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What modern convenience should have never been invented?

Homework. We do enough work in school, give us a break.

But if you want a more serious answer, I'd said weapons of mass destruction.
 
Heatran said:
The Internet

My opinion, it would be Abortion
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I'm not sure surgeries of that nature count as useless modern conveniences.

As for me, I'd say the bathroom button lock. What happened to the thing you just turn to lock? Now we have the button, which you can't even test, because when you try to, the door unlocks. I'd rather trade the fraction of a second it takes to just turn the thing for the security of knowing that no one's getting through this door, but apparently that's not good enough for our society.
 
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Digital Movie Projectors. we are just fine with regular Film Projectors, and you get the same resolution or better with Film.
 
Digital television. It could be phased out by the internet with its video sites and potential for making available downloads of every episode in any given series; and if you want to know the news or weather, newspapers have done that for a century if not longer. Oh, and video games? Computers do and have always done that better than any console.
 
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clade. said:
The printer. I get a lot of homework that way. I'm dead serious.
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The printing press is considered to be one of the greatest invention of this millenia... ~_~

List of the Top 10 Greatest Inventions


If something was so useless, it wouldn't be a modern convenience. So I can't really think of anything.

What I do find useless is using braille in silly places. I have nothing against braille or the disabled, but braille is used in London Aquarium. I don't mean to sound insensitive, but I can't imagine many blind people going to an aquarium. Besides the stingray pool, all they can get is a list of fish names.. O_o
 
hmmm... thats a good question... Let me think... Ipods/Mp3s lol i dont listen to music often and if im in a car Radio and if I was outside with friends i wouldnt need it.
 
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Preservatives. :3 They count as a convenience, I presume.
 
Obviously, the cell phone.

Nothing annoys me more than people asking me why I don't have a cell phone, and pestering me to get one all the time, explaining that I need one. No, I don't need one, obviously. I've been doing fine without one for 17 years.

Excuse me for not liking anyone calling me when my phone is off to be redirected to a robotic space alien voice explaining that I'm not there and can't talk to them.

It's so personal when they do that.

Besides, who really needs to talk to their friend while walking up and down the aisles in Target?
 
~*!*~Queen Boo~*!*~ said:
thats true, I'll agree with the printer



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Sure, let's get rid of the invention that allowed a mass amount of people to learn to read. :/ Without the printing press, books wouldn't have been mass-produced, and we'd all be sitting around copying books by hand.

Wait, I forgot. No one likes to read.

In my opinion, we can do away with the dishwasher. I don't get why people can't just wash their own dishes with their hands. You're cleaning up the same food that you just ate, people. It's not going to kill you if you touch it.
 
I'd have to say escalators if they count. I'm okay with elevators, but escalators are pointless. If you're going to be lazy, take the elevator. They're just moving stairs that take twice as long to ride up then walking up normal stairs.
 
THE SPORK.

Seriously. Most of them don't even work as the fork part, like those little plastic ones with an end with just little points at the end, that can't actually pick anything up, and the ones with a functioning fork are horrible spoons, since the amount of room needed for a working fork puts holes large enough for anything requiring a spoon to run out.
 
The most useless invention would be the stupid floor in the airport that automatically moves for you. It doesn't make any sense at all, have we really got so lazy that we now can just stand somewhere and have the floor transport us from point A to point B.
 
Buses.

I really hate them, and they have crappy services. ;< And bus drivers are maniacs and always try and crash into me. And also, because everyone is trying to save the environment, everyone gets on them and it gets really crowded. D:

People can just bike or walk to wherever they want to go. :D
 
People can just bike or walk to wherever they want to go. :D
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What about long distances, bad weather and unsafe biking roads, like the roads in many new suburbs, the ones that have the mcmansions.

The printer
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That also means no manga, no magazines, no way to print out pictures that you can decorate your room with. Yeah, real smart

Obviously, the cell phone.
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Same with me. I dont have one either and I'm 18. I hope I wont be forced to get one ever. I may though :/
it's just rude when you're hanging out with a friend you never see, and a friend calls who she sees every day and she totally ignores me.
plus, there's nothing like hearing a ringtone to make me get so mad I wanna eat the cell-phone.
Unfortunately, I may end up being stuck with one. But I get it, I swear I will never abuse it like most people I know do. I will have an oldschool ringtone, keep it off when I'm home and use it mainly for photography and pictures.

I'd have to say escalators if they count
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Good point! They take forever and you cant just run up one if you want to get to a store so fast because then those stupid people will be like OMG Stop it! and I hate that!
It's one of the reasons that I think America is so fat. But it's just one out of like fifteen.
 
Akari said:
Buses.

I really hate them, and they have crappy services. ;< And bus drivers are maniacs and always try and crash into me. And also, because everyone is trying to save the environment, everyone gets on them and it gets really crowded. D:

People can just bike or walk to wherever they want to go. :D
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I actually have to disagree with you on buses. Even though I hate them with a blinding passion I still wish for them to exist.

My case here is that I hate buses to. I read in a news paper that the bus drivers run red lights and start charging for people crossing the street honking their horns. The bus driving company defended the drivers saying that the Drivers can't do anything on their route but drive and do nothing else. Does that mean you are allowed to put people's live in jeopardy?

Anyway I still want buses to exist for several reasons. One I use the bus. I use the bus because I need to get around town fast and in order to get to school I need to go up a very large and steep hill. If I try to walk or bike up it I will lose almost 3 times as much time and energy as I would have saved by taking the bus.

Two handicapped people need to go somewhere fast to. They work as well and some of them are in wheel chairs who can't walk or drive. So they obviously need to use the bus.

Bare in mind I will rejoice when I am able to drive. Since I will never take the bus again.

Ontopic I have to agree with Escalators and Sporks. Escalators are just crowds moving upwards and Sporks are just plain useless. Learn to use both the fork and a Spoon
 
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