The most stupid invention ever.......

[glamour_babe]

Air freshners - they stink!

Don't you think them stupid air freshers such as airwick or what ever smell worse than not having anything at all?

Am in the living room and smelling this disgusting sweet smell, was the bloody air freshner. Its nasty!

Any others that stupid?

[plantluvver]

I must own 15 screwdrivers. Okay, I can understand the need for small screws for eyeglasses, and large screws for things that need more strength. And different size heads for the different size screws so they don't strip. But then they recess screws in the bases of appliances, so you need extralong drivers, or in small places, so you need a stubby screwdriver, or perhaps even an offset screwdriver.

But when I think I have all the screwdrivers I will ever need,the headlamp on my car burns out. And the trim is held by a Torx screw. So another trip to the store for a Torx screwdriver, and I can't use it because of the angle of the trim makes it too long to us, so I need to run around to different stores, and find a shorter driver. And I have now just given up on ever beleiving that I will ever have the proper screwdriver for a particular job, let alone finding it.

Maybe that is part of the appeal of a bike. It has fewer screws than a car.;)

Mary

[Nanci]

You need a screw gun! And the big box of Skil bits, or whatever they are called- I have every possible type of screw head that could go in anything!

Plus I have a reversable screwdriver from Kline that has big flat and Phillips on one end of this thing that pulls out, and small on the other- so that one screwdriver fits all normal stuff. And it's very nice and not chintzy.

Nanci

[Kimmyt]

Makeup.

I mean, really....

[Brandi]

Bra's hands down for me. I know we need them but really. Underwire? push up? Push out? Why can't they just have something that fits all the time, is comfortable, won't slip off my shoulder's, keep my poor nipples from showing through my shirt's and not cost a fortune! Victoria's secrets bra's are becoming so expensive now. I mean $60.00 for a bra? really that is just silly. Plus i don't look like any of those models when i put it on. If I am going to spend all the money it better make me look better!
Sorry ranted a bit there:o .

[li10up]

When you were a kid what would you have said if someone told you you had to sit at a desk (or whatever) for at least 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, for 45 years out of your life? You would have said, "NO WAY!"

I can't wait to retire!! We've got it all wrong. We should all take a few years off in our 20s, 30s, or 40s while were still able to be active without so many aches and pains. Right now there's not enough time to PLAY. IMHO.

[JoyfulGirl]

single use kitchen gizmos.

[mtkitchn]

Leaf blowers! What in the heck are they for? They pollute the air in an awful way, and landscapers love to blow leaves and dirt in your face when you're riding by on your bike. What is the point of them anyway? They just blow stuff around from one yard into another!!!

[margo49]

It's not exactly an invention; more a concept...
but I hate things that are sets eg salt and pepper,tea-coffee-sugar containers, bed linen; you get the idea

(I have compromised on 5 same dinner plates and a set of cutlery but drinking vessels are an assortment at family meal times.)

[betagirl]

The salad shooter....because knives are complicated :D

[Lise]

Lettuce in heads.

I mean, seriously! Why would you go through all that trouble to pull the leaves off, wash them, dry them, tear them up, when you can just buy a bag?

Oh, wait, that's not an invention. They grow that way. Never mind....:p

PS: On behalf of the congenitally pale and blonde, I like makeup!

[WWOW]

how about:

electric nose hair trimmer

salad shooter

ok,,,,,,,i know you owned one of these!-----ch, ch, ch chia. the chia pet!

[Nanci]

You know what they say about electric nose/ear hair trimmers- buy one before someone buys one for you!! (I think it only applies to men, though, and yes, BF has one. Thank God, because who wants to see ear hair?? I have this ex BF, who had coarse, wavy red hair, and my teenage daughter, who didn't like him very much, called him Goat Boy. She even cut a page out of a kids coloring book, of a goat, and colored it in, and glued sand on it!! and titled it XXXX the Goat Boy. He had some nose hairs that got out of control, and she told him it looked like he had cockroach legs sticking out of his nose!!! Still makes me laugh!)

