Greatest inventions/innovations that make your day to day life easier to deal with?

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What has man created that is actually worth a damn?

For example: Beer, horse tranquilizers, disposable dinnerware, The Who: Thirty Years of Maximum R&B boxset, coffee, etc.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

Coffeemakers, coffeegrinders, etc.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

Controlling electrical power.

― Thy Lethal Zen Ned (Ned), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

The Sloe Gin Fizz

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

George Foreman grill

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

the internet

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

Refrigerators and disposable lighters. The end.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

You are so OTM about that box set, I wish I had it on me right now.

Anyway, power bars.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

Ally you ever had Clif bars? Try the carrot cake one and heat it up in the microwave.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 20:03 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, the carrot one is really good. I just use the term "power bars" to define all meal replacement bars, to be honest with you.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

This a thread where I once again sing the praises of the coin sorter.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 20:19 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.dreamproductscatalog.com/products/90098L.jpg

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

the bong

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

synthesizers
boomboxes
drum machines
e-mail (and by extension the internet as a whole)
birth control

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

Dishwasher.
Launderette service washes.
Take-away food.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

Wine.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

Recorded sound, duh.

― Nick H, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

Parliament Lights

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

If anyone here would like to buy me an Xmas present, I really, really want a UK version of that coin sorter. I'll love you long time!

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 15:04 (twenty years ago) link

Zippers, tequila, coffee, tank tops, plastic frogs, Violet Crumble, the Italian language, Spider-Man, Moxie, polio-be-gone, and corrective lenses.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 15:11 (twenty years ago) link

When they switched from the pseudo-aluminum poke-hole on the Capri Sun juice pouches to a plastic one.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

Automatic bread-slicers! I don't own one, but I wish I did. With it, you can have slices of bread exactly as wide as you want them to be.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

Pineapple zombie blowjobs.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

http://the-luggage-shop.com/victorinox-swiss-army-knife-signature.jpg

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

Another vote for coffee.
Antihistamines.
Lycra (aka spandex). Its use in garments can go horribly wrong, but used intelligently in underwear I find it a blessing.
Direct deposit (sadly, my agency discontinued this as a cost-cutting measure).

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

twelve years pass...

Any chance of reaching a consensus here folks, I'd like to get this one closed off before board on Wednesday

― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 02:47 (eight years ago) link

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