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

I'mNotHere 4 years ago

I was a beauty pageant kid. It's a sick, sick world. Fake teeth, fake hair, fake tan, and self-esteem issues. I was a happy confident kid and then at ten started watching my weight because I thought I was chunky at 85 pounds. It hurt my relationship with my late mother and I don't talk to my dad anymore because he still sees nothing wrong with it. My mom eventually regretted it and made amends with me. Dad allowed my half sister to do it even after I ended up in therapy because of what I went through. It's about the prize money for him and a lot of the parents, not the kids.

59points

Lovin' Life 4 years ago

I agree. If it's supposed to be a beauty pageant then shouldn't it represent natural beauty. And what the purpose of them anyway? Beauty comes from within. They are teaching these small children the exact opposite, that outward beauty is more important. Its disgusting and I dont know what they get out of doing it.

22points

Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago

I dont understand making children look like creepy dolls 😱, just let them look like themselves!

10points

InfectedVoice 4 years ago (edited)

I think grown woman look hideous with that much make-up but it's their adult choice so who am I to say s**t, but these are just kids who are innocent and should be playing silly kid games, not being dolled up like an Alabama whore and paraded around like cattle at a farm auction.

6points

Beth Dezarn 4 years ago

I think so too. Yuck.

2points

Steph 4 years ago

Yes, it's eerie! Kids have to be able to be kids and not worry about their looks. This is just to boost the self esteem of their mothers, which is a word that I hate to use on these women. And maybe something to turn on pedophiles. Disgusting!

1point

Zophra 4 years ago

I happen to come across a tv channel showing this. I was aghast at how sexualized some of the contestants were. In the talent portion, there was this maybe 5 year old doing twirking and hip thrusts. What kind of parent allows for this?

35points

im.bored.person 4 years ago

Ones that want money obviously

10points

Caro Caro 4 years ago

Child abuse!

16points

Adrienne Doyle 4 years ago

I agree, this is child abuse, as it's a pedophile's dream.

1point

Akalvin 4 years ago

strongly agree. about time to cancel that bullshit.

15points

snipergun 4 years ago

Beauty pageants for everyone...

12points

Zophra 4 years ago

Agreed. But it feels somehow even worse for children - did they really get a choice? Is this all they know?

16points

Altea 4 years ago

these should be forbidden actually

10points

Mystery Egg 4 years ago

A pedo's dream.

9points

Lev Pertsov 4 years ago

Agree. This is horrible.

5points

Vasana Phong 4 years ago

I have a feeling, give it some time, eventually it will end

2points

PjandBolt 4 years ago

1000% agree

2points

#2

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day So called influncers, I'm probably too old to understand them but I certainly don't want my 1 year old to aspire to be one

GloveExtreme , lelepons Report

Final score:

444points

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Robert T 4 years ago

AKA Freeloaders. Quite agree.

30points

Scott Crowell 3 years ago

But they have close to 1,000 followers and will get you SOOOOO Much business!

0points

Id row 4 years ago

These parasites wouldn't exist without people following them. STOP FOLLOWING THEM and they'll go away. It's that easy.

15points

Noel Benavente 4 years ago

Social Media Douchebags is more accurate.

6points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

They're this generations "consultants", being paid to give their opinions when you could come up with the decision on your own. New delivery method, same old BS.

6points

Om 4 years ago

Influencers wouldn't exist without a group of "influenced" or influenceable people, so they're part of the problem too.

4points

Maureen McDermott 4 years ago

We're all influencers; we just do it for a small audience without a camera and an account. All of my friends kids know my jokes, how being nice goes a long way, etc. :)

4points

Rose Rosee 4 years ago

I understand where you are coming from, but way too many "influencers" are negative. Many promote vanity, and bad habits.

3points

InfectedVoice 4 years ago

It's an alien world to me, but the little I do know, they are beggars and want s**t for free, except they have nothing to offer in return.

3points

Mazer 4 years ago

To me an influencer is someone who thinks they have more influence to influence others with, basically an ego feed…I’m not influenced nor impressed

1point

Nandina 4 years ago

Question. Who and what are they supposed to be influencing? I'm old too.

1point

Manuel Delgado 4 years ago

Influencers have always been there. Only then they had to be famous beforehand.

1point

#3

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Reality TV. I swear it glamorized the worst kind of behavior, and we ate it up.

dacforlife , Love Island Report

Final score:

440points

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Tom Jacobs 4 years ago

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

143points

Pamela Blue 4 years ago

Reality TV is as real as a cartoon flick. Absolutely nothing real about it.

3points

Randy Klefbeck 4 years ago

Without even meaning to, the second someone puts a camera on a person, it ceases to be reality. People will act different than they ever would in reality when on display for others. Not to mention a lot of the contest reality programs are decided before the contest begins as to who the winner will be.

2points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

Blue Planet is Reality TV.

1point

Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago

Okay this depends. Masterchef Australia is considered reality TV and it's a great show. There is no drama between contestants as they are super supportive of one another. The only drama is if they will finish the food on time.

17points

Pamela Blue 4 years ago

I used to love the "single cook" educational shows. Once they got rid of those and started showing competitive stuff, I was gone.

3points

Manuel Delgado 4 years ago

Much better an educational food show than a competitive one.

2points

Mir Adwari 4 years ago

As I said to another commenter I think that this isn't the reality TV this person is complaining about. The problem tends to be scripted reality. The others, like MasterChef (in whatever country) aren't fiction but they are more competition based or informative such as property shows. I could well be wrong but that seems to me to be the subset that is pretty awful.

0points

R Carson 4 years ago

Phony conflict SELLS.

14points

keepgoing 4 years ago

The ironic thing is these reality shows are anything but real life...all mostly scripted and acted

11points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

I never liked or understood the appeal of this garbage.

6points

TurquoiseTzarina 3 years ago

Here, here! Didn't like, couldn't watch.

0points

SBW71 4 years ago

Not really reality tv when the whole show and concept is scripted, but some people actually think this crap is real!

5points

Daphne Williams 4 years ago

Most of them aren't scripted. They're heavily manipulated and carefully controlled, but not scripted.

0points

Aaron W 4 years ago

Most of the world laughed at the fakeness of reality TV and we thought americans did too, until the 2016 election. Then holy s**t, you idiots actually think reality TV is real?

3points

Karin 4 years ago (edited)

Only the STOOPID ones! I know which ones they mean, but there are a TON of good ones and several GREAT ones! Some are WONDERFUL! Any show where the competitors help each other, and hug and cry over the one who has to leave like: The Great British Baking Show, The Great Canadian Baking Show, Making It, Next in Fashion. Also try Blown Away, Glow Up, The Big Flower Fight. Love The Voice, So You Think You Can Dance, America's Got Talent, The Masked Singer, World of Dance... And don't forget Mythbusters! Bill Nye, The Science Guy! Queer Eye! How to Look Good Naked, Top Gear... Also Good Eats! Diners, Drive Ins and Dives, You've Gotta Eat Here, Carnival Eats, The Chefs Line, Ugly Delicious... And then there are all the renovating shows! Good Bones, Boise Boys, Proprty Brothers, Home Town, Holmes on Homes... The animal shows! There are so many good ones out there!

3points

Mir Adwari 4 years ago

I don't know all the proper terms but I think some of the shows on your list aren't quite what I think the OP is really referring to which is often called 'scripted reality' eg Love Island. The others are competition, property shows, cooking shows - more non-fiction, rather than reality TV which is a misnomer as it seems to be a strange depiction of what they think reality should be. If that makes any sense!!

2points

Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago

The thing about this is it's still on the air because ALL Y'ALL WATCH IT! Stop watching it and it will go away. Supply meets demand.

2points

Immortal Emperor Paradox 4 years ago

Big Boss

1point

#4

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Any product that you pay for, and then have to pay a subscription to use.

Free_Moose4649 , Pierre Lecourt Report

Final score:

434points

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Zophra 4 years ago

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

98points

K Witmer 4 years ago

My husband won a peloton and a free subscription for 3 yrs along w the shoes for everyone in the house. We used it for a year. It's basically a kind of nice stationary bike w an iPad attached to it. No one has used it in almost a year

13points

Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

I think "there's a sucker born every minute and two to take him"

4points

Fajar Kurniawan 4 years ago

Hi, i don't understand the concept. So if I didn't pay the subscription, will the pedal locked by itself? Or something?

2points

Treessimontrees 4 years ago

You can buy a spin bike for $2-300 and there are 1000s of free classes on YouTube.

9points

Zalzany Games 4 years ago

Screw that I watch American dad on mine I got one with cupholders, and a tray you can adjust you can freaking eat at it, set up your tablet, a laptop what ever you want lol

2points

Naima Ivansdóttir 4 years ago

how about mobile phones :D

4points

J. F. 4 years ago

You pay for the device and a subscription for the service - technically two seperate things

1point

Nicole Blomkamp 4 years ago

YES, ADOBE!!!!

4points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago

I agree sometimes you don’t even know you have a subscription. Laws in the UK are been changed to make subscriptions easier to spot and easier to cancel.

3points

V Martinez 4 years ago

Last I checked, the YMCA also does this. You pay hundreds to be a member, then have to pay to used some/half of what they offer.

3points

Wendy Lam 4 years ago

Old school workouts would be just fine, no thanks Peloton!

2points

Pamela Blue 4 years ago

Seriously? That's what Peloton do? Wow? Talk about BS. Who would even buy this stuff?

1point

K Miller 4 years ago

Wait... you have to pay a subscription for this after you purchase it? I thought it was just a crazy expensive machine...

1point

AzKhaleesi 4 years ago

Yes if I'm gonna pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for something I should just be able to use it end of story

1point

#5

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Shark fin soup - Tens of millions of sharks are killed every year for their fins that offer little nutritional value and serve no purpose outside of being a status symbol

flying-monke , harmon Report

Final score:

433points

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Zophra 4 years ago

And what a horrible inhumane way for sharks to die.

162points

David Mejia 4 years ago

very humane actually, since only we do that

5points

JayWantsACat 4 years ago

You can also add pretty much any 'traditional medicine" ingredients, like rhino horn, pangolin scales, etc. Demand for these placebos couched as 'traditional' are a big reason why many animals are trafficked and/or endangered.

20points

Bent. O. Jensen 4 years ago

And the rhino horn, pangolin scales, etc. is the same as your own nails and hair.

7points

Wendy Lam 4 years ago

And zoonotic viruses and germs too including this CoVID

1point

Wim Cossement 4 years ago

Supported by China...

0points

Azure Adams 4 years ago

WE can do without the people who eat shark fin soup. Let feed them to sharks and orcas. They won't be missed

13points

Terd Fergison 4 years ago

I agree with the sentiment. Orcas don't eat people, though.

4points

Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago

Why make them sick, tho'?

1point

Marie Stanford 4 years ago

Their families might miss them....

-2points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

Yes, they're not even killed, they have their fin removed alive, and then sent back into the ocean to suffer and almost certainly die.

10points

Anke Dieken 4 years ago

Not "almost". They can't swim without their fin and if they can't swim, they die.

1point

Everything AGR 4 years ago

i didnt even know this was a thing, poor sharks!

4points

Id row 4 years ago

And Japan still slaughters whales. Humanity on the whole is the worst thing to ever happen to the planet. How would you feel watching a whale get slaughtered while it's just trying to live its life in peace? How people can do that disgusts me.

3points

HoneyBun Arts 4 years ago

I’d like to point out- without sharks we will die. Sharks eat fish/sea lions, fish eat algae- algae makes oxygen. Less sharks means more fish and less algae.

3points

Zophra 4 years ago

Maybe not,? I'm pretty sure humans will overfish and ruin that too. :(

4points

Linny H 4 years ago

Just asking- is the rest of the shark used too, or fins only?

2points

Zophra 4 years ago

The rest of the shark is not "profitable" to sell, so they fill up the limited space of the ship with just the profitable fins. They cut off the shark's fin and then just dump them back into the sea, bleeding and unable to swim...

11points

Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)

Nope, they cut the fins off then throw the shark back in the water alive, bleeding and unable to swim so they die from drowning coz most sharks need to continue swimming to survive. It's extremely cruel and unnecessary.

8points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

No. Usually they cut the fin and drop the shark in the water to die :(

3points

Linny H 4 years ago

Man. That's horrible. I was hoping for a different response:(

0points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

There is but one shark that deserves this. You know the one.

1point

Bitemabum 4 years ago

Some fkin Asians will eat anything

1point

#6

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

Deb_bomb , John Lawlor Report

Final score:

433points

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Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago

I put that right up there with prom-posals.

114points

-alex_the_trans_demon- 4 years ago

I know, right? I mean, the person prom-posing literally put the other person in an extremely uncomfortable position, especially if they didn't want it to happen AT ALL.

6points

Claudette Shaw 4 years ago

That is a new one on me.

1point

Margaret Buckley 4 years ago

Wondering whether a prom-prosal is worse than proposing at some else's wedding.

1point

Ellis Tamura 3 years ago

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0points

Zalzany Games 4 years ago

Yeah I didn't get that but my prom was literally "the neighbor girls prom date cancelled on her, she already bought her dress and is devastated I told her mom you would take her." Meanwhile girl I asked but was too late came crying next day after I agreed same story, guy heard no putting out and said "nope" to prom a week before prom lol.

0points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

This one I do at least understand. It's a chance to get together with people you love and make an announcement in a fun way. If you do it with cake you don't burn anything down. BONUS: you get cake!

20points

McSydney 4 years ago

Ok . If it’s cake, but the setting off fireworks and subsequently burning things down??!! Can we just not?!!!

4points

Adrienne Doyle 4 years ago

The cake is fine, but blowing things up and starting wildfires that burn homes shows that this thing has gotten way out of hand.

0points

Aliquid A 4 years ago

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Frankenfrog 4 years ago

*Genital reveal party

12points

Bobert Robertson 4 years ago

I've been to a few parties like that. Eff you Dave, nobody wants to see Dave Jr.

4points

Oerff On Tour 4 years ago

If you want to prank your friends, order a special cake with a rainbow inside.

11points

McSydney 4 years ago

I’d go to that party

1point

Random Person 4 years ago

I think that having a colored cake with a few family members is fun and cute, but anything more than that is just odd

9points

Gay Llama 4 years ago (edited)

it's not even a gender reveal its a genital reveal as @Frankenfog said

2points

lara 4 years ago

Who cares what the sex is. Now, if it were a "species" reveal, maybe.

8points

M M 4 years ago

:-) good one. Horrible but good.

0points

Kirk Mckeever 4 years ago

Nothing wrong with the concept, but going overboard seems to be the problem....It's not THAT big of a deal.....

4points

Id row 4 years ago

These should absolutely be outlawed. Even the woman who invented them regrets doing so.

