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What is the worst invention created by man? I vote man-thong.
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Oooh I found some really great ones.
http://thechuckler.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dumb_inventions_06.jpg
This is a baby cage. The baby cage provides people who do not have a garden and live in appartment buildings the opportunity to provide their babies with time outside in the form of suspending them from a window over a busy city street.
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This clever invention allows you to smoke outside while it's raining... that is unless there is any wind from any direction at all whatsoever.
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Life says it best: The shower hood, for the woman who likes to put makeup on her dirty face.
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This is the cigarette pack holder. Think you look cool holding a cigarette? Imagine being able to simultaniously smoke 20 of them! Genius.
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Again, Life] says it best: The Phone Answering Robot, A robot designed by Claus Scholz of Vienna answers the phone, though it cannot speak. Halfway there, Claus.
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The cigarette holder built for two. Now I can share a cigarette with my boyfriend without actually having to touch him, or touch anything with my mouth that he touched with his mouth. Perfect for your born again christian ex drug addict, and your swine-flu-pandemic enthusiast alike.
There are 24 more where that came from on the same article. If you have time, check them out.
This is a baby cage. The baby cage provides people who do not have a garden and live in appartment buildings the opportunity to provide their babies with time outside in the form of suspending them from a window over a busy city street.
This clever invention allows you to smoke outside while it's raining... that is unless there is any wind from any direction at all whatsoever.
Life says it best: The shower hood, for the woman who likes to put makeup on her dirty face.
This is the cigarette pack holder. Think you look cool holding a cigarette? Imagine being able to simultaniously smoke 20 of them! Genius.
Again, Life] says it best: The Phone Answering Robot, A robot designed by Claus Scholz of Vienna answers the phone, though it cannot speak. Halfway there, Claus.
The cigarette holder built for two. Now I can share a cigarette with my boyfriend without actually having to touch him, or touch anything with my mouth that he touched with his mouth. Perfect for your born again christian ex drug addict, and your swine-flu-pandemic enthusiast alike.
There are 24 more where that came from on the same article. If you have time, check them out.
voted helpful: brian san
I don't know. I think some of my ganja smoking friends would enjoy the last one..
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hmmm... never thought of that, you're probably right! :)
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Along that line, the "Banana" Hammock.
My more serious side would say nerve gas.
My more serious side would say nerve gas.
voted helpful: lilyloretta
Hialrious and disturbing. Mostly disturbing!! WTF? What are these guys thinking???
When I see a guy in a banana hammock, I wish I had nerve gas. For BOTH of us.
When I see a guy in a banana hammock, I wish I had nerve gas. For BOTH of us.
LOL yup, thank you for your support!
lol, yeah, that's a bad one...
I would say our worst invention so far has been a tie between the atomic bomb, and the private banking system. Both destroy lives, cause people to live in fear, and put too much power into too few hands. I probably sound like I'm being sarcastic, but I honestly think that private banks have destroyed our country with greed, fraud, and somehow the power to just get away with out-and-out robbing the entire country so that a few men could become richer and more powerful.
I would say our worst invention so far has been a tie between the atomic bomb, and the private banking system. Both destroy lives, cause people to live in fear, and put too much power into too few hands. I probably sound like I'm being sarcastic, but I honestly think that private banks have destroyed our country with greed, fraud, and somehow the power to just get away with out-and-out robbing the entire country so that a few men could become richer and more powerful.
voted helpful: lilyloretta
voted unhelpful: srgothard
Yeah... the private banking system's a bad one. That's what led to fractional-reserve banking, which enabled the financial crisis of a year ago, among other things.
One of the secrets to Japan's success after WWII was that they had a social banking system managed by the post office where they could put their money and it would be safe and they got maximum interest because none of the profits had to be fed to a few private shareholders (which also means their money was never used to make risky investments in order to maximize profits for the private owners, so their money was always safe) but some evil forces from the world of global finance saw it as a huge unopened oyster (plus it was embarrassing them) so somehow they managed to wrangle the governing LDP party of Japan into allowing the post-office to be privatized.
That means Japanese savers will now get lower interest rates because the owners will insist on squeezing profits on what used to be a cost-service business, plus they have to worry about the owners getting greedy and making risky investments, and thus jeopardizing their savings... that might have had a lot to do with why the Japanese finally kicked out the LDP party after 50 years.
One of the secrets to Japan's success after WWII was that they had a social banking system managed by the post office where they could put their money and it would be safe and they got maximum interest because none of the profits had to be fed to a few private shareholders (which also means their money was never used to make risky investments in order to maximize profits for the private owners, so their money was always safe) but some evil forces from the world of global finance saw it as a huge unopened oyster (plus it was embarrassing them) so somehow they managed to wrangle the governing LDP party of Japan into allowing the post-office to be privatized.
That means Japanese savers will now get lower interest rates because the owners will insist on squeezing profits on what used to be a cost-service business, plus they have to worry about the owners getting greedy and making risky investments, and thus jeopardizing their savings... that might have had a lot to do with why the Japanese finally kicked out the LDP party after 50 years.
I think the Text Message may be the worst invention.
While convenient - texting takes the human element away fro ma convo.
I sat there and texted my best friend thru the entire Green Bay/Minnesota game and after the 20th message, I wondered why the hell we weren't just talking...
Of course, then again, the atom bomb was pretty bad too...
While convenient - texting takes the human element away fro ma convo.
I sat there and texted my best friend thru the entire Green Bay/Minnesota game and after the 20th message, I wondered why the hell we weren't just talking...
Of course, then again, the atom bomb was pretty bad too...
Really? I love texting... it may have taken some of the "human element" but it's' so much more convenient. I don't have to to devote my entire concentration to a conversation for any amount of time,.. maybe a little inpersonal, but most of the interactions I have through texting are not of a personal nature anyways... things like breaking up or telling someone I have cancer I would reserve for a face-to-face convo anyway.... :)
voted helpful: jeffhoard, gno, krazykatie
I love this invention. Imagine an entire auditorium... an entire office... an entire business meeting filled with people on Hawaii Chairs... how entertaining.
I vote the fax machine! Who needs this clunky and time consuming piece of equipment when we have email, cameras, and scanners? I say away with all fax machines ASAP! 
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voted helpful: hartwell, lilyloretta
I have to defend faxes in two regards: sending signed documents, and sending documents you don't have a digital copy of and also can't scan. I would rather use a fax than futz with a scanner!
Ammunitions. :( If there are no ammunitions, there'll be no big wars killing millions of innocent civilians over the years.
voted helpful: lilyloretta
Alcoholic beverages could be the worst invention ever. Better put (as they were most likely a discovery) the manners and methods to produce them at will.
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voted helpful: lilyloretta
Worst invention EVAR:
Jarts.
or Lawn Darts. Yes, kids... let's set a hula hoop on the ground as a target, then throw a heavy metal tipped dart straight up into the air. You can hope it goes into the grass inside the target, not into a playmates head.
Consumer Product Safety Commission
CPSC Bans Lawn Darts
CPSC Document #5053
Effective December 19, 1988, all lawn darts are banned from sale in the United States. Lawn darts, used in an outdoor game, have been responsible for the deaths of 3 children.
A set of lawn darts usually includes four large darts and two targets. The darts typically are about 12 inches long with a heavy metal or weighted plastic tip on one end and three plastic fins on a rod at the other end. The darts are intended to be grasped by the rod and thrown underhand toward a target. While the tip may not be sharp enough to be obviously dangerous, these darts can cause skull punctures and other serious injuries.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission urges parents to discard or destroy all lawn darts immediately. They should not be given away since they may be of harm to others.
