What are the top three hated inventions?

[prolesunited]

Post your answers and peeves here and I'll be back with the answers later.

[styersc]

1. Cell phones, video games and the blunt-

although nuclear weapons are right up there.

[Robb]

2. I'm guessing

Fire, the wheel, and the internet. In about that order. ;)

[prolesunited]

6. What's there to hate

about a wheel? :shrug:

[Robb]

17. "Wheel BAAAD...!"

[Jack_Dawson]

3. Internet Monitoring Software

Yeeeechhhh.

[La_Serpiente]

4. mines

1. Nuclear, Biological, and Hydrogen Bombs
2. Slot Machines - people usually lose a lot of money on it
3. Factory Farms

[Wickerman]

5. I'm not very fond of leaf blowers

and the phone kinda sucks when it rings, but its hard to do without.

and, the TV has killed more brain cells than alcohol ever could

added last sentence on edit.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. guns/weapons, combustion engine, television

[Liberal Veteran]

8. Krispy Kreme donuts....but it's a love/hate relationship

[RamblingRose]

9. Microsoft Windows!!!

Bill Gates is a thief!!

Avid Mac user since 1984

[prolesunited]

12. Mac user here, too!

Welcome to DU. :hi:

There's lots of us here, more so than in the general population I think.

[DS1]

10. The Bible, The Quran, Repeating Rifle

(not personally, just going by numbers)

[KansDem]

11. Not necessarily in this order, but...

Cell phones--the ultimate in Narcissism when abused.
High-fructose corn syrup--makes it taste "good" and fattening, too.
Polaroid camera--always makes the subjects look sickly with faded color and red eyes.

[bif]

13. The parking meter

Is the one I really hate.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. 1. Leaf blowers

So loud in my old neighborhood that I could hear them with the windows closed and music playing, and they were still louder than my music

2. Freeways: Traffic expands to fill the space available for it, and freeways created the suburban sprawl (the antithes of true country living) that generates more driving that generates more freeways that generates more surburban sprawl that generates more driving...so that cities are growing in area up to 9 times their population growth.

3. Fast food

[bleedingheart]

15. TV - The great mind numb-er

Bible
Scales -the kind that register weight...

[myrna minx]

16. Pay toilets, that stupid singing bass

that someone brought to my stupid job that requires a stupid screwdriver to remove the stupid batteries and bras.

[prolesunited]

18. You need a screwdriver

to remove a bra?

[tkmorris]

25. A chastity bra

That's going a bit too far methinks :evilgrin:

[Endangered Specie]

19. car alarm, chia pet, parking meter

[Edge]

20. cell phones, car alarms, and telemarketers.

[solinvictus]

39. Me too!

[bif]

21. Snow blowers

i have a neighbor who hauls his out at 6:30 in the morning when there's a half inch of snow on the ground> I mean, come on! Use a damn shovel already.

[EV1Ltimm]

22. Microwave Popcorn and Macintosh computers

One burns up in a microwave and sets off the smoke alarm, the other is a bag of popcorn.

[prolesunited]

23. What do you have against Macs?

Seriously. Have you worked on the OSX platform?

[connecticut yankee]

24. my three choices --

the hold button
cholesterol
the Republican Party

[GumboYaYa]

Cellphone, cellphone & cellphone.

By the way, I really can't stand cellphones. I've never had one and hopeflly never will.

You will never convince me that it is safe to put a little microwave producer next to your head every day. One of my pet peeves is rude cellphone behavior. Is it really that hard to turn those things off in a restaurant, movie theater, etc., or are those folks just so importnat that they need to take those calls.

Sorry for the rant, but I really dislike cellphones and the people who seem to be constantly tied to one.

[SiobhanClancy]

33. .....and CELLPHONES!!!

I agree...I loathe them with great intensity. Other than maybe an MD on call...how many people really need them? They seem to be a passport to rudeness,and I will never own one either.

[GumboYaYa]

26. Cellphone, cellphone & cellphone.

By the way, I really can't stand cellphones. I've never had one and hopeflly never will.

You will never convince me that it is safe to put a little microwave producer next to your head every day. One of my pet peeves is rude cellphone behavior. Is it really that hard to turn those things off in a restaurant, movie theater, etc., or are those folks just so importnat that they need to take those calls.

Sorry for the rant, but I really dislike cellphones and the people who seem to be constantly tied to one.

[tridim]

27. I'll limit mine to a single category, pop music

1. Vocal enhancement/pitch correction software
2. The drum machine
3. Boy bands

[A-Schwarzenegger]

28. Chopsticks, Death, Saran Wrap

[NightTrain]

29. Call waiting, cell phones, and car horns, perhaps?

:shrug:

[prolesunited]

30. I will say that there are some correct answers

in this thread and some that made the top 10. I'm enjoying this thread so I'm not quite ready to reveal the answers yet.

[radwriter0555]

31. VIAGRA.

it just ain't right...

