Worst inventions ever?

[bignateyk]

What are your least favorite things that have been invented?

I think whoever invented the straight blade screw should be shot. He must have felt like a real moron when the phillips head screw was invented. The worst part is that people still use straight blade screws. WHHHYYY! There are at least 10 kinds of screw that are better in every way than the straight blade.

My runner up is that hard plastic packaging they put everything in nowadays that is damn near impossible to open without slicing your arm off. I'm amazed companies haven't gotten sued for it with all the other stupid lawsuits that have happened like the coffee spilling ,etc...


edit: I'm talking more about things that you use on a day to day basis that are so aggravating you have to wonder what the hell the inventor/engineer was thinking when they designed the product.

 

[alfa147x]

Someone should create butt towels

 

[bignateyk]

Someone should create butt towels

:hmm:

 

[lxskllr]

Easy open cans. They leave a lip inside that makes it harder to get all the food out. Anyone who can't use a can opener doesn't deserve to eat.

 

[alfa147x]

Think about it: If im 50 cent, or some alike baller fuck throwing away 10c peices or toilet paper.

I'm going to buy 1000 Butt Towels made of 100,000 thread count Egyptian cotton clean my ass and throw it away.

Ballin'

 

[bignateyk]

Easy open cans. They leave a lip inside that makes it harder to get all the food out. Anyone who can't use a can opener doesn't deserve to eat.

I agree with this one. Plus sometimes they are hard to get open and you have to pull with so much force half the food flies out when it finally does open.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Think about it: If im 50 cent, or some alike baller fuck throwing away 10c peices or toilet paper.

I'm going to buy 1000 Butt Towels made of 100,000 thread count Egyptian cotton clean my ass and throw it away.

Ballin'

Or you could shower properly? :whiste:

 

[Texashiker]

Worst invention ever? Has to be the nuclear bomb.

Nowhere in the history of mankind, has a weapon of war been more effective, then nuclear weapons.

 

[alfa147x]

Or you could shower properly? :whiste:

It's fucking 50 cent. Showers take him.

 

[bignateyk]

Worst invention ever? Has to be the nuclear bomb.

Nowhere in the history of mankind, has a weapon of war been more effective, then nuclear weapons.

I'm talking more about things that you use on a day to day basis that are so aggravating you have to wonder what the hell the inventor/engineer was thinking when they designed the product.

 

[DivideBYZero]

It's fucking 50 cent. Showers take him.

You're the one with the clagged up ass! :biggrin:

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Worst invention ever? Has to be the nuclear bomb.

Nowhere in the history of mankind, has a weapon of war been more effective, then nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons have almost guaranteed the. Stoppage of major power wars in the world. They are far from the worst invention ever

 

[Joseph F]

Worst invention ever? Has to be the nuclear bomb.

Nowhere in the history of mankind, has a weapon of war been more effective, then nuclear weapons.

Than

Motion sensing toilets that flush every time you so much as flinch. Yes...I love having the thing flush 4 times as I'm trying to wipe my ass and pull up my pants. And then I go over to the motion sensing sink and have to wave my hands around furiously trying to find the magical spot where it notices I'm trying to get it to turn on. Only to be faced with the same motion-retarded soap dispenser that doesn't know your hand is there until it's gone and then blows it's load on the counter. And once I have consumed 14x the amount of water that I normally would, taken 4.3 times longer to wash my fucking hands while leaving foaming piles of lightly scented antibacterial spooge on the counter I have to go over and spend another 45 seconds drying my hands under a motion sensing hand dryer consuming god knows how much electricity it requires to fire up, make heat, and blow it at 180 miles per hour across my hands when I could have just grabbed a paper towel and been on my merry way.

Agreed. Why the fuck do we use this senseless technology?

 

[darkswordsman17]

Easy open cans. They leave a lip inside that makes it harder to get all the food out. Anyone who can't use a can opener doesn't deserve to eat.

Really? Sorry, but how full of fail are you that you have trouble getting all the food out? You have a can opener handy but not a fork or spoon?

