If it ain't broke, don't fix it. What's a good example of this old saying?

Fluther? ;D

Ummmmmm….lessee….uhmm….Answerbag??

i work at a photo lab and we now have to make customers pre-pay for film, which is really fucking stupid because if not all the pictures come out, they’re paying for more than they’re getting. its not a big deal, but the reasoning the company uses is because “it’s easier” but really it takes 10x longer! they are stupid. it wasn’t broken and they tried to fix it. they are dumbasses.

Well I can honestly say…anything I attempted to “fix” when not truely broken, got broken!
:(

Zombie movies! How come now zombies all run, talk, use firearms and…naaah I like those kindsa zombies too.

I would honestly say AB.

Japanese cars. Your Skyline was just fine until you covered it in meaningless brightly coloured stickers, and it really handles quite well without a five foot carbon spoiler.

Many things always seem broken to me, but I am Mr. Fix It so I usually am all about upgrades and repairs, but I guess a good example would be…..... something that always works when needed? lol I’m sitting here thinking, “well I’d fix a lawn mower, car’s always need maintenance, I would’ve liked Tesla’s idea of using electricity better, stairs don’t usually break do they?” and it could go on and on, but I’ll leave it with that, :)

Facebook (which they keep fixing, and fixing, and fixing…).

iTunes 8 -> iTunes 9 (Thankfully, they reversed one of the more egregious changes within a day or two: the removal of much-used keyboard shortcuts. 9 is still way uglier than 8, though.)

My bf opened up his laptop to “clean it”.. and in the process he ended up tearing a very small piece from the keyboard which ended up costing him 50 bucks to fix.. can I say it?? Please, can I say it?? Eh, what the heck!! “I TOLD YOU SO!!!!”

I improved my livingroom by rearranging the furniture. I now have 3 bruises from walking into the furniture. It’s going back the way it was as soon as I can take hearing “I told you…” from my husband.

Coca-Cola in 1985.

Well, I always mention homosexuality, but here I go again: homosexuality. There’s no need to “convert” to heterosexuality. Homosexuality is not a “problem” that needs to be “fixed”.

Staplers. There’s simply no system of joining sheets of paper together that can improve on staplers, or atleast none that currently occurs to me. Thank you staplers. Thank you.
@DominicX With a fashion sense like that it’s looking like the heterosexuals are the ones who need fixin’! (oh no I di’n’)

@Slick

I would have to say Answerbag too.

You know, I used to answer a lot of “Dealing With Rejection” questions at the old AB. I’m a strong believer in putting things in their proper perspective. As devastating as the overnight changes were to many long time AB members, it’s good to see how quickly a lot of members recovered and found an alternate solution ie. Fluther.

So there should be a plaque next to “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” with the advisory…

…“This could be a blessing in disguise.”

(RIP Answerbag…LONG LIVE FLUTHER!)

Send that message to Congress.

Answerbag. They took a wonderful community, somewhat anarchistic, and destroyed it in one stroke. The site belongs to its owners but they forgot that it was built on member input. Almost all the “experts” and creative types are out now. Long Live Fluther!

The old “basic taxicab-type” M-B diesels. Can’t get them anymore since Daimler-Benz went totally upscale. I’ll just have to make my ‘72 220D last forver now.

the GUI of Freespace 1 and 2.

Me!

When I was 16 I bought a $150 Chevrolet. I “adjusted” the clutch. Within 24 hours the shift linkage snapped. Oh well. Live and learn.

The new horror movie remakes. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a good example. The original one was just an indie horror masterpiece. Not only the remake simplified it down to the tween hot topic crowd by adding unnecessary gore and torture scenes (if you actually bothered to see the original, you would know that there isn’t really that much blood/gore) but they just ruined the eerie southern atmosphere and turned it into some deranged piss poor country music video.

I could go on about Rob Zombie’s Halloween if anyone is interested…

@PretentiousArtist The original movie is awesome, I own it, it even came in this slick metal case.
I agree that the remake, (And that remake’s prequel.) don’t pay much respect to the original. In fact, it’s so different that it’s almost an entirely new, different movie, more like a re-imagining than an actual remake.
Without considering the original though, I say the remake is fun in itself though, and I actually totally love the movie’s imagery. It’s so creepy and depressing, almost like macabre art work.

Still though, the oriignal has one of the best wood chase scenes in the history of popular horror films, it will never be beat.

And oh yes-I could gripe about the Halloween remake so much that it’s not even funny.