Naffest thing in the new argos catalogue

srhand

Just laughing myself silly at some of the things for sale in the new "novel". I would like to nominate page 1246 as one of the best pages for useless products. One of my favourites is the heated styling kit for lashes! A snip at 19.99! What things have other people noticed?

whiskeyman

Just got it today... its like a bloody phone book!!
Plenty of naff, but something worthwhile... Page 1343 - item 13.
A giant beer glass... holding 2 1/2 pints!!!
Must get a few of those

Alun

The Argos catalogue has nothing on the KleenEze catalogues you get pushed through the door, especially the "Health and Beauty" supplement. Those who have seen it will know what I mean

Rhyme

Oh man, that stuff is genius... who else wants that 'toy dog digging up the back garden' thing with the wagging tail... luducris.

if you have no idea what im taling about, dont worry...

beller b

Yeah! those f****rs really get on my wick..You don't buy anything so they ask for the catalogue back.Why? so they can puti t back in your letter box in another 2 weeks.

Wertz

Alun wrote:

The Argos catalogue has nothing on the KleenEze catalogues you get pushed through the door, especially the "Health and Beauty" supplement. Those who have seen it will know what I mean

hahaha....and the best thing about it is when the idiots who push them through your letterbox come around at the end of the week asking for them back...

Sparky

best thing once was the remote control protector, it was a rubber thing you stretched around the remote so that it couldnt brake when it fell, oh i had great fun flinging it around the house

eskimo

It appeared in my house today - I'm gonna get stuck into it just as soon as I'm done with the bible... :rolleyes:

The General

eskimo wrote:

It appeared in my house today - I'm gonna get stuck into it just as soon as I'm done with the bible... :rolleyes:

do you want to join my church group we meet every sunday at 6AM and it costs €5000 to join

Le Rack

have to say I really want one of those farting gnomes, they're funny, imagine that when your drunk/stoned!

Wertz

Le Rack wrote:

have to say I really want one of those farting gnomes, they're funny, imagine that when your drunk/stoned!

That's what everyone said about that singing fish a few years back...

Le Rack

hehe yeeeaaah.... "You ain't nothing but a hound dog..."

Alun

Actually despite my swingeing criticism of the KleenEze catalogue, I have to admit to actually buying some stuff from it Only really cleaning stuff ... they have some great stuff for getting rid of the caked on grease on cooker hoods, and some really good sticker remover for example.

I'll get me coat .......

Wertz

Alun wrote:

Actually despite my swingeing criticism of the KleenEze catalogue, I have to admit to actually buying some stuff from it Only really cleaning stuff ... they have some great stuff for getting rid of the caked on grease on cooker hoods, and some really good sticker remover for example.

I'll get me coat .......

Household Ammonia or Sugar Soap can do both of those. Available in any good hardware store.

murphaph

I fcuking hate those Kleeneze as$holes. I fcuking tell them every time NOT to push the stupid catalogue into my house and every time they come looking for it I've binned it and they start on about it. Do Argos have "no catalogues please" stickers for your letterbox perchance?

Alun

Wertz wrote:

Household Ammonia or Sugar Soap can do both of those. Available in any good hardware store.

Well, I've know what Ammonia is, although I had no idea you could buy it "in the raw" so to speak, and indeed that does seem to be the main ingredient of this stuff judging by the smell. But what on earth is "Sugar Soap" when it's at home? Never heard of it. The sticker remover is a solvent that you spray on, leave for a few minutes to soak in, and the sticker just lifts off. I can't imagine anything that isn't some type of alcohol or similar being able to remove sticky labels somehow, and Sugar Soap doesn't sound like it'd be anything like that.

el rabitos

who the hell buys a wheelchair from the argos book??

Femelade

murphaph - who is philip in your sig? i'm missing a horse called philip, is he with you?

