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Lil' Bratz Torch / Flashlight Review
Submitted by An Outdoor Idiots Team Member.
Background
Avid readers may remember from our 2007 AGM that Outdoor Idiots.com is now officially a profit-making organisation. At the time of writing, we were flush to the tune of £3.80.We've been struggling to decide what to do with this money. Only one thing has ever been for sure: we certainly weren't going to tell Gordon Brown about it. Happily though, in the time it has taken us to decide what to do, the problem has been slowly solving itself. In the AGM, we promised we'd spend the money only on tea and biscuits consumed while working on the site. We lied. As usual, we've hardly worked on the site at all. However, that hasn't stopped us ploughing ahead with the consumption of illicit tea and biscuits. So as of yesterday, our account balance had dwindled to a mere £2.49. There's a word for that, and it's spelled embezzlement.
We aren't proud of ourselves. Last night, we had a crisis meeting. How were we going to invest in the web site before all the money was frittered away? We had the cunning plan of buying some outdoor equipment and reviewing it. But what outdoor equipment can you get for £2.49 these days? Not a lot. Then we remembered that recently supermarkets seem to have entire isles dedicated to budget camping equipment, such has become the popularity of camping in Britain. So we made haste to a local Tesco. When we got there, we split up into search parties, plundered what we could then compared hauls before deciding on what to buy. We kept our eyes out for Dale Winton, but unfortunately he was not there. Had he been there, we feel sure he would have been proud of us.
In the end, Flossy came up trumps with a wildcard. It was such a wildcard that it wasn't even in the camping isle. She found it next to some batteries close to the checkout. We weren't sure we would go with it at first, because it was a torch, and there were much cheaper torches in the same store. However, nobody can take this away from Flossy: she had found something that cost exactly £2.49, which did show a certain sense of style. That, and she promised she would bleat all night unless we bought it. So we bought it.
All that remained was to put it through its paces and review it. We stayed up all through the night, Ray had a field day, and we now present our review...
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Page 1: Background
Page 2: Review: Packaging; Build & Appearance; Extras
Page 3: Review: Features
Page 4: Review: Output; The Innards Explored; Conclusion
Page 5: Appendix: Hullabaloo
Page 2: Review: Packaging; Build & Appearance; Extras
Page 3: Review: Features
Page 4: Review: Output; The Innards Explored; Conclusion
Page 5: Appendix: Hullabaloo
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