The Worst Invention 1900-2000AD?...

[Lost Cause]

What is your idea of the worst, stupid, or unneeded invention of the 20th Century? It can be something that hinders, not help your life. Give it up, what invention bugs you?

 

[scylis]

sphincterine

 

[Lust Engine]

Dehydrated water or the solar powered flashlight in my book.

 

[Lost Cause]

My bad......

I forgot to put "Other" in the poll. Damn me.

 

[scylis]

olestra has to be up there.

anything that may cause anal leakage can't be good.

 

[chromefreak]

WHAT?

Don't tell me I'm the ONLY PERSON who voted for Police Radar.

 

[Sillyman]

Let's see...

Spyware
The Atomic Bomb
Television
Poison Gas
Police Radar (I'll give you that one, and Police Lasers they have now on top of it)
Various drug testing technologies
The Singing Wall Bass

 

[Coolville]

Out of the those four, fast food. Spam - I hate it, but all I have to do is delete it and block sender.
Fast food makes people fat.
Hey, maybe if the only way you could delete spam was to run 5 km.... that might be a good combination.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

Manufactured bands

And The Wombles

The Hunting Debate

 

[lovetoread]

Spam.

I can live with the rest.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

"Don't like spam? How can you not like spam?" - Monty Python

(Bloody horrible stuff. Never liked, not even when it came in tins.)

 

[Lost Cause]

How about...

Those loud ass car alarms that go off at 2am, set off by the wind?

Oooh! Stairclimber aerobic machines! Makes us look like gerbils!

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

Anything by Ronco.

K-Tell records.

 

[Anais Dahl]

Women's fashion magazines, which has been successful in turning many teenage girls and women into anorexic, shallow, neurotic, sheep who cannot make a decision more important than choosing the perfect shade of gloss.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

Anais Dahl, you say that like it's a BAD thing!

 

[brokenbrainwave]

any version of Windows. For this, Gates deserves to have his toe nails shot off with a bb gun.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Out of the those four, fast food. Spam - I hate it, but all I have to do is delete it and block sender.

Still.. it's being sent to you and is using up YOUR bandwidth. You're just not seeing it.

 

[phrodeau]

I don't think television itself is all that bad, but they should never have developed free sponsor-paid programming. Now, nearly everything viewable on television is worthless.

 

[sufisaint]

The chainsaw...any idiot can cut a tree that took a hundred years to grow in about 8 minutes...

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Let's see...

Spyware
The Atomic Bomb
Television
Poison Gas
Police Radar (I'll give you that one, and Police Lasers they have now on top of it)
Various drug testing technologies
The Singing Wall Bass

I would have to go with the singing bass on this one. Posion gas is a close second though.

 

[HeavyStick]

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[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

And MOBILE PHONES.

Can't foget mobile phones.

People sitting on busses or the tube working through the 100 ring tones which resemble the oringal tunes in the same way that a MacDonald's burger resembles wholesome nutritious tasty food.

1) De dit de diddly dit di deee...
2) De ditty ditty di di ditty ditty...
3) Diddy dit diddy dit diddy dit dit deee...

"Shut the fuck up you stupid moron!"

But no, the moron gets to 100 and decides to start all over again.

Or in pubs and resturants. Phone rings... person lets it ring.... and ring.... and ring.... and

"FOR FUCK SAKE YOU ASSHOLE! DON'T SIT THERE LOOKING AT IT - ANSWER IT!!!"

But no they don't. It's someone they don't want to talk to. And then it rings again two minutes later...

And if they do need to choose to answer it, they feel the need to shout as loud as they can, repeating the same thing several times because the person at the other end is deaf. And then you have to sit and listen to half an idiotic conversation...

"WHAT?... WHO?... YEAH.... WHAT? ... WHAT? I'M IN THE PUB... NO... IN THE PUB.... THE PUB... YES...THAT'S RIGHT... THE PUB... NO! PUB! PUB! WHAT? THE PUB... YEAH... THE PUB..."

Ans their friends are left going 'who is it?' in a whisper in case the deaf git at the other end hears them. And eveyone else around them is going 'For fuck's sake man, take it outside!' And if they do BF or GF is left on their own to twiddle their thumbs while the idiot goes and shouts outside.

Mobile phones. Either leave them at home, or shove 'em up your ass.

Fucking things.

Hate them.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

And MOBILE PHONES.

Can't foget mobile phones.

People sitting on busses or the tube working through the 100 ring tones which resemble the oringal tunes in the same way that a MacDonald's burger resembles wholesome nutritious tasty food.

1) De dit de diddly dit di deee...
2) De ditty ditty di di ditty ditty...
3) Diddy dit diddy dit diddy dit dit deee...

"Shut the fuck up you stupid moron!"

But no, the moron gets to 100 and decides to start all over again.

Or in pubs and resturants. Phone rings... person lets it ring.... and ring.... and ring.... and

"FOR FUCK SAKE YOU ASSHOLE! DON'T SIT THERE LOOKING AT IT - ANSWER IT!!!"

But no they don't. It's someone they don't want to talk to. And then it rings again two minutes later...

And if they do need to choose to answer it, they feel the need to shout as loud as they can, repeating the same thing several times because the person at the other end is deaf. And then you have to sit and listen to half an idiotic conversation...

"WHAT?... WHO?... YEAH.... WHAT? ... WHAT? I'M IN THE PUB... NO... IN THE PUB.... THE PUB... YES...THAT'S RIGHT... THE PUB... NO! PUB! PUB! WHAT? THE PUB... YEAH... THE PUB..."

Ans their friends are left going 'who is it?' in a whisper in case the deaf git at the other end hears them. And eveyone else around them is going 'For fuck's sake man, take it outside!' And if they do BF or GF is left on their own to twiddle their thumbs while the idiot goes and shouts outside.

Mobile phones. Either leave them at home, or shove 'em up your ass.

Fucking things.

Hate them.

People just get cell phones so they can walk through the grocery store, call their friends, and say "Hey, guess where I'm calling you from."

Worst invention of the last century...the leaf-blower...what purpose does this gadget actually serve? A reverse vacuum cleaner...yeah, that's smart.

 

[brokenbrainwave]

Worst invention of the last century...the leaf-blower...what purpose does this gadget actually serve? A reverse vacuum cleaner...yeah, that's smart.

apparently your a city folk. here in the land of actual trees, not little plastic shrubs, it really comes in handy.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

What about the 'new' style ring pulls on soft drinks cans? I liked the old ones much better - you could drink out the can then. Now you have to spend about five minutes trying to wriggle the ring pull off so that you can drink from it. And even then you have to try to make the hole a bit bigger so you can drink from it.

And getting a cell phone so you can call people from a grocery store is no excuse. it's just sad. VERY, VERY SAD.