Wertz

Alun wrote:

Well, I've know what Ammonia is, although I had no idea you could buy it "in the raw" so to speak, and indeed that does seem to be the main ingredient of this stuff judging by the smell. But what on earth is "Sugar Soap" when it's at home? Never heard of it. The sticker remover is a solvent that you spray on, leave for a few minutes to soak in, and the sticker just lifts off. I can't imagine anything that isn't some type of alcohol or similar being able to remove sticky labels somehow, and Sugar Soap doesn't sound like it'd be anything like that.

Any ammonia you buy is a very diluted form of the gas in water...about 5% I think. Also an active ingredient in all kinds of degreasers and over cleaners.

Sugar soap is a heavy duty alkaline detergent used for washing down paintwork....it's similar to caustic soda, but a little less abrasive/corrosive. It's called sugar soap because it dissolves completely in hot water and washes away leaving no residue...oh and it looks like sugar.

Le Rack

Alun wrote:

Well, I've know what Ammonia is, although I had no idea you could buy it "in the raw" so to speak, and indeed that does seem to be the main ingredient of this stuff judging by the smell. But what on earth is "Sugar Soap" when it's at home? Never heard of it. The sticker remover is a solvent that you spray on, leave for a few minutes to soak in, and the sticker just lifts off. I can't imagine anything that isn't some type of alcohol or similar being able to remove sticky labels somehow, and Sugar Soap doesn't sound like it'd be anything like that.

whether this is the same thing or not I don't know but sugar and soap mixed up into a goopey stuff makes a great hair gell if you've got long hair and want to do punk-ass spikes....

curliq

have to admit my favourite item in Kleeneze has to be the Big Toe Straightener

murphaph

Femmy wrote:

murphaph - who is philip in your sig? i'm missing a horse called philip, is he with you?

No, he's gone out. I'm sick of his late nights, comin' in at all hours makin' a racket! You can have him back if you like, although I warn you, he's become quite violent these past few days.

Tha Gopher

Christ, what is it with peoples love of the Argos catalogue?

ARGOS IS SH1TE!!!!

Fcuk me, it isnt particularly cheap compared to its competition and to buy anything you fill in more forms than when you are buying a house. I only go to that place as a last resort, I despise it

aphex™

Tha Gopher wrote:

Christ, what is it with peoples love of the Argos catalogue?

Cos of the amount of stuff thats in it. Where, offhand can i get a water purifier (for example) . Sure, i could try every hardware shop in town, or i could just go to argos.

And theres thousands of things in one place. Brilliant.

Capt'n Midnight

Wertz wrote:

Any ammonia you buy is a very diluted form of the gas in water...about 5% I think. Also an active ingredient in all kinds of degreasers and over cleaners.

Sugar soap is a heavy duty alkaline detergent used for washing down paintwork....it's similar to caustic soda, but a little less abrasive/corrosive. It's called sugar soap because it dissolves completely in hot water and washes away leaving no residue...oh and it looks like sugar.

Sugar soap is a lot less corosive than Caustic (hint look at the name) Soda

DIY cleaners
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green/es41/readings/week5/TOXC4193.html

Re: 5%, it used to be sold as a saturated solution of > 25% as .88 ammonia (referring to the specific density) and it used to go cloudy very soon after you opened the bottle from the CO2 it took out of the atmosphere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia

drunkenfool

argos makes me puke

Le Rack

yeah but you can't se ethe stuff before you buy it, well you kinda can but you don't know if its of good quality or not, some of their stuff is but most is Sh!te wouldn't buy electrical goods there, guitars and the likes...

Our man in Havana

whiskeyman wrote:

Just got it today... its like a bloody phone book!!
Plenty of naff, but something worthwhile... Page 1343 - item 13.
A giant beer glass... holding 2 1/2 pints!!!
Must get a few of those

On the same page, I refer you to the talking tankard handy!

Stephen

I hate those kleeneze ****ers. If you have the cheek to push your unwanted junk through my letterbox, you should not expect to get it back.
I wonder if they'd make a deal - i.e. you can have it back if you agree to take all the other unsolicited ****e i've received this week as well?

