21 Products That Somehow Lost Their Original Purpose, As Shared In This Online Thread

I really miss what it should be

I grew up with MTV. Oh, those were the days...

This. So many arguements about putting the toilet seat up/down when honestly, everyone should just close the lid once they’re done. The particles spread up to 6 m (19 ft) otherwise.

Ace Ventura is all I can think of! "Everyone loves a slinky!"

Cleaning your keyboard?

Most new oven models don't have this

Isn't this in a lot of first aid kits and such for this exact reason?

Wonder how many minutes it took after the initial product release that 1st forester thought that it would be funny to shoot Mike on back.. Maybe hours but definetly not days..

Cherries and peaches as well...

Now this makes a lot of sense.

It's been approved for use as a human sedative, it's used in operating rooms and ICUs. And remember those Thai kids that were trapped in the flooded cave? Each kid got a shot of Ketamine before the final rescue, it kept them quiet as heroic spent hours dragging them to safety through a dangerous flooded cave.

. . . In mental health institutions.

Great for removing stubborn, leftover glue after pulling the label off a jar.

Oh my Jesus Christ. I haven’t thought about these since I was in primary school. Back then, I assumed the ‘pipe’ in pipe cleaner referred the things that ran along the walls of my house and I didn’t question it. It’s only now, reading this as a fully grown adult, that I realise it’s not that kind of pipe at all. That update has been pending for decades!

No thank you. I don't trust my clumsy hands to hold it steady at the neck.

Then they named it really badly!

People used to drive with at the very least - gloves, dust coats, goggles, and hats on, if not full face masks. Because cars didn't have roofs or windows and the roads weren't paved, anyone who drove the first cars was going to get all the dust, mud, or weather in the world in the face.

I do have gloves in the glove department. And I think so do most people who live in an area with frosty weather. Steering wheels get cold!

Steering wheels were either polished wood or metal. No grip, and would be cold or hot depending on weather/exposure.

MY partner inherited his grandfather's car after his death and the only things in the glove box were the owner's manual and a pair of gloves. We keep them in there. It was too adorable to take them out.

"for some reason" LOL.

You probably have never started driving with an unheated car on freezing weather if you still wonder why people still uses to drive with gloves on. But it's true that you then want to keep gloves on when you left your car.

"for some reason" Really?! You don't have the google at your house?

There are still people who live where it gets very cold and who don't have garages.

My mother used to drive with gloves on, she said the joints in her hands would get stiff otherwise. We used to live in a colder climate so my guess is thats why she wanted to wear them so much.

Doh! Who didnt know that?

Wearing gloves or sunscreen isn't a bad idea in the modern age due to the amount of UV your hands get while driving. Same thing goes for driver's left arms/left side of face. Studies show these get far more exposure.

Welcome to winter my friend. Where it's -30 degrees and your contacts have frozen to your eyeballs and your fingers are blue and you're wearing your fleece undies and three blankets on you. With the heater pumping. And steam still coming from your breath.

I think it was more so you had gloves on hand if you had to fix your car... change a tire, etc.

Plus the insects...

"For some reason" because the writer was too lazy.

Where I live we have long cold winters. From about October to April I keep gloves all over in my car specifically for driving and not freezing my fingers off…

My Dad used to say that they were so you could stick your fist through the windscreen so you could see if it smashed at high speed. This was when the glass was tempered, rather than laminated as it is now.

Also, before power steering, turning a car steering wheel was pretty cumbersome - thus the gloves to prevent callouses.

Cleanliness

Nice try, Minoxidil salesperson!

It's still used for some heart problems, and I have no idea if anyone who's sick enough to need it for medical reasons can still enjoy the side effects.

I'm no expert but isn't that lip filler not botox?

I think MS Excel was always used as a data analysis tool, where as MS Access was used as an informal database since 1992