Lise, for iceberg lettuce- hold the head in both hands, and slam the core down on your counter, and it will pull right out, leaving you with just the leaves.

Nanci

[CorsairMac]

Lise, for iceberg lettuce- hold the head in both hands, and slam the core down on your counter, and it will pull right out, leaving you with just the leaves.

Nanci

not to mention the tension release: just picture that lettuce as being whomever you are mad at, SLAM - there.....don't you feel Much better now?? :p

[chickwhorips]

all those little gizmos and such that are suppose to make your life easier, but they never do. makes things more complicated and i'm short on storage space as it is!

you know nanci i have never gotten that slam down just right. i always have to go back and do some cutting of the core out. i'm sure they have a gizmo to get it out in one shot.

[Lise]

Except that I hate iceberg lettuce. So I'd be taking out my frustration on the very thing that frustrates me...hey, that's not a bad idea! :p

[Selkie]

1. Pantyhose. No explaination required.
2. High heels, especially those with pointy toes.
3. Low rider jeans/pants. Haven't seen one person look good in them. I'm sick of seeing 20-30 somethings wearing them to work with no underwear, and finding any excuse to bend over to moon everyone. I work in a pretty conservative place, too.
4. Bras. I'm with Brandi on that one.
5. Flexileashes for dogs. One of the world's biggest hazards to cyclists on multiuse bike paths.
6. Roller blades. Same reason as #5.
7. Gym suits---anyone remember those? In the late 70s/early 80s, we had to wear those over-grown "onesies" for gym class. The cotton knit, elastic around the waist,and a zipper down the front. blue stripes on the top and below the elastic, solid navy blue. Ugggh.

[plantluvver]

My SON has one! I can't remember when he bought it, but it was probably on sale at Walmart, his favorite place after Loew's. Isn't that something that happens to old guys?

Now MY BF, he has bristles growing on the ridge of his nose. I wish I had the nerve to suggest waxing...

At least he doesn't have a UNIBROW, well, not quite...

Now I'm going to gaze lovingly at him and think of COCKROACH LEGS !!!!!!:D

At least, I can't see it when his back is toward me, then it's his BUTT CRACK:eek:

I suggested suspenders, but he said they would make him feel like an old man. On second thought the wax suggestion wouldn't serve any purpose.

The things we women put up with !!!!!

[Lise]

7. Gym suits---anyone remember those? In the late 70s/early 80s, we had to wear those over-grown "onesies" for gym class. The cotton knit, elastic around the waist,and a zipper down the front. blue stripes on the top and below the elastic, solid navy blue. Ugggh.
Gymsuits! I hadn't thought of those in ages! It did, at least, save me the torture of not having the "right" gym clothes. I was a (relatively) "poor" kid in a rich suburb of Chicago. Getting dressed in the morning was a daily review of how inadequate, out of style, out of date, etc. my clothes were. In the grand scheme of things, this is NOT a real problem :p but gym class was the great equalizer. Some girls looked better in their gymsuits, but nobody had a better gymsuit than anyone else.

[Nanci]

We had the ugliest gymsuits in the world!! Light blue, cotton, with snaps.

[yellow]

3. Low rider jeans/pants. Haven't seen one person look good in them. I'm sick of seeing 20-30 somethings wearing them to work with no underwear, and finding any excuse to bend over to moon everyone. I work in a pretty conservative place, too.

5. Flexileashes for dogs. One of the world's biggest hazards to cyclists on multiuse bike paths.

Oh, good list mickchick (though I've never had issues with rollerbladers, but then I've never really ridden anywhere they are out in hoardes).

Another hazard of the flexileash (which I learned first hand--doh!): a yellow lab BIRD DOG puppy (adolescent, so 70+ punds), walking along on the leash with you at the other end, sees a QUAIL, takes off after the quail at full tilt, and you get launched. Needless to say I was grateful I didn't get hurt worse. I tossed the flexileash away after that and went back to the leather 6' lead.

