| What do you deem as a useless/pointless invention
Posted: 4/29/2008 1:41:09 AM | Extending dog leads argghhh i hate them,what is the point to them? other than to get tangled around innocent passer buys legs forcing us to do a strange chicken like dance whilst trying to untangle ourselves whilst the dogs owner stands 50ft away totally oblivious!
It just seems like a totally pointless invention to me along with scented toilet roll,now come on behave who in their right mind came up with that!.If you werent irritated just by the thought of scented toilet roll you sure will be irritated after use!!.
So the question i ask is...What do you deem as a useless/pointless invention??. | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 1:46:00 AM | Nope, sorry, not with you at all on this one. I just LOVE the idea that somewhere, someone, immensely irritated by the mere thought of having to try to hold open a plastic bag with two hands whilst trying to put things into it, is dreaming up exotic ways of bending wire coathangers to make a plastic bag holder opener!
Long live Heath Robinson!
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Long Live the memory of Said Mr Robinson!! So long as there are mad inventors wasting vast amounts of time on meaningless problems, he's still with us. | |
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cargy
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Joined: 10/13/2006
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Posted: 4/29/2008 1:49:13 AM | Long live Heath Robinson!
Hate to break it to ya, but he's dead!!
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Posted: 4/29/2008 1:56:04 AM | Scented toilet roll?!?!?
I've only ever heard of scented tampons which I think are ridiculous! Why?!?! | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 2:08:07 AM |
So the question i ask is...What do you deem as a useless/pointless invention??.
The Rabbit...........................its absolutely useless trying to play PS2 games with and still vibrates when you havent even crashed on Grand Turismo Grrrrrrrrrrr !!
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cargy
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Joined: 10/13/2006
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Posted: 4/29/2008 2:20:31 AM | Scented toilet roll
My loo roll's always scented after I've used it!!
I always wonder why many DVD remotes have an open/close button on them. It seems reduindant to me as you have to leave your chair anyway to put the disc in or out of the tray!!
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Posted: 4/29/2008 3:27:03 AM |
I always wonder why many DVD remotes have an open/close button on them. It seems reduindant to me as you have to leave your chair anyway to put the disc in or out of the tray!!
That's so you can have a happy little Homer moment. Disc goes in, disc comes out. Disc goes in, disc comes out....
The internet! Who was responsible for that? **stard thing keeps offering lots of lovely distractions... | |
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cargy
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Joined: 10/13/2006
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Posted: 4/29/2008 3:36:34 AM |
That's so you can have a happy little Homer moment. Disc goes in, disc comes out. Disc goes in, disc comes out....
Isn't that just a low-tech version of cyber sex??!!
Ohhh... but back to topic; Why do toasters have a setting that burns your bread to an indigestible lump of carbon.... like you're gonna eat that?! | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 3:51:15 AM | Scented toilet roll????
Well that comes in handy after those beer and curry nights I'm sure, when you just can't open the toilet window wide enough | |
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cargy
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Joined: 10/13/2006
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Posted: 4/29/2008 3:53:27 AM | Well that comes in handy after those beer and curry nights I'm sure, when you just can't open the toilet window wide enough
You poo out of the window??!!
Why not use the loo in the first place?
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Posted: 4/29/2008 3:56:43 AM | Those oversized exhausts that boy racers bolt onto their cars.
The wings they put on the back of similar cars.
The use of fog lights when there is no fog.
The little blue lights set into their windscreen washer nozzles.
The full four point racing car harness in place of the seat belt. | |
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lignin
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Joined: 9/25/2007
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Posted: 4/29/2008 3:58:13 AM | I recall thinking, when looking surprised at something like a toasters range of settings, that it's probably a cheap way for the maker to make devices where the useful settings fall somewhere in the wide range, without having to engineer it to reliably to produce an outcome - like heaters with (control) knobs that go from off to full, but are used to produce a temperature level - as in cars! - the correct way (Vorsprung durch technik? - anyone?!) is a calibrated, marked thermostat: you set for 20 degrees, you get close to it! Money... Engineering... cheapjack junk!
Extending dog leads! My doggiest friend likes them, I think she told me they were German (here we go, comments please!), they come in 3 lengths and/or breaking strengths (rat to Fenris), and they are what they are... if you can use it... Terriers terrible for three times round the ankles and... TIMBER!
I've used them, walking friends dogs where leads were wise, if the tyke comes to you, the lead runs in on the spool, (here, funny fishy, my what big teeth...) and you lock it either temporarily or set, and he doesn't have the length to tie you, the lamp-post, another, in a pile-up. | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 4:02:11 AM |
Those oversized exhausts that boy racers bolt onto their cars.
The wings they put on the back of similar cars.
The use of fog lights when there is no fog.
The little blue lights set into their windscreen washer nozzles.
The full four point racing car harness in place of the seat belt.
You've seen Cargys Escort too i see , but missed the fluffy dice !!
