Pointless inventions

[zeitghost]

Mini earphones for personal stereos. They don't make your music listening a private matter, as everyone can hear it; it just means everyone hears an annoying high pitched tch ttcchh ttcchh whizz woo tcchh instead of proper music. Proper old fashioned headphones are better.

I now see people wandering around the streets wearing these.

Then again, my woolly hat has an aluminium foil lining, so who am I to judge?

[Gibbon]

Oh, and archaeological evidence suggess art existed before commerce.

Please expand with particular reference to how they know that commerce didn't exist.

For example did the cave painters source all their material themselves or maybe they gave some excess food/skins for it. Just because it's not documented doesn't mean it didn't exist. I quite dislike suggestions that get turned into truths.

[Mich the Tester]

Please expand with particular reference to how they know that commerce didn't exist.

For example did the cave painters source all their material themselves or maybe they gave some excess food/skins for it. Just because it's not documented doesn't mean it didn't exist. I quite dislike suggestions that get turned into truths.

There is no evidence for commerce in any recognisable form existing at the time of cave paintings; that is not evidence for it not existing, but it would suggest that art can exist without commerce. I'm not turning a suggestion into truth; I simply don't believe that the act of creating an object of beauty or expression is dependent on commerce; it becomes dependent on commerce where materials or skills are required that are not directly at hand and require sourcing.

Anyway, this is besides the point; my issue is with the idea that buildings should be designed to prevent antisocial activity at the cost of aesthetics; I think it's better to just deal with the antisocials who piss in shop doorways than avoid building recessed doorways.

[EternalOptimist]

There is no evidence for commerce in any recognisable form existing at the time of cave paintings; that is not evidence for it not existing, but it would suggest that art can exist without commerce. I'm not turning a suggestion into truth; I simply don't believe that the act of creating an object of beauty or expression is dependent on commerce; it becomes dependent on commerce where materials or skills are required that are not directly at hand and require sourcing.

Anyway, this is besides the point; my issue is with the idea that buildings should be designed to prevent antisocial activity at the cost of aesthetics; I think it's better to just deal with the antisocials who piss in shop doorways than avoid building recessed doorways.

I object to you trying to turn the suggestion that peeing in a doorway has no aesthetics into a truth. When I was younger, I made it into quite an art form

[Gibbon]

Anyway, this is besides the point; my issue is with the idea that buildings should be designed to prevent antisocial activity at the cost of aesthetics; I think it's better to just deal with the antisocials who piss in shop doorways than avoid building recessed doorways.

Agreed, but the recesses are not there purely for aesthetics but to provide protection for the shop from the elements i.e. rain would get in easy if the doors were not recessed and they are opened a lot. The decoration is secondary.

[Mich the Tester]

I object to you trying to turn the suggestion that peeing in a doorway has no aesthetics into a truth. When I was younger, I made it into quite an art form

Ah yes, the old games of 'who can piss highest against the wall' and 'who can write his name on the wall'; easy for someone called Jon , difficult but very impressive for someone called Wijegunawardene (Sri Lankan name).

[EternalOptimist]

Agreed, but the recesses are not there purely for aesthetics but to provide protection for the shop from the elements i.e. rain would get in easy if the doors were not recessed and they are opened a lot. The decoration is secondary.

ok, thats enough about the recession, hows about

toilet lids. what do they do ?? apart from cause disharmony amongst the sexes

[gingerjedi]

Ah yes, the old games of 'who can piss highest against the wall' and 'who can write his name on the wall'; easy for someone called Jon , difficult but very impressive for someone called Wijegunawardene (Sri Lankan name).

Yeah, them Sri Lankans have small todgers.

[Doggy Styles]

The Tamagotchia. That plastic toy you have to "feed" or it dies. What a load of old bollocks.

[gingerjedi]

The Tamagotchia. That plastic toy you have to "feed" or it dies. What a load of old bollocks.

Your cat/dog doesn't really love you. What a load of old bollocks.