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    Strangest human invention?

    What do you think? I would say the toilet. Don't ask.

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    I have to ask. That one is so valuable that it was invented several different times in several different ways. Why is it strange?

    I would say that some of the social customs surrounding sx are the strangest, especially our perverse fear of it. After all, it is equated with evil at the root of christianity, and is forbidden by nearly every fundamentalist form of every faith.
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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    The toilet. Well, for one, who came up with this whole inefficient sewage system, and how could anybody coordinate all that? It's just strange, that's all.

    (Cut me some slack! It's hard to come up with strange stuff. And that is just strange to me.)

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Dancing.

    The concept of dancing in order to meet and socialize with other people.
    Dance competitions.
    Dancing... in general, it's boring, unappealing, ungraceful.
    Quite possibly one of the most overrated 'things' ever created. And annoying.

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    I have to agree with you there.

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Unfortunately, it also is not a human invention, as many other species dance.
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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Quote Originally Posted by mendhak View Post
    Dancing.

    The concept of dancing in order to meet and socialize with other people.
    Dance competitions.
    Dancing... in general, it's boring, unappealing, ungraceful.
    Quite possibly one of the most overrated 'things' ever created. And annoying.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
    Unfortunately, it also is not a human invention, as many other species dance.
    You should see my cat do the robot!

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    We moved last week.

    Unfortunately, our cat did not move with us

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    Quote Originally Posted by MaximilianMayrhofer View Post
    We moved last week.

    Unfortunately, our cat did not move with us
    BEGONE from our presence you VILE FIEND.


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    It wasn't deliberate! The stupid feline ran away from my parents.

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    Poor little cait, all sad and alone with nobody to give it eats

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Dancing.

    The concept of dancing in order to meet and socialize with other people.
    Dance competitions.
    Dancing... in general, it's boring, unappealing, ungraceful.
    Quite possibly one of the most overrated 'things' ever created. And annoying.
    I take it having a third eye in no way helps with your balance and therefore dancing skills then ?
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    Marriage

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    Religion!
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    Re: Strangest human invention?

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    Religion!
    I like yours better than mine.

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Quote Originally Posted by MaximilianMayrhofer View Post
    We moved last week.

    Unfortunately, our cat did not move with us
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    Re: Strangest human invention?

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    Religion!
    I like yours better than mine.

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    Whats the yellow light mean?

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Quote Originally Posted by abhijit View Post
    Religion!
    I like yours better than mine.

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Politicians
    Sometimes the Programmer
    Sometimes the DBA

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Quote Originally Posted by Everybody
    I like yours better than mine.
    Ditto.

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    Quote Originally Posted by abhijit View Post
    Religion!
    I like mine better than yours.

    (but yours is a pretty good one, too).
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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    What was yours again?

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Quote Originally Posted by mendhak View Post
    Dancing.

    The concept of dancing...
    You have obviously never seen a good rain dance.

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    Fact: When rain dances, it makes rainbows.

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Money.

    I don't think I need to say more...

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Money? It was invented because everybody likes having it

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    Quote Originally Posted by minitech View Post
    Money? It was invented because everybody likes having it
    And the worst thing humanity could have created. Look at all the problems it has caused.

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    Quote Originally Posted by storm5510 View Post
    And the worst thing humanity could have created. Look at all the problems it has caused.
    I beg to differ. The problems are not caused by money, they are caused by the lack of or the greed for it.
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    I beg to differ. The problems are not caused by money, they are caused by the lack of or the greed for it.
    In other words, the problems were, and are, created by humans...but, given the track record duly recorded in this thread, what could you really expect out of us anyway?

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    Vuvuzelas.

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    I beg to differ.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mendhak View Post
    Vuvuzelas.

    After a long time I'd to agree with media people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mendhak View Post
    Dancing.

    The concept of dancing in order to meet and socialize with other people.
    Dance competitions.
    Dancing... in general, it's boring, unappealing, ungraceful.
    Quite possibly one of the most overrated 'things' ever created. And annoying.
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    Quote Originally Posted by abhijit View Post
    I beg to differ. The problems are not caused by money, they are caused by the lack of or the greed for it.
    Greed is one of humanities greatest downfalls, and it goes back countless thousands of years. What I hate is all the ways we have come up with to manipulate its use. I watched a documentary on CNBC last week called, "House Of Cards". Shameful is an understatement. Criminal would be much better. I fear it will be out demise as a society.

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    Re: Strangest human invention?

    The invention of money is not strange. If you know the history of the barter system, you'll know why money was invented and why it is important.

    Economics on the other hand. Now that's just evil.

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