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

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fellas, I want you to put yr hands together for that

*applause*

what fake things have you bought or been given? From the Rolex to the less obvious.....

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

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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.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

i bought bootlegs of the tintern abbey and syndicats 'crawdaddy simone' 45s

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

I used to live in Hong Kong, where people would buy fake designer goods down The Lanes all the time. I think I've still got a couple of broken fake Rolexes in an old jewellery box somewhere.

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.

― C J (C J), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

....and a fish wears it to this day.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

I once bought a nicely packaged and obviously NOT FAKE boxset of the Leone/Eastwood spaghetti Western trilogy on VHS from Greenwich Market. Every tape finished 10 minutes before the film ended.

― onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Also Diesel trainers from eBay that were a REAL BARGAIN that looked really nice but fell apart within two months.

― onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

i am wearing a fake prada shirt.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

There was this girl who said her name was Patti, but it turned out to be "Gaye".

WTF is this, lying season or something???

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 19 February 2007 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

I love those so called 'genuine' things that so obv aren't.

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.

― the pony-poop paradox (the pony-poop paradox), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

I live in Malaysia - bootlegged DVDs/CDs galore. I also have a couple of fake Coach and Gucci handbags that look pretty real until you look inside at the crappy lining.

― Stuck in ILX Limbo (Roz), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

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