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DucksNuts 07-11-2012 01:16 AM

Stuff you wish wasnt invented....
 
That siliconey-snot like substance they use to stick cards etc to pieces of paper.

Oh....and Guy Sebastian...thats an Aussie thing. He's this nasally singer who annoys me as much as John Mayer.

BrianR 07-11-2012 09:21 AM

Rubber cement?

Cyber Wolf 07-11-2012 11:09 AM

Auto-tune.

glatt 07-11-2012 11:21 AM

There are so many things out there that are annoying most of the time, but that have legitimate uses some of the time.

Like Jet-Skis. Good for life guards, annoying when most others use them.

infinite monkey 07-11-2012 11:24 AM

Auto-correct

Telephones

Money (barter system would be much better.)

wolf 07-11-2012 01:01 PM

Rubber cement is essential. Without it, how would we burn snow?

Now, anything promoted by Ron Popiel ... there's your problem. The conflation of apparent usefulness and planned obsolescence was sheer genius. I've known a couple of people to sing the praises of the Pocket Fisherman, but other than that ... spray hair, the record vacuum, that thing that you could cut the tops off bottles with to make drinking glasses out of ...

glatt 07-11-2012 01:03 PM

don't forget the inside the egg shell egg scrambler

wolf 07-11-2012 01:08 PM

That one was brilliant, wasn't it,since it's so terribly hard to scramble an egg in the pan.

Don't take this as a lack of appreciation of As Seen on TV products on my part. I have many that I like (SnapCaps, the EZFold, etc.), but also many that I know to be worthless labor-causing devices. Ever try to clean an EggWave?

Cyber Wolf 07-11-2012 01:20 PM

One thing the in-shell scrambler didn't change from traditional in-pan egg scrambling was the somewhat reasonable chance of getting bits of shell in your eggs.

Gravdigr 07-11-2012 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DucksNuts (Post 819407)
That siliconey-snot like substance they use to stick cards etc to pieces of paper.

Yebbut, it makes great fake boogers. Not as good as dried sauerkraut, but ya go with what ya got...

Gravdigr 07-11-2012 05:40 PM

Don't forget the microwave hard-boiled egg things...They're not too hot for making dressed/deviled eggs.

One other use for them...fill 'em with water, pop 'em in the freezer for big ice cubes.

DanaC 07-11-2012 06:07 PM

Krispy Kreme donuts.

They're just too irresistable.

Urbane Guerrilla 07-11-2012 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf (Post 819484)
That one was brilliant, wasn't it,since it's so terribly hard to scramble an egg in the pan.

Got one. The gadget does work. Turns a boiled egg, after processing, into an evenly cream-yellow ovoid what's-that. Whiz it up first, then boil egg.

And it would make it less obvious you were using the lazy-woman technique to make omelets, scrambling the eggs inside the pan -- since you're not.

To things I wish weren't invented:

Socialism, Marxist or other brand.

Spellcheckers. They are inadequate. I need the entire OED wordlist and downloaded updates, and one that doesn't favor hyphenated constructions over compound words, but replaces the former with the latter. So I generally turn off both these and autocorrect. Even if damnyouautocorrect is a funny site.

BigV 07-11-2012 09:09 PM

I have missed you UG.

I'm not sorry you were invented.

DucksNuts 07-12-2012 03:52 AM

Customers and Team Members. They bloody suck.


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