BS: Recent innovations we don't need...

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 10:41 PM

Collaterized Debt Obligations (spelling intentional)
Wii Fit
Those "memory improving" games by Nintendo
ASBOs (in UK)
Sperm creation in the lab
X-Factor (on TV)
Twitter

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 10:05 PM

"I am the only person here that uses them BEFORE I turn"

Come down HERE, and I'll show you double left-turn lanes with 20 cars in each lane and 75% of them blinking so's you know they're going to turn....when there's nothing else they COULD do. I assume they do it because they have time...whereas, in real moving traffic, they can't cope with taking a few seconds to signal that they are going to turn or change lanes.

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 09:47 PM

I can't fathom ipods either....but then, I can't fathom walking around all day with any kind of sound device plugged into my ears. Nope, I'd rather listen to the ambient noise of the real world around me.

Still, I guess it's an advance of sorts over the giant ghetto blasters of the 70s and 80s. ;-) Much less noise pollution for those not listening.

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: heric
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 09:31 PM

I sure as hell am going to have retractible running boards some day.

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: pdq
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 06:52 PM

Chaquita Banana has had stickers on their fruit for a long time. Since 1963 I think, but am too lazy to check facts today. It's 101 F outside and the neighbor's dog has been barking for twenty minutes straight...

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 05:59 PM

I like stickers on fruit. The stickers have numbers which positively identify the items for cashiers. It's hard to tell a Bartlett pear from a D'Anjou pear, or a vine ripened tomato from a regular tomato, but the stickers remove the guesswork. They make it less likey that I'll be overcharged.

Also, stickers are the reason supermarket produce departments are able to carry a much wider variety of fruits and vegetables than they did forty years ago. Cashiers don't need to be trained to tell the sometimes subtle differences between various varieties of apples, plums, melons, etc. They just have to be able to read the numbers on the stickers.

Yeah, the stickers are a bit of a pain, but I dislike being overcharged far more than I dislike having to remove a sticker before eating an apple.

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Amos
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 05:05 PM

iPOds are a saving grace in a sea of degradation, Sorcha.

AIrlines that serve only bad air. "Homeland" Security, reminiscent of the Motherland obsession of the Soviet era. Hard plastic cases that cannot be opened around every product. Commercial email--that was a major setback, when that battle was lost.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 04:51 PM

sIx... it's rather simple, innit? Put on yer turn singal when you take your foot off the gas pedal. It's a FUCKING signal, not an explanation after the fact. Oh, you actually do know where you are going? Good for you. Nobody else did.

At least the ambulances use their sirens on their way to these assholes.

And, I get the finger a lot these days because I usually drive about 30kph... and often get to give them a wave and a smile when I drive past them after they change lanes and get stuck at the next red light.

Yeah... I am a crotchety old SOB. And I drive an F150 with a Triton V8, so I can pounder downder and keep that asshole in the wrong lane when he gives me the finger. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 04:43 PM

iPods

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 04:41 PM

Low-Flo toilets. What's the savings if you have to flush two or three times (or more)!

Plastic encasement of just about every household commodity.

Smaller seats on airlines when, worldwide, the average size of human beings is becoming larger: both lenght and girth. Yes, we need to lose weight but, sheesh! Deal with the reality at hand!

Cell phones.

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: number 6
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 04:26 PM

gnu ... "Turn signals on vehicles. Well, no need to have them in Moncton. I am the only person here that uses them BEFORE I turn. Arrrggghhhhh!"

I feel your pain ... same here in SJ ..... Arrrrrrrggggghhhhh!

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 04:25 PM

Indeed not! In fact, I think it could hardly be called an "innovation" at all at this late date... ;-)

I fail to see the point in Blackberries, but I may be unduly prejudiced just because I've never had one. Obama seems to love his.

(and no, I'm not talking about the ones that grow on bushes...)

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 04:16 PM

That is not a recent innovation, Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 04:04 PM

Opposition to my way of running the world.

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 02:26 PM

Corporate B*stards!

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Lox
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 02:10 PM

Internet discussion forums ... bloody time consuming nightmare ...

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 02:08 PM

Turn signals on vehicles. Well, no need to have them in Moncton. I am the only person here that uses them BEFORE I turn. Arrrggghhhhh!

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: number 6
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 02:06 PM

canned corn beef

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Alice
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 02:06 PM

The little avatar and social connections that Yahoo mail has suddenly added to my email account.

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 02:03 PM

EZ-open can of corned beef with a handy pull tab that breaks off. My burly husband needed plyers and an ice pick to ez-open it.

Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 01:44 PM

They've been there for years.

How about "infomercials" and the World Wide Web on a cell phone?

Subject: BS: Recent innovations we don't need...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 01:37 PM

Stickers on fruit.