Purposeless Products

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And Colin, one merely has to yodel softly when using it for the true alpine experience! Yodel-aheeyuu!!! Ive tried singing 'I'm a little dutch boy' using mine but it didn't work!

Ha, bloody ha!

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

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Cheese knife now that's a useless piece of cutlery I just use any knife for cutting cheese

I've just remembered the equally daft and similarly shaped pizza knife I had, Annie. 100% a Purposeless Product. Now a pizza wheel - there's a brilliant piece of design that I really do use.

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

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Is this one of you on holiday, Tes? I can tell by the rain that it might be.

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thirst-Aid-...s=drinking+hat
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sorry could not work out how to copy the picture!

That's very funny, Rec. Thanks.
(The product , not the problems with the link!).

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

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Yes I confess to having had one in the past, I thought it would make weeding easier, no such luck, -useless. Other useless bits are salad spinners, vitamins (just eat a good varied diet), air fresheners, (which I personally don't think work), robot vacuum cleaners - yes I hold my hands up I did buy one to try it:redface:. Some of the floor was very clean the rest untouched!

Salad spinners! Definitely Purposeless Products! Thanks, yorkieowl.
I'll take your word about the robot vacuum non-cleaner.

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

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Motorhomes and caravans !
An old mate of mine really couldn't see the fascination of us going away in them he used to say he had a house for comfort and if away he wanted a hotel so he didn't have to do anything !

Nah. He's wrong.

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

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Eggs must be bigger these days who does a 3 minute egg Edwina must have had nightmares

I do mine the 'German' way, Annie. Boil the water, prick the rounded bum end of the egg, in the water for a simmer for 6 to 7 minutes depending on size. Everyone a winner!
On the other hand I do have an (unused these days) egg timer.

I guess that there are Apps out there for this tricky task too?

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

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Magnetic cat flaps

I don't know of any magnetic cats so I guess that must be a Purposeless Product, Chris.

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

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Potatoe ricer

I've absolutely no idea what that does, Annie! Got a photo? And/or enlightenment?

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

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Pepper corer

Is that like an apple corer, Chris? Never seen one but if it is then, together with the apple version, It's got to be a Purposeless Product!

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

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Automatic Apple peeler

What! Surely not, Annie.

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

[yorkieowl]

whoop whoop whoop 1000 Annie


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My God that gal can talk lol. :Tongue_Out_Emoji_wi:Loudly_Crying_Face_:Smiling_Emoji_with_

 

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Hilarious, Tes! I've actually seen a 5 metre length of cycle lane at the entrance to a village in the UK. It ran past the village name sign and had a 'start and 'end' sign painted on the road as well! Stupid bureaucrats and planners. I'll try to find the photo I took and perhaps post it here.
I suspect planners and bureaucrats could warrant their own thread!

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

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I saw this at Bath Xmas market yesterday. And I thought that conventional men's ties were Purposeless Products!



Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

[teejay]

They look like sliced up baseball bats and the Dickie bows could be model aeroplane propellers. All in all,not at all comfortable to wear and possibly dangerous-think of where splinters might end up! OUCH!

 

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They look like sliced up baseball bats and the Dickie bows could be model aeroplane propellers. All in all,not at all comfortable to wear and possibly dangerous-think of where splinters might end up! OUCH!

They flex to some extent, teejay. They actually consist of strips of wood with interlocking wavy edges running across the tie, each strip averaging about 2cm wide. There are two holes drilled through each piece of wood with a length of elastic threaded through to hold the whole structure together. And elastic to go around the neck.
Definitely not for me!
And, as you say, the H&S implications don't bear thinking about!

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

 

[Campervanannie]

I found another useless one in my drawer today while looking for the nutcrackers it's a teabag squeezer.

 

[teejay]

They flex to some extent, teejay. They actually consist of strips of wood with interlocking wavy edges running across the tie, each strip averaging about 2cm wide. There are two holes drilled through each piece of wood with a length of elastic threaded through to hold the whole structure together. And elastic to go around the neck.
Definitely not for me!
And, as you say, the H&S implications don't bear thinking about!

Colin :smile::smile::smile:

A strange but true fact for you- a collector of neck ties is called a grabatologist.

 

[oldish hippy]

i found one in the van it called a screwdriver nowt wrong with a hammer is there

 

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I found another useless one in my drawer today while looking for the nutcrackers it's a teabag squeezer.

I remember those, Annie! My Mum had one and to me it always looked like an instrument of torture!
Definitely a Purposeless product!

Colin :smile::smile::smile: