What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?

[LizzieMaine]

They're all over eBay, often new and unused in the original box. Mine is an all-cotton "Bulldog Bunting" model of extremely high quality.

 

[HudsonHawk]

If I get a 48-star flag, do I get to pick which two states I leave out? There are a couple that really grind my gears.

 

[LizzieMaine]

My two omissions change with the seasons. During the tourist season it's Connecticut and Massachusetts.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Where I'm from, the two you omit depends on which weekend of college football season it is. Georgia is always one. That goes without saying. The other may be Alabama or Mississippi or Tennessee...

 

[Gregg Axley]

Tennessee fans in your part of the Country?
Probably confused because you have a UT and it's orange as well.
Different shade of course, but I mean, they ARE Tennessee fans.

High-tech telephones.
I just got a new phone at work, and for some reason it's connected to my computer. :eeek:
If I need to hold a conversation, I'll just use the alternate cell phone or walk down the hall.

 

[HadleyH]

Cell phone.

Who needs it ..meh

 

[HudsonHawk]

Tennessee fans in your part of the Country?
Probably confused because you have a UT and it's orange as well.
Different shade of course, but I mean, they ARE Tennessee fans.

I meant where I'm from and grew up watching college football....Florida. Georgia was the only team we hated every week, whether we were playing them or not. The rest we just hated on particular Saturdays.

Texas football fans only hate Oklahoma. But only the football team, not the state or people. We never met an Okie we didn't like.

 

[AvavanBlythe]

Cell phone.

Who needs it ..meh

I could name several ways a no-frills flip phone is handy.

 

[LizzieMaine]

They're just the right thickness to prop up a short table leg on an unlevel floor.

 

[jamespowers]

They're just the right thickness to prop up a short table leg on an unlevel floor.

And heavy enough to throw out the window at a screaming cat in the middle of the night.

 

[HadleyH]

They're just the right thickness to prop up a short table leg on an unlevel floor.

And heavy enough to throw out the window at a screaming cat in the middle of the night.

Exactly right! :eusa_clap

 

[HadleyH]

I could name several ways a no-frills flip phone is handy.

really ...well...

you like your cell phone you can keep your cell phone...

eace:

laughing so hard here.....

 

[Horace Debussy Jones]

:blah:I don't. It doesn't bother me to see absolutely EVERYONE else pecking away at their cellphone screens at lunchtime either, as if i were missing out on something??

Cell phone.

Who needs it ..meh

 

[HadleyH]

I agree! ^^^^^^

 

[vitanola]

They're just the right thickness to prop up a short table leg on an unlevel floor.

Goodness! How cockeyed are your floors up there in Maine?
That's what shims or cull shingles are for.

 

[LizzieMaine]

When I painted my living room last month and re-hung the mantel, I noticed it's almost two inches off level. Right now I've got the low end shimmed up with two folded squares of cardboard and several pieces of a Sherwin-Williams paint stirrer. My house is built on the slope of a hill, but I never realized it sloped *that* much. Does explain why it's hard to keep the mantel clock running right.

 

[Widebrim]

I can't live with that---and I MEAN it.

Now I can go on with life...

 

[jamespowers]

Now I can go on with life...

Good!

 

[Gregg Axley]

I could name several ways a no-frills flip phone is handy.

I have an older style flip phone, and you wouldn't believe the people I work with, that would love to get something "simple" like this one again. It has a camera, but no "I" anything, or apps, and when I close the phone I know the conversation is over.

 

[Touchofevil]

I have an older style flip phone, and you wouldn't believe the people I work with, that would love to get something "simple" like this one again. It has a camera, but no "I" anything, or apps, and when I close the phone I know the conversation is over.

I have something similar to that, it's a LG, LSG, or MSG or something like that. It has a little keypad, but I rarely use it or the phone. It is great for emergencies or situations of that sort, but then I am not a phone guy. Oh, and it cost very little by today's standards but more than I wanted to pay.