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

[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??

[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!

[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 !!!!!!

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

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 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.

[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.