3points

SBW71 4 years ago

I agree. What happened to just telling people what you are having? Why the big show?

2points

Adrienne Doyle 4 years ago

Even better, waiting until the doctor says "it's a boy" or "it's a girl" but nobody seems to want to wait and be surprised anymore.

1point

lil_gremlin 4 years ago

ugh, yes i agree. some outrageous ones have caused fricking FOREST FIRES!

1point

#7

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day YouTube "endscreens" (or "endcards") that often block content at the end of the video you're watching.

jrmiv4 , Dua Lipa Report

Final score:

394points

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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago

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

128points

Phoebe Carter 4 years ago

If you're using the mobile app, you know how you can pull the video down while in portrait to get back to the YT home screen? If you begin pulling the video down but then pull it back to the top without taking your finger off the screen they will disappear and you can watch normally. I don't know any way to get rid of them on other devices though

19points

Nianudd 4 years ago

Adblock Plus browser extension. Pause the video at the end when the endscreens are up. Go to the Adblock plus icon (in Firefox top right), and go to block element. You'll have to do each one individually, and you may have to do it for a few days, but after that, no more annoying endscreens

13points

Rissie 4 years ago

Use an ad blocker, it blocks those too.

4points

Hannu Luhtasela Premium 4 years ago

uBlock origin and/or Enhancher for Youtube. The last one quite useful in many ways. You can set default resolution, set loop button,

4points

Kaleb Prichard (MiraiKuma) 4 years ago

In a browser it is in your settings. Don't know about mobile app. There is an enhancer for Youtube for browsing as well on windows. I suggest using that.

3points

Danny Ruiz 4 years ago

You have to download an app and pay amonthly fee.

1point

Jaxier Lucies Premium 4 years ago (edited)

"Enhancer for YouTube" You can use this to turn them off and never be bother with them. Best extension for youtube out there that also can do so much more. A really "must have"

1point

RedstonewolfX 4 years ago

On iPhone, you can view the video in Safari and put your phone in landscape. I never saw a single endcard when using Safari. Sadly, it meant I couldn't watch chain/choose-your-own-path videos.

0points

Julia Jules Whitelegg 4 years ago

And me too please..

0points

Joseph Karthic 4 years ago (edited)

Put the below code in "ublock" -> "my filters" tab... youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay youtube-nocookie.com##.ytp-pause-overlay youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element youtube-nocookie.com##.ytp-ce-element www.youtube.com##DIV[class="iv-btp-companion"]

0points

James016 4 years ago

Adverts in the middle of videos are worse.

7points

Daniel Atkins 4 years ago

On a computer install Ublock origin in your browser presto ads on Youtube gone.

2points

Antony Aston 4 years ago

I always add a blank 20 seconds at the end so nothing gets missed on my vids

3points

Jackie Nettleton 4 years ago

This irritates me to no end

1point

Barbara Vandewalle 4 years ago

I hate adverts that show up every 60 seconds. I guarantee I am not buying those products.

1point

Jozsef Szabo 1 year ago (edited)

I think this is good, I like the viewing suggestions, but I understand that it can be anoying to some people. Every feature that can be potentially annoying to some people, should be able to be turned off. Just like autoplay, auto-max-volume etc.

0points

Stew 3 years ago

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0points

Kimberley Gayle Thomas 4 years ago

yes, thank ou, I'm not the only one. I chalk it up to bad editing & frustration

0points

Julia Jules Whitelegg 4 years ago

This!

0points

Melissa McGuire Premium 4 years ago

I f*****g hate this...

0points

#8

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

tommygunz007 , Molly Haggerty Report

Final score:

374points

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John Topper 4 years ago

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.

110points

Bob Belcher 4 years ago

The fact that they're allowed to place quotas on capacity which the government must abide by or the government has to pay a fine is f'ing maddening. What bullshit is this where a business gets to dictate prisons.

18points

Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 4 years ago

For real!? Land of the free, my ass...

7points

Zalzany Games 4 years ago

To be fair Kroger is allowed to lobby on behalf of EBT card usage and spends money to tell politicians we need to increase welfare budgets for familes saying they eat garbage, or starve at the end of the month. Right after they won the abilty to let them buy junk food, cake, and pie on ebt lol. I worked at supermarket that lost its s**t when they got to put "Buy it with EBT" for valantimes day candy arrangments, its like how the hell is this approved, oh the state just approved it. Just when I found out they had stores were 80% of the profit was from EBT sales so yeah they lost their s**t every time a new item that was banned got put on the EBT approved list, as it meant better sales on that product sigh. Like I had a pal working there as GM stocking the junk food, bitching about welfare being bad for the economy at a store that was 80% EBT sales, its like you know if not for EBT you would never been promoted this store wouldn't be shut down in heartbeat if it ended.

4points

Nannerdog 4 years ago

Whoa! I didn't know this! Yikes!

0points

M M 4 years ago

Yes! it's actual slavery. And the sentences in USA are inhumane.

17points

Caroline Nagel 4 years ago

The USA shows the rest of the world every day that it is not a first world country.

8points

Jon Steensen 1 year ago

yeah it seems like it is much more interesting/acceptable to just punish people than improve the conditions for them, such that the don't end up in such situations. E.g. if you have a problem with homelessnes, the solution is to prohibit being homeless and living that lifestyle, with increased prison cost as a result, rather than investing in programs to help them, like building shelters, making subsidiced employment programs, enrolling them in AA etc.

0points

Bob Belcher 4 years ago

Agreed, the fact that minor drug offenses get more time than assault and rape charges is stupid.

0points

Lev Pertsov 4 years ago

I'll add for profit hospitals and for profit schools to this list.

9points

RoseAnne Hutchence 4 years ago

There's a prison in SK, Canada, where inmates work on a farm and raise their own food. I'm all for decreasing the cost to taxpayers, but the prisoners also have to earn (by good behaviour) the privelege of working in the gardens, it teaches them good skills and helps with rehabilitation. The incidence of violence are notably lower (gardening is very therapeutic.)

5points

Karin 4 years ago

For profit health care!

5points

Deborah B 4 years ago

It is disutopian in the extreme that the organisations that are supposed to be rehabilitating offenders profit from them getting sent back to prison.

4points

Randy Klefbeck 4 years ago

More guard abuse of prisoners, and more recidivism, as well as monetary penalties to the prison for not keeping all their beds/cells full. Which means that the incentive is to prosecute people on any charge to incarcerate. Police become indoctrinated by political pressure from higher ups to find any reason to put people in jail. Sometimes, made up reasons.

0points

Oerff On Tour 4 years ago

Murica!

4points

Melissa McGuire Premium 4 years ago

I f*****g hate this too

1point

Mazer 4 years ago

America’s entire judicial system needs an overhaul, none of it is fair and balanced…and Don’t get me started on our so called healthcare

1point

Jon Steensen 1 year ago

For profit a lot of things are similar. Some tasks are just better left with a government, who do not have to make money on it. The encentive to earn money and provide a good service does not always lign up in neat manor, and hence if you optimise too much for one of them, it often introduces some mechanism that makes the other one suffer. Running a for profit organisation often becomes more a matter of appearing good than delivering a product that is good. This means that assigning a big part of your budget to advertising makes sense, whereas a governmental institution does not have to focus on attracting customers, and can spend those resources on providing the core service, e.g. healthcare.

0points

#9

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Landmines. I'll tell you why: They render large tracts of land completely unusable They are expensive and difficult to remove safely because there is seldom documentation of where they are placed They are cheap, plentiful, easy to place, and deadly They kill/maim livestock and wild animals They kill/maim innocent people decades after conflicts have ended. Many times the victims are children because they can't read or don't understand warning signs

RichardDune91 , mary wareham Report

Final score:

368points

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Zophra 4 years ago

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?

56points

M O'Connell 4 years ago

Land mines are designed to not be detectible by metal detectors, otherwise it would be too easy for the enemy to remove them. The most efficient method is to clear them with heavy equipment (flails, bulldozers, etc), but that requires significant capital investment, and isn't practical in all terrain.

56points

K Witmer 4 years ago

They've been training rats to detect them but there's so many

32points

InfectedVoice 4 years ago

No such thing as a dumb question mate, if you don't know it's good to ask rather than pretend like you do know.

15points

Nubis Knight 4 years ago

If that was possible I'm sure it would be used, also I'm not sure if landminds are made out of metal? And lot's of money goes into Training search-rats so they can find the minds. So money doesn't seem to be the problem.

9points

Jackie Porter 4 years ago

Currently in some areas Gambian Pouched Rats are trained to sniff out land mines (they're too light to set them off) and indicate to their handler where one is. Then bomb disposal comes in and renders it safe. These rats have a 100% success rate and work for bananas. They're known as Hero Rats. Look up Apopo Rats. They're also trained to detect Tuberculosis in samples too.

8points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

Many modern landmines are plastic to avoid detection, and the old ones will sometimes explode just because they're old.

7points

Peter Hughes 4 years ago

Also, they have plastic landmines...

3points

ADHD 4 years ago

many are actually mostly plastic

2points

Wim Cossement 4 years ago

Check out the movie Land of mine... Pretty wretching.

1point

Josefine Andersen 4 years ago

Apopo use rats to find and remove them works better than machines. because they can clear. I have donated to them a few times. you can learn more about them here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eos7k2pC7Mg

0points

Julia Jules Whitelegg 4 years ago

Yes there probably is and not used for that reason x

0points

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

Ground penetrating radar is available, but you have to roll the device over the land and that does not work out.

0points

Duck with a Top Hat 4 years ago

That’s not dumb, that would be an amazing invention

0points

Thomas J Janstrom 4 years ago

often landmines contain minimal amounts of metal and so metal detectors are unable to pick them up

0points

Zalzany Games 4 years ago

Issue is iron is in the soil, the places that are still left largely unmapped and dangours, soil is rich in iron so metal dectors are worthless. Also some mines are composites or other materails to make it harder to detect. The best way honestly is by smell they got bomb sniffing dogs, but no device yet that can, but it puts the dogs life at risk to go out there, with a handler to mark each one for removal later.

0points

Mazer 4 years ago

There are organizations which use metal detectors and dogs) they can smell the gun powder). However the mines are unstable from being in the ground so long and are difficult to remove even in the best of circumstances

0points

Requiem 4 years ago

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Mystery Egg 4 years ago

At the end of last year they cleared the last remaining landmine from the Falklands. They had been placed there in the war almost 40 years previously. One benefit though, some of the beaches were unusable for humans as we didn't know 'exactly' where they were but that they were around these areas and so you find the most spectacularly beautiful, untouched by humans for 4 decades, full of wildlife and penguins rearing their young.

5points

Peter Kelly 4 years ago

The element I find most disturbing is that there are many people who spend their entire working lives endeavouring ways to kill more people more efficiently. For example, mines that will spring up to 3 feet and explode in a horizontal plane. Or the cluster bombs that will leave mines on damaged roads/runways so that the driver of the bulldozer will effectively target himself as he levels the ground. There are far too many other examines to list here, each more vile.

3points

lara 4 years ago

EVERYTHING can be turned into a weapon. EVERYTHING. Saying that we should ban all weapons [I mean who would disagree] means you are going to ban a LOT of tech, from wires to gasoline to salt. And, yes, I agree. But like a former POW told me, the point of war is to kill them so that they don't kill you.

1point

Id row 4 years ago

So does religion, just on a much, much wider scale.

2points

Fred L. 4 years ago

The first three points are also the reasons why they´re used in the first place.

2points

German Gargicevich 4 years ago

In El Salvador, during the civil war, the guerrilla set rudimentary "pipe bombs" made with PVC pipes, bolts, and powder on the plantations of rich families. This tactic caused the death and thousands of farmworkers' mutilations, which didn't have any alternative.

2points

Zalzany Games 4 years ago

Unless they had pressure triggers not the same. People still put IEDs all over, but a land mine is worse as there is no one setting it off it just sits there for years or decades waiting for something to trigger it.

1point

Smitten Kitten 4 years ago

- It is estimated that there are 110 million land mines in the ground right now. An equal amount is in stockpiles waiting to be planted or destroyed. - Mines cost between $3 and $30, but the cost of removing them is $300 to $1000. - The cost of removing all existing mines would be $50- to $100-billion. - According to the 'International Campaign to Ban Landmines network', more than 4,200 people, of whom 42% are children, have been falling victim to landmines annually in many of the countries affected by war or in post-conflict situations around the world. http://www.landminefree.org/2017/index.php/support/facts-about-landmines

1point

Vasana Phong 4 years ago

Lots of them are still in Laos, left from the Vietnam war

1point

John Edginton 1 year ago

Can we not use the politicians who order the armed forced to deploy them to clear them?

0points

DonnerDinnerParty 3 years ago

One line says they're expensive then the very next says they are cheap..?

0points

Food404 , Alan Patrick (Otto) Alpenfelt Report

#10

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day "Smart" devices. No LG, i don't want to download an app to use my f*****g washing machine, i want to wash my clothes ffs

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R Carson 4 years ago

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

79points

Eucritta 4 years ago

Soon they'll be demanding payment.

13points

Nikki Sevven 4 years ago

The last time I had to purchase a washer and dryer, the salesperson immediately escorted me to the computerized ones. I stopped him and said, "No. I want knobs, dials, and switches, please, not motherboards." He looked confused, whereupon I said, "If an analog part fails, I can replace it with another switch. I can't do that with a motherboard. No thanks."

24points

Caro Caro 4 years ago

True. Just what what you said Nikki.

3points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

I don't understand why people want "connected homes"

11points

J Gund 4 years ago

I used to think the same, but certain devices do help with accessibility. I replaced my parents thermostat with a nest, because my dad was having trouble walking up the stairs to reach the old one. It ended up backfiring a bit. I took the time to download the app to devices and show them how to use it, but they would still text me to change it for them.

1point

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

I'd rather just have a sentient robot.

0points

Zalzany Games 4 years ago

Some things I get like abilty to turn a camera on to check on your dog or kid what ever. Were that spoiled if you can afford it why not? But yeah an app for my oven, tv, and washer f**k no. Like I see people talking about smart tvs, its like um oh cool it can play netflix and go online, uh I got my old xbox one hooked up to mine it does all that s**t, and for like 20 bucks you can get dongle that plugs into your tvs HDMI port, is like 3 inches long, uses wifi, and can run every app you could dream of, and you paid what extra 300 bucks for that on your new tv...

0points

Id row 4 years ago

I can't do laundry today because my wifi is down. That's something you never want to have to say.

8points

Monica Hayes 4 years ago

wait...what!?

0points

FrankStellar 4 years ago (edited)

"Have you downloaded our app? it's free and contains our whole catalogue in a form far less easy to navigate than the store you're coming to anyway." "I've shopped her twice in my life I'll be fine without thanks."

