[Closed] Completely useless things to purchase

Looking at a quadracopter on amazon. Probably play till it breaks then it'll go in a cupboard.

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[i]"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."[/i]

2 days ago I bought a medieval half-penny off ebay. No idea why as I don't collect coins, I just fancied it.

Does anyone else have desires to buy things that are utterly useless to them but for some reason very desirable.

Not [i]another[/i] thread about 650b wheels.

I have a baseball for the same reason.
Now I want a cricket ball too!

I was in Go Outdoors on Thursday and the queue was very slow so I ended up buying on of these on impulse - it was on the end of the aisle where I was waiting.

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Not totally useless but it is years since I last camped and cooked.

gopro?

A Kona MinUte? Due to be delivered soon.
A portable sun dial? On my Amazon wish list.
A Power Ball? Yep, got one.

I like cricket balls to and have one on my desk, though I have played cricket. They're quite a nice weight, feel good on your hand.

We bought a methuselah of wine by accident today

Hoping it will have some use at the party we'll have 'wetting the baby's head' when it eventually arrives, but I can't help thinking a case of normal bottles would have been a lot cheaper!

I'm thinking about an Orange 5.

Another guitar

I use one of those sporks daily, one end for my [s]salad[/s] pie and the other for a yoghurt

I think I want a well worn cricket ball but I don't even really like cricket.
Where can I get one?

A spork is a half spoon /fork combo on one end [ see below]
that is a fork and a spoon
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I thought that was a twunt?

No, it's a Spork made by "light my Fire'

I also brought one on impulse, it has a knife blade on the edge of the fork, which can catch you unaware!!

Looking at a quadracopter on amazon. Probably play till it breaks then it'll go in a cupboard.

I've got a couple of quadcopters. Ace fun. Not that I *needed* any quadcopters at all though...

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I've been trying to convince the office that a t-shirt folding machine is the greatest invention of the 21st century, but they are having none of it.

Have you seen this? I have never tried it, think it needs soft expensive t-shirts whereas mine are all cheap and weathered.

Now I need a cricket ball, too. Used to have a baseball, that was useless but nice to have. Lost it...

A Kona Minute would be great for my commute, just can't afford one right now 🙁

Worn cricket ball? Take stroll to your local village cricket in and either try to find one in the grass around the edge of the pitch or give the bar tender £5 and I'm sure he'll find one for you. If this doesn't work post back up here as I'm sure I have a few in my garage I could send out.

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....^ I am now a pinching-folding T-shirt GOD!!!!

I never thought I would find folding a t-shirt video interesting so thanks for that.

Useless items, a porsche propelling pencil, hardly ever use it, but it's nice to know it came from a Carrera Gt brake hose, it's useless because I spend most of my time typing on here 🙂

Worn cricket ball? Take stroll to your local village cricket in and either try to find one in the grass around the edge of the pitch or give the bar tender £5 and I'm sure he'll find one for you.

No local village cricket in Spain 🙁

I've got a real hankering for one of these, been fighting it for a few months now, don't know what the hell I'd do with it, but I thought it might be fun to commute on & hold up the traffic!!!!
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A TELEVISION 8)

I've got a plastic version of one of those sporks, it's in my messenger bag, just in case.
I also have some chopsticks, in a little plastic case, bought in the Japan Center, in Regent Street.
Never used the Spork, used the chopsticks quite a few times. Who'd a thunk it. 😀

[i]Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."[/i]

Looks like I'm out on my ear then. 🙁

I want one of these!!

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I have no use for one ( after all I have a calculator on this here laptop ), but they are beautiful and very clever pieces of design.

@cranberry - wtf is that? Where can I buy one. Cricket ball can wait. Must have - now.

@rockhopper - that box rocks. Seen it before. Want also.

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta[/url]

You may need to save up your pennies:

[url= http://www.ebay.com/sch/Scientific-Instruments-/14020/i.html?clk_rvr_id=513508271104&_nkw=curta ]http://www.ebay.com/sch/Scientific-Instruments-/14020/i.html?clk_rvr_id=513508271104&_nkw=curta[/url]

And that T-Shirt folding is properly gangster - off to practice...

Plenty of used cricket balls on eBay.

If you want new then go for the best

http://m.morrant.com/cricket_balls/dukes_special_county_grade_1_cricket_ball/105771_p.html

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[url= http://racetothefinish.co.uk/rttf.aspx?section=home ]Just about anything from here.[/url]

Gofasterstrips...I have a 'friend' who doesn't think rabbits are useless...

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'Ere! I have two innocent young rabbits in the room with this forum on a 24" screen! *Covers bun's eyes*

If you like used cricket balls, you may like a [url= http://www.sportsdirect.com/squash/squash-balls ]squash ball[/url] to throw at the wall

If you enjoy the squash ball throwing, you may also like to purchase a [url= http://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/shop/catapults-and-ammo.html?gclid=CMqAweGJl7kCFdHMtAodOlgAEw ]catapult[/url]

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

*Puts children up for adoption *

wow this thread has been an eye opener. a man with a 2grand calculator - proper lush mind i want one.
and what is that, a harris hawk?
i though i would fit in on this thread but compared to me you guys are off the scale hahaha

mogrim, if you do want a used cricket ball drop me an email to spcold icott at hotmail .com (all 1 word). I'll dig one out of my garage and let you know how much it costs to ship one to Spain.

