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Name: likelystory
Okay a while ago we did the best invention.
I am looking for thoughts of the worst invention or gadget in the past fifty years. That's from 1959 to the present.Mine has to be the cell phone. Yeah they can be great at times but a little over 12 hours ago I was behind a 16 year old boy driving mommy's new BMW and texting to someone. I watched as he went up under the rear end of a dump truck at about fifty miles an hour. He won't be seeing 17. Now yeah you can say he used bad judgement and that cost him his life. Or that his parents should have known he wasn't responsible enough to be behind the wheel, but simple fact is were it not for the popularity of cell phones he would still be alive, and I wouldn't have puked all over the trunk of mommy's freshly crushed BMW.
I don't even think he was paying enough attention to know he was approaching an intersection. He never slowed. I never saw a break light.
Likely
Practice makes perfect but only if you practice perfectly!
Hmmmm...truly a toss-up between the Snuggie and ShamWow. Although I do confess, I find the ShamWow infomercial mesmerizing..."it's like a chamois, a towel, a sponge! You'll say WOW everytime! ®"
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Hey I like the snuggie!!!! lol A bloomin' blanket with sleeves go figure. I want to see the behind the seens look though. Ya know when the old lady gets up to go to the kitchen, gets her feet caught in it an ccccaaaaabloooooeeeee right on her face!!!!
LikelyPractice makes perfect but only if you practice perfectly!
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"...Work the remote, use your laptop or do some reading in total warmth and comfort!..."
The Snuggie is perfect for monks, cults and anyone who's missing a heating furnace!
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LOl Skip,
I have three. Daughters that is. I am the only one with a cam though. Hmmmmm maybe I shouldn't have said that.
LikelyPractice makes perfect but only if you practice perfectly!
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Cablooeeee, right on her face.
Then you have the add on sales of "I've fallen and I can't get up."
We were the unwilling, led by the unqualified, to do the unnecessary, for the ungrateful.
VietNam War Poster
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I have to agree that the cell phone is a horrid invention. I don't own a personal cell but am forced to wear one for work *sigh*
It's like having a second wife...........
I recall some years back, my one stepdaughter, then 14, wanted a cell phone. When she asked for one, I told her I'd have to think about it. She touted the usual, "All my friends have one, and, think how easy it will be to get ahold of me" reasons.The next day I told her I would get her one. She was ecstatic. I told her, "But, if I have to pay for your cell phone, there's one golden rule around you having it and that is:
- you're NEVER allowed to turn it off. If you do, or for any reason whatsoever, you don't answer when I call, I'll take it away from you."
Then I proceeded to tell her that it basically meant I'd have my nose so far up her butt she would think I was her twin. No matter where she went, what she did, I could always check up on her....and I would. She would never be able to go anywhere or do anything without me knowing what she was up to.
She thought about that for a couple hours and then told me she didn't really need a cell phone that bad.
ROFLMAO - saved myself some $$$ that time!
It's all in how you present it......
;)
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This gadget must have killed a bunch of psu's and deserves honorable mention here.
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?in...
Good job Curt; good job. :)
Skip
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Lmao Skip,
I have installed four of those for friends. They work great. lol
Not sure I care for the idea of a sweating can of liquid hanging around some of the most expensive equipment I own. And the idea of connecting something that's main purpose is to create a short circut to a computer was hard to get over.Likely
Practice makes perfect but only if you practice perfectly!
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I'm not sure I agree that the cellphone is the worst invention. I'm not sure how I'd run my business without one. I will say though, that a lot of folks sure are rude and many times unsafe in how and where they use them.
HOWEVER, I think one of the DUMBEST is the texting feature available on most cellphones. Isn't that kind-of like putting an etch-a-sketch on your digital camera?
-- kptech
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re: "I find the ShamWow infomercial mesmerizing"
Better yet is the ShamWow guy's (Vince Shlomi) commercial for the Slap Chop.
Best line: "You're gonna love my nuts."
Best Slap Chop Parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0cg...
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Oh no...I watched it and now I can't get that phrase outta my head!
I actually want a Slap Chop...the gizmo, not a blow to my head...that and The Clapper! Clap on, clap off...The Clapper!
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re: HOWEVER, I think one of the DUMBEST is the texting feature available on most cellphones. Isn't that kind-of like putting an etch-a-sketch on your digital camera?
On the contrary, texting is probably one of the best inventions of all times.
Now that we have a family texting plan, the wife and I are in touch with the kids (and each other) more than we ever were.
It's so much easier to drop a quick line about being late or where they're headed or "Can I get a ride at 6?" or "There's a trooper on 491" than to call for such a simple thing.
My daughter's away at college for the first time (freshman jitters and all that) and we text a quick "Hello" or "Hang in there. I know it's scary" a few times a day just to stay in touch. And we all do it - Mom, Dad, and her siblings. There's no way we'd be able to call her so much but texting takes about 15 seconds and we've made contact.
Then there's group texts to the softball team that the game's been rained out. Ever try to actually get in touch, voice to voice, with fifteen 16 YO girls and make sure they get the message? A group text to their cells phones - and their parent's phones as well - covers everyone in a matter of seconds.
If you took the phone part of my cell phone away and just left me with the texting feature, I'd be quite satisfied.
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"Now that we have a family texting plan, the wife and I are in touch with the kids (and each other) more than we ever were."
I guess I forgot what it's like to keep up with a busy family. My daughter is grown (31) and on her own so it's been awhile. Also, my opinion is probably tainted by how crazy it makes me to see anyone piloting a 2-ton projectile down the highway with their left hand on the wheel and their eyes focused down and to the right instead of on the
targetroad.Hmmm... Maybe a bluetooth interface between the phone and the car that causes the phone to produce an electrical shock whenever texting while the vehicle is in motion... Yea, that'll do it!...
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re: piloting a 2-ton projectile down the highway with their left hand on the wheel
That's the problem right there. You're supposed to text with both hands and pilot the 2-ton projectile with your knee.
That way you get done texting faster and can get back to the business at hand - calling people on your cell phone.
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re: piloting a 2-ton projectile down the highway with their left hand on the wheel
That's the problem right there. You're supposed to text with both hands and pilot the 2-ton projectile with your knee.
Plus having to take a sip of a $4 fancy coffee drink or switch stations using whatever digits are leftover like the pinky toe
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Maybe someone should just invent a cellphone you can text with your knees.
Oh, but then they'd just find something else to do with their hands besides drive -- Like Drinking a Starbucks while smoking and putting on makeup, or... just use your imagination...
ZZZZZZZZZZZaaaaaaaaaaaaPPP!!!
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Just remember "Texting doesn't kill people idots do" and all will be well.
Services for the child I watcehed will be held tomorrow.
Likely
Practice makes perfect but only if you practice perfectly!
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re: Texting doesn't kill people idots do
What's an idot?
Is that a new - and very tiny - gadget from Apple?
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Saber:
Have you ever tried a Hercules Hook?
I think you'd be pleasantly surprised at how well they work.
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"What's an idot? "
Apparently I am when it comes to typing.
Likely
Practice makes perfect but only if you practice perfectly!
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LOL Why thank you Derby. It was my first.
Likely
Practice makes perfect but only if you practice perfectly!
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