the most pointless thing you've ever bought

[Haze]

Spured on by the audience question on BBC Radio 4's "The Now Show" , along with a vague if somewhat flippant connection to my dissertation, I am led to ask...


What is the most pointless thing you've ever bought?

[deadly lefty]

an electric can opener....it saves 20 whole seconds of your day! but everyone in my house loves it and im the only one who uses the old fashioned one. kind of funny because i bought it for myself

[eri]

japanese animation trading cards (not pokemon game cards but little cards w/ pictures on them). After I spent $7, opened it up and looked at the cute pictures, i said "Wtf am I going to do with these??"

[telkanuru]

... A broken sword... *must restrain urge to pun*

Hm. I'd have to say my anthology of Alan Ginsburg poems. After all, one can tolerate only so much LSD inspired ravings.

[Peach]

What have I bought that wasn't pointless, besides food and books?

[Point_Left]

What have I bought that wasn't pointless, besides food and books?

Wouldn't your sabre have a point?

I guess the most useless/pointless thing I bought was a dictionary published in the early 1900s. (I think it was 1902, I could check but I don't know where it is right now.) I bought it because it was (to my then about 10 year old mind) OLD, and I thought that maybe somebody famous would have used it. The initials W.S. on the first page convinced me that it HAD to be Shakespeare. It is still a very lovely book, I just have no use for it.

[Artisan]

What have I bought that wasn't pointless, besides food and books?

pssst...your existentialism is showing.

[Soldier]

Wouldn't your sabre have a point?

Technically yes, but to quote any real sabrist, "what's the point?"

[Point_Left]

Okay, so I just can't resist punning.

I like using point when I get the oppertunity. Unfortunatly it doesn't happen often. Whenever I do use it my opponent always gets a really shocked look on their face. The best was the time my friend ran into my line.

[frenzl]

#shrugs# -~canadian humour~

the most pointless was a practice saber and an "expensive" pen (they all work they same).

[Iwant2bafencer]

Rubber duckies however they will be serving a point, so I guess there is a point, unlike the saber's pointlessness??

[Inquartata]

This is a very disap-point-ing thread thus far...

[Superman]

Rubber duckies however they will be serving a point, so I guess there is a point, unlike the saber's pointlessness??

Ah yes... the rubber duckies...
bathtub and morp.

I never buy anything pointless. I'm THAT good.

[blue_falcon]

A bowling ball. No point to it whatsoever.

But seriously ....... a broken shower radio. Don't ask because I don't know why myself.

[Black Jeebus]

Good god stop with the puns .

Moving on, I would have to say the most pointless thing I've ever bought was a case fan that I didn't need. Well it may come in handy one day, you know when one of my old ones dies. I thought my computer seemed warm, then I realized it was under a heating vent...stupid me huh.

[Inquartata]

Good god stop with the puns .

You can stop with a thrust or with a cut, but never with a pun. Unless of course it's a pun-in-line...

[Peach]

You can stop with a thrust or with a cut, but never with a pun. Unless of course it's a pun-in-line...

AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

[Black Jeebus]

GAH!!!

[MikeHarm]

I think my most pointless purchase was the book 'Fencing, The Inner Game' by Evangelista. It was just a bunch of angry rambling and complaining about modern fencing thrown together in a haphazard fashion without any real continuity or making it go anywhere. I was hoping it would be about mental conditioning, countertime and that sort of thing. I guess thats what I get for buying books off the web without leafing through them first.

[deflagratio]

Mine is a POS dart gun from the dollar store. Me and some friends were shopping for summer camp and decided they would be fun. Actually they were but they only shot about 7 feet. VIVA la nerf