Warning: post contains high levels of schadenfreude; pleasure derived from another person’s misfortune.
You know the feeling you get when you eagerly buy a snack, only to open up the packet and discover what’s inside looks nothing like it does in the picture and it’s about a third of the size?
It’s the same one that creeps in when you meet your celebrity crush in real life and realise that they’re both a foot shorter than you are and also a humongous jerk.
It’s the feeling of making a meal in your brand new slow cooker, only to have the lid implode into your stew, as happened to this poor sod:
Of having your vaccuum cleaner/washing machine/hover board/drill/[new electrical product] spontaneously burst into flame.
Consumer advocacy group Choice have been asking disgruntled owners of faulty products to send in pictures of their most epic fails and boy, there are some doozies.
Take, for example, these skin coloured leggings:
Wearing leggings as pants is ambitious at the best of times, humiliating at the worst.
Or what about this phone, which claims to float on water? Spoiler alert: it doesn’t.
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Pretty sure that's a Karcher high pressure water cleaner rather than a vacuum cleaner - I just got the same one for Christmas.