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23/01/2006, 2:44 PM
ThatGuy

Worst invention ever?

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.
23/01/2006, 2:52 PM
Dublin12

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Originally Posted by ThatGuy

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.
23/01/2006, 2:54 PM
strangeirish

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Originally Posted by ThatGuy

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.

Oh and mine would be helicopter ejection seats.
23/01/2006, 3:02 PM
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.....
23/01/2006, 3:49 PM
Peadar

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Originally Posted by Gareth

Space - Such a waste.....

Such a waste of what exactly, Gareth??? :confused: :D
23/01/2006, 3:59 PM
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
23/01/2006, 4:05 PM
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.
23/01/2006, 4:09 PM
pete

Democracy - too many people get a vote.
23/01/2006, 4:15 PM
Rory H

glasses for some alcoholic drinks

what the points...wastes time
23/01/2006, 4:33 PM
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:
23/01/2006, 4:48 PM
Neish

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Originally Posted by 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

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?
23/01/2006, 5:15 PM
Gareth

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Originally Posted by Peadar

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.
23/01/2006, 5:23 PM
strangeirish

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Originally Posted by Gareth

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
23/01/2006, 5:25 PM
Gareth

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Originally Posted by strangeirish

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.
23/01/2006, 5:27 PM
ollie

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Originally Posted by Gareth

Sorry, I think its stress induced.

Let there be no panic!:)
23/01/2006, 5:28 PM
strangeirish

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Originally Posted by Gareth

Sorry, I think its stress induced.

I hear ya.
23/01/2006, 5:29 PM
dahamsta

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

the entire concept of being "incommunicado" is stone dead which is not a good thing.

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

adam
23/01/2006, 6:01 PM
Gareth

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Originally Posted by strangeirish

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.
24/01/2006, 9:21 AM
Lionel Ritchie

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Originally Posted by dahamsta

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. ;)
24/01/2006, 9:22 AM
Risteard

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Originally Posted by strangeirish

I'll have to disagree with you on that one. Here's why.

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"

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