50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day

Am I the only one that think these kids look absolutely hideous anyway? After all that ridiculous makeup is caked on they look more like Bride of Chucky than children.

AKA Freeloaders. Quite agree.

"Reality TV" is often the least accurate in portraying actual reality.

Agreed. Anytime a Peleton commericial comes on the television, I think this.

And what a horrible inhumane way for sharks to die.

I put that right up there with prom-posals.

If there's some way of turning them off, PLEASE let me know.

And the fact that they are allowed to lobby for heavier person sentences and get it is just a pure slap in the face of the very idea of freedom.

I am asking a dumb question - do we have any technology that can see metal in shallow plane of land from above? Is it just no one want to spend the time/money in these areas?

Yeah-Your appliances are watching AND listening to you. How fun.

BP is sadly guilty of this. I originally installed an adblocker precisely because BP was serving up some very shady ads that opened hundreds of popups.

Looking at you iphone...

I can't believe this hasn't been banned everywhere. Such unsustainability from damaging the ecosystem.

Especially irritating when I need to show an educational video in a classroom and have to waste time on ads plus its just not the place for them in the educational setting - where it might look like an endorsement.

The UK doesn't have so much trouble with these thanks to the Telephone Preference Service, which allows people to opt-out of sales calls. This works for legitimate companies, but unfortunately the scammers don't abide by the rules. I have a Raspberry Pi with a Fax Modem that monitors incoming calls on my landline and answers as a fax machine to unknown numbers or numbers I have blocked. Really we should be beyond this, but the telecommunications industry doesn't seem to want to fix it.

YES

This should be first actually...

What! This is real, seriously; how?

Some sites are better than others, but it is starting to get annoying, as when you decline cookies on a site, it can't set a cookie to say that you declined cookies, so it asks you every ruddy time you visit it! Not all cookies are evil and some are needed to make sites work, such as remembering preferences and logins, but tracking cookies can go and do one!

have never gone away really

Right now, i cant imagine what in last 10 years screwed up people’s heads and bring between us more hate and angry as these sh*tty website…

Cant hardly buy a sweat shirt that you can't read the newspaper thru. Cheap yet expensive.

Old t-shirts get turned into a pyjamas tops for me. I don't like to buy anything if I think I might only wear it once. (Such as for a wedding, etc).

I wear 20yr old band shirts and camo shorts that are maybe just as old, glad I've never been a fashion victim.

I stopped buying fast fashion about 7 years ago. Cut my closet down by around 70%. I just buy far less clothing and buy good clothing when I need it. I use to love shopping but now I absolutely hate it. Completely changed my mindset. Mostly I buy thrifted stuff for my work clothing, then nice things for nights out or events. My clothes take up half a standard closet.

In Aus, a 5m pile is discarded every 10mins :'(

My partner is a bin picker; every2nd day hell goto the tip in our very rural town and find BAGS UPON BAGS of perfectly good clothing! He brings what he can home, we wash all the clothes, toys, reusable things, and we donate it all. Its absolutely shocking how much is just discarded because someone wanted a new wardrobe! Ishudder to think how much is being thrown away in bigger cities

I should be made mandatory that clothing manufacturers recycle any unsold merch. This whole "next big thing" mentality has got to go away in retail.

I nearly stopped buying clothes around 10 years ago because they are all see-through. Once in a while, I'll find one that isn't and will get it even though it's not something I like. I basically just shop to keep myself covered so my company won't fire me.

And I refuse to wear anything that has a company logo on it. If they want me to wear their advertisment, then they can pay ME.

Hear, hear!!

I completely agree!! I am a seamstress and mom to six. I make handmade clothing that will last years! Most people would rather spend less, but cheap and get a few uses. Its hurt my income a lot!!!

AGREED!!! Drives me crazy when a video just starts playing on a non video streaming site!

Or plastics that have no plastic number for potenetial recycling, or it's hard to see.

Prepared to be corrected here, but I believe this is a uniquely US problem. The fact it crops up in so many "Weird things about the US as observed by the Rest of the World" lists would suggest we don't understand why you have them either.

On how I laughed at this comment 😂

Another one that would appear to be a uniquely American problem. In the UK (and I think all of Europe) you are not allowed to make an extra charge for paying by card.

Cigarettes and booze. The cure for PTSD after WW1 and WW2.

Fun Fact: The inventor of PopUps officially apologized for inventing them.

Especially pay to win micro transactions.

and the look I get when I say that I do not have any social media.

Always found it so strange the weight that seems to be put on polygraph tests in the USA, in both fiction and real life crime cases. Its so unreliable, but the results seem to have such a big impact on how suspects are viewed

Buy the plastic refill cartridges.

They have smart toasters. Let me just repeat that because the idea is do stupid it defies belief. Smart. Toasters.

Good to practice English though.

This should be higher. Stuff's ubiquitous, even though where I live they're talking about banning it for fast-food containers, there are plenty of other uses that won't touch. And it breaks down into bits that float everywhere in the surf.

It's not like the corn industry would suffer if it stopped producing HFCS. Products made from corn are used in dozens of industries: corn starch, ethanol, flavonoids extracted from corn, corn oil, etc.

Just answer and either say fraud department, or city morgue you stab em we slab em that has gotten a lot of these calls to stop for me and my family

It's full of twits. ;-)

There are some in my city that are eye level with the road and are so bright it is so distracting at night!

"The food pyramid" hasn't been in official use since at least the Obama admin maybe even earlier.

I would have thought that would already be illegal in most countries.

The "news" is basically just another reality tv show at this point

It is so creepy to see they can mimic a person so well that it is so hard to tell if it is really them or artificially produced! Same feeling I have when I have seen them....fear of the future!

If everyone should be taught to AT LEAST *this* level, then a standardised test to ensure that is happening makes perfect sense. The problem with education is trying to teach every child the same way, and treating them the same, when some naturally struggle and some naturally excel. The whole world is obsessed with "everyone is the same", except (let me say this loudly for the woke with their airpods in) WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME

What the actual f….?

As long as there is a button to go back to the top of the page it's ok. As a programmer I always grumble when there is no such button. That's just few lines of javascrip, easy peasy.

I lived in a country without parties. There was only one. It is today called dictatorship.

Where is this still available? I thought it was gone due to messing up the catalytic converters?

Aren’t loot boxes classified as gambling now? I remember reading something like that or that they should be classed as gambling.