Useless Things That will Hasten the Demise of Civilisation

rolf_f

Waddlie wrote:

It's not the actual iPhones I hate, it's the people that own them. And if you dare to suggest you don't want one, they think you're jealous! They need D-locking, the lot of them. Charlie Brooker had it about right:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/10/charlie-brooker-iphone

Wise words from Charlie Brooker there - and only Apple could make the mere sound of a harmless 3 letter abbreviation intensely irritating. Hear this Apple - it is an application; that's a-p-p-l-i-c-a-t-i-o-n. You don't have to use the twee abbreviation ALL the time. No, really you don't. Besides, who are you advertising to? Surely all the tiresome Apple heads have already got a bloody app filled i-phone. The rest of us don't give an i-shite.

Jay dubbleU

Have you never heard of open software ?

suzyb

Always Tyred wrote:

Nope you can't have all alcohol. But I'll give you alcopops and anything made by Tennants, or Devonshire Monks. And rum. I don't like rum.

No sorry no Tennants either. Father would be lost without his lager. Really as a man how could you hate any company that had semi naked women adorning the cans.

Rolf F wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

And the evil empire of Microsoft please

But then this forum would vanish

Probably not although most people wouldn't be able to view it.

Forum uses php so more than likely not using a server running an MS OS.

rolf_f

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Have you never heard of open software ?

Yes but most people haven't.........

thel33ter

Yes finally, a thread about things that will Hasten the Demise of Civilisation that hasn't mentioned:
:twisted: Lord Mandleson :twisted:

desweller

Satnav.

Ohhh man.

waddlie

DesWeller wrote:

Satnav.

Ohhh man.

+EleventyOne. Can't stand the things.

stuaff

Rolf F wrote:

Waddlie wrote:

It's not the actual iPhones I hate, it's the people that own them. And if you dare to suggest you don't want one, they think you're jealous! They need D-locking, the lot of them. Charlie Brooker had it about right:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/10/charlie-brooker-iphone

Wise words from Charlie Brooker there - and only Apple could make the mere sound of a harmless 3 letter abbreviation intensely irritating. Hear this Apple - it is an application; that's a-p-p-l-i-c-a-t-i-o-n. You don't have to use the twee abbreviation ALL the time. No, really you don't. Besides, who are you advertising to? Surely all the tiresome Apple heads have already got a bloody app filled i-phone. The rest of us don't give an i-shite.

I might be one of those 'tiresome Apple heads' (currently typing this on one of my two Macs, the fourth and fifth I have owned), but I do not have an iPhone. I might buy one (or a competing product if it does everything I want) at some point, but I'm in no rush. Yup, some of the naming conventions Apple adopts are a pain, the inability/unwillingness to address certain deficiencies in hardware & software.....and Windows isn't that bad (running 7 RC on my Mac Pro). But I prefer OS X anyway. And I can run Linux too if I want. Microsoft is as bad as Apple for stupid foibles. All those versions of Vista and 7, that bloody User Access Control....

OldSkoolKona

Greg66 wrote:

The fecking internet. And specifically discussion forums.

Ah, but by 2020, someone will no doubt have invented a method of turning the energy expended by people posting on internet forums into a means of powering the world.

Jay dubbleU

thel33ter wrote:

Yes finally, a thread about things that will Hasten the Demise of Civilisation that hasn't mentioned:
:twisted: Lord Mandleson :twisted:

Spawn of the Devil - although he does ride a Brompton

cambs

The only point of those stretchy long dog leads that i can fathom is to allow the animal to excrete on our garden whilst affording the owner the luxury of not committing trespass.
Why not just let their pet roam free?

Fireblade96

4x4s that can't even go offroad - particularly BMW X5s and Volvo XC90s (the car of choice of the Caversham Yummy Mummy - no doubt so that their inability to reverse will damage others more than them)

Supermarket packaging +lots

Ready-peeled vegetables and fruit. Microwave-ready mashed potatoes, fer feck's sake what's difficult about making mashed spuds ?

Oh, and the Daily Mail :evil:

fenboy369

FaceBook. Without that maybe my wife would learn where abouts the iron is....

bikey2009

Health and Safety legistlation.

working at height assesments for working on a 12 inch high platform...........

courses for using a ladder............

assessing the angle of your computer screen and chair................

postmen/women using tight letter boxes.................

no wonder we are being told not to go out in the snow!!

jonginge

bikey2009 wrote:

Health and Safety legistlation.

working at height assesments for working on a 12 inch high platform...........

courses for using a ladder............

assessing the angle of your computer screen and chair................

postmen/women using tight letter boxes.................

no wonder we are being told not to go out in the snow!!

It's political correctness gone mad, Stu

deptfordmarmoset

cambs wrote:

The only point of those stretchy long dog leads that i can fathom is to allow the animal to excrete on our garden whilst affording the owner the luxury of not committing trespass.
Why not just let their pet roam free?

+multiples of many!

If you can't train your dog to obey, an extendible lead doesn't mean you're in control, it just means your untrained dog can't escape even though you have no control over the yapper. (I learned this on cycle paths)

suzyb

bikey2009 wrote:

Health and Safety legistlation.

working at height assesments for working on a 12 inch high platform...........

courses for using a ladder............

assessing the angle of your computer screen and chair................

postmen/women using tight letter boxes.................

no wonder we are being told not to go out in the snow!!

