I Bought Some Amazon Returns Because I Never Learn | Ashens

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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    You know who sells a lot of things over the internet? Jeff Amazon! He's got loads of warehouses and everything. And sometimes items are sent back by unhappy customers, and some bloke on eBay sticks them all in grey bags and I buy a big box of them for some reason. Huzzah!
    It's a proper random selection this lot. But the main thing is there are several cases for totally unknown items! Huzzah again!
    #Amazon #Returns #Ashens

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  • @sizzlebiscut
    @sizzlebiscut Год назад +1190

    I’ve used countless of those Amazon Petri dishes as a geologist for picking mineral grains! We were desperately needing them for months this year, now I know where they went

    • @Elwaves2925
      @Elwaves2925 Год назад +82

      I have a few myself although for very different reasons. They're useful for paperclips, tiny batteries and other assorted small stuff.

    • @firesurfer
      @firesurfer Год назад +69

      How in the world do so many people who use Petri dishes wind up here randomly??!!

    • @freenitrousorgy
      @freenitrousorgy Год назад +16

      @@firesurfer because mushrooms

    • @naturenate108
      @naturenate108 Год назад +13

      Hi fellow geologist(I'm not one I just wish I was :( ) Fill them with torbernite and give them to kids as super power candy :P

    • @kalomnyxonyx3511
      @kalomnyxonyx3511 Год назад +6

      That's funny, we do the same thing! Even used them to separate gold from pyrite with a microscope and the tip of a pencil 🤣

  • @theSam91
    @theSam91 Год назад +954

    It sort of gives me great pain to think of all the resources, fuel and effort that was wasted shipping this landfill around the plannet.

    • @clray123
      @clray123 Год назад +39

      At least these do not go boom and kill people like some government shipments.

    • @MontyCantsin5
      @MontyCantsin5 Год назад +18

      Yes, completely disgusting.

    • @trollscream8607
      @trollscream8607 Год назад +17

      Meh. It’s not like it has some premium delivery or something. Just thrown in the huge shipments of other stuff together. A bunch of good and bad.

    • @rahmspinat
      @rahmspinat Год назад +3

      Wait until you hear about cotton.

    • @judysocal8682
      @judysocal8682 Год назад +1

      I kept thinking it was a great plan to redistribute the load of recyclables/trash around the world.

  • @someonessidechannel1485
    @someonessidechannel1485 Год назад +1340

    i think that's a record for the fastest-disentegrating item to ever make a nasty mess on the couch

    • @HolyKhaaaaan
      @HolyKhaaaaan Год назад +58

      I dunno, that bubble gum mess was pretty abominable.

    • @Tinker001
      @Tinker001 Год назад +51

      Could put the shed bits in the petri dishes & see if they grow...

    • @NotOnLand
      @NotOnLand Год назад +29

      It's like he glitter bombed himself

    • @Leaddevo
      @Leaddevo Год назад +10

      You've never met my girlfriend.....

    • @swahilimaster
      @swahilimaster Год назад +2

      @@Tinker001 It's from china so lets hope nothing grows...

  • @hello3motos1
    @hello3motos1 Год назад +303

    As I biochemistry PhD student I almost never use glass Petri dishes. Cheap disposable ones are so much easier as you often need to dispose of what you have created.

    • @johnthompson9032
      @johnthompson9032 Год назад +20

      OMG did you create covid and then discard it for us all to enjoy😂

    • @stupidburp
      @stupidburp Год назад +16

      Cthulhuloid spawn screeches from plastic petri dish in the trash

    • @Jempai
      @Jempai Год назад +7

      Great for the environment!

    • @del-boysnostalgiatvads7416
      @del-boysnostalgiatvads7416 Год назад +1

      Your comment is inappropriate,

    • @kekula69
      @kekula69 Год назад

      are you russian

  • @deidaraart5
    @deidaraart5 Год назад +1103

    The golden spaghetti is probably meant to be hung up in a doorway as a decorative divider of sorts

    • @Critterb0t
      @Critterb0t Год назад +33

      Yupp, that's what I was thinking as well.

    • @riggerz08
      @riggerz08 Год назад +15

      It looks like it’s been unraveled

    • @Djwatzy
      @Djwatzy Год назад +43

      Or a belly dancers skirt

    • @predcon1
      @predcon1 Год назад +29

      When he said "Hairy thing" I figured it was some really bad weave

    • @JonasC22
      @JonasC22 Год назад +32

      I bought a whole bunch of them, they're absolutely terrible. They look NOTHING like they were advertised. I've kept a load of them in a junk drawer somewhere in case I need a load of gold string for some reason.

  • @daisyprayers
    @daisyprayers Год назад +263

    I never expected to learn so much about Petri dishes in the comments of an Ashens video

  • @zehn39
    @zehn39 Год назад +721

    Fill a Petri dish with 180 olive sludge as a starter and see what eldritch being spawns from it.

    • @malcontender6319
      @malcontender6319 Год назад +29

      Let me know if he gets an ethereal nether vortex. I need to get a video of it this time.

    • @syntaxerror9994
      @syntaxerror9994 Год назад +19

      @@malcontender6319 get a good camera strap! Lost an expensive camera to the vortex.

    • @Journey_to_who_knows
      @Journey_to_who_knows Год назад +13

      A tentacle will grow and strangle anyone that gets close

    • @Aquelll
      @Aquelll Год назад +3

      I would actually not be surprised if he also owns an incubator for some reason. 😅

    • @emperorhadrian6011
      @emperorhadrian6011 Год назад +1

      Yes

  • @3dFramework
    @3dFramework Год назад +83

    I love that I totally forgot about ashens for years and years, he pops into my head, I check RUclips and boom, he's still making exactly the same amazing videos ❤

    • @tiki_riot
      @tiki_riot 11 месяцев назад +4

      He streams twice a week on Twitch!

    • @ShardzCR
      @ShardzCR 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@jilletdelphine Ashens

  • @kristenblount8422
    @kristenblount8422 Год назад +478

    You could use those petri dishes to see what you can grow from any of those really old foods & drinks you seem to enjoy 😉

    • @clray123
      @clray123 Год назад +10

      Or analyze the chemical ingredients of those Rustlers delicacies.

    • @Pehmokettu
      @Pehmokettu Год назад +23

      That could potentially cause a pandemic of a long forgotten disease.

    • @norbertmedlicott8376
      @norbertmedlicott8376 Год назад +13

      Just swab that sofa.
      A Nobel prize could be yours.

    • @CallumK911
      @CallumK911 Год назад +3

      @@norbertmedlicott8376 I was reading the comments about to put this. Then you stopped me in my tracks. Hats off to you sir

    • @chiefcretin5303
      @chiefcretin5303 Год назад +1

      he’d need a lot more equipment since that’s literally just plastic ie incubator and agar

  • @MetalheadAndNerd
    @MetalheadAndNerd Год назад +44

    We need to remember that Amazon sells the good returned items as warehouse deals so this can only be the not so good returned items.

  • @Rice0Cake
    @Rice0Cake Год назад +377

    There are different petri dishes for different purposes, but those actually look normal. The lid is meant to be loosely sitting on top to allow for ventilation, and plastic ones are popular since to use a large amount of glass ones would be expensive and maybe even hazardous (and most sterile tools are one-use, very wasteful I know). I don't want to think about carrying a 10 stack of them around if they're all glass.

    • @GirishManjunathMusic
      @GirishManjunathMusic Год назад +34

      I've carried 10 glass petri dishes filled with agar. They're not that heavy, not at that size.
      Also, you can resterilize glass dishes. You just stick them open in the oven at 200 for 2 hours.
      Tissue culture does tend to use a lot of one-use plastic stuff though.

    • @Mrsthallium
      @Mrsthallium Год назад +13

      You just said everything I was coming here to say! I have dropped so many plastic ones (bacterial and fungal cultures)... And I can't imagine the disaster I would cause with glass.

    • @GirishManjunathMusic
      @GirishManjunathMusic Год назад +5

      @@Mrsthallium ouch dude can't have been good for you even with the plastic

    • @450AHX
      @450AHX Год назад +10

      @@GirishManjunathMusic Nah. You normally wrap the dish once it's inoculated to avoid opening it accidentally, and the plastic (I assume some kind of polycarbonate) is fairly strong. If you drop one from your hand it won't even crack. At the worst the culture is ruined by cross-contamination or something, depending on what you're doing. The way to make a huge mess with Petri dishes is to drop a stack of 20 when you're moving them to the fridge for cooling, because at that point the agar is still liquid. It'll go everywhere and once it cools it'll stick to surfaces.

    • @GirishManjunathMusic
      @GirishManjunathMusic Год назад +8

      @@450AHX no I've worked with plenty of agar plates and boats and gels. For over 6 years. You're right that a well-wrapped stack wouldn't be too damaged by dropping it, but if it was a single plate, dropped while moving it from the incubator to the hood? That can and has been very bad for people. Especially if you're working in an underfunded understaffed overworked government hospital laboratory and you don't follow most of the best practices as they have been abandoned in favor of speed.
      And also you definitely would have gotten chewed out by the laboratory assistants and your superiors for hours if you had dropped an inoculated plate no matter how well it was wrapped.

  • @charlockprime
    @charlockprime Год назад +48

    I just realized that Stuart now has 1.57 million subscribers. Thinking back to when I subscribed to this channel, that number is absolutely insane. 100% deserved, but still just a fantastic number to think about! Congratulations my friend!

    • @curtisstephens775
      @curtisstephens775 Год назад +11

      And nothing has majorly changed since those days. Even the intro is the same

  • @scryptogram5686
    @scryptogram5686 Год назад +345

    i worked at as a trainee lab tech for a bit at my old high school and we used those plastic petri dishes all the time, they're used for low level culturing, glass ones are used if you're working with stuff that needs to be properly sterile because they can be autoclaved, but plastic ones you can scrub out with bleach and set more agar jelly in them cos they're being used to grow bacterial cultures for science projects instead of for medical use

    • @450AHX
      @450AHX Год назад +31

      The plastic ones are also sterile when they come out of the bag. They can be used for applications that need sterility, but they're single-use.

    • @phildman132
      @phildman132 Год назад +36

      Working in a professional research lab, I don't think I have ever used a glass petri dish, we use disposable plastic ones almost universally, as they are sterilised in the factory and so are clean when you remove them from the bag inside the sterile air hood(although I wouldn't trust the cheap knock off ones from Amazon returns either!).

    • @GrrAargh1
      @GrrAargh1 Год назад +3

      I've never used glass ones for any use, they had gone out of use by my university time and first lab job in the 80s.

    • @clray123
      @clray123 Год назад +4

      Now all Ashens needs is to order some returned human egg cells and he can grow a progeny!

    • @startedtech
      @startedtech Год назад +1

      @@phildman132 Honest question, why wouldn't a professional research lab just use an autoclave and glass dishes?

  • @tiborklein5349
    @tiborklein5349 Год назад +22

    You'll never get rid of those glittery discs completely. The only option is to move.

  • @MangaManifaction
    @MangaManifaction Год назад +116

    The petri-dishes are standard petri-dishes. Everyone uses them (statistical outliers need not apply). They're made of plastic so it's cheap to order bulk and the lids are loose like that on purpose. It makes them easy to open and close when you're working with them. And because they're loose like that, in most labs you'll often be able to find adhesive tape

    • @kinnikuboneman
      @kinnikuboneman Год назад +15

      I don't use them

    • @MangaManifaction
      @MangaManifaction Год назад +34

      @@kinnikuboneman Fine, I'll edit my comment just for you

    • @peterclarke7240
      @peterclarke7240 Год назад +5

      I've never used them, either.

    • @MangaManifaction
      @MangaManifaction Год назад +25

      @@peterclarke7240 Too late, I edited my comment for the other guy already

    • @Biaanca5036
      @Biaanca5036 Год назад +8

      I'd just declare in absolute that _evvvveryone_ uses them just to spite any outliers 😄

  • @markfergerson2145
    @markfergerson2145 Год назад +21

    I am absolutely comforted to know that tablet case is anti-fake.

  • @UnlimitedRun
    @UnlimitedRun Год назад +79

    That Micro USB to HDMI adapter is probably for MHL-enabled phones. You'd need a phone with hardware support for it, and no low-end phone had it AFAIK.

    • @stigrabbid589
      @stigrabbid589 Год назад +1

      @@dgmt1 The S10 had HDMI over USB-C. I have a USB-C HDMI cable and it works for hooking my phone up to my TV, only issue is it does not have a usb-c power input so the phone loses battery charge while watching TV with it, so I need to wirelessly charge it. Also, iPhones have had HDMI adapters from the old iPad cable days up to modern Lightning cable equipped ones.

    • @atifsalman37
      @atifsalman37 Год назад

      That's correct. Most HTC One phones, Samsung Galaxy S3-S7 and Xperias had the support for it.

  • @WilliamPorygon
    @WilliamPorygon Год назад +69

    I have a brother who drops things constantly due to cerebral palsy and he has one of those blue foam tablet protecting cases. Works pretty well actually.

    • @Dmitrikrotchlikmyov
      @Dmitrikrotchlikmyov Год назад

      How well does it protect against concrete? Got a kid who might have some level of Chiari Malformation and he's constantly dropping things
      Got through several Amazon fires 🤷 I swear the glass on em is prop department breakaway glass

    • @joshuaprescott2930
      @joshuaprescott2930 Год назад +1

      Open le nor

  • @lorenclarke7815
    @lorenclarke7815 Год назад +245

    Ashens has found the Golden Fleece. He didn't need no Argonauts either.

    • @gwivongalois6169
      @gwivongalois6169 Год назад +7

      How did it find its way from Iolcus to the Amazon? A story worth a new Homer, i guess.

    • @clray123
      @clray123 Год назад +7

      I was hoping that he would use it as a wig, but was sorely disappointed.

    • @Bl4ckD0g
      @Bl4ckD0g Год назад +3

      @@gwivongalois6169 that warehouse at the end of Indiana Jones got bought out by Amazon.

  • @richardcutts196
    @richardcutts196 Год назад +79

    The gold 'chainmail' is Ashens' new toupee.

  • @SullySideUp
    @SullySideUp Год назад +636

    The fact that this somehow manages to be shorter than today's advent video is hilarious

    • @marcusfridh8489
      @marcusfridh8489 Год назад +45

      Nice to see him collecting new crap to next years advent calendar for nerdcubed.

    • @Mothstradamus
      @Mothstradamus Год назад +12

      The more time I can digitally spend with Ashens, the more prepared I am to live.

    • @Max-uv3eg
      @Max-uv3eg Год назад

      todays advent video?

    • @regimiro4888
      @regimiro4888 Год назад +5

      @@Max-uv3eg The advent video for today

    • @MrDannyDetail
      @MrDannyDetail Год назад +6

      @@Max-uv3eg Ashens and his mate Nerdcubed do a series of daily videos in December where they open the relevant doors on whatever advent calendars they each have this year, with a competitive element as one of them wins or loses each day depending ow what they got from their calendar. Today's advent calendar video was 21 minutes long, which is particularly long compared to most videos in that series, whilst this video, which on paper (or it's digital equivelant?) ought to have been a longer video, actually comes in shorter.

  • @arabellamadigan-clarke
    @arabellamadigan-clarke Год назад +15

    The pink tablet case looks to be for the iPad 2/3/4. They have their internal speaker in that corner, camera in the upper corner, and the screen protector had the home button cut out.

  • @scarletcrusader5431
    @scarletcrusader5431 Год назад +16

    15:05
    When I worked at McDonalds we had those huge iPads in the kitchen so we had a red version of that exact model to protect it. It was good quality but doesn't protect against someone knocking it into the fryer very well.

  • @reinokid
    @reinokid Год назад +20

    I have that same keyboard, albeit with a different branding (clearly they bought these generic ones in bulk) and in black. Honestly, it gets the job done and is useful for tablets and small computing devices you would carry with you in a bag or backpack. Had it for several years now and currently using it with my Steam Deck.

  • @hughmanatee5232
    @hughmanatee5232 Год назад +178

    Mistakes or not, still grateful to see another episode of you checking out random crap. Worth getting less proper sleep!
    Edit: it's either iPhone 6 or 6 plus case, more likely a 6/6s by the size of the camera.

    • @ticklemyjohn
      @ticklemyjohn Год назад +8

      Could possibly be an SE though. 2nd gen onwards obviously

    • @psp4gamer
      @psp4gamer Год назад +12

      @@ticklemyjohnNope, it is the 6/6S the camera layout its awfully high.

    • @ticklemyjohn
      @ticklemyjohn Год назад +1

      @@psp4gamer alright fair enough you clearly know your stuff lmao I'm just impressed I got the Apple part 😂

    • @dimples282
      @dimples282 Год назад +7

      Dual cameras on iPhone only started with the 7 Plus. They only stayed horizontal for one more generation with 8 Plus, before the iPhone X's vertical orientation was retained with XS and later.

    • @psp4gamer
      @psp4gamer Год назад +10

      @@dimples282 It says it on the bag tho, the chinese got their model like this 6P/6PS i messed up it is the 6 Plus (The extra thingy on the side its for the flash/mic)

  • @BenEyah
    @BenEyah Год назад +13

    The fact that 90% all come in the same grey mailer with no stickers on screams that someone has looked through and kept the good stuff and put the crap in that listing. Bigpockets used to sell a bag o’ crap that was better for like £15 I think it was then they started selling a box o’ crap for £25 if I’m not mistaken. A lot was crap but you did get some good stuff and it was quite fun opening them

  • @quillclock
    @quillclock Год назад +83

    i believe the gold thing is a door curtain. they are normally beaded. used for when you have a doorway and no door but want privacy.

    • @NAJALU
      @NAJALU Год назад +5

      Agreed

    • @docsigma
      @docsigma Год назад +3

      That’s 100% what it is. I have the exact same one but in silver

    • @brianargo4595
      @brianargo4595 Год назад +4

      Searched for this before I made my own comment. Always knew them as either bead or string door curtains, depending

    • @chipmunkwarcry
      @chipmunkwarcry Год назад

      Ah good to know! I was wondering who needed fringe that long

    • @AngelEmfrbl
      @AngelEmfrbl Год назад

      yes it is, had something similar.
      Got rid of it as it was a risk for pets.

  • @polyhedraldreams9905
    @polyhedraldreams9905 Год назад +41

    I found a listing on Amazon for an HDMI adapter that looked just like the one you got. It was to be plugged into the 11-pin MHL port that is on some Samsung devices. You're supposed to plug the phone charger into the side port to power it, the phone needs to have at least a 40% charge, and the 11 pin micro USB looks like the more typical 5 pin version.

    • @v2joecr
      @v2joecr Год назад +9

      Also, some of the later versions of Android had that feature removed. IIRC the feature was first added in ice cream sandwich which was also called android 4.0 released back in 2011. So it is possible the device you tested it on did not have that feature as the phone or tablet manufacturer may have removed it.
      The last tablet case looks like it might be for one of the kindle fire kids models. Although it might be a cheap knockoff of the official one that Amazon has made for their kindle fire tablets.

    • @MrHack4never
      @MrHack4never Год назад +1

      I was wondering if it was actually a capture card of some type

    • @Chalky.
      @Chalky. Год назад +2

      It used to work on Samsung Galaxy phones but the S5 was the last to be compatible in I think 2015, and only a few other manufacturers used them.

    • @Lolkork
      @Lolkork Год назад

      I never knew that was a thing. I assumed it required some app to send an encoded video stream over USB when I saw that.

    • @Kalvinjj
      @Kalvinjj Год назад +1

      I have a 5 pin one of that, was just gonna say, it's an MHL adapter. Works like a charm on my phone obviously because it has MHL out (4K one at that for whatever reason).
      The adapter works perfect, a passive cable I got, plugged to a proper passive MHL HDMI port didn't. And it costs more than the adapter.

  • @SeraphimKnight
    @SeraphimKnight Год назад +32

    One place I used to work at had those kiddy tablet cases for the tablets the employees used for various things. Honestly they worked great cause we threw these things around pretty hard and they never broke.

    • @katiegoode
      @katiegoode Год назад +5

      Sons tablet has lasted from age 1 to 3 so far! Those cases are outstanding. Survived loads of throwing, drink spills, and even teething.

    • @josefmendez8524
      @josefmendez8524 Год назад

      JFC get your kid off that thing asap.

  • @CalletaMoth
    @CalletaMoth Год назад +6

    Those petri dishes would come in great use for hatching moth or butterfly eggs. It's super easy to see the fresh hatched cats in there, and then you can transfer them to their preferred host plant. I've actually been thinking about ordering some for my hobby.

