Worst invention ever?

[ThatGuy]

I have three to suggest.

1) Red Lemonade. What's the point? Seriously?

2) Bottles of Becks non-alcoholic beer. Right, surely the only reason why you would drink non-alcoholic beer would be so that you don't have to feel self conscious in a bar where you do not want to consume alcohol. Surely it can't be for the taste? Why would you want to advertise that you are drinking non-alcoholic beer? A bloke is hardly going to poor it into a half-pint glass, that would be even more embarassing!

3) The wheel. Over-rated ;)

OK I only have two.

[Dublin12]

I have three to suggest.

1) Red Lemonade. What's the point? Seriously?



Have to disagree there,fix yourself a Jameson and Red and you'll change your mind;)

Mine would be the electric toothbrush.

[strangeirish]

I have three to suggest.

1) Red Lemonade. What's the point? Seriously?

I'll have to disagree with you on that one. Here's why (http://www.ivenus.com/therightstuff/features/File_58220000705152324.asp).

Oh and mine would be helicopter ejection seats.

[Gareth]

Worst Inventions:

Capri Sun packages - Bloody straw always went thru the back. I ended up just attacking the bottom of it.

Plastic Bags with no handles

Plastic bags with silly weak handles

Irish Cycle Lanes

Space - Such a waste.....

[Peadar]

Space - Such a waste.....

Such a waste of what exactly, Gareth??? :confused: :D

[Rory H]

red lemonade is legendary.....


condoms were a bad invention

there arent enough irish people in this country...thats were we are going wrong

[The Stars]

Red Lemonade would be one of the best inventions in my opinion.

Worst:Milk Jug-waste of time and money
Wishing wells
Multi Packs of the same crisps.

[pete]

Democracy - too many people get a vote.

[Rory H]

glasses for some alcoholic drinks


what the points...wastes time

[Lionel Ritchie]

It has to be the cell phone.

If ever there was a market created out of thin air for a product not a one of us actually needs it's the fcuking cellphone.

Irreperable damage done to language, manners, downtime ...the entire concept of being "incommunicado" is stone dead which is not a good thing.

As a one time advocate of public transport (still am theoretically) I'll not get on an intercity train or bus again until the law makes it clear that using a cellphone on one is about as socially acceptabe as dropping yer kecks and taking a crap on the seat.

Now to head off the first comeback at the pass -which will probably be something about "...but if you're stuck on the side of a mountain...".

Have you ever tried to get a signal for a mobile phone when within an airplane journey of a mountain? They don't work.

*******in things:mad:

[Neish]

Worst Inventions:

Capri Sun packages - Bloody straw always went thru the back. I ended up just attacking the bottom of it.

Plastic Bags with no handles

Plastic bags with silly weak handles

Agree with all of the above.

I was helping a mate set up his computer abou 2 years ago, it was an old one he got mainly for typing. He wanted to install a CD/CD-Rom drive, I opened the package no-manunal just a cd with a small note saying all instructions are on the cd.

How the f*ck are you ment to get the instructions when you don't have a cd drive in the first place?

[Gareth]

Such a waste of what exactly, Gareth??? :confused: :D

So much of it, you think someone would fill a bit of it. With stuff. Space could do with some more stuff. Granted there are billions of bodies in space but well, they are all so far apart that its pretty pointless, it'd just be easy to bring them all a little closer. More friendly. We wouldn't be plagued with the annoying questions of what is out there. Granted our gravity would be fecked and we'd all end up neighbouring a blackhole and get pulled in but if your getting rid of some of the space, you could get rid of the blackholes. It would stop people waiting seven years to collect dust.

[strangeirish]

So much of it, you think someone would fill a bit of it. With stuff. Space could do with some more stuff. Granted there are billions of bodies in space but well, they are all so far apart that its pretty pointless, it'd just be easy to bring them all a little closer. More friendly. We wouldn't be plagued with the annoying questions of what is out there. Granted our gravity would be fecked and we'd all end up neighbouring a blackhole and get pulled in but if your getting rid of some of the space, you could get rid of the blackholes. It would stop people waiting seven years to collect dust.

Jaysus Gareth, was that LSD induced? You sound like you need to fill the space between your ears with something.:D

[Gareth]

Jaysus Gareth, was that LSD induced? You sound like you need to fill the space between your ears with something.:D

Sorry, I think its stress induced.

