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Buying $hit for yourself with your own money - the more esoteric cr@p

  • 16-12-2019 11:02PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭


    Two years ago I bought a 2 euro disposable film camera in a euro shop. I developed it which cost more. The resulting pictures were sh:the. But yeah.
    What cr@pola have you bought for yourself down through the years.

    I should have bought a €2 euro 500ml bottle of come instead of course.


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I bought focus adjustable eyeglasses on a whim.
    As crap as they sound.


  • #3
    monkeysnapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    I should have bought a €2 euro 500ml bottle of come instead of course.[/QUOTE]

    Jeeeez it's really gone down in price..


  • #4
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Ahh jaysus X, if I were to inventory my level of my esoteric crapola you'd need to pull up a chair, with strong liquor an advisory. I'd need to see a shrink, with strong liquor an advisory. For them.

    As we speak I can look to my left and view a chunk of mammoth tusk, on my right a Warsaw Pact geiger counter with all the trimmings. And that's some of the least of the esoteric crapola I can currently view. :D

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #5
    LaFuton
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 784 ✭✭✭LaFuton


    i bought a ps4 pro last week coz ****it


  • #6
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,863 ✭✭✭touts


    I bought some awful rubbish in an African street market. It might look like a brand name watch but it you're paying the equivalent of €5 it's probably not going to survive the journey home.


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  • #7
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,664 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Surely the point of working is to have disposable income to buy things that make you happy?

    One man's junk is another man's treasure as they say. I really want a tour of Wibb's house now, I picture him as an eccentric academic.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #8
    Melania Frump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Melania Frump


    A vibrator from dealz for 2 euro.
    The batteries were 5 and didnt last kissing time.


  • #9
    LaFuton
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 784 ✭✭✭LaFuton


    Melania Frump wrote: »
    A vibrator from dealz for 2 euro.
    The batteries were 5 and didnt last kissing time.

    wud ya not just lean against an old tractor


  • #10
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    I buy way way too much esoteric crap. It all fairly quickly looses any semblance of the esotericness once the credit card statement comes thrundlin in the letterbox like a mini carpet catalogue of death the month after. And I keep doing it. Ahh well, cant stop now.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #11
    Melania Frump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Melania Frump


    LaFuton wrote: »
    wud ya not just lean against an old tractor

    And my friend wants to know where she might get one of them?


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  • #12
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,664 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    buried wrote: »
    I buy way way too much esoteric crap. It all fairly quickly looses any semblance of the esotericness once the credit card statement comes thrundlin in the letterbox like a mini carpet catalogue of death the month after. And I keep doing it. Ahh well, cant stop now.

    Rather apt username.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #13
    LaFuton
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 784 ✭✭✭LaFuton


    Melania Frump wrote: »
    And my friend wants to know where she might get one of them?

    i can organise one surely, would said friend have child bearing hips and road frontage?


  • #14
    Melania Frump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Melania Frump


    LaFuton wrote: »
    i can organise one surely, would said friend have child bearing hips and road frontage?

    The best.


  • #15
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    If I told you, it wouldn't be truly esoteric.


  • #16
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    I once paid 320 Euro for bookends, and I don't give a sh1te what anyone thinks because I love them!


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hercule Poirot wrote: »
    I once paid 320 Euro for bookends, and I don't give a sh1te what anyone thinks because I love them!


    Then it's money well spent.

    I have collections of stuff, particularly silver stuff like collar bars, shirt stiffners, snuff boxes, spoons of all kinds (mustard or egg spoon, anyone?) and tie pins. The history of forks interests me and I've a hankering to start a collection of spears, tridents and bi-tines. Also religious (any religion) stuff. Like bible stands (8), small idols and religious statuary (not enough), books and ritual paraphernalia (too many). No, I'm not religious.


  • #18
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Remember the Dunnes chopping board? Literally just planks of wood iirc for stupid prices.


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I used to love WWE wrestling. I'd still be somewhat familiar with it, but haven't watched it in years. Yet I still have to drag myself away from the shelves in Smyths as I tend to buy wrestling figures, often of wrestlers I've barely heard of.


    I don't still play with them. I don't openly display or collect them. I have no reason whatsoever to get them. Most of them end up in the attic, but for some reason I can't help myself.


    cherryghost wrote: »
    Remember the Dunnes chopping board? Literally just planks of wood iirc for stupid prices.


    I don't think it was actually advertised as a chopping board. Just a piece of wood. Paul Costello strikes again.


  • #20
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    Business Class flights.

    Caught out. Every. Damn. Year.


  • #21
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    An ozone generator from Amazon.
    It's supposed to neutralise bad smells.



    It doesn't.


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  • #22
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,747 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    A safe.
    On Ebay.
    Could have bought 3 of them in Woodies with the shopping cost.

    Twas way back in Celtic Tiger Mk1 times.


  • #23
    thecowgoesmoo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭thecowgoesmoo


    I have 24 pairs of runners, Always just buy a pair if i see ones i like. Waste of money really.


  • #24
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    All I can say is don't buy a sexy looking bra from any of those weird websites like banggood. The state of them in real life :(


  • #25
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    I bought a dictionary. (Which is esoteric, judging by this thread.)


  • #26
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    I bought a thesaurus, which I've lost. Left me with a complete detritus. Incommodious to say the least.


  • #27
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,032 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Melania Frump wrote: »
    A vibrator from dealz for 2 euro.
    The batteries were 5 and didnt last kissing time.

    Skip the kissing. Straight in, no kissing as they say.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #28
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Feisar wrote: »
    Skip the kissing. Straight in, no kissing as they say.
    It's a bit weird to kiss a vibrator anyway, to be perfectly honest.


  • #29
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    I once bought a pedal that made my guitar sound like a NES. For no reason whatsoever.


  • #30
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    I once bought a pedal that made my guitar sound like a NES. For no reason whatsoever.
    You can do that with a hammer too - make two things sound like each other.


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  • #31
    Plopsu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Plopsu


    Elisa Happy Bagpipes wrote: »
    It's a bit weird to kiss a vibrator anyway, to be perfectly honest.


    If you talk while you're doing it, you sound like a robot.


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