The air freshener was the best… man, hard to believe it’s been something like 10 years since then!

Well, would you rather not get your free battery acid? I miss the white charge plugs oooo it's glowing and bang awww liked the glow..

@@chosentonessournotes ahhhh nothing the nice smell of nothing. Should this be this hot? But I'm getting the smell of nothing? Just eat my not snicker bar and drink my not red bull..

That and the portable music/video players and the clip on FM radio they used to sell.

I miss this stuff too when I was a kid my gran always brought me to poundland and I'd load up on tech shit lmao

prolly the best item out of this range imho.

@@therealcrisis8439 i want one of those ge plastic clock radios with woodgrain from the 80s

I searched Amazon and found this exact charging alarm clock for sale to U.S. folks for $20. Seems to me the U.S. needs Poundland to come across the pond!

That and the retro radio are cool products.

@@kurttappe nah that’s just the us to uk currency exchange rate right now. 😂

At Aldi's most of their store brand stuff has giant barcodes, and as a cashier not at Aldis I WISH we had them where i work lol

@@batpone Lidls too have giant barcodes or a barcode on each face of the box, done to help speed up the checkout scanning process, so they can throw each item at you, faster than you can ever pack them!!

HE DIDNT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE FIRST ONE AND I THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY

@@sudospective PIG ASHENS 🐖 🐷 🐽 🚬 🌋 ☁️

@@rockapartie Pre-scanner times? How long ago was this? The barcode scanner has been a mainstay in supermarkets since the late 1970s (being first used in the US in 1973). Aldi's only been around outside of Germany for not much longer... Edit- Damn, turns out Aldi didn't adopt barcode scanning until 2002. Jesus.

The Brown Sofa will outlive the heat death of the universe.

@@mooniejohnson August 12 2036

Yeah that's not the same sofa.... I'm pretty sure he chopped up the original sofa and sold it in pieces to help monetize his movie Either way the sofa has been replaced 😊

I THOUGHT it was a car grille of some kind! Glad to see I'm not going crazy!

...Really think so?

It's also got the trademarked 7 slot grille. Complete knockoff indeed.

I wonder if the water cooling helps the speaker

I was just gonna say the same thing!

Ayyy nice reference

ONE OF US

Poundland now sells beautiful nuggets

All the DP fans in these comments are making me laugh!

Mojo >>> Diablo

Wired earphones is 2012 Ashens, the wireless headphones is 2005 Ashens.

thx for sharing

Well if you sell a lot of them then its quite expected that you'll get a lot of them back i guess

Indeed

Exactly what I thought... Exactly what I want

Tis the season !!

I'm hard and dribbling

Joy to the world

Ashens and L.A. Beast are pure gold. They haven’t changed their contents a bit.

God-forsaken platform*

@@nimoy007 god-forsaken* I'm sorry

I was very ill over the Christmas of 2017 and the channel got me through the boredom of being in bed for days..I will always smile when I hear the intro sound as it got me through a crappy Christmas.

@@nimoy007 yeah, thanks for the correction. didn't see that one when I wrote it down.

Came here to say this bahahaha

Bluetooth will never replace the 3.5mm in price/quality.

@@claudiobizama5603 for a long time at least

Too bad you couldn't really splice in some different buds. The wire gauge they use in these things is microscopic.

every cheap 3.5mm headset will beat any wireless BT headset no matter the price. They always cut the mic bandwidth so low that its just garbage.

@@claudiobizama5603 yet phones keep removing them 🥲 and sadly I have to consider getting a phone without them

There are dozens of us! Actually I think most of the audience overlaps anyways.

But scarlet fire would burst em

Mate, we need collab!

I monetarily forgot which channel I was watching and was surprised when he didn't start out with "So, like, this one time..."

Needed Stuart making up some off the cuff story about a bogan needing money or suffering some delusion of grandeur.

Yeah, I almost bought one myself but noticed the same thing just before reaching the till. Shame. 😕

Given that all of the keys are going to wear away anyway.... My keyboard has half the keys worn away with no letters showing.

@@tarstarkusz fingers like Geoff Capes m8.

I'm broke, and using a viido keyboard + mouse set for my pc and THE BUTTONS ARE FOR DIFFERENT LETTERS THE HECK POUNDLAND

@@rockapartie tried swapping gb to us, still dosent work.

We've had a dongle for 13 years and it still sounds funny

Back in the Sinclair days you could get little bits of ribbon cable for connecting your dongles, so you didn't have to plug them directly into the notoriously flaky edge connector. These were known as 'dongle danglers'.

Err, all words are "made up".

A "Dongle" in the 1990's was a device that was used for copyright protection of AutoCAD and other high-end software. You plugged your dongle into the Serial or Printer port of the computer, and the software checked if it was physically there when it started up. I think it's more of a UK thing to call the USB Wireless adapter a "dongle", it's not as common here in Australia (but if somebody said "USB Dongle" we'd understand what they meant.

