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If you could dis-invent one thing, what would it be?

Asked by thebluewaffle (1002points) August 26th, 2011

Imagine if _____ hadn’t have been invented, wouldn’t the world be a better place? Or at the very least, you’d be a happier person…
If you could wipe anything straight from existence, what would it be?

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rebbel's avatar

Cellophane.

Poser's avatar

Television.

pezz's avatar

X-FACTOR!

john65pennington's avatar

Atomic Fireballs. They are addictive.

ucme's avatar

Onions
Twizzle sticks
Extending dog leashes

incendiary_dan's avatar

Monocrop agriculture.

Ayesha's avatar

Soft drinks.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

Nail polish.

thebluewaffle's avatar

@Keep_on_running What a fantastic bit of kit!

Coloma's avatar

The 40+ hour work week. I don’t believe anyone should work more than a 6 hour day.
Our work ethic obsession is waaay overdone.

jonsblond's avatar

Perfume

some people just don’t know when enough is enough

Jellie's avatar

Atomic bomb

incendiary_dan's avatar

@Coloma All my research points the fact that we’re adapted to work about 2 hours a day, 4 if you count household chores like cleaning, clothes repair, etc. :)

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

I would disinvent cigarettes. And I’m a smoker.

josie's avatar

Telephone poles, or any of those objects that carry cables above ground.

_zen_'s avatar

Another vote for cigarettes.

Coloma's avatar

@incendiary_dan

I agree…zen out!

TexasDude's avatar

Dipshits.

King_Pariah's avatar

The predatory lust that results in mentally weak bastards taking advantage of a child.

erichw1504's avatar

The Shake Weight.

Keep_on_running's avatar

@erichw1504 Lol, beat you to it ;) seems there is a lot of hatred out there for the shake weight, kinda feel sorry for it now.

erichw1504's avatar

The Snuggie.

Neizvestnaya's avatar

Cigarettes.

CWOTUS's avatar

Religion

Kardamom's avatar

Clowns. They’re meant to be funny and cute, but they scare the he*l out of little kids, and adults still have nightmares about them.

SpatzieLover's avatar

Cell phones.

Kardamom's avatar

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! They all float down here!

TexasDude's avatar

And when you’re down here Georgie…. YOU’ll FLOAT TOOOOOOOOOO

Kardamom's avatar

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard That movie made me afraid to walk near gutter drains!

flutherother's avatar

Cluster bombs, nuclear weapons and the internal combustion engine.

mazingerz88's avatar

Twitter ( I mean what the f*%#k? More useless chatter? )

FutureMemory's avatar

Capitalism.

Christian95's avatar

Auto-tune and other “instruments” which gave us shitty music

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Any and all abortion apparatus, regardless of method.

King_Pariah's avatar

@Hypocrisy_Central but I like wire hangers….

incendiary_dan's avatar

@Hypocrisy_Central So ladders and carrots are out, too?

TexasDude's avatar

@Christian95 Imogen Heap would like a word with you…

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@King_Pariah Wood was always better, second to that, plastic. I can live without wire hangers, but I was speaking of apparatuses that were actually created and manufactured for the disgusting deed, not improvised. Surely anyone wanting to take the easy way out will figure out a way to do it.

Christian95's avatar

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard don’t you find her non-auto-tune songs better?

smilingheart1's avatar

Cigarettes are well represented so fast food.

filmfann's avatar

Phone answering menus.
“For English, Press 1”

I wish there was a hot key to just talk to a real person.

TexasDude's avatar

@Christian95 Hide and Seek will always be my favorite tune of hers because of a personal meaning it has for me. The thing about it is, though, that she used auto-tune for artistic effect, not to disguise bad singing like many other artists did. That song would not be the same without it. That’s why I don’t think that auto-tune is universally bad.

talljasperman's avatar

Credit Cards

MacBatman31's avatar

Meth and stupid people

TexasDude's avatar

@Blueroses holy shit, that’s awesome.

woodcutter's avatar

the Holy Bible

Sunny2's avatar

I second disinventing cigarettes and guns and add tattoos. Mostly because I’m just being ornery.

Berserker's avatar

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard and @Kardamom

Yall know that Pennywise is just a child, right? There’s more like it out there, and even more powerful, or so is said in the book. (It actually has parents)

TexasDude's avatar

@Symbeline I’m pretty well acquainted with King’s mythos… his macroverse. I’ve spent many hours reading about it on teh wiki. ;D

Berserker's avatar

Yeah, but ever read any of his books? XD

Berserker's avatar

Yeah man, just messing around. :) We talked about the novel before, as I recall. :)

TexasDude's avatar

Oh yeah, that’s right!

Berserker's avatar

Well at least I think we did? Eh wtv. That turtle. Awesome, right? :)

TexasDude's avatar

Yeah, how the Turtle is a neutral/good entity that creates worlds and IT is a chaotic/evil entity and both of them were created by a larger, more powerful force that is basically God? Yep.

Berserker's avatar

I thought that he seemed stereotypically good, just really old and tired by then. When he’s all like, yeah, I can’t really help you guys lol.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

@Sunny2 Nooooooo!!!!!! I agree to get rid of cigarettes and guns, but please don’t get rid of my tattoos!!! =0)

linguaphile's avatar

I would disinvent slash and burning of rain forests, subprime loans, corporates like Enron, Bears Stern etc. and most of all I would disinvent eugenics.

Kardamom's avatar

I think I might add gas powered leaf blowers to my list.

And low rise jeans (they even make skinny anorexic supermodels look chubby)

And Happy Meals

Sunny2's avatar

@WillWorkForChocolate Okay. But if I disinvent them, you’ll be the only one with tattoos. You could make a fortunes. I guess that would be good. But you’d have to explain the pictures that appear on your body.

Berserker's avatar

@Kardamom Or MacDick’s as a whole. What a festering wound pon’ our already festering society. :D

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