RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 11, 2022 Let's start with the auto-correct feature on a smart phone. it can't predict what I'm thinking, but tries to and thus makes no sense in the sentence, making me look an idiot. What's the worst invention in your opinion? 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodyfox Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Gunpowder 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 11, 2022 13 minutes ago, woodyfox said: Gunpowder The fuse that didn't blow it in time..... 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 11, 2022 Definitely the sports bra. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 11, 2022 The telephone. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 11, 2022 'smart' anything! 4 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 11, 2022 3 hours ago, Stubby47 said: Let's start with the auto-correct feature on a smart phone. it can't predict what I'm thinking, but tries to and thus makes no sense in the sentence, making me look an idiot. What's the worst invention in your opinion? So turn it off/disable it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Rich_F Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 11, 2022 Amazon Alexa. IMO the pinnacle of human laziness. 3 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Buckner Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Model Railways - the money/time I've wasted spent on it. 2 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 11, 2022 Humankind over time has invented many things, with each new group of scientists and engineers learning from and being more educated and more productive than the generation before, their inventions being quite unimaginable to those gone before. This incredible pace of development over centuries of effort and hard work has finally led to … the selfie stick. 4 1 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 11, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, Stubby47 said: Let's start with the auto-correct feature on a smart phone. it can't predict what I'm thinking, but tries to and thus makes no sense in the sentence, making me look an idiot. 1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said: So turn it off/disable it. See also … 1 hour ago, Metr0Land said: 'smart' anything! Edited November 11, 2022 by BoD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Internet Forums 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Mass people control known as 'religion' 3 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Popular Post AY Mod Posted November 11, 2022 Moderators Popular Post Share Posted November 11, 2022 11 minutes ago, woodenhead said: Mass people control known as 'religion' Don't start those gauge wars again. ;) 1 1 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post t-b-g Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 11, 2022 42 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: The telephone. I think it was the late, great Spike Milligan who said that the person who invented the first telephone created something totally useless. It was the chap who invented the second telephone who should get the real credit. 8 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 28 minutes ago, BoD said: Humankind over time has invented many things, with each new group of scientists and engineers learning from and being more educated and more productive than the generation before, their inventions being quite unimaginable to those gone before. This incredible pace of development over centuries of effort and hard work has finally led to … the selfie stick. You say this, and yet... I own a selfie stick. I don't use it for taking self-portraits though. I mainly use it for taking reference photos of things, extending my arm's reach by a couple of metres. Very helpful for getting views you wouldn't normally be able to. As an example, here are two photo I took in the National Railway Museum, from the ground (Coppernob) and from platform level (Queen Adelaide's Saloon). 11 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 I was going to say anything invented by Elon Musk, then I remembered, he doesn't invent things, he just claims to have. 7 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 7 minutes ago, woodenhead said: I was going to say anything invented by Elon Musk, then I remembered, he doesn't invent things, he just claims to have. The Edison effect... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold AndrueC Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 11, 2022 4 hours ago, Stubby47 said: Let's start with the auto-correct feature on a smart phone. it can't predict what I'm thinking, but tries to and thus makes no sense in the sentence, making me look an idiot. What's the worst invention in your opinion? It is certainly unnecessary to make me look like an idiot. I can manage that by myself. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Weeny Works said: Amazon Alexa. IMO the pinnacle of human laziness. Fixed that for you 2 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBRJ Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 5 hours ago, Stubby47 said: Let's start with the auto-correct feature on a smart phone. it can't predict what I'm thinking, but tries to and thus makes no sense in the sentence, making me look an idiot. What's the worst invention in your opinion? The guy who invented it died recently, his funfair was last monkey. They say that the old ones are the best ones 😉 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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eastglosmog Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 According to my old art teacher, the rubber is the invention of the devil. "Being able to erase your mistakes makes you careless - take care and get it right first time". 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 2 minutes ago, eastglosmog said: According to my old art teacher, the rubber is the invention of the devil. "Being able to erase your mistakes makes you careless - take care and get it right first time". That can be read quite differently in North American terms! 😮 1 1 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 30801 Posted November 11, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Hroth said: The Edison effect... He's moved on to the Gerald Ratner effect now. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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