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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: USA4ME on January 13, 2009, 09:10:14 AM
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HughBeaumont
Cheap. Chinese. CRAP.
Yesterday, my little nephew turned two. Since he's really into the Pixar movie Cars, his grandparents gave him a decent bench/storage thing to put his toys in. It's . . . "made in China", just like pretty much everything under the sun is, and they bought it from Wal-Mart, naturally. Not that it matters, as cheap Chinese Crap is sold pretty much everywhere driveable and there's no avoiding it. Being at a kids party and not really interested in the Philly/NY game, which was all but over at this point, I volunteered to assemble this thing so nephew can start puttin' his toys away.
So I open this thing up and the first thing I noticed was the overwhelming paint/lacquer/whatever smell. I mean, these pieces were HUMMING, stronger than usual. I couldn't help but think how many third world, zero-health-standard, penny-a-hundred workers have to inhale this stuff times 20, but if the stench of paint is this bad coming out of the box, I imagine overexposure will mean a short life for a lot of these neo-slaves.
After much re-working of the parts to get the fasteners to turn, the bench is assembled. Uh, wait. The entire bench seat graphic is upside-down. I had to do a double take with the box to make sure I wasn't seeing things. Did I get the holes messed up? No, the bench has a back piece that can only be fastened one way. Sure enough, the box revealed that the bench lid was indeed defective and the graphic came out reversed.
Two weeks prior, I got a Christmas present that I had to assemble. It's a stand to keep my clothes, devices and keys on, so they're all in one place; kind of like an executive valet stand. Supposedly by an American corporation . . . but the parts were indeed "Made in China". Open it up, and the damned thing is missing two screws . . . the ones used to fasten the stand to the base. So I had to go to Home Depot, match the thread and assume the length and buy the two screws (also . .. "made in China or Taiwan") to get this thing made.
So what are the odds of encountering two gifts in the same month with either shoddy worksmanship or missing parts? Is this just more of a certainty today now that we don't make anything anymore?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4817763&mesg_id=4817763
The odds are very low. Sounds more like operator error and incompetence.
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I think the Ward Cleaver primitive should be careful here, as he's walking on thin ice, criticizing things made in China.
That's "China," as in the socialist paradise of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, and notoriously anti-American to boot.
In other words, a place primitives admire.
If I were a primitive, I wouldn't dare criticize anything about China, lest it betray hypocrisy.
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I've put together many, many of these "things" from trikes to shelves to cabinets. In all of them, I have once, that I recall, found a package that was missing a part. As it was simply a screw, I just went to my tool box and found a similar screw in about 5 minutes. The odds of getting 2 faulty ones in a row would be 0 for most of us. :lmao:
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OMFG!
Walmart sells ONE Pixar "Cars" toy bin...
(http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/08/02/13/83/0008021383210_500X500.jpg)
This f**king idiot was too stupid to assemble... a rectangle. :loser:
The only other thing they carry is this:
(http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/08/02/13/83/0008021383599_500X500.jpg)
Which you would also have to be on the level of a retarded chimp to screw up.
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OMFG!
Walmart sells ONE Pixar "Cars" toy bin...
This f**king idiot was too stupid to assemble... a rectangle. :loser:
:rotf: ha ha ha ha...
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:rotf: ha ha ha ha...
Ditto :rofl:
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All that whining about China...the dude sounds racist to me. :fuelfire:
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What is the common demominator between the two gifts? (hint: it ain't China)