5points

lara 4 years ago

I HATE my new washer. I cannot "program" if for what I want. And it is a real bitch to measure the amount of bleach and softner I want to use. In addition, it just pisses me off I have to read a fifty page "booklet" about how to use the damned thing.

3points

HammerzToe 4 years ago

The "smart device" industry is beginning to get a little irritating to lay the least

2points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago (edited)

Yes I think the same what is the point of a smart kettle you still have to fill it and pour out the water to make your drink. You still need to put clothes in a washer and take them out.

2points

Random Anon 4 years ago

Soon you'll need an app to flush after taking a deuce.

2points

Lev Pertsov 4 years ago

Don't agree with this one. I love the fact that my washing machine tells me when it's done and my car sending me a message when it's charged.

2points

Zalzany Games 4 years ago

Car I get, but uh i got a smart watch if I can't hear the washer/dryer ding, I set a timer, and I already own the watch, so why pay the extra cash? And its to they are on commision when you go shopping for these things and they hound its like no I don't need my phone linked to my washer, I got enough damn apps going off asking if I am hungry and want to order take out, wasting my damn battery, and enough spam calls I honestly don't even turn my phone ringer on or it on vibrate unless I am expecting a damn call.

1point

#11

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Adblock detectors. Your site forces me to disable adblock? Ill just go to another site.

Titanmaster970 , Pleated Jeans Report

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364points

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Robert T 4 years ago

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.

122points

Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago

Same here. BP is the reason I installed Ad blocker. I kept getting a pop up from "google" saying I won and would automatically redirect me to another page.

24points

Skull in Sky 4 years ago

better adblocks do block the popups that request to turn adblock off. uBlock Origin FTW

8points

Pheebs 4 years ago

Same - I can’t stand ads that hijack your browser. Plus, I’ve gotten viruses on my computer on 3 separate occasions on legit sites that don’t police their ads well enough. And I highly doubt Google is policing their ads service all that well. They certainly don’t police their app store.

6points

CultOfBambi 4 years ago

Hmmm. I can't say I've had an issue with this - is it because I use a Mac? I don't recall ever setting up an adblocker, and besides the easily ignored panel of ads to the right side of the screen I haven't been particularly annoyed by ads on BP. Definitely no pop-ups. I effing hate ads!

3points

Suzy the observer 4 years ago

Same. The pop-ups were preventing me from reading.

1point

Princess Toadstool 4 years ago

I got an ad for beach body (the mlm) on a YouTube video which I told the creator in the comments, he wished he could control what ads he gets. All his content is fitness based so I guess the targeted ad made sense, but it’s an MLM…

1point

Peter Korsten 4 years ago

The ads on BP are truly shady, but only on my phone. The weird thing is that I get shady ads when I come from Facebook, but not directly from the browser: in that case, the ads are mundane. I do have Facebook walled off on my PC, and I don't see any ads on my PC either. I get the impression that they take my profile and figure from my age and gender that I must like sexist games or cartoons. It doesn't appear linked to my Google searches. On Facebook itself, I only get ads for silly games (usually something related to mass murder made look cute).

0points

Lulu Lemons 4 years ago

Maybe try private browser mode? I've had no trouble since switching to it

0points

ADHD 4 years ago

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M M 4 years ago

Me too, I find another site. Or even a book. Never unblock adblocks never alow cookies. Ever!

9points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago

I make exceptions for my favorite newspaper-site. They need the revenue, and also don't overdo the ads. Other sites, though - no deal (Also never had any pupup OR ad on Bored Panda)

0points

James016 4 years ago

I get that free sites use ads to generate some revenue. But if the ad covers the screen, has audio and is nigh on impossible to find the close cross, then it will stay blocked. A sidebar is ok as that is not invasive.

7points

Doctor Strange 4 years ago

There are adblock blocker blockers out there, that can block sites from seeing you have adblock installed. And yes, I know what a ridiculous statement that is.

4points

Om 4 years ago

if you add this custom rule to Adblock Plus, example: @@||boredpanda.com$elemhide it blocks the adblock detector for most sites

0points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

Unfortunately, as much as we'd like it, websites aren't charities that are run at the expense of the creator. Even a small website can be expensive to produce, and large website can be VERY expensive with the server space, maintenance, updates, domain, etc... Which is what advertising pays for.

3points

Aliquid A 4 years ago

Yeah, either pay for a subscription to the website, or accept the ads. Otherwise you are demanding a free service, and that's not how capitalism works.

1point

Zophra 4 years ago

Alas, but somtimes I NEED that particular site.

3points

Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 4 years ago

absolutely, and on NEWS SITES. why? i am not going to disable, or PAY, not even a dollar, to read your article!!

2points

Id row 4 years ago

I just block their block or go to another site.

2points

Pamela Blue 4 years ago

Exactly! No one has a monopoly on news or anything else. If you won't show me what I need, I'll find another place that will!

1point

Requiem 4 years ago

I dont let this site affect me with ads or an ad blocker. Its chive that wont let you even go on their site with out whitelisting them or paying

1point

#12

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Devices meant to break after a short period of time, and devices that purposely have parts you can't replace.

ShippiWorld , bfishadow Report

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Zophra 4 years ago

Looking at you iphone...

90points

Robert T 4 years ago

AKA Built-in obsolesence. It also isn't just parts any more it is software updates and servers that support the services for those devices.

12points

Tom Jacobs 4 years ago

Manufacturing products to have an intentionally shortened life span is quite common for most products. With electronics being mostly comprised of non-recyclable components; designed to be intentionally unrepairable, it's also creating a large strain on the environment.

9points

Sabse 4 years ago

Thank you EU. I think our new "Right to repair" is a good beginning.

8points

Caroline Nagel 4 years ago

I think the EU recently voted a law that forces manufacturers to repair broken devices and produce spare parts.

7points

TheReader19 4 years ago

I had a brilliant Brother printed which I could no longer use because they changed the 'drivers'? So it became obsolete. I was so peed off 😤

4points

Requiem 4 years ago

My two friends and my job still use iphone 7s. my mac book is from 2013.

3points

Grady'sRaider 4 years ago

Upgradable computer hardware joke. By the time you need to upgrade, the hardware config is obsolete (the bus, the cpu speed, the graphics, storage)

3points

Grady'sRaider 4 years ago

We need to add Repairable to the other 4 Rs. We should not be throwing out stuff because a motor in a sealed steel box needs new brushes or bearings.

3points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

This always makes me so sad. Its ridiculous that they force you to throw away items that can be repaired. I have now a laptop with a cracked screen (that soon will stop working). Its a bit old but it works really well. Sadly buying a new screen to fix it its so expensive that its not worth repairing it.

2points

#13

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Seafloor trawling... It destroys the habitant of fish just so we can squeeze every bit of a fish from an area...

memmoria91 , NOAA Photo Library Report

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343points

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Zophra 4 years ago

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

93points

Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago

Even when banned they still do it. So much is destroyed for no reason than it was in the way

5points

Zalzany Games 4 years ago

Easy MONEY. Its like when people look me in the eye and bitch about plastic bags or straws, its like "one were in AZ right now only way this is getting to the ocean is if you load it up in your car drive for like 8 hours straight then set it loose in california and even then needs a really strong wind to make it the rest of the way. And two the people who fund the groups you are visiting that shows the turtle with a stray up its nose are the ones trawling the damn ocean floors, and they pay them money to focus on straws and bags so you don't learn over 70% of the plastic in ociean is actually discorded fishing gear. Like they don't show you garbage island pics of plastic nets in falling apart condition filled with dead with animials and trash that got caught in that flooting death trap that is like 80 feet long, but yeah my straw that is the big thing we should focus on..."

1point

Zak Rasten 4 years ago

No wonder if we feel that democracy has failed us

0points

SBW71 4 years ago

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Grady'sRaider 4 years ago

Add driftnets too.

5points

lara 4 years ago (edited)

The Chinese lied for years about the tonnage of fish they were "removing" from the ocean. So, forecasts by the UN and other organizations was that the oceans were not being "over fished" but the Chinese were lying. For two reasons, the fishermen had quotas they had to meet, which were impossible so they lied about how many fish they caught. And the Chinese government continued to the lies so that they could continue to over fish.

4points

Id row 4 years ago

If there's something unethical, wrong or cruel, you can bet there will be people willing to do it.

3points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

The most stupid thing is, it's the fishermen it harms when the stocks drop. Same with using nets with small holes that catch EVERYTHING, or catching loads and then dumping part of that catch because you went "over quota" rather than working on catching JUST your quota.

3points

Jon Steensen 4 years ago

The problem is that as long as the competitors are doing it, there is little point in not doing it, or you will not stay competible. It quickly develops into a race for the bottom with a disarsterous result. The only cure is to either put in regulations or have mutual agreement of no one doing it. As long a just one does it, it ruins it for everyone while it benefits he who does it, and hence the others will soon join.

2points

Benjamin Tang 4 years ago

The tragedy of the commons.

1point

Sharon 2 years ago

I have NOTHING nice to say about these people. just watched a doc about fin fishing. we should start boycotting every country that allows this in any way. China and Japan being the top two. they cut the fins from living sharks and throw them alive back into the ocean to die. they use lines and hooks to catch them and some drown before they are pulled out of the water because they can't move. Watched a show by Green Peace, yeah I know about the controversy of their methods, but better someone try than not. the gov'ts are allowing this because the fish moguls pay them off. GRRRRRRRR hope they all die a horrible death

0points

Jackie Nettleton 4 years ago

This should be criminal the destruction of the seas ecosystem is horrendous

0points

Julia Jules Whitelegg 4 years ago

There is no need for this!

0points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

save the deep sea reefs you f*cks

0points

#14

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

ausaf_007 , The Verge Report

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336points

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Zophra 4 years ago

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.

78points

Pau Tea 4 years ago

Adblockers for browsers work quite well in these scenarios

7points

Nannerdog 4 years ago

Just want to say I appreciate you for teaching during the pandemic

5points

Wim Cossement 4 years ago

Just use Enhancer for YouTube and Ublock Origin in Chrome, I doubt you you need admin privileges for an extension.

1point

Neill Powell 4 years ago

Surprise, the content creator actually makes that decision, not YouTube, you should really wail on them until they get the message

0points

ProfessionalTimeWaster 4 years ago

There's an ad-free premium version.

0points

Nicholas Kraemer 4 years ago

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K Miller 4 years ago

I remember when Youtube didn't have ads. Now there's sometimes 2 or 3 before you can watch your video... If I see an online ad, on Youtube especially, I'm more likely never to buy your product or service because of it.

5points

Seedy Vine 4 years ago (edited)

The people who advertise to us are already selling our data. Do they really need to interrupt our thoughts and emotions every few seconds too? It should be illegal.

4points

Virginia W 4 years ago

And should be no ads on videos for emergency/first aid type topics.

3points

Jon Steensen 4 years ago

... especially on youtube before the short videos. If I clicked on a 30 second Youtube video it is rediculous that you think it justifies showing me two mandatory 1 minute long videos. I am not prepared to use 4/5 of my spare time on optaining useless information. It is a waste of my time and your advetising time and budget. If I am not committed after 10 seconds I won't engage, so don't force me too. All you produce is a contempt for the product in the commercial instead.

3points

Requiem 4 years ago

I had youtube premium and still had this

2points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

Really? so it's a lie!!! They want to trick you to get premium! I wasn't going to get one but now I'm even more sure

0points

Bored Cats 4 years ago

I know the person's probably talking about mobile apps and things like that, but just TV is bad too. If you add up the ad times, it's about fifteen to twenty minutes. The show pops up as one hour long, but is only like forty or forty five minutes. It's awful

1point

Sarah Shepherd 4 years ago

I can accept unskippable ads if it's in content that I'm getting for free. Bills have to be paid somehow. I don't like them, but I get it.

1point

Treessimontrees 4 years ago

Ad 1/5.... nope.

1point

Invisible Potato 1 year ago

UBlock Origin on Firefox works my friends! Google is garbage

0points

#15

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

c_fritz , Aaron Yoo Report

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307points

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Robert T 4 years ago

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.

52points

mcborge1 4 years ago

I'm in the UK and I get them all the time even though I set up TPS. I get at least two or three a week on both my landline and mobile.

6points

Bobby 4 years ago

Actually we do. The problem is scammers are always working around our blocks. I work for a landline phone provider and robocallers is the number one reason people disconnect phone service. That's a lot of money we're losing because we can't stay ahead of the scammers

3points

James016 4 years ago

I had someone claiming to be from Carphone Warehouse offering me a great deal on a new phone for only £25 a month. I declined, he asked why. I replied that I only pay £8 a month and my iPhone XS is just fine. He genuinely sounded confused that I did not want to upgrade.

3points

Mark Brown 4 years ago

This is actually a problem that people in the telecom industry are now trying to fix. I'm a developer for telecom software and have done work on products that implement the STIR/SHAKEN protocol, a protocol designed to ensure that callers are who they say they are (no number spoofing, a big problem with scammers). Unfortunately change in telecoms companies is often glacial with the amount of testing and prep they put in to deploying anything, so it usually takes a couple of years for anything to happen

1point

Sharon 2 years ago

we had that in Canada but they figured out a way around it.

0points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago

Sky have fixed it for free

0points

Samantha Hurrell 4 years ago

We get so many calls who attempt to get round it all the time. I'm not sure if my Mum accidentally didn't realise she opted into calls, but I'm pretty sure she's not interested in Insulation or Solar Panels.

0points

Requiem 4 years ago

Dont answer weird numbers or blocked numbers

3points

Zophra 4 years ago

And you can't even tell a real person to take your name off the call list.

3points

Philly Bob Squires Premium 4 years ago

Collection agencies and scammers... spoof the number. Calls from LA, Phoenix, Detroit, right next door to you.... hell, you may just get a call from your own number! This should be illegal,

2points

The Alpha Geek 4 years ago

"Hello. We are calling to let you know that the warranty on your vehicle is about to expire..."

2points

Caroline Nagel 4 years ago

I get called (on my landline) frequently by 'people from Microsoft' and they always introduce themselves with a very English sounding name, eg John Williams or Mary Smith. They are all Indians and speak with an Indian accent lol.

2points

Sky Render 4 years ago

The ones I hate are the robocalls that know how to leave a voicemail. Oddly enough, I don't believe that the warranty on my car has expired! Probably because my car hasn't had a warranty on it since about 15 years before I bought it!

1point

lara 4 years ago

I have caller ID on my land line. If it says "unavailable" I don't answer. I only answer for numbers I know. When I am reading and the phone rings and I don't know who it is, I hit the speaker button and don't say anything. It costs them if it is long distance. They never say anything, they just hang up.

1point

Grady'sRaider 4 years ago

Without speaking. Hit the answer button, then # key twice (##), hang up button. It signals older autodialers you have a non functioning number and you will get dropped from their list.