[ollie]

Sorry, I think its stress induced.

Let there be no panic!:)

[strangeirish]

Sorry, I think its stress induced.

I hear ya.

[dahamsta]

the entire concept of being "incommunicado" is stone dead which is not a good thing.Um, turn it off. Hello? (Pun intended.)

adam

[Gareth]

I hear ya.

Yup, too much going on in the head. You should have seen what I deleted. I think I am quite possibly able to rant on any subject nonsensically right now.

[Lionel Ritchie]

Um, turn it off. Hello? (Pun intended.)

adam

Hmmm ...I'm gonna stab a guess at something here Adam -you're single (or at least not married) and self-employed. ;)

[Risteard]

I'll have to disagree with you on that one. Here's why (http://www.ivenus.com/therightstuff/features/File_58220000705152324.asp).

Oh and mine would be helicopter ejection seats.
What?
They've no red lemonade in London?
That's almost as terrifying as that dark, dark week in Banna when i discovered Tanora was "a Cork thing"

[Dublin12]

What?
They've no red lemonade in London?


Correct,walk into a boozer over there and ask for a vodka and white and a whiskey and red and they'll get really confused:D fact.

[Marked Man]

It has to be the cell phone.

If ever there was a market created out of thin air for a product not a one of us actually needs it's the fcuking cellphone.

Irreperable damage done to language, manners, downtime ...the entire concept of being "incommunicado" is stone dead which is not a good thing.

As a one time advocate of public transport (still am theoretically) I'll not get on an intercity train or bus again until the law makes it clear that using a cellphone on one is about as socially acceptabe as dropping yer kecks and taking a crap on the seat.

Now to head off the first comeback at the pass -which will probably be something about "...but if you're stuck on the side of a mountain...".

Have you ever tried to get a signal for a mobile phone when within an airplane journey of a mountain? They don't work.

*******in things:mad:

Agree 100%. Over here the subway is the only respite. Once they start to work in there, there'll be no escape.

[finlma]

That tracing paper style bog roll that they used have in schools and still have in some places. Terrible stuff, my arse winces at the thought of it.

[aido_b]

Sparkling water! arghhhhhhh that stuff is muck and its so frustrating if you're in a hurry and you pick up a bottle of sparkling instead of still!

[hamish]

Jaysus Gareth, was that LSD induced? You sound like you need to fill the space between your ears with something.:D

Maybe it should be in the marijuana thread:D

Still, a funny post though

Waste is not a popular word down here since yesterday. Just got my yearly bill and it's up 130 euros on last year.:eek:
I'm pretty good at the recycling thing - I even take the plastic bits off the top of toothpaste containers, empty the sand out of those plastic water filters and so on to put the filters and many other things in the "blue bin" and so on:o (very sad I know, I know) but what annoys me is that there is so much plastic on containers which is NOT suitable quality for recycling and ends up in dumps.

Michael Moore mentioned this in one of his books. He followed a recycling truck in New York and saw it emptying into a general dump. Private Eye mentioned that this happens in Britain too. I'll just bet that the same thing happens here as well.

Don't refuse collection companies get subsidies if they collect a certain amount of recyclable material each year?? I smell another scam.:rolleyes:

I wonder could we recycle a number of our footballers to make one good player or the entire Dail to make one good politician??LOL

[Eire06]

Michael Moore mentioned this in one of his books. He followed a recycling truck in New York and saw it emptying into a general dump. Private Eye mentioned that this happens in Britain too. I'll just bet that the same thing happens here as well.

Don't refuse collection companies get subsidies if they collect a certain amount of recyclable material each year?? I smell another scam.:rolleyes:

I wonder could we recycle a number of our footballers to make one good player or the entire Dail to make one good politician??LOL

There was a TV program done on this, they followed the recyclable waste (Plastics and paper bin) from a neighbourhood in Galway and they get sent up north where the 'rubbish' is sorted by people on a 'production line' type into different bins for different types of plastic, paper and cardboard and then sent for recycling to different companies in the north and Britain

[hamish]

There was a TV program done on this, they followed the recyclable waste (Plastics and paper bin) from a neighbourhood in Galway and they get sent up north where the 'rubbish' is sorted by people on a 'production line' type into different bins for different types of plastic, paper and cardboard and then sent for recycling to different companies in the north and Britain

Thanks for that Eire06 - good to hear. I saw something like that before. My worry is that with the sheer volume of recyclable waste - can these firms cope with it all??

