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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: number 6 Date: 24 Jul 09 - 08:02 AM Now that is just damned scarry RangerSteve ... is this where we have come to. Microwaves ... that is something we don't really need. We don't have one. biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: RangerSteve Date: 24 Jul 09 - 07:50 AM Smuckers markets a ready-made peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Because spreading PB and J on bread is suck a chore. Oscar Mayer markets a microwave hotdog on a bun. Because micro-waving a hot dog and putting it on a seperate bun is such a chore. I'm surprised they haven't come up with pre-buttered toast - just stick it in the microwave and it's done. Saves you valuable seconds that you would otherwise spend in putting the butter on the bread yourself. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Acorn4 Date: 24 Jul 09 - 04:01 AM The Jeremy Kyle Show! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Amergin Date: 24 Jul 09 - 03:39 AM Well...Richard, the fasces was a symbol of the Roman REPUBLIC, hardly a dictatorial state. The symbolism of this bundle of birch rods was twisted by the likes of Mussolini, and later the British Union of Fascists. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Acorn4 Date: 24 Jul 09 - 03:30 AM I had a Victor Meldrew "I don't believe it" moment when I accidentally ran across this one. Warning, this is not for the squeamish, don't view this if you are about to eat! I Don't Believe It! Somewhere on the planet, there are people stupid enough! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Richard Bridge Date: 24 Jul 09 - 02:58 AM Since the name "fascism" is derived from the fasces that used to be carried by the Roman lictors I am doubtful that it would be right to call fascism modern. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Amergin Date: 23 Jul 09 - 09:29 PM fascism |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Richard Bridge Date: 23 Jul 09 - 05:37 PM Air conditioning in England. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: olddude Date: 23 Jul 09 - 03:58 PM Sarah Palin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Irene M Date: 23 Jul 09 - 02:24 PM Don, that conjures up an awful lot of bizarre images. How many rabbits are there in SF, anyway? Er............electric bread makers? Chocolate fountains? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Amergin Date: 23 Jul 09 - 05:31 AM I love my mp3 player....I go on long walks every night...and it helps to keep the boredom at bay....and it is much better than having a stack of cassette tapes and three or four packets of spare batteries in my backpack.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Don Firth Date: 22 Jul 09 - 09:49 PM I understand that it's still on the books. In San Francisco, it's illegal to shoot rabbits from a cable car. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: number 6 Date: 22 Jul 09 - 08:52 AM Penny and L.H. ... there is a deodorant to be found that is alum free Dessert Essence It can be found here in Maritiem Canada at any of the Atlantic Superstore chains ... specifically in the natural products section. biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Rapparee Date: 22 Jul 09 - 06:13 AM Got a State Law that says that out here, Kendall. Folks still save the bulbs in their turn signals. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: kendall Date: 22 Jul 09 - 05:36 AM I never rake or otherwise remove leaves. They are best left to become mulch which feeds the lawn. All you need is a mulch mower which chops them into small bits. Here in Scarborough Maine there is an ordinance that says you must signal before changing lanes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Jul 09 - 01:48 PM Penny, thanks for the info. I didn't know about that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine Date: 21 Jul 09 - 08:54 AM Stickers on fruit may be mildly annoying, but it's a very simple way of labelling something that doesn't need any packaging. I actually once spotted a 6-inch square moulded plastic bubble containing a single small orange, labelled "Citrus Fruit Snack, produce of Spain". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: number 6 Date: 21 Jul 09 - 08:32 AM an alternative to conventional deoderants ... don't eat red meat. biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Richard Bridge Date: 21 Jul 09 - 08:05 AM Freedom of speech for the BNP |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Acorn4 Date: 21 Jul 09 - 06:58 AM Life coaches! Are there honestly people stupid enough? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Penny S. Date: 21 Jul 09 - 03:38 AM Little Hawk, those mineral salts are based on an alum, an aluminium (aluminum) salt, and so very similar in effect to the other sort of deodorant in effect. I've checked every label I've come across, and not one did not have an alum in it. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: open mike Date: 20 Jul 09 - 03:40 AM oh--now i remember, we used to collect banana stickers. http://media.nowpublic.net/images//f3/5/f35f4ab8f886edc346c678b1e8b79ec8.jpg http://www.sruble.com/images/NanaStkr.jpg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Gurney Date: 19 Jul 09 - 08:01 PM Glued-together bubble-packs. When you find the item doesn't fit, you can't take it back. Shoes for which there isn't a appropriate cleaner/polish. Sports shoes that Andy Pandy would reject. Expensive disposable items. Telesales people. Telesurvey people. Virus writers. Teenage shop-assistant's music. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Rapparee Date: 19 Jul 09 - 06:00 PM Sending messages through wires...ditditdahdit all dagnabbed day. Next thing you know they'll be trying it without wires. GOD DIDN'T MEAN FOR THINGS TO BE THIS WAY! You mark my words.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Slag Date: 19 Jul 09 - 04:50 PM Them dagnabbed horseless carriages and now I heard they be a couple of fellers up Kitty Hawk way tied a motor to a big kite and made a flying machine. What's the world coming to? An end? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Don Firth Date: 19 Jul 09 - 02:29 PM The legend has it that Diogenes wanted to strip his life of nonessentials. He lived in an overturned tub at the edge of town and the only possession he kept, save for a toga and sandals, was a drinking cup. One day, he saw a young boy drinking from a nearby well using his cupped hand. Diogenes said, "I see I have kept something unnecessary," and threw the cup away. I wouldn't mind having a 53" widescreen wall-mounted high definition television though. Or the kind of guitar that Swedish guitarist Gören Söllscher plays (CLICKY). Or. . . . Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 19 Jul 09 - 01:52 PM Copyright extended for ridiculous periods. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Jul 09 - 01:46 PM Great list, Richard! Here's a good alternative to conventional deoderants: Get one of those mineral salt deoderant stones instead. It looks like a clear rounded-off pillar of rock hard salt inside a small canister. It is just plain old natural mineral salts and it works when you wet it and rub some on, because the bacteria that cause body odor will die in the presence of salt. That's why salt makes a good preservative for things like salt pork, beef jerky, etc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Richard Bridge Date: 19 Jul 09 - 12:34 PM Car windscreen wipers that turn themselves on when it rains. Car lights that turn themselves on when it gets dark. Parking sensors! Learn to reverse and park you f888wit. ABS, if you know how to drive. Automatic gearboxes. Audio compressors. 99% of apps on mobile phones. Any Microsnot software after 95+USB. What was wrong with DOS? Why create new OSs in stead of making the old ones work? Region codes on DVDs The Video Recordings Act The Financial Services Act In fact, most changes in the law The EU (most of the time) Most Health and Safety regulations Deodorant and worse still antiperspirant (very unhealthy) Menthol cigarettes Chewing gum and worse Bubble gum |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 Jul 09 - 04:13 AM All those silly kitchen gadgets like spring loaded choppers and mini whisks for coffee.... what is the point? My kitchen drawers and cupboards were full of things that were used once in a blue moon, and then only when there was an X in the month.... I threw a load of them out in May, Manitas still hasn't commented on their absence. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: number 6 Date: 18 Jul 09 - 10:57 PM ragdall .... I'm so old, 50 years ago seems like it was just yesterday. :) biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: ragdall Date: 18 Jul 09 - 10:45 PM Oy! Leafblowers are for those of us who are spineless and can't sweep. Besides, the noise it makes helps even things up with the neighbour who rides her noisy sit-on mower on a small city lot every couple of days, for two hours at a time. biLL, tinned corned beef has been around since I was a toddler. That was a long time ago. I went to school with Moses. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jul 09 - 10:24 PM Well, I think that decaf anything and electric detonating caps are silly. The first gives you flavored water and so what's the point? The second takes all the suspense out of life. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Jul 09 - 09:33 PM I'll admit, Bill, that the leafblower is a real boon at the time of clearing all those autumn leaves. That's okay. Just don't use the flippin' thing on the driveway and graveled areas beside the house EVERY DAY between 11 AM and 3 PM is all I ask! There's a time and a place for technology, and that time is when it's actually needed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 18 Jul 09 - 06:24 PM "supermarket produce departments are able to carry a much wider variety of fruits and vegetables than they did forty years ago. Imported from across the world. We could do without that too. And we'd likely still have a wider selection of local varieties which have been driven out of production. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Smokey. Date: 18 Jul 09 - 02:53 PM Being a gentleman, I won't even mention caffeine free teabags. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Bill D Date: 18 Jul 09 - 02:52 PM Leafblowers are my salvation! 