Consumers who find lawn darts still being sold, should contact the Consumer Product Safety Commission on the toll free hotline: 1-800-638-CPSC (2772). A teletypewriter for the hearing impaired is available at (301) 595-7054. Consumers also may write to: Compliance, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, D.C. 20207.
009611
Consumers can obtain this publication and additional publication information from the Publications section of CPSC's web site or by sending your publication request to info@cpsc.gov.
This document is in the public domain. It may be reproduced without change in part or whole by an individual or organization without permission.
Jarts.
or Lawn Darts. Yes, kids... let's set a hula hoop on the ground as a target, then throw a heavy metal tipped dart straight up into the air. You can hope it goes into the grass inside the target, not into a playmates head.
Consumer Product Safety Commission
CPSC Bans Lawn Darts
CPSC Document #5053
Effective December 19, 1988, all lawn darts are banned from sale in the United States. Lawn darts, used in an outdoor game, have been responsible for the deaths of 3 children.
A set of lawn darts usually includes four large darts and two targets. The darts typically are about 12 inches long with a heavy metal or weighted plastic tip on one end and three plastic fins on a rod at the other end. The darts are intended to be grasped by the rod and thrown underhand toward a target. While the tip may not be sharp enough to be obviously dangerous, these darts can cause skull punctures and other serious injuries.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission urges parents to discard or destroy all lawn darts immediately. They should not be given away since they may be of harm to others.
Consumers who find lawn darts still being sold, should contact the Consumer Product Safety Commission on the toll free hotline: 1-800-638-CPSC (2772). A teletypewriter for the hearing impaired is available at (301) 595-7054. Consumers also may write to: Compliance, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, D.C. 20207.
009611
Consumers can obtain this publication and additional publication information from the Publications section of CPSC's web site or by sending your publication request to info@cpsc.gov.
This document is in the public domain. It may be reproduced without change in part or whole by an individual or organization without permission.
voted helpful: brian san
I was one of the lucky ones to have my own set of lawn darts before the ban came in to place. Though they really weren't very attractive to me until they became "officially dangerous". I did manage to not impale any of them upon my sister or neighborhood kids...
It's the Snuggie. We all know the worst invention ever is the damn Snuggie. 
voted helpful: lilyloretta
take your pick, though I would personally go with the Noodle eaters hair guard. 
voted helpful: pellrider, krazykatie
Imagine if it had of caught on... yet another product produced for the entertainment of intelligent people at the expense of stupid people
The worst idea that large numbers of men have ever accepted are the ideas of slavery and war. The day that man began believing he could own another man, that he had the right to decide which of his human "property" could live or die, which could be sold and which kept, and which could be thrown out on a dump heap like a piece of garbage....on that day, man took a huge leap backward into darkness from which we have never recovered, and perhaps never will.
The day that man decided it was acceptable for him to pick up weapons and kill his fellow man was just as dark. When joining with your neighbors to slaughter the tribe down the way became anything other than an unthinkable abomination, all hope for mankind was nearly lost.
From those two days, until this very day, man's inhumanity to man has become a growing stain on the collective soul of our race, a stain that can never be entirely removed. We fight and kill, we hate, and ridicule, and despise. We cut down our young men in the prime of their lives and we create widows, orphans, mothers and fathers with no sons. When out lust for killing is temporarily abated, we are left in a devastated wasteland, a moral vacuum where try as we might, we cannot convince ourselves that we are anything more than the savage beasts we have proven ourselves to be. It's hard to imagine that even in the depth's of our evil imaginations we will ever do anything worse that we already have. God help us all if we do.
The day that man decided it was acceptable for him to pick up weapons and kill his fellow man was just as dark. When joining with your neighbors to slaughter the tribe down the way became anything other than an unthinkable abomination, all hope for mankind was nearly lost.
