What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?

I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.

  • 🧟‍♂️ Cadaver@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    In Côte d’Ivoire they say : Premier gaou n’est pas gaou, c’est second gaou qui est niata. Meaning when you get conned for the first time you are not an idiot, but when you get conned a second time you are. But what about you, who got conned again ?

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      There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you.’ Fool me—you can’t get fooled again."

      George W. Bush – Nashville, Tennessee, September 17, 2002.

      • rmuk@feddit.uk
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        Other versions from BoJack Horseman:

        “Fool me once, shame on you, but teach a man to fool me, and I’ll be fooled for the rest of my life.”

        “Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, fiddle-le-dee.”

        “Fool me once. Fool me twice. Fool me chicken soup and rice.”