25 years ago, I moved to this house and spent 5-6 years raking a LOT of leaves in a yard with many obstacles and a back yard physically separated from the front. It took me many days, and left me with blisters and excessive struggle with 2-3 sizes of rakes. (Those of you who rake smallish, flat lawns have NO idea!) The leaf blower (I use electric) was like giving a cripp;e a set of crutches. Almost any technology can be useful for some, given the right circumstances. I will NOT answer a cell/mobile phone while driving...or make a call. I pull off if needed. But having one made life a lot easier for my wife once when the car died way out on a highway. She called AAA, and got help & a tow and only lost 4 hrs instead of 8-9. There is much cell/mobile technology today I'd love to play with, but I simply don't NEED it, as I am home most of the time. So I save my $$$ for TV remotes... *grin* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: gnu Date: 18 Jul 09 - 02:42 PM Smokey... sac... ralegious! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Smokey. Date: 18 Jul 09 - 02:36 PM Non-square teabags. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Don Firth Date: 18 Jul 09 - 02:24 PM I have to admit, I am rather fond of my TV remote. I can change channels, increase or decrease volume, and all kindsa stuff with a mere twitch of the thumb. I especially value the "mute" button. Zapping commercial breaks gives me a substantial measure of satisfaction. It was in the news. Right out of a cartoon. A couple of days ago, a teen-aged girl was walking down the street busily texting on her cell phone and fell into an open manhole. She got a couple of minor bruises and scrapes, a pair of shoes full of sewage, and one helluva surprise!! I wonder if she got the message. . . . Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: katlaughing Date: 18 Jul 09 - 12:53 PM LMAO, Spaw! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: gnu Date: 18 Jul 09 - 12:38 PM Bill D! Hahahaa. Yup. It's like half of the general population is 50% below average intelligence. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Jul 09 - 12:09 PM My mother uses one of those f*cking things religiously. WHOOOOOOMMMMMM! WHOOOOOMMMMMMM! Day after day. I hate it. The dog hates it. The wild animals hate it. I bet the neighbours don't like it much either. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 18 Jul 09 - 10:24 AM Leafblowers. Yesterday we were relaxing at the dinner table, and I remarked, "They seem to be blowing the leaves in Heaven." The DH said, "That's a helicopter landing at Kansas University Hospital." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Andrez Date: 18 Jul 09 - 08:27 AM Sorcha beat me to it but I second the motion: Ipods! Cheers, Andrez |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: catspaw49 Date: 18 Jul 09 - 08:26 AM I LOVE those prescription med ads kat!!! First you try to figure out what the hell they're for since they never seem to tell you until the end.......and not always then. You have to figure it out through the completely unrelated video of people dancing through the meadow or some old fart playing with a kid. I thought at first that one was some anti-pervert drug. Then you get the long list of side effects with lines like, "Men who are warm and breathing should not take this medication as their balls might explode" or 27 other unpleasant possibilities often including death and you wonder what kind of numbnuts would take the shit? I think the one for psoriasis is the worst at that. It has a terrible list of side effects and I swear to you, I think one of them is a rash. What's the point? I COULD DO WITHOUT the pre-arranged funeral spots. Its bad enough going day to day trying to keep your head above water and worrying if you have enough money to live. I don't need an asshole reminding me that I can't afford to die either. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Jul 09 - 08:16 AM That's for sure! I've got an enormous lawn here, and I'm still using a normal (self-propelled/walk behind) lawn mower, because it's an excellent way of persuading myself to get some exercise...at least during the warm season. ;-) It takes about an hour and a half to mow it all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 18 Jul 09 - 07:52 AM Sit on lawn mowers for an eight by ten lawn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: alanabit Date: 18 Jul 09 - 05:06 AM Mobile phones, most forms of advertising, chewing gum and remote controls for televisions. I can just see some of us boring the pants off youngsters in years to come: "Life was 'ard when we was young! If you was watching ITV and you wanted BBC, you didn't just press your remote... Oh no no no... You had to get up, walk all the way to the television set and adjust the switch on the television..." Another thing I could do without is ninety per cent of the "innovation" to car electronics. More wire and complex circuitry in cars simply makes them more vulnerable to faults and more difficult (and expensive) to repair. Frail and useless as I am, I still feel perfectly capable of winding down a window for instance. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: katlaughing Date: 17 Jul 09 - 10:46 PM I am glad my daughter back East has a cell phone with internet access. It's the only way, for now, that we can send email back and forth. I use it to send her quick, little positive messages when I know she's having a tough day. video games - wish they'd never come about television adverts for prescription meds |
