What's the worst invention that has taken hold?

Black wheels with a machined face, typically found on ricers and brodozers. Yuck.

Gubment.

HOAs

Political Correctness

Political Talk Radio.

Stupid all-in-one tools, not to be confused w/ the multi-tools we love.

Everybody knows a cheap ass adjustable wrench IS a hammer.

Electric shopping carts.

Now it is ok to be so fat you can't walk, but still have a way to go to the Walmarts (or any other store for that matter) and get your soda, chips, cookies, and smokes.

It always reminds me of the people from Wall-e

captdownshift wrote: The football

American or world?

Smartphones.....

Man, some of your answers are scary

A smartphone is just a small (and typically locked-down) computer with a cell modem built in. I'm sad that they're almost all locked-down, but there's nothing bad or wrong about electronics miniaturization.

Political correctness is just a neologism for recent advances in being civil to each other. Decades ago people were probably whining when it was no longer socially accepable to casually call for genocide too. The demographics of the people who complain about "political correctness" today should say all that needs to be said.

Most of Somalia doesn't have a government, look how that's worked out for them...

octavious wrote: Electric shopping carts. Now it is ok to be so fat you can't walk, but still have a way to go to the Walmarts (or any other store for that matter) and get your soda, chips, cookies, and smokes. It always reminds me of the people from Wall-e

Wall-e is a man, not a place.

GameboyRMH wrote: Man, some of your answers are scary A smartphone is just a small (and typically locked-down) computer with a cell modem built in. I'm sad that they're almost all locked-down, but there's nothing bad or wrong about electronics miniaturization. Political correctness is just a neologism for recent advances in being civil to each other. Decades ago people were probably whining when it was no longer socially accepable to casually call for genocide too. The demographics of the people who complain about "political correctness" today should say all that needs to be said. Most of Somalia doesn't have a government, look how that's worked out for them...

When kids get told they can no longer play because they are too good at a game and when all participants get a trophy for participating, we have lost the plot.

Brian wrote:

captdownshift wrote: The football

American or world?

Yes

Appleseed wrote:

octavious wrote: Electric shopping carts. Now it is ok to be so fat you can't walk, but still have a way to go to the Walmarts (or any other store for that matter) and get your soda, chips, cookies, and smokes. It always reminds me of the people from Wall-e

Wall-e is a man, not a place.

I do enjoy a good electric shopping cart.

Lol. I guess I should have said from the movie Wall-e.

BTW, I always think of those scooter things when I see your avatar in a thread...

marriage

Tpms...

And the cause of said invention, the nanny state.

lrrs wrote: Tpms... And the cause of said invention, the nanny state.

I always thought it was Ford, Firestone and the lawyers fault.

Sput wrote: marriage

It's not the marriage part so much as the monogamy