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[Closed] Things the world simply can't exist without. Your nominations please......

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There are certain products that are, without necessarily knowing it, providing the very fundamentals of human existence. They aren't international space stations, GM crops or potential cures for cancer. They are, quite frankly..... Duct tape

Is this not the product that has done most to ensure the survival of the species than any other

My car was engulfed in a cloud of smoke from underneath the bonnet this morning. A split radiator hose. Pull out the duct tape. Sorted!!

Oh.... and Worcestor sauce

Your nominations please...........


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:35 pm
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Ozone layer ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
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magma


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:39 pm
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cheese


 
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sex


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:43 pm
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sheldon attwood


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:43 pm
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I was going to say duct tape.
If the answer is not duct tape then teh answer is beer - so I nominate beer. For all lifes problems - if duct tape can't fix it beer can


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:43 pm
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but as a product someone invented I'd say duct-tape too, and it goes with sex nicely (if asked)


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:44 pm
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DNA


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:45 pm
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if duct tape can't fix it beer can

TJ I think you may have just come up with the very meaning of life itself


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:46 pm
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May I be the first one to say it... Bicycles!

Music... Without it we are but soulless...

Zip ties... Just like Duck Tape, is there anything that can't be fixed with a ziptie?


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:46 pm
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A stout hammer is the Ying to duct tapes Yang. one cant exist without the other.


 
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Scottish people to invent everything.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:47 pm
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Taps, like water ones.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:47 pm
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I was going to say duct tape.

By the way, it's "Duck" Tape... It's a brand just like Hoover is a brand of Vacuum Cleaner.

More commonly known as Gaffer/Gaffa tape.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:47 pm
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Me.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:48 pm
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A hammer or hitting implement.

Edit: beaten to it..


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:48 pm
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moola


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:50 pm
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I read this once: -

"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together..."

Brilliant ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:51 pm
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Sausages........(no pun or other context intended........)


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:52 pm
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I thought it was Gaffer Tape as Duck Tape is a registered trademark a bit like Hoover.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:57 pm
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By the way, it's "Duck" Tape... It's a brand just like Hoover is a brand of Vacuum Cleaner.

More commonly known as Gaffer/Gaffa tape.

Its duct as it was origionally used for sealing heating ducts.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 6:58 pm
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Strong nuclear force.

BTW no-one knows if it's duct or duck tape - but someone trademarked Duck Tape long after the stuff was invented. And gaffer tape is something else, invented for the film industry (where 'gaffer' is one of the jobs)


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:01 pm
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Tea and Cake


 
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[i]Scottish people to invent everything.[/i]
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igmc ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:08 pm
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czech underwear models


 
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Google


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:10 pm
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trailmonkey - I'd taken your last two words as read. I shall check the first, incoprporated in it, just to make sure. Foolishly - I didn't presume there were serious regional differentials


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:12 pm
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duct tape, wd40 and a tarp.

If it moves and it shouldn't : duct tape
it it doesn't move and it should : wd40
anything else : put the tarp over it and sling it in the back garden


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:13 pm
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if duct tape can't fix it beer can

That has just become my new favourite saying. Having just renovated (well it's nearly all done) my house, I've used a lot of duct tape, and had to have a lot of refreshing beers at the end of a hard day.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:15 pm
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binners, i am a connoisseur in this field. bohemian ladies ftw.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:16 pm
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Posted : 03/11/2010 7:17 pm
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Cable ties


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:22 pm
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KYLIE MINOGUE


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:23 pm
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By the way, it's "Duck" Tape... It's a brand just like Hoover is a brand of Vacuum Cleaner.

Duck Tape is a brand of duct tape. Far as I remember, it was invented for military use; other than retroactively it has nothing to do with ducts, riggers, liggers, gaffers, or ducks.

(actually, isn't gaffer tape something else? It's temporary duct tape designed not to leave a sticky mess)


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:27 pm
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(ah, sorry Molgrips, didn't see your post re: gaffer tape. As you were.)


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:28 pm
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(though whilst I'm tangenting, I always thought they were maul grips...)


 
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Decent 2nd hand bookshops.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:32 pm
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I think mole grips is a brand name become a general name, often written as molgrips. They are either vice grips or self-grip pliers properly.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:34 pm
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God.

Oh no, wait, I meant boobies.

PS. If you can't fix it with duct tape, you're not using enough.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:35 pm
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Water and sunlight surely?


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:38 pm
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wait, I meant boobies.

PS. If you can't fix it with duct tape, you're not using enough.


I think in that case it's called tittape.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:42 pm
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Beer?


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:45 pm
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Oh, yes please.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:46 pm
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but as a product someone invented I'd say duct-tape too, and it goes with sex nicely (if asked)

You couldn't just expand on that a little, could you Mrs Grips? Just to confirm you mean what I think you mean? Pics too would be good, for the avoidance of doubt.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 7:55 pm
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Fast broadband internet....

At least I think Gordon "the World's saviour" Brown said it was vital for modern living ?

[url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6506136.ece ]Maybe here ....[/url]


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 8:00 pm
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It's pretty certain that most things in life can be fixed with duct tape, pliers and cable ties, that's for sure.

On the same vein, for anything that doesn't move that should, or squeaks, or generally doesn't work a good squirt of WD40 is worth a shot.

Failing that, get the kettle on, we're British, damn it!


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 8:07 pm
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Mythbusters managed to build a sailing dingy out of duct tape and sail it out in San Fransico bay, and a bridge across a 60m wide dry dock. For once TJ has put forth a universal truth in his duct tape/beer mantra. That's going into my quotations book.


 
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Plus 1 for mcmoonter's choice...

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Posted : 03/11/2010 8:14 pm
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Just Google duct tape BigJohn and I'm sure something will come up...Or if you're in the area you can come over.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 8:21 pm
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Jupiter.


 
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Remind me again how much experience you've had dealing with kids BigJohn...


 
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Hehe...
...youse all tink de wurld's held togedder wit duc tape...

It's not...

Expanding foam's doin it


 
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The hydrogen bond

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meat


 
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Cake and chocolate.


 
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Scottish people to invent everything.

trains?


 
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Remind me again how much experience you've had dealing with kids BigJohn...

Ooops - sorry - didn't know you were under-age. ๐Ÿ˜ณ


 
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I'm not lilgrips is...my plan was to duct tape you to the fridge/food supply and her to the kitchen stool so I could go have wild sex with Mol ๐Ÿ˜‰ I'd leave diapers and wipes in reach have no fear. ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
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Lol ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 9:21 pm
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if duct tape can't fix it beer can

If duct tape can't fix something I fear bear my have played a role in breaking it.


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 9:26 pm
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BOOBIES!


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 9:29 pm
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Oil

Zip Ties

Trees


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 9:35 pm
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Chocolate ( good quality).


 
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Opposable thumbs


 
Posted : 03/11/2010 11:24 pm
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Brown sauce.


 
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Scottish people to invent everything."

trains?

OK then, Trains?

Trains to invent everything? ๐Ÿ˜•


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 10:25 am
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My car was engulfed in a cloud of smoke from underneath the bonnet this morning. A split radiator hose. Pull out the duct tape. Sorted!!

Oh.... and [b]Worcestor sauce[/b]

Where did you put that? In with the oil?


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 11:02 am