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The WORST invention of the 20th century (& 21st) - (Alternative title - Scrooges guide to technology).

Posted by cymraeg_draig PM | on Tue, 21/12/2010 - 18:17  2883  38 comments | report

My nominations are the mobile phone, and twitter.

Mobile phones, whilst useful, have become a total pain with idiots wandering around frying what passes for their brains by having them permanently glued to their ears and annoying ring tones.

As for twitter - aptly named when you see all these twits constantly apologising for their stupid comments. What actual purpose does it serve ?

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I heard that...

taxhound | Tue, 21/12/2010 - 18:27
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Brilliant taxhound

SteveOH | Tue, 21/12/2010 - 20:25
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Another for the list

cymraeg_draig | Tue, 21/12/2010 - 23:04
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Which century?

WhichTyler | Tue, 21/12/2010 - 23:08

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cymraeg_draig | Tue, 21/12/2010 - 23:22
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Television

MarionMorrison | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 07:28
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Why knock large TV's?

Richard Willis | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 07:44
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Self-cancelling indicators.

nogammonsinanundoubledgame | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 07:57
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Cui bono?

WhichTyler | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 09:24

Modern cars

Ken Howard | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 09:42

In (faint) praise of Twitter

davidwinch | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 10:07
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Im with CD on Surveys

MBK | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 10:50

Old cars are great ...

Steve Holloway | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 10:56
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its got to be self check outs in supermarkets

carnmores | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 11:31
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Seriously?

thisistibi | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 11:57
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thisistibi

cymraeg_draig | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 14:18
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@CD

thisistibi | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 14:27
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thisistibi - you reminded me of the NRA in USA

carnmores | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 14:50
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@Carmores

thisistibi | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 15:32
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GLOBAL WARMING ?

cymraeg_draig | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 15:39
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@thisistibe

carnmores | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 16:08
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@CD

thisistibi | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 16:17
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god knows (and C_D!) knows what its like in wales

carnmores | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 17:17
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A great debate, as usual

John Stokdyk | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 18:38
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Flatulence

cymraeg_draig | Wed, 22/12/2010 - 19:07
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Microsoft Word

Euan MacLennan | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 10:40
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Bambi

Richard Willis | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 13:26
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Dinosaurs

mwngiol | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 13:32
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Euan

Richard Willis | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 13:35
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MS word and excel from me too!

Ken Howard | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 13:55

Supercalc

cymraeg_draig | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 14:17
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ive still got my discs for supercalc 5 somewhere

carnmores | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 15:09
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Were global wars a 20th century invention?

davidwinch | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 15:21
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Cheerful Stuff

Roland195 | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 15:35

Secret Santa

mwngiol | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 15:54
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HMRC

vinylnobbynobbs | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 15:54

David

cymraeg_draig | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 15:59
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Really?

Roland195 | Thu, 23/12/2010 - 16:00