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Dumbest Inventions EVER

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Re: Dumbest Inventions EVER
Post by Lord Skimper   » Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:37 pm

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Plastic turbo chargers that fit in the air intake in cars.
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Re: Dumbest Inventions EVER
Post by Lord Skimper   » Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:43 pm

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Re: Dumbest Inventions EVER
Post by Rincewind   » Tue Aug 01, 2017 7:47 pm

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How about one concept I came up with whilst trying out my brother's new calculator? (Yes, it shows you how long ago it was).

A Solar powered calculator with a luminescent screen so that you could read it in the dark.
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Re: Dumbest Inventions EVER
Post by munroburton   » Wed Aug 02, 2017 5:56 am

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Rincewind wrote:How about one concept I came up with whilst trying out my brother's new calculator? (Yes, it shows you how long ago it was).

A Solar powered calculator with a luminescent screen so that you could read it in the dark.


I had one of those. Fortunately, it included a small battery. :lol:
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Re: Dumbest Inventions EVER
Post by Annachie   » Wed Aug 02, 2017 7:02 am

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Quite often a case of the factory only making or buying one type of screen, but yeah they sound dumb.

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Re: Dumbest Inventions EVER
Post by MAD-4A   » Wed Aug 16, 2017 4:41 pm

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Imaginos1892 wrote:Take a bottle of Goo-Gone, the best glue remover in the known universe, and observe that the cap has a little cardboard disk glued into it!
LOL...in the library...oops!
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Re: Dumbest Inventions EVER
Post by MAD-4A   » Wed Aug 16, 2017 4:47 pm

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Annachie wrote:Gunsticles.
Seriously WTF.

http://www.gunsticles.com

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Hmmm...well not entirely, if positioned a bit further forward, they would add additional weight to the muzzle end of the gun to reduce (slightly) barrel rise from recoil. So they can have some (small) practical use during rapid fire. They might also act as a flexible forward grip if held, I know ... ewww. :shock: right?!
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Re: Dumbest Inventions EVER
Post by robert132   » Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:47 am

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MAD-4A wrote:
Annachie wrote:Gunsticles.
Seriously WTF.

http://www.gunsticles.com

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Hmmm...well not entirely, if positioned a bit further forward, they would add additional weight to the muzzle end of the gun to reduce (slightly) barrel rise from recoil. So they can have some (small) practical use during rapid fire. They might also act as a flexible forward grip if held, I know ... ewww. :shock: right?!


It ranks up there (almost) with the totally useless "Truck nuts" for tastelessness.
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Just my opinion of course and probably not worth the paper it's not written on.
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Re: Dumbest Inventions EVER
Post by cthia   » Fri Aug 18, 2017 7:19 pm

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"One size fits all" rubber gloves!

Newsflash! They don't! I hate going through an entire box of "one size fits all" rubber gloves trying to keep one pair from tearing. Which leaves my hands feeling like a Japanese woman's bound feet.

Reminds me of my teenage years of the one size fits all rubber gloves below the belt. Newsflash! They don't! Which made me have to frequent dirty, seedy, stinky newsstand peepshows near campus because they were the only ones selling "large" size prophylactics.

One size fits all what? Dwarves?

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Re: Dumbest Inventions EVER
Post by Lord Skimper   » Sat Aug 26, 2017 8:27 pm

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Annachie wrote:Quite often a case of the factory only making or buying one type of screen, but yeah they sound dumb.

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