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<li>the Flowbee</li>
<li>Kareoke</li>
<li>Chia Pet</li>
<li>Pet Rocks</li>
<li>George Forman Grills</li>
<li>cigarettes</li>
<li>playstation, nintendo, xbox, cube</li>
<li>strip malls</li>
<li>suberbia</li>
<li>jet skis</li>
<li>internet messege boards, lol</li>
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Uh, don’t knock it till…no comment.</p>
<p>I could go without chicks with no boobs who think they are hot and the implication that being white means you are not cool.</p>
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You are so wrong that they haven’t even come up with a word to describe how wrong you are.</p>
<p>Telephone answering systems that make you listen to ten menus of choices and press fifteen different buttons but never connect you to a live human being.</p>
<p>^^ Or ultimately disconnect you because you pressed a wrong button. Or maybe you didn’t.</p>
<p>Close relative: Telephone answering systems which require you to put in your account number. Then, as soon as you reach the human being, the first thing they do is ask you for your account number. Grrr.</p>
<p>All of those Swiffer and Swiffer wannabe mops and dusting devices that have a built-in battery operated cleaning solution squirter. For pete’s sake, how hard is it to squirt a bottle?</p>
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<p>Ok…laugh if you must…but the flowbee is actually great for the right people. My father has worn out one flowbee and has almost worn out the second, looking to buy his third! He has a consistent haircut (and it doesn’t look bad…can’t tell it was done on a flowbee) and hasn’t paid a hair dresser/barber in over 10 years! ;)</p>
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LOL,Idmom. I think it’s about as hard as it is to stick the hot dogs on the griddle and the buns in the toaster. SO much easier to have a dedicated appliance just for the purpose of putting hot dogs in little slots and buns on little skewers. Even more fun to remodel the kitchen to make room for said appliance. :D</p>
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<p>I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that they are all a waste of time!</p>
<p>I wish they hadn’t invented clamshell and blister packaging. Who wants to have to get out the chainsaw just to open a package of batteries? Drives me nuts.</p>
<p>I think we have a winner!</p>
<p>Tookie, those “chainsaw required to open” packages are the worst. Worst, worst, worst!</p>
<p><em>feels blood-pressure rising</em></p>
<p>“Child-proof” caps that only kids can get off <grrrr></grrrr></p>
<p>Electric can openers. They save all of what, 6 seconds? And you still have to have a manual can opener anyway, for when the electricity goes out. So what is the name of all that is holy does the electric can opener accomplish, other than taking up counter space.</p>
<p>Electronic games–especially video games. Direct culprit in fat weird children.</p>
<p>Electric letter openers–never could figure out why we NEED these.</p>
<p>Electric erasers–yep, they exist too.</p>
<p>When I got married back in 1970, hayden, my mother (aleha-ha-shalom) said she didn’t know how I could <em>live</em> without an electric can opener. Somehow I have managed for 36 years.</p>
<p>Well, I LOVE the dishwasher and the cell phone! Love them both!</p>
<p>I’m not much into gadgetry, but am married to Mr. Gadget, so we have to always buy the prototype of an item (like the original Walkman, the original CD player, original DVD player) which always cost at least 10 times what they eventually cost, and then most ended up becoming dinosaurs, and thus pitched.</p>
<p>Gotta love the gadgetmen tho. They are a special breed.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s a gadget but think we could definitely do without those awful mufflers that young men seem to favor on their cars,trucks,suvs. The noise is earspiltting. My young neighbor regularly wakes up ther whole street as he blasts off early in the a.m.</p>
<p>The designated hitter.</p>
<p>Yes, allmusic. What you need is the gadgetman-skinflint combo. Which is what I have. Notices all the early prototypes a nanosecond after they come out. Really wants to be an Early Adopter. But just won’t part with the moolah. Cheaper, but more whining.</p>