You're household waste is probably collected by the same firm as mine - Barna?? They're pretty ok actually. Reason for the price rise is that Beeslow's dump is closed and the urban subsidy is therefore gone - hence the rise. I think it's dumped in Cappataggle now. Don't mind paying for waste collection but the sheer amount of the rise was a bit of a shock - especially after Christmas. It costs 92 euros for three months with Barna -it was 112 euros per HALF YEAR in 2005 - 10 euros less for 3 months than it was for 6:eek: For someone on salary protection and disability like me that's a fair whack.
:)

Anyway, it'sgood to know there's a good home for all those empty red wine bottles after Yuletide. LOL:D

[Eire06]

You're household waste is probably collected by the same firm as mine - Barna??
Galway City Council collect ours at a charge of €357 www.citybin.com seems a good deal at the moment at €307

[hamish]

Galway City Council collect ours at a charge of €357 www.citybin.com seems a good deal at the moment at €307

I thought Barna did the whole county and city.

I suppose it's a fair price to pay considering everything. Barna's price is 368 euro for the year. Last year it was around 224 euro. It's a little extra if you pay by the quarter or half-year. With the subsidy gone that's yearly rise of 144 euro though.:eek:

I only remembered the price for last year a while ago and though it was a 130 euro only at first.

On the invoice the blue bin (plastics, paper etc) and brown bin (bones, waste food, grass, sticks etc) are listed at free. I reckon the collection companies get a government subsidy for that.

[the 12 th man]

Voting machines

[dahamsta]

Voting machinesMartin Cullen is a far worse invention than voting machines.

[hamish]

As far as I'm concerned

Any electrical device with more than three buttons

Slow reclining seats in cars - usually French cars (Past tense of course);)

Louis Walsh - wasn't born, had to be invented.

syringes and big long needles on them.:eek: I'll soon be changing m'name from Hamish to Dartboard:D

[Risteard]

Disposable things
ie Disposable camera.
all the benefits of a usual camera only easier to throw away.:confused:

[the 12 th man]

Invisible ink

[hamish]

Edible panties.

[Bald Student]

Milk Cartons which are more difficult to open than the previously available carton.

All of the different urinal designs except the first one invented. They all serve the same function, why have so many different shapes?

[Risteard]

Edible panties.Especially if you're cold and hungry.
They're no use to ya either way then.

[The Stars]

different shades of white paint....

[the 12 th man]

Guinness Light

[Karlos]

Karaoke :mad:

[Réiteoir]

The FAI

[Block G Raptor]

The FAI

I Think we have a winner

[A face]

when i discovered Tanora was "a Cork thing"


And its the job !! :p

[hamish]

LIDL drinking glasses - they crack and break if you even look at them.:(

[Rory H]

LIDL drinking glasses - they crack and break if you even look at them.:(


dont be so cheap then!

[The Stars]

ya just drink Bavaria from the can.......

[hamish]

dont be so cheap then!

Nyah! Nyah! They have lovely beer glasses with nice designs on them and they're NOT cheap either:p but they break very easy.

Enjoyed the slag though - sligoman is obviously a bad influence on ya.:D

Now, THIS is cheap

http://www.escort-ireland.com/410/Emmanuelle/irish-escort.html

Jaysus, this seems to be a new addition. Look at the size of those knockers.:eek:

[ollie]

Jaysus, this seems to be a new addition. Look at the size of those knockers.:eek:

and look at the cut of her face.looks like she fell out and hit her head off of prety much every branch on the ugly tree:eek: :D

[hamish]

and look at the cut of her face.looks like she fell out and hit her head off of prety much every branch on the ugly tree

But, but, but......you can't see her face Ollie or do you know her better than we do.:p :D

Anyone who cares about the face??:D

[sligoman]

and look at the cut of her face.looks like she fell out and hit her head off of prety much every branch on the ugly tree:eek: :DIt's all a blur to me:D.