Another one: mrsZ just paid for me to have a flight in a Tiger Moth for my 30th. Can't take the grin off my face 😀

"Mechanical Curta's" have been mentioned on here before, I believe Ben (kinetics) has one, when he mentioned owning one in a previous thread regarding them it did not surprise me in the slightest.

I [i]do[/i] want that box though......

Not bothered about folding my t-shirts as they hang up in my wardrobe.

I have a very nice set of tungston carbide slip gauges in an inlaid veneered box that i rescued from an engineering workshop, practically useless but a feat of such precision engineering that i really should dig them out of my attic and have them on display.

And sporks are great, i have a few titanium varieties from different makers along with other TI fetish cutlery, i rarely eat with anything else at home and if i can spork or ti-foon it then all the better.

Sorry my ocd is compelling me to explain the difference between the two eating utensils posted earlier in the thread!

The first is a spork. Which is a spoon and a fork the opposite ends of the same utensil.

The second and comenly mistaken for a spork is a foon. This is a fork spoon, so a spoon with fork prongs in the spoon bowl!

Ahhh ocd relief 🙂

I have a small obsession with torches. Dont know why maybe some experience as a child!
I have lots of them around the house different makes and sizes etc. Nearly always buying new ones.

Yes that is Aristotle my harris hawk! 🙂

Dear OCD
Please read wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spork

Yours
Mr Correct 😉

If he had OCD he'd call it CDO anyway

I have a fully plastic adjustable wrench that I got from the Innovations shop in Woking many years ago.

Useful for adjusting polished chrome nuts like on radiators, apparently as I have never actually used it - but it seemed like a good idea at the time...

If you have CDO you probably don't want to read [url= http://www.funcage.com/blog/ocd/ ]this[/url].

I have an urge to buy an On One Dirty Disco. I don't need one, I don't even know where I would go on it but I want one 😕

Dear OCD
Please read wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spork

Yours
Mr Correct

Never mind the Spork, they mention Knork's disappointingly this is also an item of cutlery 🙁

durham 🙁 Aristotle is really cool but you are too far away for me to ask to come and meet him 🙁

mogrim, if you do want a used cricket ball drop me an email to spcold icott at hotmail .com (all 1 word). I'll dig one out of my garage and let you know how much it costs to ship one to Spain.

Cheers, it's not that important! I'll get one (if I remember: unlikely...) the next time I'm in the UK.

OCD? What would you do in this situation?

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OOh, ooooooh.
[url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/kona-minute-bike-2012/rp-prod95392 ]Kona MinUte in half price sale on Chainreaction[/url]. I'd so love one of those, but the one-in, one-out policy mean's Mrs Tthew's bike would have to be sold, and I don't think she'd be best pleased. 😀

I am terrible for this - recently randomly decided I wanted a slingshot (no idea why) so have one of these on order:

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Also have a Curta. And spent ages in my youth learning that t-shirt folding technique. Now, after a week in Wales playing on trains, I'm pondering a train set.

Drives my GF mad.

Now't wrong with wanting a slingshot, especially one that will be as tactile to hold and use as that one ^,

Ben : could you possibly advise me on [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/no-6th7th-gear-on-nexus-hub ]this problem regarding a nexus hub[/url] that i had in the shop on saturday.

My experience with Nexus hubs is that they all fail. Sooner or later - in Glasgow rain, usually sooner - and the only solution is to replace the internals or preferably junk the lot and replace it with something that's fit for purpose like a Nexus 8 or SRAM Super-7.

It's probably something sticking or worn, but you could spend ages trying to find the problem, only to find that spares aren't available anyway.

Yeah that's the trouble i've found wi them - this is fitted to one of two Kalkhoff Aguttu's which are their only mode of transport and it's used for perhaps 70miles each week, a good few miles of that is up to their house over a rough/muddy road which doesn't help much.

I found out the hard way by stripping them completely down that you occasionally do find the problem but like you say there is nae chance of getting the specific spare part, thus rendering a perfectly serviceable hub into a paperweight.

I am terrible for this - recently randomly decided I wanted a slingshot (no idea why) so have one of these on order:

What are the chances? I ordered the exact same slingshot from the very same website on Thursday, and likewise I just decided for no particular reason I wanted one and that one was the prettiest and most expensive so.... Goes without saying really.

Yes, that's my usual decision-making process too! That reminds me - must pester and see if he's cast mine yet, I've asked for a custom non-etched one...

Woah - love that slingshot

I tend not to buy useless things, but instead buy too many of the same thing. I have pretty much every Alpkit drybag in the range, just in case I need one of a size either too big or too small for my current ones.

That said, I'm finding it hard not to justify a MacBook Air to myself at the moment...

But the MacBook Air is not a frivolous purchase. With such a gadget, one can walk into any coffee shop in the land and show off one's dodgy hat, hipster glasses and goatee beard with pride!

I think my last useless purchase was an oven timer. Stupid thing. I should have just trusted a) my watch or b) what the food in the oven looked like.

Regarding spork/forkoon inventories, I've just checked and have two Ti forkoons in the house and about five or six lexan sporks around. You can never have too many of either in my opinion.

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An Amazon Kindle if you think it'll still work after 12 months.

That's not a slingshot. THIS is a slingshot..

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the OCD fuel pump has made me laugh sooooo much!

Sorry I am not closer to you to meet Aristotle but he says 'Arrr' to you

Ah, that reminds me - I must build up my Slingshot frame 😉