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Things that you bought that were a MASSIVE disappointment
- Thread starter Icy Gull
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I had the Queen's Silver Jubilee model. It was the biz - never leaked oil, always ran perfectly. Loved that bike!
Yes Chef
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Coke
On a local level - £3 each person for a ride on Palace Pier Dodgems..
Complete Swizz - they're really slow, and you get just over 2 minutes (and no way was i paying £4.50 PP to go on the roller coasters)
Mental Lental
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Australian Cadbury's products.
Don't taste right.
Don't taste right.
driller
my life my word
Membership to Dennis the Menace fan club.
Saved pocket money; sent off form and waited. And waited. And waited.
Eventually a creased crap joke book and a hairy gnasher badge arrived that was broken.
A very disappointed 11 year old.
Saved pocket money; sent off form and waited. And waited. And waited.
Eventually a creased crap joke book and a hairy gnasher badge arrived that was broken.
A very disappointed 11 year old.
Dolph Ins
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When my cassette deck broke I went to get a new one. Was told mini disc was the way forward. Bought deck, walkman and spent hours and hours transferring music onto mini discs by which time it was obsolete.
blue'n'white
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So you're the other person that bought a mini disc ! I share your pain
The Merry Prankster
Pactum serva
blue'n'white
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I'm struggling for a name for that gang though.
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mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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Nandos.
I mean, WHAT?
I mean, WHAT?
Brian Fantana
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mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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You CANNOT mean that.
I was excited to go. I'd been sold the DREAM.
"wow" I thought. "I'm really excited to see what they are raving about".
I basically queued up for a roast chicken and some uncle bens 2min microwaveable rice. It's what I eat for lunch every day for £2.
I could get it if people said "oh yeah. Nando's is ok. Worth a try". But I was going off people RAVING about the place.
Brian Fantana
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I agree that there's a 'culture' that's been built up around it, but I've genuinely never had a bad meal there.
We're up to four - virtually a crowd!
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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err Five
Lps (not quite old enough to have started on 78s!) to cassettes (fortunately I avoided the 8 track revolution) to mini discs to CDs. At this stage I held out for a couple of years refusing to go onto to MP3 players but then went into it completely. I am now holding out against streamed music and sticking with my 160gb Ipod which is another argument altogether.
Mini discs were the shortest lived of any of the above format by some margin I believe?
carteater
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A ticket to the Sheffield Wednesday game... 
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FIGHT ME!
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:.FIGHT ME!
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Five. I even still have mine. Somewhere.
Brian Fantana
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Me too. Bought it at Dixons in Churchill Square after going in to but a CD walkman. Was told by the guy it was worth the extra 70 quid and would be the next and only format for at least a decade. I think Virgin Megastore had a small section of Queen and U2 albums on MD for about 2 months, I recorded a few onto blanks and a few months later MP3 came out and I never looked at the blocky, brushed steel, Sony MiniDisc ever again. Nobody did.