1point

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

Telephone companies make money on destroying our phones

0points

Wes_Jelqer , Knoxville Area Transit Report

#16

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day 40+ hour work week

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287points

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Zara VP 4 years ago

YES

45points

Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago

It was certainly better than its predecessor, the 70-hour workweek.

11points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

Yes and the 70 hour was better than slavery.... that's not the point here

2points

Vasana Phong 4 years ago

It sucks out your whole life, not even counting the commute, then home to clock in to your second job

6points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

Some people WANT a long week for the money, don't ban things for everyone because a handful of people are being forced into it.

3points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

I agree. Work as much or as little as you want.

4points

Arjen I 4 years ago

It's not "a handful op people", and you bloody well know it

2points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

So the correct would be to have a decent salary so you don't have to work more than 40 hours a week

1point

Anna Repp 4 years ago

There's a difference between hourly pay and yearly salary. If someone can do their work in 4 hours a day why not let them work less?

1point

Charles Amoranto 4 years ago

Actually if 40 hours work week didnt invented we will be working more 🤣🤣

2points

April Walters 4 years ago

Damn, I wish I only needed to work 40 hours... Most of my adult life, I've worked 50-70+ hours just to pay the bills.

2points

Julie C Rose 4 years ago

I worked 60+ hour weeks for almost a decade before the pandemic hit, and any time I see people pushing for fewer hours, I point out that unless they address the larger economic issues, it’s just going to be a perk for people above a certain income threshold. It’s telling that the progressive party in my country is tackling things like housing prices first.

0points

Shane S 4 years ago

The clock in general.

2points

Jaybird3939 4 years ago

But to get rid of that, we (USA) need to increase pay. There is no way someone working for $7.25 an hour can live without a 40+ hour workweek, whether it be one job or two or three.

1point

Milly Robn 4 years ago

fun fact: school in Australia takes 6 hours, 5 days a week. Add to that ~1.5 hours of homework a day and that adds up to a work week of 37.5 hours. Maximum work week for an adult working is 38 hours. AND THEY ARE GETTING PAID TO DO IT.

1point

Jason Johnson 4 years ago

The problem is in part customer expectations, we want instant responses, 24-7 availability etc...

0points

Melonski-Chan , Département des Yvelines Report

#17

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Pesticides. They’ve ruined the environment by killing off the pollinators. I swear, they will be the reason for more food shortages just as swiftly as climate change will affect us all.

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287points

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snipergun 4 years ago

This should be first actually...

61points

Truth Monster 4 years ago

Pesticides used properly have their place. Without pesticides food would be less abundant as crops would be eaten by insects. The goal is balance. Not enough pesticides to kill pollinators, just enough not to lose crops.

13points

Requiem 4 years ago

They always are, its already been disproven that pesticides were giving people cancer. Youd have to eat all the wheat in the field to get enough pesticide to kill you

6points

Gilbert Soup 4 years ago

You have to be a bit more specific than just ‘pesticides’. Glyphosphate is very low impact compared to nicotinoids, and a lot less toxic than the copper sulphate organic farmers slather over their overpriced crops

6points

Grady'sRaider 4 years ago

Where I live you have to be licenced to use commercial farming pesticides. They are used sparingly to keep food costs down, not wholesale or recklessly as some would suggest. It's bad form to poison your neighbours. As well, government inspectors, farm loan boards, and insurance companies (both crop and farm ins) all weigh in requiring reports and testing. FYI Sprays are used to kill off bugs that destroy crops. They also stop molds and blights that will kill the plants or poison us. Talk to a farmer about why they do stuff. BTW, always wash all your produce even after covid. The planet is a giant compost heap.

6points

J 4 years ago

Ok, who do we select to die from starvation?

2points

Sam Kunz 4 years ago

Some pesticides. Not all. Some actually save entire crops.

2points

Requiem 4 years ago

LOOK at all the scientists here! Are you anti vax too? Real scientists are going to end up strangling you with your bull s**t. Oh yeah and organic uses pesticides too. Some dumb f*****g millenial posted this and never went to University for science.

2points

Mazer 4 years ago

No need for pesticides, herbicides, gmo’s insecticides, nitrogen etc etc etc, think it can not be done snd maximize profits? Watch the movie The Biggest Little Farm”

1point

Christopher Gerlach 4 years ago

They went through a lot of crap to get to that point though.

0points

Sharon 2 years ago

I'm thinking the earth has had enough of us and it going to kill us all off any way it can. we deserve it.

0points

Lauren Wilder 3 years ago

Forever chemicals, micro plastics

0points

#18

Ads with sounds that play when your phones sound is off

pavonearse Report

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276points

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TheReader19 4 years ago

What! This is real, seriously; how?

56points

Suzy the observer 4 years ago

That cannot be. How would this work?

5points

Lady Snowfall 4 years ago

This happens when you have your ringer down, but don't adjust the "media" volume.

4points

Fatér Dezső 4 years ago

System settings override on Android lets emergency sounds to be played, the ad site falsely marka it as emergency notification

1point

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

yep. It literally turns the mute off.

0points

Requiem 4 years ago

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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago

What is even more annoying is I will be listening to music on my phone whilst playing a game and then an ad comes on interrupting my music because I can't mute the ads. So frustrating.

17points

Spikey boi 3 years ago

THIS

1point

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

Do you have a weird phone, or do you mean your ringtone is turned off, but your media volume is still up and you forgot??

4points

Anne Mitchell 4 years ago

YES!!!!!! I complained to the help staff and was told that they couldn't do anything about it. I informed them that if that was the case I would no longer visit their site. It was a game and if I cannot enjoy a game (because of noisy ads) then I would find other games without the noise and I did.

3points

Mike Loux 4 years ago

One would think all apps would respect system-wide settings, but noooooo.

2points

Daddy’s Girl 1 year ago

Videos too! 😖

0points

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

I will remove any app that does this. I'm looking at you Defender App.

0points

Jackie Nettleton 4 years ago

This is annoying when your in a restaurant or on public transport

0points

AJ the panda. 4 years ago

That is stupid. This why I have an adblocker. Too bad it act like the king of my computer.

0points

Philly Bob Squires Premium 4 years ago

Facebook messenger calls. You CAN'T stop them unless you delete messenger. can't turn off ring, can't opt out, can't block people...

0points

#19

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Cookie pop-ups. How come we still don't have a more efficient way to manage our browsing privacy.

QBekka , EuroNews Report

Final score:

272points

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Robert T 4 years ago (edited)

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!

29points

James016 4 years ago

3rd party cookies should be prohibited.

8points

Rens 4 years ago

I'm still waiting for all the cookies I've accepted!

10points

Auntriarch 4 years ago

It didn't even give the option of chocolate chip

4points

Nevid 4 years ago

Even worse when they start with "We value your privacy". No you don't. You wouldn't tell me about your privacy invading cookies if you weren't forced to by the law. You just value not being fined for being a deceiving asshole like you used to be able to be.

8points

Mark Fuller 4 years ago

God, if I could upvote this 100 times!!! The internet has evolved so much since it's inception and has now been made a thoroughly unpleasant experience!!

4points

William Teach 4 years ago

In many countries this is required, so, a website makes it apply to all.

2points

Jon Steensen 4 years ago

Though it is annoying I still think it is preferable to the privous state where the just loaded a lot of spying stuff onto your computer without even informing you about it happened. At least we now know that it happens and have gotten some kind of control over it. I in general decline as much as they will let me.

2points

Aziiz Farhat 4 years ago

Some popup cookies are small and shows à the corner of the screen, they are not so annoyin, others like the one on the picture above are made by satan himself, I hate them too. But some countries law force sites to put this popup

1point

Vicky Z 4 years ago

And it's not managing our privacy anyway! Quite the opposite

1point

Solidhog 4 years ago

Blame the EU for this and their stupid Data Protection Laws. I spent a whole year learning about this when it was brought in. Spent 6 months making sure we ready and compliant. I then found out that some government agencies are openly breaking the rules with a built in "get out" clause. If they use the term "Deemed necessary" they can just ignore the rules and pass data on without asking permission.

1point

Requiem 4 years ago

incognito

1point

princesshaley2010 , Balathasan Sayanthan Report

#20

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day I’ve gone through a ton and haven’t seen this one. Slavery.

Final score:

271points

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El muerto 4 years ago

have never gone away really

59points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

sad but true

3points

Gabrielle B. Marcelo 3 years ago

there are more slaves today than in any other period of time

0points

Benjamin Tang 4 years ago

Are you talking about America, or worldwide?

0points

mcborge1 4 years ago

Sadly.

0points

lara 4 years ago

Slavery is a huge problem in Africa and the Middle East. And the UN ignores it.

14points

J 4 years ago

Generally other religions by Islamic in Africa and SE Asia. Then you have human smuggling/indentured servant/sex trade.

1point

Mystery Egg 4 years ago (edited)

And it wasn't only one ethnicity that was involved capturing people, selling them and using them as slaves although only one ethnicity is blamed for it today. And it wasn't only one ethnicity that were trafficked although that is ignored today.

10points

TM McKeny 4 years ago

Of course everyone turns a blind eye to the Uyghur slaves in China.

7points

J. F. 4 years ago

At least Disney threw a light on it - not in a positive way for them but it got attention

0points

Princess Toadstool 4 years ago

and human trafficking on minorities. An Instagram mutual of mine and their fiancé were victims of human trafficking due to them being intersex. They are both getting their lives back together one piece at a time, one is five months on T and changed their name in case their abusers find them again. (They aren’t trans, they were born male and produced estrogen instead if I recall)

5points

Requiem 4 years ago

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Frankenfrog 4 years ago

For profit prisons

5points

Ivana 4 years ago

The modern slave trade is the largest in all of human history. Read a think saying that something like 80% of seafood comes from slave labor.

4points

Grady'sRaider 4 years ago

Mauritania - legal there until the mid nineteen sixties.

3points

Requiem 4 years ago

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Debs 4 years ago

We kinda knew this already...😎

1point

Tara L. 1 year ago

Yup, I wish it had never been invented at all.

0points

#21

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

PeterJQuill , Facebook Report

Final score:

267points

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Milan 4 years ago

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…

60points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

I've been saying for years that social media has destroyed society

12points

Om 4 years ago

I don't think the website is to blame. I mean, yeah over the years Zuckerberg has probably turned it into a monster, but it's not the website's fault that people are just awful and use it to spread their awfulness. As I said on another comment, when the website used to be more about connecting just with the people you knew in real life, like at school, your close friends, etc, it was pretty useful to share posts, pictures, albums, events, the chat was horrible, but it got better with years. But then it got monetized/ads came in, companies created their official websites, old people started using it to spread fake news, misinformation, etc, it became more mobile oriented, and it went to hell. I still prefer it over Twitter, which is literally just human's waste, and even over Instagram, which only allows you to do so much with its limited format.

8points

KT 4 years ago

lol not the websites fault people are morons who can't shut their mouths

4points

Sharon 2 years ago

I just started using it in the last few yrs. wish I had never started. it's like a place to learn how s****y you are as a pet owner and the rules for doing it right. same for everything. I used to watch people park in handicap and skip into the store now I watch and fume. Facebook is not good for our health.

0points

Zophra 4 years ago

...I'll admit I use it for the marketplace...

8points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

I tried but i only got scams :(

8points

Treiber Roland 4 years ago

Deactivated my account a week ago. I have finished 2 books since :)

7points

Chich Premium 4 years ago

I still use it, mainly for some groups I'm in. Better ways I know but these have been set up for a long time and it is good for sharing info. You just stay away from other things. I follow few people and unfollow them if they get annoying. Probably will turf it eventually.

6points

Bouthaina Van buuren 4 years ago

We broke up 7 years ago, best decision i made

6points

mcborge1 4 years ago

I ditched fakebook a few years back and i have zero regrets, it's one of the best I ever did in regards to protecting my mental health. Facebook is just pure toxic.

6points

Steve Wilson 4 years ago

Quit over a year ago. Don’t miss it.

4points

Kathy Stern 4 years ago

It's a sh**ty thing if you don't use it properly. I use it to see pictures of all my family and to discuss family things as we are all so far apart. I don't (and neither do they) discuss politics, money, religion or sex. Works pretty well if you follow a few guidelines.

2points

Grady'sRaider 4 years ago

Don't like the price.

2points

Marissa_Smartiesun 4 years ago

it's the anti vax mom hang out lol I mean come on you see one thing about the vaxxine and then post it all over facebook... it shouldn't exsist lol

1point

pyky69 , 準建築人手札網站 Forgemind ArchiMedia Report

#22

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Fast fashion. I can’t imagine the amount of cheap, tacky clothes just mountains in landfills.

Final score:

259points

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R Carson 4 years ago

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

49points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago

I buy on line sweatshirts that last for years and are not see through just pick a good manufacturer

1point

TheReader19 4 years ago

I have to say, here in the UK; I've seen so many companies selling sustainable clothes, bedding at prices nobody on minimum wage can afford. I got one cannot afford £45 for one sheet of £80 for a tee shirt.

6points

Samantha Hurrell 4 years ago

Makes me glad I have a single, not a double, king or queen.

0points

Margaret Buckley 4 years ago

.... not to mention made using near-slave labor in poor countries. Ruining the environment while exploiting the poor. '

5points

Grady'sRaider 4 years ago

A friend in the trade told me 2 things that you can do. A crush test; crumple the fabric in your hand; if it returns to flat shape, no wrinkles, it's good. Look at the number of stiches per inch in the stitching, buy 8 per inch or better. Thanks Gordon

5points

hobbitly 4 years ago

That has nothing to do with fast fashion. Cotton and linnen for example always wrinkle. But wearing clothes made of plastic (polyester, acrylic) wrinkle way less. (Yet they leave microplastics in the water every wash, so that doesn't sound like a better choice.)

6points

Samantha Hurrell 4 years ago (edited)

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).

2points

Mazer 4 years ago

Not only does it end up in a landfill, but someone was paid 2cents an hour to make it, are treated like crap under poor working conditions. The Product Stewardship Council has a great idea…your company must take back what they produce

1point

InfectedVoice 4 years ago

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

1point

Zahara Smith 4 years ago

Should be recycled. I burn old clothes, because I wear them until they are falling apart. I donate them if my body size changes.

1point

Ivana 4 years ago

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.

1point

Elmie Pumpkinbush 4 years ago

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1point

Cactus McCoy 4 years ago

Don't buy it. Get quality.

