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The World's Greatest Inventions

DaviesDavies
edited October 2011 in General Chat
What do you think are the world's greatest inventions?

Also, in your opinion, what are the world's most useless inventions?

I'll start...
GREATEST:

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The microwave...

Because I like having something hot to eat following a drunken night of debauchery. Radiation fears and good health be damned, praise be the 3 minute fries.

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It's the box of clamy, tasteless delights.




USELESS:

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PS2 stand...

Because it's not like you could just balance the bloody thing is it?!
Nnnoooooooo, you need to invest to make use of the laws of physics and gravity (or so Sony would have you believe).

Comments

  • doodo!doodo!
    edited October 2011
    I don't like being drunk and the microwave scares me and your feet smell...

    I don't like him....

    IM KIDDING! HAHAHA! Did I get you? At what part were you convinced?

    Ok, great inventions, well, you know me, things like true love and all of that. It's all I really care about. This computer is a great tool to talk to you about things, but it also spread the entertainment industry like wild fire. Everything we do can be abused...it's hard to say what technology was the greatest invention...

    True love I guess if it can exist. I'm working on that concept on and off between rants about our species.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited October 2011
    I like sliced bread myself. I can never cut straight pieces.
  • DaviesDavies
    edited October 2011
    doodo! wrote: »
    True love I guess if it can exist.

    Unless you're counting God or Mother Nature as an inventor, I'm pretty sure that's not an invention.

    Maybe I should have titled this thread as "The World's Greatest Human Inventions" but I didn't foresee the need to. I guess I didn't count upon Doodo logic.
    Alcoremortis wrote: »
    I like sliced bread myself. I can never cut straight pieces.

    Indeed, hence the saying "the greatest invention since sliced bread." I wonder if sliced bread is the greatest invention since fire. If so, that must make the toaster the greatest invention since sliced bread.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited October 2011
    Davies wrote: »
    Indeed, hence the saying "the greatest invention since sliced bread." I wonder if sliced bread is the greatest invention since fire. If so, that must make the toaster the greatest invention since sliced bread.

    This is a worthy topic for further research.

    Personally, I like sliced bread so that I can engage in one of my other favorite inventions: the toasted sandwich. Generally, I prefer grilled cheese and tuna melts. Either one is fantastic and much easier with evenly sliced bread.
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited October 2011
    Davies wrote: »
    The microwave...

    When I was a kid I had a neighbour who wouldn't use a microwave, claiming that it "reverses the polarity of food". I asked why he didn't just microwave his stuff twice... we didn't talk much after that.
  • supmandude85supmandude85
    edited October 2011
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  • divisiontendivisionten
    edited October 2011
    supmandude85 wrote: »
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    It. Exists.

    They gave it out in our earthquake disaster boxes when I lived in Japan. Although it's more like a canned muffin and looks like this:

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    Has your head exploded yet?
  • RibsRibs
    edited October 2011
    Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin because Eli Whitney is a BAMF
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  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited October 2011
    Best Invention:

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    (Toilet paper)

    I wouldn't want to live in a world without it, would you?


    Worst Invention:
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    Not really an invention but the worst life-form on this planet.
  • DaviesDavies
    edited October 2011
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    Best Invention:

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    (Toilet paper)

    I wouldn't want to live in a world without it, would you?

    Actually, in certain areas of India and South East Asia, they don't use toilet paper; just water. However, I certainly am glad that somebody invented toilet paper.
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    Worst Invention:
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    Not really an invention but the worst life-form on this planet.

    But... it's so cute and fluffy! Surely this is a more heinous "invention"...
    [snip (it was a naked man)]
    You see what I did there?
  • VeronicanPlayVeronicanPlay
    edited October 2011
    Duct tape.
  • DaviesDavies
    edited October 2011
    VeronicanPlay wrote: »
    Duct tape.
    Surely you meant to say...

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  • lizbethlizardlizbethlizard
    edited October 2011
    Worst invention:
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    High heels for babies? Very heelarious.
  • VeronicanPlayVeronicanPlay
    edited October 2011
    Davies wrote: »
    Surely you meant to say...

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    Haha, very funny. :p But I am not really a fan on that show. I am more into Darkwing Duck, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers and Talespin. :)

    But after the Duct Tape thread, I am amazed what you can do with it.
    Flip flops, dresses, hats you name it. And it can fix everything; A car door has fallen off you say? Use some duct tape. :p

    (Why is Huey cross eyed?)
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited October 2011
    Davies wrote: »
    But... it's so cute and fluffy!

    Well yeah but we don't need it any more since we have toilet paper.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited October 2011
    Ribs wrote: »
    Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin because Eli Whitney is a BAMF
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    Wasn't the cotton gin a strong drink that allowed one man to do the work of fifty?
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited October 2011
    The printing press has been one of the most revolutionary inventions of the past millennium.
  • DaviesDavies
    edited October 2011
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    Well yeah but we don't need it any more since we have toilet paper.

    I may not agree with you but damn, that's funny!:D
  • supmandude85supmandude85
    edited October 2011
    divisionten wrote: »
    It. Exists.

    They gave it out in our earthquake disaster boxes when I lived in Japan. Although it's more like a canned muffin and looks like this:

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    divisionten wrote: »
    Has your head exploded yet?

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    So yeah, duct tape.
  • Sausy GibbonSausy Gibbon
    edited October 2011
    Worst invention the spork: doesn't have the same stabbing and leverage as a fork and you can't eat soup with it like a spoon. This goes for all cutlery combinations.
  • RibsRibs
    edited October 2011
    Sausy Gibbon wrote: »
    Worst invention the spork: doesn't have the same stabbing and leverage as a fork and you can't eat soup with it like a spoon. This goes for all cutlery combinations.

    Best invention:
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    Knife-wrench
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited October 2011
    For kids!
  • DaviesDavies
    edited October 2011
    GuruGuru214 wrote: »
    For kids!
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    Yeah. You know, for kids!
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