Re: the jeans and the "muffin top" look, why the h*** can't more manufacturers make "normal" jeans these days? I'm not talking relaxed fit this and that or "mom jeans", but just normal fitting jeans.

As for this thread...I know it's not an invention, but I hate it when things are packaged first in plastic, then in a box, then the box is wrapped in plastic...you get the idea.

[Nanci]

Ok, I have two. That hard plastic packaging is one thing I really hate.

And, those kind of really baggy pants/jeans, that you could fit three bodies in one leg, that hang down so far, that then the guys have to have their boxer shorts sticking out, and why do they wear a belt??? My friend Sue calls those Seven Day Sh*tters, because she says it looks like they've been going in them for a week!! Are they _never_ going to go out of style???

Nanci

[JoyfullySo]

I know we don't use them much anymore, but... Slips...
I had someone tell me that it was a sin to go to church without one....whatever.

Okay, and the two most silly disposable items:
changing pads for babies- has anyone heard of a cheap piece of flannel?
disposable toilet bowl brushes
More junk to throw in a landfill...

[mtkitchn]

OMG....one piece gym suits! I forgot all about those! Ours were red on the bottom with small red and white horizontal stripes on top. Ugliest piece of clothing I'd ever seen. They probably made us wear it while we were watching that crazy video of bike safety with the monkey faced kids.

[mimitabby]

Leaf blowers! What in the heck are they for? They pollute the air in an awful way, and landscapers love to blow leaves and dirt in your face when you're riding by on your bike. What is the point of them anyway? They just blow stuff around from one yard into another!!!
There's more!
they are so loud they can cause hearing loss and they use a lot of fossil fuel.
The person using the leaf blower could be raking, getting a good aerobic workout instead! how dumb is that??!!

[mimitabby]

Ok, I have two. That hard plastic packaging is one thing I really hate.

And, those kind of really baggy pants/jeans, that you could fit three bodies in one leg, that hang down so far, that then the guys have to have their boxer shorts sticking out, and why do they wear a belt??? My friend Sue calls those Seven Day Sh*tters, because she says it looks like they've been going in them for a week!! Are they _never_ going to go out of style???

Nanci

I keep hoping, but you know, what they go to next MIGHT be worse! :eek:

[Quillfred]

Here's one for the records:

http://www.thebeerbelly.com/

I hate to imagine what the alcohol is doing chemically to the plastic which you then guzzle down :eek: It is even worse that microwaving food in soft plastic containers.

My favorite leaf-blower image will always be when we went camping one summer on Vancouver Island. Stopped at a beautiful site on a mountain top mid-afternoon only to be surprised by the angry sounds of leaf blowers! :confused: Kind of took the "pristine" out of the equation.

[mimitabby]

Here's one for the records:

http://www.thebeerbelly.com/

I hate to imagine what the alcohol is doing chemically to the plastic which you then guzzle down :eek: It is even worse that microwaving food in soft plastic containers.

My favorite leaf-blower image will always be when we went camping one summer on Vancouver Island. Stopped at a beautiful site on a mountain top mid-afternoon only to be surprised by the angry sounds of leaf blowers! :confused: Kind of took the "pristine" out of the equation.

That is REALLY bad. REALLY. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just a joke.
But it's not just a joke!

[snapdragen]

Back to clothing for a bit --- I was at Cheesecake Factory last week, and there was a girl in there with an off-white blouse thing - really cute style. Except she was wearing an orange and bright pink flowered bra. :eek: When did this become the fashion? Am I just being old?

And don't get me started on the girly with so much product in her hair she looked like she had Crisco drenched curls. (Shirley Temple style curls - or turd rolls as I call them)

[Nanci]

That see-through see-the-cute-bra thing used to bother me, but now I kind of like it. But it's not very new- several years old?