1point

#23

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Auto play videos, especially in non video streaming websites. NOBODY asked for them, yet so much work is getting put into making it a web standard. Just f*****g stop

HeckingLoveDogs , Aaron Yoo Report

Final score:

248points

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Jennifer Gould 4 years ago

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

53points

Bobby 4 years ago

what are you talking about? I love it when a website that should be simple to load takes forever because the video is buffering and getting first dibs on through traffic from the website

2points

Jon Steensen 4 years ago (edited)

espically annoying are videos that pops up in a textpage, e.g. and article when it is placed in the middle of the text and only pops up once you scroll past it. I was in the middel of reading an article and do not care about your stupid video, which is currently scrolling the text i am interested in out of the screen. When you then scroll down to find the text while ignoring the videos the video "colapses" and moves the text back up, so I suddently is further down in the text that I entended. Then I scoll up to find the next section, video pops up again and presses text down etc. In this fashion you can hunt for a certain section witout being able to ever see it. Not only does your video waste my time but the way it is programmed makes the webpage practically useless.

4points

Ernesto Lopes 4 years ago

CNN is horrible at this. Shut the f*ck up! Nobody asked for your autoplay.

1point

Christopher Gerlach 4 years ago

I have a limited amount of bandwidth a month and it pisses me off to see that the wiki website I opened up to look up something for a game I was playing is also playing a livestream the whole time.

0points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago

You can switch off auto play on most devices.

0points

Noel Benavente 4 years ago

My 6yo daughter watching Baby Joy Joy on Youtube and suddenly an indian Pop artist appear, an entire videoclip, like 3 and a half minutes long... i mean, really?

0points

Kiwii Stone 4 years ago

I mean ... someone somewhere asked for them (the advertisers)

0points

Accedial 4 years ago

How about those forced mini video ads on mobile sites? Especially since those also usually come with the X button so tiny it's almost impossible to get rid of it.

0points

mcborge1 4 years ago

PCGamer.com i'm looking at you. When you've stopped the video and scrolled down past it, it pops up again in the bottom right corner of your screen and starts playing again, Grrr!

0points

#24

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

toodlesandpoodles , Chemist 4 U Report

Final score:

239points

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Zophra 4 years ago (edited)

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

45points

Marie 4 years ago

Recycling is actually a myth for much of the USA. Most of it gets piled and never processed due to contaminates. Truth is STOP MAKING PLASTICS, and to companies... STOP BUYING PLASTIC PACKAGING FOR PRODUCTS.

14points

Ivana 4 years ago

Less than 10% of plastic will be recycled. That number means nothing. America was selling it to China and they stopped taking it and America just doesn't recycle plastic because it is not profitable to. Most of the plastic we get at the grocery store doesn't have a single facilitate in the USA that will recycle it. Recycling is a complete myth they came up with in the 70s. The producers flat out lied to congress about it. They should be tired and held accountable for mass destruction. Companies can easily switch to aluminum or paper packaging for most products. They should be taxed for the cost and they would stop flooding the market with their s**t products.

1point

Requiem 4 years ago

the number doesnt mean anything for recycling.

1point

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

Numbers on plastics don't always mean they're recyclable, just what type they are. Straws are unnecessary, paper straws just reminded people they were being lazy. Plastic is a horrible material that is rarely recycled due to cost, even when it's feasible to do so

1point

Sharon 2 years ago (edited)

even if it has a number it's no garantee it will be recycled. not every place has the means to recycle and reuse. watched a doc on it the other day and not even 50% is recycled. those cute little single serving rip open bags with cat and dog gravy food, totally not recyclable even though it say it is. they ship it all overseas and it's burned in an incinerator. so it either pollutes our land fills or our skys.

0points

BakuDeku Shipper 4 years ago

And I feel like paper doesn't help much either. Some people replace plastic with paper but isn't it still harmful to the environment? I wish some billionaire would go fund a creation of an eco-friendly material. Or, people could stop using unnecessary packaging.

0points

Adriaan Verhelle 4 years ago (edited)

Those numbers have nothing to do with the chance of a product being recycled, they just show what material it is made of. There is only one true recycling logo and that is the 3 arrow triangle. All the rest is just smart branding from the plastic industry to make you believe there is a recycling step involved somewhere in the lifetime of that product. Don't be fooled by the fact that the number is surrounded by the 3 arrows.

-1point

Eucritta 4 years ago

One aspect of this that I find dreadfully concerning is that we've become dependent on single-use plastics for sterility with frequently-used medical supplies, like pen needles for insulin, sterile packaging, shields for thermometers and other meters, and on and on. The sterile protective equipment being used includes plastic fibers. Plastic is absolutely everywhere in medicine, and most of it is unrecyclable.

4points

Zophra 4 years ago

And in reseach! It was staggering how much plastic was thrown away. Tissue culture flasks, petri dishes, centrifuge tubes, transfer pipets...

1point

Attila Ángyán 4 years ago

Already banned in EU

2points

hobbitly 4 years ago

In the EU tons of things are packaged in plastic, which you throw away after you have taken the product out. So its still single use plastic basically. So the ban is a nice little start, but just a drop in the ocean.

2points

Vyhulena Veverka 4 years ago

Oh please....straws? really? How about fishing nets? Straws are literally one of the least problems here

1point

Monica Hayes 4 years ago

i have plastic straws at home that i have been re- using for at least 3 yrs...i wash them all the time..also keep 1 in my purse....so i never need 1 at a fast food spot....if i do take 1, it goes home with me,to be reused over and over and......☺...i know, baby steps but i try not to use plastic.

0points

Melia Janssen 4 years ago

Our local fast food places have all switched to paper straws. It tastes a bit funny but it's better for the environment so we just have to suck it up.

1point

Julia Jules Whitelegg 4 years ago

This is a massive problem!!!

1point

Lyone Fein 4 years ago

YES. All single use items every where should be biodegradable. This should be international law.

1point

Martha Higgins 4 years ago

Plastic straws can be washed and used over and over, even in a dishwasher.

1point

Mazer 4 years ago

Spot on!! We convinced our local restaurants to stop offering straws, and to stop using plastic containers for taa as ke out! They said it costs a bit more, personally I would rather give that restaurant an extra dollar then learn about the impacts that plastic had on the environment

1point

Katherine Boag 4 years ago

Most single use plastics are medical tech - easy hygiene when you dont have to wash it. Straws (pictured) are for disabled people to easily drink, look it up.

1point

#25

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Drug commercials. F**k me, your average joe, making drug recommendations TO MY DOCTOR - who spent 10+ years studying and working to be in the position.

denikar , Trulicity Report

Final score:

231points

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NsG 4 years ago

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.

118points

IDGAFabtUrFeelings 4 years ago (edited)

I have actually seen it on Canadian tele as well when I went to visit. They have a very 'Little America' vibe. Not the goofy canucks most ppl think. When we hit up cities/towns outside of the large city like Toronto... The folks just as white and racist made rude comments about my husband who is of Asian descent.

7points

C.S. 4 years ago

The U.S. is one of only TWO countries where this is allowed. Which shows you how badly broken the "capitalism" here is.

3points

Akalvin 4 years ago

agree

3points

Elizabeth Butler 4 years ago

We have them because the pharma companies spend so much money lobbying lawmakers

1point

Bert van Aalsburg 4 years ago

It could be a contributor to our current problem, here in the U.S., with numb chucks believing they know more that the trained professionals. "If Big Pharma thinks I have the smarts to know which drug my doctor should prescribe for me, why can't the epidemiologists believe I know how best to handle a pandemic?"

0points

Downunderdude 4 years ago

Yep. Banned in Aust.

0points

Purple light Premium 4 years ago

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Milan 4 years ago

In Slovakia you can advertise only drugs, which you can buy without prescription.

8points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

And don't you love the disclaimers: This may kill you but it will stop your feet from itching.

7points

Bored Cats 4 years ago

Or cause cancer!

0points

Jo Johannsen 4 years ago

Especially when they don't even tell you what it's prescribed for, just "ask your doctor if it's for you." Like, ma'am, that drug is for prostate problems. Oh.

5points

M O'Connell 4 years ago

You were supposed to infer that from the salt-and-pepper haired men laughing and half-ass playing football.

5points

Lovin' Life 4 years ago

I agree totally and what's with all the side effect. Like wonderful new medicine but may cause stroke, heart failure, cancer, diarrhea, depression, lack of sleep or death? Oh yeah! Sign me up please.

3points

Rob Woodman 4 years ago

Because when they trial it, if one person out of x thousand gets something, related or not, they have to list it.

1point

Kay blue 4 years ago

Prescription medicines aren't allowed to advertise in the UK, it's only the things that can be bought over the counter like Paracetamol that can. Also first stage baby formula isn't allowed to advertise.

2points

InfectedVoice 4 years ago

Indeed, we would be prescribed because the doctor, who has no financial interest, would decide we need it, not because we have seen it on the telly haha.

1point

Ana Ferreira 4 years ago

In Portugal we have medication commercials, but only for the over-the-counter stuff, not for the ones that actually need a doctor's prescription.

1point

Trav May 4 years ago

"Do not take *this drug*, if you are allergic to *this drug*." You don't say!

1point

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

Listening to the side effects will keep me from ever asking about taking them. May cause death or worse

0points

Lynne Hammar 3 years ago

I especially enjoy the happy graphics (grandpa lifting toddler, people riding bikes) designed to distract you while they quickly list all the adverse reactions. I have actually heard, "Genital infections that could lead to death" and "permanent staining of the eyes."

0points

#26

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Ads on streaming services that I F*****G pay for. You don’t need revenue, Hulu, that’s what my subscription is!

prof_dynamite , Matthew Oliphant Report

Final score:

229points

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TheReader19 4 years ago

On how I laughed at this comment 😂

23points

Mike Loux 4 years ago

"Oh, but we offer a LIGHT subscription service with only HALF the ads! All for the low-low price of $15 a month!" I don't f*****g think so. If you get any money from me, I don't want to see ANY ads. Period.

8points

Jordan Westall 3 years ago

People pay for cable with commercials?

0points

Samantha Hurrell 4 years ago

Try buying a full price game, NBA 2K21 and seeing EA has put unskippable ads in it.

4points

Sam Chilton 4 years ago

That's EA for you. Boycott.

2points

jade s 4 years ago

I can't stand the add ons. You need to pay for a subscription at 1 price but then when you click a movie or show its "surprise this is an extra £15 to rent". I'm already paying you.

3points

K Miller 4 years ago

I hate that Amazon Prime does this. Had a subscription for a while and most of the time when you start the app, it plays a video for one of it's shows... and it's never anything I'm interested in.

3points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago

Never see adds on Netflix.

2points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

At first I thought they were saying Maggie Gyllenhaal shouldn't exist. To which I strongly protest because I think she's a delight.

1point

Elwood Schwartz 4 years ago

I disagree. Whilst she does have a right to exist, and disregarding any talent she may or may not have, she looks like a sad cartoon turtle. I have said this for years and I stand by it.

0points

Sharon 2 years ago

I used to feel this way about satelite and cable tv. we pay for the shows you don't need to be putting commercials in there!!

0points

Kevin Bates 3 years ago

It's a little late but just heard today the Netflix is going to do the same

0points

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

Pay TV was supposed to be TV without ads. How's that working out?

0points

#27

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Convenience fees on debit/credit card transactions.

skifro , Thomas Kohler Report

Final score:

215points

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Robert T 4 years ago (edited)

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.

62points

Nicholas Kraemer 4 years ago

Again, misleading. Credit card companies charge interchange fees in Europe. Some countries are high, some are lower. The merchant inevitably pases that cost on in the form of higher base prices. So basically, every customer covers the cost.

6points

Requiem 4 years ago

Nooo its in Canada too.

2points

Jessica Combrink 4 years ago

In South Africa, we do have to pay fees to use our bank cards. It does suck

1point

Kallen Kneeland 4 years ago

If not, then you can be certain they raise the price to cover the expense; especially if it's a small business.

0points

InfectedVoice 4 years ago

In the UK the rule came in in 2018 I think that no shop can charge for using cards.

0points

Jackie Nettleton 4 years ago

It’s why most places don’t accept American Express as they charge the company for each transaction which is stupid

0points

Hotrobot 4 years ago

This is not advocating for the convenience fees just an explanation. They are there because most credit card processors in the US chard about 3.5% plus $.10 per transaction, so places that do charge a fee they are trying to recoup the amount they lost on just taking the payment. It's a horrible system and the credit card lobbyist are too powerful to allow any change to happen.

0points

Oerff On Tour 4 years ago

In The Netherlands it's still legal

0points

Karin 4 years ago

Banking fees! Like they aren't making enough off my money as it is! Especially on the ones under a certain amount... Oh well give you free bank services if you keep $10,000 in our bank but if you don't have that much we'll take money away from you!

3points

Mazer 4 years ago

ATM fees. ATMs were originally put in so banks could save money by not using tellers. SMH

1point

Rupali Bhatnagar 4 years ago

It would be amazing if you could follow UPI. Amazing work at India, no need to carry cash/card, scan a QR code and pay :)

1point

ProfessionalTimeWaster 4 years ago (edited)

True! Especially paying taxi/auto drivers has become extremely easy.

0points

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

Pay to be in debt

0points

Lynn H 4 years ago

My utility company charges a $5 convenience fee to pay online and save paper. I've heard of debit card fees. So F'd up

0points

RoseAnne Hutchence 4 years ago

And membership fees for the cards themselves! (As if we're not already paying the fees through the percentage surcharge paid by retailers - wherever we use the cards - who then add that cost to the items we purchase.)

0points

Katchen 4 years ago

In California businesses cannot charge customers more for paying with a credit card, but they can offer a “cash discount” for paying cash. The businesses have to pay the transaction fees, the customers do not. Well, not directly.

0points

Natalie Brown 4 years ago

I've never paid a penny to use my debit card. Is this a US thing?

0points

Vicki Thill 4 years ago

Fees on debit or credit cards, other than interest, are only for those with low credit scores. They call it a convenience fee because they gave a credit limit to someone who wouldn't typically get one with their credit history. The small monthly fee is to help boost their credit score because it shows that they make timely payments every month. Anyone with even lower than average credit scores don't typically receive a convenience fee. It's used to help the worst of the worst earn a credit history again.

0points

#28

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

TheDarkKnight1035 , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

208points

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Grady'sRaider 4 years ago

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

49points

Auntriarch 4 years ago (edited)

My Nana started smoking the night after grandad joined up

3points

Caroline Driver 4 years ago

Now cigarettes are the pariahs, but booze is still humungous business. But it kills and injures thousands, and not just the people drinking.

1point

Flavia Slag 4 years ago

And the ruin of many men including men in my family.

0points

Mazer 4 years ago

Please don’t trash what you are not completely educated about

0points

Requiem 4 years ago

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InfectedVoice 4 years ago

This shouldn't be on the list, if YOU don't like cigarettes fair enough but if people want to smoke that's up to them.

6points

Bouthaina Van buuren 4 years ago

All the smokers were like *nothing to see here*

3points

Caro Caro 4 years ago

Killers. I hate what they do to people.

