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Previously on "The Most Annoying Innovations… you wish they never came about"

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    Top of my list is the smartphone, not because of them per se but it's the users who are mainly not smart.
    Security authentications based on mobile phone texts, in a rural area where the phone signal may as well be coming from Pluto!

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by Gibbon View Post

    You don't have to wear it 24/7, and you could get the correct size, getting a tighter fit doesn't enhance anything!
    Exactly, and if you always wear them and constantly cycle in them, I imagine they turn from budgie smugglers to wren smugglers!

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    The best answer to being caught admiring a young lady rocking Lycra is "I was thinking how hot you would look in that" it even works some time.
    That just sounds creepy

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    May the fleas from a thousand camels bums infest Joseph Shivers and his god forsake innovation Lycra. The productivity I've lost and trouble I've gotten in to with numerous girlfriends over the years is countless. Damn stuff is even making me go blind!!!
    The best answer to being caught admiring a young lady rocking Lycra is "I was thinking how hot you would look in that" it even works some time.

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  • northernladuk
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    Originally posted by Gibbon View Post

    You don't have to wear it 24/7, and you could get the correct size, getting a tighter fit doesn't enhance anything!
    It's not me wearing it that is the problem to be fair but certainly some good feedback there thank you.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
    Smart meters
    the amount of spam and calls you get from your energy supplier to get one is incredible. They are not smart, I know how to manage my household energy consumption best and do not need this invasion of my privacy
    I haven't ever been asked about one. When you buy something from someone, it's not an invasion of your privacy for them to know about it.

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  • Eirikur
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    Smart meters
    the amount of spam and calls you get from your energy supplier to get one is incredible. They are not smart, I know how to manage my household energy consumption best and do not need this invasion of my privacy

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  • Gibbon
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    May the fleas from a thousand camels bums infest Joseph Shivers and his god forsake innovation Lycra. The productivity I've lost and trouble I've gotten in to with numerous girlfriends over the years is countless. Damn stuff is even making me go blind!!!
    You don't have to wear it 24/7, and you could get the correct size, getting a tighter fit doesn't enhance anything!

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  • northernladuk
    replied
    May the fleas from a thousand camels bums infest Joseph Shivers and his god forsake innovation Lycra. The productivity I've lost and trouble I've gotten in to with numerous girlfriends over the years is countless. Damn stuff is even making me go blind!!!

    Leave a comment:


  • The Most Annoying Innovations… you wish they never came about

    Top of my list is the smartphone, not because of them per se but it's the users who are mainly not smart.

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