Wertz

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Sugar soap is a lot less corosive than Caustic (hint look at the name) Soda

DIY cleaners
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green/es41/readings/week5/TOXC4193.html

Re: 5%, it used to be sold as a saturated solution of > 25% as .88 ammonia (referring to the specific density) and it used to go cloudy very soon after you opened the bottle from the CO2 it took out of the atmosphere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia

I agree Capt'n about the caustic qualities but still, spill concentrated sugar soap on bare skin (which I have a few times) and it'll burn you good. (please don't try this at home kids)

I vaguely recall the ammonia you're talking about (my parents used to run a restaurant) it used come in one of those glass bottles with the ridges on the side to indicate it was hazardous...you definitely can't get it at that strength anymore, at least not for domestic usage, probably for health and safety reasons.
That old cloudy stuff would knock out an elephant if you poured out too much...

Shifty

What upsets me most about the Argos catalogue products, is that quite a lot of the stuff is 'home delivery only' (it is not only big and bulky stuff that is home delivery). A lot of the home delivery stuff would fit in a small hatchback car.
If you live outside Dublin you are charged for this, those who live in Dublin get delivery free. I know they're are costs involved for delivery in rural areas etc. and I don't expect Argos to bare the cost of this. But if I could make a suggestion....

Allow the customer to order the 'home delivery' product as per usual but if u live outside of Dublin and can collect the product yourself, then you could nominate an Argos store of your choice and have the home delivery product delivered there (with Argos usual deliveries) and you collect it on a designated day (they could call u first to say its arrived and after you have paid for it)


At least then you would have a choice, rather than being penalised...

Capt'n Midnight

Le Rack wrote:

yeah but you can't se ethe stuff before you buy it, well you kinda can but you don't know if its of good quality or not, some of their stuff is but most is Sh!te wouldn't buy electrical goods there, guitars and the likes...

:rolleyes: yez are all missing the point about Argos

Pay for it with cash and take it home and very, very carefully open the boxes.. and enjoy the newness of it all.

16 days later you're back in there "Actually I didn't like the colour, do you have one in mauve .... Oh fair enough, you better give me my money back then "

BTW: Caustic Soda burns can lead to weeping sores that take months to heal. It's evil stuff. And a good whiff of ammonia will take your breath away, once for about 20 seconds I thought I was a gooner , it was a bit like being winded. Which reminds me of a postgrad who was telling me about one of the lads he was in a lab with. This lad was mouth pipetting potassium cyanide (as you do :eek: ) and started feeling a little drowsey and as he was diving across the bench for the antidote noticed there was a bottle of ether open beside him. [bonus prize if you can spot all the Health and Safety problems there]

Le Rack

you don't mouth pippette ANYTHING with the word cynanide in it!
Don't dive accross a freaking lab bench covered in chemicals!
Don't leave ANY chemical uncovered, ether, anything!
and don't ether and potassium have some huge combustion daly when they are mixed?!
Why did you take a "good whiff" of ammonia???!

Gone West

the word naff
tbvfh

beller b

Wonder if there is anyone on boards.ie who is an agent for those kleeneze wh****rs..... well anyone brave enough to admit it...

zippo22

Stephen wrote:

I hate those kleeneze ****ers. If you have the cheek to push your unwanted junk through my letterbox, you should not expect to get it back.
I wonder if they'd make a deal - i.e. you can have it back if you agree to take all the other unsolicited ****e i've received this week as well?

The unsolicited stuff that I get from An Post ,(Not the junk with my name and address on it. Can't blame them for that.) O2, Toymaster, Expert, etc, etc.... . I keep in the hallway until I've got a carrier bag full (usually only takes a couple of weeks) and I bring it down and post it back in the pillar box down the road.

srhand

Bond-007 wrote:

On the same page, I refer you to the talking tankard handy!

how about a foot exerciser on pg. 1179?

