Items which are good and bad in equal(ish) measure

[atalanta]

Garlic: so delicious but turns you into an absolute pariah afterwards

 

[Crackle]

Paging @Crackle ...

I don't think he meant me [cough]

 

[Crackle]

Scooters, great fun for kids but will swing round and smack you on the ankle evrytime you pick the fecker up to put it away.

Useless git

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I don't think he meant me [cough]

Surely not @rich p ?

 

[Beebo]

The M25. Victim of its own success.
Great when it works. Torture when it doesn't.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Mayonnaise; it's revolting but on the other hand it's erm...no

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Useless git

That's not very nice you feckin imbecile.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Perhaps I should have set parameters? Those being "when working" and "when used for what it was intended for"

The M25. Victim of its own success.
Great when it works. Torture when it doesn't.

 

[tyred]

Cars.

Very convenient, can be fun and enjoyable in the right circumstances but a complete and expensive pain in the arse at other times.

 

[jefmcg]

Coathangers:
Functional, a design triumph.
Fecking tangly bastids.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc

Not even approaching my "tangly bastid" reaction

 

[tyred]

Coathangers:
Functional, a design triumph.
Fecking tangly bastids.

So many possible uses for them

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

So many possible uses for them
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A proper car wasnae complete without a bent coathanger aerial.

 

[slowmotion]

Leave coat hangers alone! I've fished all kinds of things out of tight corners and cavities with them. A tool that's versatile and cheap as chips.

 

[Drago]

I've fished all kinds of things out of tight corners and cavities with them.

Let me guess. You were hoovering naked when you fell down the stairs and landed on the box containing your greased aubergine collection?