Expensive things you bought but don't like

Expensive things you bought but don't like

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Snubs

1,166 posts

138 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Psycho Warren said:
J4CKO said:
So, the username isnt just for show then biggrin
How long have you been on here J4cko? and you've not worked out im nuts yet? lol.


On paper i am technically sane these days, and have been for 10 years, as I don't see a shrink or get counselling (because the NHS mental health services are screwed) and as im not cutting myself up or being pulled from bridge parapets etc i don't show up on any formal radar with the health system and its 9 years since i was last on the police and social services radar for being mental in custody. Its quite funny if you get arrested and they suddenly find out you are a bit psycho. Although to be fair to them, they probably deal more face to face with crazy people than the NHS as the chronic underfunding means the NHS treatment threshold is really high.

So on paper I'm sane, and I can pretend to be sane where necessary although I have let things slip a few times at work and got wierd as fk looks for it. Apparently normal people don't joke about self harm, suicide etc. Who knew?
FWIW, i read J4CKO's comment as referring to the area you live in being a warren for psycos, rather than referring to you yourself. Sounds like you had a grim time of it though, hope things are brighter for you now smile

Reading this thread has made me appreciate my choice of house / car / sofas all the more! My regrettable choice was a combined DVD player/burner and Hard Drive with built in TV tuner. A chap at work had one and would use it to burn DVDs of films that were on in the middle of the night or he otherwise couldn't watch and had made himself a nice film collection as a result. Fancying some of that action I spent a good few hundread quid and bought one for myself only to later realise it had an analogue TV tuner so was completely useless. That combined with the rapid rise of streaming shortly after i bought it ensured it never got used.

The spinner of plates

17,649 posts

199 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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I once spent £200 on 4 ice creams and they weren't even that good!

Once that ice cream maker was used. Once.
Apparently it was a faff to clean..
And apparently it was more hassle than it's worth... just like I hinted it might be...
Was it then sold for a loss? Nah, chance would be a fine thing, just given to a random work friend apparently...

Ha, anyway I'm fine with it now, just one of those things I guess..



























































fkING ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I EVEN KNEW IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN!!!! rage

Edited by The spinner of plates on Thursday 4th March 19:03

SCEtoAUX

4,119 posts

80 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Snowboard and snowboard boots. Cost me about £400.00. Used it once, decided I prefer skiing.

Worse still is the fact it has sat in my garage for eight or nine years in the expensive bag I bought to go with it.

Jimmy No Hands

5,007 posts

155 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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One way tickets to Australia for me, her and our dog.

Came back after 8 months.

austinsmirk

5,597 posts

122 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Psycho Warren said:
How long have you been on here J4cko? and you've not worked out im nuts yet? lol.


On paper i am technically sane these days, and have been for 10 years, as I don't see a shrink or get counselling (because the NHS mental health services are screwed) and as im not cutting myself up or being pulled from bridge parapets etc i don't show up on any formal radar with the health system and its 9 years since i was last on the police and social services radar for being mental in custody. Its quite funny if you get arrested and they suddenly find out you are a bit psycho. Although to be fair to them, they probably deal more face to face with crazy people than the NHS as the chronic underfunding means the NHS treatment threshold is really high.

So on paper I'm sane, and I can pretend to be sane where necessary although I have let things slip a few times at work and got wierd as fk looks for it. Apparently normal people don't joke about self harm, suicide etc. Who knew?
I’m glad you seem to be in a better place. Talking of anti social behaviour and going postal: as I’ve said, I work in social housing. One of my favourite way of dealing with it at a particular small few block of flats was to give free reign to a particular chap.

Although retired, Zigurtis: a former paratrooper and ex french foreign legion is one of those men who is “hard”. Just has that presence. Forget your tattoo’d gym bunnies puffing their chests out: he’d just destroy you and keep going.

I let him have carte Blanche to deal with any little scrotes causing bother anywhere. Being ex military you should have seen how clean all the communal spaces were in and around the flats.

Lovely chap. His knees are a bit done for now with all the jumping out of stuff though.





anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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About 6 years ago:
A mint Roland Jupiter 8 synth. I'd wanted one for years, they look & sound gorgeous. £6500. But, hailing from the early 80s, they are nigh on impossible to use with modern sequencing software unless you hack them around and retro-fit them with MIDI, which I wasn't prepared to do. Ultimately I spent more time noodling on it, recreating classic 80s synth sounds and riffs and not using it productively. It was wasted on me, so sold it 6 months later for exactly the same money.

Last week:
An Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio. Every single review has nothing but praise & a friend who owned one said it was one of the best cars he'd driven. Much like the above, it's wasted on me. I now realise I never, ever need a car that fast. Ironically it's the quickest car I'll own but I now drive the slowest I've ever driven.

slopes

38,748 posts

186 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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A Kia Sportage.
I hate it with a passion but the wife wanted one.
I'd rather have kept the 058 i had before hand, i always looked back at that car but she got her way as usual.