Nightwish

Shifty wrote:

What upsets me most about the Argos catalogue products, is that quite a lot of the stuff is 'home delivery only' (it is not only big and bulky stuff that is home delivery). A lot of the home delivery stuff would fit in a small hatchback car.
If you live outside Dublin you are charged for this, those who live in Dublin get delivery free. I know they're are costs involved for delivery in rural areas etc. and I don't expect Argos to bare the cost of this. But if I could make a suggestion....

Allow the customer to order the 'home delivery' product as per usual but if u live outside of Dublin and can collect the product yourself, then you could nominate an Argos store of your choice and have the home delivery product delivered there (with Argos usual deliveries) and you collect it on a designated day (they could call u first to say its arrived and after you have paid for it)


At least then you would have a choice, rather than being penalised...

you cant get stuff delivered to an argos store because there just isnt any room for stores (even the big Dublin stores) to hold people's beds/wardrobes/excercise equipment etc until they collect them. Its difficult enough to find room with all the extra lines in the new book.

Wertz

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

:rolleyes: yez are all missing the point about Argos

Pay for it with cash and take it home and very, very carefully open the boxes.. and enjoy the newness of it all.

16 days later you're back in there "Actually I didn't like the colour, do you have one in mauve .... Oh fair enough, you better give me my money back then "

BTW: Caustic Soda burns can lead to weeping sores that take months to heal. It's evil stuff. And a good whiff of ammonia will take your breath away, once for about 20 seconds I thought I was a gooner , it was a bit like being winded. Which reminds me of a postgrad who was telling me about one of the lads he was in a lab with. This lad was mouth pipetting potassium cyanide (as you do :eek: ) and started feeling a little drowsey and as he was diving across the bench for the antidote noticed there was a bottle of ether open beside him. [bonus prize if you can spot all the Health and Safety problems there]

I don't recall too much of my leaving cert chem but wouldn't a spillage of KCN in a lab where an acid is likely also in the general vicinty, create the possible hazard of releasing prussic acid?
That's some very lethal stuff and it's gas at in and around room temp. Looks like I learned something from Macgyver after all

Le Rack; ether is very unreactive.
However as you pointed out diving across a bench laden with glass containers is a pretty daft thing to do...

On topic (before I get banned lol) I hate how if you live outside Dub you get to pay 30-odd quid for delivery of your Argos item when there's a f***ing Argos shop in most of the secondary cities and large towns round Ireland...doesn't work like that in the UK. I also hate how you can buy stuff online in the UK from their site, but try that over here and it's "We're sorry but the option to buy online is only available to our UK customer base". The days of catalogue shopping are very close to being at an end...look how Index went there a few weeks back...Argos and the rest will slowly succumb. Online shopping is the nail in the coffin for them...

Flukey

Given some of the stuff in their catalogue could ARGOS stand for Absolute Rubbish Goes On Sale?

mike65

Bet Gillroy 1

Bet Gillroy 2

Manchester Bucaneers tat

Awwww cute! Bang!

More Chavtatic bargin bin stuff by the boxfull here

Mike.

Capt'n Midnight

P 886 Remote controls for Car CD players - like who is going to let the back seat driver pick the music anyway ?

P 755 Item 12, "Aids digestion and reduces neck and join strain, fully adjustable"

P 1354 - look at the prices !!

P 1586 item 9

Just love the way that christmas decorations are excluded from the 16 day money back offer - you just know someone's tried it ...

mouth pipetteing is for the coolers in chemistry class

Nightwish

^^^can u imagine the fun we have with all that stuff in the stockroom

Femelade

murphaph wrote:

No, he's gone out. I'm sick of his late nights, comin' in at all hours makin' a racket! You can have him back if you like, although I warn you, he's become quite violent these past few days.

what have u done to him?? he used to be such a quite little horse.

u can keep him, Cathal the sheep is my new buddy.

tell philip that those ransom calls didnt fool me for a second either, i knew it was him.

Kingsize

although a lot of the tat & "blunk" in "the argos" is universally accepable to scangers of all races,i love the way they still make uk chav wear available - union jack jewellery & british bulldog diamante encrusted gents single earrings etc etc
not forgetting eddie stobart truck toys for the kids