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  • Things you wish had never been invented
  • Edukator
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    Aeroplanes.

    mrsfry
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    Greggs

    esselgruntfuttock
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    I understand your concern but it’s the “conventional” ones that keep killing people.

    Always have & always will. The only things that will change that are NBC’s.

    senorj
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    Organised religion & the Eurovision Song Contest .

    scuzz
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    Neologistic portmanteaux.

    Such as “Infotainment”, or this bile:

    epicyclo
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    Derailleurs. We’d have automatic superlightweight hub gears by now.

    mattsccm
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    Why just smart phones. I would happily see the end of mobiles tomorrow. Computers as well for that matter.
    That t*** who sings “opera” on the go compare ad.

    leffeboy
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    Neologistic portmanteaux.

    is that really a thing?
    Edit:Wikipedia says yes but how could ‘spork’ ever be a bad thing?

    And while we are there, death to whoever invented auto spell checkers so you have to type spork 5 times until it is accepted 👿

    molgrips
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    Neologisms such as ‘neologism’ or portmanteaux such as ‘portmanteau’?

    scuzz
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    Busted 😆

    bensales
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    Tonight?

    My children.

    But I’ve only got myself to blame for that.

    yunki
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    consumerism

    maccruiskeen
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    My children.

    But I’ve only got myself to blame for that.
    Unless they were grown from cuttings there must be at least one other person to shoulder the blame for them.

    vickypea
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    All weapons, car culture, cigarettes

    Notter
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    Text messaging.

    We’ve all done it surely, had that feeling immediately upon pressing send….?

    molgrips
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    death to whoever invented auto spell checkers so you have to type spork 5 times until it is accepted

    Right click, add to dictionary?

    mrsfry
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    Dolphins. They creep me out with that smug all knowing look. The gits

    ahwiles
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    15mm axles.

    Computery type things that don’t have a right-click.

    andyl
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    Non-recyclable materials that take thousands of years to break down

    timidwheeler
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    The Chorleywood process.

    scandal42
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    Humans

    choppersquad
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    Phlegm.
    Mick Hucknall.

    Xylene
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    The Internet

    mikewsmith
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    Whinging luddites

    Xylene
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    Luddites

    makecoldplayhistory
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    school reports – both as the receiver and the writer!
    650B
    coffee snobs

    kenneththecurtain
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    Not strictly an invention, but realising we could extract oil from the ground and then choose to either burn it or make plastic shit out of it has a lot to answer for.

    julzm
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    Low energy LED street lighting.
    Just installed in our street, it’s lit up like a bloody football pitch, driving me mad.

    Onzadog
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    Managers and accountants.

    Xylene
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    bacon

    dalesjoe
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    realising we could extract oil from the ground and then choose to either burn it or make plastic shit out of it

    Very good…good job you dont use any plastic materials eg computers or smartphones to view this forum then isn’t it!

    Mine has to be the selfie stick, trend for women pull a “fish face” in any photo and the celebrity culture in general!

    leffeboy
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    That plastic crap they give away with kids meals at fast food places. Wtf. It amazes me that it has never been banned although we are forced to buy our plastic bags now that contain about a 100th of the amount of plastic

    dannybgoode
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    Memes, idiots, powerline adapters. +1 to microwave ovens also – work of the devil. The whole concept of corporate lobbying.

    benw
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    Leaf blowers….

    shermer75
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    Water

    boblo
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    wicki – Member
    @ saxon rider i was with you until 4. uPVC windows

    1. Smartphones
    2. Budget airlines
    3. A Thatcherite vision of society in which the car reigns supreme
    4.capatalists

    Bad spellerists….

    seadog101
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    Being able to send emails for free.
    If you had to pay a tiny nominal fee, say 0.0001p, normal people and companies wouldnt notice, but spammers, sending out millions a day certainly would.

    slowoldman
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    The Chorleywood process.

    Yes!

    poly
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    Seadog, there is no such thing as free email – someone IS paying for that server infrastructure and bandwidth. A lot of spam is sent through insecure or virus compromised machines. Even at your rates a million messages would cost £1. Not too hard to make that back if your catch rate is right.

    sargey
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    Quorn.

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