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To think WTAF is with this prize? (baby competition advertised on MN) Bizarre hamper.

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SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 11:56

Now, I am not ungrateful, just a little confused.

Competition advertised on MN to win baby wipes goodies. It was a picture comp and we won, we were told we were being sent a hamper.

I kind of expected it to be all wipes and baby stuff... There are some bits that are just weird:

4 packets of cigarette papers (2 are the kind to roll joints with!)
4 Lighters
108 condoms! Hmm
2 x super glue
14 sanitary pads
60 pantliners
13 batteries
6 lip balms
1 blu tack
2 pritt sticks
1 bottle of mouthwash
6 tooth brushes
120 plasters

And out of all of this 2 packets of wipes...

Am I a bit weird to think that joint papers shouldn't be part of a prize for a baby competition? Confused

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SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 13:39

Helen Maybe. :o

I'll join the drunk thread this week, perhaps that will inspire me to get through it...

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DeepPurple · 17/10/2012 13:48

You could always drop the condoms off at your nearest family planning clinic. Not sure they'd want the prit stick or blu tack though!

SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 13:52

I'm not sure they would want them. Confused This brand is unheard of, they might think they are a bit dodgy and they are mostly ribbed etc.

I will give it a go at using them... (although I still haven't got through the 24 the pharmacist gave me a year ago)

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BertieBotts · 17/10/2012 13:55

I want to know how long the expiry date is on the condoms and whether they are kite marked Grin

SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 14:03

What does the kite mark look like?

Checking now.

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WandaDoff · 17/10/2012 14:06

Fantastic Grin

SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 14:08

What does a kite mark look like? I can't find one.

They expire (well this packet) in 2015. Not as if I am going to run out anyway! :o

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SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 14:08

Sorry meant to say that it says on the pack "use once only" Hmm

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SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 14:10

The kite mark is on the delivery box but not the condom boxes or condoms...

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ShabbyChit · 17/10/2012 14:20

Ha ha ha this is hilarious! i'd die laughing if my postman turned up with that 'prize'!

RedBlanket · 17/10/2012 14:27

Sounds like a girl's essential 'going away to Uni' kit.
Are you sure you entered the baby wipes competition?

SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 14:29

Positive, they are using DS's picture as their cover photo on the Tushies FB so I definitely entered the right one.

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snuffaluffagus · 17/10/2012 15:06

Ahaha. I think you should run a competition for other mnetters to win the stuff you don't want/need..

Have you contacted them to enquire whether you got the correct package?

SecretCervix · 17/10/2012 15:16

Well, I think someone trolled you :o

Has to have been, given such a strange combination. :o

SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 15:35

I thought that too for a bit "SecretCervix*.

Snuffy I don't think anyone would be interested but just had to say I love Snuffy!

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shinyrobot · 17/10/2012 16:28

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NettoSpookerstar · 17/10/2012 16:30

Rofl @ 'use once only'!

SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 17:29

I know! Who would be stupid enough to re use? And how could that even be possible anyway? It would be all yucky.

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NettoSpookerstar · 17/10/2012 17:43

Maybe you could rinse them out? Confused

BedHog · 17/10/2012 18:42

Don't you remember that advert on telly a few years ago with that old boy 'Albert?' and his Gironimo reuseable condom that he'd saved from the war years? The thing looked like it was made from the same stuff as swimming hats!

SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 20:18

I can't say I remember that. Shock

Netto Boke!

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BertieBotts · 17/10/2012 20:24

Grin BedHog they showed us that at school! The entire class of 15 year olds was like this Shock

jimswifein1964 · 17/10/2012 20:28

Thank you so much for cheering up my evening Grin. Hilarious!

SchrodingersMew · 17/10/2012 20:44

Christ! It's like a fecking plastic sock! Shock

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