 

[vi edit]

Motion sensing toilets that flush every time you so much as flinch. Yes...I love having the thing flush 4 times as I'm trying to wipe my ass and pull up my pants. And then I go over to the motion sensing sink and have to wave my hands around furiously trying to find the magical spot where it notices I'm trying to get it to turn on. Only to be faced with the same motion-retarded soap dispenser that doesn't know your hand is there until it's gone and then blows it's load on the counter. And once I have consumed 14x the amount of water that I normally would, taken 4.3 times longer to wash my fucking hands while leaving foaming piles of lightly scented antibacterial spooge on the counter I have to go over and spend another 45 seconds drying my hands under a motion sensing hand dryer consuming god knows how much electricity it requires to fire up, make heat, and blow it at 180 miles per hour across my hands when I could have just grabbed a paper towel and been on my merry way.

 

[bignateyk]

Motion sensing toilets that flush every time you so much as flinch. Yes...I love having the thing flush 4 times as I'm trying to wipe my ass and pull up my pants. And then I go over to the motion sensing sink and have to wave my hands around furiously trying to find the magical spot where it notices I'm trying to get it to turn on. Only to be faced with the same motion-retarded soap dispenser that doesn't know your hand is there until it's gone and then blows it's load on the counter. And once I have consumed 14x the amount of water that I normally would, taken 4.3 times longer to wash my fucking hands while leaving foaming piles of lightly scented antibacterial spooge on the counter I have to go over and spend another 45 seconds drying my hands under a motion sensing hand dryer consuming god knows how much electricity it requires to fire up, make heat, and blow it at 180 miles per hour across my hands when I could have just grabbed a paper towel and been on my merry way.

:biggrin:

 

[mmntech]

What are your least favorite things that have been invented?

I think whoever invented the straight blade screw should be shot. He must have felt like a real moron when the phillips head screw was invented. The worst part is that people still use straight blade screws. WHHHYYY! There are at least 10 kinds of screw that are better in every way than the straight blade.

Robertson screws own both. The heads don't strip like phillips screws do.

I'm going to have to second blister packaging. I understand their reasoning (anti-theft) but I shouldn't need nuclear intervention to open a package I just bought. Plus those cut edges are razor sharp and I'm always afraid I'll cut the product when knifing the package open.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Spam.

And I don't mean the delicious meat treat.

 

[ichy]

Anything that prevents really stupid people from killing themselves. The gene pool needs some chlorine.

 

[Arcadio]

The little rubber jackets that cover the tab on Ethernet cable plugs. Extremely annoying and useless.

 

[bhanson]

Those plastic contains are infuriating.

I like the pull-top cans.

 

[unxpurg8d]

Cell phones. But it's a love/hate kinda relationship.

Irks me having seven or eight people sitting around with their cell phones in their lap texting rather than actually talking to each other.

People talking on them seem to think it's a can and string kinda thing and that yelling makes cell phones work better.

Movies are SO much fun to go to with eight zillion bright little screens lighting up the theater while people text, etc.

Bah.

 

[blinblue]

Motion sensing toilets that flush every time you so much as flinch. Yes...I love having the thing flush 4 times as I'm trying to wipe my ass and pull up my pants. And then I go over to the motion sensing sink and have to wave my hands around furiously trying to find the magical spot where it notices I'm trying to get it to turn on. Only to be faced with the same motion-retarded soap dispenser that doesn't know your hand is there until it's gone and then blows it's load on the counter. And once I have consumed 14x the amount of water that I normally would, taken 4.3 times longer to wash my fucking hands while leaving foaming piles of lightly scented antibacterial spooge on the counter I have to go over and spend another 45 seconds drying my hands under a motion sensing hand dryer consuming god knows how much electricity it requires to fire up, make heat, and blow it at 180 miles per hour across my hands when I could have just grabbed a paper towel and been on my merry way.

I came in here to complain about bad hand dryers.

Now the good super high power ones (or the ones you put your hands into) work pretty well and actually seem to be solving a problem (paper towel waste, both in terms of environmental costs and general mess and nastiness in the bathroom). But those old hot air driers that turn your cold dripping hands into slightly warm dripping hands drive me to a rage.

 

[busydude]

Worst invention ever? Has to be the nuclear bomb. Nowhere in the history of mankind, has a weapon of war been more effective, then nuclear weapons.

Religion

 

[vi edit]

Worst invention ever? Has to be the nuclear bomb.

Nowhere in the history of mankind, has a weapon of war been more effective, then nuclear weapons.

Whatever. You want to talk about effective and worst invention? How about the hand gun(or guns in general). How many people are killed with one of those each year?