    • @JACKHARRINGTON
      @JACKHARRINGTON 11 месяцев назад +4

      Took me a moment to translate 'cats'.

  • @ajaxlewis7664
    @ajaxlewis7664 Год назад +76

    Great timing! I have insomnia. Also, I had an amazing dopiaza... with chips (I'm white trash) but it's the best £11 I've ever spent. Anyone who reads this, have a nice day/night!

  • @AlfaGiuliaQV
    @AlfaGiuliaQV Год назад +19

    I love that the petri dishes is the item that brought most attention in the comments.

  • @Black_Knight767
    @Black_Knight767 Год назад +22

    I'm not sure about the tablet case, but I'm fairly certain that the phone case and the tablet screen protector are for apple products. The phone case has the distinctive weird dot shaped speaker holes that always get filled with nasties, and the tablet screen protector has the circle for the home button that ipads have (had?).

    • @onometre
      @onometre Год назад +8

      Iphone 6s case

    • @dsgamecube
      @dsgamecube Год назад +3

      The camera hole looks small relative to the case, so my money's on the 6 Plus or 6S Plus.

    • @johnayers6951
      @johnayers6951 Год назад +2

      @@dsgamecube Exactly as I thought. Even more evidence, it says 6P/6PS on the label of the envelope. It’s definitely for them.

  • @faultofdaedalus2666
    @faultofdaedalus2666 Год назад +7

    oh those are incredible little petri dishes! those are just like the ones i use in bio labs. they are mostly plastic, because they're not reused, and the lids aren't supposted to stick on properly, a loose fit is ideal so you can lift them/work with them largely one-handed to keep things sterile.

  • @ericf112
    @ericf112 Год назад +20

    I love the always disappointing "I will edit in the results" 🤣

  • @DylRicho
    @DylRicho Год назад +6

    8:15
    I have this exact keyboard but in black and I bought it off eBay about four years ago. You can change the LED backlight color and intensity, and it works pretty well. I've had it connected to my Windows 10 computer and Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite. Connects and works flawlessly. Only downside is that small enter key from the US layout.

  • @achievementbird2641
    @achievementbird2641 Год назад +20

    I really hope we get more of these returned item videos, I’m not sure why I enjoy seeing random tat that’s unwanted but I guess I’m in the right place for that

    • @chistinelane
      @chistinelane Год назад

      The only probably is that the trash to useful ration is like 2/5. So you either end up throwing away a lot and feeling guilty about it, or you become a hoarder.

  • @TheGlitched64
    @TheGlitched64 Год назад +14

    "The flimsiest thing that ever flimmed" I love all the new sentences I learn from this channel

  • @jansenart0
    @jansenart0 Год назад +5

    8:00 "10 inch backlit keyboard" "Rose gold"

  • @SaccoBelmonte
    @SaccoBelmonte Год назад +1

    8:40 OMG you got me laughing hard with the flex of that keyboard. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @JohnBuckmaster
    @JohnBuckmaster Год назад +13

    The blue case is sold in Canada as a Buddy Case. They're for kids, antimicrobial, and normally ship with a screen protector and a cleaning kit.
    At the regional library system where I work, we use them for our public use iPads.
    Edited because I can't effing type today

  • @alameachan
    @alameachan Год назад +34

    I kinda dig the Petri dishes. I would use four of them to store the little cubes representing disease outbreaks in my Pandemic board game.

    • @theconfusingwords
      @theconfusingwords Год назад +2

      Wait did you MAKE a pandemic board game, or did you buy one? I’m so curious lol

    • @alameachan
      @alameachan Год назад +6

      @@theconfusingwords There exists a board game named Pandemic. Made by Matt Leacock and published by Z-man Games in 2008. It's played cooperatively, players try to erradicate four deadly diseases before mankind falls. Disease outbreaks are represented by little acrylic cubes. The Petri dishes would add a certain element of dread to the whole experience. Not that that's even neccessary, as the game is BRUTAL.

    • @theconfusingwords
      @theconfusingwords Год назад +1

      @@alameachan oh that’s so cool! I love board games so had to ask. Thanks for sharing that info!

    • @alameachan
      @alameachan Год назад +1

      @@theconfusingwords You're welcome. :)

  • @xkleeborp465
    @xkleeborp465 Год назад +88

    If you’ve got any of Chef Excellent’s bags left you should cut up a few to leave in one of the Petri dishes to see if it grows an excellent mold

    • @BenLubar
      @BenLubar Год назад +11

      There didn't seem to be any agar in there, so if the bags don't already have visible mold on them you're probably not going to end up with visible mold inside a plastic tray.

    • @bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819
      @bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 Год назад +8

      An excellent growth culture.

  • @Phoenix2312
    @Phoenix2312 Год назад +2

    14:33 I am not sure if it was intended but Bravo on pointing out the most obvious issue with Vaping... Yeah, Inhaling a SUPER HEATED LIQUID is bound to be Healthy!

  • @ArtoriasNX
    @ArtoriasNX Год назад +27

    That child proof tablet case probably isn't very good given it was returned. I like to imagine the kid immediately dropped and destroyed whatever tablet was in there before returning

    • @OptimusSledge
      @OptimusSledge Год назад +13

      Given I've bought stuff from Amazon Warehouse that hasn't even been opened, I think some people order stuff just for the fun of returning it.

