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

[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 Getting dressed in the morning was a daily review of how inadequate, out of style, out of date, etc.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.

[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

[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

[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!

[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 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! 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 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! 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!

[Duck on Wheels]

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

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.

[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?