From those two days, until this very day, man's inhumanity to man has become a growing stain on the collective soul of our race, a stain that can never be entirely removed. We fight and kill, we hate, and ridicule, and despise. We cut down our young men in the prime of their lives and we create widows, orphans, mothers and fathers with no sons. When out lust for killing is temporarily abated, we are left in a devastated wasteland, a moral vacuum where try as we might, we cannot convince ourselves that we are anything more than the savage beasts we have proven ourselves to be. It's hard to imagine that even in the depth's of our evil imaginations we will ever do anything worse that we already have. God help us all if we do.
Hmm... well... there's several.
Currency with fractional-reserve banking gets the bronze. That one's created the ground for several world wars and a near global financial collapse as recently as a year ago.
Silver goes to the semi-indentured slavery system called Capitalism, where ownership of land or other productive resources are owned by a stranger and worked by serfs who pay the stranger most of what gets produced, such that the serfs are never able to save enough to buy the land or factory they're working in so that they can keep the profits from their own work, such that the remote stranger gets maximum return on his shares while sitting on a beach in the Bahamas sipping margaritas so he can have the time to give business-magazine reporters interviews about how wrong it is for unemployed to collected welfare off the backs of the working man.
But all of that was made possible by the gold medal winner of the most catastrophic inventions of human kind: Pottery.
Until the invention of pottery humans lived as hunter-gatherers and nomadic herdsmen, and were limited in the damage they could do to the world.
But, with the invention of pottery, they started using pots to store things, in particular, ground seeds and beans, aka flours. The flours were mixed with eggs to make the oldest processed food: noodles and dumplings.
But they didn't always fill the pots with dry flour... rather, it could be damp, and of course their sanitation methods were haphazard, such that in with the seeds went ambient fungi.
Most of the time the fungi would just make it inedible, or if it was rye-flour, then maybe psychedelic, but some fungi would ferment the seeds like bread, and others would ferment the seeds like beer.
Women loved the bread because it made foods cooked from flour taste so much better, and guys loved the beer, and so between them they decided it was worth the extra labor required to actually plant and harvest the seeds in bulk... and a lot of extra work it was...
The average hunter-gatherer/nomadic-herdsman works 18 hours per week to get the necessities of life, and the rest of the time they'd sit around chipping arrow heads and weaving and rock painting and braiding each others' hair, and they had a balanced diet, but when they chose to take on agriculture, labor jumped to 40-60 hours per week toiling in the fields, with a lousier diet.
The way anthropologists tell if a skull came from a hunter-gatherer or a neolithic farmer is by checking the teeth. If it has good teeth it was probably a hunter-gatherer, but if it has bad teeth, it's probably a neolithic farmer with it's diet based upon a single staple.
Farming also meant staying put instead of moving around, and it also meant that populations of other people who wanted to make bread and drink beer would gather wherever starchy seeds would grow, such that communities got larger than the natural carrying capacity of a human society, with is 600 people.
Human instincts can handle a community of about 600 people, most of it being moderated and communicated through female gossip, who were the social glue of the tribe, and who would keep the husbands filled in on what was going on and who should not be trusted and who could be counted on and was due a favor when the husbands got home from hunting together.
But when the group gets larger than 600, it becomes impossible for people to know everyone in the community by name and reputation, such that it's impossible to maintain tribal cohesion, such that when a tribe got bigger than 600, it would split.
But with agriculture, communities could not split... they'd just keep getting larger, such that now people were living around thousands of others whom they didn't know the name nor reputation of, so they didn't know who they could trust, and there were problems with thieves who could get away with steeling from strangers, which they didn't care about steeling from because the people they were steeling from were strangers, and this led to disorder.
In order to impose order, thugs led by a leader-thug instituted a system where you would pay them for protection. They called themselves kings, the protection was called tax, and if you didn't pay for protection they'd smash up your farm.
The communities grew into cities, and the kings of the cities battled in order for the strongest of them to forge the cities into nations... all based on agriculture, and to keep everyone mollified when they weren't drunk, the astronomers who used to watch the stars in order to predict when the seasonal floods were going to happen so people knew when to move back and wait for the floods to pass were promoted to the status of priests to oversea a religion that took tithing of grain.
