most ridiculous and useless things ever invented Thread....

gammygils · 08-08-2018 1:45am

Cherry Blossom wrote: »

Why no arms?!?

Because it's Clitus Clarke

Cheer him on now Cheer him on now

AllForIt · 08-08-2018 2:46am

From the bathroom, these stupid yokes.

Trampas · 08-08-2018 3:41am

3D tv’s

Peregrinus · 08-08-2018 3:56am

pawdee wrote: »

The ride-on salad spinner.

I would so have one of those.

freshpopcorn · 08-08-2018 4:09am

AllForIt wrote: »

From the bathroom, these stupid yokes.

I love these!

_Brian · 08-08-2018 4:27am

Warren Old-fashioned Minibike wrote: »

A few years ago a guy came up with a wind powered clothes dryer - seemed a tad pointless.

We get allot of wet windy days, maybe not that pointless.

TomOnBoard · 08-08-2018 4:47am

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Andy From Sligo · 08-08-2018 12:33pm

Bidets ... or as some people know them as ... Feet washers

Water John · 08-08-2018 12:38pm

Researchers now believe your appendix has a function, as a repository of your gut flora, in the event of illness.

Sprinter Sacre · 08-08-2018 12:51pm

Mike Hoch · 08-08-2018 12:59pm

Those curved TV's. Innovation for the sake of it. If I remember correctly their production is being phased out, nobody was interested.

Google glasses.

The Apple watch.

20 years from now we will all be wondering just how tech firms managed to con investors into pouring money into driverless car technology. An utterly unworkable pipe dream.

jojofizzio · 08-08-2018 1:00pm

TomOnBoard wrote: »

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Is that you Aonghus??

inforfun · 08-08-2018 1:11pm

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

was, apparently at its time, better than VHS ... but the market still went for VHS , so that won the Betamax vs VHS war ...

Best of the 3 systems was actually Philips' video2000 system. Had auto-reverse so 1 tape had 8 hours of playing time. No quality loss during ffwd or pause.

The worst of the 3 became the standard.

As for the most ridiculous and useless things ever invented.... 80% of "managers" i had or have to deal with.

acai berry · 08-08-2018 1:19pm

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Bidets ... or as some people know them as ... Feet washers

Not such a bad thing in this weather?

Andy From Sligo · 08-08-2018 4:05pm

Water John wrote: »

Researchers now believe your appendix has a function, as a repository of your gut flora, in the event of illness.

oh good - i still have mine

Andy From Sligo · 08-08-2018 4:07pm

Mike Hoch wrote: »

Those curved TV's. Innovation for the sake of it. If I remember correctly their production is being phased out, nobody was interested.

Google glasses.

The Apple watch.

20 years from now we will all be wondering just how tech firms managed to con investors into pouring money into driverless car technology. An utterly unworkable pipe dream.

how are we doing on the 4K TV stakes? - cant say I would be arsed in getting one meself personally, im happy enough with HD that will do for me

gmisk · 08-08-2018 4:08pm

AllForIt wrote: »

From the bathroom, these stupid yokes.

These are great!
What do most people use? A sponge?

Andy From Sligo · 08-08-2018 4:10pm

Those dettol no-touch soap dispensers - I like the concept / idea. You dont touch the soap dispenser and get germs ... but then you have to touch the tap handle and then wipe your hands on the towels.... which contain germs

whisky_galore · 08-08-2018 4:11pm

E-Voting machines.

The iodine tablets in case of nuclear war.

Andy From Sligo · 08-08-2018 4:11pm

gmisk wrote: »

These are great!
What do most people use? A sponge?

hands?

gmisk · 08-08-2018 4:14pm

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

hands?

But with shower gel you would end up using a lot more I would think?
With a sponge or shower puff (or whatever the heck those are called) you can get a lather going with very little.

Andy From Sligo · 08-08-2018 4:15pm

those table top halogen oven things are pretty useless arent they (the ones with the big glass bowl and the halogen element in the top part) - bought one out of aldi once found you could only fit about 2 chips in it or half a drumstick and it was full up , no more room. - used it maximum of 5 times then shoved it at back of kitchen cupboard never to see daylight again ...

Andy From Sligo · 08-08-2018 4:17pm

gmisk wrote: »

But with shower gel you would end up using a lot more I would think?
With a sponge or shower puff (or whatever the heck those are called) you can get a lather going with very little.

wouldnt a flannel do the same .. and not look so poncy in the process?

Andy From Sligo · 08-08-2018 4:26pm

OSI wrote: »

They're not side lights, they're parking lights. You're supposed to leave them on when.... parking! Parked on a road with no street lighting and limited visibility? Turn on the parking lights to reduce the chances of a car smashing the **** out of your own.

I thought parking lights were those ones on some cars where just the front and rear lights on one side only lights up (so it dont drain down battery) - seen them on cars in the past where they just light up on one side.

anyway the rear cluster normally has red reflectors in them so (if the numpty has some headlights on) can see from the reflectors in the rear lights that there is a car parked (unless they are blind as a bat in which case they shouldnt be driving) - on the front of the car the front numberplate should be reflective as well to stop people driving into the front of you when you are parked up.