Who the hell buys this stuff. Only £160.

by General_Committee_24

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  5. The fact the measurement is in Imperial and not Metric tells you all you need to know about who’s buying these

  8. The parodies of this kind of shite was always my favourite bit of VIZ.

    Like the one with the Lord Of The Rings mint-sweet chess set where Frodo was a Polo mint and Gandalf was a Trebor Extra Strong.

    The application form had something like… ‘I hereby agree to pay 1p for the first mint, 2p for the second and so on; and I am legally bound to buy all 32 chess pieces. I can’t see it adding up to much. Like, £50 or something’ 😂

  9. Old people, I think they buy it because they grew up in a time with rationing and austerity in the 30s-early 50s. As the older demographic traditionally are not the best with IT/internet the only exposure they have to impulse buying is TV shopping and print media. Add in a sprinkle of dementia and age related mental health issues and you have a recipie for buying this shit.

  12. My grandparents house is full of ornamental stuff like this. They buy the whole sets as well as insists they’ll be worth something when they dies. They won’t as it’s stuff still knocking about to buy as new, so it only has a secondhand price tag. It’s going to take a lot of bubble wrap and boxes to clear that house

  14. That’s absolutely terrible and I grew up with cuckoo clocks in the house so I would absolutely buy this to annoy my wife – but not at that price

  15. Ahh the Bradford Exchange. Knew it was them immediately

  17. I already have an animated Elvis clock that thrusts its pelvis every hour on the hour, so I don’t really think I’d need this as well.

  18. One of my bleak little joys is turning to the last page of the cheap TV mag and seeing what that week’s crap item for sale is.

    Although because of how often it appears on items like this I ended up assuming Swarovski crystals were some sort of generic rubbish (in fact I wondered whether “Swarovski crystal” was some sort of industry in-joke name for sparkly plastic or glass). I was quite surprised when randomly reading a birdwatching magazine in a waiting room to discover that Swarovski is actually really high quality stuff.

  19. I would’ve yearned for something like this as a child. I can imagine my 80 year old self saying “fuckit, why not?”. As it is, I’m somewhere in the middle, find it actually kind of cute (a mouse appears on the hour!!) but way too “sensible” to purchase. I must add, my German nan had a cuckoo clock that I always loved.

  21. I used to play a game for the Shittiest Advert in a Weekend Magazine’

    When I spotted a ceramic Rosary box which played Ave Maria and depicting John Paul II on a cloud, I knew I had peaked

    They are still out there

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186971752162?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338749367&toolid=20006&_ul=GB&customid=Cj0KCQjwvajDBhCNARIsAEE29WoMCTyOVjsAdwuJcPcr4sEv9Ml42JHfyml2vXqg1JXtKzJC_uZyteEaAjvTEALw_wcB%7C0AAAAADihhqXb4Z29BnueRe2hAKijeVOG5%7CCj8KCQjwmqPDBhCKARIuAMM8215l1JrFJkwSW_vISY2YRfJRTCJ3dc5Gtujz-3zAfUyCrjKAZ0cSZzeoThoClt8&gclid=Cj0KCQjwvajDBhCNARIsAEE29WoMCTyOVjsAdwuJcPcr4sEv9Ml42JHfyml2vXqg1JXtKzJC_uZyteEaAjvTEALw_wcB&gbraid=0AAAAADihhqXb4Z29BnueRe2hAKijeVOG5&wbraid=Cj8KCQjwmqPDBhCKARIuAMM8215l1JrFJkwSW_vISY2YRfJRTCJ3dc5Gtujz-3zAfUyCrjKAZ0cSZzeoThoClt8&loc_interest_ms=&loc_physical_ms=9220534&adtype=pla&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17330431635&gbraid=0AAAAADihhqXb4Z29BnueRe2hAKijeVOG5

  22. I’m holding out for the China shire horse with a balsa wood cart 🙏🏻

  23. As someone who used to do debt collection for mail order catalogues, old people who have lost their self control and/or knowledge of money.

    Christ that was a depressing job.

  25. You are young. At a certain point in life a biological clock (pun intended) starts ticking. The urge to spend your grandkids inheritance on utter trash becomes overwhelming. Then when you are dead they then inherit that crap. It’s the beautiful circle of life.

  27. Holy shit me. Me want it. I’ve not even finished my A levels and I need it

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