Can I have some nasty bass! This is the thread when I talk about things that are FAKE!

I love those so called 'genuine' things that so obv aren't. I bought a Genuine US Army Water Bottle when I was in my teens. It was plastic with a cloth casing which had KOREA stamped on it. Then when I actually took it on a trip and put some water in it, the word KOREA transcribed to be in water based ink and smudged on the fabric.
And then when I was in Jordan a guy named Ali whom I hired a horse from tried to sell me a 'genuine Roman coin' which was just a stone he'd carved a face on!!!

-- MarkH, February 16th, 2007.

The only time I have ever been duped into buying something fake was when I was on a weekend trip to Macau with some friends, and I won some money at the casino. I immediately went to one of the jeweller's shops in the casino complex, and bought myself a gold bracelet, but within a week or so all the gold colour had worn off it to reveal it as some awful fake tat. I was really upset and had intended to give it to a policeman friend of mine to take back and complain about it next time he went to Macau, but in the end I never bothered and just threw it into Hong Kong harbour in disgust instead.

WTF is this, lying season or something???

I get irrationally annoyed by advertising-speak that goes overboard with "subjective" terms like this. The 99-cent bottom-shelf tomato sauce is not "gourmet." There is no reason to pretend it us, unless you are actually trying to make your customers feel bad about having to buy lying crap.