Meanwhile the remaining hunter-gatherers, who had adapted to a modified version of hunter-gathering called nomadic herdsmen, and who used to pour some of the blood from a lamb that they killed for dinner onto a fire as an atonement the the spirit of the lamb, hung around the fringes, and soon were faced with the problem of the farmers population expanding to put all the graze-able land under the till, such that there was no longer enough wild grass for the goats and sheep to eat.
Eventually it led to a conflict, where the herders refused to leave their grazing lands, and in the middle east, the conflict is recorded in the legend-myth of the battle between Cain and Able.
Human existence would have been stable and would have continued indefinitely had it not been for the invention of pottery, enabling fermentation to produce bread and beer, leading to widespread cultivation, leading to the civilization of Cain, having now attained a strength and capacity powerful enough to destroy the garden of the globe's ecology.
Currency with fractional-reserve banking gets the bronze. That one's created the ground for several world wars and a near global financial collapse as recently as a year ago.
Silver goes to the semi-indentured slavery system called Capitalism, where ownership of land or other productive resources are owned by a stranger and worked by serfs who pay the stranger most of what gets produced, such that the serfs are never able to save enough to buy the land or factory they're working in so that they can keep the profits from their own work, such that the remote stranger gets maximum return on his shares while sitting on a beach in the Bahamas sipping margaritas so he can have the time to give business-magazine reporters interviews about how wrong it is for unemployed to collected welfare off the backs of the working man.
But all of that was made possible by the gold medal winner of the most catastrophic inventions of human kind: Pottery.
Until the invention of pottery humans lived as hunter-gatherers and nomadic herdsmen, and were limited in the damage they could do to the world.
But, with the invention of pottery, they started using pots to store things, in particular, ground seeds and beans, aka flours. The flours were mixed with eggs to make the oldest processed food: noodles and dumplings.
But they didn't always fill the pots with dry flour... rather, it could be damp, and of course their sanitation methods were haphazard, such that in with the seeds went ambient fungi.
Most of the time the fungi would just make it inedible, or if it was rye-flour, then maybe psychedelic, but some fungi would ferment the seeds like bread, and others would ferment the seeds like beer.
Women loved the bread because it made foods cooked from flour taste so much better, and guys loved the beer, and so between them they decided it was worth the extra labor required to actually plant and harvest the seeds in bulk... and a lot of extra work it was...
The average hunter-gatherer/nomadic-herdsman works 18 hours per week to get the necessities of life, and the rest of the time they'd sit around chipping arrow heads and weaving and rock painting and braiding each others' hair, and they had a balanced diet, but when they chose to take on agriculture, labor jumped to 40-60 hours per week toiling in the fields, with a lousier diet.
The way anthropologists tell if a skull came from a hunter-gatherer or a neolithic farmer is by checking the teeth. If it has good teeth it was probably a hunter-gatherer, but if it has bad teeth, it's probably a neolithic farmer with it's diet based upon a single staple.
Farming also meant staying put instead of moving around, and it also meant that populations of other people who wanted to make bread and drink beer would gather wherever starchy seeds would grow, such that communities got larger than the natural carrying capacity of a human society, with is 600 people.
Human instincts can handle a community of about 600 people, most of it being moderated and communicated through female gossip, who were the social glue of the tribe, and who would keep the husbands filled in on what was going on and who should not be trusted and who could be counted on and was due a favor when the husbands got home from hunting together.
But when the group gets larger than 600, it becomes impossible for people to know everyone in the community by name and reputation, such that it's impossible to maintain tribal cohesion, such that when a tribe got bigger than 600, it would split.
But with agriculture, communities could not split... they'd just keep getting larger, such that now people were living around thousands of others whom they didn't know the name nor reputation of, so they didn't know who they could trust, and there were problems with thieves who could get away with steeling from strangers, which they didn't care about steeling from because the people they were steeling from were strangers, and this led to disorder.