3points

Caitlin Crest 4 years ago

Then, please do not smoke them!!

-1point

Natalie Brown 4 years ago

I've been a smoker for 21 years and I really wish I'd never started. It's smelly, unhealthy and so bloody expensive. Please, if you don't already smoke, don't start.

2points

Caitlin Crest 4 years ago

I've been a smoker for 40 years and I still LOVE it. I enjoy every single cigarette I smoke, and it is my right to do so. If you really don't like it, I know you can stop - it's hard to admit that we like something so 'hated' in society today. :-)

0points

grey galah 4 years ago

I'd add cigarettes whose packaging and advertising is directed to children. Makes sense, the adults are already hooked, so they market to the young uninitiated to get them addicted. Hey, isn't that the mantra of anti-drug messaging?

2points

Caitlin Crest 4 years ago

I've never seen any cigarette packaging aimed at children... this is more media BS to keep us arguing amongst ourselves and distracted from whatever the government doesn't want us looking into.

-1point

Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago

If they had been honest with everyone when they were sold, a bit too late now for millions of people.

2points

Leodavinci 4 years ago

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TheReader19 4 years ago (edited)

Nuff said

2points

Vyhulena Veverka 4 years ago

I´m on dosposable vapes after more than 19 years of smoking and quitting few times. Going for a month now without a smoke. Feeling good

1point

TurquoiseTzarina 3 years ago

Congratulations. 3 months for me..

0points

J 4 years ago

I hate the huge amount of cigarette butts people throw out of there cars at stop lights. Disgusting!

1point

#29

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Pop up ads. Not only are they so annoying but can either scam or install malware on the devices of unsuspecting people

Spookz03 , Marc van der Chijs Report

Final score:

200points

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Zedrapazia 4 years ago

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

64points

Naima Ivansdóttir 4 years ago

fat lot of good his apology did us

11points

John Baker 4 years ago

Why did he ever think it was a good idea in the first place?

3points

Solidhog 4 years ago

Yep. He did it via a popup! :)

1point

Mazer 4 years ago (edited)

So did the Keurig coffee maker, those little plastic single use cups are as bad as plastic straws

1point

Kind Pegasus 95 4 years ago

Yep. I had to deal with one that installed some… thing on my phone that caused it to be spammed with notifications on the calendar app, which said something like “your device is hacked” and I had to find out how to get rid of it.

2points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

Hey, it's one of those shifty 3 layer deep game websites!

1point

H.L.Lewis 4 years ago

And what about the ones that flash? They can trigger seizures. They should all be banned.

1point

Jon Steensen 4 years ago

..especially when they cannot be closed but people are abusing the convention that clicking the cross in the upper right corner closing the damn thing, but instead use the click to link to another page. That was not what i inteded to do. Following the convention about how windows presented on the screen acts ought to be mandatory.

1point

mcborge1 4 years ago

I use a popup blocker in conjunction with an ad blocker on my desktop browsers so I don't have any issues with these.

1point

James016 4 years ago

I have some kind of ad blocker on all my devices. My laptops also have NoScript installed as well so only the bare minimum needed for me to see a site is allowed.

1point

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago

I love my NoScript! I also have cookiebro, but i don't know if it also blocks advertising. It deletes cookies after a set time, so I have to re-enter my passwords now and then but hell, totally worth it! (and I COULD whitelist these sites, but I definitily don't want to do that for google or youtube or social media-sites)

0points

Danny Ruiz 4 years ago

Set your PC to a reset date. After so many of these, I'll do a reset to a certain date that I set, and my PC will go back to before all the pop-ups and viruses. All of my work and files are always backed up to an external Hard Drive. All the pop-ups and potential viruses are gone.

0points

J. F. 4 years ago

Addblocker fixed that

0points

lara 4 years ago

Pop ups pop up., I am outta there.

0points

#30

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

Pharo2929 , Candy Crsuh Report

Final score:

195points

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mcborge1 4 years ago

Especially pay to win micro transactions.

41points

Marika Miettinen 4 years ago

I agree. I can somewhat understand if there's some special cosmetic things you can only get by buying them with real money, as long as it's not the only way to gain nice cosmetic things in the game. In kids games there shouldn't be any microtransactions though, that's just so f*****g wrong.

5points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

Micro means small, a few pence / cents would be micro, but some of these mobile games have £90+ packs you can buy again and again!

3points

Samantha Hurrell 4 years ago (edited)

This has literally killed video games at times, people like EA and Rockstar believe they belong in FULL price games.

2points

Hotdogking 4 years ago

Looking at you EA

1point

Marnie 4 years ago

Play Candy Crush Soda. Do it right and you'll have lots of boosters, usually unlimited life, and never pay a cent.

1point

Nannerdog 4 years ago

Truly the Wario of the app store

1point

TM McKeny 4 years ago

Yeah, no one's forcing anyone to buy them. Just ignore them.

1point

Invisible Potato 1 year ago

MicroActivision TransactionBlizzard

0points

Crycket 4 years ago

I would much prefer to buy a game outright than have all these micro transactions. I love some of the games that are out there, and would pay $10-$20 if I am playing them enough...but free....with all the microtransactions you can afford...gross

0points

Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 4 years ago

we just call it 'micropay'. gotta love it on a 'free' game! you can easily tell how much your fellow players pay by interacting with them!

0points

#31

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Social media. Addictive, dehumanizing, causes depression, promotes terrible behavior, actively reduces our capacity to have real human connections.

Redwulf67 , Lyncconf Games Report

Final score:

180points

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Agata Fronia 4 years ago

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

56points

Truth Monster 4 years ago

You're not alone. Bored Panda is as "social Media" as I get.

22points

Newsies forever!! 4 years ago

Sameeeee

6points

I'mNotHere 4 years ago

Those of us who don't use it are looked at like aliens from another planet. Perfectly possible to live without it. If I want to share pictures with friends and family members I know their email addresses and how to use snail mail. 🙄

2points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago

Your on social media here on this site.

1point

Mariette Ferreira 4 years ago

I have minimal - I live abroad so I need a way of staying in touch but I try not to use it too much for anything else.

1point

Jose Antonio 3 years ago

i completely agree, my fiancee and i both got rid of our facebook pages about 4ish years ago. the closest thing i get to social media is probably BP and Reddit

0points

Jöe FlargnBlurgn 4 years ago

How did you get here then?

0points

Pamela Blue 4 years ago

And where are you typing this? On the pavement?

0points

BakuDeku Shipper 4 years ago

I'm with you. I don't have LinkedIn, Facebook, any of that s**t. I'm twelve and I hate TikTok. It's so cringey. I only have a Tumblr so I can post my artwork(haven't used it a lot), and Wattpad(don't fcking judge me k?)🥲

0points

Solidhog 4 years ago

Deleted all mine last year. Not missed them one bit. Kept Snapchat so me and my grandson can make stupid faces and laugh bet never post them.

0points

404 Panda Not Found 4 years ago

I only use BP, I do have an insta, but i haven't been on it for around a couple of weeks.

0points

Tami 4 years ago

I'm smiling at you 'cause I don't do it either, except BP of course!

0points

Michael Naretto 4 years ago

That is fantastic! I know a young woman who, like you, has NO social media and she loves it. I respect that....

0points

Pheebs 4 years ago

Yeah, I feel you. I keep my social media limited to fb and LinkedIn, and FB’s only to keep up to date with cross-country relatives. I certainly don’t use it for the stimulating content.

0points

Requiem 4 years ago

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Karin 4 years ago

Bored Panda IS social media.

5points

April Walters 4 years ago

I really think it depends on how you use it. My FB is for keeping in contact with family & friends and sharing pictures of babies/pets/art. I enjoy groups that cover interests like art & animals. It's really easy to block people & feeds that annoy me.

3points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago

I disagree there is more good than bad helping people to communicate with each other. You just need to use it properly

2points

Mazer 4 years ago

Unfortunately I can not agree wholeheartedly. I learned more about my medical condition from social media than I ever did from the medical “professionals” I was dealing with

2points

K_Ash 4 years ago

Im gonna have to disagree with you here although some of them are pretty toxic (looking at you twitter, Ig, snap, and Facebook) apps like YouTube, discord, and reddit (and BP) have great communities. Especially with YouTube i feel like they dont cause all of these effects that you mentioned. I feel like one of the main reasons social media gets a bad rep is because there are a few people who are toxic and then they make the whole community look bad. I know from personal experience that this happens because one of the game communities im in got a bad rep for 1 guy being an idiot. (Sorry for a whole rant lmao)

2points

Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago

No one is forced to use them though.

2points

Joshua Wilson 3 years ago

Ummm, isn’t this post technically on social media?

0points

Katharin Blackerby 3 years ago

It is reasonable when it is giving you information

0points

Vyhulena Veverka 4 years ago

I use all my social media only for s*itposting. No politics, no drama. It´s all your fault, your choice and your cookies

0points

thewildlifer , Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Report

#32

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day The Polygraph machine. Super innaccurate and I believe even the inventor curses its existance.

Final score:

177points

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David Andrews 4 years ago (edited)

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

37points

Nicholas Kraemer 4 years ago

Probably find it strange because it isn't true. Even in the US a polygraph is only admissable in civil cases and even then, in most states, both parties must agree.

12points

Bama Belle 4 years ago

If you watched the unhealthy amount of Investigation Discovery that I do, you'd know that's not true. That said, lie detectors are more reliable than not, but investigators know they're not iron clad, so they don't get tunnel vision over a failed one. (Not the good investigators, at least.) I remember one case in which a teen girl disappeared. Her stepfather acted erratically, failed a lie detector test and eventually fled town without telling his wife. He wasn't arrested because detectives couldn't prove anything. Even though he initially passed the lie detector, the boyfriend was arrested and convicted of her murder years later.

3points

Mazer 4 years ago

Inadmissible in a court of law

2points

Mark Kelly 4 years ago

Not permissible in a court of law.

2points

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

Inside tip: This is what investigators go to when they aren't good investigators. Feelings.

1point

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

Don't forget that if you refuse, they view that badly too!

1point

Bear Hall 4 years ago

The Soviet spies in the CIA and in the FBI regularly took polygraph test. They passed every single time. The Soviets advice to pass was "Have a good sleep the night before."

0points

Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago

I must admit I have always wondered when it is not allowed in court.

0points

Anna roberts 4 years ago

Polygraphs work if you have a good investigator working it. It is more for the interrogation, than the actual results

-2points

NsG 4 years ago

Inadmissible in the UK. It's a pointless exercise to even do it here.

8points

Jon Steensen 4 years ago

That is the question. If a suspect believe in it working, it may be used as a usefull tool, whereby you might apear to be able to "close the door" and force a confession out of him. If he thinks you can see through all his lies by this tool, he may give up upon the option of lying and instead choose to tell the truth. Don't underestimate the power of a good bluff.

2points

p a i n 4 years ago

In the US, polygraphs are not admissible as evidence in court and are mostly used to get a better sense of the suspect’s emotions and whatnot.

3points

Russian Otaku 4 years ago

The only over rated inaccurate device that the creator themselves denounced as bullshit

1point

Shane S 4 years ago

Always refuse. You can tell the truth and fail. And you can tell a lie and pass.

1point

Sheila Stamey 4 years ago

It's more of a psychological weapon to get people to confess. We had a local cop get in trouble for running wires and a blood pressure cuff to his desk drawer and running out a bogus printout while interrogation was going on. He was in trouble because he was pulling this before people had called a lawyer.

1point

Sharon 2 years ago

I think it's more a scare tactic than anything else. it's unusable in courts. like you can't fail one and and have it shown in court you failed to help convict you. but when you do take one and fail it could scare you into admitting guilt.

0points

Lynne Hammar 3 years ago

Thankfully they are not admissable in US courts

0points

Wim Cossement 4 years ago

Don;t forget Scientology.

0points

glorious53 4 years ago

Said prisoner #34758 who lost the 7th grade spelling bee.

0points

#33

Keurig single use pods

Jenny2123 Report

Final score:

165points

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R Carson 4 years ago

Buy the plastic refill cartridges.

20points

Josh Tall 4 years ago

they suck! use a regular coffee maker and a reusable basket and only pour in enough water for the amount of coffee you want!

5points

Rob Woodman 4 years ago

Buy the stainless steel refillable...

1point

Elaine Everett-Klimas 4 years ago

No! Buy the metal refill cartridges.

0points

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

This. I only have one cup a day, so to make a big pot was a waste.

0points

Requiem 4 years ago

You can get a pod that has a filter and you fill it with coffee grounds and dump them out after

4points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

Coffee machines in general, yet another plastic item to save you 1 minute per day

2points

Rob Woodman 4 years ago

Not everyone can make coffee on an open fire.

0points

Ivana 4 years ago

The guy that invented it says it was the biggest regret of his life.

1point

Rob Woodman 4 years ago

Actuate said he sometimes feels bad about it. What he really feels badly about is that Keurig makes around $5 billion a year and he sold for $50k.

0points

Sharon 2 years ago

it's the other one that doesn't have reusable pods. I have bought reusables for Keurig and they work great.

0points

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

Guaranteed continued purchases

0points

Kat Rucker 4 years ago

These totally need to go the way of trash compactors. Who thought this was a good idea? Besides being horrid for the environment, they're absolutely disgusting as you can't clean them properly. Give me my good old French Press any day, thank you.

0points

Kitti B. 4 years ago

Convenient, tasty. I don't want to drink espresso with milk every single day or buy a latte in coffeeshops every day. I know it's bad for the enviroment, but so do cars that a lot of people use every day. I always use public transport, wear my fast fashion clothes for YEARS. I don't feel guilty about it.

0points

Mazer 4 years ago

The inventor hates the impact of those little plastic cups

0points

kath morgan 4 years ago

Just use a cafetière guys, it takes no power or disposable components.

0points

#34

The New generation of Every basic machine. Like refrigerators that requires internet to work, It only have one job to do

Roy3034 Report

Final score:

165points

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John Topper 4 years ago

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

74points

Mir Adwari 4 years ago

Red Dwarf's Talkie Toaster!! "Would you like any toast?"

16points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago

Smart kettle that you still have to fill and pour.

2points

Vivian Orr 4 years ago

So what makes it smart? Does it have different grades of toasting? Kinda like a dial with numbers? Really, what does it do to make it smart?

2points

Bear Hall 4 years ago

Cory Doctorow's book "Radicalized" has a short story, the "Unauthorized Bread" about smart toasters and other household appliances limited to be used only with the "official" bread. etc. It's chilling how real its setup is.

2points

James016 4 years ago

Talkie Toaster from Red Dwarf. https://youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec

2points

Zak Rasten 4 years ago

Watch Red Dwarf!

