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Worlds worst inventions
« on: 25/10/2005 00:40:27 »

Any way if the pic doesnt show up its a solar power flashlight.
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Re: Worlds worst inventions
« Reply #1 on: 25/10/2005 00:53:42 »
Can you guys find any pics for these?

1.A book of how to read
2.Glow in the dark sunglases
3.Inflatable dart board
4.Screen door submarine
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Re: Worlds worst inventions
« Reply #2 on: 25/10/2005 03:04:26 »
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Originally posted by i_have_no_idea

Can you guys find any pics for these?


3.Inflatable dart board






tadaa !![;)]

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Re: Worlds worst inventions
« Reply #3 on: 25/10/2005 18:28:16 »
People need to learn to read by reading so a book isn't exactly that crazy a medium to read from [:D]. Plus a solar powered torch has a battery it charges up so they are fairly well designed. When you don't want them they charge, when you want to use them they are ready! An inflatable dart board allows you to have it on the back of a door or something; and the inflatable bit stops you damaging what's behind or making lots of noise. Glow in the dark sunglasses are a bit pointless unless you need to find them indoors where you have the curtains closed and then go out into the sunshine. I don't even know what you mean by "Screen door submarine".

Book image hot linked from http://www.amazon.co.uk



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« Reply #4 on: 26/10/2005 00:07:43 »
The hi-tech ballistic missile submarine from "Whoops Apocalypse", the boo;

Length:            850 feet Beam   88 feet
Displacement:      60,927 tons submerged
Speed   Official:       60-62 knots submerged
Operating Depth :       1650 feet test depth
Hull:   Field-stressed titanium telluride laminate
Crew:   13 Officers, 116 Enlisted
Armamment:  36 Sea Nymph ICBMs (360 MRV gigaton warheads)
Range: 12,000 miles
Remarks: Soluble in sea water

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Re: Worlds worst inventions
« Reply #5 on: 05/02/2006 00:45:56 »
LIKE CILLA SAID: WHATS HER NAME AND WHERE DID SHE COME FROM ?


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« Reply #6 on: 06/02/2006 10:00:47 »
Presumably you're referring to HMS Victory perched in the background on the left ?

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Re: Worlds worst inventions
« Reply #7 on: 07/02/2006 14:25:18 »
The Atomic Bomb

"The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct."
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« Reply #8 on: 07/02/2006 16:09:22 »
I certainly agree with you Andrew about the A Bomb....but I believe it was inevitable anyway.

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Re: Worlds worst inventions
« Reply #9 on: 07/02/2006 17:08:21 »
If it wasn't for the venetian blinds, it would be certainly be curtains for all of us.
And to make a Venetian blind, you need a stabbing motion with a sharp stick.

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Re: Worlds worst inventions
« Reply #10 on: 07/02/2006 20:40:04 »
The cellphone!

Self important managers walk up and down the office blurting out crap to other managers. Why can't they sit at their desk and make the call?

Morons who get in your way walking slowly composing a text. Oblivious to all around them and stepping out into the road without looking.

Drivers who use them without paying attention to the road.

I don't want to hear other people's one-way conversations on the train!

No escape from work colleagues who don't appreciate you are having a day off, they would know this if they dialled your desk phone first.

Irritating tunes. It wasn't funny the first time so it won't be for the eigh- undreth time.

Who really needs a phone that downloads music and videos, connects to the internet, mows the lawn and receives celebrity gossip unsolicited?

not me matey!

Civilisation came a log way before these damned things were invented.


yes I do have one!






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Re: Worlds worst inventions
« Reply #11 on: 07/02/2006 21:39:49 »
I resisted getting a mobile phone for as long as I could. I'm not a
big user and have them now only for emergencies. I hate them too.
What really pisses me off is when I give way to a girly in her BMW
X5 doing the school run and she drives pass me on the bloody phone
and doing her make up too, and I don't even get a thank you !!!...I
mean these people have the right to vote...sheeeesh !!


Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!
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Re: Worlds worst inventions
« Reply #12 on: 07/02/2006 22:56:48 »
quote:
Originally posted by neilep

...give way to a girly in her BMW
X5 doing the school run and she drives pass me on the bloody phone
and doing her make up too, and I don't even get a thank you !!!...I
mean these people have the right to vote...sheeeesh !!


Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!



Why didn't you threw your cellPhone at her. That's a practical use, and you have some fun

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Re: Worlds worst inventions
« Reply #13 on: 12/02/2006 11:31:44 »
Dont get me wrong, I hate cell phones as much as the rest of us here but if I didnt have mine I wouldnt be with my beautiful girlfriend, thats the first step in getting a girl, to get her number. I owe everything to my phone. Im sure everyone can understand this its true that its impossible to get a girl without calling her and who uses land lines anymore.

My conclusions, its not the phone thats the problem its the idiot who's on it.........
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