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Posted: 4/29/2008 4:09:05 AM | I recall thinking, when looking surprised at something like a toasters range of settings, that it's probably a cheap way for the maker to make devices where the useful settings fall somewhere in the wide range, without having to engineer it to reliably to produce an outcome - like heaters with (control) knobs that go from off to full, but are used to produce a temperature level - as in cars! - the correct way (Vorsprung durch technik? - anyone?!) is a calibrated, marked thermostat: you set for 20 degrees, you get close to it! Money... Engineering... cheapjack junk!
You're obviously not an engineer. The PROPER way to do this is with a toaster with an enclosed space, fully darkened so that a sensor can measure the returned light values from the toast itself, generated by heating elements of a known luminostity.
Your way of dealing with this problem would not be able to distinguish between thin and thick bread, or indeed different bread densities.
THe only way is to measure the colour of the bread directly. Or to have a calibrated thermostat, with settings for thin, thick, dense and light breads, which would be a trifle complicated.
Engineering costs money. you name it, it can be built..........at a price.
Toast is important!!
Especially if it's got Marmite on it.
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Posted: 4/29/2008 4:10:45 AM |
You're obviously not an engineer. The PROPER way to do this is with a toaster with an enclosed space, fully darkened so that a sensor can measure the returned light values from the toast itself, generated by heating elements of a known luminostity.
Your way of dealing with this problem would not be able to distinguish between thin and thick bread, or indeed different bread densities.
Its just toast !! | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 4:10:53 AM | ^^^^ BIG LOL at Mac
Personal sports radio's that only have FM, ummm there aint no sport on FM.
Dustbin liners.
Meals that can only be cooked in the microwave but the writing telling ya is too small to read in a dimly lit supermarket grrr.
Baked Alaska WTF. | |
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Tyke
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Joined: 3/27/2007
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Posted: 4/29/2008 4:34:39 AM | | Probably the best I've seen is the nostril hair wig. Something that Salvador Dali would have loved to twirl, and might have saved Hitler getting a huff in the mornings while he trimmed his natural piece, and hence stopped the second world war. | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 4:54:02 AM | Well, the extending dog lead isn't totally pointless as it gives the dog more freedom, yet it can't completley escape and you end up losing him/her.
Scented bog roll does seem really stupid though. | |
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cargy
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Joined: 10/13/2006
Msg: 19 | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 4:55:37 AM | Scented bog roll does seem really stupid though
Not if you ever have the misfortune to visit Mac's loo after he's had a good clear out!!
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Posted: 4/29/2008 5:19:02 AM |
Not if you ever have the misfortune to visit Mac's loo after he's had a good clear out!!
Lol. | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 6:10:38 AM | I think THE most pointless thing ever...is the 084£5perminute numbers....
Press One .....
Press Two.....
Press Five....
Press One...
Press Nine...
Press Seven....
"Thankyou for calling. Your call is very important to us. Sorry, there is no one available to take your call right now, please call back later"
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Posted: 4/29/2008 6:26:20 AM | Good point Diamond lass, although the major culprits are 0870 numbers which charge at the national rate (and take a slice of your money). 0845 are numbers charged at the local call rate therefore cheaper and there is a cost to the owner (ie the difference between local and the national std dialling rate)
YOU CAN GOOGLE 'SAY NO TO 0870' AND OFTEN AN ALTERNATIVE LANDLINE NUMBER WILL BE PROVIDED also true for some 0845 numbers but you don't save owt unless the std code is local to you. OR:
What really annoys me, a lot of us now receive free local or national calls to STD landline numbers in the evening and weekend as part of our line rental package (or to entice us to sign up). A lot of 0870 numbers take calls during the evening and at the weekend but we can't ring for FREE. I pay a small premium to allow all landline calles 24/7 for free. But I can't ring my Bank, Insurance Company, Electric, Gas etc etc for FREE as they incorporate 0870 numbers (or in my Bank's case 0845 local call rate). Essential services should be forced to offer a STD landline number. Then Service Companies such as Banks, Insurance etc etc should offer a landline number as an alternative for those who get free calls to same. I've just written to my Bank with regard to this after making a complaint after being on hold for 30 mins the other day listening to music. They agreed with me and are going to look into it!! Ho hum
Rant over.
PS If you get a choice of departments to go through to the one always manned and answered astonishingly quickly is the one to cancel your service. Always choose it, then rant like mad for a minute about whatever it is you are ringing about and they'll sort everything for fear of losing your custom. | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 6:32:08 AM |
What do you deem as a useless/pointless invention??. {/quote]
Push notices on locked doors. Grrrrrrr!
Little LED lights on car keys. Like you don't know where the lock is?
Little Kiddie sized boxex of juice that have a peirce hole at the top.. you know, the ones that as soon as you hand them over to a child, the juice is guarenteed to pour our of the straw hole and all over the place.
Toast: = http://www.thetoastshop.co.uk/
Ruffy | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 7:23:24 AM | What do you deem as a useless/pointless invention??.
Keyboards that aren't splash proof. | |
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