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If you could un-invent anything...

129 replies

WidoWanky · 21/02/2019 16:32

What would it be?

I would say plastic. in general anyway, i would like to keep the tv! My house is full of it. Every product i buy is wrapped in it and it is going to be around for hundreds of years. It bothers me more and more.

Sometimes i would like to invent the internet - it doesnt mix well with teenagers all the time.

And takeaway coffee sometimes gets my goat!!

Any others???

OP posts:
HollowTalk · 21/02/2019 17:08

I'd happily uninvent smart phones. I'd keep the old house brick ones but have nothing else on except the ability to call someone from them. Not even texts!

KeptTheBeachesShipwreckFree · 21/02/2019 17:08

Mobile phones and all the associated apps

The internet

Plastic

TowelNumber42 · 21/02/2019 17:09

High heeled shoes

Thesnobbymiddleclassone · 21/02/2019 17:10

Ugg boots
Fur lined prams

Jinglejanglefish · 21/02/2019 17:12

Plastic and nuclear weapons!

HalfBloodPrincess · 21/02/2019 17:16

The concept of gender

SinkGirl · 21/02/2019 17:18

Cigarettes - wish I never laid eyes on the bloody things

Dimsumlosesum · 21/02/2019 17:19

Hitler

Dimsumlosesum · 21/02/2019 17:20

But then I guess that involves unbirthing rather than inventing....

MillytantForceit · 21/02/2019 17:22

Is this Adolf, or Bridget his Scouse SiL?

Soubriquet · 21/02/2019 17:24

Guns/bombs/explosives in general

Wars done with swords are one thing but guns allowed people to shoot more than one at a time.

Always something I wish had never been invited

NiteFlights · 21/02/2019 17:28

The Chorleywood process.

MillytantForceit · 21/02/2019 17:30

You know where it all started to go wrong?

The separation of Gondwanaland 180 mya, that's when.

sideorderofchips · 21/02/2019 17:56

Smart phones and social media

mawbroon · 21/02/2019 18:01

Farming

E20mom · 21/02/2019 18:05

Coriander

ShadyLady53 · 21/02/2019 18:08

The internet. I’m not joking. I hate how reliant we all are on it now and the way it’s influencing everything from politics to the ability to socialise. I fucking hate it with a passion.

lucysmam · 21/02/2019 18:22

Bills.

They do my fucking nut in.

SayNoToCarrots · 21/02/2019 18:32

Boats. Then we'd have had to wait until aeroplanes were invented before colonising everything that moved.

Angie169 · 21/02/2019 18:46

Guns
Bombs
Warfare
Plastic
Glitter
Styrofoam
Religion

I think I need to live on a island !

jacksonmaine · 21/02/2019 18:49

The Internet
Smartphones

Whynham · 21/02/2019 18:52

Guns
Spacecraft

nancy75 · 21/02/2019 18:52

Religion has to be the main one

On a smaller scale iTunes & music downloads - I like record shops

bigKiteFlying · 21/02/2019 18:56

Reality television.

Omzlas · 21/02/2019 19:12

Snapchat

Instagram

Clowns - YESSS!!!