AL5026

438 posts

187 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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iPhone 12 mini. Should’ve know it was a bad buy when it took me a bloody eon to sync my data across and then equally the pig of a job it was to back up to my Mac. Then none of the apps carried across any of the data. And I just don’t like it, screen seems too long, no battery percentage in the top corner (unless you drag the screen down), and I can’t get used to how you close down apps.
I’m typing this on my iPhone 7 whilst I decide what to do with the sodding thing.

jimmythingy

312 posts

61 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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AL5026 said:
iPhone 12 mini. Should’ve know it was a bad buy when it took me a bloody eon to sync my data across and then equally the pig of a job it was to back up to my Mac. Then none of the apps carried across any of the data. And I just don’t like it, screen seems too long, no battery percentage in the top corner (unless you drag the screen down), and I can’t get used to how you close down apps.
I’m typing this on my iPhone 7 whilst I decide what to do with the sodding thing.
Wife is having the same problem, she went from an old iPhone SE to iPhone 11. She has gone back to the SE, the 11 is too heavy, no battery percentage, can't close apps and worst of all candy crush doesn't work the same!! It's a paperweight on top of the microwave at the moment.

g3org3y

20,606 posts

190 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Le Creuset frying pans. Non stick coating coming off quite badly after only a couple years of use.

T1547

1,091 posts

133 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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bristolbaron said:
Not expensive in the grand scheme of things but after being told an air fryer is the best thing in the world spent £150 on a Tefal Actifry plus.

It’s junk. Those that told me it’s great then confirmed they never use theirs! Absolute waste of money.
My mrs bought one a few months ago, has sat on the kitchen counter taking up loads of space ever since and never been used. Just to make it worse, because she hasn’t used it yet and confirmed it works the box and packaging it came in is also kicking around the spare room.

It better be bloody good when she actually gets round to using it! biggrin

Esceptico

7,334 posts

108 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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A bread maker. To be fair I didn’t buy it. Somehow my father in law had it and insisted we take it. We were living in Switzerland at the time so had to cart it back on one of our trips to the U.K. Sat unopened in our kitchen cupboard for a number of years until we moved back to the U.K. Wife insisted we take it back with us. Sat unopened in another cupboard until we moved to NZ where I finally managed to palm it off on someone else!

NickCQ

5,392 posts

95 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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g3org3y said:
Le Creuset frying pans. Non stick coating coming off quite badly after only a couple years of use.
Suspect user error? Need to be completely anal about not using metal, only wood / plastic implements.

67Dino

3,581 posts

104 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Bought a replica Patek Philippe Calatrava for £150. When it arrived was delighted with it. Absolutely perfect copy of my dream watch. Just one problem: after two weeks it stopped working.... Rats.


The Wookie

13,909 posts

227 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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My old man did it with his 68 Mustang

Spent a fortune on having it effectively rebuilt from scratch. Aesthetically absolutely beautiful but the garage that did it did a patchy job on the details (like the wiring!) and it was fking dreadful to drive

I’ve spent ten years making it more reliable and less terrible and he still hasn’t driven it since the day we picked it up, only I drive it these days

valiant

10,068 posts

159 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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When we moved the owners left us a newish range cooker that we lived with for a couple years and was constantly annoying us in that it took ages for the oven to ignite.

Bit the bullet and spent a couple of grand on a top of the range cooker from the same manufacturer but their more posh sub division. Looks great. Takes ages to ignite. Arrrrggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!

After googling, it basically has the same internals as every single other sodding oven in their range regardless or how cheap or expensive it is. Bastids!

I’ll be fked if I’m replacing it though but it annoys the fk out of me every time I’m stood there waiting for the poxy thing to fire.

Prohibiting

1,734 posts

117 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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A Yamaha acoustic guitar. I thought I would learn to play during the first lockdown but I've only put a few hours into it and haven't picked it up again in 10 months. It's on a stand in the corner of my living room looking like a pretentious ornament.

A Canon DSLR camera body and a prime lens. I was too embarrassed to take the damn thing anywhere as it was so big. I now have a really neat Fujifilm compact mirrorless camera which gets way more use and I don't feel like a plonker out and about with it.

I'm on the fence with my iPhone 12 Pro Max but I think I just need to get used to it having been used to a Samsung Galaxy for 3 years. The first couple of days I regretted my purchase but I am coming round to it.

Edited by Prohibiting on Thursday 4th March 21:28

dudleybloke

19,717 posts

185 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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NickCQ said:
g3org3y said:
Le Creuset frying pans. Non stick coating coming off quite badly after only a couple years of use.
Suspect user error? Need to be completely anal about not using metal, only wood / plastic implements.
Remove the rest of the coating and season the pans a few times, they will last a lifetime then.

TurboHatchback

4,151 posts

152 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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I spent £2100 on a 160/150mm travel full suspension mountain bike. I'd rented the exact same bike in Wales and it was great, I tried it back home in the places I actually rode and came to the realisation it was simply too much bike and actually made me slower. I sold it in less than a month for a £300 loss. Turns out I'm simply not brave or stupid enough to do the sort of riding that merits such a machine.

Kwackersaki

1,372 posts

227 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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A Triumph TR6.

Always wanted one but after 3 months of tinkering, changing the seats for MX5,s, and covering all of 100 miles it broke down, only a fuse but had to be towed home. I decided it was uncomfortable to drive and handled like a sack of st so sold it.