Yeah, caught the news today about one of the few primary schools that was open. But because of health and safety the kids weren't allowed out at break time.

Playing in the snow never did us any harm, snowball fights, making slides, building snowmen. We survived all of those "dangerous" activities. Yet now the poor kids already missing out because they have to go to school miss out on the little fun they'd have at break because the H&S executive says it's too dangerous.

waddlie

bikey2009 wrote:

Health and Safety legistlation.

working at height assesments for working on a 12 inch high platform...........

courses for using a ladder............

assessing the angle of your computer screen and chair................

postmen/women using tight letter boxes.................

no wonder we are being told not to go out in the snow!!

I think you'll be needing one of these:

http://www.ocsmedia.net/subscribe.aspx?title_code=ML

Limburger

bikey2009 wrote:

Health and Safety legistlation.

working at height assesments for working on a 12 inch high platform...........

courses for using a ladder............

assessing the angle of your computer screen and chair................

postmen/women using tight letter boxes.................

no wonder we are being told not to go out in the snow!!

This was made for you...not one for work though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LQXskmQWIg

Lakesman

jimmypippa wrote:

DesWeller wrote:

The auto-cancel on the indicators on my car.

They always cancel the indicators when I don't want them to, and don't cancel them when I do!

I used to take them off my old cars, but modern cars are too complicated for me :-(

Whilst we are at it the trend for starting the wash je on a windscreen to strt the wipers going.

The best combination I had of wash/wipers was a VW Beetle, where the wash was powered pneumatically from the spare tyre, you could actually control how the water went.

exactly. you squirt to see if your washer fluid has unfrozen; it hasn't ...so the wipers scratch the icy windscreen 6 times anyway.....grrrr

Wallace1492

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

Waddlie wrote:

I'd also uninvent iPhones.

Can you please uninvent the entire awful Apple corporation while you are at it, taaa

And the evil empire of Microsoft please

Wthout these - Apple and Microsoft, we would be having this debate on parchments, delivered bt courier pigeon, my a whole page would take a month and a few dozen pigeons!!

Canny Jock

Powerballs.

Cheshley

lost_in_thought wrote:

My car has an automatic rear vision mirror, it has a light sensor and dims itself to stop you being dazzled by headlights behind you. Very useful indeed.

My Girlfriend's car has this too, just one of the many fantastic features of our blue VW Bora 1.9TDi Sport with the FOR SALE sign in the window........

_Brun_

Sadly I have neither the time nor inclination to track back through five pages of this trivial dross.

However, has anyone suggested that the downfall of civilisation could actually be caused by the Bike Radar Commuting General forum?

Wheelspinner

Here's the most useless thing ever seen...

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Wheelspinner

Grrrr..Perhaps I'm the most useless... how do you post an inline pic here???

Here's the link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/46121102@N05/4252181563/

Trailradar

Wallace1492 wrote:

The thread about the CO2 cartridges got me thinking.
What gadgets, things, inventions have we got that are useless or a waste of space or that we should really live without.

What should we uninvent, I dont mean the obvious things like bombs, guns etc. What modern gadgets are just pants.

I start with:

Travelators - escalators I get, but not on the flat!
Running machines - get outside (same with turbo trainers)
Patio heaters - just so wrong

what would we do without bombs and guns when we have crazy lunatics like Hitler and other crazy nuts from around the world ready to push the red button - we would be up sh!ts creek without a paddle!!!! the more bombs, guns and weapons we have the least likely we are to be screwed by other countries - as they say - peace through greater firepower.

If guns were not invented we would just go to war with swords, and old skool weapons like vats of burning oil. Okay, if bombs were uninvnted we could just be creative or imporvise and use portable chemical toilets instead after a canning at Glastonbury festivaand chuck othem out pf the plane over enemy grounds! Wahaay!

moonio

Attica wrote:

electric can openers
most electric gadgets in a car (seat adjustment, wing mirrors, sunroof)
electric bicycles (so popular now in China that obesity is rapidly becoming a problem)
and of course
electric salt and pepper mills

I have both an e-bike and e-pepper mill...yes the e-bike is a bit of a waste of space now that I have harry but the e-pepper mill???...Mines made by porsche or someone and its great..I would urge everyone to go to TK Maxx and buy one

rolf_f

All of the above are minor, trivial irritations. The truly worst thing ever to have been invented is....






























The iPOD. If I had a choice of uninventing the A bomb or the iPOD, I'd probably uninvent the iPOD. At least there are arguable benefits from the A Bomb. The iPOD has made public transport intolerable and turned most of the population into witless zombies doomed never to have a flash of inspiration and invent something great because their ability to think will have long since been lost. I daren't think how many genuinely great ideas have already not been thought of because people aren't thinking anymore. The zombie of the future won't be the undead - just the iPOD addict!

attica

Wheelspinner wrote:

Grrrr..Perhaps I'm the most useless... how do you post an inline pic here???

Here's the link

Go to the flickr page, right click on the photo and select the properties, then copy and paste the url from that