1point

Mike Loux 4 years ago

"Sorry my breath is so bad today, my toothbrush was downloading an update so I couldn't use it." *sigh*

2points

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

If it needs more than a plug and electricity, I'll pass

1point

Bob Stuart 4 years ago

The brains in the machine are often placed where they will get cooked after a short warranty period.

1point

Sharon 2 years ago

yeah, who needs a fridge that can tell you to buy what you can't afford till payday

0points

Lois Brown 4 years ago

It took much effort to find a 'dumb' TV.

0points

Mazer 4 years ago

Ridiculous

0points

Corinne SB 4 years ago

Maybe just refuse to buy them?

-1point

Jose Antonio 3 years ago

i mean...yeah but most everything is computerized now, even if it has physical knobs and switches...so if you want something NEW, its hard to avoid something computerized

0points

#35

Junk mail is just a waist of everyone’s time

-papperlapapp- Report

Final score:

160points

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FrankStellar 4 years ago

Good to practice English though.

81points

snipergun 4 years ago

But it is pretty funny.

4points

Vladimíra Matejová 4 years ago

only if you want to practice how not to speak in English.

2points

Bear Hall 4 years ago

You mean the e-mails from the Nigerian Prince? It look my Englis be not good all at.

1point

Jane Doe 4 years ago

Awwww… ;)

0points

TheReader19 4 years ago

Neither thought of it like that

0points

Peter Weir 4 years ago

waist? or waste...one makes your fat , one make you mad :)

8points

Robert T 4 years ago

Then it needs to go on a diet. ;-)

3points

Mars Lander 4 years ago

Just grab a belt then...

2points

CincyReds 4 years ago

And paper

1point

Lovin' Life 4 years ago

Yeah they say save the trees yet they generate circulars and other junk mail that most people just throw away.

1point

Jennifer Gould 4 years ago

Paper and electronic!!! I can't count how much I toss at home from the mail on a weekly basis!

1point

Janet Weston 1 year ago

32” or 34” ?

0points

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

From the mailbox directly into the trash chute

0points

Monica Hayes 4 years ago

and trees!

0points

#36

Styrofoam

whirlygirlygirl Report

Final score:

155points

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Eucritta 4 years ago

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.

23points

just me 4 years ago

Has anyone else noticed how weird it makes the food and drink taste? Family members told me I'm crazy when I mentioned it.

2points

fainasKeturatis 4 years ago

it's actually good and reliable insulation for building a house.

2points

Mazer 4 years ago

Getting closer to being obsolete, can’t happen fast enough for me

1point

lara 4 years ago

Styrofoam is considered, or was considered, one of the best insulators in homes. Now, the best is sprayed foam, but for a while, Styrofoam was use, it was easy to install, it worked great, it is water proof and can be used on the inside of outer walls.

1point

Requiem 4 years ago

what do you think sprayfoam is

3points

Stew 3 years ago

-

0points

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

We weren't suffering before styrofoam came along. And we won't suffer when it's prohibited

0points

Peggy Teach 4 years ago

What was wrong with paper cups and straws? Why do we need foam or single use plastic.

0points

Monica Hayes 4 years ago

big money for huge companies.

0points

Katherine Boag 4 years ago

Its really good as a housing insulator

0points

Mystery Egg 4 years ago

That's Polystyrene to non-Americans

0points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago

Actually no. It's Styropor to some non-Americans ;-)

0points

Spork420 4 years ago

It drives me crazy when you buy something, and it has massive pieces of styrofoam for the packing, that you now have to somehow get rid of. You can't recycle it. You can't throw it away. I once had the garbage man empty everything out of the can, and put all the styrofoam back in it. You're pretty much stuck breaking it into little pieces and trying to hide it in with the rest of the trash.

0points

#37

HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP

Bedlamcitylimit Report

Final score:

153points

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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago

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.

26points

El muerto 4 years ago

actually the corn industry is one of the worst climate offenders...it has to shrink

6points

Richard Barlow 4 years ago

Dropping the government tariffs on importing sugar and dropping the price would eliminate most of the use of HFCS. Sugar is artificially expensive in the US.

0points

RoseAnne Hutchence 4 years ago

And is directly related to obesity. Added to that horrible sugar, is the fact all crops are sprayed with RoundUp several times in the growth cycle (it's a poison which kills weeds, but not corn, and ends up in our food).

-1point

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

High fructose corn syrup, white sugar or the sugar from an apple is interpreted by your body the same way. Sugar is sugar to your body. Go with the apple though, you also get fiber and nutrients.

4points

Missy Corron Premium 4 years ago

Uh... tried apple in my coffee. Coffee not very sweet and the apple kept blocking the opening in my yeti!

2points

Requiem 4 years ago

All sugars are the same. do you think your body understands the difference between your agave or honey as opposed to high fructose corn syrup???

2points

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

Just because it sounds like fruit doesn't make it so

0points

Jason Johnson 4 years ago

Get rid of the subsidies to ADM,

0points

Robert Miller 4 years ago

Sorry . but chemically it's no different than sugar . This is just a "Fad-fiction"

0points

Julia Jules Whitelegg 4 years ago

Diabetes here we come..

0points

H.L.Lewis 4 years ago

I would hit the up arrow a hundred more times if it would let me.

0points

Stephan van Helden 4 years ago

HFCS is NOT "just sugar". It has a way higher share of Fructose than "white sugar", and Fructose is known for causing obesity.

0points

Mazer 4 years ago

Deadly stuff

0points

#38

Scam calls! We get them on our house phone all the time and it’s so annoying

Pinksthepolkadot Report

Final score:

151points

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Ashlee Schaal 4 years ago

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

37points

Jennifer Gould 4 years ago

We answer with our local police station name!

11points

Uber Mensch 4 years ago

This is where speaking another language comes in handy - particularly if it is relatively uncommon, such as Korean :-)

5points

Accedial 4 years ago

Lol! That's how my grandpa always answered the phone years ago when we still had a landline.

4points

James016 4 years ago

Sorry but I’m stealing that. 🤣

4points

meowgie catster 4 years ago

I like to say “this is Bobs pizzeria and abortion clinic, where yesterday’s loss is today’s sauce, this is (put random name here), how can I help you?”, they always hang up instantly and I don’t get a call back

3points

Kat Rucker 4 years ago

My husband and I like to do lines from "The Greasy Strangler" - that usually gets rid of them quickly XD

0points

Vivian Orr 4 years ago

I love playing them along. I’ve got several good ones I use. But if I’m busy I do t even answer the phone if I don’t know the number. I figure if it’s important they’ll leave a message. Wish I had room to tell u a few of the spoofs I pull. That’d make a good sub Reddit category. 😂

3points

R Carson 4 years ago

A good whistle takes care of that.

3points

Requiem 4 years ago

Dont answer the phone

2points

mcborge1 4 years ago

When I get a scam call i take the phone into the downstairs loo (nice and echoey in there) and pretend i'm taking a number two and i'll grunt whilst talking to them. "sorry you grrrrrrr need what" "my credit grrrrr card number" And if they ask what i'm doing i'll loudly shout "I'm having a sh***! before laughing and ending the call. :D Sorry if that was a bit too graphic everyone.

2points

Nawny 4 years ago

Wait, you have a house phone??

1point

Jan Schweikert 4 years ago

Some of us live in rural places that have bad cell coverage...

1point

Anne Mitchell 4 years ago

Just don't answer unless you recognise the number. Friends will leave a message.

1point

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

Yeah, let's ban something that's already illegal, woo!

1point

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

It's so bad I had to turn the ringer off

0points

Lois Brown 4 years ago

Get Caller ID. Don't answer calls from numbers you don't recognize.

0points

#39

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Twitter Edit: Because Twitter is mainly a cesspool of hypocrisy and politics. I've honestly never seen so many "non descriminatory self appointed puritains" be so incredibly hateful due to someone not having the exact same opinion as them

Rezzyboy157 , Twitter Report

Final score:

150points

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Robert T 4 years ago

It's full of twits. ;-)

51points

CultOfBambi 4 years ago

I think you spelled 'twats' wrong... ;-)

10points

Jo Johannsen 4 years ago

Never been tempted to try it.

7points

Mark Peterson 4 years ago

Where cancel culture began.

2points

Mazer 4 years ago (edited)

The internet is full of hyper judgemental people, including here at BP, I try to blip over anything trashing another. Using words like hate or shaming, boomers, even people who prefer to correct others by pointing out mistakes, instead of adding to the conversation. Tribalism and over generalization help nobody

2points

Jason Johnson 4 years ago

I have seen information that over 1/2 of the accounts on twitter are fake. I have never been on it, no need to be.

1point

Robert Miller 4 years ago

I do not tweet nor have I ever twat .

1point

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

Twitter is a sewer.

1point

Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago

It's possible to block or mute people and make it less bad.

1point

Monica Hayes 4 years ago

i dont tweet, but, i do fart!

0points

Pamela Blue 4 years ago

Don't have it. Nor instagram.

0points

#40

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day LED advertising They're too f*****g bright and now they're putting mini screens on trucks that drive around town and it pisses me off. There's already enough distraction on the road. I miss the billboards that had the rotating panels. Those were cool

Ackermance , Jorge Láscar Report

Final score:

147points

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Jennifer Gould 4 years ago

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

13points

Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago

Waste of electricity, ugly and distracting to road users, should be banned.

4points

Pan Narrans 4 years ago

LED advertisement companies have lost lawsuits in The Netherlands and were forced to dim them when people complained.

3points

Eucritta 4 years ago

It's my belief that one of the things - one of the major things - fueling people's anger & division in the US is the ubiquity of advertising, which is designed to be distracting & memorable & irritating, like the mental equivalent of superglue on skin.

3points

Elisabeth Harris 4 years ago

Gonna put LED headlights in that category nothing like being blinded while you drive at night because some bumper riding asshole has no chill.

1point

Steve Fischer 3 years ago

If they cause an accident sue the s**t out of them

0points

Jackie Nettleton 4 years ago

I was in Leeds (UK) yesterday and saw two guys walking around with screens on their shoulders advertising some thing and I’m like that’s messed up

0points

DarkAngelNic 4 years ago

One reason to love living in Maine - no billboards!

0points

Shelley DuVal 4 years ago

Lead lights on cars are just plain dangerous. I no longer drive at night, as new cars coming towards me are brighter when dimmer to the older lights of cars. And to get an impatient driver behind you with their high beams (Country roads) on just so they want you to pull over because they want to do more than the speed limit. When they are that bright I can't see properly to be able to look for somewhere to pull into. They should be banned, or at least have a lower dimmer light.

0points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

It's training for Just Cause 5. You need to fire rockets at the billboards to liberate the town.

0points

#41

The food pyramid brought to you by general mills, the dairy industry, and countless other big corporations whose goal was profit over the health of others

Fishermanfrienamy Report

Final score:

135points

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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago

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

22points

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

Way earlier. Only the bottom where meat and dairy appear was at the top!

1point

Josh Tall 4 years ago

public schools still use that antiquated monstrosity! it used to keep the farmers in business by suggesting all of that grain and carb bullshit!

1point

John Baker 4 years ago

I haven't seen it used much since the '80s, really.

1point

AMaureen Dance 1 year ago

Definetely erlier. It was around when I was in school, so, since the 70's Can't blame this one on Obama.

0points

Dale Overturf 4 years ago

@Samantha… are you serious?

-1point

Bob Stuart 4 years ago

We are being fed by companies that pay no attention to health, and medicated by companies that pay no attention to nutrition. Corporations are big parasites.

2points

Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 4 years ago

how about 'breakfast cereal" ? it's terrible, and took over a 'healthy breakfast' so long ago, the fifties.....

0points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago

It stopped here in the uk in the 50’s I think

0points

Nandina 4 years ago

The food pyramid has always been upside down.

0points

Wendy Lam 4 years ago

In Canada it is called Canada food guide, more fruit and veggies at the bottom and allows fats healthy ones to be on top

0points

Roxy Eastland 4 years ago

The food industry have *such* a control over government policy and the media in the UK. As someone that has been interested in food and nutrition for decades I have seen the industry take control and steer policy and the tone of media reports over and over again.

0points

Karin 4 years ago

Also BMI. Body Mass Index. It is sexist, racist and inaccurate!

0points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

It's meant as a rough "guide", not as a be-all and end-all, but it's because we're as obsessed with numbers as America is with acronyms. You can SEE if someone looks fairly healthy, those who have to waddle through a door sideways don't need a number to realise they have a problem.

4points

Nicholas Kraemer 4 years ago

This is a lie.

-1point

Rob Woodman 4 years ago

Which part?

1point

Mazer 4 years ago

The sugar industry convinced the medical professionals it was eggs that caused high cholesterol. I have had some good arguments with doctors over it

-2points

#42

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Asbestos in popcorn ceiling.

tessamp , Brent Schmidt Report

Final score:

131points

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Robert T 4 years ago

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

29points

Eucritta 4 years ago

Even in the US. But we've still got a lot of asbestos in old houses. Some of it is probably safest left alone, like old pipe insulation, but some of it, like popcorn ceilings and old vinyl tiles, needs to come out sooner or later, and it can be ruinously expensive to hire experts to do it. So people do it themselves, and hope to be lucky. When they know. A lot of people don't.

9points

Requiem 4 years ago

asbestos is inside the walls of buildings built before the 60s 70s. not in ceilings of your house built in the 70;s

2points

Elizabeth White 4 years ago

It is, the problem is that many older buildings before it was aren't necessarily *documented* as having it, and it can be found after the fact sometimes. Similar situation with lead-based paint. Especially prevalent in low-income areas.

1point

Samantha Hurrell 4 years ago

The UK has no new buildings built with it, and has strict rules on how it must be disposed off.

1point

Jon S. 4 years ago

In the UK they were still using it up to the 90s!

1point

Cydney Golden 4 years ago

Yes, but so many homes and offices still have it...

0points

Bobby 4 years ago

It is, but it is still permitted in certain limited capacity. I know that sample ovens for certain radiochemical analyses still use it. Most of it I ever encountered was in the Navy on warships, easier and cheaper to wrap in a protective coating than to completely remove

0points

Thomas Sweda 4 years ago

Mine has real popcorn.

4points

Red Ruffensor 4 years ago

Popcorn ceilings period!

2points

DarkAngelNic 4 years ago

Ugly dust traps!

0points

SilentBob 4 years ago

Not all popcorn ceiling have asbestos. Most of the ones in America installed after 1980 or so are made of plaster and little, itty-bitty Styrofoam balls. Similar to what's in beanbags.

1point

Rae Reyn 4 years ago

Asbestos in any household thing, but also Popcorn ceiling in general

1point

Lois Brown 4 years ago

I didn't know that!

0points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago

This is illegal now in the uk

0points

K Miller 4 years ago

You can't build new homes with it in Canada. But there's companies here that removes mold and asbestos as their main revenue stream. My Dad works for one. If you find it in your home, hire a reputable company with the required training/licensing to remove it, it's not something you want to cheap out on.

