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Subject: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Little Hawk Date: 17 Jul 09 - 01:37 PM Stickers on fruit. |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: number 6 Date: 17 Jul 09 - 02:06 PM canned corn beef biLL |
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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! |
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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 ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 17 Jul 09 - 02:26 PM Corporate B*stards! |
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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. |
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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. |
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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...) |
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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 |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Recent innovations we don't need... From: Sorcha Date: 17 Jul 09 - 04:43 PM iPods |
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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. >;-) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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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 |
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: katlaughing Date: 18 Jul 09 - 12:53 PM LMAO, Spaw! |
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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. |
