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Humans Most Pointless Invention?

  • 01-07-2010 11:54PM
    #1
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭


    Some inventions are really just f*cking stupid. You'd wonder how anybody wasted their time coming up with them - yet also how they became so bloody popular. The wheel, yes, the lightbulb, yes... but what about the pointless ones like plastic things that you can microwave eggs in?

    What would you nominate as the most pointless?

    I nominate air fresheners. Air smells fine to me. Rooms sometimes stink. If they do, I open a window. If the bathroom smells, the last thing I want to smell is a mix of sh*t & "freshly scented pine needles".

    And then there's the carpet fresheners. Yep, like I spend a lot of time going around smelling the f*cking carpet... and when it gets hoovered, the last thing I'm goind to do is throw a load of white powder over it just to give my hoover another load of crap to suck up.

    Yep, air fresheners.


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  • #2
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    I want to work on putting together a Kenitic Vibrator...


  • #3
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzzQvgGzrYM


  • #4
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,985 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Computers. I new they would never come to anything.:rolleyes:


  • #5
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    George Foreman Grill.
    Most houses have one which has been used approximately four times then it's back to the full fat fry off the pan.

    And some form of home gym equipment we all think we're going to use but really masquarades as a clothes hanger in the spare room.


  • #6
    Flojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭Flojo


    Britney Spears!


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  • #7
    Dravokivich
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    Nuts...

    I'd actually replied before I though about what I was saying...

    I've read before about High Def VHS...

    sure that's pretty useless...

    appearently it came out around the same time as DVD's...


  • #8
    laugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    easyeason3 wrote: »
    George Foreman Grill.
    Most houses have one which has been used approximately four times then it's back to the full fat fry off the pan.

    And some form of home gym equipment we all think we're going to use but really masquarades as a clothes hanger in the spare room.

    +1, steppers and frames for doing sit-ups etc.


  • #9
    Scarinae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    I think egg slicers are pretty pointless - why can't you just use a knife? Also, egg piercers. The OP has already mentioned plastic containers for microwaving eggs in, leading me to conclude that there are a lot of pointless egg-related paraphernalia out there


  • #10
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    The useless invention has been raised to an art form in Japan, where it goes under the heading Chindōgu. Examples from this page include the Butter Stick, a grass toilet seat, and training wheels for high-heeled shoes. :cool:

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #11
    Del2005
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    Religion.


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  • #12
    PK2008
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    Motorbike ashtray


  • #13
    frantic190
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    Laser Guided Scissors.


  • #14
    El_Dangeroso
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    bnt wrote: »
    The useless invention has been raised to an art form in Japan, where it goes under the heading Chindōgu. Examples from this page include the Butter Stick, a grass toilet seat, and training wheels for high-heeled shoes. :cool:

    I would totally buy the butter stick, also, cat feet dusters.. ingenious.


  • #15
    Dizraeligears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Dizraeligears


    SIMON COWELL


  • #16
    AnonoBoy
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    The leadless pencil.



    Very pointless.


  • #17
    Gummy Panda
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    bnt wrote: »
    The useless invention has been raised to an art form in Japan, where it goes under the heading Chindōgu. Examples from this page include the Butter Stick, a grass toilet seat, and training wheels for high-heeled shoes. :cool:

    Thats what happens to you when you get nuked


  • #18
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Temple_Grandin wrote: »
    I would totally buy the butter stick, also, cat feet dusters.. ingenious.

    Stay away from the Shopping Channel. You'd be broke in no time.


  • #19
    SoulTrader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭SoulTrader


    Fishie wrote: »
    I think egg slicers are pretty pointless - why can't you just use a knife? Also, egg piercers. The OP has already mentioned plastic containers for microwaving eggs in, leading me to conclude that there are a lot of pointless egg-related paraphernalia out there
    Yeah, what is it about eggs? I used to work in a restaurant and we had this thing for frying eggs that you would place over an egg to keep the egg-white in a perfect circle, and stop it running all over the pan.


  • #20
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    The leadless pencil.



    Very pointless.

    All pencils are leadless anyway.


  • #21
    SoulTrader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭SoulTrader


    Non-alcoholic beer. What is the f***ing point?


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  • #22
    Biggins
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    The cigarette!


  • #23
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    Fishie wrote: »
    I think egg slicers are pretty pointless - why can't you just use a knife? Also, egg piercers. The OP has already mentioned plastic containers for microwaving eggs in, leading me to conclude that there are a lot of pointless egg-related paraphernalia out there

    Agreed!! Basically everything in the Kleeneze/Betterware catalogue's are a total waste of time..............


  • #24
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    SoulTrader wrote: »
    Non-alcoholic beer. What is the f***ing point?

    That's like getting a massage without a "happy ending".


  • #25
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,372 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Minimizer bras. Seriously why would anyone want those?


  • #26
    SugarHigh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭SugarHigh


    Butt Plugs

    What the hell do they with them?

    Ok I know they put them up their bums but then what?


  • #27
    Biggins
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    That's like getting a massage without a "happy ending".
    Aaa but you haven't drank the bottle obviously and then played spin the bottle with a ring of naked female girls have you?

    Now there is where you will find you "happy ending" but thats a different story/thread! :D


  • #28
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    SugarHigh wrote: »
    Butt Plugs

    What the hell do they with them?

    Ok I know they put them pp their bums but then what?

    Then they pop them in the top of an unfinished bottle of wine. The arse lube helps the plug to go into the bottle easier & also gives a nice "earthy" aroma to the wine.


  • #29
    Biggins
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    SugarHigh wrote: »
    Butt Plugs

    What the hell do they with them?

    Ok I know they put them pp their bums but then what?
    My little grasshopper, one has a lot to learn yet! :o


  • #30
    Freefaller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭Freefaller


    anti-wrinkle cream


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  • #31
    CreepingDeath
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    the wheel clamp.

    The idea is to stop someone from parking somewhere, but they end up staying in the same place for longer.


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