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

[V.C. Brunswick]

That looks like a good way to get taco filling all over yourself. Looks more like a shovel. lol lol

Well, you've got to admit that the "shovel" does fit in perfectly with today's dining habits.

 

[jamespowers]

Well, you've got to admit that the "shovel" does fit in perfectly with today's dining habits.

The taco shovel. It should be a hit.

 

[2jakes]

[video=youtube;bVSNDj9uKYw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bVSNDj9uKYw#t=132[/video]

This is one tough taco...lol...

Happy Shoveling... :essen:

 

[HudsonHawk]

Geez, when did Americans become too lazy to pick up a taco from the <bleep>ing side!

When did they lose so much self respect that they ate crunchy tacos?

 

[HudsonHawk]

They still haven't invented one that doesn't split down the crease and spill the greasy meat down the front of your clothes.

They've had them for millennia. They're called "tortillas".

 

[Big J]

[video=youtube;bVSNDj9uKYw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bVSNDj9uKYw#t=132[/video]

This is one tough taco...lol...

Happy Shoveling... :essen:

I'm glad she's not my wife.
I'm glad she's not doing that in my car.

 

[2jakes]

I'm glad she's not my wife.
I'm glad she's not doing that in my car.

It's all about the first bite

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I'm glad she's not my wife.
I'm glad she's not doing that in my car.

I think it was the gap tooth.

 

[dh66]

I think it was the gap tooth.

Kinda like Madonna?

 

[Retro Spectator]

Sensational and biased news stations (such as MSNBC and Fox). How is news news if you have a guy freaking out and talking with his hands, with music in the background? The Weather channel is also victim to dramatization, even more so now than ever, since they added music in every possible place.

 

[LizzieMaine]

In the Era, Walter Winchell was the most popular news commentator on the air, with his telegraph key and his mile-a-minute voice and his very obvious point of view. (I always chuckle with satisfaction when I hear him call pro-Fascist/racist /anti-Semitc clergyman Gerald L. K. Smith "Gerald Lucifer K-K-Kodfish Smith.)

But the difference between then and now is that there was only *one* Winchell.

 

[Atticus Finch]

The Weather channel is also victim to dramatization, even more so now than ever, since they added music in every possible place.

I never thought I'd see the day when the weather was big business, but it is. There is now an entire industry built around predicting, tracking and reporting on tropical weather. One would think hurricanes are a brand new phenomenon. Every July starts the barrage of spaghetti model tracks, frightening graphics and ominous music. Hurricanes are assigned not only names, but personalities. They now move of their own volition and focus themselves on the complete destruction of populated areas. Reporters scream their stories into cameras while facing an 80 mph wind. The rain slaps their faces raw. Walk inside to file your report, Jim Cantore…or at least turn your back to the wind.

AF

 

[Retro Spectator]

I even noticed that they play different music when there is a thunderstorm warning/watch. They used to have lots more music they played. Now they only play two songs. The good weather song, and the bad weather song. Both are annoying songs, but before they changed, they played annoying music too.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The Great Northeast Hurricane of 1938 took most of New England and New York by surprise -- most weather forecasts that day predicted "gale force" winds, but little else. The only regional weather forecaster to get it right was E. B. Rideout, the famous weather voice of station WEEI in Boston, who correctly predicted the storm would hit the coast with full hurricane force on the afternoon of September 21st.

There was no panic before the storm. That happened afterward.

Up here we say modern hurricanes have to have names -- to distinguish them from *The* Hurricane.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Meanwhile, I could really do without the idea of the "thigh gap." I'd never heard of this until about ten minutes ago, and I wish I never had. The Boys From Marketing can kiss my flabby middle-aged -- thighs.

 

[Atticus Finch]

Meanwhile, I could really do without the idea of the "thigh gap." I'd never heard of this until about ten minutes ago, and I wish I never had. The Boys From Marketing can kiss my flabby middle-aged -- thighs.

I had never heard of it until I just read your post. I was almost afraid to google it on my state-issued computer.

AF

 

[Edward]

Meanwhile, I could really do without the idea of the "thigh gap." I'd never heard of this until about ten minutes ago, and I wish I never had. The Boys From Marketing can kiss my flabby middle-aged -- thighs.

I'm not sure how far it's a marketing thing and how far it's a crowd-sourced lunacy.... Certainly we'll know it's the former as soon as somebody starts selling a miracle cause / cure. Like when they invented cellulite as a "problem"...

 

[Fastuni]

"Thigh gap"! Goodness... never even imagined there is such an "issue".
Utterly ridiculous - and if you ask me, skinny, twiggy thighs with a huge gap are neither feminine, nor attractive.

How on earth do they come up with these "beauty criteria"?

 

[Atticus Finch]

Without investigating much into the issue, it appears there may be a thin line between "thigh gapped" and "bow legged".

AF

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Thigh gap"! Goodness... never even imagined there is such an "issue".
Utterly ridiculous - and if you ask me, skinny, twiggy tighs with a huge gap are neither feminine, nor attractive.

How on earth do they come up with these "beauty criteria"?

The entire modern fashion industry can go to the hot place as far as I'm concerned -- it reeks of twisted, cynical misogyny, all the while barking "Art! Art! Art!"

Look at the fashion magazines of the Era and you won't see any of this kind of garbage. It really is a crime against women.