In order to impose order, thugs led by a leader-thug instituted a system where you would pay them for protection. They called themselves kings, the protection was called tax, and if you didn't pay for protection they'd smash up your farm.
The communities grew into cities, and the kings of the cities battled in order for the strongest of them to forge the cities into nations... all based on agriculture, and to keep everyone mollified when they weren't drunk, the astronomers who used to watch the stars in order to predict when the seasonal floods were going to happen so people knew when to move back and wait for the floods to pass were promoted to the status of priests to oversea a religion that took tithing of grain.
Meanwhile the remaining hunter-gatherers, who had adapted to a modified version of hunter-gathering called nomadic herdsmen, and who used to pour some of the blood from a lamb that they killed for dinner onto a fire as an atonement the the spirit of the lamb, hung around the fringes, and soon were faced with the problem of the farmers population expanding to put all the graze-able land under the till, such that there was no longer enough wild grass for the goats and sheep to eat.
Eventually it led to a conflict, where the herders refused to leave their grazing lands, and in the middle east, the conflict is recorded in the legend-myth of the battle between Cain and Able.
Human existence would have been stable and would have continued indefinitely had it not been for the invention of pottery, enabling fermentation to produce bread and beer, leading to widespread cultivation, leading to the civilization of Cain, having now attained a strength and capacity powerful enough to destroy the garden of the globe's ecology.
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Source: Reading, and my own personal analysis of what causes what going back to original root causes.
Source: Reading, and my own personal analysis of what causes what going back to original root causes.
voted helpful: lilyloretta
Voted as best: xds
For me, the worst invention is the cigarettes. I cannot think of a single benefit of smoking. But if you think of its ill effects on health you are going to have a long list. Even those who don't smoke them but are around smokers can be greatly affected too. And some find this habit hard to break and makes it addicting too.
It is the number one cause of cancer, it can cause hardening of arteries thus can increase blood pressure, nicotine that it contains can stick to the blood vessel wall of the arteries compromising their elasticity. It can cause blackening of the lungs and can later lead to emphysema or collapse of the alveoli, the smallest cells of the lungs where exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen takes place.
Some study shows that it can lead to low birth weight for babies who have mothers who smoke during pregnancy. So, I think this can be considered one of the worst invention ever.
It is the number one cause of cancer, it can cause hardening of arteries thus can increase blood pressure, nicotine that it contains can stick to the blood vessel wall of the arteries compromising their elasticity. It can cause blackening of the lungs and can later lead to emphysema or collapse of the alveoli, the smallest cells of the lungs where exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen takes place.
Some study shows that it can lead to low birth weight for babies who have mothers who smoke during pregnancy. So, I think this can be considered one of the worst invention ever.
voted helpful: lilyloretta, krazykatie
Call waiting.
I hate being asked to hang on so the person I was already talking to can take another call. It makes me feel that my call is less important, and therefore I am less important than the person calling in. Bad personal and professional manners in my opinion.
Additionally it makes others feel they are more important if you don't interrupt you calls to take theirs.
Sure there will always be the argument, what if it's an emergency? I'm sure it happens, but in all the years that I have been asked to hold, it never was.
I hate being asked to hang on so the person I was already talking to can take another call. It makes me feel that my call is less important, and therefore I am less important than the person calling in. Bad personal and professional manners in my opinion.
Additionally it makes others feel they are more important if you don't interrupt you calls to take theirs.
Sure there will always be the argument, what if it's an emergency? I'm sure it happens, but in all the years that I have been asked to hold, it never was.
I think many people feel this way, but I have to disagree. Maybe this is the worst invention in terms of "manner" but I think manners are overrated. It is important to me to be courtious, but it is more important to me to be straightforward. Some times you are less important. If my boyfriend or my mom beeped through, I might even let you go to talk to them. I don't think you should be offended by this, as I may not be the most important person to you, either.
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