    • @simtexa
      @simtexa Год назад +6

      It looks so bland, it almost makes me think it was rather intended for the use in a heavy-duty environment, such as an industrial facility or for outdoors work.

    • @Reverendshot777
      @Reverendshot777 Год назад +5

      I have that exact one on my son's tablet. It has honestly saved it numerous times even bouncing the whole way down the stairs. Absolutely worth it.

  • @SirWap71
    @SirWap71 Год назад +1

    The HDMI tv cable is for a car head-unit (one use), pc and tv also (basically wired mirroring). It connects to the HDMI input on back of head unit and the other end connects to a phone for displaying the phone on the head unit (maps etc). I think they were for use before 'mirroring' was a thing, old tech but still usable.

  • @startedtech
    @startedtech Год назад +40

    We have these amazon return/overstock stores that have been popping up in the US, the one I went to was just full of random crap from China with nonsensical company names.

    • @XanthosAcanthus
      @XanthosAcanthus Год назад +13

      On one of his previous videos like this, Ashens mentioned that a lot of these Chinese sellers send out junk to random or even fake addresses on purpose. It’s called brushing. It’s a way for them to fraudulently boost sales and obtain positive feedback for their clients' products on e-commerce sites. So the package will bounce back. That’s why a lot of those shops are packed with that unwanted chinese crap. Or at least that’s what I’m thinking. Could be wrong.

    • @hamsterama
      @hamsterama Год назад +5

      There's one such store 15 or so miles away from my house. The owners buy pallets of Amazon returns and fill up bins in the store. Everything is one flat price, which varies depending on the day of the week. I visited multiple times after the store first opened, but I haven't visited in over 2 years. The reason is because there's rarely anything good or useful. Just a lot of random, off-name plastic junk from China.

  • @2011joser
    @2011joser Год назад +6

    Love the pre-yellowed phone case.

  • @Kochiha
    @Kochiha Год назад +32

    Glad to see you've updated Mentski a bit. Also glad to see he's still around, when I saw his face I had to pause and check on what's going on with him, and I caught him streaming on Twitch where he was having a wrestling match between himself and Edmund Blackadder.

    • @blunderingfool
      @blunderingfool Год назад +5

      Oh, is that what the random face is?

    • @GvonGaming
      @GvonGaming Год назад +1

      He's still about? I know his RUclips account has been quiet for a while now. Shame because I always enjoyed his videos.

  • @MazzJ77
    @MazzJ77 Год назад +22

    I feel like you could do a nerdy version of Ready Steady Cook with this: two teams get a bag of returns each and have to make something out of them

    • @whizzerZero
      @whizzerZero Год назад +5

      A Scrapheap Challenge for the 2020s?

  • @_Stagnate_
    @_Stagnate_ Год назад +6

    We have one of those blue rubber tablet cases at work because dumbasses kept dropping and breaking them. They still managed to drop it when it was sticking out the case a bit and break off the power / volume buttons.

    • @Emeraldwitch30
      @Emeraldwitch30 Год назад

      I bought that exact foam case for my 2 year old grandson's kindle. It works. We are all clumsy

  • @BossaruJames
    @BossaruJames Год назад +3

    When, at the start, he struggles with the gray bag. Sealed by the gods. You can almost predict how sad them items are going to be 😂

  • @ALWTunes
    @ALWTunes Год назад +65

    It is kinda cool to see a preview of next year's advent gifts. Nerd³ will be thrilled. Haha.

    • @a.samism
      @a.samism Год назад +15

      an entire advent calendar of mystery return items would be pretty evil/hilarious

  • @dingdongbells3314
    @dingdongbells3314 Год назад +2

    I swear to goodness, a friend of mine was doing Customer Returns at amazon... she opens up the box, and there's literally just, a bare bladed carving knife in there that looked big enough to cut off somebody's head

  • @Critterb0t
    @Critterb0t Год назад +13

    It looks like to me the gold thing is a fly curtain. This one is just a bunch of strings, but they are usually beaded.

  • @LuckyStone888
    @LuckyStone888 Год назад +2

    16:00 the "Anti-fake knott" is in the place of a camera. Maybe it's to keep the camera safe and also keep hackers from getting any information if they get control of the camera? I don't know.

  • @CMDR_PeeB4uGoToBed
    @CMDR_PeeB4uGoToBed Год назад +11

    I'm addicted to these types of videos lol

  • @Herrikias
    @Herrikias Год назад +4

    I got my mom the pink variety of the durable tablet case because of her tendency to drop her tablets to the point of breaking them. A year on, it's worked well so far. So they're not just for children, but klutzes of every age!

  • @nujevad28
    @nujevad28 Год назад +8

    I think that HDMI adapter needs to be powered up for it to work, hence the USB port on the side. It could also be a compatibility issue as originally thought as well.

    • @emeraldhill8294
      @emeraldhill8294 Год назад +1

      Yeah i think cos its the adapter, ya need the converter to make it work.