0points

lara 4 years ago

There hasn't been asbestos used in homes since before 1980. If you suspect asbestos, contact a company and have them test, or send a postage size piece of whatever you suspect to a testing company.

0points

p a i n 4 years ago

*looks up* Oh s**t.

0points

#43

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day 24 hour news cycle that is funded by entertainment.

Manimal31 , Matt Biddulph Report

Final score:

124points

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Winx 4 years ago

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

53points

Evil Little Thing 4 years ago

Depends on where you get your news. Some are more credible than others.

2points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

When news was once a day, or even once a week, it was actually *news*, now ANYTHING gets peddled as "news" in a desperate attempt to constantly update our lives, you get news websites where 5 "journalists" publish a story on the same event, then it gets repeated hour after hour, day after day...

4points

R Carson 4 years ago

Entertainment? Propaganda?

1point

Sharon 2 years ago

remember when you could switch channels and get different news on each one about the same thing? now it's all prerecorded and boring. and what happened to Who, what, where, why and when? now we get what and when but the rest is ignored.

0points

Diana Pahule 4 years ago

I can't express how disappointed I was in cable news. I was thinking Hey now we'll get to hear about things happening all around the world, but no. Same 4 stories on rotation all. day. long.

0points

Lois Brown 4 years ago

CNN Underscored! It's shameful that half of their website is devoted to advertising.

0points

BakuDeku Shipper 4 years ago

I just think it's annoying how news reporters will dash over to the scene of any tragic crime just to get views on their show. They pretty much profit from filming people's problems, and probably don't even feel sympathy for them.

0points

Susan Egan 4 years ago

Weather reporting too. It's getting so bad that hurricanes are ignored by some due to the hype of years past when they turned out to be nothing.

0points

J 4 years ago

the problem with 24hr news, is filling up 24hrs with news.

0points

Wim Cossement 4 years ago

We're going live to our reporter that has nothing to add to this piece of news...

0points

#44

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Deepfake. Any time i see a video with it all i'm left feeling is fear for the future.

venus-dick-trap , Shamook Report

Final score:

124points

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Jennifer Gould 4 years ago

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!

36points

Bear Hall 4 years ago

Future?! We are already living in that future right now.

3points

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

It goes hand-in-hand with misinformation and government propaganda. Makes you doubt everything in life because anything becomes possible.

10points

Mshauri Mazuri 4 years ago

Deepfake, imagine what can it do to tamper an evidence in court

3points

Shane S 4 years ago

Truth is an inconvenience.

2points

Zophra 4 years ago

I don't understand. Can someone explain this?

2points

aj 4 years ago

A deepfake is basically an artificially produced piece of media (usually images, videos or voice audio) depicting and impersonating a person (often celebrities or politicians) and since they usually use an AI that analyses the "original" to produce a kind of deep copy they look genuinely real and unless you know exactly what to look for there's no way to distinguish fake from original (even if you know what to look for it's hard). So basically if this takes off in a big way you can't ever be sure again if something is real or fake which is why the op is worried about deepfakes.

12points

Jan Prescott 4 years ago

Have you seen Idiocracy? We're on our way to having that society.

0points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

I'm just like "hehehehe chairman mao is singing numa numa".

0points

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

You can thank the c i a for that.

0points

Bear Hall 4 years ago

This comment has been deleted.

-1point

#45

Standardized testing "These tests are too crude to be used, and should be abandoned" -Horace mann the inventor of standardized testing on the subject of standardized testing

El_Durazno Report

Final score:

117points

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Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

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

35points

Karla Nelsen 4 years ago

Live in Oregon ... they no longer require standard education. You do NOT have to be able to read, write, or do basic math to graduate from an Oregon school! Way to be WOKE!

5points

Karin 4 years ago

That's not due to lack of standardized testing. That's bad educational policy. Blame your politicians for that! Who voted them in?

12points

Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago

As a teacher I fail to see how any child can pass the age of 8 with basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills, unless they are special needs.

3points

Adam Jeff 4 years ago

Can you and Devil's Advocate please get together and agree on which side the WOKE are on? He seems to think they're for standardised testing.

3points

I'mNotHere 4 years ago (edited)

Tests don't teach children to read, write, or do basic math. That's on your teachers, parents, and school board. 🙄 Vote better people in and pay attention to your children's schoolwork. Problem solved.

1point

Gilbert Soup 4 years ago

This sounds like bollocks

-1point

Kharyss 4 years ago

This year the UK allowed teachers to grade their own students because covid prevented the national exams being held. The result was a record breaking level of grade A’s being handed out (75% higher than the actual exam results in 2019). The educational system has deteriorated to the level where a growing proportion of school leavers are functionally illiterate anyway. As an employer I will be especially wary of hiring people who graduated this year because of the rampant grade inflation. We will be introducing our own testing during recruitment to assess numerical and literacy skills.

3points

I'mNotHere 4 years ago (edited)

We only have them in three grade levels where I live and they aren't used to pass or fail students. They just use them to spot problem areas for students to work on which is the only reason they should be used.

2points

lara 4 years ago

They no longer are using college tests to get into college. And not only are tests racist but getting a license is now being considered racist. You know, like to be a doctor.

1point

Samyan Elrod 2 years ago

How?

0points

Zophra 4 years ago

I dunno.... looking from a US perspective, you need to know and justifiy where educational money will go to fund improvement and make sure a student has basic reading and math skills necessary to move on to higher grades/levels/graduation. It also helps to identify learning disabilities? Maybe there should be not as much emphasis on it as there is currently, but it does serve a purpose.

1point

Eucritta 4 years ago

It does, but it's unfortunately poorly designed for purpose, plus it's resulted in teaching to the test, which can leave students woefully unprepared for anything else.

3points

AngelWingsYT 4 years ago

Did tutoring. Had 3 kids in tears over tests Studying psychology now

0points

MAL 4 years ago

My best friend is a teacher and she HATES standardized testing. It's bad for students and doesn't test for anything useful. She sees kids cry over these stupid things because they're so stressful.

0points

Mazer 4 years ago

Standard for who? It’s all bias and bs, as are personality tests

-1point

Bob Stuart 4 years ago

I want a standard test for a product or a pilot, but humans should have a variety of tests available for actual abilities, not a single standard set for devious reasons.

-1point

#46

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Anyone ever seen that “as seen on TV” ad of the golf club you p**s in? I feel like that’d be a good contender for this

Just_Another_User731 , Uro Club Report

Final score:

93points

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James016 4 years ago

What the actual f….?

51points

Edward Dimmick 4 years ago

What's even funnier are the ones used to hide your booze on the course. Imagine someone mixing them up... :D

7points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

If you can't stop playing long enough to go pee, the club ain't your problem.

8points

Jon S. 4 years ago

It is for old men who need to pee every couple of hours and struggle to walk back to the club house.

3points

MiddleEarth 4 years ago

WHAT

6points

Spork420 4 years ago

The handle is so warm...

5points

AngelWingsYT 4 years ago

Whys your club swishing

3points

Lil Prime 4 years ago (edited)

U WOT M8?!?!?!? :0

5points

Roger Haywood 4 years ago

Golf itself should be on this list.

3points

Hilary James 4 years ago

Only works for guys and guys can piss anywhere 🤦🏻‍♀️

1point

Requiem 4 years ago

the military has a thing for women for wearing clothes and going. just put it in the end of the club

2points

mcborge1 4 years ago

I think i speak for everyone here by saying "EEEEWWWW, that's gross!"

1point

Sharon 2 years ago

LOLOLOLOL

0points

ZeroCapacity 3 years ago

Saw this one last nite. Made me do a double take and say what the actual f**k?

0points

#47

Websites with infinite scroll content

CouchieWouchie Report

Final score:

87points

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June 4 years ago

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.

9points

Smitten Kitten 4 years ago

Fun fact: I suggested to BP to add the back to the top button a couple of years ago because every site should have one.

0points

Norbert Horváth 4 years ago

I just hate the opposite: when you want to watch 10 photos, and they are arranged 1 per page with a million ads around them.

1point

mcborge1 4 years ago

To infinity and beyond.

1point

Jozsef Szabo 1 year ago

Yes! If you are going through many posts to find something (search function isn't always good), you need to load a lot of data into memory. And, you can't just stop it, bookmark it and continue it another time, because there are no pages. Facebook is not a book, it's rather an infinite toilet paper roll.

0points

Thomas Turnbull 4 years ago

I’m fine with that

0points

Panda 4 years ago

I find this convenient

0points

404 Panda Not Found 4 years ago

Unless it's a scroll game.

0points

EldritchGrapefruit , Fibonacci Blue Report

#48

50 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day Political parties. We should have listened to Washington…

Final score:

86points

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M M 4 years ago

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

80points

Claudette Shaw 4 years ago (edited)

YOu are mis-understanding. No political parties means no politiccal parties, not one. It means you are gov;erned by consensus . The people elected don't have a party agenda. They are there to collaborate, cooperate and reach consensus as to what is best for the people they represent. Funny thing for all the people who claim they want things run like companies or corporations. Any company that has a Board of Directors they are run by consensus.

0points

404 Panda Not Found 4 years ago

What country? China?

0points

Joseph Georgiadis 4 years ago (edited)

The delusion of choice in the politics, and the "usefulness" of political parties. Our era's mafia. One or many, today's political parties are the opposite of democracy. The illusion of freedom in some countries is just another scheme of "political science". It's by no means good, but -at least- a dictatorship is more honest than "democracy" in our times.

-1point

Karin 4 years ago

No, you don't have enough political parties!

10points

Julie C Rose 4 years ago

This is the correct answer. Having ranked choice voting or MMP will improve things.

1point

Zedrapazia 4 years ago

The problem with the USA isn't that there's parties. It's that there are enough parties, there's only left or right, no middle or alternative. My country y Switzerland, has about a dozend, but only the biggest one are directly represented by our government.

5points

Requiem 4 years ago

Watch Veep and it really shows you both sides. House of cards too. Countries need to stop the two party system

5points

Requiem 4 years ago

Canada has a ridiculous amount of legit parties and 95% of them are never an option in your area

1point

Frankenfrog 4 years ago

But there are, they just aren't given any attention as they don't bring in money and us citizens generally are extremely polarized

1point

Vladimíra Matejová 4 years ago

In Slovakia for example we have so many parties I am sometimes surprised when I come to election and see all the candidate lists like oh what is this party? I have never heard of it :-D We have too many parties and they are all crappy. Each elections some new parties emerge, some of them stop existing afer elections, some stay, regroup...so yes we have some bigger parties and some really bizzare ones ...too many parties but still no one to vote for

0points

Ivana 4 years ago

Wait? What is wrong with political parties? I mean, what is the alternative? The political parties offer us a great shorthand when it comes to voting in local elections. There isn't much information on the candidates more often than not, and the political affiliation is basically all I have to go on and it gives me a good idea of what their general policies will be.

2points

Jason Johnson 4 years ago

Political parties are going to be a part of any democratic country. It is up to people to see through manipulation and not capitulate to cheap tribalism as a substitute for in depth analysis.

1point

Devil's Advocate 4 years ago

The problem isn't political parties, it's people voting for one or the other based purely on how / where they grew up rather than the actual aims of that party. If you can't name 3 things on the manifesto of both parties, you probably shouldn't be voting

1point

Requiem 4 years ago

No its both parties basically being the same

0points

Jozsef Szabo 1 year ago (edited)

If you don't want political parties, we can name them political groups or anything, it doesn't make anything better. This isn't the problem. The problem is when the people have too little control over poiticians, or when the people are not well informed to make good decisions, or when they are not educated well enough to recognise when they are being manipulated and mislead.

0points

Joshua Wilson 3 years ago

We can blame Jefferson and his democratic-republicans for this.

0points

Lynne Hammar 3 years ago

We need more parties, not less. Diversity can help overcome the gridlock.

0points

Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 4 years ago (edited)

I live in a country with 9 parties in parliament at present. Some people say this country does quite allright.

0points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

Of course this is far better! More representation for everyone in the parliament is better for democracy! You have more choice than to choose between the bad and the worse all the time

0points

TheSanityInspector Report

#49

Leaded gasoline.

Final score:

70points

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Zophra 4 years ago

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

19points

Joel Hopkins 4 years ago

Propeller aircraft still use leaded gasoline. If I remember right, the lead is used to cool exhaust temps and to act as a valve lubricant, and so that it won't vapor lock at 20,000 ft.

9points

David Andrews 4 years ago (edited)

One of the main engineers responsible for leaded petrol went on to develop CFCs for refrigeration. Good intentions but quite a legacy to leave the world with!

5points

Sabs 4 years ago (edited)

The guys name was Thomas Midgley Jr. the story gets worse, after he created CFC’s, he contracted Polio in 1940 which crippled him. He then invented a track and pully system in his house to get around, quite ingenious really. It later strangled him to death.

7points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

Leaded gas was awful, horrible and terrible for the environment. But it smelled soooo good.

4points

DC 4 years ago

Sure does! A gas engine on rich mixture smells good, too, while still, these are the most poisonous exhuast gases it even is capable to produce. Only Diesel are worse.

0points

Thomas Sweda 4 years ago

They put Lead in as an improvement, but they had to charge more. Found out it was harmful, so they stopped putting it in. So of course, they again had to charge more. (It’s never less is it?)

3points

DC 4 years ago

This is twosided. As the molecule including lead was a knock inhibitor, it helped maintain high and reliable knock resistance long before engines were able to adapt to lower qualities than they were developed for - therefore, they had to be developed for the poorest they'd ever run with, and by the use of TEL, knock resistance was made reliable. By this, it helped safe a lot of fuel over the decades it was in use. And, yes, lead kills your cat.

0points

lara 4 years ago

Where can you even buy it?

0points

#50

Lootboxes and pay to win games.

DadBodGod87 Report

Final score:

68points

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James016 4 years ago

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

16points

Samantha Hurrell 4 years ago

Belgium actually banned them under Gambling Rules, after EA's Starwars Battlefront II took it to new levels. (Disney nearly pulled their license).

5points

Elizabeth White 4 years ago

Depends. There's some sort of workaround for GATCHA type games.

1point

Requiem 4 years ago

every game like COD still has them and doesnt give you anything that helps you

-2points

J. F. 4 years ago

Or how EA calls them "Surprise mechanics"

1point

Jackie Nettleton 4 years ago

As far as I was aware loot boxes just gave out rewards based on a random generator for completing a quest or killing a min boss/local boss in RPG games I wouldn’t put that version of them on this list

0points

Jason Johnson 4 years ago

cough cough Ubisoft. They are a huge offender. It is why have not liked any Assassins' creed games since Black Flag.

0points