-body-spray-deodorants-for-men-uk/

Gravelly

heroics wrote: »

Still on sale too https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=261546847

this got me thinking so googled a bit

First released in 1995 and still going strong. According to shelflife in 2011 lynx had over 50% market share in ireland for mens deoderants and africa was its dominant product (http://www.shelflife.ie/freshening-up/)

In the UK in 2014 lynx deodorant had sales of 98 million GBP. In the UK in 2016 an estimated 8.6 million people used Lynx. Ranked second and third were Right Guard and Nivéa
https://www.statista.com/statistics/305030/brands-of-anti-perspirants-and-body-spray-deodorants-for-men-uk/

I train footballers and a load of the lads use Lynx Africa because they said the bang off it is so strong that they can go straight from training to the pub without having to shower

4068ac1elhodqr

OSI wrote: »

The damage to eyes experienced by Blacksmiths through exposure to heat and smoke is very well documented throughout medieval history. There's even books on occupational health from the 15th & 16th century describing how to protect your eyes while smithing.

That's actually retina burn due to high levels of infra-red radiation exposure from the furnaces, a 'small bottle of big pharma's dry eye spray' (on closed eyelids) won't prevent that, only a physical shield of some sort.

Dry eyes are increasing due primarily to people gawking at the smartphones and laptops, which in turn reduces blink rates dramatically.

Solution: blink more.

neonsofa

Raegan Fit Rubbish wrote: »

That's actually retina burn due to high levels of infra-red radiation exposure from the furnaces, a 'small bottle of big pharma's dry eye spray' (on closed eyelids) won't prevent that, only a physical shield of some sort.

Dry eyes are increasing due primarily to people gawking at the smartphones and laptops, which in turn reduces blink rates dramatically.

Solution: blink more.

My son had dry eye while undergoing treatment- common side effect of it apparently. Drops and spray mists (even on closed eyes) gave him unbelievable comfort from a really irritating side effect. Blinking didn't help him.

Goat the dote

andrew1977 wrote: »

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=254404024

I was amazed to see this on sale in Tesco at the weekend, I was even more alarmed when I seen somebody buy it.

Ironing water !! .. good lord almighty, I have seen it all now

I use ironing water..