  • @mikeuk666
    @mikeuk666 Год назад +12

    At least you're keeping the local charity shop supplied 😆

  • @nightwaddie5426
    @nightwaddie5426 Год назад +21

    I honestly think you'd have a better chance at finding something by dumpster diving than buying these

    • @trentgreene2094
      @trentgreene2094 Год назад

      dumpster diving is actually quite lucrative, you just need to know where to hit what shops. Only way to find out tho is to go diving yourself or have a buddy tell you.
      Got plenty of good pieces of furniture for essentially free that just needed a couple new screws.

  • @remcovanvliet3018
    @remcovanvliet3018 Год назад +2

    @12:30 the "golden spaghetti monster" looks like a terribly tacky looking fly curtain.

  • @ParallelSyntax
    @ParallelSyntax Год назад +11

    04:37 That’s definitely an iPhone 6(S) case.

    • @Gameboygenius
      @Gameboygenius Год назад +1

      The 6P/6PS at the end of the product code probably indicates iPhone 6/6S.

    • @nyxsus12
      @nyxsus12 Год назад +1

      Also the tablet case is for ipad mini

  • @corvolavender5586
    @corvolavender5586 Год назад +4

    Thanks Ashens I have one of those keyboards (American layout is a little annoying for symbols but I got it free with a tablet case four years ago so I won't complain too much!) and you've just reminded me I needed to charge it! Third charge in four years haha!

    • @jendorei
      @jendorei Год назад +2

      American layout is the good one though. I bought a used laptop with a Danish keyboard and _this one_ is bad for symbols.

  • @BBonsteel
    @BBonsteel Год назад +4

    Great video! Glad you got *something* of value out of it. I won an auction for undelivered returns recently. Listed as 15 'returned boutique packages'- decided to make an event of it with friends over some drinks. The results were pretty underwhelming- clothes of various degrees of hideousness (a few had suspicious stains of interest) and what appeared to be a silver engagement ring. I thought I'd lucked out with that one, but a quick trip to the jeweler the next day indicated it was costume jewelry. At least the experience of opening real life loot boxes, with friends and drinks, was kinda fun.

  • @executor32
    @executor32 Год назад +2

    The pink tablet case is definitely for some model of iPad, the camera placement and the divot along one of the short sides (so as not to cover the home button) give it away.

  • @BenHeckHacks
    @BenHeckHacks Год назад +5

    It's gonna be an entire pallet of POP STATIONS!

  • @BuuMB
    @BuuMB Год назад

    It’s amazing nostalgic this video feels despite it being relatively recent. I’ve been watching you since I was in High School and I’m turning 27 next week. Oh how time has fucking flown by. Thank you for everything you’ve created G! 🙌🏽

  • @spidereye1111
    @spidereye1111 Год назад +18

    The last time Ashens made one of these returned goods videos it made my week, and he's done so again :) 10/10 content

  • @MetalVII
    @MetalVII Год назад +1

    15:31 This is for an Amazon Kids tablet. We have a pink one, it has certainly done its job.

  • @Yolko493
    @Yolko493 Год назад +11

    These return videos make me so sad. There is so much tat in the world.

  • @YouTube
    @YouTube Год назад +3

    i do not have this level of bravery 👀

    • @jacksonpercy8044
      @jacksonpercy8044 Год назад +2

      The lack of replies and 1 like made me think this was a bot account but it's genuinely the official RUclips channel 🤯

    • @VanceVanced
      @VanceVanced 7 месяцев назад

      Hello youtube

  • @simtexa
    @simtexa Год назад +7

    Plastic petri dishes are extremely commonly used in pretty much any biological laboratory, especially for microbes but I've also used them for insects and other small organisms such as fish larvae. The plastic ones are popular because they're cheap, "disposable" and usually sterile in the packaging. Because it's often desirable to have as little contamination of other bacteria as possible if you're growing them, and because bacteria grown in petri dishes can be dangerous (ex. multiresistent) they are not typically reused for that purpose and are disposed of in biohazard waste.
    Although usually they're bought with some sort of substrate (usually nutrient agar) already in them, empty ones are also used in enormous quantities at biolabs, and thus this whole package is likely significantly less than £1.

  • @Xiporah
    @Xiporah Год назад +14

    Those petri dishes would make good water bowls for a lot of pet invertebrates since many require wide, shallow areas to drink. It's the perfect size! I'm going to have to order some now.

    • @peterpop-off
      @peterpop-off Год назад +3

      Cool, what kind of crawlies do you keep?

    • @Xiporah
      @Xiporah Год назад +2

      @@peterpop-off I have a bunch of tarantulas, a vinegaroon, several isopod colonies and a "beetle bin" filled with various beetles and a few dubia roaches that reached maturity before I could feed them off to my various pets. I also have a pacman frog, a leopard gecko, a painted turtle and a cat. I work from home, and taking care of them all is my main hobby. I don't think I could do it if I didn't work from home.

    • @amandanw
      @amandanw Год назад +3

      I use a cleaned-up Pringles can lid as a food dish for my snails. I took the lid from my nephew's Pringles years ago and it has lasted all this time.

  • @sharplydressedrabbit3604
    @sharplydressedrabbit3604 Год назад +22

    Glad Ashens was able to make the train home from Dan's home in time to record this video as well.

  • @norbertmedlicott8376
    @norbertmedlicott8376 Год назад +17

    I was once in a lab full of scary specimen dishes.
    I was petrified.