@@johncoops6897 i have a dongle for my Commodore 64. You need to plug it into the controller port to run Paperclip (a word processor).

Thank you for being fair.

@@rectalimplosion thank you for thanking that guy

@@MarkLaLone Thank you for thanking that guy for thanking the OP.

@@ScumSookar thank you for thanking that guy who thanked the other guy who thanked the other person.

@@Trid3nt861 thank you for thanking the guy who thanked the thanker's thanker

You and me both. Good night. 🤜🏻🤛🏻

I had to scroll pretty far to find this comment, thought I was the only one that saw that.

Who is it? I've seen it pop up on other videos of his before.

Yeah, wtf?

@@TheCatpirate Mentski.

* Signalex

Are they still a thing? Or did this shit company take over?

@@maccagaming935 They are just fake brands that are Poundland in disguise, from my understanding.

@@benbrist ok my bad.

@@nimoy007 that is correct. They are basically fake brands to make shelves look more exciting and to make things look higher quality than they really are

Vilken butik?

@@behornedhorse4913 Kjell o Company

There's a really strong beer (ale) here in the states called Arrogant Bastard. It was actually kind of my introduction to good beer.

People commonly call me "Arrogant Bastard" here in KZfaq Comments. It's quite upsetting that those moronic losers don't have the brain power to come up with something different. Hell, it's not *_my_* fault that they are too clueless to work out simple things like tying their own shoelaces, or knowing the difference between 'to', 'two', 'too'.

@@Gatorade69 There is/was a Jägermeister Arrogant Bastard? Whaaaa? Hm. Like a premade boilermaker?!

Tat... Tat never changes.

@@peterclarke7240 and I'm happy for it. We need more classic content like this. Relatively simple vids, yet still enjoyable and funny. Reminds me a lot of 2012, or 2015 youtube

KZfaq's algorithm thinks we want something else. We DO NOT.

Same here. I been watching Ashens content since 2006. It has become a regular part of my week for almost 16 years.

same.

Was that a reference to Dank Pods by any chance?

I'd like to think that they DON'T watch Ashen's videos. Because you know, MORE KZfaq CONTENT!

I have a feeling there's not much in it.

@@tncorgi92 which makes it even better for Big Clive to tear it down to look at, and then tear down its safety verbally

It’s all about the separation between the high and low voltage. Generally Poundland has been quite good lately.

I've got a silver desktop mic (or kind of graphite colour) from Poundland. Actually still have it and it still works!

I had to settle for the amazon basics mic which was another case of "wow an actual sound engineer worked on this that didn't have a fetish for amplifying the bass so much it distorts the audio"

@@JacobKinsley Ooh, is the audio crystal clear? I'd like to check it out if you have the URL or product name handy.

@@DylRicho it's just an amazon basics mic, I got it for my sister when she moved away so we could talk on discord. Its a small/medium black microphone that has a shiny grid thing (I don't know what it's called) and a tripod. From the receiving end of the audio it wasn't absolutely perfect but it was pretty pleasant to listen to without any filtering on the audio, I got it because I saw a comparison of the frequency response (or something like that) and it was pretty wide.

@@DylRichoAmazon Basics Desktop Mini Condenser Microphone - Black I don't want to link because I don't know if the URL includes the gigantic butt plugs I have in my basket and I don't want anyone to find out, I'd be a laughing stock.

Looks really quite nice! One problem with it though....where's the bloody 'Snooze' button?!!

@@stevesstuff1450 Who uses the snooze button? 👀

The name is cubed nerdcubed

@@burnerphone5120 I think you mean the other guy!

just bought one ,no idea how it is supposed to even work

It's not surprising; it's a wired mic. We've become so used to that signal being degraded through a wireless codec, noise cancellation, etc.

@Boomslang 🐰🍀 Exactly, that thing sounds about as good as my Logitech headset mic and it was like 5% of the price

@Boomslang 🐰🍀 I think you're still paying for the brand, but $45 is absolutely the very bottom of the barrel for audio gear.

@onagda I have had many of Poundland's Headphones... And I would say the Microphone will last an eternity - The Earphones normally give up the ghost in about a month! Oh and the Wire is normally SHITE!!! If you must have a Wired pair, Always get the Textile Cable... Poundland's Plastic Coated Break SO EASY!!!

Probably long enough to save up for a real mic. A Samson Meteor costs about 60 pounds, and is an amazing mic at it's price point, or about 3 months of being a new pair of these every week. I doubt these give up that quickly though as my dollar store versions usually held out for about a month before needing replaced, so you're probably looking at a 4 month turn around from these to something good if money is tight.

Everyone needs some good seamen from time to time. Just need to be careful not to stain the sofa.