[pmbryant]

32. Ok, here's my choices (EDIT: 4 of them)

(1) Telephones in general. (Though the invention of the answering machine and voice mail has made the telephone much less intrusive.)

(2) Car alarms.

(3) Gas-powered leaf blowers.

Looking forward to the actual list. :-)

EDIT: Oh how could I forget! My number one choice these days is actually the dial-up 56K modem. Mine never works right, despite huge amounts of time over the years I've spent troubleshooting/testing/replacing it. Bump all the others down a notch.



--Peter

[prolesunited]

35. You're on dial-up!!!

How can you stand it? I was at my dad's house one day and went to check something on my brother's computer and thought I would lose my mind.

I had voice mail through the phone company so calls would go directly to a remote machine and AOL. By the time I cut both services, it was almost equivalent to the bill for a cable modem.

[pmbryant]

36. When it works, it's fine

Lately it hasn't been working. And when it does, it is interminably slow, even by dial-up standards. And I have run out of ideas on what to do next. I think it might be finally time to move into the 21st Century and get DSL or something, or I won't be able to read DU from home any more. :-(

--Peter

[prolesunited]

37. I say...

go for it!!!

You'll never regret it, even when the bill comes. ;-)

[emulatorloo]

34. telephone, email, MS software

The telephone is always ringing when you are trying to get something done.
Email always has some annoying crap in it for you to deal with
MicroSoft Software is bulky bloated buggy and lame, but is the "Standard." But it realllllly annnoys meeee

:argh:

[thermodynamic]

38. Computers, power (not electricity, the concept of rule over freedom), and

SUVs.

Won't go into computers now.

People abuse power, we should all be free.

SUVs are obvious, and a waste of precious resources.

[NashVegas]

40. Another for Cell Phones

..

[prolesunited]

41. I will now reveal

that cell phones were at the top of the list. Anyone surprised? :-)

Two more to go.

On edit: No one has yet mentioned No. 2 on the list.

[Djinn]

44. having been saved by mine

on several occasions I'm quite glad of the invention of mobile (cell) phones the only problem is with the percentage of people who use them to call home to say "I'll be home in a few minutes" or those who insist on having loud private conversations on public transport - but plenty of people did that with the person sitting next to them before the invent of cell phones so can I go with people as the worst invention?

[ohiosmith]

42. Velcro, child proof caps, giant foam hands

[prolesunited]

43. What's wrong with velcro?

:shrug:

[ohiosmith]

46. It's a communist plot to undermine our very existence that will ultimately

rot our teeth, cause us to have sex out of wedlock and make us lose the war.

And it's nearly impossible to get the sticky side out of armpit hair.

[prolesunited]

47. LOL!

What on earth are you doing that you get velcro stuck in armpit hair?!?!? :silly:

[ohiosmith]

50. Strapping on and off my jet rocket pack of course!

[qwertyMike]

45. Cell Phones. . . . of course

Pantyhose

Muzak

[qwertyMike]

48. PANTYHOSE

Can't you hear?
PANTYHOSE
PANTYHOSE

[prolesunited]

49. Would you care to elaborate on that one?

Are you uncomfortable in them or you don't like women in them?

What about fishnets or those thigh high numbers?

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. wedding planners, plastic, and the internal combustion engine

[prolesunited]

52. And still nobody has gotten No. 2

No. 3 on the list HAS been mentioned. Which one was it?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

53. cigarettes

[prolesunited]

54. Nope!

Big hint. Most people dread it when it goes off.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

55. alarm clock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

56. or car alarm

[prolesunited]

57. Yeah!!!!

You win. Told you it was a BIG hint! :-)

OK, so what's No. 3. As I said, it has been mentioned in this thread.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

58. gotta be the idiot box

[prolesunited]

59. You're good!

I wish there was a prize for you! :toast:

Here's the link
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/tech/package.jsp?name=fte/hatedinventions/hatedinventions

Others that made the list include
Shaving razors
Microwave ovens
Coffee pots
Computers
Vacuum cleaners

[Rabrrrrrr]

60. I still say it should be wedding planners

But then, I can only assume that people are ranking these based on their own selfish greed and needs, and not objectively.

If objectively, they'd include TV, wedding planners, plastic, internal combustion engine, mines, nuclear weapons...

[prolesunited]

61. What do you have against wedding planners?

Are you currently planning a wedding or did you have a bad experience?

[Rabrrrrrr]

63. They take sacred and profound rituals and turn them into commodity

and "marketing".

Ewwwwwwww.

Thankfully, no, I'm not dealing with any, but... well, I've had some bad experiences revolving around weddings (not marriages, weddings) and have some theological issues with, uh, a lot of people's expectations of what a "wedding" is.

[Lizz612]

62. Nuclear power, internal combustion engines, and machine guns

[Catshrink]

64. Call waiting.... a.k.a. "call annoying" damn I hate it.