What in your opinion, is the most superfluous invention in human history?

Baconaise
...because apparently, not enough Americans have heart disease yet.

Make-up.

Lawns

Gender roles

Cigarettes

Facebook

Criticism.

Hmmmm. Table manners? The concept that intellectual ownership is anything but temporary. OH! The battle of the sexes! (I like that one best).

Blondesjon but that goes hand in hand with critical thinking and skepticism, without which we wouldn’t have science, which is arguably the best thing we ever came up with.

You can have critical thinking and skepticism without criticism.

Try it. You’ll like it.

The cumberbund

I’m going to have to go with the Topsy-Tail, Bump It or this gem.
Most any prduct that you can buy “as seen on TV” I think fits into this category.

Edit: Or this. I don’t even understand this one.

This would have to be a contender

or this

of course if we wanted to be mean this

@DarkScribe
I’m not sure that chindogu count. Although those two that I liked above are nearly chindogu. But yours is fabulous. Very green.

Blondesjon: but applying critical thinking to other people is constructive criticism…
Oh I came up with another one! Corsets!

@astrocom Oh I came up with another one! Corsets!

Of course, how could anyone be interested in one of these – guys in particular

Soda pop

Air freshener.

Nationalism

@benjaminlevi nice

@Simone_De_Beauvoir Yours was good too. Quite superfluous.

Feeding the Tamagotchi (which is a handheld digital pet) a piece of food or a snack.

@mattbrowne aww, I used to have one, lol

From a lesbian perspective, the condom.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir – Used to have one? Did you let it starve to death??

@mattbrowne I must have, not only do I not remember, but I don’t even care one bit, lol

Religion

@Simone_De_Beauvoir – The poor ‘creature’ – you’re lucky not to get in trouble with animal activists…