  • @predcon1
    @predcon1 Год назад +26

    Man, I buy Amazon returns all the time! They sell it to me as "Brand New" but a lot of times its not.

  • @LifeOfJimbo
    @LifeOfJimbo Год назад +1

    9:18 I actually have that same keyboard for my iPad, it's done so well these past three years.

  • @starkraver-7938
    @starkraver-7938 Год назад +4

    I do wonder what the state of Ashen's house is...like is every available bit of space taken up with action figures with melted faces, faulty electronics and chef excellence cooking gear??

  • @toolflex
    @toolflex Год назад +2

    Marketing Men Everywhere: "Sir! Sir! I've thought of an idea to double our profits! 2-in-1 Scarves AND Table Runners!"
    "Jenkins, you're an idiot."

  • @antoniusweezel876
    @antoniusweezel876 Год назад +12

    Most 'returns' items sold are just crap sold at hiked up rates. If you actually want to buy return items you'll pretty much have to drop a couple hundred pounds on a returns pallet from one of like three companies that actually handle return items

  • @samuelkirkwood6702
    @samuelkirkwood6702 Год назад +1

    12:45, I think that's a wig for you Ashens 🤣

  • @Dracothrope101
    @Dracothrope101 Год назад +7

    This is a fun format on the video, I kinda miss the wish random word vids though. Also that golden thingy is probably something you put on a door frame, the kind of 90s nack that was so popular to do. Otherwise i have no clue

  • @michaellong58
    @michaellong58 Год назад

    3:23 literally sounds like the same music on Reginald Perrin when he's walking to work at Sunshine Desserts 😂

  • @Caarajack
    @Caarajack Год назад +4

    Even that it saddens me to see that this is just a fraction of the stuff that people order probably from the other side of the world just to end on a landfill, at least we get to see their a minute or so fame on Ashens' channel.

  • @danrosalina
    @danrosalina Год назад

    "Wow look a pie chart!"
    9:48
    "Do a digital dancing, hey this is fun!"

  • @Ametisti
    @Ametisti Год назад +6

    Little keyboards like that can be useful. I bought one for using on my phone and tablet on occasion.

  • @thisguy916
    @thisguy916 Год назад +1

    7:04
    2ms after removing from packaging and sequins are already on the couch, nice

  • @robbiejones9340
    @robbiejones9340 Год назад +4

    The blue tablet cover is what door-to-door salesman use, it protects their tablets from dog attacks.

  • @supersmilyface1
    @supersmilyface1 9 месяцев назад

    I used plastic petri dishes in my high school marine biology class. We used them for observing flatworms (planarians) and how they regrow when divided. Also, we used them to keep track of the development of fertilized sea urchin eggs!

  • @TheKiwiDragon
    @TheKiwiDragon Год назад +60

    Love these returned product videos.

  • @blackidna
    @blackidna Год назад

    The "finest" item is a bog standard BT keyboard sold in many tablet cover sets, even branded ones.
    It has one tiny weakness: slam a firm and brutal punch in the middle and the keys won't work anymore, except the power switch and the LEDs.
    I found that out after my tablet wasn't responding and made me re-pair the two several times, only to last 5 minutes before starting to be unresponsive (or worse, it started ghosting keys), hence why the punch.
    The childproof cover? Saw it live in a nursing home for a tablet used by us operators to file reports, it actually feels safe. Never slammed that tablet on the ground to test, but it gave me the feeling it could survive the fall.

  • @sparky4878
    @sparky4878 Год назад +17

    Maybe I’ve had too much to drink. It’s 1.30am as this uploads and I’m thinking “ooooh random returns, should I give it a go?”

  • @blakeellis9171
    @blakeellis9171 Год назад +1

    In the 4th grade, I had a lime green version of that handle case for my iPad 4. I was the only kid who had a different case because the school gave us out iPads with standardized cases. I loved it at the time

  • @BodywiseMustard
    @BodywiseMustard Год назад +5

    Silica gel is awesome, always save them. They've rescued loads of my electronics

    • @blitzskrieg3047
      @blitzskrieg3047 Год назад

      I save all of them as well and put them on the floor of my gun safe. Great to keep moisture under control

    • @philtowle4683
      @philtowle4683 10 месяцев назад

      I chuck them in my toolbox especially with impact tools that aren't plated.

  • @7cyz
    @7cyz Год назад +1

    5:10 found it ironic u said that, i just started reading it about a month ago after anticipating it for over 6 months, amazing so far

  • @Sharklops
    @Sharklops Год назад +6

    the blue case looks like it might be for an Amazon Fire tablet

  • @Uragani
    @Uragani 9 месяцев назад

    I'd like the petri dishes to mount interesting bug specimen, keyboard, the over-the-door tassle privacy screen string, the kitchen scales, and the big thick grippy lad for a tablet. I'd even like the weird sequin thing, I could harvest from it for other crafts. So if you were me, you'd have a real nice haul there!

  • @danielkennedy4282
    @danielkennedy4282 Год назад +16

    Love these kind of videos. Love a mystery
    P.s You are a Legend Ashens

  • @morganstwilliams
    @morganstwilliams Год назад +2

    Not a bad haul this time. Got a flimsy keyboard, a kitchen scale and the flayed corpse of a Muppet.