Purposeless Products

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Purposeless Products

We all buy them at one time or another. I'm not necessarily meaning badly designed products that are intended to solve a particular problem but don't such as a grease remover that doesn't.
I'm thinking of products that are marketed to solve a problem that doesn't exist, such as dishwasher cleaner. Does someone out there in a marketing department really think we believe that the WizzKleen dishwasher tablets we bought from them last week magically hit and clean the knifes, forks and saucers but magically miss and leave filthy the insides of the dishwasher? Rather perhaps we shouldn't trust their WizzKleen tablets?

So what other products are out there that don't have a problem to solve?
Moho related products would be special but any area great.

Colin ???

 

[Deleted member 155]

Old people , children , actually all people ?

 

[Deleted member 155]

Cassette toilet
Pies
Skimmed milk
Margarine or any other non butter vile gloopy muck

 

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Old people , children , actually all people ?

We didn't expect anything less, Charlie.
And yes - I laughed!

Colin ???

 

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Cassette toilet
Pies
Skimmed milk
Margarine or any other non butter vile gloopy muck

You have a very interesting, focused view on life, Charlie. I'm inclined to agree with the pies and margarine. Especially if one is served on the other.

Colin ???

 

[teejay]

How about these? For your motorhome buddy/s and why not get a pair for yourself for the winter?..........

 

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How about these? For your motorhome buddy/s and why not get a pair for yourself for the winter?..........

That's hilarious and can't possibly have been marketed! Please tell me this is a wind-up, teejay.

Colin ???

 

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Certain perfumes
Yes you all know the type ?
There you are walking down the street and suddenly you feel like you have just been attached with gas and you need to vomit, sometimes tastes like someone has just stuffed a bar of soap in your mouth, you look up and there are people gagging all around you , and there she is some middle aged walking stink machine.
Even worse if you are unfortunate enough to be in close proximity indoors in a shop !

 

[Lee]

When you wrote the title of this thread did you consider how much of a tongue twister you have made?

It took me three goes and Linda correcting me to pronounce it.

 

[teejay]

That's hilarious and can't possibly have been marketed! Please tell me this is a wind-up, teejay.

Colin ???

All true. made and marketed in the good ol' us of a and on sale on Ebay.com Yee ha!

 

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That's hilarious and can't possibly have been marketed! Please tell me this is a wind-up, teejay.

Colin ???

I've just realised how you responded to this thread so promptly, teejay.
You've got some. You read it here first!

Colin ???

 

[teejay]

Ha ha- no Colin, we just use a plain old Dyson but these would have been much cheaper-if I was an old skinflint. Bit like the old comedy sketches with characters gluing carpet tiles to their slippers to save money on carpeting rooms.

 

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Certain perfumes
Yes you all know the type ?
There you are walking down the street and suddenly you feel like you have just been attached with gas and you need to vomit, sometimes tastes like someone has just stuffed a bar of soap in your mouth, you look up and there are people gagging all around you , and there she is some middle aged walking stink machine.
Even worse if you are unfortunate enough to be in close proximity indoors in a shop !

Definitely with you on the perfume problem, Charlie. I hate walking through the deeply offensive smell (I can't bring myself to use the marketing-speak 'fragrance') in the front half of our local Boots to get to the really useful products hidden away at the rear.
So are we all agreed that perfume is a Purposeless Product unless the offender (I can't bring myself to use the marketing-speak 'wearer') has a particularly bad body odour problem that needs masking?

Colin ???

 

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When you wrote the title of this thread did you consider how much of a tongue twister you have made?

It took me three goes and Linda correcting me to pronounce it.

Come on, Lee. Did you expect anything less?
I'm pretty confident that you've got some cracking products in mind for this thread so don't delay lest you're beaten to it.

Colin ???

 

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All true. made and marketed in the good ol' us of a and on sale on Ebay.com Yee ha!

But........you must have been looking, teejay!
Guilty!

Colin ???

 

[Deleted member 155]

This actually might be fun !
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5zrt6cy5IFs

 

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Ha ha- no Colin, we just use a plain old Dyson but these would have been much cheaper-if I was an old skinflint. Bit like the old comedy sketches with characters gluing carpet tiles to their slippers to save money on carpeting rooms.

Not only in sketches.
In a former life I worked with a large group of engineers. I asked them to redesign the office but emphasised that we had a relatively restricted budget. They wanted several large bean-grinding coffee machines stocked with an unrestricted supply of beans (which I agreed to). In return they offered to go without carpet and at the review meeting every one of them turned up with shoe shaped pieces of carpet held in place under their shoes with elastic. And a pair for me. It was absolutely side splitting.

Obviously we also went for real carpet.
Happy memories.

Colin ???

 

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This actually might be fun !
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5zrt6cy5IFs

Can't see that on YouTube here, Charlie. I'll have a look when I return.

Colin ???

 

[teejay]

Excellent! The mind boggles at some inventions that they expect people to buy. How about this for really tight bastards............. can you guess what theyre for?

 

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Excellent! The mind boggles at some inventions that they expect people to buy. How about this for really tight bastards............. can you guess what theyre for?

It's something his wife attached to his leg lest he dares move away with the sun umbrella he's obviously holding for her benefit.
There's a pressure sensitive switch in the flip-flop and a small bone-breaking explosive device on his leg.

Colin ???