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Utterly Stupid and Ridiculous 'Inventions' that are only pure waste of money

  • 30-09-2020 12:37pm
    #1
    Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lately I've noticed a definite uptick in madcap ideas nearly all online.
    A sizable proportion begin with the line
    "Employee was fired for making this suggestion....he then went to to found his own thriving business" (Drones)
    "This is the highest product in demand for this ailment" ...
    "Exercise anywhere with this"...
    The latest one is for a "cool looking" pair of techie spectacles.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Red Bull. Tastes rank, it's expensive. Nobody will ever touch the stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    The ones that annoy me are usually something that basically does nothing new, but convinces people they need it while charges several multiples of the price of another product.

    Nutribullet, for example. It's a blender specifically for blending individual portions of food, and costs anywhere from 3 to ten times more than a normal blender. For no reason at all. A standard blender will do everything a Nutribullet does, plus it will also make large batches of food. For a fraction of the price.


  • Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭Dr. Steve Brule


    Bargain Alerts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Twitter


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭monty_python


    This thread


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    self driving cars


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    seamus wrote: »

    Nutribullet, for example. It's a blender specifically for blending individual portions of food, and costs anywhere from 3 to ten times more than a normal blender. For no reason at all. A standard blender will do everything a Nutribullet does, plus it will also make large batches of food. For a fraction of the price.


    Totally disagree sorry.... we have a blender , we bought a ninja blender , ... same as a nutrabullet.....

    Love it !!!! Takes up feck all room on counter and easy peasy to clean ..... I use it all the time .... ice crusher , smoothies, making omelettes.....

    If it was to break today I'd go straight out and buy another...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 Webuser.


    Half the crap on amazon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,711 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    Webuser. wrote: »
    Half the crap on amazon

    The other half

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,395 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Spiralizers


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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    7 minute abs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,553 ✭✭✭murphyebass


    Totally disagree sorry.... we have a blender , we bought a ninja blender , ... same as a nutrabullet.....

    Love it !!!! Takes up feck all room on counter and easy peasy to clean ..... I use it all the time .... ice crusher , smoothies, making omelettes.....

    If it was to break today I'd go straight out and buy another...

    +1

    I use mine daily for smoothies. It came with a 500ml and 1ltr container too so plenty big enough to make 2 large smoothies and small enough to sit out if site on the counter but still there when needed.

    I used to have a big blender but never used it as it was too big to leave out on the counter so in a press out of site out of mind.

    The ease of clean is a big factor for me as well. Just so quick to clean, quick drain dry and back on the machine itself.

    First world problems really but I’ve come to the conclusion in life that if it works for you do it regardless of the price to a certain extent.

    What’s the point in buying a cheap item that does a similar job if you don’t use it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭steve-o


    Juicero. At least it died quickly.


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    xzanti wrote: »
    7 minute abs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,637 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    The other half

    Did anyone else read this as "Calahonda's wife"

    And see that it fitted the thread?

    And laughed :D


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Dyson mattress vacuum. Used it like 2, 500e well spent...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    E voting machines.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    Subscription meditation apps such as Headspace and Calm.

    I consider myself an advanced meditator at this stage, and all you need is a chair or mat, and an open and inquisitive mind.

    If you do feel you need the support of a guided meditation then this app is free and does everything the others do only without the flashy graphics and cynical marketing: https://www.oakmeditation.com/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,511 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Selife sticks.

    Like how many actual selfies are you gonna take that you think it's worth buying and carrying on your person that would make it a worthwhile investment. And it's not like you can just stick them in your pocket either just in case you need it unexpectedly.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Blondini


    Definitely the invention of the word "uptick" which is everywhere now, including the OP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Red Bull. Tastes rank, it's expensive. Nobody will ever touch the stuff.

    I’d buy a can just to give the owner kudos. All his US execs were getting into all that woke shyte, he found out what they were up to and fired them all. Legend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,651 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    tumblr_mfphk1v7Cp1rm4a7jo5_r1_400.gif


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Those airpod style headphones. You look like a wanker from 10 years ago with a bluetooth earpiece for taking calls.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,497 ✭✭✭auspicious


    A spork.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,052 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Those airpod style headphones. You look like a wanker from 10 years ago with a bluetooth earpiece for taking calls.