🎶do your balls hang low, can you swing them too and frow, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow, do you get a funny feeling when you're dangling from the ceiling, no you'll never be a sea man if you're balls hang low🎶 😂

Do you dangle your dongle in the dingle?

@@Elwaves2925 dingle dangle dongle I don't wanna leave the congo oh no no no no

@@mikehall3976 - Classic song

@@mikehall3976 fallout 4 fan or just very very old?😂

Sounds like a battery operated device a lady would hide in her handbag for a 'private moment'.

Most of poundlands own brand(s) products have these long barcodes on them. I think it's because most of the checkouts instore are self scan ones and there are enough dumb customers who can't work out how to do it with normal codes, they're attempting to make them idiot proof!

Big fan of absurdly long barcodes.

I'd be interested in hearing a knot theory explanation for why clipping the end of the cord to your device prevents 95% of knotting.

@@AdmiralJota wait Wait like clipping off the bit that plugs in?? Why would you do that???

@@PointsofData Not clipping it *off*. Clipping it to the device. My MP3 player has a clip on the back for attaching it to your clothes while you're listening. When I'm not using it, I put the earbud ends of the cord through there. It works like a charm.

ScArLeT fIrE 🔥

Well, we used to get the torch to shit items but that had to end due to fire safety.

The brown couch needs its own Frank, honestly. NGL, though, when I saw the speaker come out, I hoped he'd play Scarlet Fire, and then immediately wished we could see these two colab. 😆

I was sad when there was no story being told over those mics.

his whole channel has been the same thing for years, check out any of his other tech related vids!

There was an attempt.

Poundland E-Sports Team when?

It's all marketing, especially when it comes to gaming keyboards. I own one from cooler master, which has great movement on most keys, except for the space bar, but that's a key you hardly use, right? Right?😬

Also the Jeep TJ.. I’m tempted to get on and have it on my dash!

Definitely a Jeep vibe to it. Or a robot pig...

A super thunder patrol meister

YEOW!

... and eat incredibly dodgy food.

For me it's roughly half my life. This channel has been a longer constant in my life than some family members.

But a wireless mouse can last over 1 year with one set of batteries. Not a real problem

@@oliverstemp9132 They mean when the proprietary battery eventually craps out completely. they don't have to worry about the battery breaking and being unable to use their mouse if it's just via AA's

@@ravenvalentine9823 I have a Microsoft Modern Mobile mouse with Triple As, it’s amazing

Fairly dull

The magnets are to wear it as a necklace when it's not in your ears.

Knot Entanglement Probability. Sounds like something Douglas Adams would have written about! 🤔😉☺

I've only ever heard Ashens say "glory be" and until ten seconds ago I thought it would be spelled "glory bee", so thank you for that clarification.

@@niklasl3880 You’re welcome, I guess. (Woulda replied to this earlier but didn’t get a notification)

Hi.

@@Mentski Well, this is unexpected, hello Mentiski! Quick question- I know you’ve probably been asked this a bunch of times, but why does Stuart keep putting you as an (for lack of a better word) easter egg in his videos?

@@tonybeattie3980 Eh?

I usually just buy headphones for only a few dollars more than Dollarama from FactoryDirect but they no longer seem to be selling the sub-$15 Canadian wired Philips over-the-ear headphones that had a "flat" even sound profile (as opposed to V-shaped sound with too much bass and too low middle), or I buy the basic Sony earbuds that are still only around $10 Canadian at Walmart but perhaps this video will inspire me to try the "nicer" earbuds at Dollarama. Any time I've actually perused the headphones at my local Dollarama, they usually only have those "quiet" earphones marketed as being safe for children to listen to.

As someone who has used a lot of 5-6$ headphones it seems like they have no standards as every pair is a bit different even when it's the same brand name. I have gotten some pairs with good sound quality, some with bad sound, some with good mics, some with broken mics that don't work from the start. It's all a gamble, if you are lucky you get ones with a good mic and good sound.

@@Gatorade69 I think I get good value with the cheap Sony earbuds I use because they're earbuds-only. I don't need them to have built-in microphones as I'm not using them with cell phones.

@@Gatorade69 So far I've been pretty lucky with the stuff I get from dollarama in terms of sound quality (at least in my opinion), though the build quality can be hit or miss. So far I've had to buy at least 3 pairs of head phones this year because the first pair had the left earbud suddenly die, the 2nd pair developed a bad connection in the plug, and the third pair I have right now is a tiny bit flakey but I'm thinking that this time it might actually be the head phone jack on my computer speakers or the speakers own cable that plugs into the computer. Either way, for me they sound pretty good. I just wish they didn't break so often in ways I can't repair them, and it would be nice if they didn't use "ribbon" style cables which tend to curl up in weird ways that distracts me.

Hail corporate.

When it comes to cheap headphones, the uglier and less comfortable, the better