What modern invention would you uninvent?
Asked by
Rarebear (
25192
)
November 7th, 2011
Observing members:
0
Composing members:
0
58 Answers
Most plastic products, especially plastic bags. The irony is I work at a plastics resin factory.
Not modern, but I would uninvent cigarettes.
Hardcore porn. It is ruining the men of america in very unhealthy ways.
Vibrators! They make us blokes look a little “tired” in comparison.
Unless I can shove batteries up my arse, I ain’t going to be humping all night….well, at least not without a break or two.
@Coloma You mean….not all women are eager to throw up while fellating us?
Computers…..........then people would not have to worry about hackers attempting to steal their money.
Automobiles. I truly see the rise of the automobile as the tipping point for sustainable life on this planet.
leaf blowers
powered lawn mowers
air conditioning
3D movies. Yeah I love paying more to watch a movie wearing stupid shades, unable to make out what’s going on cause the image is so dark and the director has spent most of his time thinking of ways he can have pointy pointy stuff pointing out of the screen instead of concentrating on the actual plot.
twitter
I feel no need to explain myself
Great Question @Rarebear.
I would uninvent MONEY.
@RealEyesRealizeRealLies
Here here!
Trade ya 2 fat geese and a cup of flower seeds and a happy brownie if you rake my yard. lol
But you know what I’m gonna do with those geese… don’t you? Sure you want to make that trade?
I’d still rake your yard for some brownies though…
Nuclear weapons
Certainly
One of my ex-girlfriend’s grandfather was a scientist that worked with Albert Einstein. She has a letter in her possession written by Albert to his immediate scientific peer network. In that letter he touts the triumph of nuclear fusion, but warns of the dangers if used improperly. He literally made a prediction that bad things were sure to come of it.
VX gas and weapons grade Botox.
@RealEyesRealizeRealLies While I see where you’re going, money is most definitely not a modern invention.
And duh Einstein was warning about the dangers of nuclear power… he gave it to the Americans because he knew the Germans were working on the bomb.
The Manhattan Project?
Another vote for cell phones. Sometimes I don’t want to be so available to the world.
I’ve been thankful for nuclear weapons since my teens, actually. Who doesn’t understand that nukes have prevented the Cold War from turning into WW III? (For that matter, I probably owe my life to nukes: My dad was staged in Adak, Alaska at the end of WW II, and would have been one of the grunts on the ground in an invasion of Japan. I might not even be here – nor many of the rest of us – without those only two nukes dropped ‘in anger’.)
@CWOTUS I both hate nuclear weapons, and recognize that they have probably saved a lot of lives thanks to merely existing.
There hasn’t been a major war between world powers since WW2, and that’s entirely thanks to nuclear weapons. Prior to them, hardly a decade would go by that there wasn’t some major conflict in the world.
That whole, being able to wipe out humanity 1000 times over thing though, really puts a damper on the “good” they’ve done.
@CWOTUS, that’s why I said maybe.
I’m not sure we’ve actually experienced the downside of having nukes yet, though.
I refuse to carry a cell phone. I get so razzed by everyone, but, I feel the same. I don’t want to be available 24/7 and if I’m running a few minutes late, oh well..just wait, the old fashioned way. lol
- loudness war in modern recording (lack of dynamic range)
- television
Well, as long as we are being wishful, I would get rid of electically enhanced music. No speakers. Only acoustics. Or, if we did have electronic instruments, I would cap the volume on said speakers so they could be no louder than any individual acoustic instrument they are playing with.
Great answers all!
My answer is Twinkies. I hate Twinkies. It’s a stupid food with a stupid name.
Twinkies – Nuclear bomb; yeah, I’d go with the Twinkies. :-)
iPods (or any MP3 player really), iPads, iPhones, bluetooth and staplers. Especially staplers! Someone keeps stealing my stapler.
Nooooooo! Or else I’ll sleep through my morning classes! Well actually, I sleep through most of them even with energy drinks…
Every time I drink one, my heart begins to hurt.
Yeah, what’s up with that? It’s like someone squeezing your heart.
Actually that’s exactly what happens to me. I had not even a quarter of a Red Rave last week, and that started happening. I’d rather stay away from them, and I don’t like that kids are just able to buy them.
Speaker phones in the office.
High fructos corn syrup,or foods that they are part of.
Car alarms.
Aaaagh!
I disabled mine, freaking steal the damn car just don’t blast me into a heart attack with all the *%^&$ false alarms. lol
Handheld digital pets constantly begging for food.
@mattbrowne Ha, yeah. I had a tamagotchi before. I always had to ’‘delete’’ the piles of crap it made.
I accidentally dropped it in my coffee.
Facebook, it seems that everybody around me is obsessed with it to the point where you can’t have a decent one on one conversation with them anymore.
@tom_g I even know who broke up with who, who cheated on who, who is considering suicide and who hates who, thanks to what my nephew and sister relays from Facebook. to me.
How about big bass speakers for cars. Real music doesn’t sound like that, no way.
Answer this question 
Composing members:
0
