Naffest thing in the new argos catalogue

Capt'n Midnight · 08-08-2005 08:12PM

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 · 08-08-2005 08:20PM

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 · 08-08-2005 08:29PM

the word naff
tbvfh

beller b · 08-08-2005 08:39PM

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 · 08-08-2005 08:55PM

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 · 08-08-2005 08:56PM

Bond-007 wrote:

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

how about a foot exerciser on pg. 1179?

Nightwish · 08-08-2005 09:03PM

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 · 08-08-2005 09:44PM

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 · 08-08-2005 10:43PM

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

mike65 · 08-08-2005 11:02PM

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 · 09-08-2005 12:04AM

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 ...

09-08-2005 12:14AM

mouth pipetteing is for the coolers in chemistry class

Nightwish · 09-08-2005 01:10AM

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

Femelade · 09-08-2005 09:53AM

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 · 09-08-2005 11:59AM

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

Naffest thing in the new argos catalogue

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