I like half slips. Lots of my skirts are pretty sheer.

I tried that Crisco-hair Alanis Morrisette dreadlocks look a couple times-it looked pretty crappy. I'm not surewhy I did it.

[margo49]

I'm with you snapdragen

I never used to wear a bra but since becoming a mono-tit I have become quite an expert in underwear engineering. This is a functional garment with the emphasis on Function not fun or func.

[RoadRaven]

7. Gym suits---anyone remember those? In the late 70s/early 80s, we had to wear those over-grown "onesies" for gym class. The cotton knit, elastic around the waist,and a zipper down the front. blue stripes on the top and below the elastic, solid navy blue. Ugggh.


Gymsuits! I hadn't thought of those in ages! It did, at least, save me the torture of not having the "right" gym clothes. I was a (relatively) "poor" kid in a rich suburb of Chicago. Getting dressed in the morning was a daily review of how inadequate, out of style, out of date, etc. my clothes were. In the grand scheme of things, this is NOT a real problem but gym class was the great equalizer. Some girls looked better in their gymsuits, but nobody had a better gymsuit than anyone else.


We had the ugliest gymsuits in the world!! Light blue, cotton, with snaps.

We didn't have gym suits... we had .... *Rave cringes and hisses* ... rompers!!!

These awful balloon shaped pseudo-shorts with elasticised legs and waists... absolutely demoralising for young teen girls trying to get comfortable with changing bodies - particularly when at a co-ed school like I was...

These awful things have to be up there with "worst inventions ever". Thank the Goddess they have been phased out!

[margo49]

Yeah, and with those box pleats u had to iron them too (or Mum)
At one school we had to sew ribbon with the school colours down the side seams. I liked them btw

[nancielle]

7. Gym suits---anyone remember those? In the late 70s/early 80s, we had to wear those over-grown "onesies" for gym class. The cotton knit, elastic around the waist,and a zipper down the front. blue stripes on the top and below the elastic, solid navy blue. Ugggh.

AUGH! The trauma returns! My class had a god-awful robin's egg blue color.
Bad enough when we had to wear them within the confines of the school gym but totally horrifying when we were trotted out to a nearby park for soccer or softball.

[Duck on Wheels]

I keep hoping, but you know, what they go to next MIGHT be worse! :eek:

There was this really cute, sweet kid on the bus one day, but I swear his saggy big jeans were not only well below his waist, they were below his butt cheeks. So I asked, in the way only an old lady can dare: how the pants stayed up without suspenders, whether it was hard to walk in those things, and did kids do pull-downs nowadays instead of wedgies? He said 1) the belt helps, 2) you get used to it, and 3) yes. Now when he sees me on the bus he gives me a little smile and a wave. And if his gang-dressing buddies are with him, they politely ask me the time. Cool.

[Lise]

Definite advantage to being old and being curious. You get to ask.

Our gymsuits were robin's egg blue + navy. Red with horizontal stripes sounds much, much worse! And rompers? Shudder.

[snapdragen]

Our gym suits were bright blue, with an elastic waist and snaps. Big balloony things. In high school I liberated a pair of grey sweatpants with no elastic in the ankles and a white tshirt from the school lost and found. I was the epitome of cool:rolleyes: :cool:

[crazybikinchic]

I have to agree with the low rise jeans. A few years ago, we had a patient come into the office(dental) and her jeans were so low that the girls in the back said her girl hair was coming out over the top. :eek:
Another thing is the shorts/skirts that are so short that butt cheeks are hanging out.:eek: Then, the girls spend all night pulling down the garments that they purposely choose so short. Not only that, they wonder why they get a negative rep.

[Tater]

I have to agree with the low rise jeans. A few years ago, we had a patient come into the office(dental) and her jeans were so low that the girls in the back said her girl hair was coming out over the top. :eek:


I agree with the low rise jeans! What digs me though are 'whale-tails'. That back part of a thong that girls will wear with their low rise jeans, usually with something embroidered on them like "Eye Candy". Uh, I don't think so.

