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Okay everyone knows that the difference betveen men and boys is the price of the toys.

So what is your most usless toy you have bought?

My is a gps bought last year, used one week in the mountains.

Cost ~4500skr or ~ $520

The Beermaster: $300
it came with a plastic 'keg' CO2 cartridges, yeast and pre mixed bags of barley & hops etc in diferent blends like American Lager, Irish Amber, English Ale......
"Brew delicious ales and lagers at home!" the ad said. well that was the most fucking disgusting beer i have ever had.

Playstation 2 back when they were still three hundred bucks. Still, it was worth it. Games, DVDs and CDs all in one is a good deal.

I remember doing a thread on this ages ago. My submission is, and was, the lightsaber from parksabers.com - or pretty much anything from the GOD of expensive boy-toys and automated cool shit, hammacher.com!

$2500.00 DVD based Navigation For my car... Damm thing still doesn't work right

Stormbringer wrote:Playstation 2 back when they were still three hundred bucks. Still, it was worth it. Games, DVDs and CDs all in one is a good deal.

Bah, go buy a dreamcast and a 60 dollar DVD player, you will have the same thing.

Anyways, I am going to say that the most useless toy I have ever bought is probably this:


Not really bought, per se, but a graduation gift from an aunt. All I have really done with it is download games to kill time between class (or in boring lectures....).

I have a Palm VII that I don't use very often anymore.

Bought a video camera for my wife (i.e. for me), but she (and I) rarely ever use it. Used it last night to prove to myself that it was not my cat coming around the house and eating our cat food.

i guess i could also include the piece of shit iBook i paid for that my fiancee just had to have. garbage.

Nathan F wrote:

Stormbringer wrote:Playstation 2 back when they were still three hundred bucks. Still, it was worth it. Games, DVDs and CDs all in one is a good deal.

Bah, go buy a dreamcast and a 60 dollar DVD player, you will have the same thing.

I'm trying to get my hands on a Dreamcast. The problem is I'm having a hard time finding anyone willing to part with theirs.

I bought Sir Nitram a digital camera that I've not seen since.

LadyTevar wrote:I bought Sir Nitram a digital camera that I've not seen since.

Could you buy me on too?

Roughly 6000 Magic the Gathering cards, total cost, including all the Rare ones I bought seperately, would be about 1500-1800 Euros. Bought them with in two years, grow bored of the game and forgot all about them. Now they are all locked in a luggage back in my parents garage, I haven't touched them in years. Fucking colossal waste of money.

About $500 worth of wireless stuff. It's just too easy to plug in around our apartment with hook-ups in every room. Also, CAT5 is still much faster than wireless (I have "G" cards). I guess I jumped a little too fast into the wireless stuff. I rarely use it.

Around 30 DVDs.

Tax Season over...I wanted something to numb brain.

My laptop. Bought it second hand for £350. it works when it feels like it and is slow as shit when it does (I forgot how slow a P300 was...)

Since I never drive it... I always take the subway

Sir Sirius wrote:Roughly 6000 Magic the Gathering cards, total cost, including all the Rare ones I bought seperately, would be about 1500-1800 Euros. Bought them with in two years, grow bored of the game and forgot all about them. Now they are all locked in a luggage back in my parents garage, I haven't touched them in years. Fucking colossal waste of money.

So Sirius... How much would you want for those...?

Col. Crackpot wrote:
The Beermaster: $300
it came with a plastic 'keg' CO2 cartridges, yeast and pre mixed bags of barley & hops etc in diferent blends like American Lager, Irish Amber, English Ale......
"Brew delicious ales and lagers at home!" the ad said. well that was the most fucking disgusting beer i have ever had.

From what I've seen of friends who home brew, beer is not easy to make. You should give it another shot.

Mark S wrote:

Col. Crackpot wrote:
The Beermaster: $300
it came with a plastic 'keg' CO2 cartridges, yeast and pre mixed bags of barley & hops etc in diferent blends like American Lager, Irish Amber, English Ale......
"Brew delicious ales and lagers at home!" the ad said. well that was the most fucking disgusting beer i have ever had.

From what I've seen of friends who home brew, beer is not easy to make. You should give it another shot.

i tried a few times. i think it had more to do with the fact that the beermaster was an overpriced chunk of plastic crap.

i had a dreamcast and took it apart. ::

Col. Crackpot wrote:

Mark S wrote:

Col. Crackpot wrote:
The Beermaster: $300
it came with a plastic 'keg' CO2 cartridges, yeast and pre mixed bags of barley & hops etc in diferent blends like American Lager, Irish Amber, English Ale......
"Brew delicious ales and lagers at home!" the ad said. well that was the most fucking disgusting beer i have ever had.

From what I've seen of friends who home brew, beer is not easy to make. You should give it another shot.

i tried a few times. i think it had more to do with the fact that the beermaster was an overpriced chunk of plastic crap.

Ah. Nothing you can do about plastic crap. At least you can use the plastic keg for a little table of something.

Nathan F wrote:
Anyways, I am going to say that the most useless toy I have ever bought is probably this:


Not really bought, per se, but a graduation gift from an aunt. All I have really done with it is download games to kill time between class (or in boring lectures....).

Dude, I couldn't get by a day of work without my m130!

Bought a video camera for my wife (i.e. for me), but she (and I) rarely ever use it. Used it last night to prove to myself that it was not my cat coming around the house and eating our cat food.

I'll bite Jegs, what was eating your cat's cat food?

Stormbringer wrote:

Nathan F wrote:

Stormbringer wrote:Playstation 2 back when they were still three hundred bucks. Still, it was worth it. Games, DVDs and CDs all in one is a good deal.

Bah, go buy a dreamcast and a 60 dollar DVD player, you will have the same thing.

I'm trying to get my hands on a Dreamcast. The problem is I'm having a hard time finding anyone willing to part with theirs.

EBay, my friend, EBay. That or Yahoo auctions.

Edit: Many software stores, such as those found in malls, sell used systems, anything from the NES to the Dreamcast to the XBox. They are usually a bit more expensive though that outlet, though.

Faram wrote:Okay everyone knows that the difference betveen men and boys is the price of the toys.

So what is your most usless toy you have bought?

My is a gps bought last year, used one week in the mountains.

Cost ~4500skr or ~ $520

I use my GPS all the time, it is a Garmin GPS III, the price escapes me at the moment though. Useful when hunting and camping and when travelling, especially by air.