Modern 'Cons'

ovetta2001

French Connection UK t-shirts with FCUK 'insert bad pun here'

You want me to pay £25 for a t-shirt you paid 5p for a child to make, to advertise you and make me look cheap and s!utty at the same time?!?

moonrakerz

The biggest "con" of all ?

Posts on this site headed:- "Con" Scam" or "rip-off" when they are nothing of the sort ! - like the vast majority in this thread !

ovetta2001

moonrakerz wrote: »

The biggest "con" of all ?

Posts on this site headed:- "Con" Scam" or "rip-off" when they are nothing of the sort ! - like the vast majority in this thread !

Con and scam maybe not but alot of it is very much a rip off.

dacouch

Radish72 wrote: »

Bottled water

I will never understand why people buy litres of the stuff when it comes out of the tap at home

Evian is naive spelt backwards...

LemonGrove

Anything that has The Simpsons (specifically Homer) branding. Recently I've seen a Homer Simpson desktop crumb hoover, a Homer Simpson car polish and a Homer Simpson Kettle. I do like The Simpsons and merchandise related to the show I don't mind, but things like the above, I really don't get.

dacouch wrote: »

Evian is naive spelt backwards...

nevaz?!?

clutterydrawer

valk_scot wrote: »

Packs of ready chopped veg for stir-fries etc ie, a marketing man's flash of genius as to how to get rid of all the trimmings and misshapen bits left over in the veg processing factory AND charge a premium for them. This goes double for stringy old bits of cabbage stalks, btw.

These used to irk me too but I've recently heard a few people who have trouble with their hands, especially elderly people, saying they find them really helpful. so I'm willing to tolerate their existence :rotfl:


great thread btw....gave me a giggle especially the FCUK post, I hate that brand, so childish. "ooh look, I *almost* said a rude word, how amusing" :rolleyes:

DodgyLurgy

Yakult with the 'bifidus digestivum' and then the other companies which jumped on the 'good bacteria' bandwagon :rolleyes2

LemonGrove

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2523012/Already-boiled-eggs-go-on-sale-in-Asda-and-Waitrose.html

These.

kymbogs

Radish72 wrote: »

Bottled water

I will never understand why people buy litres of the stuff when it comes out of the tap at home

I do agree mostly on this and I don't buy bottled water myself. But I have been to places where the tap water tastes awful. Maybe it's a hard water/soft water thing and it was just because it was different to my 'home water' that it was particularly unpleasant Having said that, the tap water where I used to work was gross so I took a bottle of cheap squash to mix with it, sorted!

jennihen

Cat milk - my youngest wants to know how you milk a cat!!!