    Especially when you see they are clear fakes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭wally1990


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Selife sticks.

    Like how many actual selfies are you gonna take that you think it's worth buying and carrying on your person that would make it a worthwhile investment. And it's not like you can just stick them in your pocket either just in case you need it unexpectedly.

    Say that to the Asians , Christ they love selfies and their selfie sticks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,052 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    tumblr_mfphk1v7Cp1rm4a7jo5_r1_400.gif
    I want to buy this :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭Nexytus


    Especially when you see they are clear fakes.

    Whoever the **** is saying Kayleigh Byrnes AirPods are fake there poxy not so shutyizar mouths right!.. I have them AirPods and at the back of them it ****ing says apple AirPods get yizar ****ing facts right you’s big handicap SPAS!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    VaginaMilk


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Actually have just spent the last 30 minutes browsing the Louis Vuitton site.

    What an unadulterated pile of **** the clobber on there is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Those airpod style headphones. You look like a wanker from 10 years ago with a bluetooth earpiece for taking calls.

    Actually I used to think this but they are very practical. Good for running and you don't spent stupid amounts of time untying knots from the cabling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Thigh master.

    Really really light weights. There is no point.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Actually have just spent the last 30 minutes browsing the Louis Vuitton site.

    What an unadulterated pile of **** the clobber on there is.
    They keep the good stuff for 'certain customers' we can't afford it.

    Its usually the stuff without a visable logo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭NSAman


    Almond Milk...

    They simply call it Almond milk cause few would buy it if it was called “ Nut Juice”


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    Airpods. Bluetooth in general isn't great for sound quality but there have been vastly better options for wireless headphones/earphones for years now. Well done, you bought mediocre apple ear phones without a wire and look like you yet again couldn't think for yourself. Same with anyone who gets the new iPhone year in and year out.

    Expensive branded gym wear, you're there to get a sweat on, not look good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,302 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    55485711e99f590c2adc8fc7-large.jpg?cache_buster=6c4d08848937d8b45c1935f731073a45

    '2 PCS Mop Slippers Lazy Quick House Floor Polishing Dusting Cleaning Foot Socks Shoe lovers shoes(color random)'

    $1

    Sh*t like this should be banned.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    seamus wrote: »
    The ones that annoy me are usually something that basically does nothing new, but convinces people they need it while charges several multiples of the price of another product.

    Nutribullet, for example. It's a blender specifically for blending individual portions of food, and costs anywhere from 3 to ten times more than a normal blender. For no reason at all. A standard blender will do everything a Nutribullet does, plus it will also make large batches of food. For a fraction of the price.


    Have to disagree on the Nutri-bullet.



    I just use it for making fruit drinks but it pulverises eveything, You could stick chicken bones in the mofo along with the kale and berries and they would be liquidised.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭bobbyy gee


    xzanti wrote: »
    7 minute abs.
    I just invented 1 minute abs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    JML stuff.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Funko Pops. Ugly blobs of plastic.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Dyson mattress vacuum. Used it like 2, 500e well spent...

    Dyson vacuums are really poor products. Plasticky, gimmicky, a triumph of advertising and marketing over functionality and performance.

    If you’ve bought one then you’ve fallen for the idea they are actually doing something different than other hoovers that cost a 3rd of the price.

    They aren’t.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,591 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    self driving cars

    Not stupid or ridiculous in any way and will definitely happen in the future and will be safer than people driving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Red Bull. Tastes rank, it's expensive. Nobody will ever touch the stuff.

    Except the millions of people who drink it daily/regularly. I love the taste of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Everything in the middle isles in Aldi/Lidl.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Not stupid or ridiculous in any way and will definitely happen in the future and will be safer than people driving.



    yeah they have really proven themselves to be very safe so far.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,280 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    yeah they have really proven themselves to be very safe so far.

    What, like human drivers?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Banana holders.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,494 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    tumblr_mfphk1v7Cp1rm4a7jo5_r1_400.gif
    I want to buy this :D

    i bought one of these as a secret santa (after seeing one on the fargo tv series)

    it wasnt appreciated


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    What, like human drivers?




    Yes but there is something very scary about a machine doing something stupid and killing you. no control at all. some think self driving cars might never come to reality. im glad they are decades away anyway.


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