[Nanci]

Don't they notice on other girls how flat and boyish it makes their butts look? Or is that the whole point? And the stuff hanging out to the sides just makes them look fat.

[mimitabby]

There was this really cute, sweet kid on the bus one day, but I swear his saggy big jeans were not only well below his waist, they were below his butt cheeks. So I asked, in the way only an old lady can dare: how the pants stayed up without suspenders, whether it was hard to walk in those things, and did kids do pull-downs nowadays instead of wedgies? He said 1) the belt helps, 2) you get used to it, and 3) yes. Now when he sees me on the bus he gives me a little smile and a wave. And if his gang-dressing buddies are with him, they politely ask me the time. Cool.

I always want to ask them how they will be able to run from someone if they have to. They can hardly walk... and can you imagine them on a bicycle?

[Lise]

Good news is, the boys' pants are so baggy and low hanging that they can't really chase the girls, just shuffle along. And the girls sort of mince along, since they can't really abduct their legs at all...kind of a slow-motion event.

I truly don't get this thing with boys & men wearing huge earrings, pigtails, stuff like that. It's supposed to look manly? Pants falling off them, enormous shirts...they look too dim witted to dress themselves in the right clothes. I suppose it's like yuppies with sweaters tied around their shoulders in the 80s....ah, fashion.

[Beth-Ro]

My vote goes to those rings people are putting in their ears. Not traditional earrings. I don't know what to call them, but the point seems to be to make a big honking round hole in the ear lobe. They start small and can go bigger than a grommet in a shower curtain. (I've seen mostly guys doing this but who knows...it could be a girl thing too)

First off...oh my lord, that has got to hurt! :eek:

Secondly...ewwww! :eek:

I've probably gone and offended someone with said ear attachment on this forum. But it just looks like a portable torture chamber. And there is no beauty in it. It's ghastly. And useless!

[MomOnBike]

Do they know how hideous their ears with said holes are going to be when they are 80?

Frankly, I'm glad I'll be dead so I won't have to look.

[mimitabby]

Secondly...ewwww! :eek:

I've probably gone and offended someone with said ear attachment on this forum. But it just looks like a portable torture chamber. And there is no beauty in it. It's ghastly. And useless!


Ah, Fashion is ALWAYS useless!
Yes, they are going to look interesting when they are in their 70's!

[winddance]

Don't they notice on other girls how flat and boyish it makes their butts look? Or is that the whole point? And the stuff hanging out to the sides just makes them look fat.

This phenomenon is also known as a "busted can of bisquits".

I am *not* looking forward to fall with all of the skinny-legged jeans coming back in full force. Last year's equestrian thing, with the slim jeans tucked into the boots, was bad enough. People seriously need to learn to look in the mirror before they go out...or buy pants that fit.

I never really understood sunless tanning cream. Guaranteed to turn you a perfectly natural bright orange color...

[Nanci]

"This phenomenon is also known as a "busted can of bisquits".

What a perfect description!!

[DrBee]

"busted can of bisquits"

That is perfect! We have our summer students around now and I unfortunately see waaaaay to many "busted cans of bisquits" every day.

[Lise]

OK. What girl looks in the mirror at her fat puffing out over and around the top of her jeans and says...."Sexxxxy!" I mean, I spend so much of my time disguising belly and hip fat, and they accentuate it?!? Perhaps I need to embrace this trend....NOT!

Kind of like at almost every wedding there's some woman who's dressed waaaay too sexy for a wedding, usually in some low-cut sheer number with black panty hose and sky high rhinestone heels...I just picture her at home, saying, oh, yes, this is the outfit for the blessing of a sacred union! :eek:

(can you tell I've been working straight through since last night and am cranky?) Off call in 36 minutes!